About Anthony Geering & Puritan Values Ltd
& The Dome Art & Antiques & The Arts & Crafts Eco Project.
I left school at 16 years old & did a four year engineering apprenticeship with British Road Services specialising in my final year in Turbine & Turbo Technologies. At 20 years old I then entered a career in the Oil Industry with Vetco Gray as an Installation & Production Engineer specialising in Wellheads, Completions & Entire Shutdown Systems, later pioneering the SMS systems for National Oil Well until at 24 years old I came to feel that my heart was somewhere else & I decided to give up the Oil Industry to pursue a new career in something I had always been really interesting to me.
I often went to auctions as a child they always fascinated me, & here the collector in me began & where those first seeds were sown. As a child collecting what most boys did toy cars & marbles the latter I still have. My new career got of to a very good start buying & selling at auction particularly Durrants Auction Rooms in Beccles & sold from an area at the back of the Old Rag Market at Brick Lane Antiques market in East London, I arrived there at around 4am from Suffolk every Sunday for the next seven years & where my new apprenticeship began.
As I began to deal in Antiques I noticed a huge opening to do House Clearances there was no real service in my area except the auctions at the time & before I knew it, it had taken up all my time, often doing two house clearances in one day & found that I was continually drawn towards items from The Arts & Crafts Movement & began reading & researching & it soon became my life's work, it is always so interesting, & so different, & I love the hunt it is exciting , like hunting for treasure, & occasionally the treasure comes to you.

Stan & Craig restoring sympathetically with expert understandings of the woods used, tools used & finishes applied in those Periods from the last two Centuries. Stan has been restoring furniture for over 40 years, & we share enthusiasm & passion for our award winning work.

Tony Geering has appeared in a number of TV programmes as a specialist dealer for the BBC & Channel4 noteably as a co-presenter & market specialist in Kirtie's Home Made Homes series 2, screened November/December 2010 & June 2011 on Channel4, & currently on Dickinsons Real Deal for ITV


Tony Geering co-presenting Kirstie's Home Made Homes on Channel 4.
& Dickinsons Real Deal

www.acecoproject.co.uk


We also undertake Period property restoration through my sister company, Ancient & Period Property Restoration, a complete Design Company working with strict Aesthetic indication to the property's original style & can extend restore, rebuild, refurbish & re-instate original features, locating them through reclamation networks from initial quotations to complete design & management of a project. Please follow the accommodation link to see the finished restorations of The Old Post Office.
Accommodation & follow this link below where you can view more images particularly of an unsympathetic 1970's extension which we partly demolished & rebuilt in a sympathetic style adhering to details & features to compliment The Old Post Office & in keeping with the original design of The Old Post Office,
READ ABOUT THE EXTENSION WITH IMAGES HERE

We are supplying to Museum collections & private collections around the world including The National Trust, for the film industry & prop's departments, Liberty & Co of Regent Street supplying them for over 18 years including 18 of their yearly exhibitions. We also supply to the London trade & many dealers throughout the country & in the USA, & suppliers to some high profile Film, TV, Radio & Sports personalities & presenters in the UK, Europe, America, Canada, Australia & Indonesia.
Puritan Values opened at The Dome in January 1998 occupying the former Drill Hall which was built in 1926 at the height of the roaring 20's. This wonderful Historic Art Deco style building still echoing the Charleston dances & cocktails of that period was extensively restored by us. Inside Robert & I installed an original Art Nouveau staircase that was salvaged from a large London property, which I restored & modified slightly to fit into the Dome, we also retained the original pine Tongue & Groove panelling which covers the entire inside of the building & brought it back to a useable space injecting new life into this almost derelict building which was flooded with two inches of water throughout the whole ground floor area.
The Dome has over 13,500 square feet of retail space making it the largest collection of Arts & Crafts & Decorative & Important Works of Art for sale in the British Isles.
There is generally around 50% of my current stock on the website at anyone time so if you are looking for something in particular then please do send me an e-mail with your requirements & I will look to see if there is something suitable.

Anthony Geering

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Puritan Values Ltd, The Dome, St Edmunds Rd, Southwold, Suffolk, IP18 6BZ Tel: Tony 07966 371676 Credit Card Facilities and Interest Free Credit now available E-Mail:sales@puritanvalues.com