About Anthony Geering & Puritan Values Ltd & The Dome Art & Antiques Centre
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 would love & enjoy & something that would really interest me.
I often went to auctions as a child they always fascinated me & here the collector in me was born & where those first seeds were sown, my first real collections were toy cars & marbles the latter I still have :) My new career got of to a very good start & in no time at all I had started buying & selling at auction particularly Durrants Auction Rooms in Beccles & I also took an antiques stall in the Old Rag Market at Brick Lane in East London every Sunday for the next seven years & here is where my new apprenticeship & my new life began.
From the outset I had began to deal in Antiques & very early on I noticed a huge opening to do House Clearances as there was no real service in my area at the time so I filled this opening & before I knew it, it had taken up all my time, I was sometimes doing two house clearances in one day & during these formulative moments I found that I was continually drawn towards items from The Arts & Crafts Movement & The Gothic Revival Period, I think because both periods touched on another passion of mine, architecture & here is where I began reading & researching the two massive movements from the Late Victorian Period, particularly the voice of William Morris & John Ruskin & how Furniture & Architecture were such a part of one another, I read & read & researched everything I found until without even realising, it soon became my life's work, a pure passion & 24 years on I still love every single moment, it is always so interesting, & so different, so many different pieces to learn about, so rewarding & such a wonderful way of life which I continue to learn from everyday & a career I will continue with for the rest of my life.
SOMETIMES I FEEL I AM STILL A SCHOOLBOY HUNTING FOR TREASURE :)
I have appeared in a number of TV programmes as a specialist dealer for the BBC & CH4 noteably as a co-presenter & market specialist in Kirtie's Home Made Homes series 2, to be shown in August/September 2010.

My right hand man Stan my Manager & Head Restorer who is in charge of sales when I am away, runs the workshops with Craig Garrod 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 37 years & shares my enthusiasm & passion for our work.

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 NEW 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 building still echoing the Charleston dances & cocktails of that period was extensively restored by us replacing the un-interesting rusting iron front windows & doors with sunburst styles to compliment it's striking structure, the doors are actually period which I purchased at an antique fair from a dealer who had saved them from an old London cinema, & are just perfect so much so that at the same time I had the sunburst windows made copied to match the sunburst doors. Inside we have 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 when I took it over was flooded with 2 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:01502 722211 Fax:01502 722734 Mob:07759 616400 or 07966 371676 Credit Card Facilities and Interest Free Credit now available E-Mail:sales@puritanvalues.com