antique

The “antique religions,” Robertson Smith wrote, weren’t built on beliefs and creeds but “institutions and practices” that created a “solidarity of the gods and their worshippers as part of one organic society.”

There are cheap tickers jumbled with antiques that must have survived the house fire.

On a recent afternoon the four, plus Darragh Hettrick, Nia’s partner, were gathered in a living room that felt like a mix of an antique store, a tarot tent and an apothecary haven.

I took the elevator back down to street level and hopped a cab toward the strangely antique edifice.

An artwork by Salvador Dali bought for £150 by an antique and art dealer in a house clearance has sold for tens of thousands of pounds at auction.