About Real Antiques

What we do

We find, research and offer genuine pieces: telephones, typewriters, cameras, record players, radios, clocks, projectors, cassette players and records. Each one is examined before it is listed, described honestly — including its flaws — and sold with a certificate of authenticity. You can read exactly how we authenticate a piece.

One page for every piece

Every piece keeps its own page on this site, whatever happens to it. Pieces marked Available can be bought. Pieces marked Sold stay online as a record of what has passed through our hands. Pieces marked Private collection are kept in our own collection and shown for interest — they are not for sale.

How buying works

There is no online checkout. Instead, you send an enquiry about a piece — through its page or on WhatsApp — and we answer your questions, send more photographs if you would like them, and agree payment and delivery with you directly. Prices are set in Indian rupees; the conversions shown in other currencies are approximate. Collectors abroad are welcome, with one exception: pieces 100 years old or more cannot be exported from India, so they are offered for delivery within India only.

Looking for something?

If the piece you want is not on the site, tell us what you are looking for. Collectors' requests appear, anonymously, on our wanted board.

Antique Education Tours

We also take real antiques into schools, so students can see and handle the technology of the past and understand how the devices around them came to be. Find out about Antique Education Tours.