Jonathan - Experience
Jonathan Roberts oversees the day-to-day running of Culvertons and is the fine furniture specialist and general valuer. Jonathan has over 30 years of experience within the antique and fine art trade.
Prior to 1989, Jonathan was sales manager for a firm supplying the antique trade with restoration materials. During this period, with help and kindness from some of his customers, he was able to build upon his knowledge of antiques and works of art. Fulfilling a childhood passion, he embarked upon a new career as an antique dealer.
By 1994 Jonathan had completed an apprenticeship as a ‘runner’ in the antique and fine art trade. Over the next fifteen years, he ran several antique shops, displayed his stock of fine antique furniture in the Malthouse, Dorking, and regularly held selling exhibitions of oil paintings and works on paper throughout the South East of England.
In 2009 Jonathan accepted an invitation to become a director of Culvertons – a then recently-formed probate valuation company. Taking sole ownership in 2012, he increased the services on offer by engaging specialist dealers, restorers, and conservators chosen for the quality of their work and their ethical and professional manner.
Since that time he has assisted executors, administrators, companies, institutions, and individuals by carrying out valuations for probate and insurance purposes; overseeing restoration projects, and the sale of items by private treaty.
Culvertons is currently able to value, conserve and restore a wide spectrum of antiques and works of art for solicitors, executors, businesses, and private individuals.
For confidential expert advice or a valuation call – 01306 770 212
General Valuation Service
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What our clients say...
"Dear Jonathan I am writing to let you know how delighted I am with the mahogany glazed bookcase that was delivered safely by courier this afternoon, the item as good as I'd imagined from viewing the photographs and description you had displayed on Selling Antiques. I like the fact the bookcase has a quality about its manufacture, a fairly simple design but with a nice colour and proportions exactly what I was looking for: a perfect piece of furniture for an avid bibliophile! I also appreciate that the original label stating the bookcase was awarded as a prize for solo singing (certainly a step up from the humble book token!) by the St Andrews Choir School in London is still intact, giving the piece an interesting provenance and elevating it above similar mahogany bookcases. As it was my first time I had ever purchased a piece of antique furniture from an online seller I was initially unsure about placing an order but having read through the detailed description of the bookcase, and subsequently spoken to you over the telephone, I was quickly reassured that Culvertons was a business I could trust. Thank you again for helping organising the delivery; the courier, Steve, arriving close to the estimated time given and was quick and efficient in helping with the unloading. Best of luck in sleuthing many more interesting antique gems in the future as you had done so with the glazed bookcase. Kind regards Edward Shepperd."
Edward Shepperd