Open a cabinet
Furniture, porcelain, silver, clocks, glass, coins and nine more. Each cabinet holds object files with period, origin, materials, authenticity indicators and restoration guidance.
Regal VaultFor iPhone & iPad
Learn to read an antique — what dates it, what fakes it, and what to leave alone. Every lesson teaches one idea, then stops and asks you to judge before it continues.
Even, identical dovetails mean:
Nothing here is a video you watch to the end. You are handed an idea, then handed an object and asked what you make of it — and the lesson waits.
Furniture, porcelain, silver, clocks, glass, coins and nine more. Each cabinet holds object files with period, origin, materials, authenticity indicators and restoration guidance.
Every lesson teaches one idea, then stops and asks you to judge before it continues. Each closes with a mini challenge, an observation exercise and an authenticity check.
Finish a lesson and the object is filed to your collection: rarity, timeline, country, period, material and preservation difficulty. The shelves fill as you work.
Six ranks from Visitor to Master Curator, each earned against the question bank. Anything you answer wrongly returns until you have it right.
A museum floor, your own collection, a drilling academy, a reference archive and a record of everything you have studied.
Fifteen cabinets and forty-five object files, from a George III chest of drawers to a Georgian wine glass. Open one and start with any object.
Everything you have studied, filed and shelved — with rarity from Common to Museum Grade, a timeline, and a preservation difficulty from robust to specialist-only.
Seven drill modes — Daily Lesson, Quiz, Identify the Era, Material Challenge, Original or Reproduction, the twenty-question Collector Exam and a timed Weekly Challenge.
Thirty-six articles on twelve shelves: periods, styles, ceramic bodies, woods, metal finishes, makers' marks, hallmarks, restoration and auction vocabulary. Bookmark and annotate as you read.
Every question you answer wrongly goes into a repetition queue and comes back later. It only leaves when you have it right.
The whole corpus ships inside the app — nothing is fetched. Your progress, notes and bookmarks are written to your own device. Four gildings to light the vault by.
Each file is written the way a dealer reads a piece: what it is, how to date it, what a restorer should refuse to do, and what a good story is hiding.
Rank is earned against the question bank, not against a clock. Each one carries a charge — something you are expected to be able to do.
Corrections, an object you would like to see filed, or a note on a lesson — all of it is read. The corpus grows from what collectors send back.
Or write directly: moinmacarthur@gmail.com
Forty-five objects waiting to be read properly. Start with the one in front of you.
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