“ If it less than 300 years old it ain’t ancient to the Brits.”
I found this true in all of Europe. And I would even stretch it further to five or 600 years. If it’s not that old, it’s new.
I lived there for six years, and I remember when I came back to the states and to New England, everything felt new or at least modern. When I saw that a town was founded in the 1700s I was like.” well that wasn’t that long ago was it?”
I was at Battle Bridge in England looking for an antique inkwell. A dealer told me he recently acquired some Georgian-period Inkwells but had shipped them to a dealer in the United States. He said, “You Yanks love that stuff,” but it’s not considered old in the UK. He sells anything from that period to US dealers. Some of the older inkwells were very ornate and beautiful but very expensive. Besides, they were far too fancy for a Chiefs desk.