My name is Adrian Money. I have been interested in art and antiques all my life having worked for Orange Tree Antiques in Richmond as a student and throughout my adult life collecting all manner of art and antiques. I started to trade in art in 2006 - almost exclusively via Ebay, initially as a source of additional income to support my daughter through university. Until July 2009 I was the headteacher of a secondary school in East Sussex although I now work part time in education management.

II am a generalist and so can not offer any expert opinion in any particular period, style or artist. At the moment I seem to be drawn to etchings from the great etching revival in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century and miniatures (on unmentionable organic wafers!) from the late eighteenth/early ninenteenth century. Having visited Monet's house and gardens in Giverney recently I am now on the look out for more Japanese woodblocks (he had a fantastic collection).

I originally got interested in Ebay as a source of family history material - a few years ago I put my family history on a web site and I have spent the last few years buying various documents, pictures and artefacts that once belonged to various ancestors.  It was when I paid a small fortune for two notebooks that had belonged to an ancestor of mine that I thought there may be money in selling things.

I really appreciate and value my regular customers from both sides of the water - about 25% of my sales are to regular buyers who appreciate my eclectic approach and (I hope) my honesty and integrity.

My Business name Barham Money Antiques is derived from my middle name shared with my father and son. Lord Barham, First Lord of the Admiralty at the time of Trafalgar is an ancestor of mine, and my father was born into a naval family the year HMS Barham was launched in 1915. My father would not have approved of me selling art - he would have said I was behaving like a "barrow boy"!!