The oldest antique store in Mumbai, Phillips Antiques offers an interesting selection of silver, lacquer, Oriental and European porcelain and pottery, brass toys, Victorian coloured glass, hanging lamps, wooden writing boxes, money-banks, jewellery, table lamps, perfume bottles, candlesticks, decanters, Gaudy-Dutch pottery, wine glasses, South-East Asian trade pottery, tea pots, Indian Sindh pottery, coins, brass surveying instruments, among others.

Also available is a fine collection of original engravings, lithographs, sea charts, maps, town plans, colonial and ethnic furniture, reproduction furniture and architectural items, marble items and other decorative accessories like fountains, benches, planters, pots, bird-baths, pedestals, specimen marble inlaid tabletops, wind-up brass horn gramophones, sandstone artefacts, kitchen-clocks, pedestal and ceiling fans, coloured glass hanging-lanterns, etc.

A family-run concern for the last four generations and founded in 1860, this antique store is located in the centre of the city's heritage precinct. Many an important visitor has been to the store over the years, the most recent being American President Bill Clinton who visited the store in March 2000.

So authentic and wide-ranging is the stock, that successive filmmakers from 'Passage to India', 'Heat and Dust', 'Octopussy', 'The Jungle Book' and 'Gladiator', have requested props from the store.

Natesan's

Since 1930, Natesan's has been specialising in objets d' art, statues and bronzes.

Address: Apollo Bunder, Colaba, Mumbai, Phone: 285 2700