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International removals from Hungerford often carry antiques. The town sits on RG17 in the far west of Berkshire, a town of around 7,000 long associated with the antiques trade. Households here ship older pieces more often than most, and older pieces come with questions ordinary furniture does not.
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Two matter before international movers pack anything. What the piece is made of, because some materials are restricted or prohibited regardless of how long you have owned them. And how old it is, because age changes both the paperwork and sometimes the permission.
Neither is a reason to leave something behind. Both are reasons to raise it at the survey and not at a destination port, where a container can be held while somebody works out what a drawer handle is made from.
For any moving company, ivory, tortoiseshell, certain corals and some timbers are restricted or prohibited under international agreements, and the rules apply to inlay, veneer, handles and keys as much as to whole pieces.
You are not expected to identify them yourself. You are expected to say that a piece is old and may contain something unusual, so that the moving company can raise it with the right authority before the goods are anywhere near a ship.
Gather what you have for the international movers: receipts, valuations, auction records, photographs, anything establishing age and ownership. Some destinations treat older items differently for duty and some require evidence before release.
Value them properly on the inventory too. Antiques are usually the reason a policy needs a high value schedule, and cover on them is sometimes conditional on crating, which is a separate cost, so ask early.
Volume and destination set the shipping. Antiques add crating and sometimes licensing time, and both belong on the quote as their own lines.
Space bought by volume
around £880 to £1,780
Sharing a container
around £1,640 to £3,180
Container to yourself
around £4,580 to £6,650
Built on site per item
quoted individually
Licensing time is not a cost so much as a lead time, which is why antiques get raised early. The county page holds the wider bands.
Planning price ranges reviewed August 2026. Next review August 2027.
Newbury is the nearest town of size with Swindon and Basingstoke within reach, so the local list is shorter than the east of the county.
Ask whether they have shipped antiques before and what they did about materials. A firm that mentions checking with an authority has done this properly; one that says it will be fine has not.
Buying abroad or paying a deposit in another currency is part of most overseas moves, so we include access to currency exchange through trusted partners.
The matched mover raises the export entry and shipping documents from your priced inventory, and antiques belong on it individually and never as plain furniture.
Attach what you have on age and ownership. A vague entry against a valuable old piece is the single likeliest cause of a shipment being examined at a destination port.
Where a licence is actually needed it is applied for before shipping, not afterwards. Returning, the relief claim goes in before the vessel berths.
Usually yes. What needs checking first is the material, because some are restricted regardless of how long you have owned the piece.
Ivory, tortoiseshell, certain corals and some timbers, and the rules cover inlay, handles and veneer as much as whole pieces.
No. Say a piece is old and may contain something unusual, and let the mover raise it with the right authority.
Receipts, valuations, auction records and photographs. Anything establishing age and ownership.
Often, and cover on high value items is sometimes conditional on it. Ask for crating quoted per item.
Yes, across RG17 and the western downs.
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Written and reviewed by International Removals Companies, working in international moving since 2010.
Restrictions on materials such as ivory and protected timbers are set by international agreement and by UK and destination law, and they change. Nothing here is legal advice. What is described reflects how partner movers in the network handle older pieces. Prices quoted date from the year to August 2026.
Check current requirements with the relevant authority before shipping any antique.
Send the RG17 postcode, the destination, your date, a rough inventory and a note of anything genuinely old.
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