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Antiques Roadshow is a long-running British television series about the appraisal of antiques, broadcast on BBC One since the show's launch on February 18, 1979. It is currently in its forty-sixth series, with over 850 episodes to date.
The first host of the American version of Antiques Roadshow was antiques expert Chris Jussel. He hosted the program from 1997 to 2000 (Seasons 1 through 4). He was followed by contemporary art expert Dan Elias, who took over after Jussel's departure and hosted the program from 2001 to 2003 (Seasons 5 through 7).
Two other spin-off programmes, Antiques Roadshow Gems (1991) and Priceless Antiques Roadshow (2009–10), revisited items from the show's history and provided background information on the making of the show and interviews with the programme's experts. The most valuable item to ever appear on the show featured on 16 November 2008.
A lot of what made the book so valuable was that it was associated with Madam C.J. Walker, known as America's first self-made female millionaire. Walker built a beauty empire in the early 1900s ...
"Antiques Roadshow" was in Richmond, Virginia, this week, where a woman brought in three first edition Langston Hughes books, published in the 1940s and '50s. The woman paid just $1 for each book ...
In 1972 Farahar joined the staff of a bookshop in Culham, between Abingdon and Oxford, before becoming a market trader at Bath Antiques Market where he sold books during the week and worked as a wine waiter at weekends in order to make ends meet. In the summer of 1976 he met his wife, Sophie Dupré, the manuscript specialist, and in 1979 he ...
In fact, more often than not, the old paintings, family Bibles and china tea cups -- the most common items brought to the Antiques Roadshow events -- are not worth much. "Most objects we see are ...
Sandon is a regular expert on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow. [3] When his father Henry died, on 25 December 2023, at the age of 95, Sandon said, "To the millions who tuned in every Sunday evening to watch the Antiques Roadshow, Henry was like a favourite uncle, whose enthusiasm for even the humblest piece of chipped china was infectious." [4]