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Antiques Roadshow: 40 Years of Great Finds
Paul Atterbury
Marc Allum
A collection of the timeless, the priceless and the unforgettable, this beautiful compendium accompanies the beloved BBC One TV series.Antiques Roadshow has graced our screens for forty years and has become one of the nation’s most beloved television programmes and a national institution. It has featured thousands of unique stories over the years, and introduced many incredible characters and unforgettable moments. In this anniversary celebration, Paul Atterbury and Marc Allum look back at the quintessential moments from the show’s illustrious history, providing a look at the history behind the very best and most intriguing objects that have appeared on the show.Antiques Roadshow: 40 Years of Great Finds reveals the astonishing stories behind findings such as the discovery of the Lalique vase which had been bought for a pound at a car boot sale and left in the loft, only to be valued and sold for £25,000; the twenty-three original Beatrix Potter drawings; a brooch designed by the great Victorian architect William Burges; a poignant letter written by a doomed passenger on the Titanic, and legendary 1970s glam rocker Marc Bolan’s distinctive Gibson Flying V guitar.Beautifully illustrated, and featuring a wealth of artifacts from the show, this is a truly revealing book, unearthing moments from history through each of the extraordinary objects discovered on the programme.
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CONTENTS
Cover (#u525bf094-cf60-5145-a20f-be28d71845a0)
Title Page (#uddeeff7b-65e5-5027-91bd-e6915b7d2cd3)
Copyright
Introduction (#ulink_7934a22d-77b9-5598-a6ac-9fe48ddd1e6c)
A William Burges bottle (#ulink_42b57996-533a-5bf7-ba5e-0b2ee2a75d9e)
A Sioux Warrior bronze (#ulink_c26f1583-3e05-5a94-8aff-2078718988c4)
Ozzy the owl (#ulink_fddbf321-e14b-51ee-94c1-958e1c7f01e2)
A Foujita painting (#ulink_d1691ceb-2d39-59db-a370-c8b400b43bd7)
A Richard Dadd painting (#ulink_4dedbd08-fcb8-5a90-b25e-c53a968c6546)
An Album of Filipino watercolours (#ulink_3fb6e832-4765-5e49-80b6-b1e1d7d2c917)
Paul Storr salts (#ulink_974b5505-396c-50fe-90b0-1921e3e0a8d5)
A Renaissance gold plaque (#ulink_5dc1ebbc-61cf-53ae-affa-4ef9947003f4)
A Delftware Turk’s head (#ulink_e23a1566-1dd5-5416-8ade-66779291d6e7)
A pair of Regency peat buckets (#ulink_a42152c4-b76e-57ec-a91b-449737c6c225)
A William Orpen portrait (#ulink_75400110-929e-5a09-bfd9-346f526d1c97)
A Churchill cigar (#ulink_c5a450b6-024c-5b19-be84-6da17faf37ea)
A Steiff Titanic bear (#ulink_a3c990f2-9a41-5376-b223-717c1dbc9dce)
A Waterloo chest (#ulink_a4d24f50-077b-570b-875b-445d69080d47)
The credenza story (#ulink_26be0372-f19d-559c-af01-6a99c8aa8dcf)
A Francis Souza painting (#ulink_273f3282-f88e-50c5-9803-d150cd1619c5)
Mughal bracelets (#ulink_126ad354-bd22-5415-89df-d4a02c0386b5)
Scott expedition photographs (#ulink_fee2a248-08d5-545b-8b3d-0d76dba2ba07)
The Blue John (#ulink_4e2c51c8-c590-5779-af8e-9651ae1e1020)
Queen Anne’s travelling chest (#ulink_f384fcd7-49b4-59c9-ae2f-6c32e1bdf4d9)
Buffalo Bill’s gloves (#ulink_edc86526-33d2-5f8e-9a44-3691f1f6a83d)
An Alma-Tadema portrait (#ulink_12c3b684-e08f-59f0-87a2-26647bcad588)
A cold-painted bronze parrot (#ulink_7a08d88e-da7c-57fd-b247-870f2964a55e)
Van Dyck portrait (#ulink_8acf5a0b-3868-5fbe-8944-2108172a538b)
A Stuart table casket (#ulink_922a0dac-4ad2-56c4-abd6-9bc258fcd309)
Henry Moore letters (#ulink_8e8dec94-2596-52be-8746-1e1fd6d06f50)
A Märklin tinplate biplane (#ulink_f2d4e155-1eb7-58d3-b5b0-b92721815490)
The Cottingley fairies (#ulink_73f11fa8-383c-5e5b-b41b-384fe9a6ecc9)
Scrimshaw carvers (#ulink_e08e1e4e-7768-5d21-a55b-3776cb294cc1)
Newspaper posters (#ulink_fc0b9449-3c5e-5d4e-b8f4-3300475195a8)
Beatrix Potter drawings (#ulink_29fe030e-9efa-5e46-9c40-cd3ccdc3056f)
‘The Winner’ enamel advertising sign (#ulink_5b52e57d-e665-50b9-bb0d-a6a82de12543)
The Keel of Endeavour (#ulink_acf127c0-d63f-5a8c-bfea-c038506d9eb7)
Sunbeam-Talbot 90 Rally car (#ulink_e2fba008-a257-5c0c-832d-1ddb5485c2c3)
Carpathia memorabilia (#ulink_dc870bc7-4d00-5af5-aee7-cf0693411c7e)
A Leica II Luxus camera (#ulink_e090b11e-b735-58dc-be7a-672df9f62765)
A Terry Frost portrait (#ulink_e4c35e76-8cd7-5b05-8268-e5b5043b525b)
Marc Bolan’s Gibson ‘Flying V’ guitar (#ulink_1a026c2e-ecb8-5533-accb-36f0478acdec)
Graham Sutherland painting (#ulink_1aaf8783-2a9b-5b9d-ade0-1cdd8eb3f67f)
A Lalique vase (#ulink_118e5008-bad8-55ad-8980-7ca27f7cc102)
Dambusters’ panda mascot (#ulink_9815aa8d-6182-51ff-9dcd-6e3641d0d1d9)
A plane spotter’s notebooks (#ulink_05577587-d37c-5070-b1b8-a9e7dec157b9)
A William Burges brooch (#ulink_a643a0c8-7820-5080-994a-90bdf6fb1cdc)
A stump work box (#ulink_e6f1f833-4b6d-595a-bf0c-4e300ccd52f2)
Titanic letter (#ulink_86c058ea-f533-513d-8530-8ddb0f9276c2)
A Saxon gold ring (#ulink_1372ce52-bfa3-57fb-b3ae-d28d3b5b2acc)
A Tourmaline ring (#ulink_de57a8ef-ea76-59bc-a62e-d466e27ab644)
A silver duck claret jug (#ulink_ee5426a0-dc80-5294-8699-c16bd20807c8)
The refuse tip jewellery (#ulink_bb8d5fa5-6abe-581f-abed-1423d76e7824)
An English marquetry commode (#ulink_f9f0e4c0-3b1b-5d93-a6c2-1ea79126a19f)
Margaret James, poster designer (#ulink_e603352c-7959-541e-aae9-e44296bc2979)
A William Kent style table (#ulink_47417f78-ea94-5001-a8ee-c9058a881a88)
An Audemars Piguet watch (#ulink_149cb2d2-9101-567b-b900-af5f362be805)
An eighteenth-century dress (#ulink_febf839b-4b5d-5451-a24d-865eda46eabf)
Status Quo tapestry (#ulink_d0406cad-9aa0-57c3-ae01-dc0d558cff37)
Lawrence of Arabia’s watch (#ulink_19274ea4-bcdb-542e-85fc-8653661aff62)
A diamond butterfly brooch (#ulink_25a04d54-69f4-5d2f-9bc4-8864350947d4)
A Steiff Clown bear (#ulink_4b6b83e5-6d37-5321-9450-7691f74dc9d6)
The Hiroshima Bowls (#ulink_69420fc8-d389-53c6-b770-54675f610479)
The Great Train Robbers’ Monopoly set (#ulink_8a4b0fb8-00c9-557f-a284-ce8e10c342a2)
A Thomas Telford gate (#ulink_008e5b42-dd9f-58c7-9232-346a40b3daf4)
A Yuan bronze vase (#ulink_8aec2482-4f07-54e4-a1a4-e3cb44855b5c)
A bizarre fishing rod (#ulink_a19b2e12-0710-58cc-899f-b6d6831d83e6)
A Japonisme Gem (#ulink_aed7a394-197b-563d-bfdc-4f2c8429be3c)
A Suffragette medal (#ulink_48a3fc70-50cb-58c7-b4d4-d16d04105506)
A Lindner portrait (#ulink_fd5898cc-ba8f-5588-bd82-282ae881c1f8)
Fiji bulibuli club (#ulink_e52993aa-0274-56db-a3c6-cee706af90c3)
The Tory loo seat (#ulink_7ee76c14-7a39-5426-94f6-6a64bb2e9618)
A Dolls’ house (#ulink_0e730795-3d61-5f2e-89fc-763c996e65d0)
An Apothecary cabinet (#ulink_601b10dd-0eba-5852-b5c8-d375d6c8ac2d)
A Shakespeare notebook (#ulink_6865a44e-b0aa-5f9c-9da4-9a2bf59e6a9e)
Banksy lovers (#ulink_d8b126a5-9d23-558d-8783-aafbad299aac)
An English Rose kitchen (#ulink_0bc1d998-18b3-5e98-96a0-aa57aa293656)
JFK’s flying jacket (#ulink_db679d09-944b-5107-b742-465a37d50a21)
