Antiques Roadshow: 40 Years of Great Finds PDF
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Copyright William Collins An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF WilliamCollinsBooks.com This eBook edition published by William Collins in 2017 Text © Paul Atterbury and Marc Allum, 2017 Photographs © BBC except for those individually listed in the Picture Credits Design and layout © HarperCollins Publishers 2017 By arrangement with the BBC. The BBC logo is a trademark of the British Broadcasting Corporation and is used under licence. BBC logo © BBC 1996 The authors assert their moral right to be identified as the authors of this work. Cover photographs: left second from top: Courtesy of The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; bottom right, bottom middle: Courtesy of Homes & Antiques/Homesandantiques.com; right middle: Clive Corless for Homes & Antiques/Homesandantiques.com; top left: Jeff Overs for BBC; top right © The Henry Moore Foundation. All Rights Reserved, DACS/www.henry-moore.org; left third from top © BBC/Sotheby’s London A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non- exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this eBook on- screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins Publishers. Source ISBN: 9780008267636 eBook Edition © October 2017 ISBN: 9780008267650 Version: 2017-10-27 CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Introduction A William Burges bottle A Sioux Warrior bronze Ozzy the owl A Foujita painting A Richard Dadd painting An Album of Filipino watercolours Paul Storr salts A Renaissance gold plaque A Delftware Turk’s head A pair of Regency peat buckets A William Orpen portrait A Churchill cigar A Steiff Titanic bear A Waterloo chest The credenza story A Francis Souza painting Mughal bracelets Scott expedition photographs The Blue John Queen Anne’s travelling chest Buffalo Bill’s gloves An Alma-Tadema portrait A cold-painted bronze parrot Van Dyck portrait A Stuart table casket Henry Moore letters A Märklin tinplate biplane The Cottingley fairies Scrimshaw carvers Newspaper posters Beatrix Potter drawings ‘The Winner’ enamel advertising sign The Keel of Endeavour Sunbeam-Talbot 90 Rally car Carpathia memorabilia A Leica II Luxus camera A Terry Frost portrait Marc Bolan’s Gibson ‘Flying V’ guitar Graham Sutherland painting A Lalique vase Dambusters’ panda mascot A plane spotter’s notebooks A William Burges brooch A stump work box Titanic letter A Saxon gold ring A Tourmaline ring A silver duck claret jug The refuse tip jewellery An English marquetry commode Margaret James, poster designer A William Kent style table An Audemars Piguet watch An eighteenth-century dress Status Quo tapestry Lawrence of Arabia’s watch A diamond butterfly brooch A Steiff Clown bear The Hiroshima Bowls The Great Train Robbers’ Monopoly set A Thomas Telford gate A Yuan bronze vase A bizarre fishing rod A Japonisme Gem A Suffragette medal A Lindner portrait Fiji bulibuli club The Tory loo seat A Dolls’ house An Apothecary cabinet A Shakespeare notebook Banksy lovers An English Rose kitchen JFK’s flying jacket Rommel’s cigarette packet Old Testament figures Jean Dupas posters A Chinese armorial dish A Frodsham mantel clock A Cartier wristwatch Mrs Ambrose’s punch pot Martinware collection Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund sword Cromwell’s funeral flag Jane Austen’s cup-and-ball The Crawley silver A George Richmond miniature A caravan planned by a P.O.W. ‘May the Force’ An L. S. Lowry painting Bull’s head stirrup cups Dickin medals A Lewis Carroll collection An Indian portrait An Early doll A Maria Heathcote portrait A Weird glass Special programmes Index Picture credits Acknowledgements About the Authors About the Publisher Familiar Roadshow faces, as they were. CLOCKWISE: David Battie, Eric Knowles, Lars Tharp and Henry Sandon.
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