With PBS's "Antiques Roadshow UK" regular Marc Allum as your guide, go in search
of stolen masterpieces, explore the first museums, learn the secrets of the for
gers, and brush up on your auction technique.
Meet the garden gnome insured for
$1.5 million, track down Napoleon's toothbrush, find out how to spot a corpse i
n a Victorian photograph--and much more.
As "Country Life" said, the book is no
t only "a very useful overall guide for collectors . . . and a source of unlikel
y information, but a laugh a page." A perfect present for virtually everyone.
M
arc Allum is a freelance art and antiques writer and consultant based in Wiltshi
re, England. Marc has been a miscellaneous specialist on the BBC's "Antiques Roa
dshow" program--broadcast in the United States by PBS--since 1998.
