Miller's Antiques Handbook & Price Guide 2022-2023

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She is an expert on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and co-hosts the popular BBC series The House Detectives, ITV's Antiques Trail, and Discovery's It's Your Bid. Among her other obsessions she numbered dogs, Scottish rugby and – above all – Bruce Springsteen: she travelled the world to see The Boss live. But by 1992 the marriage was over – although they maintained a united front for the publishing business. After a spell presenting BBC Two’s The House Detectives (1997-2000), in which she and a panel of experts “descend on ordinary houses to unlock their historical secrets”, she joined BBC One’s Antiques Roadshow in 2007 as an expert on Miscellaneous and Ceramics.

This year's edition features special sections on tribal art, affordable jewellery and Hornsea ceramics. She wrote a monthly feature in Canadian Home and Country magazine and was a regular contributor to US Traditional Home and Country Living. Janet Gleeson worked at Sotheby’s and Bonhams as a picture specialist before joining Miller’s Guides as an editor. From an early age, history fascinated her, and by the time she was a teenager, the passion was unstoppable.HEAVY: POSTED FULLY INSURED AT OUR STANDARD RATES (UK ONLY) FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. Their new publishing company was run from the outbuildings, while the family lived in a smaller house at Sissinghurst and a Gothic mansion in Kensington. After her marriage to Martin Miller ended in divorce in 1992, Miller began a relationship with John Wainwright, and they had one son. She described herself as an auction addict: “I get sweaty palms, my heart starts beating faster, and I start glaring at anyone bidding against me.

We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. In Petworth, Sussex, Martin Miller ran a bed and breakfast while Judith worked as an occupational guidance officer for the Department of Employment. Major collecting areas are thoroughly covered, with special attention given to French provincial furniture, Irish antiques, Poole pottery, majolica, carousel animals, and Oriental works of art and ceramics.It has earned the reputation of being the book no dealer, collector or auctioneer should be without. Compiled by Judith Miller, world-renowned antiques expert and co-founder of the book, the guide features more than 8,000 antiques. Once a specialist for Bonhams and Sothebys, he is an expert on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow, and co-presents BBC2's Collectaholics. She is an expert on the BBC ‘s Antiques Roadshow and has co-hosted the popular BBC series The House Detectives, ITV’s Antiques Trail, and Discovery’s It’s Your Bid.

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s ~ * Binding and cover condition: Glossy illustrated and laminated colour photo-illustrated boards. When Martin wanted to focus on property and hotels, Miller’s Publications was sold to Mitchell Beazley, but Judith remained as MD, overseeing the guides. Special features explain why one piece is worth more than another, show how to value an item and teach you to be your own valuer.

Over the years those who are keen to get rid of their clutter could literally be counting the costs having potentially thrown away a fortune disposing of memorabilia they perhaps thought wasn’t worth keeping. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. He was then affecting long hair and a moustache, and looked, as one critic put it, like “a black Pekinese had been dropped on his head from a great height”. She has worked her way through British porcelain and pottery and Chinese porcelain, and now her passion is for 20th-century glass. There are connections to Yorkshire too including Burmantofts Faience Pottery from Leeds; Studio potter Joanna Constantindis, from York; Studio glass artist, Peter Layton, from Yorkshire as well as pieces from York in silver and sewing; some sporting and military pieces from the county and a teddy elephant which previously belonged to relations of the Ingilby baronets of Ripley Castle, North Yorkshire.Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. The series made the couple a fortune – Martin Miller was nicknamed “the Richard Branson of the antiques world” – and spawned an empire of other standalone Miller guides, to porcelain, silver, Victoriana, and so on. Miller worked as a consultant to and co-presenter of eight series of The Antiques Trail ( Meridian, HTV and Discovery), run on ITV. Judith Miller has gone from collecting as a university student in the 1960's, to one of the world's leading experts in the antiques field. Judith’s friends looked on, totally bewildered, when she got excited about 18th-century plates, and decorated her flat with piles of ceramics.