#Antiques Roadshow

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antiques roadshow guests will really say the most chilling sentences on live television and not realize they're creating 3 sentence horror stories.

#images described in alt text #i tried to describe the painting by noting things that the appraiser mentioned #cricket.chatterbox #antiques roadshow #greatest hits

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

#antiques roadshow #twitter #tweets #meme #memes #tweet #funny #lol #humor

[cookinguptales]

my family is watching antiques roadshow again, and we were talking about the wwdits vampires trying to sell their old belongings at one of these things... which quickly devolved into how much we want to see them doing appraisals on the show.

laszlo is presented with an authentic norman rockwell painting and he's like "not enough tits, not enough bush" and he just like. throws it. finds some vintage victorian pornography and is like THIS IS MORE LIKE IT.

nadja is just wandering around judging jewelry by how haunted it is, giving insultingly lowball estimates, and stealing the pieces she likes best as soon as the cameras are off her. she mostly just hypnotizes a bunch of old ladies, but yes, there is a body count.

nandor is thrilled by how much antique weaponry there always is at these shows, but he is mostly enamored of All The Horsies. because for some reason, there is always so much horse art on this show. every horse painting is worth one million dollars.

colin is giving actual legit appraisals, his are the only ones that are at all accurate, but his appraisals are so long-winded (he draws them out just to keep folks anxious) that people usually pass out before they find out what their treasures are actually worth. he does not bother mugging them. (nadja often does, though.)

guillermo is like GUYS, WE REALLY SHOULDN'T BE ON TV... until the exact moment that he finds out how much a lot of their old shit is actually worth. once he loosens up, he finds that he actually really enjoys wandering around and looking at all of the antiques, even if they do kind of uncomfortably remind him of a very unpleasant ex.

nadja will, before this is over, shove a bunch of stolen jewelry at guillermo and tell him to hide it in his pockets. he will bitch while doing exactly that. colin will help the two of them resell their illicit gains on ebay the next day.

(meanwhile, laszlo has managed to pull both keno brothers.)

bonus for my fellow nandermo fans:

despite coming out of the whole endeavor much richer, guillermo is feeling unsettled because his ex-boyfriend always used to ramble at him about antiquities and he realizes that he was never once asked what he thought about any of them. it feels odd to realize how much he does actually enjoy the subject in the absence of a much larger personality that always made him feel smaller.

(story of his life, huh?)

after all this is done, he goes back out to some local shows and auctions, much smaller ones, and nandor accompanies him. they gossip at each other the whole time about which pieces they like, which they think are ugly, and which are drastically overpriced.

guillermo uses his new misbegotten wealth to buy nandor a statue of a horse, which he promptly names john.

#this is my ideal episode honestly guys #posts that appeal to literally only me #I would write an entire fic about this if literally anyone would read it lmao #but it is a crossover that literally only I would enjoy #I grew up on this show and I'll probably die watching it lmao #wwdits #antiques roadshow

[scavengedluxury]

Nothing triggers that very specifically British sense of Sunday night dread like the Antiques Roadshow theme tune.

#antiques roadshow

[mcromwell]

getting stoned and watching antiques roadshow

#drug use #drugs #marijuana #weed #antiques #antiques roadshow #it feels stupid to tag this dumb doodle lawl

[ashipwreckcoast]

antiques roadshow always gives me the best combo of art + closed captions

(Qi Baishi ink drawing of shrimp, circa 1948, appraised for $30K to $40K if you're curious)

#antiques roadshow #shrimp

[humboldtfog]

THIS IS NOT A JOKE!!! Dudes, the Roadshow fooled us SO HARD. On the broadcast version they air two extra “hidden treasure” appraisals after the end credits, which they do not include on the versions on their youtube uploads or the pbs app on my internet tv. I thought they had just gotten rid of that part when we had our watch parties, but luckily Cass’s cousin completely unintentionally caught a rerun yesterday on an official pbs broadcast station, which is almost better than getting to see the moment together because of how ridiculous this all has been. Did roadshow really just pull the best prank ever? So we were not only in the background of three shots, we were the last full-on appraisal on the last episode, which is off the wall cause I kept telling ppl I hope we’re on hour three cause the suspense will make it even better, but I guess I manifested the “last one” too literally lol. Roadshow played us like nobody’s business, it could have been years before us or someone we knew saw a broadcast rerun. Thank glob it happened sooner cause it’s been a hell of a week for me, so I will accept this apology universe, almost makes up for what you’ve been putting me through. Mostly thank you Antiques Roadshop for including us, and Cass, thank you most of all for backing me up on this insane journey and bringing the goods (literally TREASURES!!!) Truly a dream come true!!! 🙏🤗🤓🥰🤩🥳🥹😭🫠 Also always FREE PALESTINE 🍉🪁🇵🇸

#antiques roadshow #self #cass #friends #batan rouge #louisiana #uranium glass #depression glass #vaseline glass

[grandmaster-anne]

Aired: 5 March 2023 Antiques Roadshow Series 45: 7 — Eden Project 1 Episode Description: In this special episode, filmed before the Accession, Fiona introduces the Queen Consort to roadshow visitors and members of the team of experts, and finds out about her close connection to the Eden Project and the charity The Big Lunch. Like any visitor to the roadshow, the Queen Consort has brought some personal items to share with the experts. Silver specialist Duncan Campbell is thrilled to see a rare snuffbox from the Royal Collection that was made from Cornish silver, while books expert Justin Croft admires a copy of Gray’s Elegy in a Country Churchyard. The Queen Consort describes her love for the poem and her interest in the book’s exquisite binding, which was done in 1899 by the Guild of Women Binders. The Queen Consort also joins Fiona for a ‘guess the mystery item’ challenge posed by jewellery specialist Geoffrey Munn. Can they work out the true purpose of three unusual items – a piece of rock crystal, a silver plaque decorated with a pair of eyes, and two jewelled arrows? © BBC

#queen camilla #antiques roadshow #tv appearances #Youtube

[physics-dirtbag]

antiques roadshow drinking game

#antiques roadshow #post

[thepastisalreadywritten]

It was bound to happen sooner or later: a guest on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow presented an artefact, which derived from the slave trade – an ivory bangle.

One of the programme’s experts, Ronnie Archer-Morgan, himself a descendant of slaves, said that it was a striking historical artefact but not one that he was willing to value.

‘I do not want to put a price on something that signifies such an awful business,’ he said.

It’s easy to understand how he feels. The idea of people profiting from the artefacts left over from slavery is distasteful.

Yet, as Archer-Morgan said, it is not that the bangle has no value: it has great educational value.

It should be bought by a museum and displayed in order to demonstrate the complex nature of slavery and as a corrective to the narrative that slavery was purely a crime committed by Europeans against Africans.

The bangle was, it seems, once in the possession of a Nigerian slaver who was trading in other Africans.

It’s a reminder that slavery was rife in Africa long before colonial government.

It could also remind us that, though slavery was a global institution, the country that led the world in the rebellion against this barbarism – and played a bigger role than perhaps anyone else in its eradication – was the United Kingdom.

Britain did not invent slavery.

Slaves were kept in Egypt since at least the Old Kingdom period and in China from at least the 7th century AD, followed by Japan and Korea.

It was part of the Islamic world from its beginnings in the 7th century.

Native tribes in North America practised slavery, as did the Aztecs and Incas farther south.

African traders supplied slaves to the Roman empire and to the Arab world. Scottish clan chiefs sold their men to traders.

Barbary pirates from north Africa practised the trade too, seizing around a million white Europeans – including some from Cornish villages – between the 16th and 18th centuries.

It was in fear of such pirates that the song ‘Rule Britannia’ was written: hence the line that ‘Britons never ever ever shall be slaves.’

Even slaves who escaped their masters in the Caribbean went on to take their own slaves.

The most concerted campaign against all this was started by Christian groups in London in the 1770s who eventually recruited William Wilberforce to their campaign, and parliament went on to outlaw the slave trade in 1807.

British sea power was then deployed to stamp it out.

The largely successful British effort to eradicate the transatlantic slave trade did not grow out of any kind of self-interest.

It was driven by moral imperative and at considerable cost to Britain and the Empire.

At its peak, Britain’s battle against the slave trade involved 36 naval ships and cost some 2,000 British lives.

In 1845, the Aberdeen Act expanded the Navy’s mission to intercept Brazilian ships suspected of carrying slaves.

Much is made about how Britain profited from the slave trade, but we tend not to hear about the extraordinary cost of fighting it.

In a 1999 paper, US historians Chaim Kaufmann and Robert Pape estimated that, taking into account the loss of business and trade, suppression of the slave trade cost Britain 1.8 per cent of GDP between 1808 and 1867.

It was, they said, the most expensive piece of moral action in modern history.

The cost of fighting the slave trade cancelled out much, if not all of Britain’s profits from it over the previous century.

There are those who continue to demand reparations for slavery from the UK government and other western powers, yet they rarely, if ever, acknowledge Britain’s role in all but eradicating the evil of the transatlantic slave trade, a cause on which we spent the equivalent of £1.5 billion a year for half a century.

Britain’s role in hastening slavery’s extinction is a remarkable achievement.

It’s astonishing that we have forgotten it almost entirely in the 21st century.

It would be difficult to find anyone in the world whose ancestral tree does not somewhere extend back to a slave-trader.

Huge numbers of us, too, will have been partly descended from slaves.

Britain should not minimise or deny the extent to which it traded slaves to the colonies in the early days of Empire.

But it is also important to remember the thousands who served and died with the West Africa Squadron while seizing 1,600 slave ships and freeing some 150,000 Africans.

We must examine and remember everything about the history of the slave trade, including the forces – moral and military – that eventually brought it to an end.

It’s profoundly worrying that slavery evolved to be a near-universal phenomenon among human societies and inspiring that it came to be all but eradicated within a single human lifespan.

#Britain #slave trade #Antiques Roadshow #Ronnie Archer-Morgan #ivory bangle #artefacts #Rule Britannia #William Wilberforce #Aberdeen Act #slavery #suppression of slave trade #moral action #transatlantic slave trade #BBC

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delighted to announce that a new kind of antiques roadshow lady just dropped

hello 75 year old woman who initially thought her limited edition (only 150 printed) copy of the picture of dorian gray signed by oscar wilde himself was worth only 25 dollar

#i am OBSESSED with her #functionally described #i guess?? #antiques roadshow #cricket.chatterbox

[cartoonscientist]

antiques roadshow host assessing a haunted painting: so what’s interesting here is that this wasn’t actually made by a child; it’s painted in what you might call “a naive style”, you can see that the artist understands the laws of perspective and composition as established by the old masters and is choosing to eschew realism, which isn’t developmentally appropriate for a child who would be drawing at this level. now, if we look at the central figure, you see those two sort of snowman arm twigs coming out of the front? haha, yes. this little character is called the “shrike horse”, and it fairly reliably marks the piece as being a product of the midcentury new occult movement.

antiques roadshow host: this was most likely drawn in a trance state or other altered mindset in an effort to reach some kind of primitive, animalistic inner drive, or perhaps a destroying child ego that would be used to channel chaotic energy. I would bet money that it was hung in the basement of a church, or maybe in someone’s attic that had been converted into a ritual space. now, you used to be able to use these to contact and channel various dark entities, power wells, what have you, but you can tell that this particular piece wasn’t painted with archival materials, and the connection most likely isn’t very strong now. you might be able to record a decent EVP with one of those little spy microphones.

antiques roadshow host: in today’s market, I would value it at around seven hundred, a thousand, but you could get up to three thousand if you found the right collector. well, thank you so much for coming on the show today, it’s always just such a joy for me to see these lovingly preserved remnants of underground magickal practice from america’s past.

#horror #mundane horror #shitpost #antiques roadshow #unreality

[akaanir-of-starfleet]

Oil on canvas by Clarence Millet (1921)

#hey i said something! #art #painting #garden #new orleans #clarence millet #antiques roadshow

[hereslookingatyousquid]

I'm so sorry, we took your boyfriend to the Antiques Roadshow and the expert determined he was a replica. No, I'm sorry to say, not a particularity old replica. Late 20th, early 21st century, basically worthless. Maybe 50£ to a very specific collector. But it's a lovely story isn't it?

#antiques roadshow #so sorry #i so hope you use him #this will only be funny to like #3 people #and me #😊

[jerseydeanne]

#antiques roadshow #queen camilla #british royal family

[ashipwreckcoast]

#antiques roadshow #help