Antique Detection Enthusiast Gifts

Authenticating an antique

Barcode on Ancient Greek Vase

'...then Johannes Gutenberg built the first bookcase'

"There's more inside."

'This is a wind-up, isn't it?'

Antiques

Auctioneer: 'Sold to the lady whose husband just walked out!'

Reluctantly, Indiana Jones reaches for the true cup of Christ.

"Now we're leaving the hall of stuff we stole from other cultures and entering the hall of stuff we paid too much for."

'At a guess I'd say it's one of the lesser Pharoahs.'

Acme Slide Rules: 'We'll be here and ready, when the current electronic gadgetry fad fades!'

"I'm still looking, sir?"

Authentic Rinkelmier chair (Built 1723)

'...And it comes with valuable coupons toward your next purchase.'

Books of Tablets

Brain Bomb Detector

The Old Curiosity Shop

1870: The accidental invention of 'the selfie'.

"I've up cycled your Chippendale!"

'I'm afraid my husband will stop loving me as I get older.' - 'Mine would never do that with me. You know why, don't you. He's an antique dealer.'

Antique silver

I brake for anything discarded that I can bring to the antiques roadshow.

Queen Anne

'I want something to make me look younger.'

My own museum.

'And exactly where did you find the 'antique salami slicer'?'

'But Grandma, how did you text on them?'

'Now we come to what it would have been worth'

'Don't even think about it, Walter.'

Keeping Warm in the Highlands

"And what do you think my husband is worth?"

"If you get that vase, I get this bearded lamp."

Antique Ailments

"Well, Emmeline, what's new?"

'Why is it that the weirder and older something is, the more it's worth?'