Antique Detection Enthusiast Prints

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!'

Books of Tablets

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

Authentic Rinkelmier chair (Built 1723)

"I'm still looking, sir?"

Brain Bomb Detector

1870: The accidental invention of 'the selfie'.

The Old Curiosity Shop

'I want something to make me look younger.'

"I've up cycled your Chippendale!"

Antique silver

'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.'

Queen Anne

My own museum.

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

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

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

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

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

Keeping Warm in the Highlands

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

Antique oriental carpets.

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

Antique Ailments

"I just love these genuine old tapestries on the walls, with their medieval calm. Oh, my—is that a Roycroft lamp?!"