Antiques Hobbyist Mugs

This week on The Antique Roadkill

Barcode on Ancient Greek Vase

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

'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."

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

Tourist and Butterfly and Goat

"I'm still looking, sir?"

Authentic Rinkelmier chair (Built 1723)

Books of Tablets

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

Casual skydiving.

The Old Curiosity Shop

My own museum.

"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

'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.'

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

Keeping Warm in the Highlands

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

'Helen went on Facebook and launched a thousand ships.'

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

Antique Ailments

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

"Well, Emmeline, what's new?"

National Pottery Live