Antiques Roadshow is a British television programme broadcast by the BBC in which antiques appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom to appraise antiques brought in by local people. It has been running since 1979, based on a 1977 documentary programme.
Antiques Roadshow title logo
Paul Atterbury examines an antique cricket bat
The Artist's Halt in the Desert by Moonlight, watercolour, by Richard Dadd
Eastward Ho! (1857) by Henry Nelson O'Neil was appraised on Canadian Antiques Roadshow
An antique is an item perceived as having value because of its aesthetic or historical significance, and often defined as at least 100 years old, although the term is often used loosely to describe any object that is old. An antique is usually an item that is collected or desirable because of its age, beauty, rarity, condition, utility, personal emotional connection, and/or other unique features. It is an object that represents a previous era or time period in human history. Vintage and collectible are used to describe items that are old, but do not meet the 100-year criterion.
Restoring the frame of an antique mirror
An Antique shop
A vintage travel gear seller at Marché Dauphine, Saint-Ouen, Paris
Antique items for sale at a roadside shop in Kolkata, India.