Meet modern-day treasure hunter Drew Pritchard. With demanding customers, high turnover, and one of the biggest decorative salvage yards in the UK, Drew is constantly on the road, crisscrossing the country in search of derelict gems and forgotten remnants. Drew loves the thrill of the hunt and while he gets his hands dirty in the country's architectural backwaters, his crack team of restorers is back at the shop giving old and rare finds a new lease on life.
Modern day treasure hunter, Drew Pritchard is one of Britain's leading architectural salvage dealers, traveling the length and breadth of the country in search of weird and wonderful objects. Drew loves the thrill of the hunt and while he gets his hands dirty in the country's architectural backwaters, a crack team of restorers are back at base giving old and rare finds a new lease of life. We've seen them at work on Salvage Hunters, restoring, repairing and refining Drew's finds but for the first time, Salvage Hunters: The Restorers is going behind-the-scenes with this expert team to see what it really takes to transform junk into gems.
Antiques Roadshow is a British television show 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. There are also international versions of the programme.
After passing on the shame of the traitor for the grandfather, Wumai's successor followed the training and traced the old dynasty of the antique counterfeiting group, but otherwise, the sympathetic medicine turned to the old dynasty. During the tracing, he learned that the Qingming Shanghe collection in the Forbidden City was a fake. This is a trap set by the Hong Kong auction company Berylian, which intends to monopolize the domestic antique and fake market. Wishing to make a fortune, he had to join forces with Lao Chao Feng, or together with the medicine, and the twists and turns finally proved that the Forbidden City had concealed it as a genuine product. However, Lao Chao Feng Lao Chou did not show up as promised. Wishing and Huang Yanyan have gone through hardships and hardships, competing with the old dynasty for the five cans of blue and white porcelain.
Inside the Beijing hutongs where professionals who engage in art conservation and restoration live is a story between a museum conservator and a translator. Shao Xue, Zheng Sunian, and Zhang Qi are children of museum conservators. They share many experiences growing up having lived through the SARS epidemic, the death of their loved ones, and the old city being demolished to forge a deep friendship with each other. As they grow up, everyone starts to choose different paths. Influenced by Zheng Sunian's mother, Shao Xue is unwilling to give up the infinite possibilities of the future for the sake of love and leaves home to search for greener pastures. Zheng Sunian inherits the legacy left by his mother to become a conservator-restorer and finds meaning through the preservation of cultural artifacts. Zhang Qi earns the opportunity to study abroad due to his mathematical skills. Before leaving, he decides to bury his feelings for Shao Xue.
Qiu Yuan once dreamed of working in heritage conservation, but she had no opportunity to dip her toes into the industry until she meets Qin Zhi Yuan who is the owner of Yuxinzhai.
Yuan and Zhi Yuan became acquainted by chance. Zhi Yuan is a legend in the world of conservators. He manages to use Yuan's "rubber board" technology to resolve the crisis at Yuxinzhai but also puts her in danger. They wouldn't have become friends otherwise and from then on, Yuan kickstarts her career in the preservation of cultural heritage with Zhi Yuan as her teacher. Just as Yuan and Zhi Yuan develop feelings for each other, Zuo Huai Ren whom Yuan has crushed for years suddenly returns to China.
In an antique shop, the value of each item is the story behind them. People who sell their belongings here can reminisce on their lives, and buyers see their value hidden within. Six stories about memories, love, dreams and separation are linked to six items.
Research, restore and ready for sale! Bargain Hunt's Christina Trevanion and The Repair Shop's Will Kirk help families turn unwanted items into winning lots.
Architectural salvage expert Drew Pritchard looks back at the most eccentric characters, the hardest hagglers and the most extraordinary places he's hunted for antique treasure. Drew gives us the inside track on his wheeling and dealing, the stories behind his picks, as well as top tips about salvaging and how to get the best deals.
Antikrundan is the Swedish version of the original BBC format Antiques Roadshow. The show visits different locations in Sweden and lets people bring their antiques to be valued by experts. It remains popular and often has more than 2 million viewers. The 19th season was shown in 2009. Most of the experts have been with the programme since the start. Jesper Aspegren was the original host. He left in 1999 and was succeeded by Anne Lundberg.
Antikrundan started out as a coproduction between SVT Malmö and the BBC where the Antiques Roadshow would visit Scandinavia for two programmes. Antikrundan premiered in August 1989 on TV2 and has since been shown on SVT every year. Antiques Roadshow is shown on BBC Lifestyle and TV8 in Sweden.
Bull is a brand new comedy with a unique and quirky sense of humour, featuring the eponymous Rupert Bull (Robert Lindsay), a man who attempts to run his antiques shop aided and hampered in equal measure by his team of dysfunctional staff, Beverley (Maureen Lipman), Faye (Claudia Jessie) and Toby (Naz Osmanoglu).
At Castle Durrow in the heart of Ireland, beautiful and extraordinary antique treasures are repaired, valued and bid for at this stunning country house auction.
Across Britain, behind the doors of homes of all shapes and sizes lay astonishing hoards of potential treasures from extraordinary owners who have filled their homes with items they’ve acquired, curated, or obsessively collected.
A Canadian version of the popular British TV series hosted by Valerie Pringle.
Paul Martin takes to the road as he searches the length and breadth of Britain in pursuit of a new generation of moneymaking antiques dealers.