Judith’s friends looked on, totally bewildered, when she got excited about 18th-century plates, and decorated her flat with piles of ceramics.

This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. From an early age, history fascinated her, and by the time she was a teenager, the passion was unstoppable. She described herself as an auction addict: “I get sweaty palms, my heart starts beating faster, and I start glaring at anyone bidding against me. He was then affecting long hair and a moustache, and looked, as one critic put it, like “a black Pekinese had been dropped on his head from a great height”.Judith Miller has gone from collecting as a university student in the 1960's, to one of the world's leading experts in the antiques field. Ideal for dealers, collectors and auctioneers, it contains 4000 objects, all in full colour with in-depth descriptions. Lots of people were doing up houses at the time, so I wrote Period Details and, again, the book took off.

She is an expert on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and co-hosts the popular BBC series The House Detectives, ITV's Antiques Trail, and Discovery's It's Your Bid. Sections are laid out comprehensively to cover advertising, books, ceramics, glass, metalware, pens and writing equipment along with plastics, Bakelite, posters, rock and pop, sporting memorabilia, teddy bears, toys and games and vintage fashion. After my delightful event at The Blanchard Collective, I felt compelled to recommend it all to you here. Such finds have prompted people to get their items valued, or at least checked, before making the decision to let them go. Among her other obsessions she numbered dogs, Scottish rugby and – above all – Bruce Springsteen: she travelled the world to see The Boss live.Comprehensive sections cover Ceramics, Asian Antiques, Furniture, Glass, Silver and Metalwares, Jewellery and objets de vertu, Clocks and Watches, Books, Textiles, Toys, Decorative Arts and Modern Classics. She wrote a monthly feature in Canadian Home and Country magazine and was a regular contributor to US Traditional Home and Country Living. When Martin wanted to focus on property and hotels, Miller’s Publications was sold to Mitchell Beazley, but Judith remained as MD, overseeing the guides.

Born Judith Henderson Cairns in Galashiels, Scotland, Miller first began collecting antiques while studying history at the University of Edinburgh. Miller worked as a consultant to and co-presenter of eight series of The Antiques Trail ( Meridian, HTV and Discovery), run on ITV.She also turned her hand to books on interior design after a chance conversation with a designer friend, Jacqui Small. Biographies of designers and factories give the background information you need to help date and value objects, while special ‘Judith Picks’ sections give fascinating background and valuation details for particularly interesting or unusual objects. It also serves as a guide on how to appraise everything from books and ceramics to toys and vintage fashion. In 1985, this culminated in Chilston Park, a Grade I-listed house in Kent, empty for more than a decade, which he decided to turn into a hotel. Yet Judith Miller’s long and illustrious career in the world of antiques publishing had little to do with her family background.

But by 1992 the marriage was over – although they maintained a united front for the publishing business. It has earned the reputation of being the book no dealer, collector or auctioneer should be without. Included are tips on what to look for and how to spot rarities that may be worth more than is first discernible to the untrained eye. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate.Their new publishing company was run from the outbuildings, while the family lived in a smaller house at Sissinghurst and a Gothic mansion in Kensington. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.