A Terry Frost portrait
Marc Bolan’s Gibson ‘Flying V’ guitar
Graham Sutherland painting
A Lalique vase
Dambusters’ panda mascot
A plane spotter’s notebooks
A William Burges brooch
A stump work box
Titanic letter
A Saxon gold ring
A Tourmaline ring
A silver duck claret jug
The refuse tip jewellery
An English marquetry commode
Margaret James, poster designer
A William Kent style table
An Audemars Piguet watch
An eighteenth-century dress
Status Quo tapestry
Lawrence of Arabia’s watch
A diamond butterfly brooch
A Steiff Clown bear
The Hiroshima Bowls
The Great Train Robbers’ Monopoly set
A Thomas Telford gate
A Yuan bronze vase
A bizarre fishing rod
A Japonisme Gem
A Suffragette medal
A Lindner portrait
Fiji bulibuli club
The Tory loo seat
A Dolls’ house
An Apothecary cabinet
A Shakespeare notebook
Banksy lovers
An English Rose kitchen
JFK’s flying jacket
Rommel’s cigarette packet
Old Testament figures
Jean Dupas posters
A Chinese armorial dish
A Frodsham mantel clock
A Cartier wristwatch
Mrs Ambrose’s punch pot
Martinware collection
Lloyd’s Patriotic Fund sword
Cromwell’s funeral flag
Jane Austen’s cup-and-ball
The Crawley silver
A George Richmond miniature
A caravan planned by a P.O.W.
‘May the Force’
An L. S. Lowry painting
Bull’s head stirrup cups
Dickin medals
A Lewis Carroll collection
An Indian portrait
An Early doll
A Maria Heathcote portrait
A Weird glass
Special programmes
Index
Picture credits
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
About the Publisher