<div><p>From the mythical artefacts of the ancient world to saucy seaside postcards, <I>The Antiques Magpie</I> explores the wonderful world of antiques and collectables.</p><p>With PBS's <I>Antiques Roadshow UK</I> regular Marc Allum as your guide, go in search of stolen masterpieces, explore the first museums, learn the secrets of the forgers, and brush up on your auction technique.</p><p>Meet the garden gnome insured for $1.5 million, track down Napoleon's toothbrush, find out how to spot a corpse in a Victorian photograph?and much more.</p><p>As <I>Country Life</I> said, the book is not only "a very useful overall guide for collectors . . . and a source of unlikely information, but a laugh a page." A perfect present for virtually everyone.</p><p><B>Marc Allum</B> is a freelance art and antiques writer and consultant based in Wiltshire, England. Marc has been a miscellaneous specialist on the BBC's <I>Antiques Roadshow</I> program?broadcast in the United States by PBS?since 1998.</p></DIV>