Experts
- Kate Bliss (née Alcock) – consultant for Hansons Auctioneers - Fellow of the Great Britain Gemmological Association. Also appears on Flog it!.
- James Braxton – owns Edgar Horns Auctioneers in Eastbourne and is executive director of Brackets Fine Art Auctioneers in Royal Tunbridge Wells.
- Pippa Deeley – MRICS, FGA. Runs her own fine-art and antiques valuation and consultancy company, Philippa H Deeley Ltd. She is also an off-screen expert on Dickinsons real deal.
- Anthony "The Young Pretender" Gorman – MRICS.
- Charles "Carlos" Hanson – MRICS, who runs his own auction house in Derbyshire.
- David Harper – antiques and classic car expert, and founder of TV Talent Supermarket, an agency for television presenters.
- Paul Hayes – operates as a trade dealer, traveling around the country buying items from the public and selling them to his contacts within the antiques trade. Hayes is also well known for being a valuer on Cash in the Attic.
- Paul Laidlaw – auctioneer and Auction House Manager at H&H Auction Rooms in Cumbria.
- James Lewis – MRICS, Director and auctioneer at Bamfords Auction House in Derbyshire.
- Anita Manning – when in 1989 she established Great Western Auctions in Glasgow she joined an already established band of Scottish female auctioneers. Valuer on Flog It!
- Henry Meadows – auctioneer at the Cotswold Auction Company, former Medals Specialist and Auctioneer at Spink, London.
- Adam Partridge – runs his own auction house near Macclesfield, Cheshire. Also appears on Flog it!
- Thomas "The Planter" Plant – worked at Phillips in Bath, and is now an independent valuer and auctioneer at a sale room in Kent. Also appears on Flog It!
- Jonathan "J.P." Pratt FGA – started as a porter at Phillips in Edinburgh, worked in various positions before becoming Managing Director of Bellmans Auctioneers in Billingshurst, West Sussex in 2004
- Philip "The Fox" Serrell – owns Philip Serrell Auctioneers and Valuers in Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Also appears on Flog It!
- Nigel Smith – trained as a restorer of fine European and oriental ceramics, before starting work as a porter and cataloguer in Manchester, and then moved to Sotheby's as a trainee auctioneer, and then to Phillip's auctioneers in Bath. He now works at Tennant's in Harrogate
- Catherine Southon – former Head of Scientific Instruments at Sotheby's, previously trained in Maritime Art. Also Appears on Flog It!
- Mark Stacey – senior valuer with Dreweatt Neate Fine Art Auctioneers in Godalming, Surrey.. Also appears on Flog It!
- Elizabeth Talbot – auctioneer who moved to East Anglia to take up the position of Senior Auctioneer and Valuer at the Diss Auction Rooms of Thos Wm Gaze & Son after her marriage in 1995 and was made the firm's first female partner in 2000
- Colin Young – a qualified chartered arts and antiques surveyor, he joined the Grantham firm, Golding Young in 1989 and has been principal since 1994
- Nick Hall – Principal Auctioneer at Frank Marshall Property Firm and antiques expert.
- Jeremy Lamond – Fine Art Director of Halls Auction House in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
- Philip Allwood – Auctioneer and Valuer at Moore Allen & Innocent's base at Norcote. Also appeared on Flog It!.
- Rupert Toovey - Founder and Chief auctioneer of Toovey's Fine Arts Autioneers and Valuers.
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