Anita Manning (born 1947) is a Scottish antiques expert and television personality from Glasgow.[1] She is well known for her appearances since 2010 as an expert and presenter on the BBC's Bargain Hunt, Flog It! and the Antiques Road Trip. She is claimed to be the first female auctioneer in Scotland.
Anita Manning | |
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| Born | 1947 Glasgow, Scotland |
| Occupation(s) | Antiques expert, television personality |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Television | Antiques Road Trip |
Career edit
Manning's father used to take her to auctions on Sauchiehall Street, in Glasgow and she grew to love antiques. She first got into the antiques business in the 1970s after buying a bed from an Irish dealer. He offered her a job as a buyer.[citation needed]
After studying physical education and specialising in dance at Aberdeen and Edinburgh, Manning was a teacher before she got married and had children. As a young mother, she developed a knowledge of antiques by buying furniture from auctions. After her first visit to Glasgow as a buyer, she bought and sold furniture in England and Ireland for about three years, driving all around the country in a truck.[2]
Along with her daughter Lala, Manning has run the Glasgow auction house Great Western Auctions since 1989.[3] Manning's son lives in Hong Kong, while her mother lived in Australia for the last 35 years of her life.[1] The Sunday Post says she is Scotland's first female auctioneer.[1][4]
In 2016 Manning set a new record for the largest profit on a single item on the Antiques Road Trip. A Buddha statue she had purchased for £50 sold for £3,800, a 7,500% profit.[5] This record was broken in September 2017 when Paul Laidlaw bought a Chambre Automatique De Bertsch sub-miniature camera for £60 and sold it at auction for £20,000.[6]
References edit
- ^ a b c "Antiques Road Trip expert Anita Manning reckons there's no beating hectic Hong Kong". Sunday Post. Dundee. 25 January 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- ^ "BBC One - Flog It! - Anita Manning". BBC.
- ^ About Us, The Great Western Auctions. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- ^ The Daily Telegraph (subscription required)
- ^ "BBC One - Antiques Road Trip, Series 15, Episode 5 - Finding a fortune! — the highest ever Antiques Road Trip profit". Archived from the original on 28 September 2017.
- ^ "BBC One - Antiques Road Trip, Series 15, Episode 5 - Finding a fortune! — the highest ever Antiques Road Trip profit". BBC.