Antiques Roadshow

John Buxton inspects ancient tribal art while appearing on PBS's Antiques Roadshow as an Expert Appraiser.

In 1979, BBC’s popular Antiques Roadshow first premiered as a regular series in the United Kingdom. Seventeen years later, in the summer of 1996, PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) was inspired by Aida Moreno to begin production on its version of the Antiques Roadshow in the United States. The first taping was at the Concord Armory in Concord Massachusetts with fewer than 1000 visitors attending.

In 2016, twenty years later, Antiques Roadshow completed taping its 21st season while having broadcasted over 120 shows and visited over 75 cities in the United States and Canada with attendance growing to approximately 5000 per show. John Buxton, one of the core group of appraisers on the show since 1996, worked on the ethnographic table as a generalist appraising African, Pre-Columbian, Oceanic and Native American art for twenty-five years.