Geoffrey Munn
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Geoffrey Munn (born in Hastings on 11 April 1953) is a British jewellery specialist and writer. He is best known as one of the experts on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow however his first television appearance was in the early 1960s when he, and his brother, Roger Munn, featured with their pet fox cubs on Johnny Morris's Animal Magic. He was educated at Steyning Grammar School. Now Geoffrey is the managing director of London jewellers, Wartski where he has worked since the age of 19; his specialisation is 19th-century precious metalwork and Fabergé. Geoffrey Munn has a keen interest in every aspect of history and has appeared in several television sequences of "mudlarking" in the Thames at Westminster. Munn is fascinated by both literature and art and has written a pictorial history of his home town entitled Southwold, an Earthly Paradise. (Antique Collectors' Club[1] 2006). He has written on JMW Turner's visit to Southwold and the drawings made there in 1824.
Munn has curated many exhibitions, including Tiaras at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2002. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and The Royal Society of Arts. Geoffrey Munn is a Liveryman of both the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths and the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers, a member of the Garrick Club, The Arts Club, the Chelsea Arts Club and the Sailor's Reading Room, Southwold.
Munn is the author of several books about jewellery including Castellani and Giuliano: revivalist jewellers of the nineteenth century (Office du Livre 1984), Artist's Jewellery; Pre-Raphaelite to Arts and Crafts with Charlotte Gere (Antique Collectors' Club 1989), The Triumph of Love: jewellery 1530-1930 (Thames and Hudson 1993), Tiaras: a history of splendour (Antique Collectors' Club, 2003).
In 2007 Munn played himself in Joe's Palace a film by Stephen Poliakoff.
Munn is an Ambassador for the Samaritans and patron of the Lowestoft Branch; he ran the Flora London Marathon for the charity in 2009 raising £80,000 in sponsorship. Munn is also an Ambassador for the charity Pancreatic Cancer UK[2] and patron of both Waveney Hospice Care and Sotterley Chapel Preservation Trust. He lives in London and Reydon with his wife Caroline.[3] They have two sons.
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