Eli5- How antiques appraisers (like the ones on Antiques Roadshow) know so much?

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I was watching the show tonight and one of the appraisers mentioned that when online searches fail, that’s when they can come to appraisers to get more information. How do the appraisers know or obtain this information? How are they able to estimate prices and give such detailed descriptions of the history of an object? This has always mystified me.

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I was at a sketchy car auction where, after the auction was completed the winner would say they didn’t want it after all so the auctioneer would go to the person who had the next highest bid. I’m sure this was being abused as the auction house could have people bid up cars that they had no interest in buying. Just getting people to bid up trying to beat the planted “buyer”

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