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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They don’t.

I’m serious. The show LOOKS very ad-hoc, but it’s all VERY staged, and VERY scripted.

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