Geoffrey Munn

Geoffrey Munn
Geoffrey Munn OBE
Nationality	British
Occupation	Antiques expert, television presenter, author,
Employer	Wartski
Television	Antiques Roadshow
Spouse(s)	Caroline Munn MA
Awards	OBE

Geoffrey Charles Munn, OBE, FSA, FLS, FRSA (born in Hastings on 11 April 1953) is a British jewellery specialist, television presenter and writer. He is best known as one of the experts on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow. However, his first television appearance was in 1963 when he, and his brother, Roger Munn, featured with their pet fox cubs on Johnny Morris's Animal Magic. He was brought up in Henfield in Sussex and educated at Shoreham College and Steyning Grammar School, but, unlike many of his peers, did not attend university. Now Munn is the managing director of London jewellers Wartski, where he has worked since the age of 19; his specialisation is jewellery, 18th-century precious metalwork and Fabergé.

Wartski are jewellers by appointment to HM the Queen and HRH the Prince of Wales. The firm made the Welsh gold wedding rings for the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles, and Catherine Middleton when she married Prince William in 2011.

Munn has a keen interest in every aspect of history and has a collection of ancient flint tools he has found in the Southwold area of Suffolk. He 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 number of books, including Southwold, an Earthly Paradise, a pictorial history of his home town. (Antique Collectors' Club 2006). He has written on the drawings of D G Rossetti and J.M.W.Turner. In July 2015, Munn conducted the first in a series called Tate Britain BP Walks Through British Art in which there was an emphasis on jewellery and botanical decoration from the Renaissance to the present day.