Geoffrey Munn

Who is Geoffrey Munn?

Geoffrey Charles Munn, OBE, FSA, FLS, FRSA 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.

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 Mrs.Camilla Parker Bowles, and Miss Catherine Middleton when she married HRH the Duke of Cambridge in 2011

Geoffrey Munn has a keen interest in every aspect of history and has made a collection of ancient flint tools which he has discovered in the Southwold area of Suffolk. Geoffrey 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.. He has written on the drawings of D G Rossetti and JMW Turner.