Anita Manning (born 1 December 1947) is a Scottish

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expert and television personality from

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. She is well known for her appearances since 2010 as an expert and presenter on the

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'' and the ''

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''. She is claimed to be the first female auctioneer in Scotland.

Career

Manning's father used to take her to auctions on

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and she grew to love antiques. She first got into the antiques business in the 1970s after buying a bed from an Irish dealer. He offered her a job as a buyer. After studying

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and specialising in dance at

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, Manning was a teacher before she got married and had children. As a young mother, she developed a knowledge of antiques by buying furniture from auctions. After her first visit to Glasgow as a buyer, she bought and sold furniture in England and

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for about three years, driving all around the country in a truck. Together with her daughter Lala, Manning established the Glasgow auction house Great Western Auctions in 1989. Manning's son Luke lived in

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for a number of years, while her mother lived in

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for the last 35 years of her life. The ''Sunday Post'' says she is Scotland's first female auctioneer. Luke Manning now also works as director, auctioneer and valuer at the auction. In 2016 Manning set a new record for the largest profit on a single item on the ''Antiques Road Trip''. A

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she had purchased for £50 sold for £3,800, a 7,500% profit. This record was broken in September 2017 when Paul Laidlaw bought a Chambre Automatique De Bertsch sub-miniature camera for £60 and sold it at auction for £20,000.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Manning, Anita 1947 births Living people Mass media people from Glasgow Scottish antiques experts Scottish antiquarians Scottish women television personalities Scottish auctioneers Female auctioneers