Alastair Dickenson

Alastair Dickenson (born 27 October 1950 in Leatherhead) is a silver expert. He has made regular appearances on the BBC programme Antiques Roadshow since 1992.^[1] Educated at Epsom College, he began his career in the silver trade by joining one of London's major auction houses, Phillips Fine Art Auctioneers, in 1971.^[2][3] By 1983 he had been appointed Head of Antique Silver at Asprey, moving up to becoming a Director of the Antiques Department in 1994. In 1996 he started up his own business in Jermyn Street.^[4]

Dickenson during an Antiques Roadshow filming in 2010

He has lectured all over the world on 16th- to 19th-century silver and silver fakes.^[5]