<P> Charlie Ross (born June 1945 in Buckinghamshire, England) is a British antiques expert and auctioneer, known for regular appearances on several BBC Antique programmes . </P> <P> Ross started his career in 1963 after leaving school at the age of 18, joining a local firm of estate and found himself auctioning chickens and turkeys . He progressed from these to antique furniture, moved to Oxford in 1969 and later established his own auction house in Woburn near Milton Keynes . He stood down in February 2008 after more than 25 years at the helm to focus on freelance projects . </P> <P> Ross appears regularly on television as an antiques expert on the BBC programmes Bargain Hunt, Flog It!, Antiques Road Trip and Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is . He is now one of the four regular presenters on Bargain Hunt . For many years, Ross has conducted the Pebble Beach Vintage Car Auction in California, and the Scottsdale Auction in Arizona for Gooding and Company . He held the record for the highest price ever achieved for a car sold by auction in the USA . The car, a 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa Prototype, sold for over $16 million in 2011 . The price was exceeded in 2013, and again in 2014 for a Ferrari 250 GTO sold at Carmel, California for over $38 million . In recent years, he has also raised large sums of money at various charity auctions in Britain, including CLIC Sargent, The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation, and The Lord's Taverners . Charlie held the record for the largest profit on a single item on the Antiques Road Trip when in 2012 he bought a chipped Staffordshire elephant clock for £ 8 which was sold for £ 2,700 at auction, this was surpassed in 2016, when Anita Manning brought a Buddha statue she had purchased for £ 50 sold for £ 3,800, a 7,500% profit, and again in 2017 when Paul Laidlaw bought a Chambre Automatique De Bertsch sub-miniature camera for £ 60 and sold it at auction for £ 20,000 . </P> <P> Ross is married to Sally and they have two children . He has lived in Bicester outside Oxford since 1969.In May 1999 he suffered a mild heart attack which forced him to take a six month leave from his work . </P>

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