Charles Hanson Net Worth

In 2017 Hanson embarked on a music career with fellow BBC Antique Experts Philip Serrell, Charlie Ross and James Braxton by recording a Rock version of the classic Sleigh Ride in aid of BBC Children in Need. It was released digitally on independent record label Saga Entertainment and peaked at number 1 on the Amazon Rock Charts.

Hanson makes regular appearances on Flog It!. From 2010 he has also taken part in Antiques Road Trip in which he travels between antique shops in the United Kingdom and competes with a fellow antiques expert to make the most profit. In 2016 he appeared on For What It’s Worth.

In 2010, Hanson married Rebecca. In August 2012, Hanson was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Hanson raised £39,000 for the Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society by completing the Great North Run in September 2013.

Since 2002 Hanson has appeared on BBC television programme Bargain Hunt where he acts as an adviser to one of two teams of contestants who buy and sell antiques and attempt to gain a profit. In November 2018 he appeared as an expert on a celebrity edition of Bargain Hunt in which stars of the BBC series ‘Casualty’ made up the teams and tried to raise money for Children in Need.

After gaining his MRICS qualification, Hanson started his career in 1999 at Christie’s as a valuer in the European Ceramics and Glass Department. Subsequently, he worked for antique houses in Cheshire and Staffordshire before founding Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers in Etwall, Derbyshire in August 2005. In 2016 his company opened a department specialising in coins and antiquities, named Historica.

Charles Hanson (born May 1978) is an auctioneer, chartered surveyor and television personality. He is best known for his appearances as an antiques expert on the television programmes Bargain Hunt, Flog It! and Antiques Road Trip.

Hanson was born in Holbrook, Derbyshire 29th May 1978 .

The most expensive lot Hanson has sold was a Qianlong period Chinese porcelain vase which was used by the seller as a doorstop for 36 years, finishing at £650,000. Other significant sales include the medals of Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, a commander at the Battle of Waterloo and a brooch which had belonged to Katherine Neville, Baroness Hastings.