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Whether it's searching for old books, retro lunchboxes or pricy early American furniture, antiquing is huge in New England. There are the tiny mom and pop antique shops in quaint New Hampshire hamlets, Route 4's Antiques Alley and huge antique extravaganzas, like the 47th Annual New Hampshire Antiques show held this week in Manchester, one of the largest of its kind in the country. We'll talk about the art of antiquing, look at its appeal and find out some of the antique specialties you can find in Granite state from New Hampshire tall clocks to Shaker furniture. Laura's guests are George Michael, New Hampshire's own "Mr. Antiques", host of "Antiques & Americana" on PBS from 1963 to 1985 and author of seven books on antiques and John Fiske, Consulting editor for the New England Antiques Journal and co-owner of Fiske and Freeman, an antiques store specializing in fine and early antiques in Belmont, Vermont.