William Jamieson was a Canadian treasure and antique dealer and reality TV star.
14 Facts About Billy Jamieson
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Billy Jamieson was the star of History Channel's Treasure Trader.
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Billy Jamieson was a world-famous dealer of tribal art, described as having "a taste for the bizarre", and as "Indiana Jones meets Gene Simmons".
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Billy Jamieson was described as a treasure hunter who "is Indiana Jones, minus the rolling boulders, aliens and savage tribesmen".
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Billy Jamieson came to international prominence when he discovered the lost mummy of pharaoh Ramses I following his purchase of the then defunct Niagara Falls Museum.
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Billy Jamieson dealt in a diverse array of curios, including mummies and shrunken heads, and his clientele included the Royal Ontario Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sotheby's, Christie's, and rock stars such as Mick Jagger and Steven Tyler.
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Billy Jamieson lived in a three-storey, 6,000 square feet downtown Toronto loft which doubled as a museum housing thousands of his acquired treasures.
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Billy Jamieson died at his home on his 57th birthday, the same day his acquisition of the alleged head of Saint Vitalis of Assisi was completed.
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Billy Jamieson lived in Brampton growing up and became a school drop-out at 14.
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Billy Jamieson was self-educated and eventually became a world-famous art dealer whose clientele included the Royal Ontario Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sotheby's, Christie's, and rock stars Mick Jagger and Steven Tyler.
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Billy Jamieson owned close to a dozen shrunken heads, and what amounted to one of the world's largest collections of them.
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In 1999, Billy Jamieson bought the then closed Niagara Falls Museum after having a drink of opium tea.
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Billy Jamieson died of a heart attack on his couch, at his Toronto loft on 3 July 2011.
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On 29 April 2014, items from Billy Jamieson's collection were auctioned off by Billy Jamieson's fiancee through Waddington's auction house; a parallel online auction ran the same week between Monday and Thursday, through the same auctioneers.