An Antiques Roadshow guest was stunned to learn of the whopping value of his dad’s set of rare SAS medals.
The man brought along several personal items and a piece of parachute that his dad David Cargill had used during his missions in 1944 to the BBC One show at V&A Dundee, Scotland.
In the episode, which was first shown in September 2019 but repeated on Sunday (June 13), military specialist Mark Smith took a look at the collection and admitted that it was his first time to see some of the “hard to find” items.
He said: “So he’s in the Territory Army. He went to France and he starts off his war by coming off a beach, somewhere called Dunkirk because he has the Dunkirk medal as well.”
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The guest then explained his dad later joined the Parachute Regiment and volunteered for the SAS – at the time a new organisation.
In the collection, Mark noticed a certificate of service signed by Paddy Mayne, the commanding officer of the SAS at that time and also a piece of parachute.
“He brought home the whole parachute,” the guest said. “This is all that remains of it because the remainder served our family because our mum makes pyjamas for everyone.
“I still have a pair!”
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But it was the collection of badges and medals that caught Marks’s eyes, as he said: “Now when you see these badges and things that you have here and you see SAS wings, usually they are fake.
“You have a king’s crown parachute regiment badge, even they today are hard to find and usually they are copied as well.
“You then have two of the shoulder titles for the first SAS, now I’m not certain that I’ve ever seen those before in the flesh to actually touch them, but there they are.”
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When it came to valuation, Mark told the guest: “At this point if I was just valuing the medals for you and we had nothing else on the table I would say to you these medals are worth £200.
“But I think you’re actually looking at somewhere close to £8,000.”
The man gasped and said: “Right, my father would be…very surprised. Thank you Mark.”
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