An Antiques Roadshow guest was left gobsmacked after learning the huge value of a book that had been found at a rubbish dump.
The hit BBC show returned for another episode on Sunday (March 31) with Fiona Bruce back at the helm. For this week’s instalment, the show paid a visit to Alexandra Gardens in Cardiff.
And members of the public were quick to show off their prized possessions to be valued by experts. But expert Clive Farahar was left stunned after coming across an item that a guest had found in the rubbish bump.
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The guest had brought in a leather-bound genealogical book that featured his wife’s hand-painted family tree. Clive dubbed the item, which was from the late 1800s, as “amazing and extraordinary.”
The guest explained: “I first saw this on the internet less than a year ago, and it’s all about the Hughes family and their ancestry, which my wife belongs to.”
He then noted how the online seller said they found it over 35 years ago on a tip in North Wales. Clive was left astounded and asked: “So this valuable manuscript with your family in, was found on a tip?“ He added: “They had just thrown it out?”
The expert gushed: ‘I think [the book is] extraordinary, I mean you’ve got sort of 200 pages here, crammed full of every relation you could possibly have. And here it is, beautifully bound, there is hardly a mark on it, found in a tip.”
Clive dubbed the item “priceless” and told the guest how it could fetch a whooping £1,500 at auction. With a huge smile on his face the shocked man asked: “Really?.”
Elsewhere in the episode, expert Ronnie Archer-Morgan was left refusing to value one guest’s item. He also candidly confessed how it was “one of the most difficult things” he’s ever had to talk about.
The guest had brought in an item that had a history with transatlantic slave trade. In a voiceover, host Fiona explained: “The item was a disc that acted as an endorsement of the professional reputation of an African slave trader in the West African port of Bonny in the 18th century.”
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