An Antiques Roadshow guest was stunned to discover the real value of painting they bought from a charity shop for £5.
The astonished couple appeared on Sunday’s episode (January 7) held in Pollok Country Park in Glasgow. They wanted to see if any light could be shed on a landscape painting they purchased locally in an area near the city called Shawlands.
The owner said he came by the piece through luck, explaining: “I found it in a charity shop, in a place called Shawlands, not far from here, about 20 years ago.” The man said how the painting had “been worth” the £5 price tag after being drawn to its depiction of West Scotland.
His wife later jested: “We probably paid more for the taxi to take it home [from the charity shop] because it was raining that day.”
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Antique art expert Frances Christie was immediately interested in the painting and revealed it to be the work of local Scottish artist Dorothy Steel, born in 1927 and who passed away in 2002.
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Looking overjoyed at the couple’s charity steal, Frances said: “In my opinion this is probably one of the best Steel’s I’ve ever seen.” Frances told the couple that the artist’s work doesn’t often come up at auction, if at all, and that’s why the painting carried a hefty price tag.
She said: “If this were to come up to auction today I would put an estimate in the region of £3,000 to £5,000.” The couple were stunned at the painting’s real worth with the lady exclaiming: “Oh my goodness.” While her husband was speechless and could only say: “Wow.”
Later in the show another guest was delighted when they discovered that the newspaper sideboard from the 1969s they brought in was worth a fabulous four-figure sum.
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Last week the couple from Leeds were having a sort out of junk in their garage when they rediscovered an Evening Standard poster emblazoned with “Kennedy dead”. President John F Kennedy, who was the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated on November 22, 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald.
Initially they thought it wouldn’t be of value and nearly chucked it in the bin, but applied for Antiques Roadshow on a let’s see promise instead. The programme’s books and manuscripts expert Clive Farahar made their day when he told the pair that the poster was worth £1,000.
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Covering their mouths in shock as he was speaking, Clive continued: “I mean, this is absolutely shocking. With news like that… Evening Standard London newspaper. Where did you find this?”
The owner replied: “Well, growing up in London in the 1950s my parents had some utility furniture, and one of the items was a sideboard, which I inherited. Earlier this year, we needed some space in the garage.”
His wife joined in saying: “I decided that the garage was a tip and I wanted him to tidy it up. The sideboard was just full of old paintings and you know the sort of stuff you keep.”
The owner continued: “It had probably been laying there for 60-odd years,” before his wife admitted: “It nearly went in the recycling bin. He came out of the garage and he was like, “Look at this,” and I was like, ‘Get it in the recycling bin.”
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