An Antiques Roadshow guest collapsed into giggles after discovering the huge value of her tiny broken carriage clock, which show expert Richard Price described as ‘pretty scruffy’.
Sunday’s show saw members of the public bring their treasured items to Thirlestane Castle on the Scottish border, with one lady keen to learn more about the timepiece after inheriting it from her late husband’s aunt.
Giggling, she agreed the clock was indeed in a sorry state and had been that way since it was gifted to her on her wedding day 50-years ago.
She told Richard: ‘It’s always sat on my desk, not working, I know it’s awful isn’t it?’.
The expert went on to reveal the item was a French from around 1885, as he marvelled over it’s porcelain panels and confirmed it had been made by renowned company Drucker of Paris.
An Antiques Roadshow guest collapsed into giggles after discovering the huge value of her tiny broken carriage clock, which show expert Richard Price described as ‘pretty scruffy’
Sunday’s show saw members of the public bring their treasured items to Thirlestane Castle on the Scottish border
She told expert Richard: ‘It’s always sat on my desk, not working, I know it’s awful isn’t it?’
But Richard was quick to point out it’s flaws, including the need for cleaning and gold re-gilding in order to be ready to go to auction.
Before adding: ‘When that’s done, it’s going to be [worth] £4,000’, as the audience gasped in surprised.
Shocked the woman threw back her head laughing, as she muttered: ‘I will certainly see how much that costs to get [the work] done.
‘It’s so special to me’ she said, before Richard quipped: ‘It will be even more special when it works!’.
It comes after another guest was left stunned and the crowd around her gasped as she discovered the six-figure value of a ‘never before seen’ relic her family had been in possession of for decades.
The woman explained: ‘In the 1960s, my husband’s parents bought a house in West Wales with all its contents and this was in its contents’.
She went on to say that nobody in the family knew what it was, but after some online sleuthing were guessing it could be from Fiji.
Expert Ronnie explained that the item was in fact from the Cook Islands in the 17th century and would have been used for combat.
The expert went on to reveal the item was a French from around 1885, as he marvelled over it’s porcelain panels and confirmed it had been made by renowned company Drucker of Paris
But Richard was quick to point out it’s flaws, including the need for cleaning and gold re-gilding in order to be ready to go to auction
Before adding: ‘When that’s done, it’s going to be [worth] £4,000’, as the audience gasped in surprised
Saying: ‘Now, as we all know, Captain Cook travelled to Polynesia and during his third visit,’
“His surgeon spotted one of these and noted in his journal how magnificent they were, praising this wonderful weapon’.
Going on to gush that the item was ‘very rare’: ‘These are very, very important, these objects. I’ve never held one of these, this is the first time.’
It comes after another guest was left stunned and the crowd around her gasped as she discovered the six-figure value of a ‘never before seen’ relic
Moving onto the valuation he concluded: ‘It’s a shame about the damage, there’s a little bit of a tip missing but it doesn’t detract from its energy and power’.
Before saying that if it were to go on sale it could expect to fetch between a whooping £100K and £150k.
The audience gasped in amazement as the woman exclaimed: ‘Crikey! Wow, that’s amazing, isn’t it? Really amazing’.