Antiques Roadshow expert issues warning to guest over true value of grandmother's tea set

Antiques Roadshow adept Steven Moore was near successful awe of a stunning beverage acceptable with butterfly handles that a impermanent had inherited from his grandma - but helium made a informing aft revealing its 'true' value

The Antiques Roadshow made a halt astatine the Royal Botanic Garden successful Edinburgh, wherever adept Steven Moore had a chat with a impermanent astir an exquisite beverage acceptable helium inherited from his grandmother.

BBC One's Antiques Roadshow featured adept Steven Moore who was near successful awe of a stunning four-piece beverage acceptable adorned with intricate butterfly detail. He humorously told the guest: "I can't deliberation of however galore times I've been sat astatine my array astatine Antiques Roadshow and radical person unwrapped a beverage acceptable conscionable astatine the constituent I could truly bash with a cupful of tea."

"My proposal has astir ever been to them, it's not worthy that overmuch money. Take it home, lavation it and bask it.

"But I'm not going to accidental that to you today, wherever did your beverage acceptable travel from?"

The impermanent revealed that it was a contiguous to his grandma from her champion friend, his Aunt Betty.

He continued: "Fairly precocious my grandma went into a nursing location truthful she had to downsize, and get escaped of a batch of her belongings. Apparently, arsenic a young lad I utilized to respect this beverage acceptable due to the fact that of the delicate butterfly handles and my granny ne'er forgot that."

It was aft his grandma relocated from her location that the beverage acceptable was handed down to him.

Steven characterised it arsenic a "gorgeous" Aynsley bony china beverage set, adding: "What's clever astir it is they haven't conscionable done it for the mode it looks, but erstwhile you prime that grip up, your fingers beryllium beauteous connected the wings."

The adept shared: "It is 1 of those beverage sets which, it's not a peculiarly uncommon signifier but radical emotion it, and arsenic a consequence, they wage decent prices for it."

He past disclosed that each portion of the four-piece acceptable could fetch £100, making the full beverage acceptable worthy a tidy £400, earlier cautioning: "Probably respect it and don't person your java from it."

In different conception of the show, Adam Schoon had the bonzer accidental to get up adjacent with the Scottish Cup, the pinnacle of shot trophies successful Scotland.

Meanwhile, Geoffrey Munn was taken aback by an unexpected find of uncommon Russian Royal jewels that were casually brought successful a bearer bag, portion Gordon Foster was captivated by an exquisite postulation of miniature silverware intended for a dollhouse.

In a antithetic portion of the episode, jewellery aficionado Susan Rumfitt recovered herself enchanted by a magnificent achromatic opal necklace.

Antiques Roadshow is acceptable to marque its comeback this Sunday connected BBC One.