Antiques Roadshow guest gobsmacked as item branded a ‘piece of tat’ by husband is valued at THOUSANDS

ONE of the guests connected Antiques Roadshow was near wholly gobsmacked by the worth of their household heirloom.

One unsuspecting mates brought a brace of jewellery items to beryllium appraised connected the long-running BBC show.

Fiona Bruce presented the latest variation of the beloved format with her squad of experts.

The radical of specialists acceptable up store astatine Cromford Hills successful the idyllic country of Derwent Valley successful Derbyshire.

Harrogate jewellery specializer Susan Rumfitt was connected manus to springiness her instrumentality aft 25 years of acquisition successful the business.

A hubby and woman duo brought 2 items to the TV personality, a bracelet and a stunning pendant.

The woman remarked that her hubby did not deliberation overmuch of 1 of the items arsenic helium labelled it 'a spot of tat'.

She explained: "My hubby said, 'my mum had a beauteous Opal bracelet. You mightiness similar it'. So we dug it out, and that was that.

"But successful this large container was loads of stuff, and I dug to the bottommost and recovered that. And my hubby says, 'you don't privation that, it's a load of tat, conscionable a portion of glass.' I similar it."

The adept past enquired wherefore helium thought the seemingly stunning point was much akin to costume jewellery.

The hubby noted: "It's precise large for a benignant of precious stone."

She past started to explicate the discourse astir some of the pieces and wherever they originated from.

"Okay, truthful commencement with the bangle first, which you know, are opals. So that's really, truly beautiful.

"Well, arsenic we tin see, determination are these fantastic opals each graduating successful size, which person got diamonds successful between, which truly assistance to bring retired the beauteous play of color, the greens, the blues, flashes of oranges that we spot astir each of the stones.

"It truly is wholly magnificent. And the added bonus, of course, with immoderate portion of jewelry, is having the archetypal fitted box."

She past explained that the bracelet came from Wartski's successful London, a 'hugely important' steadfast that sold costly Faberge items.

"I'll enactment you consecutive now. This isn't a portion of Faberge truthful that volition calm things down conscionable a small bit!," she joked.

Susan added: "But it truly is simply a superb illustration of jewelry from the precocious 19th century. We're talking circular astir the 1880s / 1890s."

The Antiques Roadshow prima past turned her attraction to the pendant, wherever she noted the opinions of the husband.

"So this dates from the Edwardian period. What we bash person are diamonds, which are acceptable astatine the apical here, and they are acceptable into platinum astatine the beforehand to springiness that likeness and delicacy and to springiness spot to the design.

"And you request spot erstwhile you are supporting a large stone, arsenic we person here. It's really aquamarine, right?

"It's got a truly bully spot of color, and the colors adjacent each the mode done the chromatic arsenic well. So each successful all, it's moved rather a mode connected from tat, which is, which is truly good."

It was past clip for her adept evaluations and the mates were wholly blindsided by however overmuch some items were worth.

The 'piece of tat' pendant was fixed a worth of betwixt £3,000 and £5,000, which near the mates shocked.

However, the bracelet would person fetched adjacent much if they tried to merchantability it astatine auction.

Susan stated: "The opal bangle, of course, it's a magnificent piece.

"As I say, it's got the beauteous clay of colors successful the Opal. The opals are successful bully condition. They haven't been worn.

"They've had the beauteous container to support them in. If that came up to auction, we would beryllium looking astatine an estimation of £8,000 to £10,000."

The husband's jaw dropped astatine the immense worth of the point arsenic helium exclaimed: "I didn't expect that .... That's incredible."

Previously successful the segment, the duo explained however they decided to springiness the items to their daughter.

Upon proceeding the experts comments, the woman jokingly remarked: "Our girl did good didn't she!"

To which the adept replied: "Didn't she just!"

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