Antiques Roadshow guest laughs as she learns true value of 'ugly' ring she never liked

An Antiques Roadshow impermanent was near successful disbelief aft learning the existent worth of her mum's ringing which she ne'er liked

An Antiques Roadshow visitant couldn't assistance but laughter erstwhile she discovered her presumed solid ringing was really a treasure worthy a tiny fortune.

The impermanent was visibly shocked connected the BBC amusement aft learning the existent worth of her mother's ring, which she confessed to disliking.

Filming astatine the stunning Castle Ward successful Northern Ireland for the BBC daytime hit, jewellery adept Susan Rumfitt dazzled a impermanent with the revelation astir her yellowish ring.

Kicking disconnected the appraisal nether the agleam sky, Susan said, "Well connected this glorious sunny day, if not a spot breezy, we person sunshine successful a box."

She asked the guest, "This is simply a 1930s formal ringing oregon possibly adjacent a cocktail ring. How did you get clasp of this?"

The proprietor shared: "It was a comparative of my mum's, she lived successful Philadelphia and erstwhile she died, a batch of her jewellery was sent to my mum, rings and brooches, and the remainder we've been capable to place but we don't cognize what this is."

When Susan enquired whether she liked the ring, the impermanent admitted: "No. It is to maine an disfigured hunk of solid but I'm told it's acceptable successful platinum and it has to beryllium thing truthful I don't cognize but no, I don't similar it. I deliberation it's a spot excessively overmuch for me."

Susan remarked: "Oh that's a shame, it's a gorgeous colour though, isn't it? It's a truly beauteous colour and if it's glass, it's a bully portion of glass. It is rather a lemon-y yellowish arsenic opposed to a bright, agleam sunny yellowish that you tin get with immoderate gemstones.

"But I cognize that you've spotted yourself that it's acceptable with diamonds and mounted successful platinum truthful that benignant of indicates it mightiness not beryllium a lump of solid really, doesn't it? So it should beryllium rather bully quality successful galore ways."

Susan explained that the portion was "very typical" of the 1930s era, pointing retired to the impermanent who had thought it was made of glass, that it was successful information a yellowish sapphire.

The proprietor of the ringing chuckled: "Oh. Right, OK. I was thinking, best, citrine possibly, but right, it's a sapphire."

Susan responded: "I tin recognize wherefore you mightiness person thought it was a citrine, due to the fact that with citrines you bash get a akin benignant of scope of yellows from that airy colour, each the mode done to a punchy, aggravated yellow.

"Of course, the different happening it could person been is simply a yellowish diamond. But it's not, truthful we won't get excessively excited.

"But it truly is simply a large chromatic to person and a precise hard stone, hence the crushed wherefore you're getting that astir glassy look, due to the fact that it's the hardest gemstone aft diamonds.

"So you tin chopped them truly good and this emerald chopped arsenic we person here, conscionable works truthful good with it and is conscionable fantastic really. I did a speedy measurement of it and it's astir astir 16 carats which -"

The impermanent couldn't incorporate her amusement, cutting disconnected Susan who past continued: "- truthful it's each present gathering up rather nicely, isn't it? So bash you similar it now?"

She past summarised with a sparkle successful her eye: "It surely brightened up my time and if this went into auction, you would beryllium looking astatine an estimation betwixt £4,000 and £5,000."

The impermanent was visibly taken aback and exclaimed: "You're kidding me!

"That's ridiculous, due to the fact that erstwhile I was telling my mum I was coming here, she brought this retired and I was similar 'I'm not taking that! That's conscionable a large lump of glass!

"Obviously humiliated. And it is really increasing connected me!"

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