Highest Value Item Takes Owner Completely By Surprise | Antiques Roadshow

BBC Antiques Roadshow
BBC Antiques Roadshow
2,854,318
0
Published 2023-10-17
All valuations were correct at the time of broadcast. This lady brought in a box of gold jewellery for the Antiques Roadshow expert to look at, but it was actually the necklace she was wearing that intrigued the expert most. Dating from about 1840, it has a surprising valuation that shocks the owner. Hugh Scully and the experts from Antiques Roadshow take a look at some fantastic antiques and the history and stories surrounding them. This clip was filmed in Lyme Park in 1999.

Welcome to the home of Antiques Roadshow on YouTube. Here you'll find all the best clips from Britain’s most popular antiques appraisal show. From items that have been handed down the generations to those picked up in junk shops, discover their history and delight in the possibility that it could in fact be a priceless treasure.

Subscribe to the channel so that you don't miss a thing:    / @bbcantiquesroadshow  

Stream full episodes of Antiques Roadshow on BBC iPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b006mj2y/antiques-r…

This is a commercial channel from BBC Studios. To contact us or provide feedback please visit: www.bbcstudios.com/contact/contact-us/
All Comments (21)
  • @mchapman1928
    In 1974, my parents bought several boxes from railroad freight….sight unseen, all they knew it was bedroom furniture. They paid $175. They gave it to me for my daughter. It was heavy, Queen Anne design, years and years of paint, layered over and over. It took me two years to strip it and clean up the pieces. It was a dresser, chest of drawers, vanity, mirror, seat, night stand and head board, solid walnut, even the back was finished. It was accented with oak burl. I had it appraised and it appraised for $16,000 in 1976. We sold it years later for $26,000. My parents didn’t live to see that, sadly.
  • @edithengel2284
    What a delightful man he is! His expert opinions were always delivered with such great charm and affability--always of great interest.
  • @cattameme
    I miss watching this show. It reminds me of the times when we couldn't afford cable but the antenna would get this show
  • @blktauna
    I love Geoffrey Munn. He's just a delight.
  • @naztubes
    Wow, I thought they would be worth more than that! I'd buy the lot at that valuation. Gold will only appreciate.
  • @radicalrick9587
    And that small piece of jewel that somehow snags on the back side of your shoulder as you were leaving your home, that usually goes for around £150,000.
  • @sjr100
    After my mom died, she had an old fashioned case of jewelry, some from her grandmother, she never wore it because she thought they were too gaudy. A couple of brooches were $2,000, and her wedding ring 55 years old was $7500. But we laughed because the appraiser also had pieces from Avon in the case, but we didn't know and still paid the $25 for each item appraised.
  • @geraldslade2237
    The price of gold is 8 times higher than in 1999. That 2000 pound necklace is probably closer to 20 000 pounds now
  • @wn8022
    Now in 2023. Over 24 years later I wonder where that necklace is now. I’m sure it’s worth way more that $2000 today.
  • @amishpat5201
    Mark Cuban annotated portrait about to hit market, commissioned by Bob Kratovil about 15 years ago, this is a fascinating work and should not be ignored.
  • @cattameme
    Bro was thinking someone gonna melt this down as soon as its sold and said the gold value instead.