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Antiques Roadshow resumed on BBC One on Sunday, 20 October, with jewellery expert Susan Rumfitt being presented with a wrongly considered “piece of tat”.
Filmed at Cromford Mills this time around, the roadshow welcomed a couple who had no idea they were holding onto a pendant made from the semiprecious gemstone aquamarine.
It originally belonged to the husband’s late mother and was valued between £3,000 and £5,000 after some careful inspection.
What, how and why?
So their story went: the husband encouraged his wife to check out a “lovely opal bracelet” in a box of his mum’s stuff, but when she dug a little bit further into the box, she came across the eye-catching necklace.
“My husband says, ‘You don’t want that, it’s a load of tat. It’s just a piece of glass!’ So I said, ‘Well I like it!'” she explained to Susan, who seemed very amused. “Any way, we’d like to know what it is,” chipped in the husband.
“Why did you think it was a piece of tat?” asked Susan. “It’s very big for a sort of precious stone I would’ve thought!” he laughed.
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The piece, which featured diamonds set in platinum, dated back to the Edwardian period and boasted “a really good strength of colour”, with Susan chuckling: “so all in all it’s moved quite a way on from tat hasn’t it?”
Following her tasty valuation, the rather stunned husband replied: “Not bad for a piece of glass!”
What else happened on Antiques Roadshow?
Elsewhere on the latest episode, expert Lawrence Hendra had the pleasure of checking out a portrait of Dr. Thomas Bond, who in the Victorian times profiled Jack the Ripper. It was painted by George Frederic Watts in 1887.
Hypothetically, this artwork could sell for somewhere in the region of £10,000 to £15,000, but its owners were hoping to loan it to the Watts Gallery in Surrey.
Antiques Roadshow airs Sundays on BBC One at 8pm.
