Antiques Roadshow guest admits to using sculpture | TV Shows

An Antique Roadshow guest was left shocked when she discovered a sure merchandise was price a high quantity.

A younger feminine guest was using a bronze statue as a doorstop, which she thought was price $15. Show skilled Ernest DuMouchelle told the younger guest that it was a uncommon Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert Bronze sculpture price about $8,000, leaving her shocked.

In the episode, the merchandise holder revealed that the broze statue was picked up by her grandmother.

She said, “She [grandmother] got it either at a flea market or at a garage sale. That’s where she gets almost everything. She got it for $15-$20 probably, and she got it because my sister, Porsche, my dad, and I all like Greek and Roman mythology, and she just saw it, and that’s pretty much the only reason she got it.”

The skilled educated the younger lady about the uncommon Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert Bronze sculpture.

He said, “What I like about the piece is that first of all it’s bronze, and it has the gold doré inlays on it, which are very, very nice.”

Ernest also urged that the younger guest take the statue to a skilled and have it cleaned, noting that the statue might be estimated to go to public sale for $4,000 to $6,000.

When revealing it was a doorstop, the skilled told the younger lady, “Well, you’d better put it up on a pedestal now.”