Antiques Roadshow guest plants kiss on expert | TV Shows

WARNING: This article comprises spoilers from Antiques Roadshow.

An Antiques Roadshow guest was left speechless when he found the true price of a “filthy” timepiece his spouse had branded as “hideous”.

The BBC daytime program visited Cardiff to movie another fascinating episode, with expert Richard Price analyzing a customer’s ornate clock in element.

“Let me ask you then, why is it so dirty? Do you not look after it?” Price inquired.

The guest confessed: “No, it lives in a box in the attic because it’s so ugly.”

Price responded: “Really? Who banished it up there?”, with the guest revealing “my wife”.

He explained that he had obtained the clock roughly 5 years earlier and it went “straight into the attic”.

Price declared: “Underneath all this filth and mess, we have the most wonderful bronze bull.”

During a separate interview, the guest’s spouse shared her ideas on the undesirable inheritance.

She revealed: “My husband inherited the clock from his uncle and when he brought it home, I wasn’t impressed at all.

“It was very ugly, very soiled. We did not understand how soiled until we have been told how soiled it was on the Roadshow. I believed that’s the colour it was supposed to be.”

Also in a separate interview, the visitor said: “I had a feeling that the clock was going to be price maybe a couple of thousand kilos because it was fairly outdated.”

But they had no idea of its actual value as Price announced: “Even in this state, I believe your initial offer can be in the area of £20,000.

“20?” the guest requested, to which Price clarified: “£20,000 in the rough like this.”

The guest merely exclaimed: “Good heavens.”

In a separate interview, the guest shared: “When they double, triple, quadruple the value that you have in mind, it’s just unbelievable.”

But the story did not end there. Price added that once the clock had been “lovingly cleaned” and restored, its worth may skyrocket to anyplace between £30,000 and £35,000.

“Good Heavens above. My wife will never believe it,” the guest responded.

His spouse remembered: “I said ‘Oh, how did you get on?’ He was quiet, awfully quiet and his lip was quivering a little bit.”

He told Roadshow: “And I managed to get out – blurt out – the fact that Richard Price had said ‘Oh in its present state it’s worth £20,000.’ But when I got to the £30,000 mark, I was getting a bit too excited and a bit emotional.”

The couple determined to restore the clock after all, but it wasn’t an straightforward activity, according to expert John Jillings.

“It was obviously rather worrying, the fact that it had been in the attic for such a long time and there may have been a little bit of damp there but considering, it’s survived very, very well”, he said.

“When we removed the springs from the barrels, they were actually signed and dated by the manufacturer for February 1754. So this is exciting, because it’s another thing we can use to date the clock quite accurately.”

Unveiling the “moment of truth”, Jillings offered the restored golden clock, prompting the spouse to exclaim: “Oh that’s fantastic. Oh you’ve done a great job.”

She then approached Jillings to plant a kiss on each cheek in gratitude.

“Oh it’s beautiful, it really is. You would never have believed that it would have looked as good as this. No, it’s absolutely marvellous. Now it’s not quite so ugly.”