Antiques Roadshow guest stunned $3 charity shop | TV Shows

An Antiques Roadshow guest discovered herself exclaiming, “Oh my goodness,” upon discovering the precise value of jewellery she bought from a charity shop.

The well-liked BBC program, which airs on PBS in the US, returned on Sunday (June 14) with presenter Fiona Bruce once again main the show. This week’s episode featured a go to to Thirlestane Castle in the Scottish Borders.

Numerous members of the public eagerly introduced their treasured gadgets to be assessed by the show’s specialists. However, the episode took an surprising flip when one guest introduced in a brooch she had acquired at a charity shop.

The guest told skilled Susan Rumfitt that she found the brooch in a container alongside quite a few other costume jewellery items. Yet according to the guest, the brooch “didn’t feel like costume jewellery.”

Offering her experience, Susan famous, “The style of this brooch really does show a lot of hidden meaning within it. So you’ve got sapphires, the blue stones, which represent devotion in the language of gemstones, and diamonds represent everlasting, eternal love. So you’ve got a very devotional and romantic piece of jewellery.”

Susan famous, “Date-wise, we’re looking around 1870,” prompting the guest to exclaim, “Oh wow!” The skilled elaborated, “Yeah, maybe 1880. It’s mounted in gold at the back.

“The brooch pin is gold. That offers it good strength, and around the top you have bought silver to give some brightness to the stones as properly.”

Susan continued, “I’ve had a good look at the brooch, and sadly, there is not a maker’s mark on it. But during the nineteenth century, it wasn’t important to mark jewelry.”

Susan then questioned the guest: “It was in a box of costume jewelry and how a lot did you pay for that?” The guest responded: “£2.50 ($3.36).”

Susan then addressed its worth, stating: “So as far as worth’s involved, it is bought the whole lot going for it. If it got here up for public sale, I feel we would be wanting at an estimate of £2,000 ($2,687) to £3,000 ($4,031).”

The guest was visibly stunned by the valuation, exclaiming, “Oh my goodness! Oh!” as she covered her mouth with her hand. Completely overwhelmed, she repeated, “Oh my goodness!”

Speaking to the camera afterward, the guest confessed, “I just wasn’t anticipating that. Not at all. Maybe £100 (£134), £200 ($268) because I’ve had it a while, but never in the hundreds!”