AN Antiques Roadshow guest couldn’t believe their ears when an expert uttered the number ‘£250,000’ – but all was not as it seemed.
On Sunday’s episode of the BBC One show, expert Ronnie Archer-Morgan met a man who had brought in an African figurine.
Ronnie said: “When you unwrapped this, my heart really skipped a beat. It’s one of my favourite tribal African figures. Where did you get it?”
The guest explained how he had picked it up in a charity shop in Cambridge a decade ago.
He added: “It was right among the junk, and it cost me the grand total of £1.50. I was intrigued by the fact that it looked as if somebody had put a lot of work into making it.”