Antiques Roadshow expert tells guest to 'believe' it after staggering valuation price
dailyrecord.co.ukAn Antiques Roadshow guest was left gobsmacked after her family heirloom was valued by the BBC experts. The guest took along her stunning gold brooch which had been in the family for years when the popular show was filmed in Brodie Castle, Wales.
Examining the unique artefact, expert Geoffrey Munn began: "The sun is coming out and here we see gold, and we see rubies and we see diamonds but what does it mean?""So, it's a brooch which I inherited via my mother, from my great-aunt and they come from Silesia, which is today Southern Poland," the guest replied. "They had to flee from the Russians during the end of the war and they made it over to West Germany.
She was a cook and housekeep to Prince Ernst August of Hanover for 37 years."The Mirror reports the expert explained the brooch was a "very typical gift from a royal personage" before adding that the item's hallmarks reveal its origin.
Pointing out the key features, she added: "So, it's Russian and it's got a 56 kokoshnik mark I believe which is 14-carat gold and it's got an assayer's mark of Ivan Lebetkin in Moscow between 1899 and 1908."The expert joked the guest's knowledge was making him "redundant" as he added: "I think I am going home!"Geoffrey told the guest: "You got it all right and the style of it is absolutely typical of pre-revolutionary Russian style.
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