BBC Antiques Roadshow expert stunned by X-rated tea caddy worth thousands
ok.co.ukAn Antiques Roadshow guest was left gobsmacked when she discovered the value of her cheeky tea caddy. A lady who had inherited the rather naughty tea caddy from her mum's old friend couldn't help but giggle when she heard its worth on Antiques Roadshow.The beloved BBC daytime show popped over to Towneley Hall in Burnley for another captivating episode, where expert Adam Schoon met with the owner of an unusually shaped item. "Well this must qualify as one of the most tactile tea caddies I've ever seen on the Antiques Roadshow," he started. "It's made of a nut, Coco de Mer, the old-fashioned name for this nut actually translates to beautiful buttocks, need I say more.
How did it come into your possession?". The guest revealed that the item once belonged to an elderly woman who played piano at her mum's dance school back in the 1960s, reports the Mirror. "She was downsizing her house to move out and she said: 'Do you want this thing?" she remembered.
She mentioned that her grandfather used to sail tea clippers around the Indian Ocean and sailors would often find these nuts floating on the sea, pick them up and have items crafted from them.
Schoon detailed the fascinating journey of the Coco de Mer: "These huge nuts, which took I think six to seven years to mature, would obviously come off the tree, roll down the beach, get into the current of the sea and go floating off.
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