An Antiques Roadshow guest was stunned to discover the huge value of his ancient print collection during Sunday’s show.
The latest episode saw members of the public take their valuables to Pollok Park in Glasgow, with one man brining along a selection of pages from books dating back to the 15th century.
Expert Matthew Haley branded them ‘absolute gold dust’ and revealed the collection included some of the ‘oldest ever print’ to be features on the BBC show.
The guest then explained how his wife had purchased him the items due to his history of working in the printing industry.
Matthew gushed: ‘There’s a piece of paper here that was printed in 1470, 550 years ago,’ before revealing one page had been printed by William Caxton, the first person to print in the United Kingdom in 1482.
An Antiques Roadshow guest was stunned to discover the huge value of his ancient print collection during Sunday’s show
The latest episode saw members of the public take their valuables to Pollok Park in Glasgow , with one man brining along a selection of pages from books dating back to the 15th century
Moving onto the valuation he said: ‘Just one leaf from this book printed by William Caxton – just one leaf on its own at auction would make something like £600-1000’.
Before continuing: ‘I think if you added it all together, the individual values of these leaves, you’d be looking at something between £5K and £10K’.
Stunned the guest joked: ‘Don’t tell the wife’.
It comes after another Antiques Roadshow guest was left in complete shock over the huge value of her ‘ugly’ lamp which she found while out on a walk.
Expert Arlie Sulka evaluated the unusual item when the hit show visited Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona.
On the American version of the BBC series, the guest explained: ‘I was taking a walk in the morning and I got about four houses down from where I live and there was a sign that said “Free”.
‘And so I walked by it the first day, and then the second day I thought about it again, and I thought “Well I’ll take this”. And it’s pretty ugly but I can give it to somebody, but it’s a lamp, so I’ll just take it.
‘So when I brought it home, I ran over to my neighbour and asked him if he could cut the cord off and fix it.
Expert Matthew Haley branded them ‘absolute gold dust’ and revealed the collection included some of the ‘oldest ever print’ to be features on the BBC show
Moving on to the valuation he said: ‘I think if you added it all together, the individual values of these leaves, you’d be looking at something between £5K and £10K’
Stunned the guest joked: ‘Don’t tell the wife’
‘He said the plug alone is really old and that I should wait and find out about the lamp before I cut it off.’
The Antiques Roadshow expert revealed it was a Louis Comfort Tiffany lamp made by Louis C. Tiffany Furnaces Inc.
Arlie said: ‘You have a gilded bronze base with the enamel design around the foot and then what we call a damascene blown-glass shade with wonderful iridescence on the outside.’
The expert explained that each lamp has different colours and each colour differs the value of the lamp.
It comes after another Antiques Roadshow guest was left in complete shock over the huge value of her ‘ugly’ lamp which she found while out on a walk
Expert Arlie Sulka evaluated the unusual item when the hit show visited Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona
Arlie noted that the caramel colour, which the guest owned, was ‘very desirable’, she added: ‘because it’s intact and the shade is one of the better colours.’
There was also a mark on the inside which read, ‘LCT Favrile’ which the expert explained proved the light fixture was ‘homemade’.
Revealing the staggering value of the item, Arlie said: ‘In a retail venue, something like this could sell for between $10,000 and $15,000.’
Bursting into the tears, the guest was in shock and said: ‘Oh my god’.