Antiques Roadshow: Rare 18th century dress appraised Last night, Antiques Roadshow viewers watched as BBC star Fiona Bruce and her team of experts went along to Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery in Ealing, West London. The team witnessed treasures including a royal paintbox, a stylish collection of Italian jewellery and a rare wartime medal awarded to a carrier pigeon. Archer-Morgan was left blown away when one guest brought along some Polynesian throwing clubs to the table.
He questioned: "I love these clubs that you have brought to my table. So tell me, how have you come to have them?" The guest explained: "Well, my partner, he is from Bermuda and unfortunately he lost his parents in the last couple of years and we flew out there and we have been going through all his family belongings and we found these wrapped in some cloth. Antiques Roadshow expert Ronnie Archer-Morgan was left stunned yesterday.
(Image: GETTY) "I immediately thought, 'Wow, these are obviously very old' but all I can find online is that they could be African, used in war and that is literally all we know." Archer-Morgan responded: "I am fascinated by how they got to Bermuda, they didn't get to Bermuda from Africa, they got to Bermuda from Fiji. "In the Pacific, they are Polynesian and they are called Ula's.
They are throwing clubs, they were used in warfare and they would throw the clubs and then collect the clubs once they hit the men. "They would have a brace of them in their belts and these are just wonder.