Antiques Roadshow: Wedgwood Fairyland collection valued WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Antiques Roadshow. An Antiques Roadshow expert made a U-turn on his valuation for a vase as the audience’s reaction woke up a sleeping baby. With a backdrop of Audley End, BBC expert Eric Knowles was met by three generations: the owner of three ceramic items, her daughter and her grandchild who was being cradled.
“In the 1920s and the 1930s, there was a lot of interest in fairies. You may remember there were some photographs produced that [had] people convinced that there were fairies at the bottom of people’s gardens”, Knowles began. “And you’re a good one to talk to as you’ve got fairies on your sideboard from what I can see.
Have you been living with these fairies for quite some time?”. An Antiques Roadshow audience 'woke a baby' with their gasps at a whopping price for a vase (Image: BBC) Related articles Antiques Roadshow guest kisses £10 item after finding out its five-figure value Antiques Roadshow guest's ‘rude’ tea caddy given unexpected price tag She replied: “For about 12 years. Before then, they lived in Ireland from about 1962 to 2004.
They were owned by a cousin of my aunt who lived in Johannesburg - ”. “Goodness me, these are well travelled vases,” Knowles interrupted. “So there've been fairies in South Africa, they’ve been leprechauns by the time they got to Ireland and now they’re fairies again in Saffron Walden.
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