A GUEST on Antiques Roadshow was left speechless when he found out how much a piece of historical African art was worth. He purchased the tribal statue in a charity shop for £1.50, but was hoping it would be worth in the region of £200,000.
3 A guest on Antiques Roadshow was shocked to learn the value of an item he picked up in a charity shop Credit: BBC 3 The copper and brass figure certainly looked expensive Credit: BBC 3 Expert Ronnie said his 'heart skipped a beat' when he saw it Credit: BBC During a repeat episode of Antiques Roadshow’s 45th series, the experts visited Wollaton Hall in Nottingham to see what treasured items they could find. It was there that specialist Ronnie Archer-Morgan met with a guest who showed him what he believed to be a six-figure piece of African history. The guest revealed that he had picked up the copper and brass tribal African figure in a charity shop in Cambridge years earlier and from subsequent research has been that other similar pieces were selling for £200,000, so he hoped his could be worth the same.
Ronnie immediately fell in love with the piece. He gushed: “When you unwrapped this, my heart really skipped a beat. It’s one of my favourite tribal African figures.
Where did you get it?” “It was right among the junk, and it cost me the grand total of £1.50. I was intrigued by the fact that it looked as if somebody had put a lot of work into making it,” the BBC guest said of his charity shop find.
Ronnie was able to shar.