Antiques Roadshow: Coco de Mer tea caddy valued by expert WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Antiques Roadshow. An Antiques Roadshow guest chuckled upon hearing the price tag of a rather rude tea caddy she had inherited from her mum through an old friend. The BBC daytime series travelled to Towneley Hall in Burnley to film another intriguing episode with expert Adam Schoon meeting the owner of an unusual shaped tea caddy.
“Well this must qualify as one of the most tactile tea caddies I’ve ever seen on the Antiques Roadshow ,” he began. “It’s made of a nut, coco de mer, the archaic name for this nut actually translates to beautiful buttocks, need I say more. How did it come into your possession?”.
The guest went on to explain that it had once belonged to a woman in her 80s who used to play piano at her mum’s dance school, back in the 1960s. “She was downsizing her house to move out and she said: ‘Do you want this thing?’" she recounted. Antiques Roadshow guest laughs as inherited ‘X-rated tea caddy’ given unexpected price tag.
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