An Antiques Roadshow guest couldn't quite believe it after his collection of paintings, which he thought were worth no more than £100, received an "amazing" valuation. The BBC's Antiques Roadshow journeyed to Caversham Park, Reading, where they met with a variety of guests and their unique items, including expert Adam Schoon. During filming, Schoon was left astounded by one particular item brought in by a pensioner.
"Well my eyes were out on stalks and indeed my heart had palpitations when I saw the visual feast within these amazing volumes of Indian watercolours", he began, before enquiring about their origin. The guest responded: "They were in the collection of my great-grandfather, Major General Henry George White." "After he was commissioned into the Royal Scots in 1854, he went to the Crimean War first of all.
" "After that, he was involved in the Indian mutiny just for a couple of months so I don't think he acquired the books then but in 1866 to 1870, he was stationed in the north west part of India and that's where I think he acquired these books." Schoon highlighted the book plate on one of the volumes' first pages which displayed the armourial for Major General Henry George White. The expert further explained: "He may have acquired them in the north of India but I think these were done in the south of India, Tangor, and that is really on the southern tip of India itself.
" "There were schools of painters who, following a certain western style of art, started to do the.