ANTIQUES Roadshow expert, Alastair Dickenson revealed his “heart thumped” when he discovered an “immaculate” item with a high value on the latest episode.
The BBC programme welcomed new guests to the opulent Belmont estate in the middle of the Kent countryside in the latest installment,
A guest was brought with her a vintage honey pot to be valued
Alastair said the item had his “heart thumping”
A guest was brought with her a vintage honey pot to be valued.
It was a miniature honey skep made of gilded silver that originated from Georgian England in 1828.
But she was soon left flabbergasted when she learned the staggering worth of her prized possession.
The guest revealed she had inherited the item from her late brother-in-law.
“So we inherited it with the honey in it and all over it and he obviously hadn’t cleaned it in a very long time and we bring it out at Christmas,” she told Alastair.
On top of the honey pot was a little bee collecting nectar from a flower in excellent engraving.
Antiques expert, Alastair was left in awe at the precious item, and admitted: “It’s not very often something comes along to the Antiques Roadshow that gets my heart thumping and here is an object that falls into that category.”
He described what it was called, a “honey skep” because of its shape, and how this one was “a good one.”: “His taste in silver is immaculate. What we’ve got here is a Georgian honey skep made in silver.
The expert told the guest that her late brother-in-law’s taste in silver was “immaculate” as he admired the Georgian honey skep.
He continued: “It’s got a lovely coat of arms on the front, it’s got all the hallmarks tucked away on the front here and the markers Rebecca Emes and Edward Barnard. They’re a very well-known company.”
The antiques specialist then told the guest that her item was a “highly saleable object” before revealing the jaw-dropping value.
“How would you feel if I said it would comfortably make between £10,000 and £15,000?” Andrew asked.
The guest couldn’t believe what she just heard – as she quipped: “Oh yeah, we’d best stop putting the honey in it then! Gosh.”
It was a miniature honey skep made of gilded silver that originated from Georgian England in 1828
The guest was left speechless when the expert revealed the jaw-dropping value of her item
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