She commented: “Well, I think it’s possibly Maori because I think I did see something similar on the Antiques Roadshow a long time ago, and it was Maori, but I don’t know whether this is the same.”.
An Antiques Roadshow guest was beaming from ear to ear as she discovered all there was to know about her nan’s “mysterious” object.
“It was like money?” the guest asked before he went on to conclude: “But it’s a shame, we just never know what their purpose was within that society on the Austral Islands.
Filming at Ebrington Square, Derry, BBC expert Adam Schoon met with a guest who presented him with an unusual wooden object.
Explaining its provenance, the guest said: “Yes, my nana gave it to me because I moved back home from England to a new house and I had nothing for my walls, so she thought this was a good thing to fit on my wall.”.
