Antiques Roadshow guest speechless as ‘incredible’ medals from legendary war hero given eye-watering value
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WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Antiques Roadshow. An Antiques Roadshow expert couldn’t contain how impressed he was at the sight of Second World War medals and other memorabilia with an “incredible story”. War expert Mark Smith was on hand at Belfast’s Botanic Gardens to meet a guest who brought in a number of medals and it was clear from the start that the BBC personality was delighted to take a closer look at them.
“My friends say to me ‘You must see some amazing things when you do the Roadshow and today I’ve seen an amazing thing”, Smith began. “Now we’ve got a miniature set of medals here. Now these are the medals that you wear in the evening, either on mess dress or an evening dress when you go out to dinner.”.
The guest clarified they had belonged to the “founding father of the SAS (Special Air Service)", Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair Mayne, DSO, which he had obtained from his niece. Smith continued: “These are part of the War Years Remembered collection, a military museum just down the road.
“I know you’ve got lots, lots more stuff. I know that and we couldn’t get it all round the table. “Because let’s face it, you brought tonnes. So the miniature medals themselves are incredible.”. The expert began to list all of the medals on display including the “almost unheard of Distinguished Service Order with three bars”, the 1939 -1945 Star, Africa Star and the Legion d’Honneur.
