BBC Antiques Roadshow expert gives ‘scruffy’ family heirloom top price despite its ‘disappointing’ appearance WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Antiques Roadshow.
“You’ve got the columns and then you’ve got the multicoloured champleve enamel and then, of course, you can see the lovely enamel dial centre and also the bezel and the mercury pendulum also with all the multicoloured enamel.
An Antiques Roadshow expert labelled a family heirloom as “scruffy” but still gave it a big price tag on the proviso that it would undergo a makeover.
Filming at Belfast’s Botanic Gardens, BBC expert Richard Price was on hand to value an “unusual example” of a French four glass clock but was quick to scrutinise the item.
“And you’ve said to me just now you thought the clock might be late 19th Century”, Price continued.
