most expensive antiques roadshow Item

[Mr Slappy]

What has been the most valuable item appearing on the UK version of Antiques Roadshow?

[dot.hawkes]

it was that huge round dish i think, quite alot of years ago now.

[Mr Slappy]

Thanks Dot, but that's not quite enough info to satisfy my couriosity I'm afraid. :)

[dot.hawkes]

oh no apparently I am incorrect, according to the web site :

The programme recorded in Brussels in February 1995 produced the most valuable find to date. A Belgian banker arrived with a collection of 25 Filipino watercolours, handed down from his grandfather who had a tobacco plantation in the Philippines in the late 19th century.

"I'm flabbergasted!" was his response when told by Peter Nahum, paintings expert, that the collection had to be worth a minimum of �100,000. They were later auctioned for �265,000.

(from the roadshow BBC webpage)

[B00]

here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/southerncounties/history/ antiques_roadshow/rhs_wisley.shtml

States : The programme recorded in Brussels in February 1995 produced the most valuable find to date. A Belgian banker arrived with a collection of 25 Filipino watercolours, handed down from his grandfather who had a tobacco plantation in the Philippines in the late 19th century.

"I'm flabbergasted!" was his response when told by Peter Nahum, paintings expert, that the collection had to be worth a minimum of �100,000. They were later auctioned for �265,000.

[B00]

lmao dotty, snap!

[dot.hawkes]

lol hi B00!! posh italics there!!!!

[Mattk]

Some expert tho....�165,000 out!!!

[B00]

Not necessarily, it might have only been worth �100,00 but �265,000 was what someone was willing to pay for it ;-)

[Mr Slappy]

Wasn't there a young woman once with some neolithic art piece that was described as priceless? Or is my memory playing tricks on me in my old age?

[B00]

No idea- but wouldn't that mean that it didn't have a price on it? So therefore it couldn't have been the most expensive? Or am I just rambling now? lol