my opinion that this is worth a million
pounds
welcome to watch mojo uk and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
incredible finds on antiques roadshow
now that
is exceptionally rare this is not that
this is something better wow so
i'm all excited now i'm delighted to be
able to tell you
that you do have a work by sir anthony
van dyke before we begin we publish new
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for this list we'll be looking at a
selection of the rarest gems
biggest profits and impressive finds
that wowed both the experts and the
people who brought them in
which one impressed you the most is
there a particular find you remember
that isn't on this list
let us know in the comments below number
10 painting by william orban
paintings quite often appear on this
popular long-running antiques program
but rarely do they create as much of a
steer as this one
he would have got into trouble over
calling a picture a spy
in 1918 because that subject was very
very sensitive
a painting by sir william oppen a
prolific wartime artist
was originally assumed by the guest to
be a copy of a vision at the imperial
war museum in london
this is something better wow so
i'm all excited now however it turned
out to be a copy by the painter himself
leading to a very impressed antiques
experts and one very very satisfied
guest
20 to 30 000 pounds goodness goodness
gracious for you
it's about the mildest thing i could say
initially priced at 30
000 pounds expert rupert mars later
revalued it
at a whopping quarter of a million
pounds i've got to revise your valuation
uh it's worth at least a quarter of a
million pounds
oh my goodness number nine richard dad
painting
rigid dad is a famous victorian painter
known for creating supernatural
pictures many of which he completed from
bethlehem and
broadmoor psychiatric hospitals so it
was a huge surprise to see an original
of his appear on this show
i would hope that some indications i
mean it would
be too much to hope really that this was
a lost painting by richard down
causing a ripple of excitement it turned
out to be a lost painting of his called
the deserts which had been sitting in
the attic of a local couple's home for
years it is
an international treasure we're a lost
picture and i feel that
it could possibly make somewhat over a
hundred thousand pounds
it was valued at a fantastic one hundred
thousand pounds
smashing the show's records at the time
and was later sold to the british museum
for that very price number eight hoax
fairy photographs
cousins elsie wright and francis
griffiths created a
nationwide hoax in 1917 by releasing
a series of photographs of fairies they
claimed to live at the bottom of their
garden
they're extraordinary visions of
how we believed in fairies at a certain
time
but how do you have these this even
caused sir arthur conan doyle
writer of sherlock holmes to send them a
new camera
to capture even more images of them your
mother was what
france is and it came back to the public
eye in this 2008 episode
when the daughter and granddaughter of
the historical pranksters
brought the photos and camera in
question to the antiques roadshow
at that story this is all going to be
25 30 000 pounds an amazed expert valued
them
at around 25 000 pounds do i believe in
fairies
perhaps i do number seven captain
scott's polar autographs
in cardiff a member of the public
brought in what appeared to be a
run-of-the-mill autograph book
containing illustrations and a series of
autographs it is the
crew of captain scott's ship the terra
nova on his way
to the antarctic however these weren't
just any old scribbles
they were taken from captain scott and
his crew from their ill-fated polar
voyage
that ran from 1910 to 1913.
but this is amazing so how did you get
it uh well it belongs to my wife
it passed down through her family
featuring the names of all those
involved on the terra nova expedition
it was given a valuation of up to three
thousand pounds
and given its context and the fact it
was on the show exactly 100 years from
the day they were taken
it's certainly one of the most
incredible finds well i think that this
is worth somewhere in the region of two
and a half
to three thousand pounds really how
about that
very good very good okay it won't leave
us of course of course not
number six van dick painting anthony van
dijk the historically renowned flemish
baroque artist
was well known in the early 17th century
and beyond
for being one of the best court painters
of his era
fast forward centuries later and one of
his works is making an appearance
on british tea time television i bought
it originally in nunchuch
in whatever in an antique shop though
and
knew nothing about it i spent 400 for us
purchased for 400 pounds from a cheshire
antique shop by
father jamie mccloyd it was unbeknown to
the buyer at the time
that it was a bonafide masterpiece are
you prepared
to commission a process
of cleaning and restoration however
expert philip
mold valued it at a staggering 400
000 pounds i'm delighted to be able to
tell you
that you do have a work by sir anthony
van dyke the guest planned to use the
cash to install
some new church bells number five
banksy's mobile lovers
after all this is the antiques roadshow
and this is done on april 12th this year
now for some street art and police
property turned youth club savior
it was on a long piece of wood this
piece of wood which was um in an old
doorway just outside of my club
the ever elusive bristol street artist
created mobile lovers on a door opposite
a bristol boys club
prompting the owner of the said
establishment to remove it
take it inside and allow the public to
come and see it
this was different and bit unique in the
fact that it's got its own letter
of reference from banks himself to me
after eventually being taken away by the
police and given to bristol council
banksy wrote to the club to say it was
their artwork
which was then brought onto the roadshow
and given an eye-watering price tag
of 400 000 pounds the owner eventually
sold it and used the money to help his
and other local youth centers
if you have had an offer of something
like 400 000 pounds
my instinct would be better safe than
sorry
take it number four crawly silver back
in the early 90s
this heartwarming episode gave us one of
the show's most incredible finds
yielded inside and of course these are
very
collectible young richard hobbs a man
whose family had very little money
and who certainly differs from its usual
guests brought in a bag of what he
assumed to be worthless pieces of silver
would suggest you think in terms of
about
10 000 pounds stashed in shoe boxes
under his dad's bed
he took in his father's secret bounty
only to discover
that it was highly valuable crawly
silver including stirrup cups
and an early wine taster 1607
in this case so that's king james the
first now
that is exceptionally rare
later sold for 350 000 pounds
after a phenomenal valuation richard is
forever etched into antiques roadshow
history
that family had been struggling and
suddenly
by selling a few of the items in that
collection which they they subsequently
did
their lives literally changed number
three the fa cup trophy
arguably english football's biggest
tournament the fa cup is known for some
of the beautiful games most exciting
matches
and the unpredictability of some of the
country's biggest teams playing against
some of its smallest
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arsenal extend this record
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the fa cup has been very good to them
back in 2015
the actual trophy itself made a cameo in
harrogate north yorkshire
when it was brought in by bbc sports
gabby logan
and former leeds united manager eddie
gray
leaving aleister dickinson flabbergasted
it scored a
price of over one million pounds
breaking the show's records at the time
of filming
back of the net gerard he's got it
number two faberge flowers this
well-known russian company
famed for their ornate imperial easter
eggs have been creating
stunning jewellery since the mid-19th
century
i find fabari things on the antiques
roadshow but nothing of the scale
so when this very rare piece was brought
onto the roadshow by an army reserve
cavalry squadron
it caused waves of excitement it's a
solid block
of what is apparently glass but it's
certainly not it's stone
it's rock crystal featuring gold diamond
and jade petals
it was gifted to the squadron in 1904
by the countess of dudley and had since
been sitting with them
the flowers are made of enamel silver
and tiny silver stamens
but in the center there's a dewdrop of
diamond
glinting in in the sunshine the show's
expert jeffrey munn
slapped an absolutely humongous price
tag of 1 million pounds on it
not bad for something treated as part of
the furniture
by its owners in my opinion that this is
worth
a million pounds wow
number one angel of the north model one
of the uk's most iconic landmarks
the angel of the north was designed by
anthony gormley
and unveiled on the outskirts of
gateshead in 1998
and it was a scaled-down maquette of the
66-foot high sculpture that made it on
air much to the joy of art expert philip
mold
and indeed it was angel an angel or
group of angels
who heralded the birth of christ using
something that has a deep resonance in
our culture
the model in question was the basis on
which the final structure was approved
meaning it is a genuine true likeness it
was given a truly staggering
million pound valuation going down in
history
as one of the show's most incredible
finds on the basis that this is half the
size
i would comfortably value it at a
million pounds
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