Antiques Roadshow guest warns ‘don’t drop it’ after expert shares ‘pitiful’ valuation

Guest warns expert not to drop vase on Antiques Roadshow

During a classic episode of Antiques Roadshow , Fiona Bruce took BBC viewers to the beautiful grounds of Belmont House in Kent where the experts put their knowledge to the test. Ronnie Archer Morgan was wowed by a Polynesian club from the time of Captain Cook, while Mark Smith was thrilled to see an original telegram announcing the end of World War II.

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However, it was a rather colourful vase that grabbed the attention of expert Andy McConnell.

Before speaking with the guest, Andy turned to the crowd to ask their thoughts on the vase.

“Excuse me, but I’m going to come to you in a minute but first, I’m going to come to you lot,” he said.

“Hands up for those who like it. Well, I don’t think I’m gonna have to ask who doesn’t like it. That’s pretty unanimous.”

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Antiques Roadshow: Andy gave the guest a disappointing valuation of the vase (Image: BBC)

Antiques Roadshow: The guest warned Andy not to drop the vase (Image: BBC)

Antiques Roadshow: Andy estimated the vase would fetch up to £8,000 at auction (Image: BBC)

Antiques Roadshow: The guest was passed the vase down from her grandmother (Image: BBC)

Sharing his thoughts on where the vase came from, the expert said it was designed by Dino Martens in 1951.

He continued: “This is a superb, classic piece of early 50s Murano and it was made sort of like in the way that you’d pick up hundreds and thousands on a fairy cake.

“You get a piece of colourless glass, which you can see if you look at this right…you can see its colourless core.

“And then you pick up all the bits and lots of chunky bits of stuff and you pick them up and then you would roll them backwards and forwards and they would meld themselves into the glass.”

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Andy went on to explain that the first-ever vase of that kind was sold for a staggering $350,000 (£287,415).

However, disappointingly, he told the guest hers wouldn’t fetch anywhere near that much.

“Seriously mega money, but that was the number one,” he said.

“That was the first one, so I’m afraid this one rather pales into insignificance because its current auction value is only a pitiful £6,000 to £8,000.”

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