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An Antiques Roadshow guest was left so unimpressed with their valuation from expert Will Farmer, they walked off set.
The BBC show sees members of the public pay a visit to the antiques experts in the hopes of securing an impressive valuation. Many guests have received eye-watering valuations over the years, while some are told their items have very small monetary value. Expert Will Farmer has appeared on the show since the early 2000s and has provided many guests with hefty price tags for their items.
However, Will has also had to be the bearer of bad news to some guests. He has opened up on the time one Antiques Roadshow guest was left so fuming at the price tag of their item, they reportedly walked off the set. Will, who is known for his expertise in ceramics and glass, said the guest took along a green glass bottle.
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He is an expert in glass and ceramics (@will_farmer99/Instagram)Speaking to Express, he said: "It was sold as a very rare 17th-century glass bottle and he said he'd paid £1,000 for it. He said he'd bought it from an antique shop so I knew I had to tread carefully." Will had to chat to his colleagues about the item and unfortunately had to inform the guest his 'antique bottle' was in fact an ordinary piece of glass.
To make matters worse, the value was also nowhere near the original £1,000. Will said: "I had to go back and I remember this poor man's face dropped. He just took it out of my hand, put it in the bag, and walked off." Last year, Will had the pleasure of giving a whopping valuation to a guest.
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A lady and her daughter introduced a brass mirror to expert Will, who seemed thrilled by the find. He quickly praised the work of the item as he learned of its backstory, and its family link to the current "custodian" of it. Will said the mirror was created at the Glasgow School of Art, around the year 1929. He said this was quite late for a design such as this, before adding it had an addition on it that other mirrors like it would not have had, and this was linked to its recipient.
The guest confirmed the mirror originally belonged to her mother-in-law and she now looked after it. When her daughter went to hang it up in a hallway she noticed a note on the back of it which her mother had not seen before. Will read this notice out, and it said: "Designed and worked by Marion Wilson for Charlotte Stewart who gifted it to Margaret Lawson on her wedding day dated 1929."
On the valuation, he said: "This has huge family significance but there still comes a value I think worth while you should know. The market is ever growing, I think it's a wonderful mirror with a history and a connection with you and your family and a whole story there. In the current market you are looking at within the region of three to five thousand pounds."
Shocked, the guest asked: "Really?" as the crowd were heard gasping over the amount. Will confirmed the amount, as the guest told him: "Oh... I would never have guessed that. Thank you for telling us it's wonderful." Her daughter added: "I think it's been amazing to be here because it is important to my mum, and in terms of the value it's a lot more than we actually thought, but I'm not sure it's something we're in a rush to sell."