Antiques Roadshow guest astonished by value of broken brooch she bought at a car boot sale for just £1

An Antiques Roadshow guest was stunned to learn the real value of some jewellery she’d bought for just a few pounds at a car boot sale during Sunday’s episode of the show.

The woman brought a number of items to Alexandra Gardens in Cardiff to be inspected by expert Joanna Hardy.

Joanna said to the guest: ‘Most people I meet, when they’re buying jewellery, they usually go to a jewellery shop, antiques shop, auctions, but the majority if this collection has come from?’, to which the guest replied: ‘A car boot.’

Set out on the table was a number of gold and silver brooches, and a gold necklace which had green stones set in it. 

When asked what attracted her to the necklace the guest explained: ‘Someone had just put it down, the sun was shining and it just came at me.’

Shocked: An Antiques Roadshow guest was stunned to learn the real value of some jewellery she’d bought for just a few pounds at a car boot sale during Sunday’s episode

Treasures: The woman brought a number of items to Alexandra Gardens in Cardiff to be inspected by expert Joanna Hardy

She went on to say she hoped the green stones were emeralds before revealing she’d bought the jewellery for £3.50.

Joanna said: ‘Well, £3.50 is a 22 carat gold chain with emeralds, you were right.’

Moving on to a circular gold brooch with a glistening stone in the middle, which the guest had paid £2 for, Joanna said: ‘Well this is a diamond with 18 carat gold.’

Pointing to another brooch, Joanna asked how much she’d paid for the item, to which the guest told her: ‘Two or three pound.’

Joanna said: ‘You’ve got three diamonds there and it’s in 18 carat gold.’

Another brooch, which was set with sapphires and diamonds and made in roughly 1900-1915, was bought by the guest for just £1.

Joanna quickly moved on to the valuation of the pieces, telling the guest: ‘Well done you.’

She said the gold necklace with the green emerald stones bought for £3.50 was worth around £800, while the 18 carat gold brooch with three diamonds was worth in the region of £800-£1,200.

Finds: Joanna said to the guest: ‘Most people I meet, when they’re buying jewellery, they usually go to a jewellery shop, antiques shop, auctions’

Big bucks: The circular gold brooch with the diamond in the centre was valued at about £1,000 on the show

Meanwhile, the circular gold brooch with the diamond in the centre was valued at about £1,000.

Joanna then went on to discuss the brooch with sapphires and diamonds, explaining that the blue flowers were once in fact shirt studs which someone had used to create the brooch. She valued the item at £3,000-£4,000.

The guest exclaimed: ‘What? Good grief!’, before continuing: ‘I knew they were worth something but you know, that amount has really blown me away. I’ll still be there every week, looking for something new and for something unusual.’

Antiques Roadshow continues on Sunday 15 October at 8pm on BBC One. 

Cashing in: Joanna then went on to discuss the brooch with sapphires and diamonds, saying it was worth £3,000-£4,000

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