Antiques Roadshow was back on BBC One with expert Steven Moore marvelling at a beautiful four-piece tea set with intricate butterfly detail. He joked with the guest: “I can’t think of how many times I’ve been sat at my table at Antiques Roadshow and people have unwrapped a tea set just at the point I could really do with a cup of tea.
“My advice has almost always been to them, it’s not worth that much money. Take it home, wash it and enjoy it.
“But I’m not going to say that to you today, where did your tea set come from?” The guest explained it was a gift to his grandmother from her best friend, his auntie Betty.
He added: “Fairly recently my grandmother went into a nursing home so she had to downsize, and get rid of a lot of her belongings. Apparently, as a young boy I used to admire this tea set because of the delicate butterfly handles and my granny never forgot that.”
It was after his grandmother moved out of her home that the tea set was passed down to him.
Antiques Roadshow expert Steven Moore loved the tea set (Image: BBC)
Steven described it as a “gorgeous” Aynsley bone china tea set, adding: “What’s clever about it is they haven’t just done it for the way it looks, but when you pick that handle up, your fingers sit lovely on the wings.
“It is one of those tea sets which, it’s not a particularly rare pattern but people love it, and as a consequence, they pay decent prices for it.”
He revealed each item of the four-piece set would be worth £100, meaning the tea set was worth £400 in total, before issuing the warning: “Probably admire it and don’t have your coffee from it.”
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The Antiques Roadshow guest would not be selling the tea set (Image: BBC)
Elsewhere in the episode, Adam Schoon had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the Scottish Cup, the most important trophy in Scottish football.
Geoffrey Munn was surprised by rare Russian royal jewels that arrived in a carrier bag, a beautiful collection of miniature silver crockery designed for a doll house catches Gordon Foster’s eye.
Elsewhere, jewellery specialist Susan Rumfitt was intrigued by a stunning black opal necklace.
Antiques Roadshow returns on Sunday on One