Antiques Roadshow expert's 'piece of tat' valuation stuns owners

The couple had no idea they were holding onto a pendant made from the semiprecious gemstone aquamarine.

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Video transcript

They were on my husband's side from his mother, Um, when she died, my husband said My mum had a lovely opal bracelet.

You might like it, Uh, so we dug it out and that was that.

But in this big box, there's loads of stuff.

And I dug to the bottom and found that.

And my husband said, You don't want that.

It's a load of tap.

It's just a piece of glass.

So I said, Well, I like it.

It's actually aquamarine, right?

It's got a really good strength of colour and the colours, even all the way through the stone as well.

So all in all, it's moved quite a way on from tat, hasn't it?

Which is really good.

So as far as values concerned, I'm sure you'd like to know.

So the a P. If this came up to auction, we would be looking at an estimate of 3 to 5000 pounds