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Antiques Roadshow guest disagrees with expert's eye-watering five figure valuation of 'priceless' item
An Antiques Roadshow guest disagreed with an expert's enormous five-figure valuation of a 100-year-old item, labelling the item as 'priceless'.
Explaining the story behind the striking piece of art, the guest replied: 'It was carved by my mother out of teak [wood] when she was teaching in South Africa at a school in about 1925, she was there quite a few years. Presenting a portrait bust sculpture that had been carved by her mother, the guest wowed expert evaluator Ronnie Archer-Morgan Although Ronnie and the guest appeared to disagree on the potential value of the item, the former was still full of praise for how it was expertly crafted, adding: 'This is over-brimming with suppressed energy and power that sounds like an oxymoron.
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