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The strangest Antiques Roadshow items to ever appear on the BBC One show including a 300-year old 'creepy doll' to a Monopoly board owned by the Great Train Robbers


Antiques Roadshow has been a mainstay of British television, airing continuously for over 40 years since it was first broadcast in 1979.

Owners Ronnie Biggs and co., who were famed for carrying out the Great Train Robbery in 1963, had this Monopoly board in their possession as a way to pass time while on the run from the police The item sees a gold twig resting in a rock crystal vase that was cleverly carved to look like water - and went on to receive an enormous valuation. However, renowned author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - who was a spiritualist - was convinced that the story was true and used them to illustrate his belief that fairies existed in an article on for the Christmas 1920 edition of The Strand Magazine.

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