BBC Antiques Roadshow visits Port Sunlight

15th October 2012

Categories: News

Fiona Bruce and the team visit Port Sunlight in Wirral for another busy day of valuations. For amongst the treasures under scrutiny include a portrait of Shakespeare discovered beneath another painting, a model of Buckingham Palace made from thousands of matchsticks, and one of the most exciting pieces of jewellery seen on the show.

Click here for Show 1

Click here for Show 2, where among the items brought before the experts are a stash of rare and valuable advertising signs found on a tip, a religious painting with a tantalising question of fake or fortune, part of an Apollo spaceship given to a young boy in the 1960s, and one of the most exquisite pieces of oriental ceramics ever seen on the show. But it is a small piece of plastic that gets the best reaction.