Item worth 'more than £1m' breaks Antiques Roadshow record

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The BBC reports that the most valuable item ever featured on 38 years of Antiques Roadshow is estimated to be worth more than £1 million.

The item, described by producers as 'a world famous piece owned by a sporting institution', was discovered during filming in north Yorkshire, although the exact description and details of the item won't be revealed until the programme screens next April.

A spokesman for the BBC1 programme said: "An item seen at the Antiques Roadshow in Harrogate is the highest valued object ever to appear on the show in its 38-year history... It is a world-famous piece owned by a sporting institution.

"The final valuation given will be revealed when the programme airs in spring 2016."

The previous record was the 2008 £1 million estimate for one of Antony Gormley's models of the Angel of the North, which was three times the show's previous record.

Antiques Roadshow is hosted by Fiona Bruce.

 

Patrick McLennan
Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.