Cheap brooch turns out to be $19K rare Victorian treasure
The brooch was purchased 35 years ago at a market for less than $25.
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The brooch was purchased 35 years ago at a market for less than $25.
A brooch purchased for under $25 from a British antique store in the 1980s is now headed to auction and is expected to fetch up to $19,000 after an appearance on "Antiques Roadshow."
The brooch will be sold at auction this spring via Gildings.
A brooch purchased for under $25 from a British antique store in the 1980s is now headed to auction and is expected to fetch up to $19,000 after an appearance on "Antiques Roadshow."
Flora Steel bought the silver, coral, lapis lazuli and malachite brooch over three decades ago, in 1988, at a Midlands antiques market.