That's a watercolor? It's amazing. Thank you for the link.
The absolute best "Antiques Roadshow" story I know was on the US version. A woman hated this thing her husband had bought in a yard sale ten+ years earlier. He'd paid $.25 for it. They had an agreement that if it turned out to be nothing, she wouldn't have to have it in the living room any more.
Turns out, this carving is a whaling helmet used by the Inuits. It will have to be carbon dated, but is probably pre-Christian Era. There are only four in the world, and this is the most intact example they've ever seen.
It's win-win. The husband gets to be right that it's special (apparently the last one sold to a museum fetched upward of a million dollars), and the wife doesn't have to have it in her living room. *G*
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The absolute best "Antiques Roadshow" story I know was on the US version. A woman hated this thing her husband had bought in a yard sale ten+ years earlier. He'd paid $.25 for it. They had an agreement that if it turned out to be nothing, she wouldn't have to have it in the living room any more.
Turns out, this carving is a whaling helmet used by the Inuits. It will have to be carbon dated, but is probably pre-Christian Era. There are only four in the world, and this is the most intact example they've ever seen.
It's win-win. The husband gets to be right that it's special (apparently the last one sold to a museum fetched upward of a million dollars), and the wife doesn't have to have it in her living room. *G*