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Antiques Roadshow guest gasps at staggering value of poster as wife admits ‘I nearly put it in the bin!’
The expert told the couple: "I mean this is absolutely shocking."
AN Antiques Roadshow guest gasped at the staggering value of a poster - as his wife admitted 'I nearly put it in the bin!'
Sunday's episode of the BBC series visited Roundhay Park in Leeds, and saw expert Clive Farahar meet a couple who had brought in a historical poster from the day President John. F. Kennedy was killed.
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It simply read: "Kennedy Dead" and was from the London Evening Standard on November 22, 1963.
Clive said: "I mean this is absolutely shocking. With news like that... Evening Standard London newspaper. Where did you find this?"
The man replied: "Well growing up in London in the 1950s my parents had some utility furniture, and one of the items was a sideboard, which I inherited.
"Earlier this year, we needed some space in the garage."
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The guest's wife then added: "I decided that the garage was a tip and I wanted him to tidy it up. The sideboard was just full of old paintings and you know the sort of stuff you keep."
Her husband then said he had found it folded over and added: "It had probably been laying there for 60-odd years."
Clive asked them where they were at the time of that moment in history, before turning his attention back to the poster.
He said: "As far as poster artists are concerned, I think it is Stark, isn't it? It's hard to think of it being valuable."
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The woman replied: "It nearly went in the recycling bin. He came out of the garage and he was like, 'Look at this' and I was like, 'Get it in the recycling bin'."
Her comments made Clive laugh and he said: "But instead you bought it to have it valued on the Antiques Roadshow."
He then made them both gasp as he added: "I could put £1,000 on this."
Covering her mouth in shock, the lady replied: "What? My god!"
Clive joked back: "You nearly got rid of it and you nearly dismantled it."
Antiques Roadshow airs Sundays on BBC One and is available on BBC iPlayer.
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