BBC Antiques Roadshow fans left 'screaming' after expert 'ruins' rare scrapbook
Eagle-eyed viewers were left gobsmacked on Sunday night during a repeated episode of BBC’s Antiques Roadshow. During the show, which was held in the ground of Salisbury Cathedral, one woman had brought along a rare scrapbook.
Expert Fuchsia Voremberg inspected the book, which she called unusual, as it featured a range of interesting collages. Asking how it came into her possession, the guest said it had belonged to her great-great uncle.
She said: “He sent it as a Christmas present to his mother and it was passed down to me through the family.” Sharing more information on the book, the woman told Fuchsia it was sent back home from India when he was in the army.
Guessing it was sent in 1890, the woman told the expert her great-great uncle would’ve been 19 when he made it, two years before sadly dying. Speaking about the pages inside, Fuchsia said the collages had been made from printed scraps and ferns.
She said: “This is an interesting example of a Victorian phenomena called Fernmania or Pteridomania. They collected them, they painted them, they printed with them and in this case, they pressed them and put them in this beautiful book.”
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Antiques Roadshow viewwer were quick to highlight the mishap made by the expert on the BBC show (Image: BBC)However, as the BBC star was flicking through the pages, people were quick to notice one of the protected layers of paper had been folded back.
One person tweeted: “Anyone else just see her fold a page down when she turned to look at another page?”
Replying, someone else wrote: “I gasped.”
Another viewer added: “Yes and it made me think ffs!” (sic)
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“Yes, very upsetting. Mind you, I thought she should just have closed the book as the wind was blowing everything about,” committed one fan.
While someone else fumed: “Yes, we were screaming at the telly!”
The expert went on: “What’s really nice about this example is that it shows this young man, he’s a long way from home and he’s sending a little piece of the place that he’s seeing.
“The very poignant aspect of it is that ferns are associated with mourning so in some way he was creating a mourning album.”
window.topArticlesScript="https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/js/dist/article-top-articles20240723.min.js"The expert explained the item was worth around £200 at auction (Image: BBC)Stunned, the woman questioned whether or not his mother knew what her son was making her. The guest added: “She’d have been very touched, I think, by that.”
The expert explained that although there are other fern albums around, she praised hers as a nice example of one.
She continued: “It’s a lovely meeting point between India and this British chap who is out there. I’d give it a value of £200.”
The woman replied: “Oh wonderful, fantastic! Not that it’s for sale.”
Antiques Roadshow is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
BBC Antiques Roadshow fans left 'screaming' after expert 'ruins' rare scrapbook
BBC Antiques Roadshow fans left 'screaming' after expert 'ruins' rare scrapbook
BBC Antiques Roadshow fans left 'screaming' after expert 'ruins' rare scrapbook
BBC Antiques Roadshow fans left 'screaming' after expert 'ruins' rare scrapbook
BBC Antiques Roadshow fans left 'screaming' after expert 'ruins' rare scrapbook
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