Antiques Roadshow viewers were left baffled when a plaque with ‘crap old lyrics’ was given a jaw-dropping valuation. An expert valued an antique with links to Bristol at £80,000, because its lyrics might have been written by a famous composer.
The guest on yesterday’s episode (March 28) performed the song on the terracotta plaque to Marc Allum, and said she believed the lyrics were written by Henry Purcell. She said the plaque was likely from a famous pub in Bristol that her ancestors bought.
"This came from my grandfather and he had it before his mother before him and she was the daughter of a landlord of a pub in Bristol — The Trout in Stokes Croft," she said. "When he moved on, he presumably took this with him because he had bought it with the pub I guess."
