An Antiques Roadshow guest was left stunned after an expert revealed the value of three whisky bottles that had been passed down through generations.
The curious guest brought the Johnnie Walker whiskies along to Clissold Park in Hackney in Sunday’s episode of the BBC One show. She explained the bottles originally came into the family through her grandparents - but after receiving them through a free giveaway, they were less than impressed with them and quickly stored them away.
Expert John Foster gave his verdict on the bottles, explaining that two of them had rare labels which drove their value up into the thousands. The woman was speechless after learning their true value, with the bottles having been forgotten about for decades in storage, The Mirror reports .
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Explaining how the whiskies had come into her family, the guest said: “They've been in my possession for 50 years, but they came into our house in the 1950s. My grandfather brought them home one day to the horror of my grandmother and said, 'look what I got.'
“The landlord was closing his pub down and said, 'would you like these bottles?' And he said, 'yes.' And she said, 'what am I going to do with those?' They've been put away ever since.”
John explained that the three Johnnie Walker bottles in the woman’s possession varied in their age. “You've got the red label there, which I think this one would date from the sort of 1930s, maybe '40s. But then the rarer white label is much more sort of 1907, 1908, that sort of period,” he said.
He told the guest that the red label bottle would be worth around £1,000 - but added that the white label bottles were much more valuable. “You can see they've got a bit of damage, but they've still got the nice white label. These ones would be about £7,000 per bottle,” he revealed.
“Oh, wow!” the guest remarked. “That’s unbelievable, isn’t it?”
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