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Liverpool Echo
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Christopher Megrath

Man blown away after taking £8 vase to Antiques Roadshow in Liverpool

A Liverpool antique from the Ming Dynasty was valued at thousands of pounds.

BBC's Antiques Roadshow made a stop off in Liverpool and invited people to bring along their trinkets and valuables for valuation. Housed in Sefton Park's Palm House, hundreds flooded through the doors to see what their old collectables were worth.

Chinese ceramics expert Lars Tharpe was on hand to give a professional insight into the array of items. After a man brought to the table a green vase, which he admitted he only paid £8 for and had no idea of its actual value, he was left in awe after Tharp's valuation sat in the thousands.

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