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Antiques Roadshow guest speechless by true price of £25 charity shop painting

An Antiques Roadshow guest was shocked to discover the value of an oil painting she bought in a charity shop 10 years ago.

Expert Grant Ford was thrilled to discover the artwork by John Cunningham, which depicted a Scottish landscape.

The guest explained she had paid £25 for the signed piece after stopping off at the shop to buy a raincoat for her kids.

However, while pleased with her purchase, she didn't think it was valuable.

But Grant knew otherwise, as he said: I just think that's an amazing bit of luck because this is a very sought-after painting and actually holds quite a lot of value. I can confidently say it's worth £4,000 to £6,000."

An Antiques Roadshow guest was shocked to discover the value of an oil painting she bought in a charity shop (BBC)

Visibly stunned, the guest replied: "Oh wow, that's quite astonishing for £25, I'm glad I bought it", as Grant added: "You could have found a raincoat that day, luckily you found a brilliant painting."

Revealing more detail about the painting, he continued: "This is such an immediate, fluid, colourful painting, I'd love to be able to paint just like this. It really is a confident, colourist painting, now, it's an oil on canvas and it's clearly signed lower right, Cunningham."

It's not the first time a guest has been wowed by a valuation on the BBC show.

One viewer couldn't believe her luck when she rocked up with an ultra-rare drawing of a young girl by Henry Ryland, which was believed to be an original.

Expert Suzanne Zack was quite taken with the piece and its "level of meticulous detail".

The guest paid £25 for the painting (BBC)

The guest explained she had paid 'no more than a few hundred' for the painting and was subsequently stunned to discover its real value.

Explaining a similar model had been sold at auction several months prior, Suzanne said: "I think if that example is anything to go by, this could easily fetch in the region of £30,000."

"Oh, gosh," said the stunned guest as she processed the dramatic revelation.

Meanwhile, a collector on the US version of the show was gobsmacked to discover an old and rare movie item she had acquired was worth a massive five figure sum.

It was a water cooler moment on the hit show when an old movie clapperboard received an eye-watering estimation when the show aired on PBS last month.

The excitable guest explained how she was in possession of a director’s clapperboard from the 1975 horror movie Jaws.

Not only was the clapperboard used on-set of the iconic film, it was held by iconic film director Steven Spielberg.

Giving his verdict on what it might be worth, the expert said: "If this were to come up at auction, I’d put an auction estimate on it of $25,000 to $35,000 on this."

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