A guest on Antiques Roadshow was floored when he learned the value of his film memorabilia collection. 

Ron brought along prized possessions he had saved from a skip from his time working at Elstree Studios to the BBC show.

The grandfather surprised Antiques Roadshow expert Jon Baddeley with a Darth Vader helmet from the Star Wars set.

He also brought along an axe from The Shining and a medallion from Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark.

His film props were given a shocking valuation by Jon, totalling to around £300,000, in an episode that originally aired back in 2017 and aired again on Sunday.

Ron explained how the axe from Jack Nicholson’s The Shining came into his possession after spending 14 months on the set. 

Ron brought along prize possessions he had saved from a skip from his time working at Elstree Studios to the BBC show

The grandfather surprised Antiques Roadshow expert Jon Baddeley with a Darth Vader helmet from the Star Wars set

His film props were given a shocking valuation by Jon, totalling to around £300,000, in an episode that originally aired back in 2017

‘It went right through the door and got caught on the other side. When they pulled it out, it damaged the edge there, it became loose so it couldn’t be used again. I was going to make a fibreglᴀss one to copy, so they could use it safely,’ he said.    

Ron was also given the Darth Vader mask to refurbish but ended up keeping it when props were being thrown into a skip at the end of filming.

‘This [the mask] came back to me to be refurbished, but I was waiting for the helmet which is missing. So I just put this to one side and the film eventually wound up, cleared up and everything was being thrown in the skip. So I said ‘I’ll save that’,’ he explained.

Ron acquired the medallion from Indiana Jones in a similar way, he explained: ‘It came back to me after the film and they said, ‘Here Ron, look after that’ so I looked after it.’

He also kept the axe, which Ron said was ‘no good anymore because it’s broken’ and he decided to hold on to the props when he cleared out his workshop. 

Jon went on to value the items, and estimated the medallion at between £60,000 to £100,000, and the axe at £40,000 to £60,000.

Ron was also given the Darth Vader mask to refurbish but ended up keeping it when props were being thrown into a skip at the end of filming

Gesturing to the Darth Vader mask said, ‘The most iconic evil monster ever produced arguably, Darth Vader, known world wide, so what’s that worth? If it should come to auction, £150,000 to £200,000, so what does that make? A quarter of a million is that?’

Ron looked shocked by the figure and smiled as he quipped: ‘Quite nice’.

Another episode saw two historic plates stun Antiques Roadshow experts after being carried to the BBC show in their owner’s handbag and sold for more than £20,000.

The blue and yellow Delftware plates – one of which has a crack running across the middle – depict King James II and a Chinese figure.

The rare seventeenth century artefacts sold for £12,600 and £7,560, including buyers’ premiums, at Woolley and Wallis auctioneers in Salisbury, Wiltshire on February 5.

Unaware of their spectacular worth, the owner brought the decorative plates to Antiques Roadshow in 2014 in her handbag – and said they had been hanging in the hallway of her husband’s family home for years.

She broke down in tears once their jaw-dropping value was revealed by ceramic expert John Sandon, who called them ‘as rare as you can get’.

Another episode saw two historic plates stun Antiques Roadshow experts after being carried to the BBC show in their owner’s handbag and sold for more than £20,000 

She broke down in tears once their jaw-dropping value was revealed by ceramic expert John Sandon, who called them ‘as rare as you can get’ 

Speaking on the show, the owner said: ‘I remember them on the wall of my husband’s parent’s house and traditionally in the family they were said to be very valuable.

‘But no one else seemed to know anything else about them and in due course they came to my husband.

‘When I asked about them, he said all he knew was that they came from his mother’s family.’

Antiques Roadshow airs Sundays on BBC One and is available to stream on iPlayer.