An Antiques Roadshow guest was taken aback by the eye-watering value of an ‘ugly’ brooch that she had inherited. 

Expert Geoffrey Munn was presented with an accessory that had been pᴀssed down through the family to a guest on an episode of the popular BBC show. 

‘You brought me a brooch with two ugly old men and a pig,’ he exclaimed.

The hand-carved cameo brooch featured an ancient pattern of a ‘composite demon, often with legs called a gryllus’.

Despite describing the trinket as ‘odd’, the guest said she ‘loved’ it and ‘always thought it was really pretty’.

Geoffrey was impressed with the history and detail of the item and valued the small brooch at a whopping £7,000.

Expert Geoffrey Munn, left,was presented with an accessory that had been pᴀssed down through the family to a guest on an episode of the popular BBC show

Despite describing the trinket as ‘odd’, the guest said she ‘loved’ it and ‘always thought it was really pretty’

Geoffrey was impressed with the history and detail of the item and valued the small brooch at a whopping £7,000 

He explained: ‘When these things turn up on the open market, they’re collected just as avidly as they were in the past. So there will be fierce compeтιтion for this object, for its subject matter and its sophistication. 

‘So I’ve got no hesitation at all in valuing it for £7,000.’

The guest appeared shocked by the valuation and laughed in disbelief while the nearby crowd clapped.

‘I don’t know what to say, wow. No I don’t think we should tell my mother about it at all,’ she joked. 

‘I just can’t quite believe it to be honest, it’s been sitting in a drawer for so long. We haven’t known anything about it so I’m quite overwhelmed to be honest.

‘My mum is just going to be completely blown away because she won’t have believed it was worth anything I don’t think,’ the guest added.

The expert had determined the brooch may be Italian and was crafted in the late 16th to early 17th Century. 

The guest appeared shocked by the valuation and laughed in disbelief while the nearby crowd clapped

The expert had determined the brooch may be Italian and was crafted in the late 16th to early 17th Century. He described how the pearl and gold frame was from around 1840

He described how the pearl and gold frame was from around 1840. 

Another shocking valuation was given to a guest on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow earlier this month.

Two historic plates that stunned Antiques Roadshow experts after being carried to the BBC show in their owner’s handbag have 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.

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