Antiques Roadshow expert made 'redundant' by guest until price leaves her 'speechless'

WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Antiques Roadshow.

An Antiques Roadshow expert joked that he was "going home" as a guest beat him to it when it came to providing key details for a stunning brooch.

The BBC daytime series shot another exciting episode at Brodie Castle in Scotland with expert Geoffrey Munn on hand to meet with guests from all over the country.

One of which presented him with a beautiful brooch, leading him to state: "The sun's coming out and here we see gold and we see rubies and we see diamonds. But what does it mean?"

Explaining its provenance, she said: "So it's a brooch which I inherited via my mother from my great-aunt.

"They come from Silesia which is today, southern Poland, and they had to flee from the Russians during the end of the war and they made it over to west Germany.

"She was cook and housekeeper to Prince Ernst August of Hanover for 37 years."

"Well this is a very typical gift from a royal personage, there's no question at all", Munn remarked.

"And the hallmarks have revealed, and I think you've rather cleverly found this out before me, haven't you? And so, what does it tell you?"

The guest went on to provide some key facts including that the piece of jewellery was Russian, had a 56 Kokoshnik mark which meant it was 14 carat gold and had an assayer's mark of Ivan Lebetkin in late 19th and early 20th Century Moscow.

Clearly impressed, Munn joked: "I'm almost redundant! I think I'm going home! You found it all out."

"It took a lot of squinting and turning to make that out", she laughed.

He continued: "Well you're a very expert squinter in that regard because you've got it all right and the style of it is absolutely typical of pre-Revolutionary Russian style.

"And then as soon as you say pre-Revolutionary Russian style, then one thinks of one particular maker, which of course, was Karl Faberge.

"And everybody wants to hear that name because, for context and for value."

Unfortunately for the guest, the brooch wasn't actually the work of Faberge as Munn stated: "I think it's probably one of his competitors, because I've spent my whole life looking at his work and there's something about the handwriting of it that isn't quite him but nonetheless, it's de l'epoque.

"It comes from exactly the same period, exactly the same place, with exactly the same clientele.

"So that is a rose by any other name that smells as sweet, but perhaps not as sweet financially, which is the real rub."

"But I really do mean it. The craftsmanship is the same, the quality of it is the same."

And when it came to sharing the price, Munn had an impressive figure in mind: "So what's it worth? Well, I'm going to say £7,000, £8,000."

Automatically, the guest's eyes widened and her jaw dropped at the figure which made onlookers gasp.

She exclaimed: "Speechless! I never believed that. Wow."

"You've got to believe it", the expert teased as she thanked him, covering her face in shock.

The guest questioned: "No, really?", as Munn laughed: "Yes, really."

Antiques Roadshow is available to watch on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.