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Antiques Roadshow expert amazed by spy radio found in garden shed worth five figures

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Antiques Roadshow expert was thrilled when a guest bought in a World War Two spy radio that had been sneakily disguised as a toolbox.In Sunday's episode (July 18) of the BBC One show filmed at Kenilworth Castle in the Midlands, expert Mark Smith gave the radio an eye-popping valuation and revealed some fascinating facts about it.The guest told Mark: "It was in one of my father in law's barns or sheds, we were just sorting through it when he died and I saw it and thought, 'That will do, it would be a lovely toolbox.'"Mark then opened up the box to reveal all the wires inside.He said: "Technically, this is called a Mk 3 B2 radio, known as the B2."And it was used by something called the special operation executive."So in 1940, Churchill said,.

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