Antiques Roadshow expert's huge valuation of penknife leaves guest 'shook to ground'

dailystar.co.uk:

Antiques Roadshow was shocked at the value of a 48-blade penknife given to him by his dad.His parent had left him the piece as an heirloom and he took it onto the show to be valued by an expert.“It’s an exhibition piece,” the expert explained on Sunday night’s (September 19) repeated episode of the BBC One show.This meant that although the piece is functional, the primary reason for its creation was to exhibit the manufacturing prowess of the company who created it.“Now, I say blades because of course, there is a massive variety of different tools on this.

There’s everything from scissors, to bone saws – I mean the sky is the limit with this really,” he continued.He went on: “While this item has 48-blades, they actually made them with up to.