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Antiques Roadshow guest astounded at value of painting bought for just £1.50
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dailystar.co.ukAntiques Roadshow and explained that she inherited it from her father, a Dutchman who came over to the UK during the war.Expert John Foster recognised the painter and asked how the guest's father came to acquire the artwork.She said on the BBC programme: "In the 50s he was managing a restaurant in a very old building and decided that coffee bars were all the fashion and he thought he would create a coffee bar with a nautical theme."So he filled it with barrels and atlases and ships lanterns and then he went looking for a painting and found a dealer who sold it to him for 30 shillings."He got it home and found that it was called the Flying Dutchman which was the name of the coffee bar."John was fascinated by the details of the sailors on.
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