Antiques Roadshow guest breaks down in tears after blanket from his house helps pay off mortgage

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One guest headed along to the Antiques Roadshow with a blanket he said was kept "over the back of a chair" in his home - but he was nearly knocked off his feet when he was told how much it was worth.Ted Kuntz said he wasn't sure the soft furnishing was worth anything but thought he would bring it along anyway, and expert Donald Ellis was visibly excited when he laid eyes on the striped blue, white, and brown cosy item.

Donald asked: "Did you notice when you showed this to me I kind of stopped breathing a little bit?"Before adding: "Do you have a sense at all of what you're looking at here?"Ted began to weep as Donald added: "Are you a wealthy man?

Well sir, I'm still a little nervous here. On a really bad day, this textile would be worth $350,000 [£274,000]. On a good day, it's about half a million dollars." A stunned Ted replied: "I had no idea!

It was laying on the back of a chair." The blanket was a Navajo Ute blanket that dated back to around the 1850s. Ted said that the blanket was given to his grandmother's foster father by Kit Carson, a US frontiersman.