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Antiques Roadshow guest stupefied by eye-watering value of old incense burner

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Antiques Roadshow got tense when an incense burner was brought in for valuation during the BBC show's visit to Compton Verney in Warwickshire.The guest who brought in the antique from China she said had been in her family "forever" although she had no idea of its actual worth.Expert Lars Tharp questioned the guest about the rare find on the show on Sunday night (March 21) and came to a mind-boggling sum when he valued it."The stand is very Chinese, you’ve got these dragons coming out of clouds," he says."There is a clue for what it is used for and I hope that you might be tempted to what it is intended to do, which is to fill it with sand and then go down to our local hippy store and get joss sticks."Lars told the guest the incense burner.

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