BBC Antiques Roadshow guest gobsmacked by 'unbelievable' value of whisky left in loft for 50 years
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAn Antiques Roadshow guest was lost for words after discovering the "unbelievable" value of three whisky bottles she'd had in her loft for 50 years.
During the latest edition of the BBC One show on Sunday evening (October 9), a woman brought three bottles Johnnie Walker whiskies for expert John Foster to value.
Talking about how she came to own the alcohol, she said: "They've been in my possession for 50 years, but they came into our house in the 1950s.
My grandfather bought them home one day to the horror of my grandmother and said, "look what I got." READ MORE: BBC Antiques Roadshow guest stunned as he's told charity shop purchase of less than £8 is worth thousands "The landlord was closing his pub down and said, 'would you like these bottles?' And he said, 'yes.' And she said, 'what am I going to do with those?' They've been put away ever since." But it turns out her grandmother's dismay at her husband bringing the bottles home and then hiding them in the loft wasn't the best idea. "So when you say they've been put away in the attic, that's not great because obviously, you have got some evaporation that's going on here.
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