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Auctioneer Mark Gilding speaks to the BBC's Dominic Hale about the discovery of the brooch
A brooch by the Victorian designer and architect William Burges is expected to make up to £10,000 when it goes up for auction in Leicestershire later.
The brooch featured on BBC One's Antiques Roadshow when jewellery expert Geoffrey Munn showed sketches of what he called his "most wanted" items. Jill Cousins, from Market Harborough, spotted a brooch she owned among the items pictured.
She had planned to sell it at a local market two days after the show.
But instead, she was invited to appear on the Antiques Roadshow in Birmingham after she took the brooch to the auctioneers Gildings, who contacted the show's producers.
There she was told that if she had sold the the Victorian piece cheaply at the market as planned she would almost certainly have lost out on thousands of pounds.
A spokesman for Gildings Auctioneers said the silver brooch was probably made by Burges for the wedding of his close friend John Pollard Seddon and his wife-to-be Margaret.
Overwhelming find The brooch is engraved with the initials "J.P.M.S." and has four turquoise forget-me-knots with a central red cabochon garnet heart.
Mark Gilding said: "It was all extremely exciting and Geoffrey Munn was overwhelmed to see something for which he had been looking for so long.
"The brooch had been inherited by Mrs Cousins' mother from her old primary school teacher 20 years before she gave it to her daughter. Neither of them liked it very much at that time."
He added: "William Burges is such a highly regarded designer and architect, anything by him creates tremendous interest and items of jewellery are extremely rare, we hope it will attract great attention when it is offered for sale."
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