DREAM DOLLS FIND

SHoWN a box of immaculate 300-year-old dolls in tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire, last year, the Roadshow experts were amazed. But when the anonymous owner let slip she had the whole doll’s house at home, expert Fergus Gambon jumped in his car and raced off to see it.

only a handful of dolls’ houses from the early 1700s had ever survived and this one was utterly exquisite.

Gambon, who valued it at £150,000, described it as ‘one of the most important english baby houses in existence’.