Antiques Roadshow’s record £1m Fabergé
A FABERGE flower gifted to an army regiment has become the most expensive ever Antiques Roadshow find after receiving a valuation of £1 million.
It was inspected on June 21 when the BBC was filming at the Black Country Living Museum, in Dudley, West Midlands, with the show due to be screened this autumn.
Simon Shaw, the executive producer, described it as “one of the most significant jewellery finds in 40 years” of the programme.
After reports of the find emerged, it was recognised by Tatiana Fabergé, the Swiss-based great-granddaughter of founder Peter Carl Fabergé, who knew it was a botanical study created by the company in imperial Russia during the early 20th century. She said: “Look in the book Fabergé Flowers, there is the exact same flower, which is in the Queen’s Own Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry Charitable Trust.”