Agatha Christie's Precious Jewels Auctioned For An Unbelievable Price | Antiques Roadshow
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- All valuations were correct at the time of broadcast. An Agatha Christie fan goes on an adventure of her own when she acquires a trunk that belonged to the famous writer. Inside were a set of jewels which are far more valuable than the £120 she initially put in. Hugh Scully and the experts from Antiques Roadshow take a look at some fantastic antiques and the history and stories surrounding them. This clip was filmed in various locations between 2010 to 2014.
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I remember this story so very well. I just cannot believe that nobody at the auction house bothered to have a look inside the trunk. It belonged to Agatha Christie after all.
And she quibbled about the £20 auction fee - happy, very happy for her in the end. Well done.
Good For Her! I am sure Agatha would be delighted!
if only they could have found a photo of Agatha wearing them......
It would have been NICE to see ALL of her haul from the strongbox.
Yeah, it would have been nice indeed.. with all the gold sovereigns coins and all the other much more valuable jewelries.. it is a treasure box! But I think she kept most of it..
Maybe it's just me, but I would have kept everything.
Me too
Especially the ring
I can't believe she sold it. I sure would have kept it.
Me too. Couldn't have sold it.
Me too, Would be fab to wear those gem's.
Fabulous!
Lucky lady! Good stuff!
What a delightful Story this is!
Amazing story!
Wow, that was some buy.
did the original auction actually advertise the trunk as belonging to Christie?..if so surely it would have been worth more than 100 pounds and why had no one looked inside and seen the box?...then she didnt open the strongbox that was inside for 12 months...(no doubt gave it a shake) for the simple reason "fate would take a hand one day".. and bobs ur uncle there 40k of jewellery inside....seems to good to be true
I cast doubt that the auction house would leave a locked strong box inside the chest. So too did Bonhams because they didnt incude the Agatha Christie link in the subsequent auction of these items.
I thought the same thing. It is not like Bonhams auctions off in the same manner of "Storage Wars". Something is not quite right here.
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@@gemee1 You haven't a clue as to what you are on about. Just per speculation!
Just because we didn’t see it, doesn’t mean they didn’t cut it out!
The description for the chest in the original auction was "A small canvas trunk with leather corners the sides bearing initials 'C.M.M.', 55cm. wide. (now with interior strongbox)." They knew the strongbox was in the chest at sale, and Bonhams lists the link to Christie on the lot page for these objects as well as the original description I noted. No doubt cast by Bonhams.
@@capitalistgeneral Do you know who C.M.M. refers to?
Bonhams failed to mention Agatha Christie connection.. Could have gotten up to 50
@@mrb8993 Yar har har 🏴☠️🦜 😁
It probably was included in the advert or the catalog.
A locksmith might have saved the strong box...
Dame Agatha loved jewellery - and bought a huge amount of diamond jewellery over the years. I'm not at all surprised that this brooch and ring were overlooked by the auctioneers who originally organised the auction from the Greenway house contents. Like many artistic, eccentric types, dear old Agatha was a bit of a hoarder. I'm sure she stuffed all sorts of valuable fripperies in drawers and trunks, and simply forgot they were there - because she had so many! I read a biography about her, and towards the end of her long life, when she was becoming dottier every day, she once went down to dinner to sit down with Max and her daughter and grandson. They were all astonished and rather horrified to see that 83 year old Agatha had cut big chunks of her hair off with a pair of nail scissors, and had pinned all of her diamond brooches all over her frock. She was proudly wearing about 35 diamond brooches! I wonder if this lady's diamond buckle brooch was among them?
Crazy that the mystery trunk only cost 120 quid. Christie was a huge name then and now, BBC obviously didn't promote the auction very well!
Can't have been that much of a fan.
...of course, without mentioning the carats weight of the diamonds, and the quality of the stones, it feels as if this is not much more than an auction room advertising, unless more information is to be expected of course...
Wow
I hope she was taking a video when the worker put the crowbar to the strongbox sp that the proof would be strong.
A ring with diamonds that size only £3.000??? Must be at least 4 carats. Is she joking or what? Not less than 6 or 8.000
If I needed the money, to feed my family,well that's different, so apparently she wasn't a Fan.😮
She could still have the trunk
Really stupid auction house that didn't look for what's in the boxes...stupid LAZY staff
So she wanted something that belonged to Agatha Christie and once she has them she sells them. Ok, got it....... not.
RRRRR BUT SHES STILL GOT THE TRUNK BOOM BOOM
You beat to it with the same sentiment.....
@@bigissue9179 Perhaps so, but she was so very keen to have something that Agatha Christie owned. Yes, she owned the trunk, but one would surely have thought that she would have kept the two things she would have not only worn, but also handled and enjoyed as well and not just once, but many times. That makes the jewelry personal as well as valuable. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that Miss Christie would not have had any sort of emotional connection with the trunk. It still makes no sense to me.
well 😂 she expected to have £130 worth of agatha Christie trinket, not £40,000 worth of things.... I'm sure she was happy to have it but she need the money more than the trinket, unless she was already a millionaire and didn't need the money.
@@Satu-zs7gm Exactly! I don't even understand why that has to be explained to some people.
Looks like she really needs the cash
A freaking long boat! Does she know you can rent them, and keep Agatha Christie’s jewellery? If it is verified, as Agatha Christie’s jewellery.