If you've only just joined us, you may have missed the one where one of our senior vintage experts Antony Charman went up against our metal testing gun. Courtesy of the History Channel.
Well, once the cameras stopped rolling I followed Antony around like some kind of obsessed fan asking question after question. Want the inside scoop? Read on, I’ve got you covered.
Antony: Since James Bond introduced me to it ten years ago :p
A: Ah the lovely Basket Weave clock — well that’s many many years of experience my dear. No, really it’s all about the touch and feel of the item.
A: No is the short answer.
A: It’s very rare, one of only 5,000 coronation medals ever made and produced in gold. Very rare.
A: Because it had a great big silver hallmark on it! It had a lion on it.
A: No, it did have a hallmark, it was the basket weave clock that didn’t have a hallmark.
A: Because generally real pearls are gritty to the teeth, you know that ugh feeling.
A: Yeah, you can feel the sand on it, that’s what it is, the sand on them.
A: Nah, not really, we don’t mind.
A: I felt elation, pride, joy. I felt like ecstatic, that I’d beaten the gun. No it was just I knew I was going to beat it. I just have superior appraisal skills.
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