CURSE OF FIONA.Byline: Stuart Maconie SADLY we will not be seeing the moment when a collector is told on Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow is a British human interest television show in which antiques appraisers travel to various regions of the United Kingdom and appraise antiques brought in by local residents. It has been running since 1979. that the bottle he had spent over a grand on was, in fact, an empty Tesco's olive oil olive oil, pale yellow to greenish oil obtained from the pulp of olives by separating the liquids from solids. Olive oil was used in the ancient world for lighting, in the preparation of food, and as an anointing oil for both ritual and cosmetic purposes. bottle circa 2008. Presenter Fiona Bruce Fiona Bruce (born 25 April, 1964 in Singapore) is a British journalist and television presenter in the United Kingdom. Since joining the BBC in 1989, she has gone on to present many programmes for the corporation including the Ten O'Clock News, Real Story and revealed that the man's blushes will be spared. This has now become my second favourite antique mix-up story. Nothing can beat the case of the supposed Roman sestertius coin, "minted between AD135 and AD138" exhibited in a South Shields museum in 1971. However, Miss Fiona Gordon, aged nine, pointed out that it was, in fact, a token given away free by a soft drinks firm and thus the dating was in her view, almost 2,000 years out. The museum admitted eventually "we construed the letter 'R' on the coin to mean 'Roma'. In fact it stood for 'Robinsons'". Moral of the story, antiques experts, is... get your eyes tested, and avoid girls called Fiona. |
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