Ruby ring
It's an eight carat Burmese cushion-cut ruby (12mm x 14mm) set in 18-karat yellow gold with surrounding diamonds with additional diamonds set in a platinum band.
Value circa £75,000.
It could be a Burmese pigeon's blood ruby. Very, very rare due to the diminishing mines they come from. Worth between £8 million - £12 million.
Jean sold it for £350,000.
Auntie Flo's wedding present for Dom Hayes
A Pantin salamander paperweight. The lamp work is so exquisite that it looks like the salamander is real. Could be worth thousands.
Eleanor's walking stick topper
24 karat gold. Ellie in her nightie. The Rolls-Royce Spirit of Ecstasy. Inspired by actress Eleanor Thornton.
Mary's blue brooch on her turban
A sumptuous blue stone mined in the Santa Maria mines in Brazil in the 1950s.
Mary's Victorian mourning locket
You have a lock of hair of the deceased on one side and the family crest on the other. Made fashionable by Queen Victoria when Prince Albert died.
The painting stolen from Albert Gilbert's home
Hilma af Klint. The first abstract artist. She specialised in automatic drawing and believed you could attain divine wisdom through spiritual intuition. She used seances and worked with a group called 'The Five' channeling spirits and writing down their messages blindfolded.
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Joseph Wright of Derby
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| Bird in an Air Pump |
The painting was of an experiment to see how long this poor bird could survive when he took his air slowly away.
The painting that Charlie Brodeur is in love with
Jacqueline Marval.
Tin box that Jean bought at a vide grenier
Dutch chocolate company circa 1910. Art Revealed app: infrared technology which shows you what's underneath.
Sacred Heart
The remains of Pope Pius VI's heart.
Religious relics are priceless in spiritual value.
Georgian firing glasses
Not original. Lovely copies. Flange-footed and models on Semla, circa 18th century.
They are called firing glasses because when you take a drink and then slam it on the table, they make a gunshot sound.
Footstool purchased at a Didsbury car boot sale
Late 18th century. Worth £2,000.
Cake comb found on unidentified body
Victorian. Sterling silver.
Anna Dumonet's ring
A poison ring. Victorian.
Fabergé Lily of the Valley flower owned by Genevieve Harris
Made with rock crystal, nephrite, gold, pearls and rose diamonds.
Value: over 800,000 euros.
What Robert Coste was clutching
Peacock pendant. 1930s. Mass produced.
Burmese sewing box
Circa 1880.
A chained book
Similar to ones found in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
Playing cards as wedding present for David and George
Originally made for a 17th century French witch, Le Voisin.
Peridot earrings
The ancient Egyptians believed that peridot stones would protect them from night terrors also known very well for their healing qualities.
Ozannes's Perfumery owned by Raffy and Raimund
1940s pressed glass perfume bottle.
Value: 500-1000 euros.
The painting Martin was pointing at
Queen Marie Antoinette of France and her two children walking in the park at Trianon aka The Doomed Queen by Adolf Ulrike Wertmuller (a very famous rococo artist).
Judith's hip flask
Ergo hip flask. Won the British Design Award in 1986. A present from Jeremy.
The Monti Bust
The Veiled Lady by Raffaele Monti.
Gold coin found by a marine biologist during a diving expedition
Charles II 22-carat gold guinea from 1677. Value: at least 2,500 euros.
Alec's knife from his fishing hut
Higonokami knife from the Kanekoma factory in Japan. Higo no Kami means Lord of Higo - an aristocratic title historically given to very powerful samurai.
Fencing sword
Epee de Combat.
Circa 19th century.
Solid silver.
Cufflinks
Real diamond. Platinum. Cartier.
One alone is worth between 10,000-15,000 euros.
Chocolate pot
French regency.
Theodolite
An instrument for measuring vertical and horizontal angles.
Chandelier at Brodeur & White Antiques
Austrian hand-cut crystal.
Worth 2000 euro.
Himalayan calendar
A perpetual display bead calendar.
Very special pre-ordered book
First edition of Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. Price: 6,700 euros. Paid in cash.
Poison pen letters addressed to Fayette Morreau
Written on goatskin parchment paper by Bernard Folle.
Antique cigarette case
Imperial, Russian. Britzen. Blue enamel. Worth 10,000 euros.
Watch worn by waiter
1950s Universal Geneve. Worth 10,000 euros.
Rosary beads
French mother of pearl rosary beads. 1800s.
Gifted to Father Thomas by his mother when he became a novice priest over 30 years ago.
A crate of brandy from 1814
Undaunted was the ship that conveyed Napoleon to his first exile on the Isle of Elba in 1814. This brandy is from that ship.
Worth at least 200,000 euros per bottle.
* Information derived from The Madame Blanc Mysteries *
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