BBC Antiques Roadshow expert halts show and tells guest 'please go home'

Antiques Roadshow expert halts show and tells guest 'please go home'
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A BBC Antiques Roadshow expert has halted the show to make a demand of a guest - after detailing how an item could be worth THOUSANDS. The BBC expert spoke out on a recent edition of the show, which is fronted by Fiona Bruce.

Expert Jon Baddeley urged one guest to take action and admitted one guest was potentially missing out on thousands of pounds. During an appearance at Clissold Park in North London, expert Jon met one guest who presented an arrangement of brightly-coloured music posters from the 1960s.

Jon said: "So you've kindly brought us today a collection of psychedelic rock 'n' roll posters. What I notice immediately is they're all signed by the same artist, how so?" The guest said: "Because I am that artist, adding: "So I grew up just north of San Francisco and I was about 19 when I went to work for the Fillmore Auditorium, and some of these posters were for them."

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Mr Baddeley asked: "What was it like out there? I mean, it must've been really exciting. That was the centre for 'Hippydom', flower power..." The guest said: "Yes, it was. I can remember and I'm afraid I indulged a bit too much."

Mr Baddeley then asked the guest: "The two posters near you, they're similar but slightly different, why's that?" The Antiques Roadshow guest explained: "Well, it was a Blues show. I did this artwork of a complete - Blues musicians at the top, a street scene with people dancing (at the bottom).

"But Bill Graham, who ran the Fillmore Auditorium, had had lots of trouble with the police, and he thought that would be provocative," he continued as he pointed to an illustration of a policeman on the poster. So he and the printer changed the poster. But as far as I know, this is the only copy of the original."

"And then that went to production and around town?" Mr Baddeley asked. The guest explained: "And it is still on t-shirts to this day." He said: "When you talk about value... individually these all are in incredibly good condition, they belong to the artist and they're very rare.

"So they're gonna be worth £200, £300, £400, £500 - maybe even up to £1,000. But the great value is the one at the end because that is one of one, it's the only one known in the world, so that could be worth £2,000 or £3,000." He added: "But more interestingly, you also own the original artwork so please, please, please go home and see if you can find them because they could be worth many thousands each!"