BBC Antiques Roadshow guest in tears as expert refuses to value item over distressing origin
25.02.2024 - 18:13
/ ok.co.uk
Antiques Roadshow expert Mark Smith became rather emotional as he was asked to value a unique item during the show's visit to Newby Hall in Yorkshire. During the show, Mark was asked to value a gold medallion, but was unable to do due to its rather distressing origin. After taking a look at the medallion, which originated from 1955, Mark shared that it had been awarded to people who had lived through the Holocaust and escaped the concentration camps.
Because of its dark history, Mark said that he could not put a value on the gold coin as "there is no price you can put on what someone went through to be awarded that medal". The owner of the medallion, who had recently discovered it following the death of her mum, revealed that it had belonged to her mum's father, but she had no idea why her grandfather had been awarded it. After researching the medal, Mark explained: "So the medal you’ve got is a medal that was made in 1955 and that’s when he’s been given this.
He’s not been awarded this. It’s been given to him as a present, it’s something that he does on a yearly basis as far as I can work out where he’s taking back old soldiers. "And the group in Belgium he has affiliated himself with are a very rare group of people because they are concentration camps survivors.
Now this is in Belgium, in Breendonk just outside Brussels, and like all other concentration camps, it’s just as horrible. "It had two gas chambers, it had firing post to execute people, it had gallows to hang people and it had torture chambers and it’s still there. Now your medallion is the 10th anniversary medal for the liberation of concentration camps and they were given to people, Belgians who had been in concentration camps, so the medal you actually have
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