Antiques Roadshow guest receives staggering appraisal for gift he received ... trends now
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An Antiques Roadshow guest was left stunned after he discovered the appraised value for a gift he received for taking care of show dogs in college.
The guest had brought a written and signed sonnet by legendary 1800s author, poet and playwright Oscar Wilde that had been gifted to him by a woman he worked for when he was studying in university.
He told Martin Gammon, an appraiser that while he was being gifted the antique, the woman told him that it had been owned by her father-in-law, Christian Gauss, to whom Wilde had signed the poem.
'She approached me one day and she said, "I know you're an English major, you'd like this" and she handed it to me,' he said at the show.
The guest had brought a written and signed sonnet by legendary 1800s author Oscar Wilde that had been gifted to him by a woman he worked for when he was studying in university
He told Martin Gammon, an appraiser, that while he was being gifted the antique, the woman told him that it had been owned by her father-in-law, Christian Gauss, to whom Wilde had signed the poem
Despite the manuscript being titled 'Ideal Love: A Sonnet,' the auctioneer told viewers that it was instead Wilde's more popular poem,
