Antiques Roadshow host Fiona Bruce, 54, welcomed antique experts and guests alike to Media City at Salford in Manchester, with viewers bringing along their treasures for valuation.
Jewellery expert Susan Rumfitt was on hand to offer some advice and wisdom to guests who had brought along their treasured regalia to the BBC show.
With their Edwardian gold bracelet presented immaculately in its case, Susan asked the guest: “What lovely piece of jewellery you’ve brought in today. Tell me how it came into your collection?”
The guest replied: “I was given to me by my aunt on my 21st birthday and she just said it was passed to her on her 21st birthday.”
Susan then asked: “Who did she receive it from originally?” to which the guest stated: “It was bought by my great-grandfather as a gift to his wife who he loved dearly.”
The jewellery expert went on to add: “Do you know what sort of area of business they were in or the lifestyle that they had?”
Explaining how the bracelet had come to be in her family's possession, the guest said: “My great-grandfather was a mill owner in Oldham on the cotton mill and we know he travelled in Europe and we have a Russian passport somewhere that he was issued so he could travel freely in Russia but we don’t know why he went there.”
Going into the specifics of the antique, Susan commented: “The bracelet, because of you saying he traveled quite a bit, there’s an element of this which has a bit more of a continental feel then perhaps being made in England or Britain at the time and I say that because of the colour of the gold.
“It’s a lovely soft, gentle gold. Obviously, it’s got this beautiful sort of feather work design all the way down and then set with what we call rose cut
