BBC Antiques Roadshow viewers have been left feeling dismayed after expert Mark Hill gave a notably low valuation to an incredible collection of never seen photos of the Rolling Stones.
This week’s instalment see’s the Roadshow travel to Alexandra Gardens in Cardiff in a rerun of a beloved episode from last year.
Amid vintage Welsh rugby shirts and medals from the Napoleonic Wars, Hill’s attention was drawn to a collection of memorabilia from music iconic The Rolling Stones.
A guest had brought in an extensive collection of posters, scrapbooks and other paraphernalia from when he booked the legendary group at the very beginning of their career.
Hill marvelled at the photos in particular
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“I was trying to raise money for a sports and social club of the company called Nelson’s Silk in Lancaster… People who didn’t know who they were!” he explained.
The guest revealed the band’s style was so new that punters at the Morecambe gig were unsure how to dance.
“You were right there at the beginning of the most iconic bands probably in the world,” Hill marvelled.
The expert was most interested in a collection of photos the guest had brought of the Stones from the event.
The photos show The Rolling Stones at one of their first gigs
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Hill gave the collection a valuation of £2000
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“I’ll take my chance and take some photos,” the guest recalled thinking.
He tantalisingly added: “This is the first time they’ve been seen anywhere.”
After establishing the photo negatives were somewhere in a drawer, Hill made the guest promise he would locate them as soon as he returned home.
Hill gushed about the importance of the “unpublished, candid shots of one of the first concerts the Rolling Stones ever performed”.
Viewers were outraged over what appraisal, claiming the collection had been ‘seriously undervalued’
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The excited appraiser then revealed he expected the incredible collection to fetch £2,000 at auction.
Viewers of Sunday’s repeat were quick to flood social media with outrage over the valuation – claiming it was far too low.
One wrote on X: “#antiquesroadshow those never seen before early photos of the Rolling Stones were seriously undervalued in my opinion. £2,000 for the negatives!”
“So £1,500 for a book for the Hughes family but only £2,000 for memorabilia about one of the biggest and best bands in creation. Baffling. #antiquesroadshow,” another fumed.
A third raged: “All that blustering and gushing. £2,000 really!? #antiquesroadshow.”
