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I have a third hand story about a man who bought a ring for his girlfriend at a yard sale. It was a gaudy piece of crystal on a gold band. The antique dealer wanted to know if the family who had the yard sale was of French ancestry. The gaudy piece of crystal on a gold band has been missing since 1789. It was stolen from Marie Antoinette's personal jewelry box when the French peasants looted the Versailles Palace during the French Revolution.

I will be honest. If I was the wife in the first story the next time I saw my 'late husband' I would have batted him around the ear. Imagine living in modest means scrimping and saving and all that time he was buying silver and donating it to other people. That would make me burn. I am glad my favourite people were on. The mother and son who owned the tip and got all the jewellery. How could anyone throw out all those beautiful pieces!!

To all those people alluding to Mr Hobbs being a criminal, how would you like it if someone did that to a deceased member of your family, it would be nice if you kept your cynicism to yourself.

The story behind the incredible silver story is disgusting. The father's collection represents deprivation for his young family and no doubt great anxiety for his hard working, bill paying wife. That he gave away a piece silver when each of his children was born is twisted. The only difference between the silver and a string of mistresses is that the silver remained and grew in value to finally bring a bit of enjoyment to his wife in the end.

He was a probate clerk, he knew who had what when they died and if it went to auction, where and when. He couldnt show anyone because what he was doing was illegal.

Oh man, how sad about the artist. Sometimes, those whom are the most gifted, tend to also have psychological issues. Is it because they are so sensitive? Idk. But, we definitely still haven’t unlocked the mysteries of mental illness.

This episode is unusual in that it has been edited in a most peculiar and annoying way. All those vignettes with no followup, jumping from one story to another and back to the previous…

I went to an Antiques Roadshow event in Mobile, Alabama a number of years ago, to have an item I had appraised (nothing out of the ordinary), and I bumped into another 'seeker of truth', after exiting the event. He had a number of listeners gathered that were hard pressed to keep from laughing about his object. The appraiser had told him, that it was probably the weirdest and most unique object that he had seen, but he could NOT show it on TV. What was it? They were renovating the grounds around the perimeter of an old pub, that dated to before the Civil War. Apparently, the pub was a bro**el during the war, and the object was a lead cast dil**o complete with teeth marks on it!

Freya is an old soul, for sure. Even the hat she wore, and her serenity, smartness. Very unique young lady.

Anytime I need a 'good' cry, I just pop these ones on and feel happiness for people realizing they have a treasure.

Their father sounds like a real piece of work. Who donates stuff like that while your family is hungry and can barely get by. When he showed them the silver that they hadn’t known about, you can tell they were mad and rightfully so.

I entered a very old part of the attic and to my amazement I discovered a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius so you can imagine my excitement.

Dining with my step daughters family, her uncle offered to show me his coin collection. The family said " don't bother her with your old coins", they laughed at him. I saw the collection and listened to his passion and realised that he had over a million euros in value in his office. He has since died and I have no idea if his family knew what they had.

Wouldn’t hurt the tin workers to return the gifts - bit immoral to hold them

My old man went to one of these without telling any of us. It was somewhere local, on the East Coast. He took a handful of things, one of them a very old chinese ornate fan in a box. He swapped it when he was in Borneo with the Merchant Navy, back in the late 40's, with an ex-pat local for some microscope parts. Anyways, the only thing worth something significant, of all the items he took, was that fan. A couple of grand. Nothing to sniff at, considering the specimen slides he swapped it for cost him just a few quid from a mail order catalogue.

A bit sad and disgusting to think this man kept all the silver under the bed when he could have improved his family’s living situation .I love the wife’s reaction, so British.Just getting on with it.Stiff upper lip et al!!!

An older lady in Brisbane, Australia, a member of the Suffragettes, was at a protest. The powers that be had men with fixed bayonettes against them. Anyway there was a stouch, and in the mellee she drove her hat pin into the rump of the Superintendant's horse. He got bucked off, and broke his arm. He earnt that!

I remember when a painting was brought in and declared to be quite valuable. The host asked what the family was planning to do with it, and was told it certainly wasn't going back in the garage.

The sale of the silver was a touching story ❤his wife going on travels to places she dreamed of was nice 👍I’d never dream of letting my kids go with out anything for a collectables and I’m a deranged collector of antiques lol 😂 some folks roll one way some folks roll the other !