An amateur jewelry enthusiast was amazed when a Victorian brooch she bought for just £20 ($25) at an antiques market in the 1980s sold at auction for £11,780 ($15,000), including fees. The piece was identified as a rare treasure on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshowcausing jewelry expert Geoffrey Munn to exclaim “my pulse is racing” at the exceptional discovery.
On the show, Flora Steel described how she chanced upon the brooch in 1988 and was drawn to its eye-catching and colorful design formed of precious stones such as lapis lazuli, orange coral, and green malachite. It would be decades, however,