An Antiques Roadshow guest said her husband would "drop dead" when he found out the huge value of her inherited pottery collection. The popular PBS series, filmed in Houston, featured a guest with an impressive collection that left expert Nick Dawes and his team astounded. The expert said: "When you came to our table and said: 'I have a collection of Wedgwood Fairyland Lustres', we thought maybe we'd see three, four or five pieces but as I understand it, you've brought 15 pieces.
The guest corrected him, stating she had actually brought in 17 pieces. Nick responded: "And we couldn't get them all on the table but what we've done is put together a selection of what we think are some of the more interesting pieces that represent the whole variety of Wedgwood Fairyland Lustres. She explained: "The Wedgwood was given to us by my husband's grandmother.
"Before she passed away, she told her two grandsons that they could have a collection of hers. "She collected glass, pottery, all sorts of different items and my husband picked this and so it's been with us ever since. "Dawes then delved into the history of the guest's collection, saying: "This is a fabulous collection and when she put it together, she clearly had a good eye, as we say, reports .
"If she bought it in the 1960s or the 1970s, she was able to buy it at a fraction of the value that it has today. Wedgwood was a famous name in the history of English ceramics and there are 200 years of Wedgwood production. "But Fairyland Lu.
