Antiques Roadshow's highest-ever valued item and it will shock you

Antiques Roadshow regularly wows viewers as hopeful guests discover whether they are sitting on fortunes.

Over the years the BBC favourite has served up plenty of big surprises, from disappointments as people are told that heirlooms they thought might be valuable are higher in sentimental value than pounds, to delight as people discover that knick-knacks from their attics could be worth thousands.

For a lucky few, their visit to the long-running programme proves to be potentially life-changing, with some items reaching the one million pound mark.

In 2008 a maquette of the Angel of the North by Antony Gormley was taken on the show, which is hosted by Fiona Bruce. It ended up being valued at £1 million, becoming the first ever item in Antiques Roadshow's history to be valued that high.

Then in 2018 another treasure reached the same lofty seven-figure height, when a Faberge flower taken on to the programme was also priced at £1 million.

However, the highest-valued item ever on the show was actually worth even more than a million pounds.

In an episode in 2016, silver expert Alastair Dickenson was asked to appraise an actual FA Cup.

The huge silver trophy was taken onto the television show by presenter Gabby Logan and Leeds United’s former manager and 1972 FA Cup winner Eddie Gray.

It turned out that cup had been made in 1911, although Dickenson felt the fact that it was engraved with a pattern of grapes and vines suggested it might "have been used as a wine cooler or a champagne cooler".

"I'm sure it's had plenty of champagne inside over the years," Gabby agreed, as the TV star laughed: "More than you and I could possibly think of, I think!"

After Dickenson outlined the cup's history and how it was likely to have been made in Yorkshire, Gabby asked him: "Is it possible to put a value on something like that, with all that history that you've just described?"

The expert replied: "This is probably, along with maybe the Wimbledon Trophy, the most famous cup in the country.

"So, I think, quite comfortably, this has got to be worth well over a million pounds."

"The highest value piece of silver I have ever valued on the Antiques Roadshow," he added, as Gabby exclaimed: "Wow!"

Antiques Roadshow airs on BBC One at 8pm on Sunday October 12.