An Antiques Roadshow guest was left gobsmacked after they found out how much a an old biscuit barrell was worth.

The Derbyshire woman appeared on the BBC show with a piece of silverware that she was using in her home as a fruit bowl.

During the episode, antiques expert Duncan Campbell revealed that the bowl was actually a 130-year-old biscuit barrel.

The item was predominantly used during the 19th century for tea parties hosted by ladies in society.

After not knowing its history and having been used for very little time, the guest was shocked by what it was worth.

It was revealed that the dish, which was initially passed down from her grandmother, was now worth between £200 and £300.

An Antiques Roadshow guest was left gobsmacked after they found out how much a an old biscuit barrell was worth 

The Derbyshire woman appeared on the BBC show with a piece of silverware that she was using in her home as a fruit bowl 

After his inspection, Duncan revealed: ‘This was made about 120-130 years ago, at a time when having a posh tea party was quite the thing.

In shock, the guest replied: ‘Well… I would not have imagined it was for biscuits.’

Duncan explained that the item was a ‘biscuit barrel’ and would be typically filled with macarons or other decadent sweet treats meant to ‘enchant’ tea party attendees.

The item featured three delicate flaps that flipped up to resemble a closed lotus.

When each was pulled down, the item had three extra layers acting as lids for each metal petal.

And this is not the only bowl that had its owner shocked on the show. 

Previously on the American version of the show, a guest was stunned to learn the wooden bowl she bought on her honeymoon is worth thousands of dollars.

In the resurfaced clip, a woman brought a distressed wooden bowl to a 2017 Antiques Roadshow event in Fort Worth, Texas.

But after being inspected by antique expert Duncan Campbell, it was that her passed-down furniture was a 130-year-old biscuit barrel

The dish, which was initially passed down from her grandmother, was now worth between £200 and £300

And this is not the only bowl that had its owner shocked on the show. Previously on the American version of the show, a guest was stunned to learn the wooden bowl she bought on her honeymoon is worth thousands of dollars 

She purchased the bowl she believed to be a Pacific Northwest creation 22 years earlier on her wedding trip to the Hawaiian island of Kauai

She purchased the bowl she believed to be a Pacific Northwest creation 22 years earlier on her wedding trip to the Hawaiian island of Kauai. 

Appraiser Anthony Slayter-Ralph brought the woman to tears when he revealed the item she paid £310 for is worth tens of thousands of dollars.

‘This is my wedding gift. Makes me want to cry because of the history of where I got it and how I got it,’ she said.

The dark wooden bowl bares its age with some discoloration and features a unique decorative end with a hollowed out face. 

The appraiser determined the bowl is made out of spruce and was likely made by Native Alaskans in the beginning of the 19th century or even earlier in the 1780s or 1790s.

‘It’s quite extraordinary. I mean, I have never seen, and my colleagues also, one that has this head fixed on the top,’ Anthony said.

‘The Eskimos don’t really do decorative art. Everything they do has a function. And they also believed that each of these objects has a spirit in it, the yua, and I think that the head probably represents the spirit of the bowl. 

‘Mostly, you see these as finger puppets, and it’s a strange notion. I mean, maybe this is meant to look like a mask and this is the body. One is inclined to think that it would be ceremonial. I mean, we don’t really know.

The woman to tears when he revealed the item she paid £310 for is worth tens of thousands of dollars

The dark wooden bowl features a unique decorative end with a hollowed out face is made out of spruce and was likely made by Native Alaskans in the beginning of the 19th century

‘The back, you can also see, it’s actually hollowed out, which makes me think it is a mask in miniature. Very nice grooved carvings around the side here, traces of pigment. There’s been some damage, which has been repaired. I don’t know when– before you got it, I think.’

Anthony determined the bowl is worth between £14,200 and $15,800 and with more research could go for much higher at auction.

This valuation brought the woman to tears, leaving her with very few words to say about the piece that carries so much value to her heart.

‘Oh my goodness,’ the woman gasped. ‘Oh my Lord.’