Antiques Roadshow guest refuses to sell despite getting record-breaking £1million valuation

Antiques Roadshow has been on the air for over 40 years and this is one of the only times viewers have witnessed a whopping £1million valuation.

The BBC show many of us used to watch with our grandparents delivered a staggering seven-figure valuation as one brave contestant shockingly refused to cash in back in 2017.

Watch it unfold below:

Antiques expert Geoffrey Munn was on hand to give his verdict on the rare item brought in by a member of the public.

It's honestly something many of us wouldn't look twice at.

The item in hand was a 'lovely' Faberge sculpture of a pear blossom, which belonged to the Worcestershire army regiment.

The guest explained : "It was formed in 1794 to protect the shores against a Napoleonic invasion.

"It was agreed that the regiment should serve only within the United Kingdom.

"However, in 1899 when the Boer War was going badly, it was decided that some of [the regiment] as volunteers would be mobilised.

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"When they left the shores, the Countess of Dudley, whose husband, the Earl of Dudley was a member of the regiment, he was second in command, she presented each and every soldier that went out with a sprig of pear blossom, worked in silk that they were to wear in their hat.

"As a reminder of the county that they had left, the pear blossom emblem of Worcestershire."

He added: "When they returned in 1903, she presented this sprig of pear blossom manufactured by Faberge, it's a lovely piece."

Revealing his valuation, Munn explained: "It certainly is a lovely piece, his looks for all the world like a glass vase and there's a stratagem here that it's filled with water, and this is the meniscus at the top of the water. It's a solid block of what is apparently glass, but it's certainly not, it's stone.

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"It's rock crystal, it's icy cold even on this hot day, and it's immensely difficult to carve. And then we have the original fitted box here which is made of Hollywood, literally the word of the holly tree from Siberia."

He continued: "And then just to get the message across you probably asked Faberge to put a triumphal laurel here in green gold tied with a red and gold bow. I'm going to tell you in my opinion that this is worth £1 million."

As the surrounding audience gasped, the guest was confident in his decision: "I'm supposed to say no, it's not for sale. It certainly isn't for sale." Bold move.

The flower marked the third seven-figure valuation in the show's decades-spanning history.

Impressive, to say the least.