Antiques Roadshow fans ‘scream at their screens’ as expert ‘destroys’ rare scrapbook

Antiques Roadshow fans were left ‘screaming’ at their screens after an expert ‘ruined’ a guest’s rare scrapbook.

In a repeat of the broadcast on Sunday evening, stunned viewers quickly saw the accident of expert Fuchsia Voremberg.

A woman went to Salisbury Cathedral to see how much her great-uncle’s book was worth, the book he had written while he was in the army.

The fragile object was made from printed scraps and ferns from the 1890s that her relative had sent from India, the woman said.

She said, “He sent it to his mother as a Christmas present and it was passed on to me through the family.”

Antiques Roadshow fans were left ‘screaming’ at their screens after an expert ‘ruined’ a guest’s rare scrapbook

In a repeat program aired on Sunday evening, stunned viewers quickly saw the accident that expert Fuchsia Voremberg had caused

Fuchsia said: ‘This is an interesting example of a Victorian phenomenon called Fernmania or Pteridomania.

“They collected them, they painted them, they printed them, and in this case they printed them and put them in this beautiful book.”

As Fuchsia flipped through the book, fans noticed one of the protective layers of paper folded over.

Shocked viewers poured rage on X, writing: ‘Did anyone else see her flipping a page when she was looking at another page?’

‘I gasped for breath’, ‘Yes and it got me thinking ffs!’,

‘Yes, very annoying. Mind you, I thought she should have just closed the book, because the wind blew everything around her’,

“Yes, we yelled at the television!”

Fuchsia added: ‘What’s really beautiful about this example is that it shows this young man. He’s far from home and he’s showing a little piece of the place that he sees.

The delicate object was made from printed scraps and ferns from the 1890s that her relative had sent home from India, the woman revealed

As Fuchsia flipped through the book, fans noticed that one of the protective layers of paper had folded over

‘The poignant thing about it is that ferns are associated with mourning. So somehow he created a mourning album.’

She continued: ‘It’s a nice meeting point between India and this British guy who’s there. I’d give it a value of £200.’

The woman replied, ‘Oh great, fantastic! Not that it’s for sale.’