Antiques Roadshow expert John Foster was left amazed by one guest’s Arctic expedition memorabilia, looking back through his family’s history – but when issuing the staggering valuation, the guest was lost for words. In an old episode which will air on BBC Two tonight, items that were brought to the auction included a rare Victorian automaton, a work by LS Lowry and medals won by Britain’s first black Olympian. Ronnie Morgan discovers a gift from a Russian tsar, but it was John Foster who marvelled at a briefcase full of artefacts from Ernest Shackleton’s 1909 Antarctic expedition. Taking a loo…
