A guest on BBC's Antiques Roadshow was left speechless after finding out how much his valuable item, a 400-year-old chest, was worth.
Viewers watched as programme expert Marc Allum admired an intricate piece of art inside the box, which he was able to date back to the mid-1700s.
When discussing what the item was worth, he told the guest: "We’re going to talk about value for auction purposes.
"I’m going to put an estimate of £6,000 to £9,000 on this."
The unexpected price tag of the detailed piece of art inside really did have the chest's owner lost for words.
Taking in the whopping amount, the shocked guest was left gobsmacked, and just calmly replied with: "Cool."
Marc delivered the good news while examining the piece in the gardens of Stonor Park in Oxfordshire.
Unable to contain his excitement, Marc said: "Essentially what we have here is the most staggeringly intricate piece of work.
"This is made from lime wood."
He asked the guest: "What do you know about it?"
The owner admitted that he knew "very little" and shared that it was purchased by his father and business partner.
When describing the item in further detail, expert Marc said: "Now, let’s look at the design of it. Essentially there are some elements which I think date it very, very well.
"If I can point to particularly three elements which are these three birds.
"One at the bottom and two at the top. Now, these are called Hoho birds and they’re a Rococo kind of invention, in essence."
He went on: "So, we’re looking at maybe kind of 1730, 1740-ish for that kind of element.
"In the centre this stylised tableau. In the background of the tableau in the distance, we’ve got a sort of carved sky.
"And in front of that, we’ve got what it seems to be a late 17th, early 18th-century frigate or galleon, so to speak.
"We’ve got a hunting party, who kind of strangely seem to be hunting a lion, which is a bit incongruous but what also appears to be a stag or an antelope which is being pursued by a hound on the front."
