Antiques Roadshow guest struggles to catch her breath as she learns mind-boggling value of her 'dunce' grandmother's gold Olympic medal

An Antiques Roadshow impermanent was near truthful stunned that she struggled to drawback her activity aft learning nan mind-boggling worth of her 'dunce' grandmother's golden Olympic medal.

Expert valuer Adam Schoon delivered nan bully news to Julia, who had brought on a postulation of swimming medals. 

The haul of awesome awards included a golden badge from nan 1924 Paris Olympics that belonged to her grandma Lucy Morton. 

Julia explained Lucy had started swimming erstwhile she was 10 and had entered nan Olympics successful Paris but nary 1 expected her to do very well.

Bringing on a photo, she said: 'That's my grandma Lucy Morton, swimming, she started swimming erstwhile she was astir aged 10.

'What happened was her dada said "you're excessively overmuch of a dunce astatine school, you don't look to beryllium doing very well" and he decided "let's effort swimming."'

The BBC resident master was intrigued by nan haul and noticed that location were respective medals from smaller races. 

He said: 'Back to her singular rise, because it's covered successful golden medals.

'I noticed that there's a number of medallions astir present which she would person won for, I presume, region races, nationalist races. She's mounting world records.

'All of these are 15-carat golden but of course, each these smaller medals build up to really this 1 here.'

Adam past pointed to nan largest medal, an Olympic golden and Julia was much than happy to explicate its backstory. 

She said: 'In 1923, they really became very willing successful her and they asked her to commencement swimming successful mentation for nan 1924 Paris Olympics.

'She trained and she went to Paris successful 1924. She wasn't expected to triumph aliases anything.

'Unfortunately, immoderate of nan Americans had sewage immoderate benignant of bug from what I heard.

'She made nan last title successful breaststroke 200m and everyone was apparently cheering, she sewage to nan extremity and she had a chaperone and nan chaperone said 'You've won!'

'Pulled her retired of nan pool, put her bathrobe on. She was really nan first female swimmer to triumph a golden badge successful swimming for Great Britain.

'I'm really proud of her. At that age, that time, females weren't doing thing for illustration that and to person really swam astatine nan property of 27, I deliberation it was rather aged backmost then.'

The valuer was very impressed and told nan impermanent that she was correct to beryllium proud and revealed that Julia could beryllium successful for a astonishment astatine what conscionable 1 of her grandmother's badge could beryllium worth. 

He explained that nan badge was rather rare, and though it was made of metallic guilt, it was 1 of only 304. 

He said: 'It was designed successful Paris by a man called Andre Rivaud, it was made successful nan Paris mint and location were only 304 made arsenic acold arsenic I know.'

Julia shared that her grandma Lucy continued successful nan world of swimming moreover aft her ain profession had finished.

The awesome jock coached for nan Olympic squad and acted arsenic a chaperone for different swimmers astir nan country.

She said: 'She conscionable loved it. It was her life.'

Finally Adam revealed what he thought nan badge were worth.

He told Julia: 'So erstwhile it comes to nan valuation, Olympic medal, £15,000?'

The impermanent was truthful stunned by nan news she struggled to drawback her activity but grinned astatine nan immense sum. 

'What? The 1 medal?' she gasped.

The master went connected to propose that each nan different medals could beryllium worthy different £15,000 making Julia full wealth trove worthy astatine slightest £30,000 but nan valuer added that nan astir valuable point was nan grounds of Julia's grandmother. 

The sporting revelation comes aft fans were near 'screaming' astatine their screens erstwhile an master seemingly 'ruined' a guest's uncommon scrapbook successful an section of nan BBC show earlier this week. 

In a repetition programme aired connected Sunday night, gobsmacked viewers were speedy to spot nan mishap made by master Fuchsia Voremberg.

A female took to nan crushed of Salisbury Cathedral to find retired nan worthy of her great-great uncle's book from erstwhile he was successful nan army.

The delicate point was made from printed scraps and ferns from nan 1890s which her family personnel sent backmost location from India, nan female revealed.