Antiques Roadshow guest astonished by value of a Hollywood film score he bought at a car boot sale for just £5

An Antiques Roadshow guest was left stunned by the incredible value of a Hollywood film score after picking it up at a car boot sale for just £5.

Sunday’s instalment saw the series head to Wollaton Hall in Nottingham, which just happened to double as Wayne Manor in Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Batman trilogy.

The musical score, which the guest discovered on sale in a ‘rather scruffy folder’ featured hand written notes by famed American composer Bernard Herrmann.

Best known for his work for TV and film, Bernard created the iconic music for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941) and TV’s The Twilight Zone. 

Explaining how he came across the item the man said: ”There was a man in front of me and it was offered off for £5 but he didn’t want it so I gladly took it’.

Money bags: An Antiques Roadshow guest was left stunned by the incredible value of a Hollywood film score after picking it up at a car boot sale for just £5

Iconic: The musical score, which the guest discovered on sale in a ‘rather scruffy folder’ featured hand written notes by famed American composer Bernard Herrmann who created the music for classic movies like Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (pictured) 

Adding: ‘I had a quick look through but for what was in the box, and it certainly looked like it was worthwhile for £5.’ 

While expert Justin Croft revealed the score was ‘Bernard’s own copy’ for 1952 drama The Snows of Kilimanjaro which starred Hollywood heartthrob Gregory Peck. 

Telling the guest: ‘What I like about it is there is a lot of annotation and that takes us closer to matching the score with the film’.

Moving on the the valuation he said: ‘I think it does have some value. It may not be his most important film score, it’s not the one which everyone knows him for’.

‘For you to have an original version of it with his corrections and with his annotation done at the time of fitting it with the film together, I think that is important.’

Before shocking the guest by announcing it would be worth a whopping £800 to £1000 at auction.

Delighted the man quipped: ‘Not bad for £5’.

Throughout his career Bernard (1911-1975) was awarded an Oscar in 1941 for his score for The Devil and Daniel Webster and 1976’s Taxi Driver, which he was awarded posthumously after passing away a year earlier.  

Lucky find: Explaining how he came across the item the man said: ”There was a man in front of me and it was offered off for £5 but he didn’t want it so I gladly took it’

Old Hollywood: expert Justin Croft (pictured) revealed the score was ‘Bernard’s own copy’ for 1952 drama The Snows of Kilimanjaro which starred Hollywood heartthrob Gregory Peck

Incredible: Before shocking the guest by announcing it would be worth a whopping £800 to £1000 at auction 

Talent: Throughout his career Bernard was awarded an Oscar in 1941 for his score for The Devil and Daniel Webster and 1976’s Taxi Driver, which he was awarded posthumously after passing away a year earlier (pictured in 1970)

It comes after another guest was left stunned to learn the real value of an old cigar which her grandsons had found in her attic.

The series filmed from London’s Crystal Palace, with one woman bringing along a whole host of Second World War memorabilia. 

She presented medals to expert Mark Smith, which had once belonged to her late French father-in law, however they lacked certification and was disappointed to discover to be worth only £120. 

The lady had also brought along an old cigar in a cardboard tube saying: ‘As you can see it’s addressed to Morris [her father in-law] from Mr Churchill’.

Amongst the boxes her grandsons had also discovered a newspaper clipping about the former Prime Minister Winston Churchill meeting French soldiers which Mark read: ‘Churchill called for Champagne and gave each member of the delegation one of his famous cigars’. 

Flabbergasted the memorabilia aficionado said: ‘You actually have one of [Churchill’s] cigars, isn’t this fantastic!’. 

In awe: An Antiques Roadshow guest was left stunned to learn the real value of an old cigar which her grandsons had found in her attic

Before giving the item a valuation of £2,000, leaving it’s owner astonished asking: ‘No, really?’.

Mark said: ‘[Churchill’s] cigars are so iconic and people just want to own one of them’. 

Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was British Prime Minister twice and led the nation through the Second World War and become synonymous with smoking cigars.

He famously once said: ‘I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form’.

Antiques Roadshow is available to watch on BBC Two or on BBC iPlayer.  

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