Spectacular Antique Profit
As an ancient pensioner, I while away my remaining days watching antiques shows on TV. Paul Laidlaw is by far the best of the dealers. He uses his great knowledge to root out significant items among all the over-priced junk in antique shops.
Laidlaw is also that rare phenomenon, a jolly Scotsman. Truly a man to be treasured.
The profit of £19,940 goes to Children in Need, but morally I think that the dealer who sold the camera kit to Laidlaw for £60 should receive some of that money. I think it comes close to his being conned.
A rare antique camera, bought for just £60 by Antique Road Trip’s Paul Laidlaw, sold for an extraordinary £20,000, smashing all records.
Paul made the incredible find while shopping for curios and collectables in Margate, Kent. He inspected a boxed optical instrument closely, which led him to believe it was a primitive sub-miniature camera.
Photographic experts confirmed Paul’s 19th century find was one of Auguste Bertsch’s extremely rare Chambre Automatique cameras — essentially a camera combined with microscope.
As an ancient pensioner, I while away my remaining days watching antiques shows on TV. Paul Laidlaw is by far the best of the dealers. He uses his great knowledge to root out significant items among all the over-priced junk in antique shops.
Laidlaw is also that rare phenomenon, a jolly Scotsman. Truly a man to be treasured.
The profit of £19,940 goes to Children in Need, but morally I think that the dealer who sold the camera kit to Laidlaw for £60 should receive some of that money. I think it comes close to his being conned.