There really is nothing strange in this world, do you believe it? In 2001, an Englishman bought a table clock for 9,000 yuan, and after 20 years, the price of this clock actually rose to 170,000, which sounds a little strange, but this thing did happen in reality, what is going on? Let’s take a look together!
Kyle King, an Englishman, was born in Worcestershire, England, and once ran a restaurant when he was young, and when he was old, Kyle King sold the restaurant and returned to the country to retire and live a leisure life. He has always been an unknown figure in the local area, but in 2021, Kyle King was known for a table clock. Become a well-known local figure.
Kyle King originally ran a restaurant in a town called Bromsgrove in Worcestershire, because customers always complained to Kyle that the store lacked some exquisite decoration, so in 2001, Kyle King spent a lot of money and bought a lot of antique lamps, clocks, curtains to decorate the store, when he bought a very fashionable desk clock in that era and put it on the sideboard, this desk clock alone cost him more than 1,000 pounds, equivalent to about 9,000 yuan.
Later, when Kyle was old, he couldn’t do anything, so he took the store out, and the things that were originally bought to decorate the store were also taken away by Kyle one by one and sold for money, but the desk clock was left by Kyle because the original wall clock in his house was broken.
Time flies, years are like a shuttle, soon 20 years have passed, the time has come to 2021, on April 5, 2021, the well-known American treasure connoisseur program “Antiques Roadshow” came to Worcestershire, England to record, Kyle heard the news, immediately signed up on the official website of “Antiques Roadshow”, and rushed to the show site with this desk clock.
“Antique Roadshow” program scene
Kyle didn’t have high hopes for his desk clock, just because he himself was a big fan of “Antique Roadshow”, hoping to take this opportunity to show his face on TV.
However, when Judith Miller, a special expert on Antique Roadshow, was shocked when she took a closer look at the age-old table clock, Judith said:
This desk clock is unusual, the first time I’ve seen it, a fashion example between Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts, which was expensive in its time.
What really excites me is that the copper face on the desk clock is off-center, and there are some birds on it, which is really a very stylish clock.
In the end, the antique expert Judith for Kyle brought the table clock estimated a high price of 20,000 pounds, equivalent to about 170,000 yuan, this table clock was purchased by Kyle with about 9,000 yuan in 2001, who would have thought that after 20 years, the price of this table clock could actually rise to 170,000, which can only say that Kyle is really lucky!
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