The guest brought along a charming looking old dollhouse, which was revealed to be a butcher’s shop on the BBC show.
Antiques Roadshow expert Fergus Gambon took a look at the item in order to assess how much it was worth.
It was clear he was taken by the piece as “unique” and that he’d never seen one like it before.
Opening up the house, Fergus pointed to the bits of carved meats hanging from the ceiling and walls of the house.
He noted: “Look at that, meats of every kind all picked out in glorious technicolour. It really is a slaughter house.”
Fergus went on to ask the guest where she acquired the antique.
“I bought this butcher’s shop about 10 years ago from a dealer online from Switzerland. Whether it’s Swiss, I don’t know that’s what I’m here for you to tell me.”
“To me it just smells English it just feels English the architecture looks early 19th century and English,” Fergus replied.
He continued: “Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about the facade is the brickwork because it’s black.
“It reminds me of the faux bricks that were used on timber framed buildings in the 18th Century which are called mathematical tiles and predominate down the East coast of England from Sussex right up to Suffolk where we are now.
“It’s a little bit too sophisticated for something that would’ve been made perhaps by a father for his child.
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“It’s sort of half a dolls house and half a model of a butchers.”
“I love doll houses like you do and I have never seen anything like this. The interior is relatively plain, It’s only a rudimentary attempt to create any kind of architectural detail at all and what’s inside is of interest.
“Did you put that in there?” he asked.
The guest answered: “No, most of the meats came with it, the doll I did put in here because it didn’t have a butcher.”
“It needed a butcher,” Fergus noted.
The guest added: “I put in the small table which I think is probably a candle stand.”
“It really is an incredible period piece,” Fergus remarked. “To think from the early 19th century these little pieces of carved meat have probably hung there and that this toy was created 200 years ago and remains in one piece in such remarkable condition.”
“What did you pay for it?” he asked to which the guest retorted: “I paid about £700 for it and it seemed an awful lot of money 10 years ago it seemed an arm and a leg.”
Fergus then announced: “I think it’s a very important early 19th century English toy, it’s probably unique, it’s in remarkable condition and I think with its contents it’s worth six to eight thousand pounds.”
“Oh, right,” the guest replied, clearly taken aback by the valuation. “Well thank you very much indeed that’s been really lovely.”
Antiques Roadshow continues Sunday at 8pm on BBC One.
