WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Antiques Roadshow.

An Antiques Roadshow guest admitted she was “blown away” by an inherited piece of jewellery that had been living in a drawer.

Expert Geoffrey Munn was on hand at Alexandra Gardens in Cardiff to meet with guests for the series, including a woman who presented him with a brooch “with two ugly old men and a pig” on it.

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When the owner said she hadn’t seen anything like it before, he replied: “Well happily, I have seen a few like it. And the pattern is incredibly ancient.

“It probably has its origins, certainly in the high Renaissance but also in classical antiquity, and it’s a composite demon often with legs called a gryllus.

“Cameos are marvellous objects because they’re mini sculptures really.

“Some of the best cameos, but not all of them by any means, are carved in Italy and they were part of the Grand Tour that when you went into perhaps Rome and Florence and Naples, you’d bring back something essentially Italian in character.”

Munn questioned if the guest liked it, to which she replied: “I love it. It’s odd but it’s the detail of it. The faces look so real.”

“And mildly menacing perhaps, as well”, the expert added with her disagreeing: “I never found it menacing. I’ve always thought it was really pretty.”

He then queried: “And how does it come into the family?”, as she explained: “Absolutely no idea. Belonged to my grandmother and my mother believes her mother.

“And has just come down the family somehow.”

Munn thought the item could be Italian and made around the late 16th, early 17th Century, with the carved image set into what looked like a “picture frame of gold and pearls”.

“The pearl frame is about 1840 so it’s had a bit of a life in between. So all of that’s a bit breathtaking, isn’t it?”, he commented.

It then came time for Munn to conclude his appraisal, stating: “Now, when these things turn up on the open market, they’re collected just as avidly as they were in the past.

“So there would be fierce competition for this object, for its subject matter and its sophistication.

“So I’ve got no hesitation at all in valuing it for, well, £7,000.”

The guest gasped as did the crowd around her before they began clapping and she couldn’t stop herself from laughing.

Covering her mouth, she exclaimed: “I just don’t know what to say. Wow. Oh. No, I don’t think we should tell my mother about it at all.”

Munn joked: “I don’t think so. She’ll never see it. And you’ve got it now”, with her agreeing: “She’ll never find out it’s mine now.”

He added with a smile: “Possession is nine tenths of the law.”

Later, in a separate interview, she remarked: “Just can’t quite believe it, to be honest. It’s been sitting in a drawer for so long, we haven’t known anything about it so I’m quite overwhelmed to be honest.

“My mum is just going to be completely blown away because she won’t have believed it was worth anything.

“I don’t think so - I just can’t stop [smiling].”

Antiques Roadshow is available to watch on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.