“Oh my goodness,” Joanna remarked. “Looking at this, the style is very 1920s.
“What I always do I look at the front, I look at the back and because it’s a brooch [so] it has to prove to me that it’s a brooch.
“I think this has been altered from a larger piece. Now, why do I think that?
Antiques Roadshow: The owner revealed the brooch had been handed down to her from her mother (Image: BBC)
Antiques Roadshow: The brooch had been altered from a bracelet (Image: BBC)
“If I turn it over where the catch is you’ll see it’s been cut away so the design hasn’t finished. It looks like it’s accommodating something else that’s been cut off.”