DAVID Farrow’s dad was digging in his Birdwell allotment when he felt and heard a loud clunk.
He thought he had hit a stone, but when he brushed away the soil he found a 200-year-old bronze vase.
Now David, 53, and his wife, Valerie, 64, from Ardsley, are hoping to make a tidy profit from the antique when they auction it off in front of a TV audience of millions.
Flog It, the popular BBC daytime antiques programme, came to the Metrodome on Wednesday, and more than 500 people turned up in the hope of making some cash from their old bits and bobs.
The show invites people to bring their antiques to be valued, then try to sell them at auction.
Antiques expert Michael Baggot valued the Farrows’ vase at about £80, but David is hoping it will raise more when it is auctioned.
Michael said: “Unfortunately his father cleaned it with lemon juice, which has devalued it a bit, but you can’t get much better for somebody digging something up on an allotment 30 years ago.”
