The "Antiques Roadshow" has been around for many years, and this is easily one of the best reactions to an appraisal we've ever seen.
In the clip below, we meet a woman who has made an interesting discovery but doesn't know much about it. It's an old book of hymns that once belonged her grandfather's mother. It'd been sitting in a dusty pile of belongings down in the woman's basement for many years.
Her great-grandmother was a religious woman who inherited the book —a Bellow's Falls book of hymns from the LDS Church — from her father. At the time, it was already 104 years old.
The appraiser says it's one of the earliest volumes of its kind and one the earliest to use musical notations. He also says it's also one of the rarest books because it was designed to be used in the churches and then thrown away once they were deemed too used and worn-out. It's so uncommon for one of these books to even exist over a century later!
"Do you have any idea of the value of the hymnal you brought to us today?" the appraiser asks.
Nothing prepared her for the answer… and what a truly priceless reaction.
