"$25 Market Find Revealed as $19K Victorian Brooch Treasure"
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Flora Steel, who bought a silver brooch for $25 in 1988, recently discovered it was designed by William Burges and could fetch between $10,000 and $16,000 at auction. The revelation came after she recognized a similar piece on the TV show "Antiques Roadshow" and confirmed its authenticity at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The brooch will be auctioned at Gildings Auctioneers in England this spring.
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