蜜芽传媒

If you've got a piece of jewellery handed down in your family, do you know how much it's worth? The London-based auction house, Bonhams, estimates that British households are hoarding sixty million pounds worth of vintage and antique jewellery, usually with little inkling of the pieces' worth. Vintage and antique pieces can sell for anything from sixty pounds to thousands, and rare pieces are becoming increasingly valuable. Bonhams says values have risen by 80 per cent over the past ten years. Shari Vahl talks to Emily Barber, Department Director at Bonham鈥檚.

First broadcast on You & Yours, 24 May 2017.