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Antiques Road Show's resident glass specialist Andy McConnell claimed he can "turn a sow's ear into a silk purse".

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A guest on the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow has discovered a painting he bought at a South African curio shop in the 1980s is worth between £12,000 and £18,000 ($16,000 to $24,000), several hundred ...

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The copper outer dome itself was completed in the spring, but restoration of the century-old courthouse continues to modernize the building.