BBC Antiques Roadshow expert issues strict demand to guest as key item missing from valuable collection: 'Promise me!'
Hill issued a warning to the guest over a missing feature
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Antiques Roadshow expert Mark Hill gave one guest clear instructions after he arrived with a set of The Rolling Stones memorabilia.
The guest was missing one key element which could have seen him leave with an impressive valuation, so Hill gave strict orders for the owner of the collection to find the essential missing feature.
Guest Mike had a unique collection few others are likely to match because he had the extraordinary experience of booking The Rolling Stones in the years before the 1960s band shot to global fame.
In the classic episode of the BBC favourite, Mike explained he'd been generating funds for a local social club in 1963, the year before the band went on to dominate the charts, by arranging a gig.
The band's agent told him it would cost him £95 to book them, so Mike took them up on the offer.
Showing Hill the collection of photos he had of the event, as well as a poster, a ticket stub and some scrapbooks, he was told he had unfortunately missed one vital thing.
The guest brought with him a collection of The Rolling Stones memorabilia
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The Mirror reports Hill went onto ask: "What I'm most interested in is the photos. Did you take them with your own camera?"
Nodding, Mike replied: "I took them with my own camera yes. I think it was called a Sportsman camera.
"I was stood at the side of the stage and I thought I'd take a chance and take some photographs."
His excitement growing, Mark asked: "Where are the negatives do we know? Do you still have them?"
Hill ordered the guest to find the original negatives from the photos
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He answered: "The negatives are in a draw - with thousands of other negatives of railways."
"I want you to shake my hand and promise me that the first thing you do when you get home, even before making a cup of tea or a gin and tonic or whatever your tipple is, is to find those negatives," Hill pleaded.
Mike agreed, shaking the expert's hand and vowing: "I'll look for those negatives for you," before Hill went on to detail exactly why they were necessary.
"I presume we have unpublished and candid shots of one of the earliest concerts that The Rolling Stones performed," he explained.
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The guest had several items, including photos, of the special concert
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He continued: "So for all of these pieces and for me the most exciting and the most valuable parts of it are these candid photographs here, taken by you, never seen before and complete with copyright with you.
"You have the negatives and that's what we've got to find. Then you can re-sell those with the copyright and they can be reproduced or whatever it may be, so with the whole lot, negatives included, £2000."
"Thank you very much indeed," the owner of the items enthused, however he didn't reveal whether or not he'd be selling the collection.
In another classic instalment, it was fans who were left unhappy over a guest's reaction, which was deemed to be far too casual for such a staggering amount.