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ABERGLASNEY, Wales, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- A British woman who brought her more than 200-year-old plate to the BBC's "Antiques Roadshow" in Wales said appraisers told her the item was worth $156,000.
Wendy Jones said she did not think the plate -- which had sat upon a support on the sideboard of her home for 30 years -- would be worth money, so she tossed it into a single grocery bag with no padding when she carried it to the event in Aberglasney, Wales, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday.
"When I heard how much it might be worth I was shocked," she said. "On the way to the show the plate was on the back seat of the car, but on the way home I kept hold of it all the way."
Experts said the plate was made between 1750 and 1755 by the Prussian East India Company for King Frederick II of Prussia.
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Pop icon Madonna says she "wasn't happy" after rapper M.I.A. flipped her middle finger at a camera during the Super Bowl halftime show in Indianapolis.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) --
A woman who says she had an affair with President John F. Kennedy wrote that she didn't feel at the time she was "invading the Kennedys' marriage."
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BIRMINGHAM, England, Feb. 10 (UPI) --
A British company said it is opening salons across England dedicated to the tattooing the scalps of bald men to make it look like they have short hair.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) --
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the construction of two new nuclear reactors, the first to be built in the United States since 1978.
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