I thought £20 brooch was costume jewellery - then I realised it's worth £15k

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I thought £20 brooch was costume jewellery - then I realised it's worth £15k

A WOMAN who bought an old brooch for £20, thinking it was costume jewellery, but realised it was worth a lot more after seeing a TV clip. Flora Steel purchased the silver brooch in 1988 not realising it was a “historically significant” piece of long-lost jewellery dating back to the 19th Century. SWNSFlora Steel, pictured, only realised her brooch was valuable after watching an edition of Antiques Roadshow[/caption] SWNSFlora paid just £20 for t…