Treasures unearthed by Gloucestershire residents for the hit antiques TV show Flog It were auctioned in the Cotswolds last week.

Back in May, hundreds of people queued outside Gloucester Cathedral to have their antiques examined and valued by experts Philip Serrell, Catherine Southon, Michael Baggott, and host Paul Martin.

And on Friday (June 20) a lucky handful were at the Cirencester salesroom of Moore Allen in Cirencester to find out just how much heir heirlooms would make.

Readers will have to wait until series 13 of the show returns to screens later in the year to find out which contestants went home happy.

But whether selected for the small screen or not, there were plenty of stars among the lots at the sale.

The top price of the day was achieved by an 18th century memento of The Grand Tour of Europe.

A gold necklace decorated with 11 micro mosaic tableaus featuring the classical buildings of Rome on blue semi-precious stone mounts achieved £1,700 – comfortably surpassing the £1,000 to £1,500 auctioneer’s estimate.

A pair of watercolours by the 20th century Cestrian artist Frank J Eggington made the second highest lot price. Rural Scene With Figures in Distance, and Rural Scene with Figure Feeding Chickens achieved a hammer price of £800 - well in excess of the expected £200 to £300.

Gracing the cover of the auction catalogue, a circa 1800 French gold mounted tortoiseshell snuff box decorated with an erotic scene depicting a pierrot and bare-breasted woman asleep, achieved £520, as did a single lot consisting of a Waltham gold plated cased pocket watch, a nine carat gold Albert watch chain, and a a 1912 gold sovereign brooch.

A 19th Century French silver teapot of squash form achieved £500 – exactly what the auctioneers said it would – while two Venetian style wall mirrors with elaborate moulded giltwood frames sold for £440.

And collection of nine chromolithographs after the Victorian illustrator William Nicholson, featuring images of Rudyard Kipling and William Ewart Gladstone, among others, exceeded its £200 to £300 estimate, with a hammer price of £440.

For more information about buying and selling at auction, log on to www.mooreallen.co.uk Based on information supplied by Peter Davison.