AN ANTIQUES Roadshow merchandise left Fiona Bruce and viewers baffled as she branded it 'pointless'.
A basic episode of the BBC present aired on Sunday and came about on the V&A in Dundee.
Fiona, 57, met a girl who had introduced in a Victorian teapot with a distinction.
Introducing the merchandise, Fiona mentioned: "This in it is personal approach, is one other feat of Victorian engineering, is not it?"
The visitor replied: "This can be a self pouring teapot."
The merchandise was by Royal Dalton and Fiona mentioned: "It is a basic instance of the Victorian's re-engineering one thing that did not actually need re-engineering, teapots had been working completely effectively.
"They thought, 'what lets do with them? let's do one thing uncommon' so that they created this self pouring teapot."
The visitor then demonstrated the way it labored, pulling up the plunger connected to the lid and pushing it down, which then poured tea out of the spout with out the teapot having to be lifted up.
As the girl demonstrated it, she informed Fiona it had belonged to her Aunt who obtained it within the Thirties, and she or he remembered her getting it out for particular events.
Fiona mentioned: "Nicely it is fairly one thing is not it? I imply in a approach, totally pointless, since you might simply tip it up and pour it and it will be an awfully quite a bit faster, however nonetheless, an ideal little piece of Victorian engineering."
She then informed the woman the worth, saying: "Based on our specialists right here, price £100 of anybody's cash."
One viewer wrote on Twitter in amazement: "Solely right here for the self pouring teapot!"
One other added: "Selfpouring teapot . No handles wanted."
Antiques Roadshow is on the market on BBC iPlayer.
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