BBC Antiques Road Trip expert shares unusual trick to help you make a fortune

An expert on BBC's Antiques Road Trip has shared a very peculiar tip that could help anyone who uses it become very rich. Jewellery pro Hettie Jago was on hand, along with coin specialist Tim Medhurst, as they helped comedians Lloyd Griffith and Rhys James to find the priciest antiques.

They travelled around Wales and south west England when Hettie spotted a very pretty perfume bottle. She said: "So I've just found this really sweet little scent bottle. Now, it's Mexican and I am a big fan of Mexican silver." The expert continued: "I think that this piece, it's down as white metal on the label, but I think it is silver.

"It is only priced at £15, which I think is a very good price for it. I would say that it has got a bit of age to it, I think it's probably 1950's ish. It's really sweet and really quite collectable. People like collecting perfume bottles."

Lloyd, who the expert was helping, was quite baffled as he curiously asked: "Why do you think it is silver? How do you know?" Hettie knowingly replied: "I spend a lot of time looking at silver!

"I can normally tell even before I pick something up. But..." She then held the intricate bottle to her nose and inhaled loudly before explaining: "If you smell it, it doesn't smell like metal."

The expert went on to explain that when something is metal plated then you are able to smell the base metal, and it is likely to have a brassy or copper kind of smell to it. She added that silver "doesn't have a scent to it".

Adding a further tip, Hettie continued: "But also, I'm just sort of rubbing where it is tarnished and the tarnish is coming off. So I actually think that that is not base metal showing through. I think it is just tarnish from years of use."