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99% discount on antiques

A set of Victorian military medals worth £1,850 was sold for just £18.50 after a part-time shop assistant misread the price tag.

They belonged to an antiques dealer who was on his lunch break when they were sold, reports the Daily Telegraph.

The 13 medals, which date back to the 1890s, were on sale in the Treasure Chest antiques store, in Norwich, when a couple spotted them and bought them.

The dealer, who has not been named, was selling his antiques through the shop, which is run by Pasquale Musso who is now appealing for the couple to return their bargain in exchange for a £250 reward.

Mr Musso said: “The dealer came back from his lunch break and said: ‘Oh, you’ve sold my medals’. I said that I hadn’t.”

Mr Musso said that when he had pointed out the error to the assistant, she “went very white and got very upset”.

“She didn’t know anything about medals and didn’t realise they would be worth that much,” he added.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .