Violin bows with £110k antiques valuation found by dog
A set of violin bows, valued at £110,000, have been found in a park.
Lost violin bows that have an antiques valuation of £110,000 have been discovered by a dog.
Angel found the items - which were stolen from Oxford musician Peter Oxley when he fell asleep on a train earlier this month - in Bourne Park, Ipswich, Suffolk.
The nine-year-old former racing greyhound sniffed out the contents, which the pooch's owner Chris Laflin passed first time around.
He told the East Anglian Daily Times that the moment was reminiscent of the time when Pickles the dog discovered the missing World Cup shortly before the 1966 finals in England, which resulted in the home nation winning the Jules Rimet trophy.
Mr Laflin said: "I'm still shaking because I can't believe I've been carrying around something worth so much money."
When he first opened the case, he thought a schoolchild had dropped it on the way home, adding that he could not believe it when his friends informed him that a story about the missing bows had appeared in the newspaper.