Expert John Foster was presented with the unique statues and he asked about the origins
The financial value of a couple of statues that she found in a Birmingham scrapyard was not enough to induce a guest on BBC's Antiques Roadshow programme to sell them.
The expert recognised one of the figures as the President of Angola but was stumped by the identity of the other. The guest revealed: "Well, we took him out first, partly because he looks like my dad. So I like him because of that. But he is Captain Romeros and he was on the Portuguese side. He was administering the area when Angola was under the oppression of the Portuguese.
"Sometimes they they are glowering at each other, sometimes it looks like they are smiling," she shared. Expert John was intrigued by the statues' dual nature, remarking on their attributes he said: "They are kind of historical and decorative so they have that mixture of... I would buy them more on a decorative value."
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