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The Bidding Room fans gobsmacked after 115 year old VIBRATOR is flogged for eye-watering sum
THE Bidding Room fans were left gobsmacked after 115 year old VIBRATOR is flogged for a staggering amount.
Guest Matt brought along an item that he hoped would get the dealers buzzing on Tuesday’s episode.
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He presented the vibrator also known back then as a “blood circulator” or “pulsator”.
He explained: “It’s very cutting-edge for the technology of the time, it’s also very wonderfully mad.”
Speaking to host Nigel Havers and an antiques expert, he told them that there was a piece of medical equipment from the Edwardian era, around 1900, that was supposed to cure various ailments.
The expert was fascinated by the hand-operated item which would speed up by winding it.
First purchasing it for £45 five years ago, the expert predicted it would sell for around £150.
The dealers were equally impressed with the vibrating device as Matt explained that people over a century ago would believe that it would help to reduce flatulence, earache and aches.
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The dealers were thrilled to give the device a go, testing it out on their arm and head.
Matt added that their was various attachments that could be used and a
Clearly rubbing the dealers up the right way, the bids leaped from £20 to £85.
But the bids kept coming, with the guest accepting an offer of £110.
BBC viewers were in hysterics at the old-fashioned device.
One wrote: “Crikey! #thebiddingroom has a vibrator on it.”
Another posted: “The dealers are loving this vibrator, looks more like a torture device. #TheBiddingRoom”
A third added: “#TheBiddingRoom I’ve been wracking my brains for how an earth that medical vibrator was used on a woman.”