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CRAIG BROWN: A mild-mannered man carried a miniature portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and four tiny pieces of old paper folded over into envelopes on Sunday at the Antiques Roadshow. These envelopes were stamped with the names of three Romantic writers - William Wordsworth, Robert Southey, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A few wisps of the poet's hair were included in each envelope: keepsakes passed down from generation to generation were tucked into each envelope. Both envelopes were marked S. T. Coleridge, the first of which had dark hair from his youth and the second with snowy-white hair, which was missing from his scalp at his burial.

During Sunday's episode of the Antiques Roadshow, a rather unusual bygone was valued. Members of the public in Cornwall flocked with many treasured items in the hopes of being told they were in possession of something worth a fortune. However, it was items that once belonged to late poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordworth, and Robert Southey that caught the attention of one of the experts.