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Precious silver heirloom thrown out with recycling
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Precious silver heirloom thrown out with recycling
A pensioner, Roger Quilligan, who hid a family heirloom in a box of papers after the family were burgled, has lost it after his wife threw it out with the recycling.
Published: 1:18PM BST 05 Aug 2009
Mr Quilligan, 66, from Hampshire, put the silver goblet, which is worth £500, into what he thought was the perfect place to keep it safe.
However, he returned from holiday to find that his wife Shirley had mistakenly thrown the the box out with the recycling.
The couple are now desperately trying to trace where their recycling, along with the 1922 hallmarked goblet, could have been sent.
Mr Quilligan said: "It is very upsetting because it is irreplaceable.
"It was a treasured family heirloom that has been passed down in my family and I made a point of hiding it because it was so precious to us."
Mr Quilligan, who lives in Chandler's Ford, near Southampton, Hants, received the heirloom from the Bishop of Salford when his uncle, the Reverend Thomas Quilligan, died 20 years ago.
The nine-inch high chalice, which Rev Quilligan used for Mass, had given to him by his mother during the 1930s and carries an inscription remembering his late sister.
Mr Quilligan is hoping somebody may have spotted the treasure.
The local council told him it was probably at a recycling plant in Alresford, Hants.
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