SINGAPORE: An antique seller sold a customer’s 18th-century vase worth more than S$300,000 (US$222,000) without his permission, used the proceeds to pay his debts, and replaced the vase with a fake.

A vase initially dismissed by a BBC antiques expert as a clever fake fetched an eye-watering £53million after languishing in an attic for four decades. The BBC's 1970s antiques game show 'Going ...