After seeing odd items on the British Antiques Roadshow being valued at astronomical amounts, Little Darwin is seriously considering flying the above highly desirable , rare , rusty artwork , from Darwin , to London in the hope that it will be declared worth a king's ransom , in which case it will be flogged off presto, the proceeds lodged in a Swiss bank account .
The unique object was apparently awarded to the winner of a l985 car rally which involved the Darwin Aero Club and the Darwin Press Club.
It once had pride of place in the Darwin garden of the late journalist , Neil Dibbs . When Neil was a reporter in London he used to scour the banks of the Thames with a metal detector looking for valuable Roman and British coins.
In the Northern Territory , where he became a newspaper editor, ministerial press secretary and member of the influential Friday Club, he took part in digs , that's him on the right, at the old mining centre of Pine Creek, with a display of Dutch case gin bottles and chinese jars .
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