A bottle of Beckham’s Spring Water from the classic sitcom sold for Only Fools and Horses for around £6000.
A fan popped up onto the stage from the 1992 Christmas special of the show.
The 31cm bottle sold for £5,720 at auction – nearly five times its estimate of £1,200.
On the show, Dale and his brother Rodney set up a production line in flat, overhead bottles in south London, which fills bottles from the tap.
Then they pass the contents as mineral water from the mysterious Beckham Spring in their late grandfather’s custom – in effect, a leaking faucet.
The labels read: “The purest Peckham Spring water, taken from an ancient natural source discovered 800 years ago.”
Sales were boosted by drought warnings — before Beckham’s taps shut when unknown yellow waste from the allotment, dumped by Dell, contaminated a tank.
The episode ends with a sleeping alternate as the Beckham Spring Water Bottle glows yellow.
The bottle was sold by Ewbanks, of Woking, Surrey, to a private buyer.
President Andrew Ebank said: “We are thrilled to sell this piece of iconic sitcom history.
“We recommend the buyer not to consume the contents!”
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