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what just don't believe it really gosh should be happy with that oh lovely how did you get this one well I inherit it from my father but I had seen it before about 50 years ago when I was a lad and I found it in a tin box whilst um looking through recovered hang on let me stop here you mean you haven't seen this watch for about 50 years no it's true 50 years ago we've got a running seconds in this lower dial here we've got the normal minutes and hour display right and then we've got the day of the week here on that subsidiary on this other one in the 3:00 position we've got the date and then up here below the 12:00 we've got phases and age of the Moon and a little sign saying grenage time so it's a full calendar to watch with Luna work and you've never seen it it's absolutely incredible and let's have a look oh this is to think that this has been put away for 50 years we've got there seven subsidiary dials for the cities that would have been important then uh the center is Paris we've got New York St Petersburg Kolkata um and then at the got a Melbourne fancy that the one thing it does POS me is would it have been used by a traveler or is it just a novelty to have the times of the different cities I think we could say that's a seriously rich man's toy any thoughts on its value no no idea today realistically one would be looking around £4,000 as a starting figure just don't believe it well I wonder how other many goodies there are in in the team exactly thank you thank you it was given to me by my husband for a 40th wedding anniversary because uh the pilot is Bob Stanford tuck fine in in in the Spitfire in in the Spitfire um and I was aware of in 11 group the same group during the war and stationed at tangir right so you knew Robert Stanford tuck yes I knew Robert did you work with him or no he just used to come they used to come into tangir if they were fighting in the district you this was during the Battle of Britain yeah right did you know him well what was he like we got to know him later better uh he was a tough guy yes well it sounds like it yes very nice great leader I gather great leader adored by all very cool and very not never fool Hardy just a great a great leader of men yes yes yes in 1941 in the summer of 1941 he took over the a Fighter Wing in Duxford which was operating fighter sweeps over northern France now this was us taking the action to the Germans rather than them coming to us all the time and the fighters would go go out to seek enemies over the over the Skies of France and on one of those outings I gather in about October 1941 he had this encounter with the great German Ace Adolf galland who was in in effect his equivalent in German terms and they had a dog fight together they both survived it although both shot down the other's wingman so they each shot the other's left tenant if you like but both survived and at the time Stanford tuck did not know it was galland but I think Gallen may have known it was him later in January 1942 he himself was shot down over France and became a prisoner of war and then the day he was shot down January 28th 1942 he had dinner in the German officer's mess at Sant om with galland and apparently they discussed exactly this incident um now Wen I mean to me is simply the greatest 20th century Aviation artist and when one looks at paintings like this you think well what are we dealing with are we dealing with modern history are we dealing with recreated history now with someone like woodon he was painting during the war his best known paintings which establish his reputation were in 1944 typhoons rocket firing in the fet's Gap is one that everybody knows and he established a reputation and I think when one looks at a painting like this to me it has two things one I think it's a fabulous and wonderful piece of painting forget the subject matter fabulous talous Sky lovely clouds this is actually northern France under there I think we've got two things here two two pieces of History we've got a painting by to me a modern Master now dead unfortunately as indeed is s fuk he died in 1987 I think we've got a record of a very important part of British mid 20th century history it's heroics it's all that I think it's it's lovely and I'm so glad that actually to meet you who can that bring its life in another way you can say I knew who that man was to me that's magic yes and I mean in ter of valuing it is terribly difficult I mean won obviously has a market value um I don't really want to go into it because it was a present I know how much he paid for it though am I allowed to ask that yes he paid 15500 yeah well I mean my my valuation was 2 to 3,000 um but I think the money is not important what is important is your connection and the fact that we have here this not just some airplanes in the sky but a real slice of our history I love it yes good thank you very much chocolate Tommy Atkins number 6971 and I've got ambulance nurse and they've survived intact that's right yes and where did you get them from my God late godmother she died in September and I've been clearing her house out right and I've been told about 1920s well they're made by pascals London and I have seen one or two of these before but never in complete condition now I mean this is very unusual survival really if you were patriotic in the first world war you would have bought these chocolates in support of the um troops and the chocolates discolored the CRP paper a bit but it's essentially all there um what you don't want to do is to come out on a very hot day that's right it's a bit cooler today no and I wouldn't recommend eating them either and just bits of fun really what would somebody pay in a sale for them probably somebody would pay forther two50 to1 something like that okay good fun yes that's right I bought it in one of these Antique Centers in London about a year ago yeah it was a case of love at first sight love at first sight yes it was uh a pattern that I already have in two other pieces right um nothing on the size of this I managed to persuade the colleague I was with that I needed it I couldn't quite afford it at the time oh that that was a problem you wanted it but you couldn't afford it no how how did you resolve that well I bought one half of it you bought a half yes which half is yours the front side oh the front half is yours with the intention that if it was worth its value later on I could actually acquire the second half well that's interesting I mean I I suppose right at the start then we need to know what your half cost £800 £800 for half of the vs I think it's the finest carton Weare vase that I've seen there is some printed work at the top of the bars but when we come down through this lovely Willow Tree to the handwork on the bird here with each separate feather color applied by hand you we can see that it's a a magnificent piece of work and has taken hours and hours of time to do let's turn it around just to look at the design all the way around we'll see that this wonderful bird is on the other side caught in Flight it's almost a a photographic image of it it's absolutely wonderful and the shape after a Chinese shape is absolutely gorgeous down the inside of the vs we have these lusters which come M wear were were famous for their luster glazes but unusually for this quality of vs they haven't used much luster work on it this V is made about 1928 yes um it's a rare pattern it's very unusual in size so for all the reasons that you fell in love with it you know they were all the right reasons because it's a it's a wonderful object carltonware is just becoming more and more collectible at the moment people are really beginning to appreciate the quality of the work which by the 1920s was as good as anyone I think if you put this into an auction at the moment into an auction you would get £3,000 for it for that size £3,000 for that at this current at this stage gosh it's a great object so it is worth acquiring the second half then it was a peace offering from my husband after a very disastrous dinner party in which one of the guests he'd invited didn't eat anything I had served and I actually had to send out to the local pub for the steak and kidney Pall well it's a very very pretty thing it's as you know Opals beautiful Opals um before about 1850 Opals came from Czechoslovakia and they were horrible dull little things and in 1850 they started opening up the opal mines in Australia and where Opals get this lovely color from this lovely play of color is they're made of silica and War water and it's the water which actually makes the opal because it's like an oil slick you get this play uh defraction between the different layers of the sil with the water in between and that's sometimes why people think Opals are unlucky because they can dry out so you don't really want to keep them in a very very dry atmosphere and you did you manage to find out what your husband paid for no I shouldn't think it was over the top because I don't think it was that big an apology really well I think it was a pretty handsome apology actually because uh for insurance purposes I would value this necklace at somewhere between 5 and £6,000 today what I'm going to have to apologize to it well I definitely think so oh good god I've just spotted that one actually oh this one oh that was a birthday present oh that's pretty fabulous one as well that I think was reasonably expensive yes that looks like a few ,000 really well that's much more valuable actually because that's a black o for well I think my husband paid about ,500 for it well he's obviously got a good eye for these things I think I should keep him I have to employ myself well thank you for bringing them anyway really great I don't believe it when I come for a road show I think it's particularly Danger ous to try and anticipate what one might find and I suppose coming to old and this particular part of uh the country one must think well possibly a work by Ellis Larry might turn up but I must say when this popped out I mean I couldn't have been more surprised and delighted because as far as I'm concerned it's absolutely right having said that of course we must go to the Museum the Larry Museum and have it checked out but all my instincts and the way that it looks makes me feel it is absolutely spot- on and beautiful what's the story I brought him for a friend of mine a g elderly gentleman about 79 years of age they did belong to his wife who passed away she used to shower lower egg he was very fond of having people Sher in about all over the country and uh this is how they came into his possession yes to all intents and purposes lar is style these um industrial buildings yeah yeah the figures the busy streets are all rather similar but I think from this particular period And if I haven't be mistaken the date is 1937 a good early period um I just love the color and The Business of the streets and for my own taste it is not too melancholic it's not too brooding it has a a busy and kind of optimistic air which sometimes is not always apparent in his paintings thick paint we call it impasto you can see here that he drawn right through the thickness of paint across these bits here and particularly love that passage here these figures in the distance kind of pushed in and just touched with color and all also one of the things about it is one can judge it quite carefully because when they haven't been protected by glass they get full of grime and dirt this has got glass on it and it's kept the dirt off it you can see right the way through and just a little bit of a gentle clean will bring it up into an absolute gem now before we turn to values let's also look at these other things tell me about this little drawing here this is the cigarette packet right and you can see that because here are the folds of it here going across there yes yes when this lady was sh low he was sat in the car and he started to sketch this and then when he finished he was about to throw it through the window and she said don't do that and he said well I'll sign it for you if you want it it might be of some value someday really what a lovely story yeah so do you think he really was going to throw it out the window yeah he he didn't realize his value of his paintings no no no and we've got a photograph here of the great man himself and what is so interesting is that of course if you could just hold that a second of course it shows the subject this is a painting and this is a drawing for this painting but it same the same subject which is a fairy isn't it in Scotland isn't it the Scottish subject yes and again this is the later date September 1958 now of course what we must do is kind of try and work out the value now my word of caution is the attributions must be confirmed by the Larry Museum um but these little bits and pieces the cigarette packet I don't know whether it's worth a thousand or more but it could well be this drawing number of thousands but I think what we're really all dying to kind of really try and know is what's this worth does your friend have any idea of what he thinks it's worth no no he's probably he's a shy man is he oh yes very shy yes I think it's probably worth a 100,000 gosh oh oh it it now becomes a horrible problem doesn't it oh yes if I was being conservative I suppose 60 to 80 but I think it is so fresh so wonderful has not been on the market the prices have been quite extraordinary and I wouldn't I wouldn't be surprised if it could fetch £100,000 or more it's never been off the wall it's probably one of the largest long case clocks I've ever seen it's absolutely massive isn't it it says 92 I believe 992 is it I think say yes is it uh well I'm 6'2 in a bit so yes it's rather taller than me that's all I can tell you but the quality is fantastic I mean it's really making a statement isn't it m are you tall enough to wind it yes on a all I love it well up in the top of the arch we've got a strike silent and a chime silent so you can turn off everything it's obviously a three Trin movement and I see it's retail by Duan son of oldrey the date we're talking about are the last few years of the last century maybe just sort of into this Century but I'd rather say the 1890s in all honesty so originally of course this would have been very nicely silvered and these guilt numbers would have shown up very well now someone's obviously had a crack at uh cleaning this but this can be reserved without any trouble at all SL slightly unusual I was expecting for a clock of this size to see eight gongs but we've only got four obviously three trains so three different weights the mirrored back but just look at it I mean look at the carving in this oak case so what would it fetch at auction probably £5 or 6,000 as a bare minimum and to the right customer who wanted a big clock for a very large impressive house I could well see somebody spending at least 10 to 12,000 in a shop for it sotic keep looking after it I know it's never going to go it's in the family it's too much to us presented to Mr Lee F by his friends as a token of respect March 1877 is this a relative of yours my great grandfather the first Le fth I am the fourth Le fth he was what he was an auctioner was he was indeed and I and and it's passed down from my great-grandfather to my grandfather to my father and now to me but the interesting thing about this and I've talked to our other auctioner friends here today they've never seen another like it no because of this the whistle yes they've never seen one to call order in the auction room odd that really isn't it because you thought he to just you know bang the H on the table that's right now you're an Auctioneer you tell me give me an estimate of how much you think it's worth it must be worth well over ,000 well over a, you know there's a difference of opinion here I know our people here say about 600 they want it I inherited it from my father about 12 years ago he had bought it I presume at auction about 30 years ago uh I don't know any more about it was was he a hunting man no no he just loved paintings and you like dogs my mother loved dogs um and I think it was probably on her persuasion yes it's of two hounds fox hounds and it's by an artist who really spent most of his life painting that one thing it's John M and here's the uh signature here he signed himself in this funny way JN o but I don't know why he did that but he's John John M 1894 you might think that this is a a sketch or study but in fact M's painted like this it it is quite Loosely done do you see here uh quite sketchily painted with s of blobs of color and even a bit of blue here do you see and then the background quite blank and just sort of sketched in very quickly well this is typical of M and I'm quite sure it is in fact a finished picture and M's lived uh in fact in London and in Lindhurst in Hampshire not far from here and I suspect nearly all his work was commissioned in other words he was commissioned by fox hunting people and masters of hounds to paint their favorite hounds often they have the names of the hounds underneath not not on this one because they were um in the world of fox hunting obviously very much in breeding hounds too so M was one of those kind of Victorian specialist artists who literally became the Hound man and his pictures have become increasingly popular in the last 10 years I would say it's it's very much part of a Revival of of interest in Dog painting and there are specific sales and auctions now held you know of dog pictures coinciding with crafts and so on and so forth so the result has been uh a considerable increase in the value of paintings like this uh in particular John Ms and I would say it might surprise you to learn that if this went up at auction I think you'd get 6 to 8,000 for it you might even get 10 on a good day so um that's father did well that's very good news thank you very much indeed lovely basically um they're my mother-in-laws um which I think she got hold of about 35 years ago she actually paid £160 for them right the the work of Charlie Baldwin the RO was to factory and Charlie Baldwin um specialized in swans I mean during his career he painted um many many hundreds of vases but usually with swans flying around the vases what makes these so unusual is the swans are swimming and that really does make them different um and Inter to see just what date they were painted they'll have a mark on the bottom for the factory year code uh the um year year mark little dots around the was a factory Mark and here one's got eight dots that makes it 1899 1899 and and that is um that makes sense because that's quite early for this decoration most of Charlie Baldwin's Swan vases are painted between 1900 and 1904 and they're a very formal pattern but they're not very detailed these are well really much much more real Swans in but they look more fluffy and that's I think very typical of the early work of Charlie Baldwin he did the whole lot all the decoration um he will have signed them his signature is just there neatly painted C Baldwin and well not not not ignore the vases themselves these modeling of the handles by James Hadley mean the whole concept just works together so well mean it was a new new light Airy style of decoration which was was just working out and they were to become enormously popular right both at the time and and indeed now so we've going to look at say £5,000 perhaps even 20,000 really gosh should be happy with that that's great really good this this wood has been cut with one of those really rough Twan SS and this paneling has stayed together for 300 years yes if a picture's on panel it makes an enormous difference you can almost date the picture from the back and this is a wonderful panel if Every Picture Tells A Tale please tell me well some some years ago my father and I we were refurbishing a room in in our Tuda house and there was a Victorian fireplace which we took out which revealed a Tuda fireplace and above that was layers and layers of wallpaper so we decided to start scraping it off and uh so this was the the the wallpaper was stuck to this yes it's obviously a smart 17th century house and it's it's wonderful I mean the red brick glows these houses did glow then it's a fair bet to assume that this is a real house it's not a fantasy house and this I'm sure is by an English painter not a Dutch painter about say about 1700 1710 1720 ping tells us that the whole way it's put together we we can trace the history of this sort of painting very easily and the reason as you can see the reason I I I I wanted to show the back of the paneling is there's not a split barely a split on this panel and the reason is this is seasoned wood 20-y old wood so it doesn't move good lesson for Builders today wonderful well I just want that to me and my my mother we we think that this is out of position compared with with the landscape which looks quite quite normal and it seems to me as though that they've they' put the landscape in and then as an afterthought they they've put the building well had you thought that really the the the the landscape that we know today in England is basically an invention of the 18th century this artist is very happy putting in these abstract shapes I mean this is a wonderful abstract painting as well and this formality of gardens is uh is something that comes from Europe imposing an architectural statement on the landscape in fact in Britain now because of capability Brown and Humphrey Repton we do exactly the opposite we Garden to the landscape we like to Garden as though it's natural but there's another thing which is very interesting you said this picture was over the mantle piece that's right one of the interesting things about the fashion of having your house painted was that they replaced port so it's it was act actually exactly where it should have been for the fashion of the day I think it's wonderful yes and I think it's very interesting I mean I I've never seen such a complete British painting of this period in a way yes it's very difficult to price something like this but I think at least 10 to 15,000 It's a Wonderful object thanks so much de speechless I'm speechless during the war which was of course before your time um they used to have War weapons weeks and Battle of Britain weeks and one thing and another and these used to be set up as an inspiration in the local Village shop window are you a soldier collector no my father was and I've inherited them right and were these things that he collected or were they things he owned as a child he owned them as a child were you allowed to play with them only on very rare occasions on the in the lounge on the carpet right under supervision because um the reason I ask is it's it's extremely unusual to find the things in such good condition um with the original boxes as well I particularly like um this set here a lot of the the soldiers You' brought in are by William Brittain and this is a lovely early set this is the military field hospital and the little patients are like they look almost to say they're sunbathing with their hands behind their heads and they sort of bandag they look rather cheerful but it might be because they're being helped by all these little nurses here this would have been made for the bore War um this is pre 19418 War that's what I wanted to know um but I noticed you've got a few a few extras that have crept in they're actually station Porters and your father's obviously added to it and he's painted little crosses on their armbands and things you mustn't have thought they had enough medicine so that that's quite sweet um this particular set here would be it's it's a reasonably common one but this is in Nice condition this would at auction be around £200 or so this other set you have is extraordinary because it's just so large and again you've got this wonderful original box and this is a little bit earlier this is late 19th century and although it's got this big London trade label on it I think actually the soldiers are probably by a company called Heidi of Germany they've got tin plate um saddle cloths they're beautiful beautiful quality and bands are always very very desirable and collectible was this a particular favorite of your father's and of yours yes yes it was yes this one is probably the most valuable of all these sets I would say that this at auction would probably make in the region around 6 to 800 uh possibly a thousand if people got really carried away with it and I think the collection as a whole you're probably looking at around 900,000 pounds on the low end for the William Britain and about as I say 600 to 1,000 for the military band it's got a pound on the bottom of the box has it has it on this one here yes that's pretty good return Then isn't it after all these years it's amazing well this a splendid collection of staffer figures you brought along have you been collecting for a long time uh yes this collection was compiled over about a 20-year period mainly in the 60s and70s oh so these were bought when these things were not quite as fashionable as they are now that's right a lot of the smaller Figures were around sort of5 these are these are very interesting figures because most of them were made in the 1820s and 1830s and they have this bcar this um FR light thing and behind uh and this is really in Imitation of the 18th century figures I'm sure you know like Chelsea and so on it's a part of the revived of Coco to have these as part of their style uh and they really are very remarkable but in in another way they are just sort of peasant art then not very sophisticated and at the time they were made they were very inexpensive uh to buy people just got them at Fairground and so on and they reflected the life of the times they actually predate of course the staffage your flatback figure I'm sure you know that yeah um I'd particularly like this figure songsters and there you see she is playing a triangle he's playing some kind of flute It's a Wonderful figure that and on the back we have the Mark Walton now Walton of course Walton who was potting from um 1820 to 1846 and he principally known for this kind of figure so that's a rare figure and it's one of a pair and it's one of a pair and then here we've got this Ram um and again you've got the bage at the background and we turn him around again and another name which is a very rare name Selman now um Selman I don't know I've ever seen another Selman Mark piece he was a Potter who came after John Walton in the 1860 period 6465 and that's an extremely rare figure um you can perhaps see on it there has been some repair and this is one of the problems with these figures I'm sure you realize and that affects the price um the figures have gone up a great deal in price since you paid 15 or 20 or whatever it was for them those nowadays um with the mark are getting on for something in the region of 750 even £1,000 for one that's not being restored not for a pair or for a pair for the pair yeah no no no no sorry each each each you're staggering well they've gone up enormously and as for the others um they will range dependent on the amount of damage the amount of restoration uh the Rarity of the figure bit like postage stamps but they will range over anything from three to 7 or 800B each it's very pleasing you live in a house that it fits into well the dining room is tall enough to take this big piece of furniture and I have a lot of big pieces um I had the um opportunity to buy them in the early 60s when you could pick them up for very little how much uh this cost £7 10 10 Shillings and it cost about 8 to carry it on a flatback pickup truck right it is absolutely typical of the enormous plocks that were made locally for the newly Rich Mill owners they wanted something big and bold to show that they had made it but in a funny sort of way despite the fact it's Grand and impressive it's not terribly expensive cuz in fact as a clock it has almost no interest at all horror logically it is nothing right the dial and movement were almost certainly made in Birmingham yes and they were sent up here to order to Mr Smith's order and simply paint up and put into a locally made case around about 1840 much later than people think in fact I didn't realized it was as old as that oh right really when people see this highly figured mahogany with this Gothic shaping to it people think Ah that's going to be a late Regency clock I 1820s 1830s something like that it isn't this is pure High Victorian could even be as late as 1860 right I see but it's a wonderful wonderful example of a local clock oh good these things have only just become of any value at all all the nice little clocks have gone people are turning to these even the door is nicely paneled you've lost a piece of molding there but that's nothing it's a well-made item yes um and so the good news is it is not worth just the £5 or the £7 10 Shillings in a sale now one as good as this would make the best part of £2,000 certainly make over 1,000 yeah it's a good thing well as far as I know it belonged to my great grandmother but I don't know anything more about it she came from Yorkshire and I suppose ladies of her status would have worn Tiaras quite often and broaches like that a typical form for a mid 19th century piece of English Diamond work and the technically it it it's interesting because on the back it's of gold and yet on front it set into silver and it was to be worn in candl light and so there wasn't much concern about the front tarnishing which it does a tiny bit um have you worn it does it got lots of memories for you I bet it has possibly at army dances but I don't go to those sort of things nowadays not as a brooch or in your hair oh no as a brooch It's a Wonderful spectacular display of of natural beauty isn't it and very flattering wonderful wonderful thing it's high Victorian it's um it's it's it's really couldn't be a more elegant form and um perhaps put it down on your insurance policy for £8,000 something like that more than you thought shall I tell you how much it's on my insurance for do come on 400 400 well it's only 20 times the amount this is true it's just delightful the shape of the top followed through with the front and this lovely color and it's a little gem I think that dates from the early 18th century I mean one difficult to be too precise but 1710 to 1720 that sort of period in England it would be Queen an stroke George I first but I don't think it's an English one um I don't think it's Irish really I think it's it's Continental it has this flow to it if we say Dutch it it it's that sort of area that sort of feel to it and they influence the rest of the western world and later on America and you see this type of double Serpentine curve developing into a block front if it were American of the 1740s so structurally it's a very interesting thing the way they've used this heavily curled veneer this Walnut with these Burrs in and divided it into two and opened it up like a butterflies Wing so that it it it reflects both sides wonderful and a lovely crusty color you not over clean these handles are new they're about 1890 to 1900 right whereas these are the original elkat okay now they used exactly the same metalware in Holland as they did in England and in France at this time so this is no indication of Providence but those are certainly of the period of the chest 1710 to 1720 and interestingly you can see where the original handles went which precisely matched this scussion in pattern if we go to the bottom it should have little bun feet but little tiny like if you squash uh a melon rather like that sort of an oval shape much lower and a little bit more round if you like a little bit more chubby and Far Far shallower So I suppose it would have stood at least 2 in lower on the ground okay yes now for one reason or another we we will never know it wasn't tall enough for a particular purpose and not only did they raise the feet they also put a new rail in here cuz that rail is nothing to do with it at all yeah I called it a little gem to start with you can imagine it would have looked a perfect proportion little piece of furniture right do you use it now what do I use it for I use it for holding my socks and the top drawer is junk a sock and junk chest well why that super I suppose if it turned up today and you or rather let's put it the other way if you lost it or it got damaged and you wanted to replace it yes it would cost you 8 to 10,000 all right as everyone says that is surprising well I have a bit of a history with Jesse Marin King the artist because in in the mid 1970s I forget when her daughter came to me Mel Taylor with tea chests full of wonderful things original drawings the books designs and it was like a magic lucky dip and so this is rather important to because this is a very beautiful drawing now you bought it with this book so tell me about this the poem is about Ki and it was it's an epic poem by James hog the electric Shepherd and Ki was stolen away by the fairies so so Ki was a beautiful yes a beautiful young woman now um Jesse and King was a friend of my grandmother yes and from this poem Jesse M King decided to do this a very nice drawing and named after my grandmother and and gave my grandmother the pet name of Ki at that time and gave the the drawing to my grandmother so this must have been about 1905 I imagine the date of the book I must have been rather excited by this poem po yes ah she must have loved it and then this this came afterwards and and they lived in Glasgow Peasley yes in Paisley cuz Jesse king lived in cbri didn't she great yes what was so extraordinary about GL at this period at the turn of the century was that in a way it was far ahead of other movements I mean first of all we have Charles reny Macintosh not only the great architect but doing beautiful penw workk and colored illustrations and when Charles Ry McIntosh and the McNair went to Vienna in 1900 they were the toast of Vienna I mean Vienna was blown away by this glasgo scar style what we know as the Glasgow style this wonderful Anu style so that was 1900 1902 there was a a grand exhibition in Turin a very important International exhibition and Jesse King went there with her designs she won the gold medal young Jesse King rang the gold medal for a pen and Inc book design on Vellum now that brings us back to this illustration which is just a few years later but this this probably is 1905 just 3 years later it's on Vellum which is what we expect of the finest Jesse Kings it's translucent in a way if you really look at this it's not like paper where the light bounces off the surfaces here it is almost translucent and then the other thing when by the time we start looking at this drawing then we begin to really Marvel at Jesse King because we see this minute pen workk and we have to remember that she couldn't change anything so when she put these Strokes down they remain these finest strokes and when we think about the Glasgow style and the style that blew Vienna wide open we then start looking first of all let's look at her signature here yes and that wonderful elegant elongated lozenge shape and we look at the flowers and it reminds us of Francis McDonald yes it's as that it was drawn by a fairy isn't it yes extraordinary I would be tempted to put £5,000 on it but because it is such a beautiful perfect anuo Jesse King I think that £10,000 is much more appropriate Mickey Mouse is certainly my favorite cartoon character was he yours he was very much so yes he's been a great friend for a long long time miy M so you've had him since oh I should say about 65 years something like that in that area and uh he's been played with quite a lot not so much mine for few years but uh it still plays a little bit tune many is to cross the dance she stands up there and Dan up cross the dance yes unfortunately it's a one arm Mickey yes he was in the uh which she was in the war he was in the wars well these were made um in Germany in fact Germany and Germany was where the majority of Tim plate toys were made between the walls yes uh and specifically for the English or American Market um what's nice about this is all this lithography showing Mickey Mickey's Antics um and what what's often missing from this toy is Minnie because she probably just lifts off and children children very good at getting these lost um so it's quite rare to find one uh still with the Minnie Mouse there uh what about the Box what happened to the Box the bo oh no no don't know where the box is no no I don't know if you've noticed but if you just look he's got teeth ah yes do you see yes yes he has uh and he's got quite a pointy nose as well um as he the history of the cinema progressed so he became more soft looking and he didn't have such a a pey nose and he lost his teeth so we know it's an early one because both he and minia have got their teeth green teeth yes um but to a collector of of uh Mickey Mouse memorabilia this is one of the great Rarities yes the majority of collectors of of um Disney memorabilia are in America yes uh and because this is a European piece and they never see them over there no uh it is an extraordinary rare piece Have You Ever Had It valued no no no no never well it's got a bit of wear on it he's only got one arm but even so I can see it fetching at auction somewhere between 6 and 10,000 so a very nice and you've looked after it six and seven6 to 10,000 6 to 10 good life well like this painting which you've kindly brought along today is by Walter Osborne a very interesting artist an Irishman born in Dublin and he painted in a very modern way really and uh this one painted in 1901 is done in a most beautiful very liquid way he's brought the brush very quickly across the surface of the canvas to suggest the dress he's done done an awful lot of suggestion and successful depiction with very little actual brush Strokes you know there it's it's almost abbreviated it's like a shorthand um of course it's quite thinly painted in some areas and I think we'll have to call it oil sketch but it is extremely beautiful and very effective and I'd love to know where on Earth you got it from actually you can tell me Well the painting belongs to St columns Cathedral and what C St columns Cathedral and and uh it was a gift uh to the cathedral after the person who owned it died oh I see and the person who owned it uh was she the sitter perhaps uh no the lady in the painting is elar Alexander the daughter of a very famous uh lady and gentleman uh her mother was Mrs Cil Francis Alexander a well-known hyw writer throughout the world and her father was Bishop Alexander I confess I did a little bit of homework and I wondered whether a portrait he exib exibited in 1901 that's now in the palace in Omar which was entitled The Archbishop of Omar right William Alexander could have been her father father it is yeah after he was Bishop in Derry uh his wife uh died in 1895 and he went on to be Archbishop and LMA after that I see and this lady eler uh left the picture to her companion who then left it to her daughter who then left it to the cathedral oh I see and you're from the cathedral we are we're the church War you've been deputed to bring it today drew the Short Straw delicated yes absolutely well I mean I I'm very thrilled you did bring it because um I I I think it is one of the nicest things I've seen today perhaps the nicest which is uh quite throrough now Walter Osborne died young and he was extremely popular man in Dublin and he was a good teacher too so there were many pupils and friends who mourned his passing um he died suddenly of pneumonia in 1903 uh and that's 2 years after this picture was painted in 1901 his work is really popular now the the value of the picture is quite a surprise actually um I believe it to be between 4 and £60,000 than goodness I've had to bring it down from where I started which was possibly 60 to 880 simply because it being an O sketch and quite late I thought maybe I ought to be a little bit cautious but I can see this picture because it's so attractive um driving its price up to more than 80,000 it's a possibility that's wonderful news

Channel: BBC Antiques Roadshow

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Id: G7oWlbKUhaI

Length: 48min 1sec (2881 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 02 2023