Antiques Roadshow (2001)

[Music] mars mega cities thursday at eight on bbc one and bbc one hd [Music] and captain jack sparrow sees the dead man's chest it's the second pirates of the caribbean in an hour now on bbc one here's fiona bruce if you give us a couple of seconds this week we set up stall in a county that has as its mascot these gorgeous creatures hereford cattle known for their gentle nature i'm relieved to say and once hundreds of them roamed this estate welcome to a return of the antiques roadshow from hampton court castle what castle has been through good times and bad during its heyday in the 19th century this was a ten and a half thousand acre estate owned by one of the largest landowners in england johnny arkwright was heir to the famous family who'd made their fortune in the cotton mills of lancashire he was considered the epitome of the english country squire his pride and joy was his herd of hereford cattle which he called his ruby moose because of their claret-coloured coats johnny had the heads of his prize-winning cattle cast in silver and then placed upon the dinner table at the end of the meal guests would turn their heads upside down fill the cups and raise a toast [Music] so here's what we're hoping will be a special day at hampton court castle well how appropriate to be in herefordshire and to see a wonderful portrait of hereford cattle it means a lot to me and my family here because it was my grandfather's very great pride and joy to own that he owned the it's got the even the inscription of her name that's right well this is a very british thing to have portraits of one's cattle or portraits of one sheep is a very very british phenomenon yeah and do you know why this was a particularly favorite cow of his and she rather remarkably had two sets of twins ah the twin heifers which are there theodore and dorothea who are portrayed here yes yes and then she had twin bulkhouse so julius he named and sir julianne and i think they both went exported to the argentine oh that brings me to the artist because it's clearly signed here by am gauche 1885. and does it sound a very british name then does it i thought that i always had thought it i couldn't make out which way well there's very little information about gauche but from his name he sounds like he may well be argentinian or spanish or certainly have connections and and we only know him because he paints portraits of cattle i i often say slightly jokingly that an englishman often would rather have his cattle or his horse painted than perhaps his wife that would probably be true now tell me so so this bloodline does it still exist are you in the business are you a cattle breeder we've got uh descendants of this bloodline amazing still but not they aren't registered as pedigree head efforts right and am i right in saying we have three generations of farmers in front of me now yes wonderful the picture lives at my house so you've already passed it on have you so i mean this really is part of family history very much always has been and i guess you'll pass it on to your i'm looking forward to it he's got a smile on his face yes he's got it he's got a girlfriend well now we know but let's get back to the portrait i mean i think this is absolutely lovely i mean obviously it's very personal to you so value-wise they're slightly out of fashion these portraits yes and it has a sort of semi-naive sort of feel to it and yet here is an artist i think that's probably got the character of each cow and heifer well i'd say very much so so have you ever had it valued no perfect well i would have thought that if it came onto the market we would look at something at between three and five thousand pounds not bad uh we wouldn't sell it but uh it's interesting to know that but if lovely appeared on the market today what would she be worth she would be worth as a cow i would guess three or four thousand pounds right so same as the picture interesting well i can't thank you enough and look after it thank you very much brought me a little piece of wedgewood fairyland luster but i knew it was wedgewood because i saw the the title underneath but uh i don't know much about it because it was given to me way back and who gave you this well this is a lovely lovely lady who is our babysitter and gave it to us and we were rather poor and she looked around where we were living and said you've got no ornaments so you could no um i said well no we have to spend our money on other things and she said to me i've got something i'm going to give you and when i saw it i just could see it was i thought exquisite and i said oh no it's too good please don't get that's too precious and she said no no no you know it was given to me the wealthy lady i used to clean for and you know i don't really need it you have it and when i come babysit i can see it so um i i took it somebody took pity on you exactly and gave you this exactly well it is it is wedgewood we know that it's got the mark on the bottom it was designed by somebody called daisy mckay jones who worked for the wedge of factory she was actually related to the wedgewood family by uh by marriage and she was working in the period just after the first world war in the 1920s and the 1930s in fact in the early 30s she was sacked by one of the wedgwood family and she was in such a temper she went to a studio and smashed everything because she felt she was a member of the family she shouldn't be sacked um but it is a lovely thing and it is it's luster and it's got fairies on it and it was called fairy land luster for obvious reasons and it's very collectible and the thing is every time i have one of these in my auction i always get telephone calls from american collectors and you know what they say will you hold the telephone and ring it for me so shall we try ah it's not ringing very clear is it no so what do you think that might mean i mean if it's not ringing clear it sounds like there might be a crack there is that's that's why they do it obviously imagine if you're in america you want to hear a clear ring and somewhere there will be a crack in this so that means it's not going to be worth as much as if it was perfect but it is still collectible how many should you pay your babysitter in those days probably like 50p an hour or something well this bowl given by your 50p babysitter is worth about five to eight hundred pounds good heavens so that's a lot of babies it is i would have paid him more if i'd known well she paid you very well and thank you so much for bringing it in thank you so two magnificent volumes here of one of the most famous books on uh egyptian newbie can you hold that for me that's lovely i hope you're not parked too far away are you did you have to carry them in well yeah i did have a glamorous assistant to help me you've got a glamorous assistant now this is uh david roberts egyptian nubia printed in 1846 um with the most magnificent plates he spent about six months in egypt and nubia and also in the holy land as well to produce these books and there are two issues of these books there's the colored one which is same place but hand colored and there's this one which is the tinted lithograph copy but the plates are still absolutely magnificent even tinted like this i mean look at the depth of these nothing has been seen really like it before obviously people were very keen as napoleon was on egypt and david roberts went out there and you could say these are tourist books but they're enormous aren't they very heavy so tell me where do they come from um well they've been in my family for over 100 years and we recently inherited them down through the family i don't really know much about the background of them and you've got the other volume here too which let me and there's the pyramids and that is an absolutely fantastic view of the pyramids and and the and the sinks without its beard too here and it would have had a beard the beard is in the british museum at the moment so what do you like about these things i just just love the depth in them and they're just beyond words they're beautiful i love them i think they're absolutely tremendous my worry is that you don't have volume three um it's very difficult to get hold of as you can imagine but we are we have been looking for it for over 20 years 15 years and it's just very hard to come by i don't think you'd find an on-volume market really at all anyway you've got two out of the three volumes had you had three do you know how much they've been worth 15 000 pounds okay i'm afraid only two we're gonna have to talk about five six seven possibly but no more than that but they're fantastic and so nice to have them come on the roadshow thank you very much thank you gemstones are my passion and unusual gemstones even more so so it intrigues me how you've got this stone and what you think it is it belonged to my granny and i believe it to be something called a salon trembler but i don't know what that is salon trembler yes right excellent and that's all i know and when did your granny get it um it was given to her by my grandfather because he was a bit of a ladies man he traveled the world in his position as chauffeur with a companion he traveled to the west indies india china and on his return each year he would give my granny a present for being away and this was one of the presents that year she never wore it why didn't your granny wear it because she didn't like being left he had was having a wonderful time as this ladies companion and she was very offended so each present that he bought her she put in a cupboard so it's never been worn this ring i wear it you wear it yes but she never did well salon trembler you called it yes i don't think that's in my gemological book somehow no it's in fact what is really interesting is that it is an alexandrite now what is very interesting about alexandrites which is part of the crystal barrel family is that it changes color and it does yes have you seen that you've noticed that it does change color yes well and it is the change of color which gives it this price ideally you want it to change to red but it will it goes a bit muddy brown and it's been purple as well it's been a bit purple but not red but it's interesting that you mentioned purple because i see an awful lot of synthetic corundum to look like alexandrites which are purple in color but this one is lovely to see the real mccoy the real stone so at least he was giving her real things and not the synthetic yes that's good i don't think she thought very much of it i'm afraid which is a shame but there we are well i hope you enjoy wearing it i love it oh you love this jolly good oh well it's in very good condition and it is about probably about 1910 something like that the value have you had it valued i did have it valued a few years ago um at a jewelers and he said he would buy it from me there and then he offered me 200 pounds 200 pounds and i thought i'm very sentimental so i thought no i won't i'll just hang on a bit longer well i would say i mean it is an unusual stone if it turned more of the red color rather than sort of the muddy purpley color then it would be more expensive but for this one i would say in its mount i would say it's in the region of about fifteen hundred to two thousand pounds oh but that is lovely thank you very much indeed oh well not the valley [Laughter] my pleasure thank you so are you ever antique collectors no we're not antique collectors no but we're inheritors oh right right and this was obviously inherited and what do you keep in this uh rubbish rubbish well that's honesty yes when i took the drawers out and poured it all out there it was a lot of rubbish do you have any idea where it's from well i inherited it from my uncle who lived in home in sussex all right 10 years ago right and it's been in the land we've walked past it every day right and we've sort of you know it's always been there i really know nothing at all about it actually the big question is is it is it italian it's that's an interesting question because you look at it and at first you say well when i see this decoration on the top and the sides i thought spanish then when i look at the moldings around the drawer fronts and on the base here it looks dutch and then when you look at the handle in the center here it's italian so i think it's made by a migrant worker who ended up in italy its original purpose what do you think it was for originally putting collectors items into it yes it was like a cabinet of curiosity for some wealthy merchant because this is stating back from the late 17th early 18th century and they would kept things in here and curios to show their friends nothing of really high value because there's no doors and there's a thing there's no locks there's no exactly there's no locks i've noticed when i pulled one of the drawers out but the whole thing when you look at the facade is really faux do you know what i mean by that false because when you look at this it's actually imitating gold it's actually copper laid on glass so sparkles it sparkles it i mean it looks beautiful when the sun's on it it really really shines and here this is imitating the blue lapis and again it's it's it's all forces it's painted on on the glass and this is real here in the center we have blue lapis and we've got some agates when we look at it it didn't start life on this base this base is later the base was made in the victorian times to hold the cabinet because this style of cabinet would have stood on little ball feet or little spheres and it would have been carried from one room and just placed on the table it's quite an interesting thing even though i'm saying it's false it is very very attractive and uh and quite desirable well it's a nice sunny day and the sun's shining upon you and i would put a value of on this between four to five thousand oh yeah it's a very collectible item now the sunshine look at that look at that that wonderful absolutely fantastic so what on earth do you think this is well it was found in a shed um i think it's something agricultural i'm not sure a venomous substance funnily enough it is a kind of venomous substance actually um what it is despite everything that you might think it could be is a fire extinguisher no i don't believe it no it really really really is um it's the mini max and um we've got some writing on it here and we've got a design registration number and all sorts of information there's a patent number here a design registration number which places it to 1924 and it's full of carbon tetrachloride and carbon tetrachloride is a substance which absorbs oxygen and so the fire breaks out you grab the extinguisher you lob it into the fire and bob becomes your uncle i shall keep it in the kitchen keep it in the kitchen i have to say that carbon tetrachloride is uh carcinogenic we now know it's really ghastly so okay in a way it's a bit of a toxic object um and when it comes it actually has a value because there are people believe it or not who collect these and um i think it would probably sell with or without the mouse poo on it for about a hundred quid wow that's amazing isn't that good yes yeah incredible every now and again you get something turn up which needs further investigation this dish by omar ramsden in silva arguably the best arts and crafts designer of the 20th century when you turn it over it shouts at you there's more going on to it pax the latin for peace 1938 tell me about it well this belonged to my family the chamberlains i'm neville chamberlain's granddaughter and my mother had quite a lot of memorabilia and we've shared it out and i was rather intrigued with this dish and wanted to bring it along i know that it represented the piece in 1938 which was brought about by the munich treaty sure in a nutshell britain germany france and italy were trying to allow germany to sort of regain its borderlands there were opponents such as anthony eden and churchill they were opposed to the agreement but prime minister chamberlain thought it was a good idea because we thought it would stop war with germany and that's the famous saying peace in our time yes but that got a bit distorted over the years everybody thinks it was that if you see the tape of it um he seems to be saying peace for our time it's not peace in our time and it was actually what he was trying to say was peace for a time because he wasn't sure it would last he didn't trust hitler this records the fact that lots of people were thrilled with him and they showered downing street with lots of presents countries and individual presents we don't actually know who it came from i mean there's a lot of symbolism going on in the dish you've got the four sides yes you've got the number four the four nations involved in the treaty i mean it's such a beautiful object you know the symbolism and two collectors these sort of things just don't turn up with that history you being a descendant of chamberlain adds hugely to its value as an omar ramstein dish it's worth seven to nine hundred somewhere in that order with that chamberlain connection it's worth sort of three or four thousand goodness me thank you very much didn't realize it would be so valuable so your 18th century family was immortalized by an artist who learned in america apparently so yes do you know about the painter we understand that he started in bristol for some reason that we don't know he said to america where he became quite well liked by the various burgers and then having made a reputation there he came back to england and presumably mr taylor heard of him and asked him to come and paint him and his wife and after that the rest of the family and what a wonderful way of doing so why it is such an interesting painting is that the deportment of the features that slightly odd way that he's leaning on his finger and the massive emphasis on the waistcoat and the decoration are all things that you see in america and yet he's doing it in england why because the artist joseph blackburn has learned to paint in a different country and has imported that style to britain and then next to mr taylor you have mr taylor's children but what a wonderful concentration again on all the paraphernalia the extra details even the flowers are done with a delicacy that you don't normally see in british portraiture they're rather more generalized this is as it were you know the transatlantic take on the english face and the english body and i can also see that it's signed yes so satisfying to get a clear signature like that i mean what also you're beginning to see um and we're about to move to their mother but these portraits have been slightly over painted in the past there's some very crude areas like her nose that's been given the appearance of a snout here for a very simple reason this is really bad over painting someone has taken a brush to this and made these pictures unnecessarily crude in order to conceal damage take off the overpaint and i think you'll find that those children could hatch into rather beautiful innocent creatures they need restoration in other words then we move to her who i assume is the wife of the mr taylor and the mother of the children yes i have to say i am deeply struck by this why because you have got the best of english with the best of colonial american you've got a wonderful flashy look that's reminiscent of the works of george romney of joshua reynolds and yet you've also got that delicious concentration on detail on lace apparently he learnt to paint the lace when he went to america and i have actually a piece of material with some of the lace on here that came from her dress how terrific we don't know quite which bit but there is the legend there it is oh unquestionably it is i mean it it is such a brilliant sort of scratch and sniff extension to a painting when you can actually hold the fabric that the artist has portrayed i have to say it's a beautiful piece of fabric as well i think she was inclined to have the best at the time she could afford it and she looks the best doesn't she i mean she's a very striking woman again the over paint on the face not very good gosh she could be so much nicer i mean i feel like a makeup artist wanting to redo her i mean you can see in the cracks of the paint just where the the infilling has disfigured her brow but gosh she would be beautiful if she could be restored and cleaned let's talk about values let's start with mr taylor over here i would say that particularly if he could be restored well he's worth something like um seven to ten thousand pounds the three children i think have got great potential and i would put a valuation of about 15 000 possibly even a little bit more right and we come to her who i think is a really beautiful example of this artist's work it's signed she looks at you with that seductive dead look she's got that hugely decorative presence it would go with cushions and curtains in the wealthiest homes anywhere in the world this is worth twenty to thirty thousand pounds well i hope that the relations that are scattered all over the world don't come and claim them thank you very much thank you now something rather unusual is going to happen because alex we haven't really met nope and i know you've got these two books and that is all i know about them so i shall be as surprised as you are when i find out more now tell me about these well these two books were given to my husband when he was nine years old and he was at a prep school in farnam in surrey they were tied with string with a little loop just like something out of a dickens novel and uh he was told that they would be his summer time reading age nine looked at the these are a bit stuffy mart of nations and the island secret well that could be interesting but martin of nations doesn't sound like a well anyway like a great read they were chucked into the back of his cupboard and totally forgotten about and 25 years go by and i get married to this nine-year-old and considerably older absolutely and i find the books and i'm putting them into our bookshelf at home i notice that they're stuck together and i can't understand what's matter with them and look what i found inside take them out and see what's in there oh brilliant 8d everything's 8d and in perfect condition so it wasn't a detention fiona it was a treat and he never opened them so he never realized isn't that amazing i love it that was definitely worth a surprise i'd never guessed i think we'll have those now [Music] well on the antiques road show when we look at medals we're normally looking at medals from past campaigns from major wars the first world war the boer war but now we're going to look at medals from much more recent campaigns relatively modern by those standards and i think by the end of this piece i think viewers will be absolutely stunned at the value we might be putting on some of the medal groups we're here not far from hereford a stone's throw from hereford which to many people mean the headquarters of the sas the special air service an organization that of course is surrounded in mystery but why do you collect modern medals well i've been collecting medals from the age of 12 and the trouble with collecting old victorian medals is there's very little research after all the recipients have died many many years ago so recently i've sold all my old victorian medals and i concentrate on modern medals because the recipients generally are still alive and i can interview them buy them a few drinks get their stories write them down so i find them far more interesting to research than the old victorian medals what puzzles me and i guess would puzzle a lot of people is why if the recipients are still alive that they're willing to sell their medals i think because they've no one to pass them down to in the first place and because they know they're worth an awful lot of money these guys don't generally wear their medals they don't have occasions to wear them so why not sell them for large amounts of money and then someone like me can actually do all the research and preserve their memories only one of these gentlemen has died that's the the owner of the military medal he died last year this group here that group there but before he died i got to interview him and of the others i've interviewed everyone else as well so i've got their complete life story and their military history as well and you've brought some photographs here tell me what these are right that's the regiment it was d squadron they're about to take south georgia and that's the only remaining helicopter that's left out of three and the gentleman on the far left he's the winner of the military medal group that you see down so this group here belongs to him belongs to him on the floor left it's very nice to actually have a photograph of someone about to go into action now this is of course the falcons wall we're talking about yes and i can remember sitting in front of the television in 1982 1982 um and hearing on the news that the argentinians had invaded our territory british territory of south georgia and of course we went to war to protect the falkland islands so you've also brought along another group tell me about this group here yes well that gentleman i've interviewed him about a dozen times and i've written over 25 000 words on his life history and it's a fascinating history but in south georgia there's only about 15 of them actually took south georgia and they posed for that historic photograph this is a photograph that i've seen in many books yes and of course was was quite famously used in the newspapers and the news at the time and which one is he he's kneeling on the bottom right so this this chap here with the moustache yes well it's incredible i mean do you know these groups to special air service very rarely come on the market and um they are worth considerable sums of money now i guess i don't need to tell you this because you must have acquired these yourself have you yes indeed and how what did you pay give an example of some of the amounts of money you paid for these paid 25 000 for the military medal how much 25 000 so for this group of three medals you paid 25 000 pounds how long ago that was about three years ago okay i paid 6 000 for that group there for this group yes these belong to my friends so i didn't buy those and i paid four and a half grand for this one right well okay we know what you paid for some of these groups but you know you've made i think an incredibly good investment because i think today if they came up on the open market i think this group of three with the history that surrounds it could easily make 30 000 pounds and i think if you took a total of the medals the flag the pennants that you've got together here i think we will be looking at something in the region of 80 to 90 000 pounds it's a serious serious collection are you carrying on you collecting still quickly i'm running out of money but i'm still glad i feel very very proud of the fact that you've shown these to me today thank you this is the most remarkable album of postcards i'm flicking through it and page after page of nothing but dollies teddies toys who collected them it was a very dear old friend of mine who was a doll restorer and teddy bear restorer and it was her collection of a lifetime 40 years plus so she collected to that theme because she was in the yes she was now i've cheated because i've gone through them and i've pulled a few out here which i mean led by no means the best but they're the ones that that tickled my fancy and you know when you look at them there's so much detail here here we've got a little group of dolls lots of different ones and another group here with some boy dolls in there this one's a little bit foxed and the these i love because there are the dolls with their owners yes and uh that's that's just great to see them the looks on their faces some of them serious some of them smiling this is great with the child with her doll and the little teddy absolutely i think it's the the mere fact that the children with their toys and also the expression on their faces exactly some are beautiful children and then steering away a little bit from the dolls we've got something perhaps more for the boys here we've got a christmas tree decorated with the allied flags from the first world war oh and this is this is great a letter to father christmas my christmas wish dear blank i do wish santa claus would bring me a blank this year from harrod's toy fair your loving blank and the address how lovely and here we've got father christmas holding a zeppelin which would have been the toy of the moment you know absolutely of its period oh well now i know why i picked this one out because this is a stife card there's a stiff teddy bear in a cart and what's more important for me is that all these figures are actually stiff figures as well and those i've only ever seen in line drawings so you know to me it's it's it's a great discovery to see that they actually did make that make them or at least they made one for the postcard i could go on but i think really what i'm going to talk about just briefly now is about postcard collecting in general because lots of people have collections of postcards usually in albums to fall into pieces and the question i'm always asked is are they valuable and the answer is generally a lot of postcards aren't valuable because people collect by theme when they go to a postcard fair they're not just aimlessly buying they're going there and they're flicking through and saying i need railway cards and i haven't got this one yeah exactly so that's obviously what your friend did she collected in sets she filled all the gaps and what she has got here as a result is something really quite remarkable yes i agree these cards are valuable they would work out at around 10 pounds apiece right and you've got how many there's 300 you do the math [Laughter] well to be honest i inherited them i suppose because she wanted them somebody to look after them she didn't want them to be broken up sold on and so really they've been in the cupboard for a long time and that's where they'll stay i think well they're in safe hands they are thank you very much you'll bring them along thank you now then i wonder how much action this has seen it certainly looks as if it's seen some there's a there's a notch there i wonder whether that's been taken out on the back of somebody's head uh this is a great western railway or as brunel would prefer us probably to say god's wonderful railway constables transition which dates from probably the 1850s but certainly before the telegraph when they needed these people to stop saboteurs and other people pinching railway property this is quite an unusual thing to see are you a collector of transients or no no it's just i'm a railway enthusiast yes and i was given it over 40 years ago by a gentleman who his family owned it originally and it comes from lansdowne junction cheltenham and he thought that i would treasure it more than his family when he passed away and they would only sell it so he gave it through my father to me good and it's in lovely condition for its age most of them are quite damaged the great western railway um constables truncheons were really nicely decorated i understand it was only the great western who decorated in such an elaborate fashion and you can see although it's transferred the quality of the transfer is high and there's a wonderful imperial ground on the trop which makes it look very important and official indeed well because these are so scarce um it is difficult to actually um arrive at a at a price on them but i could well imagine that if you actually wanted to replace these which would you'd have considerable difficulty you could easily be talking as much as a thousand pounds to replace one of these very good very good thank you very much these shells have a distinctly pacific feel in herefordshire how did you come by them well they came into our family through my great aunt who was the daughter-in-law of a well-known ornithologist edgar leopold laird and he was honorary british consul in new caledonia in the sort of indonesian area i think yes the pacific anyway the pacific anyway they have wonderful details here there's sort of native scenes carved here and then quite a european scene here although this is marked new caledonia yes yes yes yes i think something like this would be done obviously because they were trying to please their european visitors or masters at the time and so that you know the carvers would take an engraving an etching from a european piece and put it onto the shell this one in particular fascinates me well we have a note in which my father left that apparently that was engraved we believe by a french forger called turner who was sent to new caledonia uh as a prisoner for the rest of his life because he they were so concerned that if he was left in france he would forge more banknotes and make fortunes i suppose and he certainly obviously was very capable he's an exceptionally fine engraver exquisite this and so difficult to engrave on a shell the chances of breaking it it's a very difficult thing and many of the ones i've seen that are engraved just have one small scene on it this one has all these different little vignettes beautifully detailed and this native inhabitant with a with obviously quite a european idea on the head terribly difficult thing to do wonderful example this engraving here is very reminiscent of something nearest of 1850 1860 i would say on this one whereas these i would say are slightly later okay how many of these examples do you have we have six i think there were more once um my sister really looks after them and one was stolen when their house was burgled and another one actually was given to some friends who were very close to the family so six or eight or so altogether they're extremely decorative um these two i would put at 250 300 pounds each this one because the european subject rather slightly rarer and obviously with the new caledonia i put a little bit more maybe 300 350. this one has so much detail i've never seen one as good as this i mean i have seen a few of these shows but i've never seen one as good as this he obviously was a great engraver which the french government obviously knew and valuation i would say one thousand one thousand two hundred thank you we see lots of tea caddies on the antiques road show but this one just breaks the rules what can you tell me about it it belonged to my granny who was given it by an old lady miss ravenshaw when she died and i know that they had it in their family in about 1850 1860 because she's mentioned it in her diary and that's really all i know about it's been in our family since the 18th i'm sorry 1930s i just want to open it up because this is what got my heart racing when i saw the interior you've got these three canisters for holding your tea the green tea and black tea but what makes this really really special is this it's another caddy so it's a caddy with an academy and i just want to take these out because the cut glass is absolutely exquisite this is to me what's special because tea was very very expensive now you have a cup of tea it's in a mug when they were drinking tea of this period in the 18th century this is an 18th century tea cuddy tea was a real ritual so they would have mixed it in in that one no i think this because this is locked this was another caddy as well because these canisters there's no locks on these when did it get damaged i don't know it was like that when i remember it from a little girl so right thank you um the box itself is made out of satin wood hence it's weight right inside the lid you can see this is sycamore and it's got this lovely checkered decoration it's all in the detail it's fabulous even the lock is actually numbered here you see it's it's like a little safe holding this treasure of tea um any idea what you think it may be worth today well i've always thought about two or three hundred pounds because it was just a pretty the decoration on the outside is very pretty yes yeah but um i've no idea well the box is worth a couple of hundred pounds just as an interesting item when i look at these other items to me that's worth a thousand pounds in that condition cracked and in that condition right so overall we'd say in this condition um i'm quite happy to say this is worth two thousand pounds three two two that would be nice to be three and getting my hope if it was perfect yeah it would be a different story altogether it would be um it could be even five thousand pounds right this is a lovely little piece of furniture lovely little piece so two little thimbles who have these a long time yes um they're given to me by my godmother when i was christened in january 1941. oh lovely yes and you like them i think they're beautiful they're sweet little things thimbles now are getting quite collectible they're thimble collectors clubs which i thought they go mad on these things especially on this little one this is worcester and almost painted by willie powell because his signature is just a vain or there just just a willy w powell oh i never saw that right yeah he was a little hunchback i was he about four foot tall he used to have to sit on a special store to paint the paintings but he was a beautiful painter of birds isn't that lovely 1935 is the state coding so so we're a nice nice early one and that's very very beautiful um this one is much earlier this one is the end of the 19th century decorated with little tiny jewels and all hand gilding all these little jewels are put on by brush little tiny imitating turquoises or or gold spots or something and uh while the little bird thimble is is very collectible now um a little bird symbol like that by willie powell the great painter of the birds um it's going to be something like about 200 pounds right the little thimble with jewels is almost unfindable by by thimble collector they go absolutely so we're looking at something like about five or six hundred pounds guys lovely so so now you must go on sewing must keep them in my cabinet use them i mean willy power would love to know someone was using his little thimble yes a beautiful little man and i know he'd love you to have it and use it oh that's nice thank you well here we have two letters from winston churchill one from christmas 1949 and the other on his birthday the 30th of november 1946 so where did you get these i got those from an antique market right um i just thought they were very interesting and uh winston churchill is a hero yes i hate my very much a hero and what did you pay for for those 150 pounds yes well let me tell you that had they been right yes they've been worth a lot of money i thought they might be wrong well they're facsimiles and they're not worth 150 pounds i have to tell you um there was an auction house in london who used to have these pinned up on their wall uh receptionist because people who used to come in with these and say that they're real and they would say no they're not look up there on the wall but there we are anyway more exciting i suppose is this which is edward elgar's the dream of jurontius by cardinal newman the interesting thing about it it is signed by edward elgar and it's also signed by jaeger who happens to be nimrod nimrod yes who is elgar's great friend of course and he writes a lot of these things um but this is not the score this is just the words to it but it is the first edition the book of words with analytical and descriptive notes by aj yeager there now what did you pay for this well it was in a box of items in a local auction and i paid six pounds for the box of items i think you've done slightly better it's very rare to see elgar autographically with his friend jaeger and i think that that makes this rather exciting my valuation of it um is what somewhere in the region of 800 pounds oh super very good nice one yes so where did you find these down the offi i did barn conversion some years ago and there's a crack in the wall so i had to put a bit of concrete underneath and when i dug under the um barn so these popped out okay i think that's pretty good fortune in there tell us about the date of the building uh that building was about 1860 i think i forget it earlier no no earlier than that come on there's got to be some well there was a there was a farm next door to it and that was probably dated back to about 1700 i think it was certainly on maps of 1704 now we're getting there right because 1720 is this one yeah in 1740 is the day to this one so actually we got good dates i mean what's amazing is bearing in mind all things in mind that they're hidden in a wall and you're smashing around with concrete and pickaxes and barrows and all the rest of it they're a really good nick this one is strangely is northern european might be german right um has um a nice crisp pontil under here with a nice iridescence actually it was covered in iridescence when uh yeah it came off on my hands there's some really nice iridescence in that um so this is for renish german wine probably imported with wine in it oh 1720 right and this one is more unusual this is an english mallet shape and it's distinguished by a very large sharp pontil mark under the base here and isn't that a rustic beast look at that wonky donkey you know you can see really you can imagine some old glass maker in 1735 puffing his lungs into that and having done so still while the glass is still hot it's picking up a seal for a b whoever a b was you should check the details we can't find can't find him and then dropping a dub of glass onto here and pressing that in the manner of the seal of a ceiling a letter his initials onto the bottle and what's strange is that it's a bit like me it's got a really big mouth well i wasn't going to make it i may have to deal with you later [Laughter] so what is basic was basically the rubbish in a wall is not bad money so we've got i don't know two three hundred pounds on this one five six seven hundred on here right so what we have is over a thousand for two green bottles it's that moment on the antiques ratio when it's time for a rendition of singing in the rain it was glorious earlier on and what's happened the heavens have opened but we're going to enjoy ourselves aren't we in your blue max takes more than a spot of rain to put us off [Music] well this is such a pretty little box a little rosewood box with pewter inlay and mother of pearl a little steel handle could be 1840s but it's got a treasure yes and it's got a deer little wax doll tell me what you know about it she was given to my daughter she was left by an old family friend and it came with some uh information about it in in german that it once belonged to the brothers grim and was given to a little girl fantastic well let me just hang on oh this is all in german my german isn't what it a trans was for you thank goodness okay in the year 1848 oh this is interesting so the father of little dorothy was friendly with the grimm brothers and they brought with them one day to the apartment the doll how amazing well i mean the grimm brothers i suppose is whether we know it or not they are part of all our childhoods in 1812 they wrote the great fairy story book tales of children in the home in which were snow white cinderella sleeping beauty and basically any other fairy stories that we've ever heard about first appeared in that book so what a wonderful thing to have been given by them let's let's just have a look at this little doll well she's a poured wax doll she's got her head very sort of realistically turning to one side i love the little printed cotton dress that she's wearing with these tiny buttons interestingly i think that she's an english doll really but having said that the english were very well known for their wax dolls in the early part of the 19th century um as a little doll she's she's all right but not stupendous but she's been sprinkled almost with fairy dust because of her connection with the grimm's brothers and i think that that then puts her into a different league and i would put her value at perhaps four to six hundred pounds so a real a real treasure yes and something that has her own fairy story to tell he does yes wonderful thank you for bringing her thank you it's a really unusual thing to bring to a road show lovely thing to see um where did you get it i had a dear friend an elderly friend who died last year and she requested that i could choose several things from her home and this was one of the items that i chose so what do you know about it very little i don't know how to pronounce it but we believe it's called as a clauson a the song that's right it was called oriental and we understand that it might have had potpourri in it but again we really don't know okay um well that's a good start it is oriental it's chinese and it is clisonne and clasoni is a type of enamel where you have these little clausons or wires which are soldered onto the surface and the color here is colored glass which is floated into the gaps and then ground ground off so that's what clisonna is um it's not really a potpourri it should be filled up with sand to a level and then have incense put into it and then it rises out oh we've got dragons all around these reticulated panels here so smoke would be rising out of it it's an incense burner it's a pretty impressive one too this one dates from somewhere in the 19th century probably the first half of the 19th century but chinese plasonic can be really quite valuable i think if you put that in auction today it would be eight to ten thousand oh thank you very much that's quite amazing we saw this early in the programme but you actually know what it is well i think it's a stirrup cup absolutely stirrup cups first appeared in the mid-18th century and were always foxes but the victorians decided that was a bit boring so they decided to make other things like dogs heads or stirrup cups and server cups were handed up to the master of the hunt just before they went off hunting and what i've got in my hand i've got to say is one of the best ones i've ever actually seen it's got a nice set of marks down the bottom here made by the firm of hunt and roscoe who were one of the best makers of the 19th century and it's got a date letter here for 1869. but what has made this possibly one of the best days i've ever had on any antiques roadshow is the fact in front of us we've got 11 more so how on earth did 11 come to be made well they are all models of real hereford cattle that were shown and won prizes at shows up and down the country and so every time that the owner won with one of his real hereford bills he had a cup modeled on the cow or the bull to celebrate so that's why each one has a name on and this one has got sir hungerford yes that was johnny arkwright's grandfather actually it's a hunger for hoskins so that was named after his grandfather that bull when it was born so hungerford didn't look like this no no good okay so johnny arkwright was resident here at hampton court in 1869 when they were made that's absolutely right he was the owner of the house and the estate and are there any records of him ever using these oh yes very much so they were used on i think at the dinner table as sort of place settings um perhaps i don't know well the the good thing about this particular model is if we put him upside down he sits absolutely like a goblin yes so it must have looked pretty impressive to have 12 of these all around a dining table i mean i i've never ever heard of 12 heard and there's no joke never heard of a set of 12 even though there are some smaller ones and larger ones and they've all got different names on as you say but i have to tell you that stirrup cups are enormously collectible there's been a huge surge in interest in them over the last seven or eight years there are lots of collectors and balls happen to be one of the rarest forms of stirrup cup you can get right so now how long have you had these or they're not mine i'm sorry they were they're um no they're not mine but um because i knew a little of the history of the herd i was asked to bring them today i see and i know that they are kept very safe under lock and key and most of the time occasionally very occasionally used but mostly um kept safe and sound well so you probably haven't got a great idea about what this lot is worth no no more about the value of the creatures themselves well i wouldn't know which was more available yet but maybe you'll tell me but if i tell you that this one which is a wonderful ball with a great big chubby neck it's a beautiful model fabulously textured here really super super example something like this is probably worth at least 10 to 15 000 pounds [Laughter] so times 12 right and for a set yeah there's not going to be much change left out of 150 000 pounds gosh better take them home carefully well they are an extraordinary lot if i ever see anything like this again i will be truly lucky but i've been more than truly lucky just to handle these and see these so thank you so much for bringing them along it's been lovely to bring them back to hampton court today couldn't be a better home could it thank you thank you so we're ending the program as we began with those amazing cow stirrup cups aren't they fabulous from hampton court castle until next time bye-bye jack sparrow's made a deal with davey jones and it's payback time pirates of the caribbean too follows next facing a second chance of life louis theroux joins the inmates of the miami mega jail on bbc 2 or escapes 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