ANTIQUES ROADSHOW COMES TO DUNDEE!

[Music] we like each rodeo to be a voyage of discovery and this week we've come to a place which has close ties to some epic journeys of exploration welcome to dandy [Music] now here's an interesting live effect did you know one time there were more millionaires in Dundee than any other part of Britain it's all down to this jute harvested from a plant in India now it may not look like much but it was one of the most familiar products of the 19th century [Music] this is how it came out of a plant in his natural form then went through a variety of processes to be using all sorts of things like string rope cloth sail cloth flooring clothes and it was all made here in Dundee some fifty thousand people worked in the industry not surprisingly it made some individuals and very wealthy including Duke barracks so James Caird cares like everyone in Dundee watch the exciting launch of this ship the discovery on its maiden voyage in 1901 to Antarctica [Music] below deck is easy to imagine life on board basic with few home comforts this is the captain's cabin Robert Falcon Scott was appointed expedition leader scott lee antarctic of course and he was immensely courageous it's incredible to think that on its maiden journey this was stuck in the ice for three years before it was rescued so James Caird was so impressed by the bravery of the men on the discovery that he later helped fund Shackleton's epic journey on the endurance the Antarctic viola South Pole [Music] as we know it became one of the most incredible adventure stories of all time when the expedition became stranded on the ice just when things looked hopeless Shackleton launched a heroic mission to get help on a lifeboat that lifeboat was named after Sir James Caird and it saved their lives so James Caird left many legacies here in Dundee he funded the construction of this magnificent Hall Kerr Hall which is the venue for our journey into the uncharted waters of today's Roadshow I try very hard not to forget a face and apparently I've met this lady before and the occasion I'm told was my last visit to Dundee with the Antiques Roadshow which was believe it or not way back in 1982 is that right that is correct okay so it wasn't you that I met all those years ago was it not no it was a gentleman okay it was an elderly gentleman friend and that's who had given me the figurine and she's absolutely beautiful I think will concur on that one whenever I look at the figurines of this nature there are several things I look for what is the facial detail and she's got a nice face she's got a lovely face she's got a very well sculpted figure and torso it goes without saying and even little things like the feet I mean the fact that her toenails have all been very carefully carefully carved the actual construction nopsi makes use of bronze and ivory and this is a theme that seems to become very popular during decent early part of the 20th century and then into the 20s and the 30s and there are big names involved here and chip iris and Colin Ian and Ferdinand priests but but yours is actually signed by something called Bartolome yes who's a lesser known maker I'm very competent you've only got to look at the quality of the carving to see that this is obviously a craftsperson so there she is at the moment this type of thing is very very popular they seem to have been discovered by the Russians and the criteria as far as the Russian buyers of concern is to some degree dictated by flesh so if you're showing more than a little bit of ankle that's always a bonus and in this case you're showing you know more than most women it warded wait a bit more exactly I'm trying to be very very don't it's a delicate situation as yes so back in 1982 what price was put on this week from memory what my friend told me it was about maybe about 1,500 to 2,000 I think something like that well with all those Russians chasing this this particular scantily clad Maiden today there's every chance that this figure could make some of the region off between three to four thousand very nice lovely that is nice to know here we are Edinburgh Castle Peep Show absolutely splendid in three languages the Chateau of Emma in French - loss and German and the castle of n Brazos design for tourists really I can ask you to help you open this because it's a lovely bleep show let me and I've got to do you hang on to the bottom and if we go through it we can see the whole streets of Edinburgh and it's vibrant in its colour and I can see somebody in there what looks like a kilt at the end there is that right yes that'll be on the grass market in it I was there the other day and I have to say I do recognize the this building here on the left I don't recognise that when the others areas are completely clear that's the back of the castle yes and that's Castle Terrace here and the old High Street goes down from here it's towards Hollywood Royal back so tell me where did you buy this wonderful sequence of hours ago got it in more of more of a junk shop at an antique shop in Perth yes and when I came across this I just couldn't resist it well I couldn't resist in either I mean apart from the box being rather tacky the inside is as bright and vibrant as ever that's because it been kept out of the dust and it's been handled with care nowadays something like that you'll be paying somewhere in the region of like six or seven hundred pounds really yes absolutely didn't expect that soon they are they are you've done by the world thank you very much thank you for being so what is a nice lady like you doing with an extraordinary carriage slot like this it was part of a collection my father had all these pieces were not naughty pieces like this but just happened to be the nicest one I like to look at and flavors that I was young detail on I was able to keep only one piece from our house with me things are getting very dangerous in Germany where grew up close to the end of the wall and my parents by this time they no longer with me and I just grabbed this inflate were the Russians advancing this yes or they were very closely yes how did you manage to get out well but you just stood by the end of the road and hopeful lift which I got eventually from a German military us and this of course being a small put puppet yes fantastic and you remember it in your childhood yes yes as far as I remember I never went damage was never looked upon to get your time it was just a piece and all of it you know but it does have most extraordinary panels yes yes my father that must have fancied the panel's yes I suspect that's poor little bit oh man don't just tell me now that has been there very little they used to look at it and giggled and thought you better not that mum no we're looking at this naked lady that's terrific well um it's a very pretty little Swiss carriage clock yes with silver gilt construction of case made around 1915 1920 that sort of period and of course the great feature about it are these lovely enamel panels with the semi naked women they're not erotic they're very lovely so as I said Swiss made yes um with a nice white enamel dial and a silver gilt case but most of the gilding has come off the silver it's obviously too much polishing yes well it's still a highly desirable clock in this sort of condition a little bit less than the normal but still every collector in the market should pay between 1500 clearly climbs the plains that was worth pinching off the show that's where you ran for it well thank you very much really thank you very much when I initially looked at this I thought another writing desk and they coming quite regularly but this is something really special because not only is a writing desk its world's first copying machine is it yours is it something you bought it's a colleague of mine he has a special interest in writing slope so we're both journalists so let's have a look at it let's have a look so let me open this and a standard writing slope what's in here are the English candlesticks right on there and then like every writing slope it has some secret drawers and in here we have a brush and a hand we need there you need that thank you this goes in here like so just wind that and we got so what we have here is something that was invented by a Scotsman correct James what James what do you know all about and then when he was working between his Birmingham Factory and the mines down in Cornwall he was travelling backwards and forwards a lot and he obviously needed to have his documents copied so the any way to do that would be to write the letter and he would have sat here writing the letter and then write a copy send the letter off and keep the copy for his files here to launch is very time-consuming being a great engineer he thought I want to find something simple that works that I could actually copy my letters without directly handwriting them again so he developed this and it was painted back in 1780 and this game into production about 1790 so it's well over 200 years old and how it works is although I haven't got a letter I have got a great Antiques Roadshow brochure here you would have written your letter in a special ink and then you would have wetted wetted the tissue and I think we've got some tissue somewhere probably at this side then we understand but all this and some letters here as well the drying book you would have waited the tissue and then you would have put the letter and the tissue together put it on here and then you would have wound the hand hopefully would go in and inside here there are two rolling plates and impress the two together and you would get offset of the actual letter that you had written in the first place you turn that around and then you get a fair copy so you can actually read it so fabulous engenders absolutely ingenious simple but it worked and you know this was invented way before then obviously photocopying or even the typewriter so it's it's a extremely ingenious and beautifully constructed bit of engineering it's also piece of furniture absolutely it's extraordinary that in my whole career which is I hate to say it but it's coming up to 30 years I've only seen three examples one of which I actually handled and we saw one at Ascot slightly different design earlier in the series so like all things you never see one and then to come along together but extraordinary rare I think in the first year they only made 150 the last one to sell at auction sold for twenty six thousand pounds British sterling British sterling not getting twenty six thousand pounds all right the one that came up at auction I have to say had a great provenance and it came from the walk family so that added quite considerably to it but without a doubt I would see this at auction at twelve to fifteen thousand and it could easily make more because it's in fabulous condition well they go great fun to use it's a fabulous piece thank you so much for bringing it thank you very much well these are really nice and early Mickey Mouse slides we've got seven boxes of them all telling a story so how on earth did you actually watch them on these funny little slides well we used to have a sheet printed wall in front of us and dad rigged up a sort of slide show by using a inside of a toilet roll and cardboard a cap through it and then the slides went through and at each slide you had a little story to go with the picture yes so so you'd be propped up and dad would be saying beneath a bright and cheerful Sun Mickey went out right but sprite right yes so when did these date from about 1939 1940 at the beginning of the war when bombing started with three children slept in this cupboard under the stairs sounds cooler but above our hedge used to be books and the toys and the games all in boxes and when the bombs came with the vibration everything fell off the shelves and on to us mum got fed up with pencil sharpening x' and beads and things in the bed so we were all moved to the dining room to sit looking at the war and thus the sides to keep our minds off the bombing the interesting things about the slides we have 8 stories here comprising of two sets of slides yes seven of the eight Oh Mickey yeah and the interesting thing is that they're the early Mickey this is the the rat like Mickey that fell from favoring favour of the kind of cute old version he's got big fists of spiky nose and a tail and it was felt that he was too rat liked to be cute so after the war he was revised into a more sweeter beast yeah so there is an extra repeal in these in that they're the early ones and I think that the current market is around about 50 pounds each so the total is probably about just short of 500 pounds for the lot that's nice but they'll stay for the grand chill I'm sure your story the story that you have about it is about more than their resale value I thank you very much thank you later lovely thank you this is a little rectangular balloon leather box about three inches wide and on the lid we have the nethers M V claytonia s-- that's merchant vessel flight Onias launched nine to the fourth 1948 clearly not by you man and so who did launch this vessel and it was my great-aunt who launched it and did you talk about it at all I mean do you know well and she didn't mention it once or twice but I mean I was on me if I told I think when she died so yeah but Jessie let's this Jimmy well it's quite a small box quite clearly and therefore it's not going to have a grand opulent contents but the contents are incredibly pretty aren't they yes what we have in the box is a sweet little bow shaped brooch yes in platinum and diamonds it now the style of the brooch is interesting because now can we just come back real this back to the year that this launch took place 1948 well may I tell you that there is no way that that brooch was made in 1948 really no I don't think so I think that the retailer who have put this brooch in the box have bought maybe a secondhand brooch and they put it in their own case and they put the you know little motif on the front the brooch itself is very strongly of a period of around about the first world war now the diamonds in the frame are what we call pave-set they're in touching formation but the key to this brooch which I know it's only very very little but the key to this brooch is that when you look at it with a lens through the side you notice that engraved on the center at the side are the magic words Cartier limited that's a whole new ballgame yeah so the value changes dramatically now all right we're not suggesting we've got a large important size Cartier diamond brooch but I don't know about you I think it's an incredibly pretty it is and wearable I don't know whether it's something that you wear but I usually I would it at my wedding but I don't think I've worn it since well I think that such a brooch if it was sold on the open market not that it ever will be I appreciate that but I think that it would be a lot of interest in it but actually because it's so small and so sweet yeah so what are we talking about with prices here the fact is by Cartier means that if you were selling it it would fetch in the region of a couple of thousand pounds that nice piece that she hated you yeah beautiful yes I love it yeah thank you thank you we are surrounded by album cornucopia of radio Times's here yeah what got you collecting all these well I think just them we've got a fuss television set when I was 10 who's then the autumn of 59 and I became a television addict I loved the programmes of the time Wakko and Dixon of dock the mean I eventually managed to purchase four or five of the ones from that time and it's just kind of grown from there how many have you gotten them round about 300 or so untrue you've got some fantastic salted it's look at this well Radio Times 1937 so this is the coronation is it this is the coordination of Georgia 60s what fabulous condition Oh Radio Times television supplement let's see what was on here we go television programs Monday three o'clock to four o'clock close so early on for an hour we've got limited and then knowing a clock till 10 o'clock in the evening for just two hours a day quite enough I suppose I snooze in those days asunder of course of a very few television sets and and it was only the London area that were really receiving television signals in 1937 now what about this one this is it this is an interesting one in as much as it was brought out for the Thunder September 1939 which was of course the day that world war ii broke out and was never used the the they had to change the programs and everyone's attitude was different obviously on Friday the 1st of September but I think the BBC had a meeting Radio Times had a meeting and they decided that they would put another issue oh because they were sure war would be declared so they produce this item but once this Radio Times but then once war was declared it was felt this kind of programming was what too frivolous absolutely so then they brought out another one brought this one here oh I see so this is the Radio Times once war had been declared plus the connect that was on on the streets on the Monday morning get forth broadcasting carries on yes they were they were really ahead of the game they're broadcasting carries on it says here that is the slogan of the BBC in is our national endeavor Wow for nearly a year now the beeps he's been making its plans recognizing the part the broadcast would play in the struggle it could not afford to leave anything to chance oh look at this first steps in first aid first aid that obviously indicates the need for the for the public allows to be aware of deal with within tradition it's pretty sobering stuff actually isn't it it was a very scary time I'm sure and what else have we got here this is a fantastic trip down memory lane is it look watch how you go says PC George Dixon Dixon dog great it's my all-time favorite program doctor Finlay's casebook there's another name to reckon with isn't there that's a very first episode named succeed and you give him the watching man well yes oh my mother was it was an avid fine and well more well and as I said I watched everything anyway I think I was carried off to bed kicking and screaming you know about if there was still something on telly oh and here we have Oh who is this when I knew I was coming along here in the hope of seeing you I thought I would take a chance and ask you to have a look at this and hopefully autograph a photo just off it for you we also have a pen in two-tone oh that's naked in winter time or summer time or leisure time and pleasure time the daily times that Big Ben chimes are ray I'm [Music] you've brought in this interesting piece of pottery to show us a dish double dish indeed with handle in the center the intriguing thing is who made it where are you from yourselves back even fine in faith well there may be a faith connection let's see underneath ah we have an impress mark and it's a very famous name wins if hand of the winners factory very well known it wasn't at weems as some people think it was in Kirk Rd the Fife pottery of Robert tavern made it but the thing that puzzles me is this is not normal wheels decoration normally it's very vivid color large roses fruit very colorful this is very restrained for a piece of women's wear do you know anything about the history of this piece it doesn't actually walk to me a long steal a friend of mine who inherited in her aunt's world her great-great grandfather worked in the pottery forte go italian Kirkcaldy and when he retired dust was given to him as a gift now you've answered the question why doesn't it conform to the usual obviously because she worked they are she'd seen thousands of pieces with brightly painted roses for the retired present they wanted something completely different Wims were started in 1882 went through until about 1932 and I would guess that is nearer the end of that run than the beginning so you're doubly fortunate of a piece of women's wear at all it's it's something these days because anything with a weaners mark it's worth a bit of money but with the story attached and the unusual decoration we're here looking at something like three to four hundred pounds exact like Scoob or than say five hundred and it'll only grow and value a glad to know but being a family heirloom I would guess you're keen to keep it in the family oh yeah that's what it should be it's amazing being up here in Scotland and looking at a watercolour like this because it's like one of the Scottish artists yes the Glasgow successful at the bottom here we have a signature and it's by Johan and an almost unprecedented way which is exactly F Trump he's an artist that was born in Indonesia so Dutch East Indies and came over and studied in Holland in the hague the brizzy's born in the 1870s this would have been painted primarily about 1910 1920 but as extraordinary and this picture which is so like the Scottish watercolour is really at the Glasgow school over here so how did a Dutch painting like this land up here well according to my uncle it was bought by his father my grandfather probably in the 1930s it was certainly bought in Dundee but we know no more about it than that I just love the composition when you look at it this little girl on the swing there and on the left here is the sister dying to have a go in though she's got to wait her turn and I think she's rather impatient yeah is it but you know when you look at a picture like this which is impressionistic yeah look the way that's constructed it's very broadly painted is it's you to stand back to living for it all to come together but it's so cleverly done and then I want to put the value on this because it's your heirloom and I think at auction that would make certainly for 6,000 pounds Evans utter surprise I didn't think of it as much as though Oh mal will be delighted I can see him buying a high-definition television now well that's rather sad I think I'd rather have learned now quite rightly in Dundee we've talked quite a bit about the discovery and the crucial role it played in Antarctic history but there is more to that story isn't done you're from the discovery point nazir act and I think you want to explore with me a lesser-known aspect of it that's correct what I have here really is an example of the starting point for Captain Scott's Antarctic career so what is that after cigarette yeah it's a small cigarette case which was awarded to him in some kits in the West Indies in 1887 he won a kata rate in other words an odd rowing rate yes and was awarded this small cigarette case the key point about the cigarette case is it happened at a time when another interesting Antarctic air characteristic Lenin's Markham he arrived on the scene he was invited by the Commandant of the West Indies squadron and was incent kits at the same time so he saw Scott perform he saw Scott perform and recognised in him the qualities that he thought might be useful for a leader of an expert right so Markham was a sort of talent scout his job unofficially or officially was to go around look at young cadets trainee officers and say he's going for that's exactly what what they did so without that it wouldn't development nothing would have happened no discovery no we wouldn't have all right in Scott now we can go home yeah exactly so what's the book the book is probably one of our star items in the collection it's and so Clements mark and personal photograph album and on the first page here the the ship that took them all to Antarctica the RRS discovery which was built in Dundee is here mean lost result that's the actual ownership 21st March is going young United my script so he assembled what it's like scrapbook it's a scrapbook exactly that with all of the photographs that he acquired over the period of the National Antarctic expedition so it covers the ship what happens it covered it covers all so just have to open this a little bit more this is a particularly interesting photograph but this is a who's who of Antarctic there always were right there all in it you've got ensconced in the center you've got Edward Wilson the famous zoologist yes you've got left Hannon troyes Armitage and then right behind there a brighter place is a Shackleton course who everybody knows not what happened here ah well and William Shackleton same name but as no connect no connection it was the physicist the original physicist on the expedition except he did upset quite a few people within the crew and was decided to take him off the ship yes and so Clemens Mark and Bing who he was decided that he no longer fitted in the expedition just so you just cut him out of you thought Stargate she doesn't think that it is enough you've left the body of the link oh those lines it's so that in itself is a wonderful piece of history that is Antarctica Strip that is that is the who's who what else all right just turn it round again so what's that this is a particularly nice and lovely shot of the discovery leaving Littleton so this is the beginning of the voice it's just beginning under the voyage setting off from New Zealand yeah after having been in drydock having been repaired and off she goes in a trip really which is a trip to the unknown here's like going to the surface of the Moon yeah it's time what all those trips were he has the last great frontier it was the last great fun I mean I find he's so exciting because I try to put myself in the mind of people at that time setting off on these voyages knowing they'd be away for years possibly knowing no idea about what was going to happen it's fantastic stuff I think this is a clear case where objects that superficially have no particular significance are very significant yeah a cigarette case like that without that inscription in that condition is 20 pound yeah that's right add that component you're dealing with a vastly superior some hundreds yeah because as you say without that there would be no holder expeditions no discovery no Scot no nothing the book is a different issue it's clearly a good provenance we're looking at thousands of power.yes because this is such a rare Association of images material ephemera yeah which tells a very personal story from the person who made it all happen here and we were very very excited to get I think I would be thank you you're welcome I bet these have pride of place in your dining room rather actually in my mother staying in room on either side of the Seaboard right what do you know about not very much at all my grandfather bought them and he was told at the time that came from the Jukka Hamilton's past right right that's a grand start the Duke of Hamilton's Palace well it was called Hamilton Palace but it was sold the contents were sold in 1882 it's a very famous auction one of the most famous auctions of the 19th century that these candelabra are clearly to me what's called Rococo revival which started in popular taste in about the 1820s 1830s but for a big very wealthy noble family like the Hamiltons who were in London and buying all the best French things they will be buying French early revival things in the 1810 1820 so ie when he got married or almost certainly in 1819 when it became the Jude just to explain very quickly how I can date these they look like French 17 30s or forties but they're a little bit more clumsy which takes me to England possibly or France in the eighteen twenty eighteen thirty revival period but the most charming thing I have you noticed a dragon no I can't you haven't had a good look at them have you ever really just living there's just always been there gathering dust on mum show maybe but there's a lovely you can see the tail here and it works all the way up into the dragon's mouth there right you know what they're made of no don't honestly I don't know anything about them are they gold I don't think so but I don't know well the gold plating like that they're what evil ormolu which is actually brass or bronze which is then had a coat of gold paste put on with Mercury then it's fire and it just burns itself onto the brass underneath there fantastic things I mean they're just great but I think you're going to have to pay at auction a minimum of two to three thousand pounds really and I think if you could ever prove the provenance either history of them I think it should double it very good I usually talk about military items war items but you've brought along a few items today that are anti-war I haven't dude tell me something about them and who they belong to these refer to my grandmother's brother his name was Bernhard Douglas Taylor this is him that's him yes was he a friend was he a Quaker he was a Quaker the whole family had been Methodists with ton Quaker before the First World War prior to the war starting he took part in many anti-war committees and so did he and once the war had started he helped out with other conscientious objectors and so on when the time came for his drafting he appeared before a panel pleaded this case for not having to join the military what's what's this handwritten letter about that's his declaration to the selection panel oh this is dated January 26 1917 yes he's written here I am NOT underlined a soldier and no amount of coercion can ever cause me to become an instrument for the slaughter of my fellow man so quite clearly he he was a very intense man and definitely not one to you war against his mother whatever else he said to the panel they came to the unanimous agreement that deuter's statement and his eloquence and his intensity lit but he should be fully exempted from military service interesting now this photograph here puzzles me somewhat because this is I guess him is it that's him why is he wearing military uniform what happened was he decided that the help he was giving out to defendants of conscience and so on he could perhaps do more so he decided to go to France to help out there was this while the law was in prayer is still in progress yes but what happened was when he got off the ferry in Cali John Donne came up asked him his business when he explained the Jean Dom said what I suggest to you sir is that you go to the nearest tailors have yourself a uniform made and put it on immediately because if the women of France see you in civilian clothes a young fit here man they're going to tear you to pieces because their men have been dying at the front door yes that's extraordinary isn't it and you've also brought along an armband tell me about this I know nothing about it I can only presume it's part of the Quaker voluntary organisations Mokie well in fact I do know what this is this is the Quaker star eyes and it's the badge of the Quaker relief organization and so he would have worn the Quaker star on his arm well as far as I know he had no other form of insignia on the uniform yes so Louis he would have worn this armband to show who he was to show that he was a Quaker and also of course to support the other Quakers who were also over there because he wouldn't have been alone he would not have been alone but it must have been the most appalling thing actually to be the subject of people's ridicule because he would have been ridiculed at home in Britain I don't know that ridicule was exactly the word I would say dislike didn't the point of being hated hated because it's a strong word yes but the feeling in the country against conscientious objectors such as he was very very strong indeed in fact if you open that door perhaps it's all like I mean yes what's this dated 1916 it looks like my postmark is a letter to him you'll see oh go Mike oh goodness me it's a white feather it's a white feather as in the four feathers film it says noble sir if you are too proud or frightened underlined to fight wear this under one this has been kept it's been kept yes it was kept by my grandmother just to show the feelings that some human beings have towards others he obviously was a man of great deep beliefs absolutely but how must he have felt when he received this how would you feel if you received it I don't know I think from what I've read of his background but he would have accepted it as an example of how human beings can look upon each other and feel sad and sorry for perhaps for the person who wrote it well that's an interesting perspective isn't it I suppose and I have to say that I've never seen another white feather letter ever yes because I doubt whether anybody kept them I I would have thought that I think most people would have been very anxious to get rid of him completely very quickly exactly I actually feel quite privileged to be able to see Injuns it's quite incredible and I wouldn't mind betting that if this was actually sold I'm sure you don't want to do it but also if this was sold at auction today you get a number of people willing to pay probably five six hundred pounds for hmm because it's most unusual I think this is an indictment on war itself or quite and also an indictment on the sort of person that would have sent that letter but I got the whole country felt the same way that corseted course we were very patriotic but I find this in today's world I find this very moving thank you for showing it to me oh thanks very much there's beautiful stars and strike dress obviously fancy dress tell me the story of it well it was designed and made by my grandmother for my mother in 1926 mummy was aged 18 but granny was very thrifty and she was a superb needler woman they're both designed to made clothes so you can see how she's used as red and white and blue cotton sateen fabric cut the red into stripes and put the whole thing together I think the headdress looks rather like something out of a Lyons Corner House waitress is that it well it certainly looks a bit like Wonder Woman doesn't it well I mean what's fantastic about this is but when I think when I was sent off to fancy dress parties I always used to go as a pirate or a nurse because it was easy this is something quite more delightful well I wore it to a fancy dress party in 1981 I worked with silver Lambie Mary Quant tights an advance of Charleston in Internet was sunshine the one thing about this dress is that that period that mid 1920s women after the first world war women were partying they were soaking they were wearing much more makeup one he wasn't allowed to smoke mommy he wasn't smoking and I deal by the shoulder no nails either it's a wonderful example of something from the nineteen twenties just before the crash people were still partying then it got very much more somber after that but this is a fabulous and just beautiful thank you so much thank you for bringing it valuation that these things is so difficult because really it's a very personal thing I mean it certainly be of great interest auction like a tree making 150 200 pound well but I treasured the fact and still in the family and I love having it thank you so much cats and dogs yes then they look good like that in this group I've never seen them grouped like that but I think they do look good they look absolutely spanking don't they that's good despite the little holes yes well yes the little holes down in this one especially have you got cats yourself one cat maybe they played with it or something maybe by Frank Peyton here you see his signature yes done in 1893 so they belong to they belonged to my uncle sister uh-huh and they apparently were a date to my cousin's grandfather but there's no one left to tell the tale well I must say I think I'm I think they're terrific me good don't they I think so yeah I think I actually prefer the dogs although they're perhaps not the more commercial subjects I don't know but I like the dogs because the dogs I think might be portraits of actual dogs a lot of other people have said this just feeling the skin almost you could feel the skin in the feet and yes very lifelike I'm quite lifelike and actually almost photographic and I had this dog particularly he looks like an agent retainer I think yeah it looks like a sort of disgraced politician rather but and he's probably you know the end of his career as a dog he's a spaniel isn't evil yeah and then these Terriers obviously that the one that's lying down he looks like a real old fighter he says there's a rather a grizzled scar denotes um these cats are rather more Saki aren't they you might say yes so then they are cute cats look they are cute yeah and you might even have the three same kittens they've escaped for a mum and they've come to torment this canary yes canary well they can't get it because the cage is well closed so I take part in that it's not too much of a cruel subject but Frank Payton was quite an interesting fella actually because he owed all his fame to printmaking and there's not a lot of money in prints in Victorian Britain because there were so many new houses and they all needed decorating not too expensively people couldn't afford the originals would have the print and it would make you very famous right a bit like if you're a novelist having a film made of your book yes like that um which do you think would be the most valuable of the four um either this one or this one but don't picture yeah I'm not so sure I think that cats reach a wider audience right yes internationally and he is actually internationally known so starting packs of the least popular which might be the age of retainers yeah I'd say he's probably worth about five or six thousand pounds right and then going up to the Terrier up here I think it's a really interesting picture that the dogs have real character and a collector of terriers is probably going to pay between six and eight thousand pounds for him and then I suppose torturing the canary would be next mum and that would be something in the region of eight to ten thousand pearly motifs and then by the time you reach the really cute one with the kittens and month probably worth about term ten to twelve thousand pounds so all in all nearly forty thousand pounds for these [ __ ] age thank you very much not at all [Music] our jewelry expert John Benjamin was seen coming off the plane last night at Dundee Airport staggering on the way to something very very heavy to suitcase I found out today what it is because we asked him if heaven forfend his house would go up in flames what two objects would he rush out with fluffy one in each hand and dirty brush looks at this I know is very heavy neither of the objects you brought a jewelry which intrigues me no you're quite let's start with this one why do you brought this along um all right well this is a bowl that it's fashioned as actually called the greedy squirrel the story behind this bowl was this when I was 17 I left school no qualifications to speak of whatsoever we are very lucky to get a job working in a jewelry shop located in Bloomsbury called cameo corner cameo corner was started by this man here we show a picture of him there we are what's his name Moishe yo ved the mystic a sculptor a jeweler started the shop up with nothing and by the time he died some of the customers of the shop were extraordinary important people including Queen Mary who had her own armchair in the shop that no one else was allowed to sit in for the four years I worked at cameo corner this squirrel sat on the counter in the corner right next to where I worked when I left cameo corner that of course I left about I don't know three four years ago the thing appeared at auction and I was told about it and I thought I have to have the squirrel that squirrel have been winking at me for four years so I bought it and it weighs a ton doesn't it yes it does where 10 I've got say John if you don't mind this ax not the most attractive thing I've ever you don't like it we're not worried about it obviously it means a lot to you it means a great deal to me because it represents my young life in the jewelry industry so there we are and what about the subject here well that is a Silver sugar sifter oh I don't know 12 15 years ago telephone call from one of our branches could I go down to visit a local client who it turned out had a large box of jewelry went to visit this client sure enough the jewelry was astonishing and it turned out that the collection was owned by her father he had made it all he was called Henry George Murphy Henry Murphy was a goldsmith in silversmiths who owned a shop in Marylebone called the Fulton studio and in 1928 after his death in 1939 he churned out the most amazing jewelry and silverware well how did I come by this I researched the man's life we photographed all his jewelry the client said that up in the loft they had the entire archive of the Falken studio it was a time bubble upstairs what a fine and what happened was that we recognized a we because I collaborated with one of our own colleagues on the Antiques Roadshow Paul category we wrote a book about Murphy and they gave me the Silver sugar caster thing she gave it to you yes they gave it to me and what's it worth this you know do you know something Fiona I don't care what it's worth I have something that means a great deal to me because that is a thread in my life and for me that is a very personal piece John thank you thank you this is the kind of thing I could only have dreamt would have arrived at my table today here we have perhaps how can I say one of the legends of golfing history and this is Old Tom Morris can you tell me where this came from it was in it my father's house after his death and when we cleared cleared the house out it were found it right so it wasn't hanging on the wall no okay well let's talk about odd Tom Morris because essentially here we have here a superb photographic image of old Tom Morris and he's on the corsets and hand rooms he's in a bunker which actually to be honest with you is probably not that usual for Old Tom Morris because Old Tom Morris was an exceptional golfer he was regarded as absolutely invincible on the course he actually won the Open of Prestwick four times starting in 1861 I believe and here he is it's aunt Andrews there's a slightly more poignant history to old tom as well because he had a son young Tom loggers and young Tom Morris won the open four times as well but the sad thing is that he died at the age of 24 so we have two generations of a family both exceptional golfers both exceptional Scottish golfers and old Tom here live do I think around about 1904 1905 sadly son died in around about 1875 and it's a very poignant story but added to that we have a man here who to collectors is literally the god of the golfing world and what is more we have a signed photograph aces and I wanted had you ever considered a on this photograph no idea no well this picture is worth two to three thousand pounds I've been offered two thousand Father you haven't been offered enough no because it's an absolute classic of its type and to be honest with you to come to Scotland to find it in Scotland it's kind of made my day that's why I thought it would yes thank you it's great thank you very much for bringing into this bold I love it I really really love it it's fantastic it's a visual feast of best pottery folk art you can get really it's it's a gorgeous thing everything's going on yes it is it's lovely that it's dated 1862 I mean what's that I don't know but I loved the fact that the top hat was coming off I mean it's extraordinary man in a top hat on a bucking bronco yeah it's an assortment of random images we've got this wonderful steam train here we've got two ships some fantastic sleepwear Bowl mm-hmm technically about sleepwear it's pottery which is then coated with a very very thin layer of another color display which is basically liquid clay which is then carved into with this graffito effect the history of sleepwear yeah goes right back into medieval times this being a 19th century piece it became popular throughout really the UK North Devon is very very famous yeah that's like where I'd Barnstable and so forth but we're up in Dundee yeah where did you get this one this I founded my mother's attic when I moved my mother and father to a smaller home this year and Margaret Morin was my great-great aunt and fantastic so this has gone down from person to person yeah and live in the Attic it was in the Attic I think I should be displaying it now would Margaret Morin have made it have designed it it's very unlikely it's more likely it was made perhaps as a present for her better oh but I mean your family records may be able to tell you something about that I need to look into it you need a genealogist and in the family I think it's a gorgeous thing good thank you um I suppose got to think about what it might be worth I suppose in auction 2,000 pounds it's it as much as that oh good it's now I had no idea no idea at all just thought it was a family piece it's great it's lovely it's really really nice I'm sure I shan't be selling it I coveted good oh well I'll take it to my home you could come and look at it sometime thank you thank you very much Thanks the first thing I'd love to ask you is what did you have for breakfast was it taste the marmalade boys it was it was did you turf the bread out of the bread bin first put the clock in did you really I don't expect XD I love that but when I hit looking a bread bin we're here look at this extraordinary machine inside so good mind if I take it out there we go was terrific fun love it to bits I saw it poking out at the top of the red bin I thought myself please let that be what I think it is and it's exactly what I think it is which is great so it's called a skeleton clock the reason it's called the skeleton clock is because the movement plates have been pierced out so that you can see straight through them and you can examine the wheel work in between the two plates whereas normally with a clock you'd have brass plates and you couldn't see any of the wheel work so we call this a skeleton clock so how is it such an extraordinary machine arise here in Dundee well keep in to her family in the Second World War my grandfather was a farmer in Derbyshire and a local businessman approached him at Christmastime he went to some geese than the grandfather had Easter gift to give to his workers at Christmas I couldn't afford to pay my grandfather for the geese so it said I'll give you a clock on the condition he could cover look at it every now and again on the mantelpiece and we've had it ever since in the family what a fantastic story did your father have an interested in clocks in her ology or not that or not but he had a good eye obviously he was a canny Scottish farmer and what sort of date was that second wall I think it was 1941 they came in Tara position was it he won well I'll tell you a little bit about the history of it made around 1830 that sort of period on the front we've got a makers name of our house Liverpool now it's my belief that mr. R has never made this clock I suspect he was a jeweler and it was his shop cloth or shop timepiece and it would have been a wonderful looker and it would have attracted people into the shop and they would have set their watches by the time displayed on the clock and a lot of jewelry shops had a shops regulator or a shops mantle clock and sometimes they showed in the window but very often they wanted to draw people into the jewelry shop so they had a shot clock sitting on that on the table or as a long case lock and people would come and regulate their pocket watches buy it every day or every week and they were very useful at bringing people in but what is particularly fun about this clock is the balance wheel that oscillates backwards and forwards just there that has this lovely snakey which holds the spring which keeps the tension for the balance wheel to oscillate backwards and forwards now this faster the balance wheel oscillates the faster the seconds hand goes round okay and you can make the balance will go faster and slower by adjusting the balance spring the spring that spoiled and that the snake is holding but what is even more wonderful about this is the way that the the two plates of the movement have been pierced out in this lovely geometric design and when you turn the clock around it becomes even more apparent because it's pierced that at the back but it's the layered design that particularly appeals as well it's just beautifully laid out and the one last thing that's just really good quality is when you look at the quality of the wheel work you will notice I don't know whether you've seen it but each wheel has six spokes to each wheel now the average clock has four spokes to each wheel a good quality clock has five spokes but a really good quality clock has six posts it's a sign of exceptional quality - now the last question I have to ask you did it ever have a glass dome not as far as at all we've actually had a duel made for it you have okay just to bring it with you didn't finish it and you don't you didn't have the original base with it no no well that's a shame because the original base in the original game is important to have you know it's just a lovely thing to be able to have with it and you know that's life they break and my wife will kill me for saying this but she was dustings and it's a piece of a shelf and an ornament break my skeleton clock day the other day and she rang me in tears I was likely in tears as well they're incredibly difficult to replace okay well much collected this is a skeleton clock collectors dream I'd love doing it's fantastic clock so it has a market value from a flock of geese don't know how many it was and they would have gone by Christmas whereas here this block is now open market value for this lock take a little bit off the fact that's missing it's it's based in its bag but certainly a collector today would pay between eight and twelve thousand pounds for it didn't good news thank you very much for bringing it thank you it's a terrific lunch thank you this is probably my favorite item of the day it dates from 1602 and it's a pearly pig or doesn't look much like a pig I can hear you say but up here in Scotland a pearly pig is what they call a money box and it used to be used in the Council to find town counselors if they couldn't be bothered to turn up for a meeting so it must have had a few Bob in it could probably do it something like this in the House of Commons if you ask me well now it's going to the local McManus art gallery and museum here and our time here is almost up you had an interesting and eclectic mix of items I think it's fair to say so from the roadshow in Dundee [Music]

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Length: 59min 6sec (3546 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 09 2009