Antiques Roadshow Series 22 Episode 14 Grantham Lincs 2000

[Music] this week we've come to Lincolnshire and to the old market town of Grantham the location of which made it a popular staging post in the days of the Coach and Horses making the long journey north from London indeed the main street is still lined with coaching inns Grantham's most famous son was Sir Isaac Newton in the view of Einstein he was the most important figure in the whole history of science he was the first man who not only understood the forces that govern the universe but he could prove them Newton's early education was here at the King's School but his first few years were miserable he was a weak child and frequently bullied but one day he hit back at his main tormentor pushing his face into a wall and he was never bullied again his initials can still be seen carved into a windowsill of the Great Hall from King's School he went on to Trinity College Cambridge and great academic distinction his home was Woolsthorpe Manor a peaceful seventeenth century farmhouse just outside the town and it was to here that he returned to escape from the plague that was then ravaging Cambridge I must say I'd always thought the story about Newton realizing the effects of gravity by watching an apple fall to earth was probably apocryphal but not all this is the very spot where it happened the original apple tree blew down in the early 19th century but the maid of Kent as the stock was called quickly reroute it self and has since grown back as well as understanding the forces that govern the universe Newton was also fascinated by optics and was the first to understand that sunlight is not just one color but a mixture of different colors by the use of a prism he was able to prove his theory in a very graphic way sunlight fed through the prism separates into its component colors Newton's work on gravity and light refraction all took place in the space of just one year is annus mirabilis well we set up our cameras today in the Grantham mears leisure centre where the large crowd that's already gathered are being entertained in a way that was once so familiar on it is now alas rarely heard so with the nostalgic sounds of the barrel-organ let's now join our experts with the people of Galilee now I am a girl in dire need of a new car and it looks as if I found one any problem is one of us is the wrong size now where did he where did you get it from I bought it from a secondhand shop in Redding in 1976 and I paid 50 pounds for it Ivor Syd for my son yeah now that the cars were actually made by the Austin factory I think there was a government scheme which enabled - hood suffered from lung diseases to work in a factory that were set up in Wales and they used parts from the Austin company in order to make these first of all the first cars were made post-war of 1948 yes the early ones had a little a mascot on the top there and they had a flash on the side saying Austin yes and equally they came in in different colours this is a later color but it's also very popular color this this bright red the one thing that surprises me actually is looking at the dashboard because here in the centre you've got that first of September 1948 put in which was in fact the date that the first one was made yes and usually that is a sign that this particular - insert has been replaced subsequently the the other thing is the serial number down here thirty thousand nine hundred and thirty-four getting pretty late in the run because I think only 31 thousand dollars were made Wednesdays I would imagine it's going to be 68-69 because they stopped in what 1971 yes and then let's have a look at the sharpened there we go this is the sort of engine I need there's no a dipstick to look at no water no windscreen wipers no sadly ideal for me so I think it's an absolute corker you paid I would have said that you should be insuring this for around perhaps a thousand or twelve hundred pounds right so it's actually it's actually done pretty well hydaburg yeah I see your grandfather's cousin she lived in Weymouth the early part century she made six of these books six yeah and where are the other five oh one of my cousin's has one and I'm told that one book was made for the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret and I was accepted by Brooklyn palace did she actually make this leather Shabalala she told all the illustration on the leather herself I think it's a most astonishing piece of work but really what's best about it in a way are the illustrations because she was clearly a very talented water colorist and I mean returned just to the sort of title page here and you can see the pocket Earth basically a fairy book isn't it it seems to me it's about a human child called child hazel and he gets taken up by the fairies and there's badges adventures and then finally he's reunited with his father and it seems for Ticknor awfully long time to do yes because it's him yeah we see it she started it in 1912 and finished it in 1947 yes really a labor of love it's quite extraordinary and as we turn through you see some of these watercolors are absolutely magical and there's no question but but in this book she is showing that she truly believes in the fairies like so many people do yes and copies the naughty the naughty one the naughty ones yeah yes and there's a rather exotic looking for the fairy from Sicily oh yes and all the the fruits and lushness from the warm climates bright colors yes and and then there's this wonderful figure here from the Dakotas right and he's very positive yes I think it's um it's wonderful thing and if if we turn to the dedication we can get a glimpse of her state of mind here dedicated to all those whose joy it is still to believe that far from the restless haunts of men the meadows have their fairies the woods they're elves the hills they're Pixies and the streams their Nimbus and that the forces of nature are divine she truly was a believer wasn't so I mean have you ever thought about valuing it the Victoria and Albert Museum had to look at it they put a value on it some time ago what did they put on it 5,000 5,000 pounds is why I'm not surprised it is actually a very difficult thing to value because in a way the watercolors are the nicest thing about it you know you'd like to be able to frame these and put them on your wall of course it can't because it's this you know it's a complete book and you'd want to have it existing as a book I think really this book has the capacity to command a price double of what you've been told about ten person plans well we've only had the pictures for two weeks so all we know is that it's a Liverpool artist that painted them almost a hundred years ago the artist who said Liverpool you're quite right her name we got it there look we've got B B that's all we're giving we're given b b and down at the let's just good I've got a date there look as in oh six as in 1906 BB Bessie Thunder now we're not absolutely certain if it was her married name or her maiden there but you're quite right because she did have a gallery in Duke Street in Liverpool and I'm told that she is actually a birkenhead girl yeah and of course Birkenhead in the sort of 1900 period quite a quality of artists there I could shoot we've got the della robia pottery and and there was there was a lot going on artistically in Birkenhead in about 1900 but getting back to Bessie now let's let's take tho those top three now you know I don't want to be on calm but they are a bit chocolate boxy don't you think I mean they are they are demure they're less sweet and and I love the fact that there have been portrayed next to an aspidistra because it makes them very much the Edwardian campus and they look very much alive wouldn't you agree yes they are lovely do you think so well I've got to tell you and it's very sad to tell you that Bessie actually used to have stuffed cats and kittens to do that she used to paint and in this case she's actually she's actually she actually painted them on a white on milk glass and it's quite typical for her to use milk glass now I suppose you know the price of cats what's a kitten like that a pedigree 200 pounds that's quite pricey is it no that's the going price the going price okay when it came when it comes to valuing the pair of panels they're worth a bit more than that because they're worth in the region in the region if you want to go replace them 3,000 pounds 3,000 pounds repair and then we've got sound bring him out Wow isn't that wonderful has it been coated in the water Brixton in Devon and the family that evoke that I was evacuated to the grand mother of that family you gave it to me as a present that is before she died in 1948 in 1948 jolly good present do you know when it was married I don't know anything about it at all it was made almost exactly a hundred years before that it dates from around about 1848 perhaps as late as 1850 this comes from the very earliest tradition of glass paperweight surely there were three principal factories all in France making paper weights and they were the clichy Factory the battery factory and the San Luis actory and they are really the big three of paper weights distinguishing which one they come from can be very very tricky and what you actually have to do is you have to learn the different shapes of the Canes which are within them this one comes from the back of our factory if you look in the center of the flower it's got a little red and white spiral which is then surrounded by these tiny little starlets and that's a cane which was only used at baccarat these things cause fires they do I mean it you can put them on a smart Georgian table the light will come in and it will burn a trail across the table it's got a few air bubbles in collectors of these do not like air bubbles but in the sale room this would fetch between eight hundred and a thousand pounds inside and the spring-loaded flap in there yeah which one now I can see there's a battery yes yes but tell thanks the fine electromagnet yes and the contacts are there and the sound down kick mojo you have a piece of paper mache on yep you always say if this was a better äj-- it would be worth a little bit more and I haven't looked underneath I've seen that it is a better age absolutely right yes well I'm very glad you've been listening that's a great company it is indeed papier-mache which when first used for objects was basically introduced by a man called clay that was the first factory we know of and then that was bought out in fact by jenyns and veterans who continued to make the best Regency papier-mache until the eighteen thirties and four times and this would date from its shape just about 1825 285 difficult to be more precise but you see these lovely bright blues yes and this must have been startling when it was new but this panel almost sort of Arabic in desire and then these lovely English flowers that's a nice sort of contra is dates it after the Brighton Pavilion period but before total Victorian Ossetia I don't know what they did in the Victorian people they changed some dimension it never looks white as graceful or elegant yes I have to ask if you have the other one no unfortunately not you know you've got some damage there fortunately that's doesn't really to a me and doesn't matter that much it is quite valuable you man you've got any idea what this well not a clue well even in that state you know that's of two thousand pound arms gosh well it's it's not often we get a collection of Edwardian silk stockings on the road shake there must be a story behind these but where did they come from well they were made by a company called iron our Morley who have been had been manufacturing for three centuries and in the 1890s my husband's grandfather worked for the company and then my husband himself work for the company oh so there is the catalog from I&R moly yes enormous factories stretched over the country and this is actually got all the lists and the prices and these seem to have some labels on the tops of each of them well we think they're probably samples for representatives to take to the bigger outlets yeah this is what staggered me I look at they're looking at the prices for a quarter of a dozen boxes so in other words three pairs of stockings 72 shillings so that is over a pound of AB solutely I mean I don't know what a pair of stockings cost today but that sounds like a lot of money to me and we've actually got a list here as well which says that it's from the period 1901 to 1909 and I love the thing it says these are to be worn with long frocks and sort stockings have worn generally only by people with means so obviously very very expensive well the other thing I love about them is that in the Edwardian era it was still very much the fashion for ladies to wear gowns that virtually came down to the floor because even showing an ankle instead of you know late Victorian times Edwardian times was considered quite risque and I love this pair here which have got little Lacey Lacey bit and all that just for a merest glimmer of a glimpse of a lady's ankle do they fit yes they're ladies and they're do come I've got my trousers on today but they would come mid thigh and I have no idea whether they sort of suspend the belts or garters or whatever the whole I really don't know either there must have been something hidden underneath well as a boy I'm professing ignorance along in terms of value today it's it's quite a difficult figure to put on them I mean I think if we look at a pound in 1901 and 1910 and we translate that up to day I would imagine that some of those are more decorative pairs are probably going to be worth sort of getting on for a hundred pounds and perhaps less so for the black ones well we're very used to seeing reproductions of Russel Flint's wear on this program coloured reproductions which often on their own fetch several hundred pounds yes but this is fantastic this is an original watercolor message by Russell flinch and wonderful I mean it it's it's absolutely typical this is sort of valid for luxurious female scizor and I think this is one of his favourite leisure models that's Ryan I Cecilia Green and if you look on the back of the picture you will see the artist dedication how fascinated a is there it is it's a senior reading and it says he has especially painted on the 2nd of January 1964 from my dear friend EJ Jay is that he was my father so it's all father who was given this by Russell Venter and it says with lasting gratitude for his introduction to Cecilia that's right yes as it says here he says Russell Flynt a kindness which has brought great happiness into my life that introduction why did he find Cecilia either at the Royal Photographic Society or the Camera Club where he used to go once a week or once a month but he was a photographer he was amazing and he came up with a real beauty fantasy that's right what I think so wonderful about Russell flinders the way he gets these beautiful girls and he puts them in dresses that are always one size too small yes he loved to paint the the dress Falls he loved the paint the dress folds he had beautifully done here he was also a master of the tones of flesh I mean that is absolutely his trademark and another aspect of his technique which is so distinctive and so incredibly well done is the way he paints with a very wet brush and he paints with great Authority with great immediacy that he paints on this very rough textured piece like so it's almost as if he's lodging a pigment of the paint onto this rough texture one of the reasons why it's so successful a wonderful thing and actually a fascinating insight into the way Russell Flint worked and how he met one of his very famous models I think you should probably insure it for something like 10,000 pounds well I feel as if I've been transported from Grantham Mears leisure center to the old corsets and Andrews because here we have edited highlights of the course and here at the top it says spotlight golf what on earth am I looking at well this is a golf machine from the early 1930s as far as I can tell by the original balls that were in the machine it's it's what sort of skill machine you know no you can actually play again with one or two players you you're actually hit a golf ball with a golf club well this is this is too good a description to ignore I'm going to get in here and have a look at the gubbins well there's a green box here which is good a golf ball oh that's right it's an original golf ball now what would you you stretch that out to its fullest extent and then hit it with a golf club right moves yeah that's right which moves that out and also when you put a draw or a fade on it go to the right or to the left and that is somehow then leaked romaji transmitted by an electrical current through this wire into the machine and in behind this parchment there's centrifugal weights that the current activate and that moves a light which behind it is a mirror and it turns right or left and it's puts a spotlight where the ball would have landed you're including the ruff including the ruff and also it lights up says out of bounds as the ball goes out of bounds that's oh it isn't actually it's a simulation of playing actual golf course which is the old Sanders course what I'd like to do is just have a look inside what's the best way of exposing the the mechanism take this right cab lovely so here we've got the various counter balances that's right and then this is the down in here you've got the light shining onto the mirror that's right which then illuminates the actual spot where the ball lands well I suppose we ought to to talk about value I mean the last one that I saw that came up for auction was about three or four years ago now I know the market has moved on a fair bit since then but it went for between remember exactly was either 250 or 350 pounds I mean I think that the the market for for this kind of object is very much in the States yes and I think that an American would look at this love it but then think how much is this going to cost to take back but having said that when you go to see another one it is absolutely trying to really it is and one thing I have to do is have a good I just happened to have a golf club here now then well we began by talking about Grantham's most famous son Sir Isaac Newton now here's her most famous daughter Margaret Thatcher of course I assumed this was a cartoon from the local newspapers it yes this is from our local paper the Branson Journal and was published late in 1990s what's the story behind in the cartoons well there was some moves locally to have some sort of monument Margaret Thatcher in the town and it's met with a rather mixed reception shall we say no there isn't there's a plaque on the house where she was born in fact you can see that here in this picture that's the shop it's a health center now they're carting her off to the rhythm the rhythm is the local River so obviously some people didn't approve of the idea of the monument and made their views now off she goes check the stream and tell Toby as well yes I have this is one other limited edition Toby jugg we've got Dennis being his normal loyal supporting self the Iron Lady that was based I think on the spitting image and of course those turkeys now are very collectible especially at political figures yes and we're actually making quite a collection in the local museum here in Grantham relating to his Margaret Thatcher ranging from one of her blue suits to items like this well thank you very much for letting us see them thank you if it went into someone you'd have to push it right through these ones will do more damage on the way I know we shouldn't put elbows on but it does invite you to get informal this table this is a family dining table and they've got these lovely dark patches where the tables been set and left yeah in the sunshine so I mean well the Sun has got to this part and not to these so we've got all that the placemats the placement placement matter normally left in the tissue yes right thanks well that's that's the store have it now it's uh 1792 1810 and the latest two designs by Sheraton this sort of taper leg with what we call a spade foot very very delicate it's a very very finely drawn leg and so what can you see 868 comfortably a nice wide table everybody can talk to everybody else but ya know excellent excellent now do you have the other parts - I didn't know there were any other parts right well this is the center part of a long dining table oh there should be 2d ends that went on similar legs and the fries round under the top and they clipped in and it had two little tongues which have been removed there and there and that was a little tongue that fitted into a little slot or groove in the end part and some sort of u-shaped clips went in to hold the whole thing together then you could drop these down and put the 2d ends here if you wished so you could have a table with ends which would see six or eight or fourteen and of course what's happened over the years depending on how long you've had it but probably in the last century the table was sold or somebody died the owner died and uncle George and auntie ad had the two ends and cousin Alice had the middle bit you've got the middle bit because I think the sad thing about that is of course that if you've got the two ends as well you've got a table worth about fifteen thousand pounds as it is it's a table worth about two and a half to three thousand pounds anyway these are your chairs as well correct yes same period slightly earlier I mean you could say these are 1785 to 1795 they're before the turn of the 18th into the 19th century it's a known model that particular shield back is the first sort of sign of dating or the first thing you look for which gives you that sort of post 1775 and then if you see it you've got that's one arm you've got a single if you look at this part it's it's rather like a Chinaman's happens it's like a little mandarins hat and then you've got this wonderful sort of dueling leaf shape here very simple beautifully done lovely little scroll carving each of those circles absolutely immaculate very very smart chairs there are seven chairs like we're sitting on and right carvers that's nine internal well individually I suppose that is is in the region of two thousand mm 250 something like that these are worth sort of three four hundred pounds a single chair if you've got nine of these then they are worth as much as the table would have been nine chairs of that pattern I worth twelve to fifteen thousand pounds so they've got to be kept together and it's I can tell you what patriotism but they're very nice / very decorative she's had a new human perhaps bu and a bad morning it just comes belong to this lady and it is Japanese hello isn't that fun this is a no mass in O H from the no play and this would have been worn in a Drama yes and the character would have come on I can tell you who he is but they are are actually all identifiable where'd it come from gave it to my husband about 20 odd years ago yes he did say it was antique and it was meant to protect the lady's family when my husband was away from home that's a nice idea I like that it's actually got some age to it this one it's certainly 19th century in modified area and they are quite collectible I mean that's going to be worth around 250 to 350 pounds very nice I love it I love the idea that when we were all been couch potatoes and the 1970s watching the advertisement for mash gets smashed and they just couldn't understand why we humans would actually want to peel potatoes when for mash it all came in a packet but I think it's fantastic eventually saved this little chap and it still works I suppose now he's probably gonna be worth some 20,000 pounds where did all this come from because they're really you know interesting group just different places we've collected them over the years is mostly about twenty years ago we've not plated anything brokeness off my husband and her husband travels around the country and you see something else he's got a good eye I particularly like this one is the repair to it there is a pair yeah that makes such a difference because a pair of course is not worth double one it's worth three times one someone should never split pairs up this is a very fine piece of bone china made by the Royal Crown Derby factory and in fact that little symbol underneath the bottom there is a date code which one could look up do you know what it is I think it's about 1907 that would that would fit beautiful sprays of summer flowers and painted by Jean Jessup not somebody I know particularly well did you know that was signed no it didn't well often these fine quality was made by people like Darby Worcester coal port at this date in the early 20th century they often were signed splendid pair of ours is I mean and the other one in good condition too it's just got a little bit of damage on one of the corners there but not very much right well that will affect the price do you know what your husband pay for them 95 pound well he did rather well I mean now we're now looking at around 1,800 to turn off thousand pounds with this me there we have two very beautiful silver tea caddies and from the style they must date from the latter part of the 18th century on the bottom we have the hallmarks the full set of hallmarks and from those they tell us that the pieces were made by Aaron de sturgeon in 1774 and they are bright cut engraved which was the height of fashion in England in the 1770s if you can imagine a beautiful Georgian drawing-room lit only by candlelight you can see how that would reflect with that bright cut engraving now tea caddies have been made since the early part of the 18th century but this oval style became most popular in the 1770s the engraved coat of arms dates obviously from 1775 there's a ribbon tied cartouche with husk swags and it's typical of that period do you know where there was a marriage in the 1775 I've no idea at all they belong to my in-laws family because I think that you will find these were made to celebrate a marriage and it's it's it's quite typical that silver was made to celebrate a marriage but it's not very typical to find pieces still in the same family after 225 years what is also nice is the torture cell box this is tortoise shell lined with ivory yes and with a silver handle and tortoise shell like this was made in the Hawksbill turtle and today it is very difficult to find tortoiseshell in good condition now what about value1 caddy like that in that sort of condition is worth about two two and a half thousand pounds we have to because you've got to you don't just double the price you probably treble it so three times two and a half thousand seven thousand five hundred but then you've got the box as well oh you know what the box is worth on no no I mean the box is so wonderful that the box is worth two thousand pounds on its own put it all together and you've got a caddy set worth in excess of 10,000 well there's a splendid collection of Staffordshire figures you've brought along have you been collecting for a long time yes this collection was compiled over about a 20 year period mainly in the sixties and seventies oh so these were bought when these things were not quite as fashionable as they are now sir I think a lot of the smaller figures are around a sort of 15 pounds these are these are very interesting figures because most of them were made in the 1820s and 1830s and they have this bakas this from lighting and behind and this is really in imitation of the 18th century figures I'm sure you know like Chelsea and so on it's a part of the revived Rococo to have these as part of their style and they really are very remarkable but then in another way they are just sort of peasant art they're not very sophisticated and at the time they were made they were very inexpensive to buy people just got them at fairground and so on and they reflected the life of the times they actually predate of course the stuff a flat not figure and sure you know I'd particularly like this figure songsters and there you see she is playing a triangle he's playing some kind of flute it's a wonderful figure that and on the back we have the mark Walton you know Walton of course John Walton who was potting from 1820 to 1846 and is principally known for this kind of figure so it's a rare figure and it's one of a pair and it's one of a pair and then here we've got this Ram and again you've got the mud cast at the background and we turn him around again and another name which is a very rare name sell now now settlement I don't know if I've ever seen another Selman mark Pete's he was a Potter who came after John Walton in the 1860 period 64 65 and that's an extremely rare figure you can perhaps see on it there has been some repair and this is one of the problems with these figures I'm sure you realize yes and that affects the price the figures have gone up a great deal in price since you paid fifteen or twenty pounds or whatever it was for them those nowadays with the mark are getting on for something in the region of 750 even a thousand pounds for one that's not being restored for a pair each each well they've gone up enormous length and as for the others they will range dependent on the amount of damage the amount of restoration the rarity of the figure bit like postage jumps but they will range over anything from three to seven or eight hundred pounds each it's very pleasing it was a peace offering from my husband after a very disastrous dinner party in which one of the guests he'd invited didn't eat anything I had served and I actually had to send out to the local pub for the steak and kidney powerful well it's a very very pretty big beautiful airports before about 1850 Opie's came from Czechoslovakia and they are probable that all little things and in 1850 they started opening up the opal mines in Australia and where opals get this lovely colour form sadly play of color is there made of silica and water and it's the water which actually makes the opal because it's like an oil slick you get this play diffraction between the different layers of the silica or the water in between and that's sometimes why people think opals are unlucky because they can dry out so you don't really want to keep them in a very very dry atmosphere and did you manage to find out what your husband paid her no I shouldn't think it was over the top because I don't think it was that big an apology well I think it was a pretty handsome apology actually because for insurance purposes a high would value this necklace about somewhere between five and six thousand pounds today well I definitely think so okay I just wanted that but actually oh this one well that was a birthday present oh that's pretty fabulous one as well that I think was reasonably expensive thousand pounds really well that's much more valuable actually because that's a black over for good eye for these things myself right first things first rusty paperclips and old paper don't go together they are again to give you that back they shouldn't be seen together so I got here a draft for a letter it is signed a are on the bottom here and as I look here I see dear mr. rook now is this mr. rook it certainly is and who is Miss Rolle well he was he wasn't at Oxford and Ferris was one of his tutors but he was a poet he was a war Persian published yes yeah but but actually that wasn't his livelihood I know he's a wine merchants in fact well because that's a poet in a wine note and what could be better and here we are most extraordinary letter from CS Lewis all in his hand and he often had his letters typed or his letters were tied yes or written by his brother but this is entirely in his hand an extraordinary letter a very interesting letter because it sets out lots of points of philosophy about poetry all sorts of things and here we are one two three and a half pages and he signs it here at the bottom and do not feel under any obligation to answer this out of courtesy on the other hand do not hesitate to continue the discussion if you wish I always have time for your sort of letter yours CS Lewis so he gives him tremendous amount of praise there I mean that's quite incredible isn't really yeah and here the author of the Narnia books is here again dear mr. rook wonderful letters absolutely tremendous full of little diagrams and all sorts of things but this one instead of three and a half pages runs to five abandon hope about oysters I've been trying to learn to like them for 39 years no success yours CS Lewis absolutely fantastic then you also bring in not so exciting perhaps but nevertheless somebody who is a member of the Inklings at the yes they were a group of literary like-minded professors they used to meet at the eagle and child which they in Oxford in some Giles which they called the burden baby because we've actually got a silver cigarette-box at home where they've find inside this is too much but it's also faded I didn't think you'd be particularly any to you brother too hard anyway a copy of The Hobbit now it's not a first edition of The Hobbit it doesn't have a dust wrapper it's rather dirty so I'm not particularly going to get excited about it a second impression but inside you have this postcard from Tokyo yeah the Lord of the Rings and the person who wrote this particular book but on the back here just look at this this lovely lovely script and he signs it jay-ar and a wonderful flourish team and if you look at this could because he did all the illustrations if you look at this map here you can see the similarity between the scripts I know today particularly the one at the back here which i think is absolutely wonderful which has got more colour in it but they're so Dory's I mean this is a completely different age I mean who would think of doing that you get on your mobile wouldn't you and you just ring it in and it'll all be lost but here it is now the unusual thing that we tell you about correspondence among professors in university colleges is that they all made provision mostly made provision for their letters to be received into one of the big university libraries or something like that so I have to say that a postcard from Tolkien is quite rare letters of this quality from CS Lewis are extremely rare because they nearly always ended up in universe now tell me do you have any idea what sort of value one would put on a five-page letter of CS lewis a three-page letter i only put on a family value that it was you know something from somebody famous who written to somebody in the family i hadn't thought of it as a monetary value at all well they do have a monetary value this charming little tokyo item would sell for five hundred pounds yes five hundred vans just that now if it said something about The Hobbit all if it had said something about the Lord of the Rings we'd be talking about probably double that he's very desirable CS Lewis Shadowlands and all the productive has come out recently about him and all that sort of thing is a very interesting of fascinating person and so a letter like this where he goes into a lot of detail about his scholarly work and his scholarly ideas would be very valuable so a three-page letter would be worth somewhere in the region of fifteen hundred pounds but a five-page letter I have to say is worth two and a half thousand I can't help Phoebe you've got a whole hoard thank you for bringing me thank you very very much well the end of our day here in Grantham especially memorable for the quality of the furniture the jewelry and certainly the finest the prettiest tea caddy that I've ever seen so our thanks to everyone here and I hope you'll join us for another Antiques Roadshow next week until then investigating the computer giant caught up in the software Wars the money program begins in a few moments on BBC two here on BBC one life as a game warden and a crew member on a tallship holiday fasten your seat belt is next [Music]

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Length: 44min 3sec (2643 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 10 2020