Antiques Roadshow: Stirling University (1996)

Scotland with the Antiques Roadshow [Music] one of the most impressive landmarks in Scotland is here in sterling a huge monument to William Wallace the great defender of Scottish independence who humiliated the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge at the end of the thirteenth century Wallace was later captured by the English hanged drawn and quartered his body publicly displayed in various towns the English thought this would deter the Scots from further rebellion but it did the opposite and on the 23rd and 24th of June 1314 they took their revenge at a place called Bannockburn on one side the Scottish forces under Robert the Bruce on the other side the English army of Edward ii the result was a resounding victory for the Scots and all because of this it's known as a Calthrop these crude spikes were scattered all over the battlefields by the Scottish army they got into the hooves of the English horses and brought the cavalry down the Calthrop changed the course of Scottish history for 300 years the Battle of Bannockburn was one of those turning points in history which determine the future of whole countries even continents the freedom was won by Robert the Bruce in this bloody encounter endured much longer than he could ever have imagined and made him a legendary figure in Scottish history this piece of simple artwork sees it through a child's eye and uses the name Bruce to tell the story Bruce was very strong and Robert was his name undefeated were the Scots at Bannockburn cowardly the English ran away England was defeated we've come to Stirling University built in the grounds of f3 castle it's a fine campus on the outskirts of the town with plenty of space for us here in the University Sports Centre on the pottery and porcelain tables always very busy for us we have father-and-son team of Henry and John fandom looking out for the best of the furniture there's John Bligh so let's now join them with the people of Stirling it was my great great great grandfather dr. John Livingston who was working for me British East India shipping company his on a voyage out to China and they stopped office on talena where Napoleon was actually ill and apparently dying and he was brought in to see they dying Napoleon obviously couldn't do much for him but he seemed to come away with us this box now we don't know whether he was given it or whether he finished it well this is a fascinating early 19th century French dressing case containing everything the gentleman valet would have needed to look after his gentlemen form during breakfast and it was made between 1809 and 1819 by a chap called Blackie air who's in the roof out on a rail achieving that obviously was a smart street to bear and as I said contains everything you'd need there's cutthroat razors and a little forwarding comb and you've got your toothbrush and a hook to hang something on it has to be very important and that's a nap in the hook either while you were shaving or while you were breakfast that sort of goes over your collar those prongs go to your napkin Thanks watch this well this looks like a little dragon well I think that's got its screw thread broken off to make the hole to put the pocket why use for any meeting one on the hook I'm not really quite sure and that is your shaving Bowl now the most vital thing of course is your shaving pot which is that which has hang it season and these always have an anti-clockwise thread I almost had a student in the wrong way so that when you tilt it with your right hand it doesn't actually unscrew and deposit hot water all over the table and then there's a spirit line yes turns on - Peters right there and then after you've had your shave or maybe before you have your shaker there's a fairly terrifying experience such thing that actually hurt you'd have had your hot chocolate how did this delightful little part where this horse's head spout which is really very typical of that period and your milk jug which is actually very unusual being of this part of the glass and partly silver construction and the handle which normally wouldn't go up like that is flattened so it actually fits inside the box it's a very interesting sense and and of the period but it's not many of those outstanding quality that one would have expected and there's absolutely no insignia Robert I think one disassociates to pay and promise it probably has a value in the vision of three to five thousand pounds and if one could actually absolutely prove the association with Napoleon I think that price could increase considerably well this is one of the great William Britain commemorative toys made in 1953 to commemorate the coronation of the present Queen and what's exceptional about this one is that it's so complete and it's the largest set I think the largest said they actually ever made has it been played with much I want another last renewed five years so it's an exceptional time now what also makes it quite unusual is is the original Buckingham Palace background rich colors so we can actually set it up and play with it and examine it and give you hours of fun so it's a true representation of the coronation in miniature here's the famous coronation coach and just inside there you can see her majesty the queen sita's on her way to the coronation I just noticed that actually the front is slightly damaged was it like that when you bought it at what well it's probably better to believe it exactly as it is and then here we have the full set of horses and the outriders that it has all the regiments that originally would have been there on Coronation day all individually hand-painted not mass-produced each one is slightly different from the next one and the cavalry officers and all the entourage are there it's equal acquired it 25 years ago do you know remember how much you paid for it there about I'd French five pounds I mean it's not a bad return on investment today I mean such a set when they appear at auction normally fetch between 800 and 1,000 pounds so from your 5 pounds it's appreciated quite considerably my first reaction is aa big piece of cool pottery but this is as you well know a piece of klaris clip the likes of which I have never seen before what can you tell me about that well my father bought it in about 1946 that's a shot behind Blackpool Tower it was a big department store and he paid 4 pounds 50 for it and we were told that it would be bought in the made for the last Empire Exhibition well that that really would would make sense I mean let's just have a look at the pot for a starter because the technical term pura is a globe part and that's about 18 inches which is about as big as they come but I'm not quite sure that it that it's worked a hundred percent cos just looking at the way that this this green band is fine I don't think it's fine just right I'm sure that they weren't 100% happy with it right and then the central feature really is this this lovely wideband with this blue scroll and there's those little pink flower heads with yellow centres again that that sort of very pale sort of mint green and then this sort of manganese this manganese sort of B design now as I say it doesn't fit into the mainstream but it is desirable when it comes to the value I mean if I saw this in an auction I'd expect the bidding to start at a thousand but I would expect the bidding to stop at around three thousand pounds but I have to say that's that's more of a guesstimate than an estimate because I've simply not seen one before I love miniature furniture anyway and I also love marquetry the best Dutch market real market we in the nap style which this is of course and this is the craft that we we learned from the Dutch imported from Holland in the 17th century and age has given it this this mellow color look like in two I mean look at yes I love the elements a particularly liked it and then of course you've got all the shape you would expect to see in a piece of Dutch furniture from just about the 1760 1717 mid 18th century these escutcheons might be a little bit later but you know that's academic we must have a look inside oh look at that oh so sweet look I say look you know all about it I'm sure I mean I'm well the Bourbon time shades very very pretty ah goodness what a treasure and I think also I mean if one is being really critical then originally the top would have had marquetry on it but I mean that is so minor when one considers the the great age and the intricate beauty of what a gem the miniature furniture does have a disproportionate value when it's of this period if you if you had any thoughts on this at all did you have this valuable yes I did yes I think it was a thousand really liked it very much but Peter yes it's about four thousand all rather familiar looking faces in this wonderful caricature are brought in Beyond the Fringe the establishment coordinator and are the young-looking Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook I think that is he and Alan Bennett quite distinctives there and last but not least mm black God be more wonderful in very very early on when they were just out of the Cambridge Footlights and they were had this wonderful new revue called Beyond the Fringe and it was really the early sixties and the birth of satire let's first of all look at the artists and Koya and then the choir I think my mother-in-law was great friend of his and his wife cuz he I think I'm right in saying has been a caricaturist cartoonist on The Scotsman it's just contributing regularly to the Scotsman it still is what a brilliant caricaturist he is because his Johnson Miller and it's wonderful where he's sitting which is language and then there's this rather wonderful confident players of each occur next door and then this lot of stuff dries like the humorous and slightly laid-back look of Alan Bennett and then this wonderful tortured insecure hardly more at the end and who who would have thought any what what what great careers were ahead of them all in their different ways when this was done I mean see it's a wonderful object it's thank you very difficult there to say what is worth I mean I can say what what it's worth as it as a drawing that's 150 200 pounds it said from that point of view not a great deal but as a as a piece of history for the future it's something to keep keep and treasure meanwhile from a financial point of view keep keep doing it oscillate there we have the mark dalton Bunnykins mother bunny [ __ ] that's what it says typical 20th century slip cast pottery figure there she is nursing her little baby bunny thousands of 1500 pounds she's very charming isn't she it was brought inherent by my mother for my grandmother who collected lolly who loved it and she paid five pounds for it and in 1934 it was a lot of money from the father for spending that much did she yeah no I'm July Lily yes I love it they must be genetic they're moving from mother to daughter et cetera here well this design was very popular in its day that referred to a swirling trout don't ask me why but they made all sort of different sizes of bowls and plates and I think it works very well you get that sort of you get the effect that they they're going down the plughole aren't they sort of thing that's right any more bids oh you have oh right and there is the plate yeah but the nice thing about this is that it's opalescent it's got this nice sort of milky blue and it really looks a part when you see it against a dark background I mean value that's around about what at the moment about 300 maybe 350 this is it's about the same for the dish actually around about 300 350 but there's more yeah quite a nice dish I mean F explained it and meant to be flat on the table like this not hang on the wall on wash boring but you wouldn't like to be hung up like that on water you must get these blessed example it is how do you get it up well you have them cut off I mean it's a Heath Robinson effort got this I mean which comes first the wire the straight order but but you would like behalf on the wall like that would you I used to sell these as ashtrays but I found it they sold better if I call in sondry air and the fresh word yeah but it made a whole series of them and there are people who collect lovely song you know yes that that particular one with a the dock is it's going to be in the region round about 200 to 300 pounds you've got to give up smoking to afford some wine on again not yet a valuable antique but I see this is only what this is a dummy draw here what on earth is it a saint good do you know I've seen an eighteenth-century Ohio never seen I have never seen an Edwardian for this period isn't that fantastic where did you put it in the dining room the people have a too good a meal they don't have far to go to sleep it's called Danny's the water carries I think it's one of his most stylish figure of Oz's that he ever made quite simple with these female figures and there they've got these sort of water systems around for on their shawl and this torrent torrent of water pouring down and it makes for a very very elegant freeze date-wise well pre probably pre 1939 I mean I bet your mother had to pay or your grandmother had to pay more than five pounds for this together I don't know how many of my grandpa probably in about 36 2007 when I first remember well I don't think you'd have them any any problems today clearing around the thousand pound mark Lord yes it scores quite highly war is great debates with an urn like this as to whether it will say for tea or hot water or coffee what do you use it for just a weekend that's fine that's fair enough it's a wonderful object do you know the period of it I believe it's Georgian yes in fact it's joyful love there's this super piece of chinoise rain be at the end of the Rococo period mid 18th century then to the the Chinese phase off the Rotato the movement the flow that there is that and it's beautifully illustrated here I love the Chinese figure on the top with his little tea bowl and saucer it's so appropriate here these panels almost certainly after peal more there this one with the rebels all on section that and the obelisk in the background a that actually is one of the closest to they peel more originals and one of the great problems of rare character of course is that so often people are arguing that all the decoration is later now in this case it's absolutely right absolutely original the spouts super broker to work ending in this dolphins head there have been a plane to start off with then that would be a plain simple smelt it has some stage in its life had little bit of work done on it the chap sitting there has in fact got a nineteenth-century Barnard mark on him so I suspect at some stage the original tap was lost and replaced and a literally the fitting here cannot you see you see the lugs just at that point that little place another one on the other side that's where it wouldn't literally have had a bayonet fitting but that's all been soldered up now and that actually interested up as a result of the marks being right down inside there for 1767 in maybe chapels shirt which would be appropriate but working in London so a lovely piece of chinoise rail the value it's going to be somewhere between about six and eight thousand pounds [Music] well where did you get this very beautiful dish well I inherited it from my mother who got it from her okay well its own it's an 18th century piece although the this designer fact is early 15th century I don't fight excited I first saw it from the distance and then I then realized soon that it was it was in fact an 18th century competent kind of neoclassical piece if you like oh that's beautiful painted with this this arrangement FAR's I think we've got it upside down here but nevermind this arrangement of I presume the hibiscus it's all in this reverse technique we've not um the the whites essentially just blocked out stenciled it on blue ground as a technique was introduced in the 14th century in Kerala the 15th century so the sorcerer dish is very carefully arranged you'll be done and they just tighten the flowers with this this white slip despite enameling or slip here rather which just adds a little tell it and turn it over you'll see here as usual configuration of marks from the elephant's entry element this one ISM is a king market sir it says dar dar ching so made of the great Qing Dynasty during the period of Jung Chang so that's 1723 234 1735 front yes I think this one would be probably around about I'd imagine six to eight thousand pounds something like that so it's such a pretty dish well if it have been a Ming B's when they were talking about 10 times better gosh when I first saw this watercolor I thought it was by Miles Beckett Foster now did you know the artists in fact ya know they it was inherited from my grandfather but I know very little about the artist well in fact it's signed at the bottom right hand side WS coma and he was recognized as an imitator of Lance Burton foster in fact Coleman was a surgeon by training he then took up painting that's interesting but I think it's a delightful seeing this child incredibly overdressed for today yes sitting on a rock now working for stone had an enormous number of imitators and I mean they were kind of they weren't States they were copies and so you have to be a little bit careful when looking at similar works and it might be interesting just to compare that it was it doesn't mean by Burke and Foster certainly at the top of the market or when things were their very strongest I could imagine something like this fetching ten or fifteen thousand pounds but you mustn't get excited and let me try fair obvious and I think as a named imitator of birkin foster then and being such a pretty picture the property value something like two to two and a half thousand pounds gracious we date the porcelain simply by its technical appearance it's the appearance of the glaze and you can see this ripple effect yes it's called orange peel and this orange peel glaze is a sign of Chinese porcelain around the 1792 1810 period so that that's the technical side turn it over and what we have is this huge landscape scene but in the middle of this Chinese scene you have ostensibly an English kind of arms well what happened was that in the early years of the 18th century you would send out your coat of arms to Canton to have it copied onto a porcelain service and you would wait one year maybe two years and the service would come back but the trade tended to fizzle out towards the end of the 18th century and these are very very late indeed how'd it get to you an aunt of my mother's gave them to her yes so they've been passed through the family is there a chance that the coat of arms could be a family coat of arms I don't think so okay the other thing about the object which we have mentioned is what is it it's a plate clearly it's a plate there's a very thick and heavy plate you tell me well if assume it's some kind of warming dish where they cooked hot water and kept it does it do mr. babies dishes never do that's exactly what you do you put hot water in there and the water fills a piece up and it's like a hot plate basically now without this coat of arms on and looking at it purely as a decorative object in fact not one object but a pair of objects actually the painting is wonderful it fills the whole surface of the piece if that was sold as a single item at auction he'll probably fit somewhere in the region of a thousand pounds and as a pair two three three thousand pounds from a pair the two or a pair well if you've been with us since the beginning of this series you will know that we're talking to the experts about their own favorite things and I must say Eric that when I knew I was going to speak to you I sort of guessed that you had to choose a piece of art deco well in truth you I'm actually older than the piece that I'm holding here I mean would that I could have an original because this is an art deco figure by Clarice cliff it's called an age of jazz figure and she produced five of them in 1930 and there's not an original no it's not Wedgwood I've got the rights to Clara's clip and they brought the series of figures out again they revived them only a few years ago because the originals believe it or not fetch around about 4,000 so I was quite happy to pay a hundred pounds for this bigger and can't touch these figures now for three hundred three hundred and fifty pounds so already they've gained a sort of cult status the tour of top status what about the well yes oh this is it this is it the figure in an angle and I'm a member of the tourist cliff collectors club in fight that's quite difficult to say it well when you're speaking in a Clarice cliff collectors club convention it's even more difficult but a great bunch of enthusiasts and the figures themselves they were just not successful and I had a very interesting conversation only a short while ago with the original works manager Annie Tommy said we touted them around the the stores in in Staffordshire and we offered them at sixpence and nobody to take him offers so I had to go and dump 400 and he knows exactly where they are today and so if your game view and you want to bring your own shovel we could do a little bit of investment Industrial archaeology well these are really lovely do you have anything about at all very own limited Jade diamonds well these date from around the 1920s the deco period and this was a period in which people became very interested in all sorts of all iain from the exotic art of motifs and actually I think that these little stones are probably onyx I know they're what's called calibre a which which means measured you know the Cathedral and stone is cut to the right shape to fit into the setting and with the very nice diamond at the chocolate just under half a carat or so very nicely mounted in platinum you can see the very fine linking and the setting there for what really makes these earrings outstanding is the other jade drops which are of a beautiful quality there's two sorts of J there's jadeite and nephrite and jadeite has this very nice apple green and they're also quite translucent and they're also quite thick the main engine a value for Jade now is in the Far East and it's the Chinese don't really like play there's a thin bits J they like nice chunky bit like that well this pair of earrings would have a trade value of between two and a half to three and a half thousand pounds and it should probably be insured about five or six thousand pounds those stricter than sure one of the problems about this particular one is if she's become very loose joint now what you could do what could be done is that she could go to the hospital which I find yellow pages and is not very serious work I mean all these choices can simply be tightened up and she was then hanging together much better she's a nice porcelain phased by German maker I mean I like particular little dimple she's got in her yeah in the present state she would fetch between 4 to 1700 pounds well these are very good examples of early though figures where did you get them they've been in the family for years as long as I can remember right well these these are of course the four season or two of the four season we've got winter and spring that the the other ones are the boy with we cheat but I think they'll want grapes but this is brand-new look at these are pretty early in the factory these were about seventeen seventy 55 and jolly nice the examples and exceed here well I suspect that this is probably for putting a normal amount where they would you have a piece of warm they're coming up here with flowers applied to it so we've had a bocaj yes very very pretty indeed quite modestly priced though I don't think these make an offer because they're in the white probably looking at about five six hundred pounds something like that maybe a bit more for insurance I do for the to yes exam because they are brokers at four well these are the colors I've been looking for all day and these Scottish batteries are really associated with just these colors especially around the Edinburgh Portobello Roger is a combination of underglaze colors black green and Busey plums are those colors occur on so many many pieces of Scottish pottery and whenever you see them almost jumps out at you that this was made here if the plaque is molded in in one press the slab of clay pressed into a mold after a famous painting the painting of Napoleon is horse by daavid which is one of the best-known images I would probably think this is about 1830 1840 so there's something you bought recently no I bought it about five years ago as I said somebody cleared a house I think I paid about eighty-five pounds for it give or take I mean it was it wasn't you know a great buy it was just I liked it and he said he wasn't sure what it was so I mean it seems at the first sight of the clumsy a bit primitive but that's the joy of this sort of Scottish memory so when specialist collectors would certainly be happy to go a lot more than that today I would afford five hundred pounds the most beautiful walnut gentleman's chair and I love it it does suggest the solidity of the time the character of 1722 1725 because that's when this was made and this heavenly color I mean that color you cannot achieve with anything other than the age which gives it to it lovely she'll repeated up there and this back it's always sort of violini shape back to it which is curved both that way and to fit your back wonderful comfortable chair no is it a family chair yes it is it was my grandfather's originally right do you have some very beautiful antiques and when he died it passed to my mother and when she died about 15 years ago I got it having said all those good things about it I mean it does have some perks it's had quite a lot of restoration we've got a new back leg on one side and I'm afraid these stretches which if we turn it up they were put on about 1820 I should think buy a chair maker who was more used to making Windsor chairs because this this chair never had cross stretchers at all at this time it would they would not have existent and had you thought what a curious place for that she'll well I had I thought it ought to be right in the middle and I wondered if it was anything to do had it been repaired and put back to one sided let's have a look inside here the seat up rather nice bit of neither warehouse now there's a cut there that distance you see yes yes I see that here right and if I tip it back there you can see the extension joint even more clearly there now there's something else strange too this is not as long as this and let's just look at the back it's right over now there's a different construction there and there know what Evers happened to it happened a long time ago I tell you what I think has happened it comes into the next generation and the man is either a huge man or he grows into it becomes a huge man and it's not big enough so he simply said I love my old family chair I want it wide enough to take me this is all 1740 construction 1727 T Porter construction do you have it in short separately we do yeah can I ask how much we had it down about Tim eight years ago and valued at two thousand five hundred well that's not enough for today's market a chair like that given the restorations given a couple of new bet war one new back leg from half way down would still cost you with this wonderful color and this lovely carving eight and a half thousand now as a sudden I hear a rumor the cops aren't very keen on Christmas is this true hey certainly always part of the missive received additionally the Christmas wasn't celibate hidden spell too much before the Second World War well I think this album suggests otherwise so here it does rather and what I like about this is not just the fact that it indicates though as you say it puts the lies that idea that the Scottish didn't enjoy Christmas what it also reveals is the fascination with new technology of this time very much great brain range of techniques and fantastic range of techniques of printing of cups paper of embossing embroidery everything is here now the first group of scribes invented by a man called Henry Cole in England and I think of 18-49 late 1840s and so all the nonsense we go through in the rituals today are part of our Victorian legacy and the cars like this I think are the most wonderful mirror of what the Victorians thought about it particularly desirable are these ones with pierced paperwork fantastically complicated in their technology my favorite I have here now these are the most desirable sort because here we have a church saying happy Christmas and what you do is you pull the ribbon and it animates it all comes to life and there inside is the church the stained glass and inside children praying as a wonderful image of prisoners now of course in collector terms they're not particularly desirable I mean they range from 5 pounds 50 but that's completely irrelevant at once they're not talking about money okay for the total album it might be two three four hundred pounds but it's not the money is what it represents about Victorian life this is one of my absolutely most delightful patterns I love this patented sum because Chamberlain's patent number 75 called dragon in compartments although it comes from a much earlier period in Worcester dr. walls factory basically called it the kyln patent you've got a super mixture this is I gather any part of what you have yes I've got more at home look it's always like family representative bringing it if this is the tea part of course you've got parts of the tea set here milk jug and slop Basin a huge stock base because they've used lots of stops of the cake plate a teacup and saucer and that's a coffee care and parts of course of a deserves it dessert center dish and also this terrine which is absolutely great isn't it and of course this is the little ladle this is an absolute joy these are so rare they don't write condemned you drop the ones in there smashed or you press hard on it they break across there but this is a big condition painted with the dragon in compartments in the middle and you turned it over it is painted with two little leaves up there under there what do you know why they're there no idea I wonder they're covering up lumps and blemishes but that's terribly rare the the tea set is is more common but dessert where's part absolutely crazy idea it's come down the family to you yes it's come down from my great-great-great grandmother and I have here my great-great grandfather's will which actually mentions it actually calls it right India China India China it's very interesting these were usually called East India patterns of India patents because they came back the original Chinese ones from the Orient through England and so they were often called India patents so the service states from around about 79 t5i reckon because a few of the pieces are actually damaged but you've got 55 odd pieces in all India the perhaps the sale price if you sold this at auctions they would go for something like about five to six thousand yeah and the ladle oh god I died I cover the lid if you had to name the five most famous Scottish artists of the 20th century one name that certainly would be included in that number would be John Duncan Ferguson so it's wonderful to have a little jewel like example how does it come into your possession inspector it belonged to my grandmother Stella she was a friend of JD Ferguson's white right and it was given to her by them in 1944 but it really is a little drill isn't it it's um obviously on this very small scale but what Ferguson was is generally described as is as a colorist he was one of the store colourists and you can see really what a splash of color this picture makes he was very very influenced by the French painting early on I think spent a lot of his early career actually in France and he brought back to this country it was very very vivid coloring which was such a dramatic sort of breath of fresh air you've got that this wonderful thick impasto of the brushstrokes I'm sure that makes it and we stand out like a relief doesn't it it's a very very [Music] intensive way of painting and the other thing I particularly like about it is that it's um his original frame for the picture it's not something probably that you'd be thinking of selling but if we're insuring it I think you should probably think in terms of something like two and a half three thousand pounds I never placed concise but certainly I think that sort of figure for insurance one of the best-known [ __ ] Beatrix Potter's Tale of Peter Rabbit unfortunately it's not him what we call pristine condition tell me about it well it's a book that's been read obviously my children um probably my aunt and my mother I would imagine yes and my mother used to read it to me when I was a child also well Beatrix Potter had a miserable life certainly in her early adulthood she had to look after her parents in South Kensington in London and she kept pet rabbit this is when she was quite old and of course he was calling Peter she also practiced drawing and this was how this particular book came around and she decided that she wanted to publish a book even though she was friendly with a publisher at the time Norman Warne a book all on her own a book of illustrations she'd been told how good her illustrations were and so she decided to produce 250 copies in 1900 the first book that Beatrix Potter ever printed and there were two issues of the first edition the first issue of the first edition 250 copies had a flat back which this one has and the second issue which there were 200 copies had a rounded back all very easy tearing rather silly but this has a presentation inscription inside now it doesn't say who it was - but I gather it was a member of your family yes my great-aunt Daisy who is reputed to have known Beatrix Potter the characteristics of the first edition is the coloured frontispiece but you notice here there is no publisher it just is popularized and you notice that inside all the pictures are black and white there are also quite a few pictures in here that are not included in the published edition for instance this one here your father had an accident there but he was put in a pie by mrs. McGregor and here's a picture of mrs. McGregor with Peter rabbit's father in a while and this was thought in 1902 I think when the first published edition came out with warns to be little risque and so they got rid of it but it's absolutely wonderful it has far more illustrations in from the published edition of is conditions not terribly good so obviously we're going to have to mark it down a bit where do you keep it at the moment I keep it in truth right well I've been mulling over the price obvious and how much it should be you have no idea um well I did actually found out one of the auction houses which has an office in Glasgow and I described it yeah and they said about 500 pounds yes well and the rest as they say this is the first edition private edition of one of the most important of children's books it's still in print today there are thousands of them around but this one has more illustrations in and is much more exciting than the rest I think about 25,000 pounds because I made my day made mine - Johnny good thank you very much thank you well last week a fine and valuable picture this week a rare book who knows what might be in store for us next week Minh once again we take the show on the road our thanks to the people of stirling today and indeed rather further afield we met - one couple who'd come all the way from John O'Groats and that's at least six hours away by car so until next week at the same time from all of us here in Scotland the Antiques Roadshow regrets it cannot give valuations by post it will be back next week on BBC one at the earlier time of 6:45 [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Coldclough

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Rating: 4.6742082 out of 5

Keywords: Antiques Roadshow 1996, Antiques Roadshow BBC, BBC1 1996, Stirling University

Id: zMrSIeltO-o

Length: 43min 58sec (2638 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 13 2018