but asking in glorious sunshine today we set up our tables and chairs and these beautiful gardens complete with extraordinary topiary and we're looking forward to digging up some rare gems and hearing some fascinating stories coming up it's just because he was the coolest and I think it's just because you must wear it maybe when on your next outing with your girlfriends I genuinely thought you're gonna stay about fifty no these are really quite historic this is incredible it is heaven and in the glass of wine for 50 pence but it's not just a menu it's a menu with a story not name is you're done maker we also advertise the self-adjusting gentleman's trusts for the gentleman a partner three really interesting things you brought us to take a look at today which are all very similar in tight but what's their story well the ring the family my husband's family and we used to have them on display and certainly the gathered a lotta dust and I was hoovering one day and I broke the beak of one of them so my husband said my grits I think we'll put these away so they've been in boxes yes they survived well haven't they been cardboard boxes are not around your vacuum cleaner do you know what they are do you know anything about them well my dad used to say that he thought they were like water containers for painters and I always imagined because of the Japanese prints people like painting intricate little pictures so you mentioned Japanese they are in fact Chinese okay and you were right brush pots but not for necessarily for so therefore holding your brushes you have something else called a little water pot for watering when you do your calligraphy or you're in a scholarly thing so their scholars objects and they're made in bamboo the things they love because it's very fibrous so to get fine quality carving out of bamboo you know sophistication I mean these were sophisticated things at the Carver you know was a very very gifted individual and the nice thing about these they've obviously been handled over the years because they just have such wonderful sort of color and pattern ation and these lovely sort of golden highlights which you know for collectors of this type of thing wood bamboo that's sort of what they want they want patination they want things to have been handled enjoyed and loved and talking about you know the quality of carving I mean you just look at the you know this lovely these sort of pine trees and the way they've managed to sort of incorporate the characteristics of the wood that lovely kind of you know gnarly no bleep wood there it's exquisite and similarly you've got the sort of pine trees and we've got two cranes there I'm going to guess that that's the one that's the recipient of the vacuum cleaner incident yeah it can be repaired but you know for me I don't know and actually it's a bit it's a nice bit of its history actually yeah so do you like them yeah I love them I really like them I think like see it's the detail that I like and they kind of do remind me a bit of a Gustav Klimt paintings some of the shapes and that kind of an abstraction so yeah beautiful yeah and then we really haven't talked about this lovely but this is called a sort of a mountain and you have these lovely sort of pagoda here but these are mortals you know lots going on these sort of grotto scenes and again just this may be where the argument starts with you I think those two are a little bit in terms of quality of carving I think those are a little bit better but I think that's more involved there's a lot more going on so aid I think they're all later ching so all kind of 19th century and they would be desirable Chinese are buying these back if they came up for auction this one in the front I think is probably would carry a pre-sale estimate of between 1,500 to 2,500 similarly I think this one also would be about 1,500 to 2,500 and this one although bigger maybe just a pinch less thousand to 1500 something like that so collectively what's that about four or five thousand these lovely things I really lovely lovely things like so much for bringing the if you think of Scotland you think of rugby you think of football golf the home of golf you don't think of baseball what's going on and 1952 who my dad was 23 he used to listen to the World Service's radio and listen to the baseball matches and he wrote to the Brooklyn Dodgers as they were at the time to ask them for our I remember all they wrote back to him and said we will do one better than that we will take you across to New York and come and come and see the team and come and watch the games so he boarded a flight from preswick took about another 16 hours to get to the wild and in New York and spent about 78 days with the Brooklyn Dodgers at the time he got to throw one of the first balls of the season bunt on their part as well then to have a Scott because you can see here they made the most of it it's a staggering story I think when he arrived and the plane and they had our brass band and we whole TV things and so you've got the Dodgers hat you've got various photographs and the sign ball and this ball signed presumably in 1952 you've got all of the signatures of the players and what looks like some of the owners but this ball is elevated because of one signature that name there Jackie Robinson you've heard of him we have heard the film yes not only was he the first black player he's a Hall of Famer so it's just everything couldn't get better you could argue the same as Jesse Owens really sort of made it acceptable and ended segregation in sport he was signed in the late 40s playing in a white team so value the market is going to be in America it's a very specialist market but I think easily four to six thousand pounds Wow okay there you go mom it's just the coolest he was the coolest and I think it's just the coolest thank you thank you very much such a beautiful sunny day like today has put a huge smile on my face anyway but when I saw this it lit me up even more it is a stunning brooch but I want to pick it up and show you that it'll make you smile I'm smiling you're smiling already because look at the way it moves yes when it moves it comes a lie and the person that wears it yes comes alive too so who has been wearing it well it was handed down to me through the family I inherited it from my mother it came from her mother apparently I believe from great-grandmother and whether it came as a gift or whether it was a family piece further on than that I don't know but there was a few nice selected pieces of jewelry within the family and this is one that I've really ended up with this is about 19 when essentially sort of the Edwardian period yeah in 1900 was a very elegant era yes all the heavy the heavy clothes of the Victorian period and Queen Victoria in mourning suddenly there was gaiety and life and that's what this jewel reflects gaiety and life something like this would just catch the eyes in its English it's made in platinum if you've got these circular mixed cut blue sapphires that are from Sri Lanka Ceylon been and it is set with Rose cut diamonds with a few cushion shaped diamonds and these tassel drops here with pear-shaped sapphires they have that's what's called knife wire edges and this is when platinum came in to really being worked in the 1900 and you because of its as a strong metal you really were able to get really fine detail with the platinum but before it was silver and you couldn't it was too soft silver and it would tarnish so it makes these stones look like they're just floating which is making it special would I spoil the value of it or the whole piece if I took off tassels and how did them made into earrings which might be more appropriate to wear in this day and age of some stage I'm glad you've asked me before you've done my thought about don't taking it to a jaw no because can you see how it is with those drops imagine without that it would be a bar with it it would be and it would never look complete I mean it's a design I've not seen before it's beautifully crafted hasn't been tampered with so at auction I would say this would be in the region of four to six thousand pounds you must wear it maybe when on your next outing with your girlfriend's I think yes we'll go down the pub bar please girls I'm sure you've been admiring the gardens the back of some of our shots here at Craster's because they are gorgeous and let me tell you the air is heavy with the center of balloons James you're the head gardener here lucky man what a great job around a little bit sure the wall garden here at Cratylus it's just on the shade under four acres there's eight separate themed Gardens over three terraces and this dates from about the 1920s yeah the Laura garden here dates from the nineteen twenties but actually the history from the sixteen forties with Sir Thomas Burnett and that's when the foundation of the garden starts there are eight distinct carvings here now but what would it look like back then Oh a very different Fiona the Laura garden here would have been solely fruit and vegetables to supply the castle itself and normally in a castle like this you'd expect the walk to be far away because the the lead wouldn't want to see the staff as it tiling away but this is close yeah this is close this is one of the few survivals certainly in the area here are probably much wider where the grounds stayed close to the castle rather than being removed to remove the star from the view God forbid they should see people actually working on a garden and then they you hedges and then the topi I've been really struck by that yeah that's the real core still of the historic site of the garden the oldest tagging egg cops did from 1702 and then the rest of the old formal layout and the parterre up there at 3:00 to about 1765 so you've got a slice of four hundred years of history across the garden still today well you're doing a fabulous job here that's great thank you thank you [Music] you brought me to Harry Potter's one is a Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and yet now what's exciting to me so this one has an inscription in it it says I think to the Pope family with many thanks for introducing Harry to so many people JK Rowling okay it's a good start yeah now this one isn't a first edition it's dated 1997 it's a paperback but it's not one of the credibly rare first editions it's also quite a well read copy isn't it so now this is the first edition this is the Chamber of Secrets and again here we go another inscription to the Pope family again hope you like this one as much JK Rowling tell me about the hope family Potter's okay I was a primary teacher at a local primary school and about 20 years ago I read this book to the class the kids loved it but very excited about it being very excite about the characters and then we heard that JK Rowling was coming to a bookstore in Aberdeen so I got a bus and took 30 of them in to meet her and the children was so excited about the what you know what's going to happen to characters next and they came in with money to buy the new book and JK Rowling chicken I were with us she inscribed em the children's books at the boat and yes she read the first chapter of chamber of secrets to the children and introduced the character the Dobby and the magic obviously was that the fund shone through that's what she really got the children hooked on the book JK Rowling didn't sign very much after the first two books because she was just so famous but this is something completely different this is right almost back at the beginning where she's signing very generously quite fully you've got four lines there that's very nice now the true first edition of the Philosopher's Stone is one of those celebrated books that makes tens of thousands of pounds but it's not one of those but it's inscribed the Chamber of Secrets that is a first edition dated 1998 and you've also got a nice long inscription too and so I think together I'd like to value them together and I think I'd be very happy to put an estimate of two to three thousand pounds on them oh that's that's quite quite amusing yes I think they will be going in giving God support tonight after thank you very much well I'll tell you something this could do with a fair amount of restoration yes has it been in the family for many many years or not many many many years yes it was my dad's granddad's and his granddad was born in 1850 so when he got it we don't know but my dad can remember it from when you were 10 and when he was 10 be honest with me when did you last have it running about I can't because I used to bind it yeah and I remember hitting it chiming and I lived at home at the time okay let's have a look the arch is signed with the silvered boss J Graham of Edinburgh but let's have a proper look at the movement in line with all these sort of clocks you've got subsidiaries second dial and large spandrels and dolphin frets up here in the arch let us take it off here and you can see immediately that it's had a bit of a ding there it's fallen out of the case hasn't it which is a bit of a shame and that's not being cleaned for a very very long time now do you remember well obviously when it has it's fall down there it's got its broken dolphin so it's torn away from the movement itself and that has resulted in the winding squares not tying up but you see that this doll should be up quite a bit the croc dates from the early part of the 19th centuries of 1820s typical Scottish long case in an oak case and I want you just to look down there at that pendulum it's beautifully painted with flowers typically Scottish absolutely typical you don't see that sort of thing south of the border aunt valia not necessarily because my dad's was best man at my son's wedding you know and he's giving it to his grandson lovely a wedding present I just want to know if it's worth restoring in this instance it's clearly worth restoring so I'm going to say to you in this shocking state and it is shocking know if you've got about a hundred to 150 at auction you'd be doing terribly well yeah because it's so rough yes when it's up and running and polished and looking gorgeous you'd probably have to pay towards three thousand pounds in the trade for it from or from a dealer so this wreck will one day we'd rather nice so what's the name of this gentleman here he's Charles killing back Bowers he's my grandfather he was a commercial photographer but he was also the private photographer for Sopwith the aviation company now Sopwith sees the name that we we know in in the sort of the military world particularly from the First World War because one of our most famous fighters from the first world war is the Sopwith Camel yes which is the equivalent of the world war 1 to the world war 2 Spitfire yes and here in his photograph album we can actually see the factory that photograph it's amazing it was maybe aircraft during that I had no idea because it extends right the way across out of sight it's just after the first world war yeah December 1918 yeah but there must be 500 aircraft in that picture now obviously we're talking about a time when aviation was really quite dangerous and he has some quite telling photographs yeah there's this one here this poor gentleman he's got injured injured isn't and they dragged him from the wreckage of his kangaroo yeah which is a fantastic name for an aeroplane and again just just to prove how dangerous this was there's one yep caught you know in a pile oh yeah yeah I mean that is a fairly devastating old photograph there isn't it it's a dangerous game isn't it it's a very dangerous game supply and also one of the fascinating things in this album which has got hundreds and hundreds of photographs in it is this idea that they have here of really the first ever aircraft carriers yes and that we can see the glorious HMS furious decked out really is one of our first ever aircraft carriers yes it really is quite I don't know if that's an aircraft there is a little one they don't on there they are they are they're tiny where did you find him they were in my father's attic and they were in and also there may be more I don't know there's another album as well isn't there and I think with the interest that people having in aircraft particularly from the first world war and the fact that these photographs are so good and so close up and really do show how these aircraft were made how they were flown how they crashed and what they were trying to do with them I think the album's are worth somewhere in the region of certainly three to four thousand pounds I genuinely thought you're going to stay about fifty pounds really no really these are really quite historic thanks for having me thank you okay [Music] do you ladies know a term called neoclassical no well this is neoclassical this box that term means that this box was made in about 1815 and the term neoclassical all sort of revolves around a time when everyone was going to place his light Rome and Florence and they were bringing back all these sort of treasures of the ancient Romans and that sort of thing and inside when we lift up the lid there we have an absolutely splendid this piece though I think would have been acquired in somewhere like Rome on one of these travels he was going to places like Naples and Florence Pompeii and would have brought this back as a souvenir made in 1815 solid gold stones where'd he come from I acquired it recently I got it as a present from my parents for my 40th birthday and my mom had it and she used to read it I wore it last weekend actually do some admiring glances all right what let's give you a description of it now have you noticed that the little flower heads are a different color to the plaques can you see that they are slightly greenish this is a technique known as two colored gold Dirk Euler in French the stones the dark green ones are called blood stones because the little flecks of red in the blood stone was supposed to be representative of Christ's blood Wow the brown stones are called cornelian now these are natural hard stones that were used all the time for jewelry in this era of around about George the third now all of the individual little stones are engraved with heads we've spotted that of these heads that they depict things like Greek philosophers you know like Plato and people like that the thing about this piece that is absolutely super is its condition anything else you want to know and how is it named how was it made handmade I can tell you that the craftsmanship that went into this would have been absolutely amazing because in those days it would have taken months for someone to create something like this right do you want to know what it's worth when I wore it last we came luckily it didn't fall off I love this kind of children and I'm very very you know I'm very pleased that you bought this thing because this is really smashing okay thank you very much indeed thank you thank you thanks very much this is the most beautifully elegant art deco figure where did it come from it actually came from my mother-in-law's cousin and it used to sit on top of a butyl in her house and when she died my mother-in-law inherited the house and the contents though she said to her sons you take what you would like from the house before it gets cleared so I decided that I would just take would have chosen this is Austrian art deco yeah it comes from the firm of Hagin our workshop based in Vienna and a lot of their designs were based on African sculpture tribals gone yeah I can sort of see it in this this one's not so obvious but I've had a similar one and it was an African woman dancing she's so beautiful you need the craftsmanship was fantastic they really got it right often their things were all wood or all bronze I loved the mixed materials this one is bronze and wood and look how elegantly oh she's beautiful this skirt is carved the pleats the flow is magnificent this is probably from about 1929 to 1932 perfect it's a good size and it just meets that impact doesn't it she's absolutely beautiful and they have always held their price and won today like this now on a smart gallery and these do send in smart galleries cuz like you said they look great on smart bits of furniture cabinets and tables and things some art gallery would ask 1500 to 1700 pounds for this Wow wow that's good that's good to know not that I would ever sale her no would I if I owned him I'm looking at this delightful portrait of this little girl and I'm looking at your face and there's definitely an uncanny resemblance almost of magnetism between you and this portrait so it's got to be a family member it's my mother yeah when she was five years old 1930 so she went to a fancy dress party at the mansion house in London in the aid of Save the Children fund and she was dressed as a snowball and she won first prize and first prize for sapphire portrait painted by Simon Elvis but she was very disappointed because she's Spider dolls Brown which was one of the other prizes and that's what she really wanted what a delightful story quite grandeur in a way to have your portrait painting I know it must mean a very upmarket party I think so this is her here in her snowball costume not looking terribly happy and it's quite fun all the other little children all dressed up and I've got another photograph of her with the artists isn't it adorable yeah it doesn't look all that happy there oh she looks a bit grumpy smile yes exactly now let's come to the artist do you know much about Simon Alwyn no I just know that he was a society painter of the time okay clearly signed Simon L was in dated in 1930 since born in 1902 and he was one of eight children he trained at the Slade School and this portrait is very slate school and all his tendencies in the way it's painted and he's an artist you don't really see many pictures coming up at auction now and that's really because most of them are tucked away in rather wonderful houses and treasured yeah and he was a great favorite for the royal family too but a really interesting artist and you know a grateful trail of a young girl your mother at the age of five getting all that personality out particularly looking at that photograph and looking a little bit grumpy s now it's a family portrait it is obviously very very dear to you it's pain to the height of his powers still very commercial and worth at least two to three thousand pounds is it alright interesting I'm looking to be selling you their gorgeous story thank you same oh not at all [Music] [Music] this week we're playing our old favorite basic better best Gordon Foster you brought along three items of Scottish silver and the aim of the game is to put them in order of value from basic to better to best now this is your special area of course Scotia silver and very appropriate here at gratis it is indeed and what I thought I'd do is try and really test you is the best way to start and that's just in the middle here so that is a whiskey cup but it's a thistle shaped whiskey Cup so quite specific to Scotland and you do find this with Scottish silver sheep so they're just specifically made in Scotland so this is quite a small measure so called a tot cup and they do come you'll be relieved and there were larger sizes right up to a sort of mug size okay but that's a rare earliest chap from about 1700s 1710 and then in order of date then this is obviously the next piece correct this is quite unusual this is about 1890 1900 arts and crafts in style this is made on the tiny island of Iona oh I am beautiful isn't it so this was a silversmith working around about 1900 Alexander Ricci it primarily made small souvenir pieces for holiday makers so didn't make larger pieces very often to this you've probably guessed as the most recent of colors this is 1947 so it's post-war moving into modernist style and completely pared down design by a designer called Leslie old who taught at the Glasgow School of Art and set up a really world-renowned silver smithing course and in terms of what might affect our choice are we looking at rarity or leaking quantity of soot doesn't always mean something size doesn't always mean something it's more collectability I would say a point you towards if anything what do we has anyone got any ideas here dad you sneaky the smallest ones the most volume oh he's definitely sneaky and there was someone back here say you thought yesterday that one from the island I reckon that's the oldest I own you think that's the most value most valuable one I wondered about that you had a thought the same would they the jug cuz it's so ornate and it's Lucy that's quite unusual because it wasn't sort of pieces they did I did the souvenirs in sisters from Aberdeen family from everything that's me finished yes I think the tree probably because he mentioned old and the Glasgow School of Art it's probably quite rare I would think cause renowned for rennie mackintosh so we've got three different things here what I don't know helpful that is really well in terms of collectability is yeah I think collectability this rarity that but I am going to say even though this it I'm going to say basic better he went for this one best nearly but not quite well it's either right or it's not right go on well this is the basic okay well that was good yeah you got that mm poems the better and best are flipped this is the better 3000 and this is the best 530 and why is that the best is it rarity it's the rarity and collectibility is Alexandra Ricci of Iona so it's a desirable piece it's a rare piece it's probably the only one so at the moment the market would dictate for that and that is the best I should have listened the lady from the baby you with your Scottish forebears and I'd have got that right oh well that was fascinating thank you so much well when I saw him earlier I asked how he was and he said he's feeling a little rough I had to what is he isn't Burnett I presume he's our son father and it's close to a family son Bernard already doesn't burn as part 20 years ago it would take an accepting moment to to come home with that so tell me what you thought you were buying I went to Olympia antique fair and I just came across this I knew Steiff were important and I just found it divine but I am afraid I felt I had to have it he was one of the largest stuffed animals that they produce they also did a bear roughly this size he has a voice which doesn't quite do just perfect to the level of canine magnificence that we have there was he in this condition when you when you bought him pretty much so the date that it was given to me was 1891 and he's done a lot of living in over a hundred years but it had a bit of action since he arrived home in Scotland of the first challenge now I'm married with a young puppy the young puppy somehow accesses the room where he is which is why the front paws hissing oh no it was a dog attack that was dog attack and then the second dog attack went in very very nice friends were staying with a Staffordshire Bull Terrier and that's how he lost peace out of his chest so the staff he tried to get to his heart she did he petrifies the dog I mean one of our Labradors just panics when he meets this one particular in this one box at what a thing that any well-brought-up dog would expect to mean is a stuffed dog on wheels the date you said that you were given when you purchased it was 1819 years I am going to differ with that day right the eyes are back painted glass and they tended to come into fashion I said just before the First World War so I wouldn't want to put him at a date before 1910 right have you thought about getting it restored yes I've had some minor restoration done when I originally got it but really it's the wear and tear of of life since I'm to ask what you paid for it at Olympia that grand Emporium of antiques in my daughter moment I paid a thousand pounds all right it was a slightly dotty moment now I think you would struggle to get a thousand pounds for it I think you really would struggle so I would have said between perhaps five and eight hundred pounds in this condition I'm not at all surprised and frankly he's had a very good life over the last 20 years he was not bought to make money he wasn't he was bought to have fun or during the program and over the years Fiona and I have had a few times or we've had competitions and I've tested her knowledge to see quite how much she's learned I sense your knowledge he's going to be a little bit strong tell me about them what do you know I know they're shaking boy Joe I know that he's orifice this one I hope is real but I'm not sure so where have you been buying these are you avid collector yes I made my auction I wasn't just looking for things you like just trying to find that quirk or that object that somebody else's mess I was looking for a bargain so how long have you been doing this now 20 years Wow well let's see what we're dealing with so the one at the front here this is a fish growl yeah designed by Edward held for aura fours and will date from around the late 1940s there are there abouts the one here Rudolph outs for Moser date about 1925 1926 this one you're unsure of what did you buy us I bought up hoping at least it royal really but in the catalog I mean okay but I'd seen the colors and the cut in the picture and win a badge okay so catalog dues bohemian hoping it's Rob Riley mm-hmm yes it's Stephens and Williams Rob Riley good well done good spot so I'm guessing them there's a bit more to this if you've been doing this 20 odd years so 150 pieces oh well if this is a sample I'd really like to see the other 250 at home let's see how well you've done let's let's run through some prices for you okay he what did you pay for the growl 250 it's worth 400 or do you actually have people on the 360 mm-hmm it's worth 600 very nice what did you pay for the decanter 75 75 it's worth a thousand the reason it's worth a thousand pounds and it's the star to these three objects it's a double color casement if you just take up the stop here you've got green you've got Citroen on the inside and clear crystal Noble color Stevens and Williams 1920s thousand pounds well done you very much we have a menu to take a look inside we've got a t-bone special for four pounds 25 moving along we can have a banana split the 95 pence and if you're feeling thirsty we'd have a glass of wine for 50 pence or the bottle for 225 but it's not just a menu it's a menu with the story and with some signatures on the my sister to the Hard Rock Cafe in London which was the place to go and we had to queue for a very very long time outside it and just as we need the end of the queue ready to go in people just walk straight past us into the cafe and as a as an 8 year old and a six year old who'd been there a long time we weren't that impressed that someone had just basically and then the rumor came out that that was ever she just walked in and then when we got into the cafe we were sat a couple of tables away from them went over to them and they were so lovely they asked a waiter to bring a menu over to sign they took their time they didn't just sign it they wrote it they drew a little picture I mean 1978 Abba ruled the world they've just had three consecutive number ones in this country and we've got Benny here and he's drawn you on your picture what's going on I think that's a little smiley man with a hat and a balloon and then we got beyond here and is that who's that is that no icater no and we were quite disappointed not to see her as well but I think a few months later she announced her divorce so we kind of speculated to it she wasn't there at the time right I have to say but had we had all four signatures here it will be a difference we'll be looking at quite a bit of money perhaps five hundred pounds maybe for a sign man you were that great story but I think we need to be more realistic with the the collector's market for that and I think for three signatures in the circumstance I think you're looking at perhaps absolutely I'm very happy with that all thank you and thank you for the music [Music] if you tilt this glass to the light you'll find that it's really flat and quite even so what was the glass like that was being made in the 14th century well I'll tell you it was rubbish and so that means it's Victorian or 20th century glass there was a huge vogue for antique stuff that was called history smus around 1882 about 1930 I hope you didn't pay more than lieutenant I reckon it's got to be worth at least $9.99 when you open the box to show me this yeah I saw it I couldn't protect triple-check with my glass to make sure it was what I think it is right what do you think it is I don't know that's why that's why I'm here this is a 17th century Dutch marriage casket and it's beautiful silver gilt and it's 350 years old or there abouts only and it looks like new that's why I had to look at it again and again to be sure the gilding is perfect but it is covered in love symbols all these plaques illustrate love you press the clasp but at the front to release the lid yes and it's a cherub with his bow and arrow Cupid and on this lovely domed lid here we have a beautiful panel where there clasped hands reached across a landscape are clutching a smoldering heart on this side panel here you have a group of people dancing celebrate the love of the couple on the back panel you have the marriage at Cana and celebrating marriage the marriage that Jesus attended in the New Testament where he turned the water to wine on this panel you've got Cupid fine I mean this is incredible it's all singing and dancing it is heaven they're in heaven I'm in heaven looking at it and it's got a heavenly value Oh things like this yeah it's about three to five thousand pounds what does me well didn't expect that it's a stunning thing it really is beautiful Wow thank you I'm rather hoping that the contents of this box will live up to the quality of this box look oh yes they do that is lovely it is a glorious example of a percussion shotgun how did you acquire it well my late husband bull to an auction about 38 years ago yeah in battles bridge in Essex and it's been sitting in the bottom of a wardrobe ever since it's an absolutely fabulous condition its percussion muzzleloading the locks are color case hardened it must have spent a lot of time in its box because air oxidizes and it will take those colors off barrels this superb pattern this is Damascus twist this is bands of iron and steel wrapped and then etch to bring up this pattern which is white so spectacular I'm going to put it together never seen it together well here you go here's a first so and now we have it together it was made by a Joseph skeet he was Foreman to Joseph egg there was a very well-known gun maker now egg was on one piccadilly so that gives us a good date he was on Piccadilly in the 1840s interesting about egg not only is your gun maker he also advertised during that period the self-adjusting gentleman's trusts for the German patent so gun maker and trust make it the quality I don't suppose you know what your husband paid for I think between 550 to 600 okay if you had to buy this again at auction 1,500 to 2,000 oh very nice and I've just spotted this it's for putting percussion caps on the nipple and you can pop another 400 pounds on that one so what I can say is he had a very very good eye because this is real and quality before we hear from our next visitor I want to let you know about a special program we're planning on the 3rd of September 1939 Britain declared war on Germany to mark the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War we're making a program that traces the first year of the conflict from the home front and the evacuation to the countryside to the Battle of the Atlantic and Dunkirk we'll explore the lasting impact of the war through a selection of cherished possessions if you have a story please contact us at antiques roadshow at BBC code on UK roads oh and this is a gloriously sunny painting what can you tell me about why you bought the painting I had been done in Edinburgh in 1983 and I've seen this building which I liked my mother was alive at that particular point but she subsequently died and so I said to my wife I'd like to buy that and memory of my mother literally elements that really appeal to people when they collect Scottish paintings I mean this is a beautiful turn-of-the-century sort of era picture he's an artist I'd describe as being a Scottish impressionist so it's all this you know they've moved away from this interior scene very dark Victorian genre scene pictures being influenced by the French Impressionists by The Hague School in Holland all this sort of airiness and light was being brought back in just got a shot and and Colour was beginning to sort of become the main focus so what do you take you like about this painting I like the sky I know it's this beautiful sweep you know you've got the sense of a kind of sea breeze coming in here there's this amazing blue that you do get on the west coast of Scotland that's very sort of clear bright blue I love these little prophetÃs cottages the detail here and then you can see the influence of people like William McTaggart in these beautiful little children playing on the sand it's got every element you could look for in it landscape this is actually macro Hanish beach isn't it and a lot of people have a connection to that sort of part of the west coast in Scotland so in terms of subject matter this is actually a sort of positive point in its favor and I think of course it's the fact that it is a gloriously sunny day it's a cheerful picture to have on the wall I'm sure it just brightens any room that you have it hanging in glad you like it can I ask how much he paid originally back in the 80s God she was asking 1400 I think you sort of got her down to a good bargain there yes I mean the the market for a traditional Scottish paintings this period it has gone down a little bit however I think it's been a good purchase and I think on a good day at auction with a good following wind you'd be looking at two to three thousand pounds I'm complete about that no well thank you very much for bringing this in it's lovely to see such a fine spotted painting in this beautiful Scottish setting [Music] my husband's great uncle used to work in this bookshop in Edinburgh and he collected autographs you only have to go into few pages and here we got Arthur Conan Doyle over the page here we go Walter Scott here's one here I don't know who that is it's big squiggle one of the most characteristic signatures in English literature Charles Dickens Wow just from the ones I've seen and going on average you've got to be looking at seven or eight hundred pounds here that's great just four bits of paper that someone's cut out of books and letters that's one way of putting it yeah this is very simple-looking silver bowl isn't it and III really probably late seventeenth-century but first off tell me how you have it well it was given to me by my godmother yes for my confirmation actually I would have been about 11 and she died very soon after so I don't know very much about her at all right but she came from a very wealthy family and she looked after my father's family who were not at all wealthy my grandfather had died as a missionary and so she took care of his family right okay I don't know much about it at all well let's tell you something about it because what is absolutely apparent to me straightaway is that it has an English hallmark and we can see that there in fact that Birmingham hallmark is for 1913 but why does it look like a 17th century piece of silver well of course people historically or borrowed designs from different epochs different countries and this is very much in the French style there's sort of punch work and that's particularly we can see on the bottom there and rapoo say work which is raised work and you know kind of formed from the from the back and I love the simplicity of it it's very sort of Arts and Crafts in a way but if we turn it round and have a look at another part we can see that there are some initials I presume those are family initials right okay but we can also see that there's another mark and it's a crown and underneath it says d scg do you know what d scg stands for no it stands for the now it's quite difficult I think in this day and age for us to kind of express something like that yeah but in fact the Duchess of Sutherland set up a charitable guild to train ill children or children from poor backgrounds basically to have a trade so that they could make headway in life essentially youngsters were taught all sorts of crafts from textiles to printing to silver smithing so the idea that this could have been made by a teenager is quite incredible isn't it how does that make you feel about the object I really that makes me like it more or actually I mean I'd always liked it but I that story so what's it worth monetarily probably two or three hundred pounds it's not a huge huge amount of money but I think there's a lot more value locked up and the charitable tale led to this being meant that's lovely I hope you're bringing you the mauler thank you very much I think anybody who grew up in the 60s or 70s will remember brown slightly heavy earthenware like this but looking at the the mark on the bottom please return some modeling Department there's a story here isn't there this is my grandfather Eric Cohen it's a self bust and it's a word that which would ever did between the wars where was at a very interesting point they've kind of gone from their old original Factory at a true rear to the new factory ballastrem and they were really kind of changing things Eric owns a name perhaps not everybody knows and I often think it's people like your grandfather who are in many ways the unnamed heroes who made these things which we've all have at home and use would never think as we're pouring our gravy that somebody actually took the time to design us here is that the man himself a self-portrait and then these two really amazing pieces by him which kind of show the skill he had these are always fascinating and privileged things to see really because they've come from your private collection passed down through the family and here we are seeing them maybe for the first time in public yes and I mean something like that you know frankly that would be their challenge shopping yes yes that makes it a bit more expensive but these pieces are difficult to value because they're one-of-a-kind I don't think that were thousands I've never thought they were first saracens but they are special to us so this late 30s early 40s periods a critical time in went to its design history and these are kind of very iconic at that time so want to own them if these ever came to market so a bust of Eric owned by himself is 1,500 2,000 pounds and these both of which in their own way are iconic of the style of the period they're going to be a thousand fifteen hundred each thank you very much honestly I never thought he'd be worth that much it's just great wonderful yes he used to hang on the outside of the kitchen wall Oh Berkeley so thank you for being the mayor and maybe you should return this to the modeling Jafar maybe I should thank you well I see you've got a lovely rolex submariner here obviously you're professional diver yes one finisher tell me about your life underwater were you in the service is to start with nut off in the service at 15 I joined the Navy I spent just all the 30 nearly 14 years in the Navy came out and there went diving in Europe the actual offshore look with the drill in long yeah so I was in a 70s was this a 70 yeah yeah seventies went into that for a short while and they joined up with Cormac's the French diving company but it was cutting-edge stuff wasn't it it was you know doing repairs on pipelines and things like like fantastic the joy of this Submariner is that it has no date and oh wow look it's even got Comex on the back Rolex Comex so that's a lovely lovely feature can i peek in here and that's wonderful again another Submariner with the full Comex logo there is it Comex on the back of this one to a more than probably yes so the watches are merely stainless steel they're not precious metal you know they're designed to be utilitarian as you well know and you've got all the guaranty cards all the paperwork is as required and that is fantastic so when did you retire how long ago 20 years and now prices from the collectors point of view Comex is just that magic word because it means it's been used in the environment that those things were meant to be used collectors of them absolutely love them have you got all your timing log groups somewhere yeah well let's start with this one which is a Comex watch as we saw from the back if it was just a plain Submariner we'd be looking at sort of six to eight thousand pounds with the Comex realistically probably up towards twenty thousand and this one with all the full kit and the Comex and your name on the back and with your diving logbooks going up significantly good I think we could probably think in terms of forty to fifty thousand pounds yeah yeah that our magic word Comex what you have to remember is that these rolex sport watches are going through the roof yeah happy that'd be a good meal huh you can take me out as well thank you thank you very much thank you just before we go I want to show this Artemus rather tickled me it's less circa nineteen twenties lacrosse stick more weapon of war because the girly wounded Jean Adamson has written
