Antiques Roadshow UK 2022🏰Series 44👉Bishop's Palace 2

[Music] foreign we brought the Roadshow to a county containing England's smallest city well known for its cheese and cider making the county also boasts Britain's largest gorge and plays host to a world famous music festival you know what I'm talking about Somerset of course famous with cheddar cheese and Glastonbury fortunately the weather Gods seemed to be looking down on us kindly and I don't think we'll be waiting for any glass of resale mud today we've come to Wells into the Magnificent Bishop's Palace which after some 800 years is still the residence of the bishop of bath and Wells let me introduce you to grace and Gabriel and the segments the later the long line of swans to live here at Bishop's Palace and back in the 1870s a daughter of one of the Bishops taught the swans here we go [Music] to ring the bell if they were hungry and they're still doing it today thank you very demanding if they're hungry they're like some of our experts coming up I think this is going to contain something very special he gave up cigarettes so that he could swap them I think it's a very good advert for giving up smoking a puging detail on your body Arch call Marks they are over a hundred million years old I'd sell my collection of Thai foods and buy a car that must be quite a collection for a cold you're not supposed to know very much about these mysterious characters it'll be her running away from too why was it you're running away fun oh goodness me oh my God normally on Antiques Roadshow when we see a piece of really bright decorative Art Deco China like this there's only one name that Springs to mind and that's Clarice cliff but there was another woman making it in a man's world in the 1920s and that was the designer of this jug A lady called Susie Cooper this is a particularly nice example of her work how did she come by it well I'm a teacher in a primary school and some parents gave it to me as an end of year gift which was quite a surprise I've never been given a joke before I have to say but it was such a lovely color and it was bright and I've had it in my classroom for quite some time unfortunately with board pens in on the side of my desk in Fairly precarious position with lots of seven-year-olds running around so it's it's been a pen Port yes that's what you're useful on your desk in a classroom okay okay I mean the first thing that really hits you with this jug are these wonderful colors interestingly enough Susie Cooper who designed this wanted to go into fashion and there's more than an element of textile design about that yeah she applied get into the Royal College of Art but she didn't have the relevant industry experience and so she was taken on at a firm called Gray's Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent she was from the area as a paintress but very quickly they spotted her talent and within just a few years she was the resident in-house designer which is quite an achievement in such a small space of time for some with literally no experience prior to that if we turn over you can see on the base Gray's pottery designed by Susie Cooper yeah and it's from the 1920s she was oh she was only at Gray's for a few years so we can take this quite precisely and it's got everything you'd want from an art deco ceramic that kind of Jazz Age Machine Age piece of design it's really really wonderful ozone element cubism and other movements at the time so an exciting piece of Ceramics lovely thing she actually carried on designing and stayed in Ceramics until the 1980s show she was doing it for over 60 years which is quite incredible but no longer a pen pull no no longer a pimple although it was the colors that sort of kept it in the classroom those lovely bright colors and sort of sort of childlike qualities certainly is ankle else have you given any thoughts of the value no not at all okay at auction I could easily see this making between 80 and 120 pounds oh okay so definitely not a pen pal but it's a great thing for a sunny day yeah thanks for bringing it in oh you're welcome thank you as I'm looking at this memorabilia from the 1928 1936 and 1948 Olympic Games I'm wondering who originally put the collection together it was my great-grandmother this lady here Isabel Judd who competed in the 1928 Olympics which was the first year that women were allowed to compete in the gymnastics in the Olympic Games so in 1928 do any of you know how old your great-grandmother was well in the 1928 she was 41 years old and she won the bronze bronze medal and actually at the time she had a 14 year old daughter who was older than some of the people she was competing against there were competitors who were 11 and then she was 41 and she is the oldest Olympic gymnast who have won a medal ever so that's quite a claim she still holds that rest still holds that record looking at the material then from this her first competing Olympic Games there is the uh the team badge yes which uh they sort of sewed onto there is on the front of their tunic they're rather long tunics they were considered quite short they're six inches um above the knee which was considered quite risky at the time it must have been talked about in fact she also got this certificate or diploma from a stylistic point of view it absolutely says the Roaring Twenties doesn't it it really does it's Art Deco through and through the black and gold even the the lettering it's a it's a really stunning sort of piece of art it's a piece of artwork in itself we love it what was her involvement in the 1936 Berlin Olympics so by that stage she was too old to compete um so there she wasn't official we believe so she would have accompanied the ladies on their trip you know three years later yeah we were at War and you know having that hindsight there must be mixed feelings of of being there so moving on then to London in 1948. what is this at this point your great-grandmother was 61. yes so what was her involvement in these games well she was an official and a scorer so basically helping and my mother used to say that she could remember going around some of the church halls and the you know local halls where events were being held because there wasn't the money to have any major sports building built some of them were in church Halls just just local places which had the space just to make it happen so what's the value of a collection like this well all of the participation medals um in the diploma and all of that together is worth around a thousand pounds the actual Prize winners bronze medal because it wasn't individually one because it was one in a team of I think about 12. that just bring the value down but the provenance is just wonderful this setting of of the events that she attended and the collection as a whole with that provenance is worth around five thousand pounds well it's definitely not going anywhere and with my um cousin's little girl who's about eight is very chemo gymnastics and very talented so um yeah it's nice to have the connection in the family it must be in the jeans mustn't it out somewhere I think but I'm still the cartwheels well thank you so much for bringing these medals to life thank you very much I was really excited because it was the first time that women gymnasts have been able to compete in the Olympic Games it seems unimaginable today that we would hold an Olympic games without women gymnasts foreign [Music] heavy horse and two ladies to carry it where have you brought it from we brought it from Bristol water today with both employees of Bristol water and what on Earth are they doing with a model of the king's horse tell me all about that so we're joined by Queen Elizabeth II we wanted to give her a really special gift we overthought it maybe and we brought two Statues by Herbert hasselbein and this is one of them I think we were hedging our bets as to which which statues you might prefer and we obviously decided the other one was the preferential one and perhaps this was the one we would keep as our own Memento there's a great tradition for making portrait sculptures of famous horses and this attracts enormous amount of attention from the royal family who've been interested in horses probably since Henry VIII and it goes right on to the present queen as we all know she's completely fascinated by horsemanship and is a great connoisseur of horses it's a bronze sculpture but it has color and this is achieved with a sort of lacquer of patination the eyes are picked out with color as well he was a very famous sculptor and it gave a note of his very distinguished patrons that not only in Europe but also far away as India and the Indian princes who had horses commissioned him to make portraits this is a valuable horse that quotation of a horse a horse my kingdom for a horse it's getting horribly close here because it's a very valuable object the reason it's valuable is that equestrian interest is huge throughout the world in the Arab world and Europe America so competition for such an object would be enormous and then you've not only got a beautiful work of art but you've got a a royal provenance so I'm going to breathe in very deeply and tell you that it's worth sixty thousand pounds Goodness Me Oh my God better put it somewhere a bit safer wonderful ladies thank you thank you brilliant [Applause] when it comes to photography 3D images might seem like a 20th century invention but it was during the early Victorian era that physicists began experimenting with this new visual phenomenon using a process known as stereoscopy and now we have the chance to see an incredible collection of some early stereoscopes well my first introduction to any kind of 3D viewer was through one of these a Viewmaster and here we're surrounded by the most fantastic sort of historical step-by-step collection of stereoscopic viewers which to give them their proper name now who owned these and I should also ask why um well it's the collection of Our Father who sadly died quite recently and this is your father it is yeah fabulous and he spent many years over 40 years collecting stereoscopic equipment and also taking stereoscopic film what was the sort of spur originally well it was always a keen photographer and I think it was sometime in the mid 70s a friend of his showed him a beam splitter that's attached to the front of a normal camera which turned it into a stereo camera and he was just uh yeah Smitten by it he was hooked he was hooked Yeah by that the magic of that that depth sort of Photography and the trick is of course that the two lenses that you have on the front are the same distance apart which is you know the width of your your eyes so when those images are taken which each one is very slightly different when you look through a viewer your brain combines those two images and you see that three-dimensional effect was this part of his his profession in a way or he lectured it um Falmouth art college in Cornwall where we grew up and he ran a sort of small-scale film company making educational films and in that viewer there it's a mixture of pictures from the Boer War and pictures of us as kids it's like they've all muddled in together the earliest type of stereoscopic viewer are the two in front of you they're called Brewster types those curvaceous wooden ones and it was in fact David Brewster who exhibited those at the great exhibition in 1851 so that is the start of it being really popular and then you get all the way up to something that looks a bit like a robot let's open that up you have really the what I call the exciting bit and in here is the mark that I wanted to see which is Ricard Freire was Ricard who really popularized this whole phenomenon and let's look at what they were saying we've got Boer War photographs and this is what kept people informed we've got pictures of a field telegrapher a clip drift we've got battle scenes many people had Sons fighting in the Boer War for the first time they could experience what they were enduring oh there's a little picture down here is this you it is is that you it is a photograph taken by your dad in glorious 3D yeah oh fantastic one of many the most expensive piece is going to be the taxi vote and the value of this piece is going to be around a thousand to twelve hundred pounds what I'm valuing here I would have said five to ten thousand pounds and who alone knows what the rest of the collection is worth which is all still packed up I mean it's a really significant collection it's fabulous thank you very much indeed but now I actually want to look at the Elephant foreign Big Oak armchair and I believe this is The Bishop's chair uh that's that's as our family know it yes it's always been known as The Bishop's chair I've known it for three generations there was a bishop of bath and Wells we know he's an ancestor and so it's it's Word of Mouth through the generations and uh we think this is the chair or a chair that he had when he was here so he he was the bishop he was the bishop right in the early part of the 19th century but it looks quite a formal chair to me it is quite basic isn't it it is quite basic yeah and um in the chapel yeah around the walls it's been victorianized and there's all these panels and when I look at this chair again you've got one panel and the idea when you see paneling is called wainscotting oh Wayne Scotty yes I I know of it but I didn't realize that's what YouTube is called oh right I've got a Wayne Scott chair a ride okay I think when he acquired this it was a new piece of furniture it's Victorian this is Victorian it's a copy of a 17th century Wayne Scott chair right because the traditional Wayne's got chairs it's a 17th century panel back chair and quite peroneal in its form and this we look at this it's quite sober yeah you know when you look at the carving it's to me it's typically Victorian carving it's quite flat but it is a Bishop's chair because when we look on the arms here we can see a face and the miter when this was made again what they'd done to chime imitate a much older chair they've stained it right so instead of the chair being its natural color of Oak this honey color they put a black stain to make out as much older than water yeah so realistically um in my opinion it's worth between three and four hundred pounds is it yeah that's fine it's a family piece it's a family piece therapy so that's fine so yeah you could rightfully stay You've Got The Bishop's chair thank you very much I'm very pleased to report it along so thank you very much indeed that's really helpful foreign [Music] places on the Antiques Roadshow and look at this it's to be one of the most beautiful so beautiful in fact we've come here before in 1995. a mute someone's drunk they're drinking out of this they walk and then on my second year on the show in 2009 all of that applies to where we find ourselves now just look at this but just where does the city of Wells get its name it's said to come from a series of underground Springs whose sources lie in the nearby mendip Hills which this year celebrate 50 years as a designated area of outstanding natural beauty it was the presence of this water that led people to believe it was a sacred place so they built a church here the main Wells the wells of Saint Andrew are in the grounds of the Bishops Palace gun just back then [Music] if you look in the center of the pond just there you can see gravel from the bottom swirling around in a kind of vortex and that's created by the water seeping up through the mud creating that movement nearby is the ancient well house built in 1451 at the request of Bishop beckington in order to provide fresh water to the townsfolk it's applied a fountain in the High Street with two channels to wash away detritus from the marketplace the water supply could also be shut off using wooden bungs in a sluice system that's still controlled by the palace gardeners today Bishop law who thought of a new way to use the Abundant flow of water as a mirror in the 1830s laws reflective pool was created a perfect mirror image of the cathedral or part of his romantic vision for the landscape [Music] today the palace and its Gardens are open to all As a place of beauty history and reflection so this of course is street art how did you find it and what's Over the Hole now so it was leaning up against a white van in a fair recent last year that we went to and it just jumped out at me I loved it and so I asked the chap if it was for sale he said it was well he said 800 at the time and then I went back and I said will you take 350 and he said yes and who's it by it's the female street artist called Bambi but we know very little about her well I mean I think that goes with the territory you're not supposed to know very much about these mysterious characters they worry that their art is essentially illegal spraying public walls they might get arrested so it's all shrouded in mystery and I think it's probably rather manufactured generating a little Mystique about the mystery artists did you ever get in touch with her I did yeah I wrote on Valentine's Day because these this is where it is lovers and she wrote back and I just asked if she did the piece and she said she did for a friend of hers in 2013. well that takes care of the authentication for me which is perfect in fact it's signed on the back and it's got her little sort of Bambi device so that helps too but she's obviously chosen this piece of uh rotting iron after Red Hands the kiss because the stencils fit just very neatly inside the shape of it don't they yeah done with three stencils and a spray can one for each color I I think white first then black and then a little ding of red which is a thing that will catch the eye and finish the picture these things you know present interesting condition problems because we've got you can see quite clearly where some of it's flaked off already but I I would argue and I would imagine that the artists would too that she chose this piece of rusting cast iron simply because it had this lovely color and texture and it was and the shape of it was perfect and so this is now part of the object what do you think it's worth now I I would ask you that question yes please well first of all do you like it I love it is that why you bought it because yes I love it I do like it too yes it's very unique oh well they're certainly unique and uh I think it's probably worth two or three thousand pounds wow wow oh we're not selling it I love it [Music] those of you who recall the fads and Fashions of The Swinging 60s will be pleased to know that some things never go out of style he really is an art deco beauty isn't she I bought her about 20 years ago and I was told that she was a shop fitting from the Bieber Boutique in London well of course Bieber is the name that's synonymous with the swinging 60s started by Barbara huluniki in 1964 and she was very inspired by initially the Art Nouveau and then the art deco movement which is what we see here this is fiberglass there were a number of these statues throughout the store and it was very dark I think people would go there really it was a tourist attraction if this were to come up for sale it would probably be somewhere in the region of eight to twelve hundred pounds that's something thank you we're keeping it though good she's got pride of place we're looking at a really clear set of signatures of The Rolling Stones lucky girl how did you get it a group of friends and I went to the princess ballrooms in urmston to see the local pop group and they were just lovely they just sort of gave the autographs had a little bit of a chat we've got Bill Wyman Mick Jagger Charlie Watts Keith Richards and Brian Jones so you've got that first magical lineup I think we're talking just either side of a thousand pounds US Charlie if I was given the choice of taking the money or opening the box faced with a lovely box like this I would always open this because I think this is going to contain something very special it's a box of the very highest quality made from ebony with brass inlay they're two Border Lines of sketching and to protect it whenever the bottle dropped it there's brass bound corners so let's open it up and my choice would have been absolutely correct there is a wonderful pair of pistols in here have you had any thoughts what these were originally made for well I thought perhaps they were for dueling or perhaps they were for target shooting I think they're a bit small for dueling on the basis that the barrels are only seven millimeters in diameter if you look at dueling pistols they tend to be half inch and larger you're absolutely right they are for target shooting but they're for indoor target shooting really and they're called Saloon pistols because that's where they use them in the saloon well when I saw them I I just how extraordinary were the the method of hitting the cartridge instead of a pin it was a line across the cartridge at the back yes now that's done for a special reason if I take one out of some it you can see the striker runs a whole way across there now that is so that it hits the little seven millimeter cartridge in two places along its rim and if you hit it twice there's a pretty good chance it's going to go off the Rimfire cartridge was invented in 1845 by Nicola flauber right and that is an original cartridge for us so you can see it's very very tiny have you got any idea how old they might be and where they were made well I don't think they were made in this country but they look Continental to me but I'm not quite sure I think you're absolutely right they are Continental they are Belgian they're amazingly age all right and they are about 1875 that sort of era these pistols are of really the highest quality they've got ebony stocks the barrels are blued and there's a little tiny bit of silver and golden laid foliage on the bridge and they are just wonderful beautiful quality things they can be owned by anybody without a license and I think if these appeared at auction they would do five thousand pounds very easily and on a really good day they might do 10. wow it's fantastic I think they're fantastic well thank you very much indeed be my pleasure to see them sorry well I think you're only right that you introduce your own plate so who is responsible as the designer of this um interesting item okay let me see if I can get it the name right it's quite a mouthful Augustus Welby northmore Puget bang on well I can tell you you are an Enthusiast with puging because it's all there on your T-shirt and not only that I'm spraying a little bit of a a puge in detail on your body art bang on the nail a man who is synonymous with that Gothic Revival that you know and a very important part of the art history of the Victorian period one of the great benefits of the 1851 exhibition was something called the medieval court and that was designed by fujin and what we're looking at is a Gothic Revival insofar as the technique that's been used here is an encaustic technique and it works on the premise that they would be molded with depressions and then you would press the colored Clays and fill them with enamel but in this case they've possibly even used very fine liquid slips in 1848 1850 when this uh this plate was made which is Minton do you think it is mint is because I couldn't see any Maker's Mark on the back of everything trust me it's Minton great okay It's shouting at me it's Minton um I can see that it's been through the wars yeah I like peuge and stuff I bought it a couple of years ago right and I bought it and the only way I could afford it was because it was already broken okay so have you thought about having it restored I love it as it is but uh is it because I'm never going to get rid of it it's not it's not a Cell It's a keeper so well I can say that there's a bond there I mean I I have got a lot of Ceramics which are broken or to use a technical term knackered okay but because they've got a crack at them or a little bit missing does it bother me no I'm not buying them you know as some portfolio I'm buying them because they give me pleasure I mean let me just put that on there just just to remind us of how much does need to be restored because there are some very clever restorers out there um for them that it's just another day at the office that decision will always be yours I'm just intrigued to know what you paid for it 50 Quid I mean if it wasn't broken yeah an auction estimate maybe six to eight hundred I still reckon that somebody would be very happy uh to pay at least 300 pounds for it right in this condition granted they're going to spend at least a couple of hundred to have it properly restored that was going to be my question how much yeah okay thank you Augustus Welby northmore puging you're the man thanks I'm surprised because I figured the breakage would render it worthless monetary value um so I was quite really quite surprised actually [Music] there's a word we love to hear on the anti-sroaching Faberge but today we have not one piece of fabergie but three Curse Of You Jeffrey Mann our jewelry Specialist of course and we have to I can't believe I'm using these words rank them as basic better best in order of value obviously none of this Faberge is basic but anyway from the least valuable to the most valuable yes just remind us why Faberge is such a pinnacle in in terms of jewelry is undoubtedly the most famous Jeweler from the late 19th to the early 20th century and he's associated with the Russian imperial family who are his great patrons then the tragic fate of the romanovs is very significant here because it's almost a Hollywood family murdered during the Russian Revolution yes exactly and then when you mix that all up with Carl Faberge the maker of the famous series of Imperial Easter eggs with 500 employees making marvelous things to a superb level of perfection so tell me about this first one this one is set with a a Siberian amethyst which is an exceptional Stone it's a very rich sleepy velvety color and very intense color but it's not just purple it's shocked with red and only Siberian amethyst have that so you have a Russian Jewel ery with a Siberian Stone in it so that's quite good really and it's doing its stuff here it's very hypnotic I mean you can't really look at much else what about the one in the middle this is set with um the very colored tourmalines and Pearls but it's a very fabochet looking object because it's in the old Russian taste and almost Byzantine and it's got a little flick of enamel which is a reference to what Faberge is also famous for a very Charming Jewel with a historic background I think is the important thing is harking back to the 17th Century Heritage of the romanovs but what about this one what do you think that's made of the stones I assume Sapphire which is very pink for Ruby but maybe it's a ruby that that couldn't be a yellow diamond surely no they're all sapphires which breaks the world a bit because sapphires do come they're even green sapphires but we have blue one here which is more conventional a pink sapphire and a yellow Sapphire second only to the diamond in hardness so there we are the Faberge Jewel with colored sapphires in it what period are we talking about for these well it's quite easy actually because the height of abuser's work is 1900 really and these are approximately 1900 and value-wise 15 000 pounds 25 000 pounds and 35 000 pounds so not exactly basic no no they're nothing basic about them at all they're rather lovely yes it's a puzzle I can see you're not going to give us any more clues we're just going to have to go for it right what do you think is the most valuable I was thinking the largest stone would be or the amethyst the least on this hill he said it was unique and then I changed my mind but this ends quite detailed so this were the three sapphires yes okay let's see I would agree that women with the sapphires at this end I think there's quite unique in color what do you think is the most valuable the largest stone of the amethyst yes yes because I think is purely the size of it and the quality of it it's amazing yes you do you think a different one I think it's the one in the middle I think it's the Romanov connection that's important here right oh yeah now what are you going to do what I know it's a trap I haven't got a clue so I'm going to say you know I have no idea so I'm going to assume then The Sapphires are the best I'm only going to not go basic better best because I just don't think you lay it out in that order but no other reason than that so I'm going to say the I can't use the word basic but the the one of lesser value relatively is this one in the middle enchanting though it is next is the amethyst it's semi-precious as opposed to Precious so I'm saying this is the best and you are well exactly right well that's all down to you because you all guessed this one sorry madam bad luck right so tell us how we managed by sheer fluke to get that right well I I don't know perhaps it's Instinct more than anything else but um this one is worth fifteen thousand pounds and this one 25 000 pounds and this one 35 000 pounds it's absolutely beautiful it is a beautiful thing tell me about this then so why is this of a lesser it's less very obviously these stones are extraordinary in their own right yes but then why is it is if we rank this the lowest well this one has a very low intrinsic value there simply tourmalines and Pearls but it's raised up by the fact it is in the old Russian taste and it fights its Corner very nicely this one um you know the amethyst I find completely hypnotic but value is extremely arbitrary really and here you've got three jewels from the most famous Jeweler of recent history fighting for what was Supremacy well that one won the battle and you won the battle so even better we won the battle well done Jeffrey thank you on the contrary lovely a great fun wasn't it lovely to see them foreign so you brought in today the Ultimate Sports wristwatch the Rolex Submariner I have here but I've been looking at it and um it appears to have had quite a rough life yes unfortunately it has so tell me about the rough life it's had as far as I'm aware when my father joined the Royal Air Force regiment back in the late 50s he went out to Cyprus first from there we went to Singapore and he decided to buy the Submariner and that was uh 1961. and then he came back in I see there's a there's an import paper 1962 yes so he declared it yes what a good laugh thankfully so he then passed it on to you that's right he passed on to me for my 30th and it only died with me a few times however I have looked after it with Rolex it has been in and been serviced most of the time it's great that you've got the paperwork and paperwork for early Rolexes or actually any Rolex is absolutely vital so when Rolex make a new model in this case this is the Rolex 5512 the reference number 5512 it originally had a glossy dial with guilt writing on it right and then they changed the 5512 dials and bezels and hands over a period of the 25 30 years when they were being made brand new but the vintage ones what they tended to do was when they went back for a service they often change various features if they thought that they were Beyond repair or they were a bit manky and needed a bit of upgrading yeah and back in the old days they used to do it without asking yeah I thought this might I know I'm sorry however the nice side is that the dial looks like it's mid 70s which is when they've replaced it right so it's had a good life yeah but it probably the hands and the dial were probably had an awful lot of condensation because they've been diaper it's been a dive watch for a long time they've also replaced the bezel which is a bit of a shame as well but that happens too there's not much you can do and they replace the hand but it is what happens but the Saving Grace about this watch which is why we're here now is because right here you've got the original certificate the original guarantee yeah plus you've got the original bill of sale yeah and you've got the import paper which is not that relevant yeah but it's nice to see that is important sometimes paperwork can literally add 30 to the value watch can do the great news is that the case is original the bracelet has been replaced but actually it's with a good early bracelet bracelet on its own is worth a thousand pounds wow wow at auction today even with a replace dial it's going to be worth between eight and twelve thousand pounds so that's pretty good news do you want the bad news as well uh well if it had the original glossy guilt dial as we call them the original glossy Guild dial with the original hands with the original radium markers on the dial plus the paperwork if you'd be in the Realms of 20 to 30 000 pounds okay thank you very much it's a pleasure it's been great thank you this is a really interesting pair of vases um thank you um but do you think they're copies it's quite possible my wife thinks they may well be copies they are copies but what they're copies of is Chinese transitional porcelain these are Dutch delft pottery made in the middle of the 17th century when we look at the vases and the decorations there are so many elements that are copied directly from the Chinese this swirling wave pattern directly copied from mid 17th century Chinese Boston as is this Willow Tree the way it drops these are all identifying features for Mid 17th century Chinese porcelain but here they are on Dutch Pottery not porcelain during that period in China there was a wonderful flourishing of blue and white porcelain particularly where suddenly instead of doing very formal designs for the Imperial Court The Potters were making for the middle classes for the scholars and they started illustrating stories things like the water margin and the romance the Western chamber would they have had a use or is the shape purely decorative these ones the shape would be entirely decorative where did you get them my wife's parents um were hoteliers they gave them to us and when we got them they had corks in the top and they had light fittings and shades and so we took them off since 1976 well if they were lamps fortunately they haven't been drilled here in the bases but there's one other place to look for things that were lamped sometimes just above the rim of the foot there's a hole drilled in for a wire to come out there they're fine they're in super condition okay there's a little bit of wear here but no they they lamp them well yeah there's some chips on this one as well around this yeah I think I mean these deep from the time of Sir Isaac Newton it's just wonderful in order to make them white they had this tin oxide into the glaze to make it a white glaze because it's a buff color Pottery you can see that at the top of the rim here is trying to make them whiter trying to make them look like they're very very valuable and precious Chinese porcelain they're repair they're a proper pair they're 300 years old they're in really good condition and that's so important um I think at auction we're probably looking at two and a half thousand pounds gosh that's a that is more than I anticipated super things thank you very much for bringing them thank you very much indeed we're planning a special edition of the Antiques brochure celebrating toys in childhood [Music] you've got an old Teddy lying around a home a vintage action figure or an old train set we'd love to hear from you and let me fire it up Mickey is worth between six and seven hundred wow that's good I get to get some love space back hopefully you can get in touch at our website bbc.co.uk slash Antiques Roadshow [Music] we've been really lucky here today with the weather and I think your cabinet looks absolutely gorgeous in this Sunshine please tell me what do you know about it I hope that it's Chinese and early as in the 17th century 400 years ago it came from a property called Denton Hall which was bought by my ancestor Liebert for Manhattan a Dutchman and we think he brought this from Amsterdam with him it does date from the the second half of the 17th century but I will have to disappoint you it's not Chinese it is typically Japanese and these were made in Japan for the Western markets the shape of it it's very European it was made for export and it was probably commissioned by the Dutch East India Company they were trading in Japan from a small island called deshima but they were commissioning this type of Exquisite lacquer cabinets for the export markets now the decoration is really really lovely there are different types of flacca there there's a girl like you have many different techniques that shows that this was a luxury item yes as I said it was made in the second half of the 17th century if we have a look on the inside we can see that we have all the drawers there as well and you do have a few Treasures in here so these are Chinese um the cabinet is really fantastic it's what you would call um in namban style I think it's really fantastic quality it's what the nobility wanted to have in the late 17th century I'm afraid that there is some damage on it that we need to to point out it's been in the sunshine and also there's some water damage we are also missing a handle on the sides and so this is going to affect its value unfortunately but these are really sought after still and so um if it were to come up at auction in a specialist Asian art style I think it would probably make between two to three thousand pounds thank you very much I like Japan and I like Japanese products so I'm very comfortable with that it's a really interesting piece and the history is for bringing it [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] how wonderful it is to hear the blues being played really properly on a really historic blues guitar now this and you know very well what this is is a National resonator isn't it and it's a very particular kind of guitar but initially I want to ask you where it came from what's the history of it the story is the guitar was bought in an auction in 1946 of the effects left behind by American servicemen who never made it back off the beaches that's a really poignant story and and you know when it comes to musical instruments I can't help but feel that everyone who has owned it has invested a bit of themselves in it and it is imbued with their presence in a way how does that make you feel about it when you play it it makes me feel I'm part of that community that community of Blues musicians that play music for its own sake yeah you brought it not to make money but to enjoy amongst these comrades let's talk about the guitar itself a bit because this is what is known as a national resonator now National is the make and what is so characteristic of this design of guitar is What's called the biscuit resonator isn't it that's what gives it that incredible amplification the resonator inside which is a circular disc that resonates we can't see the workings in there but the bridge is on top of that resonator and that's what produces that kind of amplification now the guitar itself I can see doesn't have a Decor on the top but it does have a serial number which I looked at earlier and that would date the guitar to around I think around about 1934-36 so we're looking at something that's the best part of a hundred years old in essence and this really epitomizes the tradition of kind of Southern Blues Blue Grass that really heavy Mississippi Blues now the wooden parts of the guitar were made by a company called um Harmony in Chicago National made the biscuit resonator and then branded the whole thing as a national this I think if you had to go to a good guitar shop you wouldn't have any change from two to three thousand pounds on this guitar cool it's it's loaned to me actually by the drummer in the band will be very uh delighted to hear that so thank you so you have it on a permanent loan do you it's a slightly sad but still a great story of the Blues yeah [Music] some of our experts first got hooked on antiques I've been asking them to share their stories and most treasured items with us Linux you've been on the road trip even longer than I have and for years I've heard you talking about the items that our visitors bring along today you brought along two things this chair and that type in and what do they tell us about about you and how you got into antiques many years ago I used to collect Tire pins when I was a kid and they were inexpensive my dad would come home and give me a tie pin or save up my money buy a typing I mean that's an unusual thing for a kid to collect I've looked to other family members and they've had collections they started a collection yes I was 12 and I thought I've got I've got to formulate my collection and so that's what I did I put together a collection of tie pins and then when I was at an age where I was learning to drive I thought I'd sell my collection of Thai pins and buy a car that must be quite a collection for a car he's ever got Cairo I know fair enough and I click and I kept this one so that started you presumably on your journey into antiques did my journey had already begun because our family were dealers right I'm adopted my adopted family with dealers my uncles and sisters and brothers they're all in the antique business they're all older but so I was adopted into this family of dealers so I've just grown up seeing all these Dynamics work and when I could afford my own vehicle I was out on the road going to different shops and boiling and dealing I mean you say you were surrounded by your family who were antique dealers but it's quite rare to see a person of color in the entities trade now and when you started out I was even rare event rare as hence teeth absolutely so yes was it difficult absolutely yeah you know you would go into a shop at the time people didn't know who I was but if I went to an area where they hadn't seen a black person especially a young black guy walking in looking at things thinking you could see it on their face he's going to pinch something he's going to pincerely and I would say how much is that I could sense it I sense it now it still happens and I get followed on going to certain shops and uh that must be depressing yeah then you prove a point you say how much is that like I have that and you buy it oh yeah it was humbling it wasn't easy but uh life isn't easy and I think by the way you conduct yourself and wanting to be ambitious and do things it will pay off tell me about this chair then this is another item you brought along this chair I gave to my daughter it just makes me laugh because when I gave her this chair as a young child it's a child's chair It's Made Of You wood and she was about three years old and she'd noticed that I'd move the chair from her bedroom and for some unknown reason it's gone into another room and she ran into my wife and said Mommy Daddy's telling him my you would Windsor armchair uh well she knows it's you would and it's a windsor chair and it's got arms she'd been listening she's been listening and she had taken note and so that's you know obviously it's hers it's not mine but that's what I wanted to bring it along because if you've got things around you perhaps most is that that absorbing this information you get a sick sense of what some things is or if it's right or if it's wrong you're not right all the time and um and when you're not right you say You're Not Right But you're right A lot of the time Linux and that's why we so much enjoy watching on the program thank you so much it's so interesting foreign carved wood and painted figures how long have you known them I've known them all my life they were in my grandparents house in Dorset and I always thought they were dogs because when I was little they looked like dogs to me but now I just call them Dragon dogs instead and where did your grandparents get them from my grandfather trained as a doctor went under the hospital ships he volunteered for the Navy in the first world war and then he went to Saint Thomas's then the second world world broker and he went back and The Story Goes that he gave up cigarettes so that he could swap them for items as he went around the world on the hospital ships picking up wounded soldiers and during the war cigarettes were part of a ration pack weren't they they were I think it's a tot of rum isn't it and some cigarettes or something like that no I think they must be Eastern I really don't know because they've always been there and it's only recently I've looked at the more closely and I just love the way that they're painted they're quite tactile and quite light well they are mythological creatures they're called Makara um they are half mammal half sea creature so the front half is the dog a rather Sinister looking dog the ridge down the back really reminiscent of a crocodile and then with Paws um like a lion or a dog the body of a seal and this lovely curved fishtail any ideas of where they might have come from no they've been made in India and they come from Hindu and Buddhist iconography now these are purely decorative probably carved in Rajasthan in the late 19th century and the painting is great isn't it the spots around the face and then this lovely sort of silvered scale pattern almost with a suggestion of of wings here they are bright beautiful mythological creatures and they're worth around 600 pounds no that does surprise me I thought about 50. that's wonderful I think it's a very good advert for giving up smoking it is very good are you from a horsey family yes we are a horsey family and certainly eye-catching is that a family thing my great-grandfather brought it back from the Paris exhibition which was the 1900s I believe the actual clock face that we're looking at here that strikes me as being that little bit later I think what is intriguing is that it is signed Anton butcher Manu lived in the southern part of Austria it really does show quality it's made out of stoneware what's it worth 800 to a thousand pounds I had no idea how much it was worth when I opened the box and saw this opal oh my gosh it is superb and then I opened another box I'd see this fabulous Diamond tell me first how did you get the opal the opal actually came from my husband's family because his father went to Australia and I think he brought it back because he loved Opals so I just have to say at the beginning as well that I have given all of these already to my daughters so um they all have it with these stones they are over a hundred million years old there was an actual Inland Sea called The Artisan basin and when that receded it left soluble silica and that hardened and solidified in cracks and voids and two places in Australia where that now is seen is lightning Ridge and kubapedi but it is lightning Ridge where you get What's called the black opal they are incredibly rare and when we say black opal it is because it's got the dark background as opposed to other Opals where you will have a whitish background this is just a fabulous example I mean it is the complete color of the rainbow and they've always been a sign of good luck I know people think that Opals are bad luck but but they're not now this is actually set in about late Victorian period it's Museum quality and you've got these wonderful graduating diamonds cushion shaped diamonds around and it's set in silver and gold now tell me about this one I think it's hideous now that's not what I was expecting you to say we're completely unwearable right okay and it's known in the family it's a soup plate don't ask me why it got called the soup plate I have no idea but it came to our family through an uncle who used to do a grand tour in the Summers and he would insist that all family members were nice to him when he came around um was that hard god well not at all I think my mother was very good at it because she was the one who was then given this brooch and then she gave it to my elder brother but after a few years he sort of went tapping on her door and said actually mum what I really need is a septic tank and she said well if I give you money for the septic tank I'll have my brooch back well it is a late Victorian silver and gold brooch and you can take off the brooch fitting and make it into the pendant that Center Stone is quite a large diamond yeah it is quite big but it's it's not a very pretty one though it's you know but why do say that well it's a sort of slightly dull yellow the diamond itself is probably about eight carats now you're right it does have a bit of yellow in it and then more yellow there is the cheaper the price now things have really changed in the last decade there's been more appreciation of stones that are not your D Flawless they all look the same they've all got the same proportions this I can feel the hand of the cutter because it's not totally done by machine it's done by hand that is going to be in the region of around about 35 000 pounds right so with the Opel at auction you'd be looking at forty thousand pounds comfortably oh well my daughter will be very pleased it'll be her running away fun too why was it you're running away again thank you very much for bringing them in they really has made my day thank you I'm glad you like them it's the end of our day here at Bishops Palace and we've seen so many wonderful things not least of the Faberge earlier on with Jeffrey who doesn't seem to have noticed that one is busy I won't tell if you would the antique stretcher bye-bye [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Length: 60min 43sec (3643 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 14 2022