Antiques Roadshow UK 2022🏰Series 45👉Wollaton Hall 1

[Music] well i thought i'd travel in retro style to our venue today the stunning elizabethan masterpiece wooleton hall in nottingham what better way to arrive at wooleton than on a non-polluting historic shopper bike i always wanted one of these as a kid never had one this was made by rally the local bicycle company as were all of these including that one it's 1914. and this is 1972 and this is the best bit warp stun fazer can't beat that ready gang come on then [Music] bulletin hall was completed in 1588 for sir francis willoughby who made his fortune from the region's burgeoning coal industry but by the late 19th century with the smoke and coal pits encroaching ever closer to the house and grounds the willoughbys decided to leave wooleton hall and in 1925 it was bought by nottingham city council today sitting in 500 acres of parkland it's the perfect spot for our roadshow we're delighted to be able to invite a larger number of visitors to the roadshow this year and give our experts more chances to unearth some treasures coming up everybody loves a cheeky monkey when you see a vr cipher the initials under a crown on anything you know that you have something exciting you have a piece of royal clothing if you had seen that incident obviously you'd have put vinnie jones yeah yes for what well i suppose it would be ungently football hit the table and the vars was smashed so that's the only one that's left actually good grief there are two of these or not anymore now for nottingham boy to see something from a chap in a nottingham regiment you know what it made my day when you unwrapped this my heart really skipped a beat because it's one of my favorite tribal african figures all right so where did you get it um believe it or not in an antique shop in cambridge 10 years ago it was right among the junk and it cost me the grand total of 1.50 wow you really took a risk didn't you well i was intrigued by the fact that it looked as if somebody put a lot of work into making it it's from the kota tribe from gabon they're just south of nigeria and this is a kota reliquary guardian figure and they put these on the bones of their ancestors to protect them and they polish this metal and in the 19th century the brass and often their brass and copper this is just copper the brass and copper was like gold to them they're so highly revered in the art world that they have one of these in the metropolitan museum in new york they're such iconic examples of african tribal art they hammer the metal over the wood sculpture and then they chase the metal with these designs and it's the geometric form of them that makes them so desirable and they influence the greatest modern artists of all time because the beginning of modernism they are very very sought after all right one of these made i think a few years ago made a quarter of a million pounds but unfortunately this one is a very fine copy it's slightly the wrong size this was probably made in about 1980. wow and one night this is probably worth about 150 pounds unfortunately not the quarter of a million that one of them actually made it's a lot more than i paid for it so i'm happy it's fantastic i think it's a hundred times more than you paid for it yes it does there you go this is a wonderful painting in ink on paper of a few birds just resting on a bamboo branch by the artist chun wong si and they've been painted so fluidly and spontaneously that it sort of feels like they're about to flutter off the sheet of paper where did you get it it belonged to my late father who traveled to singapore regularly and on one trip he was in a restaurant with his singapore agent and by chance genuine sea happened to come into the restaurant he spoke to him in chinese and came back to my father and he said what did you say to him and he'd said well you owe me a little bit of a favor would you mind doing a painting for my father he agreed and they went back to his studio and he watched him do the painting and what sort of date was this we think 1981 yeah okay well i mean the artist chun wong si by the 80s was really a very very famous artist in singapore he was chinese originally and he studied in shanghai then he moved to singapore in the late 40s and in the 50s and 60s he really started to build up his reputation what i love about this is it's quite traditional in style you know this is the ancient art of chinese calligraphy but painted obviously in the 80s but what's really key with chong wong si is that not only did he use a calligraphic brush but he also used his finger so if we look a bit closer these birds have been painted in ink with his fingers and i think to be able to do that well obviously it's on paper so if you make a mistake it's over yeah so your father given it as a present so he didn't pay anything for him it was a gift and it resided in the cupboard for many many years until my mother finally realized this is silly it needs to be on the wall so it went on the wall for a fairly short period but my father was a very keen artist and painter so eventually made way for another one of his paintings and went back into the wardrobe again so do you think he'd be surprised then for a picture that lived most of its life in the wardrobe oh yes very much but if this was to come to auction today we'd probably put an estimate in the region of 2000 to 3 000 pounds yeah i think yes i think he would have been very happy with that well thank you for bringing it to us i love it you're welcome thank you so much for bringing this fantastic piece of silver plate cocktail shaker to the roadshow today so this is obviously a fantastic novelty piece um it's called the thirst extinguisher and it comes in the form of a new york fire extinguisher but it's not just about what you've brought in here in terms of the object it's also about the man who owned it and we have this black and white photograph of your father on the left yes and this is president charles de gaulle on the right and tell me a little bit about your father he was quite well known in france after the war because he was one of the few french escapees from prison of war camp we've discovered at his death uh when when we looked through the papers a letter that was sent by the secret services thanking him on his 50th birthday for loyal services to the state now we thought he was doing stuff in property development for an insurance company but he was probably doing two things and one was obviously a cover for the other my mother was not aware of this at all had no knowledge he used to pick him up at all the airport bearing gifts for us from for the children's off the plane was he on the plane nobody knows and this is one of the things that my mother thinks came from new york i can absolutely see this cocktail shaker being used um in new york in the 1920s and 30s around the base you have various recipes for cocktails with anything silver or silver plate we're always looking for hallmarks and this does have some marks on it here we now can see that it says a and co aspire london and made in england and so therefore this piece is an english piece all of that coming together and the fact that it's actually been kept in quite good condition considering its age this is going to see a lot of competition on the auction market and i think at a thousand to 1500 pounds this would see a lot of competitive bidding it's not going anywhere need to use it fantastic um do you have a drink in mind that you might go home and make a quick tom collins and enjoy it [Music] well we're surrounded by beautiful countryside nature all around us and you've brought this gorgeous diamond gold and pearl bee brooch what does it mean to you oh well this is a family heirloom it's been passed down through the male lineage on my dad's side of the family but as my dad has only me and no sons it ended up with me um and my great-grandfather from the philippines you said never sell it it's meant to be in the family always so date wise we're looking at lake victorian so 1880 1890s the wings are set with diamonds there and then you've got little garnets for the eyes the pearls oriental pearls which are superb and they're all slightly varying in color and size which give that wonderful natural appearance of the body the abdomen there they always talk about that second pearl and how it's shaped like an insect and that's what they built the piece around yeah that sort of look we we call a baroque pearl and the baroque pearls are great fun for jewelers to work with because they can make such wonderful creations out of them if we turn it over we see that there is a little fitting there yeah have you ever wondered what that was for yes we weren't sure no well you can unscrew that and then originally there would have been a little hair comb you would have worn it at the back of the hair and it might have even had a little bit of movement to it so it's known as being set on tromblon and as you walk along the bee will move and look as though it's just sat on the top of your hair if we were to put this into auction then i would expect it to get somewhere between 700 and a thousand pounds oh amazing thank you so much it's fantastic to know more about it well you brought along an object today which if i was a sort of super sleuth it would have me thinking what sort of a family um has this come from so um is there a coaching connection in your family or does it simply mean that you come from a family of heavy drinkers now come on tell me the truth i i think it was very very on the side of the heavy drinkers you think so we're certainly not a coaching family you've brought on something quite special i mean do you think this is special well yes i really love it yeah um because what we have got is a wonderful glass goblet with a nice big heavy foot you just tell me about how long you've had it we've had it my husband had died just over 30 years and it came originally from my husband's grandfather but that's all we know about it what impresses me is the quality of the engraving we've got the coach what i can see on there it says edinburgh to london yes yeah and i've got these characters wearing top hats yeah the detail on the faces it is quite special once we've got past the coach and all those characters you have got towing this amazing machine uh four steeds and just the way that they've been sort of engraved gives a real impression of speed it does doesn't it yeah it's very very clever i can't help but think that this would be a presentation piece all right it just brings me to the subject of what i have to pay for a coaching for these days so i'm going to say a minimum of 800 pounds so well that's that's 150 pound a horse and 200 for the coach okay and they're throwing they're throwing the passengers for free i think you're very fortunate as a family to own such a wonderful piece of glass yeah it is lovely [Music] not only is wooleton hall an impressive landmark that's been part of nottingham's history for nearly 500 years it's also home to another important part of the city's heritage inside the old stable block is a museum dedicated to the city's industries and this section is filled with a collection of old and not so old bicycles all made by rally one of the most famous names in bicycle history it all started in 1885 on rally street in nottingham where two men had set up a small bicycle workshop their fortunes were to change two years later when a wealthy entrepreneur called frank bowden bought one of their bikes he liked it so much he bought the company and bowden uses marketing and business know-how to promote their company all over the world with the emphasis on the quality of the bikes by 1896 just eight years later rally had become the world's largest bicycle factory occupying a massive seven and a half acre site in nottingham and it continued to grow producing over a million bikes a year by the early 1950s and employing thousands of workers many of its employees came from the vast influx of african caribbean immigrants who arrived in nottingham as part of the windrush generation in the post-war years and two of those former rally workers have come to the roadshow today lloyd bettina very nice to see you here you both worked at the rally factory lloyd i'll start with you when did you start working there um 1961 i started working at raleigh it was my very first job as a youngster you must have been very young 16. yes so lloyd what were you doing at rally i actually worked in the whale shop and my job was to actually put the wheels together i mean you have a situation if you look at that um back there now you've got three components mainly in the wheel you've got the center hub you've got the rim and you've got the spokes so we get those three components and our job was to actually build what you see there as a wheel and what are your memories of that time it was like uh social gathering for us young black kids you know we at least were able to meet up and enjoy ourselves and work at the same time and earn our money and bettina tell me about you what were you doing at raleigh i worked in the offices of the tire warehouse which was where they packed all the tyres and inner tubes that went to the foreign countries but i was more interested in if any of them went to jamaica because that's where i was born jamaica was more than just a market for rally bikes the country also played a little-known role in a campaign to secure employment opportunities for black workers in nottingham [Music] in the mid-1950s local activist george powell had been pressing rally to employ black workers but to no avail so he sought the assistance of the jamaican government who threatened to return a consignment of bikes if the company didn't take action the campaign paid off and by the 1970s it was said that every african-caribbean family had at least one family member if not more working for rally if it wasn't for george i wouldn't have worked at a rally my children would probably have never learned to ride a bicycle the rally building is still there what do you feel when you walk past it these days happiness i was eager to go to work there so there's lots of fun memories well thank you so much it's been fascinating hearing about your time at raleigh thank you thank you so much thank you very much i once had a conversation with someone who knew a lot about watches probably rather more than me and i said what do you need to know more than anything else if you collect wristwatches and he said three words rolex rolex and rolex and we have two lovely rolexes here today but what i like about particularly the generational side of this so we've got the early generation which was i think your great great grandfather my great great and the more modern 1970s generation which is my dad's yeah dad here yeah so this is your watchdog that's right okay what should we start with let's go early to start with yeah okay what we have on the right is the rolex prince so the prince came in three or four different colors it came in the yellow gold the rose gold silver and stainless steel and sometimes a combination of them on the case itself and the dials varied a little bit but not much i noticed that there's a little bit of um wear and tear on the dial and we've got a later winder um on the case and he presumably must have bought it when he was of a certain age well he's about 50 52 53 yeah so maybe it was a 50th birthday present yeah i don't know it was 21 pounds when it was born was it and inside we've got the original observatory paperwork for it um which is important and it's rare to have the original paperwork for it and the other side is the rolex submariner which i believe is yours yes that's mine yeah and how did you acquire that i was a merchant navy cadet in 1976 and i saved up my pittance to buy that in singapore it's 250 pounds 250. yeah so this is the rolex reference 1680 and we've got the sticker saying reference 1680 um which for collectors is is what you want and as we say it's what they call the full set because we've got the box and we've got the original punch papers and people often ask me what does it mean by punch papers but so the punch papers are where the serial number is punched into the paperwork and they did it really to stop people faking the papers we now have to talk about value really so at auction the rolex prince is going to be between three and four thousand pounds yeah the submariner it's in great condition all in all the full ensemble at auction easily eight to twelve thousand pounds yeah yeah yeah great thanks for bringing them cheers thank you [Music] what a beautiful fantastical creature where does she come from um well she belonged to my grandfather um who was a carpenter by trade back in fiji he worked on a lot of boats and ships and it was gifted to him for the work that he'd put on on them my mother grew up with it my grandfather obviously sort of gifted it to her and it stayed there until sort of about 15 20 years ago when we took a visit back there and then we brought her back to england well i cannot tell you how it made its way out to fiji but what i can tell you is that it's made of bronze it was made in france and around 150 years ago so in the 1870s she actually has a name she comes from medieval french folklore and her name is melusine she is a figure who has a fish body from the waist down and she also has wings so i'm introducing you now to melusine have you ever seen anything like this before no there were quite a few of them made and perhaps one of the most interesting things is she didn't start out in this form she's not actually a table lamp as she is now she was originally a gas wall light so there would have been a bracket here and she would have been fixed to the bracket and there would have been a gas pipe leading up through so that she was originally a gaslight tell me you still use it i do i do yes and she does give up a lot of light yes so the tips of her wings are slightly bent she's been on this incredible journey and she's been totally repurposed but she has a value of 300 or 400 pounds okay well thank you it was more or less wanting to know more about her and where she came from i'll get polished up and use her for a bit longer i think so the silk route has extended all the way to nottingham today and i i understand these items are from an englishman who set up his own silk trading business in china yes that's right my great great grandfather james hogg um was a silk trader he had offices in shanghai so i bought his trunk i've got his passport and there's a screen that he brought back with him this is a really interesting example of what was typical of late 19th century chinese cirque embroideries so these embroideries were very very popular both in china and for the export market particularly in britain they were used as screens you see them in victorian homes and you can see this motif is called the hundred birds and you can see there's most of the birds are in pairs some of the motifs are also mirrored in the original frame and stand and the frame and stand are made of homo which is a hardwood that was very very popular in the late 19th century in south china tell me more about some of the other items uh that you have wrote i've bought the passport which has his name on it and his chinese visa at least i think that's what it is and then in the back there's a map of china and then some of his business cards so james hogg seems to have gotten into china quite early after ports were open to foreign traders a british subject to travel to travel freely and without hindrance or molestation in the chinese empire and to give him protection and aid in case of necessity what do you know about this i don't know a huge amount i know that he and his three brothers um certainly traded in china and they had a building in shanghai he then came back to england and married to clara daitri on their marriage he opened a factory in congleton in cheshire which was a silk mill the chinese were famously guarded on their trade secrets to the point that it was actually illegal to export said worms for many centuries and there's actually legends about how they were smuggled out of china it's quite hard to put a precise value on it as a collection of items i would expect that some pieces like the trunk and maybe the passport are more interesting as pieces of your family history the screen is probably the most commercial um of the pieces within the the collection i would value this at around a thousand pounds okay thank you very much i think it will uh carry on living where it does at the moment um because it's part of family history so i think we're likely to keep it all together rather than sell it but thank you for your help [Music] what an iconic photograph you brought in i was the referee at that match it was on my birthday funnily enough and it was a first division match between wimbledon and newcastle united i have to admit i didn't see that incident i mean if you had seen that incident obviously you'd have booked vinnie jones yeah yes for what well i suppose it would be ungently conduct i guess so yeah monty fresco of the daily mirror took that fantastic photograph when i retired from work my colleagues unbeknown to me got jones and gascoigne to sign it for me i guess if you were to put this on the market today i would be estimating this between one and three thousand pounds i mean it could go anywhere because it's a one-off this is like one of the most famous photographs of footballing history thank you for bringing it in thank you i love this mechanical looking chess set thank you what made you bring this in so my grandfather was a flight engineer flying sunderland flying boats from pembrokeshire dock and in his downtime he modelled this chest set out of nuts and bolts and spare parts from dare i say maybe the engineer's store or wherever and he played with it in the wartime and then we've played with his children and my son now plays chess with it now so it survived the test of time and we've still got all the pieces so tell me more about the nuts and bolts of the story behind this so my grandfather was very much um the make doing men so he would never buy something if he could make it and i think this kept them entertained chess can take a lot of time but also making it would have taken up some of his down time as well i just love the ingenuity of it i really do i mean it's made from wingnuts here yes you know and then this looks like a spark plug or something and he's just sawn the turrets of of the castle in there like that and i don't know where he's got these balls to put on the end there but he's obviously soldered these balls on here then he's cut this ball um to make the bishop there like that i mean it really is clever um i love the carrying box that it's in with its handle here and the legs if you want to make it into a little low table obviously these are stored inside yes and what are the medals here so this is the um atlantic star medal which he was given um for flying the missions against the u-boats uh he didn't like to talk about it much so i can't really tell you too much about that they made our shore safe from those u-boats and the u-boats used to hunt in packs i believe and so these flying boats they could be do long-distance sources i mean they could just land on the sea and wait yes and um you know these guys were so brave i just think it's so clever i think to some people it might look scruffy i don't know what you guys think you'd love it oh good he was saying well you're taking that old thing in there for but i love it it's amazing with the story with that connection with the flying boats i think someone will give 500 pounds for that if this ever came up for auction which it won't no he'll keep it i'm sure i think it's genius thank you ever so much ingenious ingenious i'm gonna take that ronnie's brought the design um alive for me i hadn't really appreciate it it's just been a lot of nuts and bolts have been fashioned into a chess set which we've enjoyed as children but actually seeing the design and how he's thought about the pieces that's something i'd appreciated until today [Music] time for my favorite part of the program we're going to play basic better best susan rumford you're here with three completely different items and we have to rank them in order of value from the lowest to the highest what are we looking at today we are looking at cameos today fiona what is a cameo well a cameo is a scene that has been carved into either a hard stone so an agate a gemstone so you might even get a cameo in beautiful amethyst or sapphires and of course the very traditional style of cameo is a shell cameo as we have in the center here starting with this ring then yeah tell me about that yeah that is a hard stone ring chalcedony charles sedany is a wonderful stone which comes in a variety of colors here we've got green with a lovely strong white face that the cameo has been carved in and it's mounted in a 22 carat yellow gold band the thing is is it an ancient roman cameo or is it in the manner of a roman cameo okay you're listening tell me about the shell that's remarkable it is remarkable isn't it and i think that this really does show us how intricate cameo carving can really be if this was going to be used to then get part of it to make a broach just think about how much you would lose just to make a broach out of that center section so there's a cost element in that as well so that that in some ways you could could add to the value of it too and this is known as a conch pearl so it's that traditional shell cameo broach that we've seen so many times before that is 20th century design 20th century design okay and what about that profile there yes we've got an ancient warrior now again is this a beautiful beautiful opal that has been carved now opals are very brittle they're very difficult to carve or is it just a very plain stone that has had a colouring put over it to bring out that beautiful diffraction that opals have and how old is that that one is 19th century 19th century so 1800s goodness and and what kind of values are we talking about one of them is worth between 100 and 200 pounds one is worth around 400 to 600 pounds and one of them is worth potentially in excess of 10 000 pounds right okay so one to two hundred cannot be this cause this is gold so it can't be that can it ladies and gentlemen that's as far as i've got right come on let's let's get some help what do you think i think the shell is the um is the best one what about you i would have said that the shell as well is probably the best one because it seems like a really rare unique piece and then probably like the opal one is the basic one because maybe it's the pretending to be like they've been painted and it's just on stone and then the ring in the middle i that's where i am i must say okay she'll ask the dog because hello no don't lick the microphone i think she's i think she's saying what do you think i think the ring's basic no no what 1 to 200 pounds that's gold that's wrong are you his other half you're saying he's wrong yeah definitely towards you okay we're not listening i think that's basic thing then the ring and then the shell i'm not sure i'm anything wiser actually so i'm going with you and i think that's either the best or it's basic i'm going to say basic better best no all right hang on [Laughter] what do you think well i think that the shell is the basic and the the the ring is better and this one's the best yeah we all agree okay all right i'm deferring so what was it basic really basic better best okay that is against my better judgment they're right fiona [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] okay so talk us through it then so this is the basic that is the basic so this one is 20th century shell that has been machine carved and of course there are a lot of them around and so the roman ring that's not a roman ring is the style of a roman cameo is set in 22 karat gold very popular in the victorian period to try and be like the romans and then we come to the best so that is opal is it it is opal it is unbelievable isn't it what can be achieved and wilhelm schmitz was the man who created this ability to carve in opal and to be able to get that diffraction in the play of color and bring out the three-dimensional effect of this piece again is quite astonishing so we have basic one to two hundred pounds better four to six hundred and the best ten thousand and possibly more i salute you well done you susan thanks very much [Applause] [Music] i've got in front of me here an amazing collection of who memorabilia there are i don't know how many tickets in this particular frame and then there's a signed album i mean it is spectacular and of course you who look like the fan of all fans you've got a great local crew t-shirt on and a vip pass indeed now tell me about your fascination with the who okay so it started in 1975 i was at grammar school in leicester city center and some of the older pew pools were talking about this band the who had never heard of them they told me that they who were actually going to play a showing left at the cranby halls but queued all night to acquire my ticket for the show for the princess sum of two pound 20 and a couple of months later i went down to the grumby halls and it's a bit of a cliche but they literally blew me away and they're after i've been to a few you've been to a few okay i mean i'm gonna pick out one or two here there's live aid here at the band-aid um concert in 1985. and there's this one which is a harvey goldsmith one from charlton athletic football club what was that one 76. indeed yes the who toured great britain they played charlton athletic football ground in london and then they went on to swansea for another football stadium and glasgow glasgow park so these were they were staged gigs and he was the start of stadium rock so how many concerts have you been talking about about a hundred oh that's a selection that's probably about half of the shows i've seen amazing and let's just talk about the album that you've got there so that's that's the who's first album released on the 3rd of december 1965 on brunswick and it's the mono version it is indeed yeah okay but there's a signature on it there's pete townsend signature on it how did that come to pass in 1978 i bumped into a guy i didn't bump into him you just exchanged cassette tapes who called them bootlegs on authorised recordings he was part of a little team that organized a an exhibition at the institute for his contemporary arts on the mao all right yes yes and he said to me i'm seeing pete next week so i said would he please take that and get him to sign it and he kindly did fantastic yeah so the album there what do you reckon it's worth well i know that one was sold in uh october 2020 for the princely sum of eleven thousand pounds hang on hang on hang on that was fully signed by the whole group so that is not correct two of whom are no longer with us precisely so actually come on let's think about that realistic it's probably worth to someone in the region of a thousand pounds i i think you'll bang on with that i mean to meet a superfan is a huge privilege really so thank you so much for bringing them all in thank you [Music] so in a grand house like this you need a very grand lady and doesn't she look rather like a debutante she's very beautiful she is very beautiful isn't she um this is princess daisy of pless how did you get it my father was working in watford he was trawling through junk shops and he saw it and the chat wanted 13 pounds 50 for it so i said yeah go get it about 1974 this was and then i've got it and i'm afraid it's it's not anywhere at the moment it's dated 1902. so when do you think she was born 1873. okay so she's just under 30. that's right on her first season in london she met the prince of pless the richest prince in germany and he asked her to marry him she said i don't love you and he said it doesn't matter and they call wallis west as she was then uh were quite poor oh right absolutely jumped to the chance i should say and he paid for the whole wedding she was a real society lady and what happened did she stay with him and and have children and uh she had of well four children the first girl unfortunately died and then just after this portrait was done she had three boys um because that's what he was after that was he was after an heir yeah ellis roberts was a society portrait painter in london and it's quite clear that he had uh locked himself into this very closed network of the rich and famous and the privileged and the crowned heads of europe really because london society was very cosmopolitan it was very pan-european uh before the first world war in the edwardian time when this was done not quite in the same level as john seeing a sergeant who was probably much more expensive or the hungarian dilaglow he would work fast in charcoal and some white across the top and along the highlights and especially in the jewellery but mostly as charcoal here and then smudged with the thumb just to give a subtlety in the modelling of the face and the lighting of it quick but assured and that's what's good about this it's lively straight from life yes um well you know you're going to be uh hanging it again i hope uh especially if i tell you that what i think it's worth which is um it's not a huge amount but it's a lot more than he paid two or three thousand pounds i think really yes gosh [Laughter] i was i was thinking we're going to say a couple of hundred she was the toast of london when she came out and you can see why from that i think [Music] now it's not always about size on the antics roadshow quite often good things come in small packages where there's a date there's a dilemma it says 1781 or does it say 1841 what do you think it says i think on balance it's the 1700 date it is 1781 it's little input this i'm almost sir is a great piece of cumbrian slipway i think a collector will easily pay three to five hundred pounds for that wow okay made of rosewood a little catch there open it up and we have a little bottle these are actually one of the most common roman bottles we know of and traditionally they're called tear bottles during the funeral mourners were encouraged to acquire a little bottle like this and weep their tears as they rolled out of your eyes even though it's nearly 2 000 years old it's not actually that expensive to buy it's worth two to three hundred pounds excellent it is a miniature of a flintlock sporting rifle from the german lands it's got a jaeger rifle jaeger is german for hunter i think if you saw that in a dealer's catalogue it would be in there probably for a thousand fifteen hundred pounds really really it's a thing of very very great miniature beauty [Music] if there's one thing a japanese artist can paint it's waves look at those waves surging away but look above the waves dragons gold dragons with feisty paws and the claws stretching out that's really fantastic look even the haircut goes over the edge and these flames being dragged through the air it's worth looking at this just for the interior isn't it yeah now tell me tell me about this bowl um i don't know a lot about the bowl itself um what i do know is that it's my mother's and before that it was my great grandmother's and she got a lot of items that she procured at that time because she wanted to take the money away from my great-grandfather who had a bit of a liking for the horses and like to bet and it was her way of of keeping the cash away from him wow gosh this bowl is unique um well it was actually one of a pair there was one um in the hallway when my grandpa was a boy he was playing football in the hall and then the football hit the table and the vars was smashed so that's the only one that's left actually good grief there are two of these or not anymore no no there were my goodness well oh god what a tragedy for the man who actually painted this because this amazing congregation of faces each one with a completely different expression and the amount of planning uh that vars like that needs so the artist who's wielding the red pigment is given a space where he can fill in all the pianist and the garments but the faces are left empty and they're probably the last things to be painted i reckon that this is some sort of a religious gathering have you come to the faces no not a chance i'd have thought there must be at least 500 faces on here and then of course 500 faces on the one that was broken where was it made do you know no no no very little about it the clue is the colour scheme this intense red with gold is very very typical of a particular colour scheme and i'm going to turn this upside down so we can have a look and sure enough there is the mark of kutani so that's what we call this color scheme kutani where japanese late 19th century and whilst i'm down here rather unfortunately there is a star crack it does have an effect on the value that's the thing to bear in mind otherwise it is spectacularly good in today's market i think this would appeal and it would probably appeal at the rate of maybe let's say three to five thousand pounds wow wow that's a lot of horses isn't it earlier in the program we heard the story of george powell and his role in the fight for rally bicycle workers rights ronnie archer morgan got the chance to meet a local archivist who's on a mission to find and preserve publications that document the history of activism in nottingham when you showed me this archive you couldn't possibly know how close to my heart this is it's people like you i've always wanted to meet beavering away behind the scenes for black civil rights so tell me about your work and what we're trying to do is to show the nuances about the black political mobilization here in nottingham to really dig down into the details of what the windrush generation did when they arrived in the uk when they arrived in nottingham they experienced the collar bar of course we know that story of seeing signs saying no blacks no irish no dogs we all know that we know that story and when you dig deeper into that story it's not just about accommodation that was problematic but also about employment also about education everything and having this print culture tells a story about that so when you look again at the black print culture you can see that through the 1960s all the way through the 70s the 80s they were producing literature to make people aware of the fact that there was discrimination and that we needed to mobilize and do something about that i'm smiling because you're so immersed in this work aren't you what made you start this no one was collecting my history and i was concerned that that history was going to disappear crazy no the older people were dying and so i decided that somebody needed to collect this history before it was gone there's no way i want to value this and what's the value to you it's priceless really and the value of this for the next generation so that they can see what their ancestors their forefathers have done to bring about equality i mean you can't really put a price no you can't i don't want to give you a big heartfelt hug okay thank you [Applause] it's always great to see a nice 18th century firearm on the roadshow but one that has an inscription on it is just doubly nice do you read that for me lieutenant d gregory 45th regiment of foot 45th if i'm not much mistaken is the local regiment the nottingham regiment so it's very appropriate that we have it here today it's fantastic was mr gregory uh relative perchance about 12 years ago was looking into our family history and found the name lieutenant david gregory 1798. so immediately went to the commuter spent the whole night researching him found out his service recalled in west indies and in the peninsula war the very next day i told my brother we weren't work at the time enough i just idly putting his name on into the computer and item came up a pistol for sale in new york with his inscription on the butt well we had to buy it have you got any idea how old the pistol is i think 1760s 17th century i think that's absolutely right so it would have been quite an old pistol when lieutenant gregory decided that he was going to take that with him on campaign it was actually easier to say off the 45th on the peninsula where they weren't i think they had with you 13 battle honors i think it was about 13 yeah which is a heck of a lot and they must have been one of the real stalwarts in wellesley's army we're here in nottingham today we've got a pistol that was with your ancestor at such an important battle at tel avira in spain all those years ago yeah you say you bought it um can i be fifthly rude and ask you how deep you had to dip into your pocket i think it's around about 700 yeah yeah i think your investment of 700 pounds was very very sound and i reckon if that came up with all that provenance and all that work that you've done to give it the human face fifteen hundred pounds something like that for nottingham boy i am one to see something from a chap in a nottingham regiment here in nottingham today you know what it's made my day [Music] [Laughter] everybody loves a cheeky monkey don't they yes i think he's wonderful absolutely wonderful um this is a first for me because you've brought in the family pineapple so has this been part of your family for generations it's moving into the fifth generation from what my records say wow when my grandchildren are going to see it that'll be the fifth generation first generation yes maker i think the consensus of opinion is ruid in paris this is an automaton yeah and the one that we've had on the program before and i think it was made by them is in the form of a cabbage and what pops out is a rabbit ah but none of us have seen the one with the monkey so you know the thinking is that it it's quite rare date wise i suppose somewhere between 1890 maybe 1910 at the latest at the very latest so something of a survivor it is rare and it is debatable but certainly five to eight hundred pounds but if nothing else come on the price of pineapples today beggar's belief yes well this is a metal tin fields lavender brilliant solidified when we take off the lid we reveal within really something rather spectacular a pair of drop earrings and a ring what's the story well they were given to my mother by a friend of hers and she met a guy who spent a lot of time in france and i wondered if these may be some of french origin these are art deco and i wonder if it's possible that they may indeed be french just want to take one of them out because i want people to see that in 1925 when these were made just how articulated jewelry actually was they're mounted up in platinum you've got these hoops with diamond lines and these slender tapered black drops and the combination of the black hearthstone against the white of the diamonds is a very effective mechanism for deco jewelry someone who owned these sometime in their history has taken them into a jeweler and said i'm not sure i like the fittings so what they've done is they've removed the original fittings from the back and they soldered on these long gold sort of posts yeah with nine carat gold screw fittings at the end the ring is interesting because it's a very very dark inky blue sapphire literally the color of blue black ink and it's this long rectangular baton in an art deco platinum and diamond frame with these little calibrate cut sapphires but here's an interesting point in the 1920s when that was made synthetic rubies and sapphires were beginning to appear on the market and the sapphires on the shoulders in the ring are actually synthetic they're not real all right so there we are i mean these are significant pieces do you like them yourself i do i love them i think they're beautiful i've worn them before and i'd wear them again here's the bad news those drops today if they were having the original fittings on them i think would be worth between four and five thousand pounds but because the fittings have been changed and i think we've got and i'll drop that price to probably two and a half to three thousand pounds simply because of a clumsy conversion the ring about fifteen hundred pounds how much is the box worth priceless absolutely priceless the box when you see a vr cipher the initials under a crown on anything you know that you have something exciting you have a piece of royal clothing this extraordinary collection of victorias really quite personal items how did they come to to be in your family they came to me from my great aunt in the late 1930s and 1940s she was ladies maid to a lady inglefield who was the wife of edward fitzmaurice inglefield who came from a long line of naval people we found a sketch done by princess louise of one of the uh inglefield admirals princess louise being queen victoria's one of the toys daughters so somewhere there's a link but you you can't quite put your finger on it quiet isn't the right word i'm miles off it's interesting that there are actually quite a lot of undergarments from queen victoria in circulation and i've spoken to the historic royal palaces about this and the thought is actually that she asked her staff to give these away not because they were worn out but because actually they were in reasonable condition they were really beautiful fabric and she hoped that they might be able to make something of them but i think because of the personal nature of these i think people did keep them as souvenirs as a direct link to something very personal to the queen now all her clothing had the royal cipher the stockings these pairs of black stockings they have a royal cipher two you can see the vr and number two on there the stockings almost certainly came from a company called price jones in wales and they had probably the first mail order business and the queen's dressers used to buy from them this is a chemise and here is a night dress but the things that i suppose people are most interested in or often most interested in are queen victoria's split drawers and this is a this is a pair here they are basically they're like a pair of bloomers they've got um seams down the outside of the leg they've got um the knee is closed and then the inside from the knee up to the waistband is open and it's such a brilliant piece of design because if you think about victorian costumes so you had your drawers which you they were called drawers because you drew them on first so you put your drawers on then you had your corset you could never get to the top of your drawers once you had your corset on there was no way so that was the best way of um being comfortable and to make going to the loo convenient what do we say about value no idea i know that the market is strong and i would certainly say something above 15 000 pounds right that's awesome money worth hanging on to them very good well i'm amazed that that there is such interest that people want to pay so much money for this sort of item i think we need now to make sure they looked after safely and perhaps better than just being in a box well this is the end of our day here and you can imagine when you come to woolson hall with this wonderful grounds you might walk your dog perhaps but mccaus hello ladies hi so who have we got here this is motley and this is rosie now tell me if i've got this wrong but you fly your macaws here for exercise yeah they need to have up to 17 miles worth of flying a day so we try to get them out as much as possible okay molly ready three two one what a magnificent sight and so unexpected from williton hall and the antics 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Length: 60min 58sec (3658 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 04 2022