[Music] we've packed our bucket and spay this week as we roll up at one of our Great British Seaside Resorts welcome to the road show from Bridlington apart from our desire to explore all corners of the country we've been drawn to this part of the Yorkshire Coast for a special reason each week we hear our experts wax lyrical about beautiful objects brought along to the show so today alongside the normal Road Show we're asking our experts to choose which era they believe produced the finest most beautifully crafted objects when was The Ultimate age of Elegance so where could we stage such a show how about a highly fashionable Resort of the Edwardian era the Bridlington spa and Gardens was a clever idea recognizing that rain was as likely as Sunshine during a typical British summer it combined exterior and interior space for 5,000 people right on the edge of the beach from the very start the Riff Raff was strictly excluded people deemed as objectionable were banned from admission so all came to the spa in the best and most fashionable outfits [Music] tragically two fires ravaged the original buildings in the early 20th century and in the 1930s a new center was erected on the site The Spa Royal Hall and the resort saw something of a Revival in the art deco era it was a great venue in the days of the tea Dance One band leader described it as certainly the finest dance and concert hall on the coast it's taken some knocks since then so for the last 2 years it's been closed for a complete [Music] facelift and here she is today looking a million dollars what a perfect backdrop for this special edition of the Road show celebrating the very best of elegant design so let's see what beautiful lines are catching our experts eyes as they start uncovering the treasures brought along by our visitors this is a beautiful Royal wer figure she she's known as the bther surprised but I was puzzled at the title cuz she doesn't look surprised at all I think she've been expecting it to happen all along but she's gorgeous girl modeled by Sir Thomas Brock who was a great Victorian modeler and um he actually designed the Great Central que Victoria Monument outside Buckingham Palace so he was an important champ and uh he made this model for roer the colors are very 1920s earlier on they were stained Ivory darker in color but she's a very boisterous modern girl at the time she's done in three different sizes a large one this is the medium size and little baby but uh I think she's gorgeous how did you come by it um it belonged to my grandma and uh I inherited it when she passed away um my grandparents were Travelers uh with a Fairground and um I always remember that that uh she said that that it traveled in the wagon with them and that they used to have to lay it on the bed when they moved about from Fairground to Fairgrounds and wrapped it in the beding just to keep she take it around for fairs with her yes with her because she loved it so so much but I mean always as a child I used to see it in her bedroom and admired it and always hoped that it would be mine one day which it was yes was the playground people love porcelain they they love especially roer you know did they used to have any fruit plates yes I've got two two fruit plates on my wall at home as well the fruit plates I know they're gorgeous they us used to come to the wer Factory when I was there and plead with me to let them have pieces from the museum well I'll buy that Governor I'll give you any money you like CU I could myself she always had some lovely some lovely places didn't grandma she seem have a nice taste of T nice what think this is travel throughout the country with the fair that's right and especially here at brington of course with all the mother's Fairground things here oh it is yes a fascinating life lovely AB to all these places I'm very proud of my you know family history to do with quite right to be too but she's a beautiful girl she had one little bit of damage I I see the the thumb has come off the that's been there as as as long as I've learn right from a child so don't worry too much about that but it is not too noticeable but she's a gorgeous girl I suppose in this condition um what expect for this size of figure to be something like about 12,250 right so she's Jolly Jolly so look after her oh I do I do but she's beautiful she is lovely do you know this is the most remarkable collection this double album here of um cricketers footballers and they're all little caricatures and they're all signed where did they come from my father started collecting and did all the drawings when he was about 20 and he sent off for the sign yes he would send a letter and then um hopefully got a reply with an autograph well I think that's quite amazing look here we've got um Jack banan and Fred aair but they're both signed photographs aren't they oh yes which is which is which is rather nice I don't know how he managed to get hold of those if we go further on into the albums I mean we get things like um Von Roven now how did he get Von Roven to Heaven say and here is a picture of them all uh the German flying Aces a German flying couple of German flying AC and a British one and they're all here and they're all all signed yes I can't imagine Rick toen actually sort of doing doing that sort of thing but obviously he did so was he a professional cartoonist no his father was a farmer and he went to the local grammar school as a border when he was about 10 ah now look who we got here Amy Mollison Amy Johnson yes and of course of course she's a bonian isn't she she H is yes from yes and she went and she went to first person to fly to Australia that's right first woman to fly to Australia first person to fly to Australia single-handed and here is a picture of her Craft um desert cloud and we go on even further and I mean just finally this one caught my eye which is of your sincerely John tenel he was the man who did the illustrator the Alice man yes the Alice man who did all those um and there is a nice little photograph of him so he must have got him fairly early because I mean I don't think he he he he was basically a 19th century figure wasn't he well he probably had some given by some other people do you reckon I don't remember swaps or something like that so it's it's a ridiculous thing to say but did your did your father did your father-in-law actually love this collection oh yes yes he adored it we're bonded out through the war and um we all survived but I think you know my father would grab the autograph books before wife and children you've got hundreds and hundreds of these 200 250 I mean just by looking through and you know having enthusiasm for some and possibly not so much for others but they're all remarkable and it is remarkable to get a collection together like this so comprehensive and such fun to look at I would put a price of about 1,500 to 2,000 really yes there are that's another exploded unexploded bomb to take care with you thanks for bringing them B thank you very much yes we need four candles for this now seriously though ancient order of Foresters is that linked with your family in anywhere no it isn't uh my my father actually bought it in a sail room uh which was all in a box in pieces uh for 10 Shillings in about about the 1950s right um so it came he had a hotel at the time and thought it would look rather nice for Buffet wedding receptions and stayed in the family and we sold out in 1990 and brought it with us and it stayed with us and my wife was very keen to find out a little bit of the history really and so right if you want an archetypal piece of mid 19th century work this is it and you got all this wonderful naturalism yeah and I it's fascinating the Foresters what have they chosen an oak tree it's wonderful the tree growing up and then the branches coming around you missing the nozzles there but well uh not a huge problem fascinating as well the Stags where's the inscription 1862 mhm correct 10 years earlier Lancia painted the monarch of the Glenn and of course this is the influence of that sort of work coming through it is that electroplate um not silver obviously that's going to make quite a big difference to its value a super uh piece which does stand up on its own the fact it's four branches if it have been a straight three that doesn't work very well on its own but that center of a circular table great you know you can put that anywhere it's going to look mag magificent I would think at auction today you would be estimated between about 6 and 800 pounds for it didn't expect that at all and it's nice to hear about the the history of it as well but you enjoy it as you are thank you very much indeed thank you do you know this comes from Whitby yes originally who does it actually belong to belongs to me right and where did it come from from in the family it was my paternal grandmother's and great grandmother so was this always known as the family treasure this particular no it was my father's from his mother my grandmother and my father gave it to me was it worn in the the 19th century cuz you know it goes back as far back as about the 1870s 1880s um Whitby is known for two very important animportant things first of all the Whitby jet business the extraordinary amount of jet that was churned out in the Victorian era especially after the death of the prince consort in the year 1861 and as soon as the prince consult died she was indeed Queen Victoria went into morning for the next four 40 years really and couldn't wear Diamonds and Pearls can you imagine how restrictive it must have been for ladies in society that all they could wear was this heavy dense black material it isn't heav well the color is though isn't it I mean you can't get blacker than black jet jet black that's the lightest St now that's it cuz you touched upon an important point because real jet is actually surprisingly light in weight it's a kind of a fossilized wood Jet and thing about Whitby that seems to be the home for it there and in the Victorian period at the peak of the production you had as many as about 1,500 people in you know all working in the jet industry and it's interesting because as soon as Queen Victoria died the jet industry died with her overnight as people wanted to embrace the lighter more frivolous lifestyle that was indicative of the Edwardian era the other thing that Whitby is very well known for is that when Bram Stoker wrote the book Dracula Dracula comes into Whitby his boat comes into Whitby so stoker must have known something about the Whitby jet industry at that time now can I have a look at the book locket and it's got a very interesting inscription hasn't it it is engraved on the surface here in memory of Arthur wari who was Arthur it would be my great grandmother's child oh um who died on November the 9th in the year 1870 at 2 years 10 months how sad how sad what happened do you know what what happened do you wonder she W J as a morning no so it must have shattered for the whole life what's been the sort of feeling you've had about that do you find this is very very sad then a lump in the throat really it it does cuz it's not only engraved on one side on other side also Jay Edward who died on November the 5th 1870 at 8 months so the two of them she must it must have been Dreadful as a mother to have lost all young very poignant so the photographs within are my grandmother my paternal grandmother and my great grandmother the mother to the two children that died and never to be the same again really so this is very worn and very damaged but from a Sentimental point of VI I bet you never took it off no probably not I've touched on the fact that this necklace is in less than perfect condition if it were in tiptop condition I think we'd probably be looking at something in the region of around £500 the fact that it is need some work done let's be a little bit more cautious maybe something in the region of3 400 for it your book locket which is if I may be very respectful and say it is absolutely clapped out this book locket with all the engraving on the surface I would say that it is sentimentally priceless and commercially modest yes thank you very much well thank you very much this is an interesting chair and I'm sure it has an interesting story here um yes it's my mother's family um we know it more or less back to sort of mid 19th century it belonged to an ancestor called JC aor who had 13 children um and would have definitely used it quite a lot and it would have remained in South Yorkshire until just after the war when the house was sold for death duties and my grand mother had it so I sat on it when I was a child and then it came to my mom and my children now sit in it wow fantastic so yeah it's been used a lot what this is actually echoing is um a model of an adult chair all right so I can imagine you know in the big Hall house there would have been the large dining table and this type of chair but for adults going around the dining table right when children came along they said to the estate manager or to cabinet maker I need another chair for my my my air yeah um it's actually 18th century um not 19th century there's a number of reasons um I can see that and I'll Point them out to you um one of them is the outs swept arms which is to me typical of the uh chip andelle period um as you can see there's a little hole um left and right and along there would go a little wooden rod with with like a Mor tez on the end yeah did you still have that no we don't but I've had to use all sorts of things to keep my children in it bits of Dowling and right yeah um and then the other thing there's at the bottom there's a little slide which would come out to rest one's feet oh yeah the the the Pierce Splat at the back is the typical of the 18th century and um and I what I like about it the lower section here is this slight Gothic influence and it's just beautifully patterned down there it's a little bit worn up here I think where children have either climbed out or it's Fallen backwards Fallen backwards yeah um which it happens it happens it's a good piece of 18th century English Furniture I'd put a value on this between 8 and 12200 really I didn't think it'd be very much because of in such a state that's part of its charm oh it's part of it charm oh good I shall tell my children they're not to blame then as you all have seen at the top of the program there's a very good reason why we've chosen the spa brington for our venue today with its Echoes of Art Deco Elegance it's the perfect place to talk to some of our experts about which era they would choose as the ultimate age of Elegance now Hillary Kane you've got opening on us today and the kind of stuff you brought along is the stuff that reminds me of of my parents here actually okay did you keep it should I have done well wait and see I mean I think what I have to say is that the era that I've chosen the 1950s I've chosen because it's so full of optimism it's so full of brand new stuff after the war almost anything goes and the few things that we've got here are a reflection of that and I suppose I also know 1950s things from my parents and my from my grandparents and it strikes a cord in me there's a sort of resonance there um and looking at these things the they are they're not all icons but some of them certainly are well let's this is so distinctive the fabric isn't these kind of patterns this is perhaps the most influential piece of fabric design that you and I will see it's called kaix it's designed by Luc and day it was described as if you can't afford a piece of abstract art at least you can have them on your curtains and that's what it is um inspired by CER and by Miro this was designed for the zenith of design of the period I.E the Festival of Britain when you look at this for example I mean can this claim to be part of the British ultimate age of Elegance because Scandinavia course had such a big influence isn't it you're absolutely right and I think that um the whole use of Scandinavian light materials new Fabrics new types of manufacturer created a whole different look and I think that if one looks at this light and Airy f Furniture the stick-like legs the uses of different Woods different shapes the spareness of the decoration it speaks volumes to me and the fact that we are now all returning to this look is a testament I think of its longevity and its influence they're not to the Fashions of course we're not returning to the Fashions particularly but and they were I mean they really were something they were remarkable back then in the 50s weren't they they were and again one goes back to that sort of Rebellion against all those restrictions of the war time and with somebody like Dior for instance when he created the new look suddenly iname the hourglass figure femininity luxury wastefulness all these things that were absolutely forbidden for the previous 5 10 years and it also meant subliminally that women were to be looked at in a different way at the end of the war the soldiers came back the girl girls had to give up their jobs to give jobs for the soldiers they became Housewives what could be more applicable to this new housewife generation than the Dior [Music] dresses this is a very sort of classic boxing training pose who is he that is my grandfather who was born sirel Hills out of Manchester who boxed into the name of Ellis became a Bridlington man and married a brington lady okay I can ask the obvious question what happened to the jeans lightened along the years I think you I would never have believed he was your grandfather yes did you know him unfortunately not I wish I had done because the stories he could have told would have been wonderful fantastic yes what about your grandmother yes my grandmother unfortunately passed away last year at the age of 92 so you had lots from her yes Lots from her to be honest she was quite resisten about the past it was what's in the past is in the past doesn't matter were the secrets they probibly are that's for me to find out as I go along I think I mean why did he change his name for a St no idea total mystery to us but I'm told that his mother and his sisters actually had a business on bridington beach his for tellers and made a very comfortable living so he was a sort of showman definitely he actually uh I believe boxed in the fairground boxing builds as well all right so we're going into a very sort of basic level of boxing at that point I mean this is dated 1933 he's there with is that his manager or uh I don't think it's his manager I think it's probably one of his trainers one of his trainers right so he's a very stylish elegant man I think he definitely was for the time of the era that he came from now that they look a classic lot don't they they definitely are real sort of Heavies of of that sort of sport there he is that's right now let's think about his name I mean today nobody would call themselves that and yet he was called sir he chose to be called and I suppose that was accepting his popular name he must have chosen to call himself that cuz I imagine that was his nickname anyway I would imagine sir he was always known if you speak to people around rington and who can remember that era they always knew Alis yeah so we've got here a lovely scrapbook that's right and these are his sort of bouts aren't they they are his bouts yes England's best middleweights darkkey Ellis and Donald Keys what was his status in this sport was he just a local boxer did he make good I think he made quite good I think at one time he was classed as the middleweight champion of England of northern England because I believe there it was Regal that's right it was Regal at the point now that's an interest is is that is that your grandmother that is my grandmother yes and they they're a stylish couple aren't they basically looks like gangers Mall doesn't it going back to the intouchable sort of era it's it's straight out of alapo it is it's fantastic I love it um my grandmother went on to become a very well-known local land lady in brington and she ran the crown hotel in brington for a very long time my grandmother let on in life yeah I think it's a great story now we haven't talked about the poster what a great image isn't it wonderful fantastic now what we're looking at here is it's a it's a international Belgium versus England four Belgian boxers four British boxers including there he is and he is obviously the great hero of the time you he's the most important person he's the feature on the poster it brings to life not just him but that whole sort of sense of what boxing was as a popular sport this is quite a valuable item because one it's a sporting poster Move Yourself away from your family connections it's a great image it's also about black history now black history is something that we are becoming increasingly quite rightly aware of it's so much a part of our culture in Britain it doesn't start in 1948 49 it goes back much longer and images like this underline the fact that you know we have a very very strong black cultural history going back to the 18th century and therefore today that would be a very desirable object because it focuses very much on that there here as I say no color differentiation he's one of a team fighting for England against Belgium so you've got a poster here which is worth several hundred pound um but that's in a sense incidental you need to know that what you've got to do and it's not for me to tell you but I think this is such a fantastic Story You've got to find out more lots and lots of questions and to go back to the beginning what happened to the jeans exactly Pandora's Box I was assert to it may be tricky but you've got to open it thank you very much thank you very much indeed now I've got to tell you I've traveled all over Yorkshire and I have yet to come across a Yorkshire Tea Plantation so I can't fathom out how come you've got yure tea but one thing's for certain you like your teapots big I mean this is the the biggest County isn't it in England hang on hang on Eric yours may be big but mine is bigger what do you make of that hey I have the conc defeat that is a Whopper it is it is a Whopper but unfortunately my spout is not quite as big as yours you have upstaged me here but do you realize what has happened look at you look at your arm meric I'm doing it you've gone into teapot mode short and stout yes exactly the problem with our teapot is that somebody did obviously try to pour tea out of this was it you no you haven't tried pouring out of this because it was the burden of tea in there would be ridiculous and so our handle I'm afraid has taken a turn for the worst was yours seriously fatig U well this yeah I mean this is the sort of thing they use for sunny schools cuz this is a late Victorian one I just love it cuz it like it's almost like brand new uh but that started off live sort of definitely east of whitne didn't it yeah yeah this is from Japan around the year 1900 yours is well this is um maybe 1890 1900 so they're of a similar vintage both in their mold beautifully done yours obviously in the in the right style and mine well well what's yours worth because does size matter I'm afraid it does Eric this is spectacular beautiful enameling damage though maybe it's probably worth somewhere in the region of £2,000 well at this end um we're um we're near at2 200 um but um given the choice I'd rather take this one home with me no disrespect over there this is a working team it is yes and that's has that done a few Charities it has it has indeed and it's been in the family yes many years uh belonged to my great aunt who had three of these giant teapots which she used so as they say in this part of the world you can sup some stuff out of that there's a good few cups in that 50 cups 50 cups only in Yorkshire of course I'm just looking at his bird but isn't he magnificent that bird is it's a lovely bird is it a falcon it's a falcon and it's I've always been told it's a peragine falcon and peragine Falcons have Royal connotations they're Royal Birds that's very interesting and they've got this wonderful sort of mled plumage on their on their underbellies haven't they and they have the longer Wings longer than a hawk anyway that's right yes yes um and actually looking back from his wonderful plumage what about his owners well uh this is and one of my four Bears it's my father's family uh we don't know an awful lot about him but it's always been in the family and probably most of the time in Yorkshire what I like is the is the uh is this wonderful silk dublet that he's wearing with Slash silk uh revealing this this lovely color underneath and these um and these little I suppose they might be pearls or some kind of braiding or maybe silver certainly he's got rather a smart belt uh with gold fittings and uh and and obviously a gold dagger handle there all this means that he's a man of rank I think well this is what's interesting the paragan Falcon the Royal connection so the story in our family is that he was actually a falconer to the king and the King being James the first yes uh now there's no documentary evidence for that as far as I know um but that's that's a story that's come down to us yeah and then um around his um tunic here you've got this this um this silken rope it seems to be silk and then I think that's a lure isn't it I suppose it could be yes couldn't it go around like that yeah swing around his head to attract the bird's attention after he's loosed it to get it back again so all the detail is there it's some whoever's painted this has understood the uh the falconry side of things very well hasn't it yeah it's um painted in oils on this very large panel which is actually several pieces of wood joined together so we think from the costume that it's about 1620 right which is incidentally is about 15 years after guy Forks yes just to place it you know in the reign of James I uh in terms of authorship well we're beginning to be able to put names to pictures of this vintage uh rather more accurately than we had been able to um and in this case it's just possible there was an artist called John Su right working in uh Chester at around this time and who covered much of the north of England and it's possible that it's got his dabs on it as it were um condition you ask me about Condition it's not brilliant no I think there's still quite a lot of original paint under here yeah and this area which is water damaged is as much in the varnish as it is in the paint which is quite good news cuz I think that there's some original paint under there you don't really know until you start stripping it back so there is quite a lot of work to do on it to put it right to get it looking absolutely spitting yeah but um maybe 2 or 3,000 worth of work as much as that but then you've got to look at what value the painting is and falconry is very popular in the Middle East from whence it came of course you know any picture with a fulcon in the Arab Market is going to get very excited about it and be very surprised if it didn't make 20 or 30,000 right yes ensure it for 30 right okay yes I know it's a responsibility isn't it it is rather but that's uh that's stewardship isn't it that's the thing about handing on families things you need to look after them I think that's exactly right it's difficult to find the precise word to describe these the word flamboyant is certainly works the word kit certainly works well with these and I have to say when I picked these up from around here and walked across the room there was not an eye in the building that was not transfixed on them they are also compelling what do you reckon um which is the word you'd best use to describe them oh I'm not sure that I could say that because it would sound like kind of what different different definitely they're different um and what about ghastly is that does that yes that's about right yes I think they're also fairly Gastly they really touch some bases they're extremely well made they are certainly attractive in the sense that they attract attention well they certainly do that that so tell me did you dig them up out of the garden no just ask because they are so incredibly filthy that it looks as if they may have spent 50 years underground no maybe I should wait for high tide and wash them down I'm getting the impression that you don't like these a lot and yet they're yours well um my late mother-in-law left them for me I don't think she lik me very much which is hence the reason I've got them well I think that they're proba they're better than you do and I think whilst if we weren't around the queue here and offered these for sale for a Fiverr around here most people would turn them down at that but I think these 50s signed Morano flamco figures made on Venetian island of Morano in probably late 50s into the 60s but as Superior pieces would probably be worth at an auction if well directed 150 to 200 each oh she did like me then after all didn't realize that's great oh no I didn't think you were worth anything like that no the charity Shop's not getting them now then I'm having a nanny moment you having a nanny moment oh very much so yeah now look we've got five CRS here and I happen to know that this isn't the lot no unfortunately now I think I may am I allowed to call you a bit of a pry yes you can call me a premmy I'm proud to be a pry now how many of you got at home another 10 at home and another one on the [Laughter] way and uh where are they all well we live in a large house so they've taken over the front living room and in the hallway and upstairs too but they live indoors which is a perfect climate for a PRM absolutely and do they get an outing ever they getting out in must days unless it's raining don't do we don't do raining prms no quite when looking around well that's a pram dating from the latter part of the 19th century slightly um sort of Merry Poppin esque what I love about it is this fabulous barley twist brass handle at the at the front there huge wheels and um the Forerunner of everything else we see here today so the PRS that we're looking at around and about here are mostly 1950s and 60s yeah you've concentrated on that particular period have you why I think it's it's deep bodies and big wheels for me I just love this the shape of the pram I just think they are absolute beauties of craftsmanship in the 1950s there were certain companies which were top of the range weren't there and I would have thought was LBC one of them LBC was one of them um mmit this being particularly in the Queen the queen is the actual model name and they followed with a lady and a mamit princess oh right and and so it goes on and on what I think is very telling is that in fact it was often a make of pram that would sell the job to the nanny a a um yes that's very true I think a house a mom would advertise saying Nanny requ nny required we have a m pram or an or London baby coach whatever and that usually fill the vacancy I was trying earlier to work out what the collective name for a group of prams is and I've come up with the name a push of prams definitely a push of PRS yeah and as far as values concerned what do you put on something a classic pram from the 1960s in really Tip Top restored condition well I think like any collector it depends on the make and the model if it's a if it's a pram that you want you will pay like any collector would I pay the most I paid for my PR was the queen she was a model I always wanted and I absolutely adore her she'll never be sold so to me she's Priceless and I paid 7700 for hair and and in this in that rest condition if she wasn't in that condition I would earn it especially if Wheels need recing which talking expense I would only maybe pay 250 £350 well I hope you've got lots of grandchildren to put in these hopefully in a couple of years daughter's just wed but hopefully yes she's working on it yeah fantastic thank you very much for bringing in your pushup PRS thank you very much Henry I've interrupt at your busy day CU I'm pretty sure you must have some strong views on the ultimate age of Elegance what would you choose well mine would be the de T Charles the second wonderful wonderful flamboyant ways and wigs and hats with plumes and oh God but of course the the days before it in the city of Wester where I come from were very different before the second came to the throne we had Oliver Cromwell and um pots like this I you know with poems on as a chamber pot to do your do your business and the poem says fast and pray and pity the poor amend thy life and sin no more while you're doing it so you had to be party even while you answering a call of nature but the only fun in life was sort of tipping it out of the window on top of a of a round then you get sent to prison and it course it all changed so dramatically didn't it with Charles thei Char came back in the restoration everything is peacock is and wonderful exciting and you get the slipware like this man I mean this is seen this before it was this a copy a copy of the original Aussie the ow in but you have me a drink out of this and it's all full of fun was ABS gorgeous and ornamentation of course design and Beauty but life was like that it grew exciting and wonderful what do you think you'd have been doing back in then in those days well I I would have been a Cavalier I I I hope you know cuz I helped Charles II Escape after the battle of wer you did did you did remember that and so I would have been become a Cavalier and uh this little piece is just a fragment of a pot I found in a Welly Boer now that's me dressed up in a Cavaliers costume that's what I would have looked like so you'd have liked the clothes then would you oh I would have loved to do it with a waste coat a wig and a and a plumed hat and and everything and you carry a cane as you walk around the town and lovely Gators things I can just picture myself dressed like [Music] that [Music] I think it's only appropriate when we're looking at the age of Elegance and what makes up Elegance to be looking at Fantastic costume like this and wonderful pieces that you've brought in where have they come from well these are all part of the collection at the Little Theater in Gates head so these costumes are actually used on stage absolutely whenever possible yes we're always dying to get costumes like this on stage yes Mari has actually worn this one it looked fabulous I can I can imagine I mean it's so appropriate to our setting Now isn't it really I mean it is a perfect flapper dress from the 20s and obviously when you look around at some of the details in this building they're they're replicated right here in front of us with some of the motifs beauti be work and the the glitz of the beads Comes Alive doesn't it under the light it's fantastic so you go back earlier than these do you our earliest are probably about 1890 possibly 1880 and we've just continued to collect and accumulate um you know that that one is about 1912 or there about um that suit there is about 1947 so do you have to do much to keep these costumes going I mean if they're in daily use yes yes yes for example um you can see some of the bead workers going there so we replace them uh if we can sometimes it's not easy to find suitable Replacements because materials and sizes don't always match up with these vintage articles this is actually very prder it's very now it's very um it's remarkably revealing and would have had to have had a a heavy a heavy slip underneath and and I think you you forget also when you see some of these do you have the underwear that goes with dresses like do yes yes we have the Petticoat the Bloomers the shames oh yes we've got all that you've got it all yes yes we have actually recently bought some replica corsets so that we can pull the wastes in of our girls so that they can try and get into those tiny wastes I mean that that is Tiny it's the kind of thing that you would have worn it's a day dress that perhaps in two parts that you would have worn promenading along the front outside the spa when it was first built and one has to think about how much these are worth they're they're working costumes they're not Museum pieces they're working costumes right um but they could equally be some of these are so Exquisite that they could be Museum pieces um well certainly this this uh Duo here probably at auction would fetch something around about £400 something gosh again this lovely flapper dress I think the price on that would probably be about sort of5 to 600 a whole value for the collection we're moving into the thousands R it's a good job there kept under lock and key yeah very secure to be honest I don't think we could bear to par with them because you know this is part of our history it's tiny it's a TIG as big as a thimble and is it yours it's my it's my wife actually it is ridiculously small for a TIG I mean you know that a TIG or a loving cup is this also well I thought it were a loving cup it is it is and the idea is you pass it down the bench three handles so one handle to the next neighbor then they then turn it to the next and so it rotates as it goes down the line but that is ridiculously small for a t so it's a miniature yeah and you know who it's by well I think it's by Macintosh is it is it marra but when Macintosh McIntyre McIntyre is it McIntyre and it says McIntyre there and William Morra was famously employed by them that's where he made his name before going on to set up his own Mor Factory pretty little thing decorated with what cich I'm not a Bist beautiful thing but it is very very small the the real article I'm afraid biger the real article a real take should be this size and if it were this size it would be worth getting on for £1,500 so we go from £1,500 down to ,500 m that is ,500 because they say smaller the better so that's ,500 pound it's small and exquisitely formed well you've brought along today this most astonishing sword now it's made by Wiltson and I happen to know quite a lot about it but I'd like to hear the story from you I acquired this in the late 19 1960s about 1968 um I'm a collector of edge weapons and um a dealer contact in South and on SE had this and um I was quite astonished to be given a chance to obtain it because I had bought small German knife which he was fascinated with and we did a straight swap now I had a funny feeling I got the best of the deal I just knew that at the time because I had a bit of information about the sword and what they told me was this was the pattern piece that had been used the model for the uh swords made for the personal bodyguard of hary salassi and bra Ethiopia in about 1928 1929 and it's been in Wilkinson swords pattern room all that time now at about that time um Wilkinson went into private ownership and they cleared out a lot of their Old Stock I was well delighted to get a hold of it I thought whatever the story this has got to be a pece worth having well that's an astonishing story how you how you actually obtained it highly Cassi of course um The Lion of Judah uh came to the throne I think in about 1930 um he was Regent until until about that time and these swords were made by Wilkinson as you say for his personal bodyguard now the interesting thing about this is that um Wilkinson's pattern piece which this is was the only one that was made with a with a hilt and cross piece all the others that were sent across to Ethiopia were sent without Furnishings as it's called they were sent naked if you like now there weren't very many others manufactured there were 20 manufactured for Heidi celas's bodyguard and of course he was deposed in what 1973 1974 something like that and so we don't know what's happened to the others they may not exist any longer they may be sitting rusting in some Ethiopian shed somewhere who knows so this could be you unique it's the most beautifully made sword typically by Wilkinson who made lots and lots of um uh decorative and commemorative swords this is um has a wavy blade this beautiful wavy blade um which is made of steel of course and it has this gorgeous gorgeous gold and red flame effect running right the way down the blade but the the unique thing about this of course it's it's the pattern it's the pattern from which the others were judged so there is not another one of these and that's what makes it interesting to me so in the late' 60s you swapped this for a knife yes worth was value okay um I think today this sword it's so unique it's worth between two and2 and a half th000 not a bad investment I'm surprised my father was a Vicor in swi in Yorkshire and then it was uh in the vicarage and then it was moved to Clen and I really remember it from the Clon vicarage I would be about 9 years old then I don't know where it came from only that it was actually a gift from somebody to my father uh and it remained on the in the hallway in in the vicarage as a centerpiece um my father absolutely adored it and when he retired um he moved into a d of bungalow and he even had it put on the staircase in the D of bungalow going up the stairs so that he could see it every day so he loved the picture absolutely adored the picture and did he do any um research on the painting at all I don't think he did I've done more of the research I've tried to find things out and come to a dead end every time well I can help you there oh wonderful favulous the picture is a copy after a Dutch AR artist who is working in Rome in 1620 an artist called Garrett van hontor and it is the Nativity this is a 19th century copy of that picture the real giveaway with this painting is the 19th century Florentine frame right we call them sort of Palazo pity frames the handcarved Florentine frames of the 19th century um and students and artists would copy the great Masters that were hanging in the eup Fitzy and the pity pazo in 1993 there was a car bomb that went off just outside the EIT and unfortunately the Nativity by hunt horse was destroyed two other major pictures by man Fred were destroyed and also 30 great Masters were damaged so the original painting totally Priceless painting is no longer with us and and sadly also on that particular day when these great Old Masters were destroyed um 26 people were wounded and six people died there are only eight listed recorded eight copies listed but undoubtedly there's more around the world the original painting that was destroyed was three times the size of of your picture good gracious where biggy enough of course this oil on canvas um haunt horse would have been really influenced by Caravaggio the Great Master of light and this was probably painted by the original was painted by candle light but you get real sort of radiant light coming from baby Jesus right through all the figures right up to the top kind of Ray of Hope um the light of the world so in terms of value the original oil painting by a haunt horse literally Priceless of course it's no longer with us but a copy a 19th century copy after the picture is worth approximately £4 to 6,000 very good lovely thank you very much beautiful that's so it's not a set of golf clubs then no it's something the ladies aren't allowed to see I'm afraid okay hide your eyes girls hide your eyes oh it's very naughty have you seen one of these before you see what it is yet it's a lady on a potty it's more than that isn't it yes because it's a lady with a purpose now what does she do does she fly up this way there we go she's uh does all sorts of things and on her bottom here she's got a blade and what she is actually is a cigar cutter a novelty cigar cutter okay so how come you have got it because it's not a kind of girly thing to have is it really it's been passed down through the family um my great great Granddad uh and that's about all I know about it but I do know that the ladies in the family were never allowed to see it it was always on his watch chain oh in his waste coat pocket and when asked no you can't look at it it was his secret his secret his secret passion then when my mother inherited it I was allowed to look at it and told you know it's it's the naughty lady I think she's great and just the sort of thing that a grandfather should have on the end of a Watch chain actually something naughty and rather rascally um she's dating from around 1900 1910 made of brass and in fact I would have said she's because she's such a cheeky little thing I think she's going to have a reasonable value I put her at about oh 100 120 I think she's terrific I think she's gorgeous in this Splendid Art Deco building we're asking some of our experts to choose their ultimate age of Elegance and Eric NOS with the yeara you've chose you should feel very much at home I do I mean this is branton's Art Deco Temple it really is and yes I mean those inter War years really do it for me because uh it was the age of Thoroughly Modern Millie when it was stylish to raise your skirts and Bob your hair and people just wanted to have a party I mean they'd had the horrors of the first world war and there's this new generation this new emancipated woman um and they were able to uh uh to get out and and follow their their Heroes and heroins on the Silver Screen cuz Hollywood intr glamour uh to the working classes in in general um I mean this figure is this is Joseph lenzel I affectionately always refer to him as legs Lorenzi and here's this woman I mean she is the the epitome of perfect health and form and um and again this was an age where people took you know a great interest um in their own in their own health so um certainly the lines of this are beautiful as as indeed this is cocktail you know here we are can I do it cuz I've always I mean you know I've always fed you know working at the seavo behind the bar and uh and I wasted no I love a good a good Manhattan I know just a perfect place in Manhattan that doesn't but again you look at something like that we we're moving through this Art Deco period into into modernism because you know again just to show you I mean that could have come off of a of a of a motor vehicle it's such a strange looking thing and when it is a cocktail shaker of course and of course as you said you know after the first world war we're talking about the 1920s and people were you coming out of such a desperately tragic time and and drabness and sadness and they wanted Glamour and exoticism didn't they they did uh I mean the women they got Rudolph Valentino um so that was the Exotic uh side of it um when it comes to uh uh to to speed and streamline everybody is moving forward think of Brooklyn's and Bugattis and Bentley and uh anyone for tennis um people became you know far more um for want of a better word um worldly and as far as Elegance goes I mean talk about Bugattis and that kind of thing that was the ultimate Elegance but also for the women it was the clothing wasn't it clothing especially the sort of shimmy dresses now bearing in mind that in the Mother's Day a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking wow all of a sudden legs are on the scene um and those dresses they were designed to move because you know people would go out dancing uh in a way that they never done before and um and the dresses you know they were very very stream like I mean I look sometimes at the dresses and I see [Music] skyscrapers as you know this is a work table but there's there's a little story behind this isn't there well there is yes it's um it's always ever been known as Granny's sewing table it was left to me by my granny about 15 years ago and I can remember it from childhood it being in her bedroom with all her um needles and threads and buttons and she never threw anything away so she cut buttons off things and kept them in tins and there was always a piece of thread that would nearly match if not quite perfectly would do um and I always admired it and always played with it and when she died it was it was left to me um and I I I think if it if it had been a work table it might have had a bag underneath but I can't ever remember the being a bag there say this is how it's always been including the sort of b top right ws and all ws and all yes what this is actually it's a Regency piece of furniture and the wood is Rosewood but when Rosewood was first introduced it was known as Prince's wood so because we had Kingwood well the French had Kingwood yes they found this wood and it was known as Princess wood so it's a highly sophisticated piece of furniture really um it to me it's just beautifully drawn it's made of say Rosewood veneer and satinwood we have the top which is crossbanded in satinwood and down the legs it's simulated in bamboo in this lovely yellow color um which is again solid satin wood and then it finishes in an elegant Rosewood Rosewood legs inlaid with um boxwood now what's so nice with this you can imagine this in the the early 19th century in around about 1810 that the the Regency or the lake Georgian household that'd be sitting there yes you're right it did have a long bag and that would have been holding the walls and silks and things like that yes and then the lady of the house um would have been sitting there elegantly during her St this is a really good piece of furniture I would put a valuation of this around5 to 6,000 never my word oh granny would be so thrilled she would be absolutely thrilled to Pieces she really would it's it it just granny in among all the objects brought along by visitors today we've had a bit of fun with our experts choosing their ultimate age of Elegance I wonder which one you'd choose well I thought I'd join in the fun so based on the Criterion of fashion alone I've plumped for the 1970s and this vintage dress by that mass of Elegance none other than Christian Dior so from the very elegant Spar Bridlington bye-bye f
