Antiques Roadshow UK Season 43 - Episode 12 (Apr 18, 2021)

[Music] today we're in north yorkshire a county renowned for its vast moors and rolling dales we've made our home at newbie hall designed by sir christopher wren the architect famed for st paul's cathedral and it's fitting that a building that's so magnificent on the outside should have more treasures inside including some of chippendale's finest furniture and a gallery of classical statues more on those later sadly these bright interiors aren't quite matched by the weather today i've lost count how many people have said to me on all the years i've been on the antics roadshow how is it that you always manage to film on a sunny day well not today it's raining it's looking pretty great i'm hoping the sun's going to come out later but in the meantime welcome to the antics roadshow things are a bit different this year no large crowds or snaking cues but these hardy souls aren't deterred by a bit of wind and rain my top tip for filming antiques roto and a gale is to hang on to your pots now when was this made do you have any idea you're the expert i have no idea what they're for well i can tell you excellent go on tony it's worth a little bit more than that sweet very sweet i'm liking it more and more good perhaps one could come to love it who knows [Music] well here we are in sunny yorkshire you've brought along this very intriguing silver box um how did you get it i'm from sweden originally and now it was given to me as a graduation present from an elderly couple in the family they knew i really liked it from a young age because whenever me and my family would visit them and i would always play with it right you know some more well let's have a closer look at the object it is a silver box solid silver and it's a perpetual calendar which you probably know from the dials on the top and on the bottom you know nowadays we've got our smartphones we can reach in our pocket and we know the date and the time in the 1720s or 30s when this was made it was quite a different story yeah it is engraved with days of the week which you've probably seen not in swedish but it's in german sontag montag etc um i have looked inside it there are no maker's marks but i have seen a couple of these before and they are made in a certain part of germany they're made in augsburg as we say the dial on the top works in this this manner so you can move the dial around so the day of the week matches up with the date on the base we have the signs of the zodiac around the side again with an aperture that you can move the box does open compartment inside i think probably for snuff okay snuff taking was very popular in the early 18th century if you did play with it as a child you've done quite well not to damage it it's in very very good condition if it were to turn up on the market we would be looking at a current auction estimate of between two and three thousand pounds wow that's really good and thanks so much for bringing it it really lightened up our morning for us thank you thanks for having me you brought me a typed letter it's nicely framed um it's dated the 21st of april 1989 and you can see immediately the signature at the bottom of roald dahl everyone's favorite children's author certainly mine yeah perhaps yours as well definitely mine yes tell me about the letter where did it come from well i was a newly qualified teacher and had a class of seven-year-olds and we absolutely loved listening to royal dell at the end of every day so as a letter writing exercise we thought we would write to him to tell him how much we liked his work and which were our favorite stories and he amazingly wrote back to us fantastic so this is you with your class yes brilliant right so at the end of the day you would read to the children um a particular story yes and roald dahl would often be the favorite yeah yeah once we'd done one then it was can we do the next can we do the next one and did they have any favorites i think probably charlie and the chocolate factory yeah yeah this is 1989. he was a really very elderly gentleman at this point but he was a very good correspondent and he's put his thought into it yeah it's a lovely personal letter can i read some of it because it's wonderful you talked about poetry being my favorites and of course he sent you a poem so he says my teacher wasn't half as nice as yours seems to be that's you his name was mr unsworth and he taught us history and when you didn't know a date he'd get you by the ear and start to twist while there you sat quite paralyzed with fear he'd twist and twist and twist your ear and twist it more and more until at last the ear came off and landed on the floor what i like about it is it it really encapsulates something quite special about roald dahl he's a master of cruel characters isn't he there are so many really evil characters in his book i always think of miss trunchbull he's a kind of male or mistrenchable this mr runsworth you know really mean and somehow dar gets hold of those characters and holds them up for what they are makes fun of them and it's the children who always come out best at the end and this is a really fine example of that kind of poem so at the time roald dahl sent this to you in april 1989 this was actually an unpublished poem it hadn't appeared in any of his books or in print before i have to say though that it was subsequently published i think he probably sent it out to other schools as well other people would have written to him so it's not unique but nonetheless you've got a nice signed letter from roald dahl which would mean so much to so many people so commercial value 100 to 150 pounds yeah that's the sort of amount i was expecting but to me my children have enjoyed it subsequent children in my classes have enjoyed it so it won't be going anywhere and that's what counts thank you very much thank you old egyptian ring of silver paid one pound in luxor in january 1891. what's a lovely inscription and this is just one of several pieces tell me the story my grandmother's aunt lucy was in luxor and bought these items and gave them to her so this is the sort of thing that our tourists of the late 19th century would have brought back there's a problem how much of what they brought back was genuine she told me that when she was in cairo in 1920 she met howard carter and she told me she showed these things to him and he said they were genuine yeah she told her many stories she not all of them were completely true do you have a favorite amongst these pieces the necklace fascinates me and one of the labels says it's a necklace from a mummy and so i kind of hope it is okay it's not impossible we know that these sorts of beads occur not only on burials but also these beads were used by people as decorative amulets and necklaces it could be either and we called especially the blue ones we call these faints beads now this is slightly confusing because the term fails on the roadshow is something we use when we're talking about pottery from the town of fienza and it's a completely different material to what we in europe call fails the actual clay it's made of contains various silicas which when heated up sweat through the clay and emerge on the surface of the clay to form a glaze so it's self-glazing earthenware which is very very clever especially when you think you know egyptian fails can be dated as far as say three or four thousand years bc i think those all look genuine the hawk features a great deal in the egyptian works of art and there you have a hawk or a falcon that is really rather gorgeous and i think could be around one and a half to two and a half thousand years bc this as an individual piece if something like that came up for auction i would imagine you would have to pay around two thousand pounds for it wow and i'm going to group all of those pieces together as a little collection and i would say again probably maybe around 2000 pounds for the lot no i'm very surprised in what way surprised i just thought they were knick-knacks and i keep them in my doll's house yes of course of course they sit in your doll's house because there's more really nice story [Music] well i grew up a stone's throw from the famous football grounds of anfield so of course when i saw this fantastic collection it's almost the history of the 20th century in football in microcosm tell me a little bit about them please so this is my great grandfather ned liddle and he was born in sunderland in 1878 and he played for sunderland where he started off and then he moved to southampton clapton orient south end and then finally arsenal he played from 1914 to 1920. how did you come across all these items my uncle passed away recently and we've been uh clearing the house out and we found a lot of the photos there we have a great atmospheric picture of him there for queen's park rangers he is in the middle with his ball a hat on looking like the peaky blinders this is a life really tied up in football we go from his early careers when football league was just starting this was a time when footballers played with handlebar mustaches big baggy shorts you know it was his life wasn't it it was yeah yeah in fact uh he was a manager in the 1930s and then he continued to be a football scout and he scouted for most of the major clubs tottenham hotspurs in particular who kept him on until he retired when he was 87. an interesting thing that i noticed right away was we have a football contract here yeah an agreement made the 18th day of may 1914 for the club of arsenal at highbury and here inside it says on behalf of the club hereby agrees that the said club shall pay to the said player the sum of three pounds a week you can't even get a coffee for that price today i've never seen one of these in 30 years i've never seen i've seen a modern football contract but i've never seen one from this date so this is like a piece of history this is the antiques roadshow of course and we have to put a value on the man in his life from what we see on the table here that's ray hallmark silver i can estimate it to be seven or eight hundred pounds his medals 500 pounds each on those sort of gold medals the contract that's a hard one right that's got to be in a museum that could be worth 800 to a thousand pounds in auction so what we're looking at on the table here today is two two and a half thousand pounds there's a lot of people really interested in this and i'd like to think it could go to a museum right yes sir well thanks so much thank you [Music] i'm so tough today to to actually tell the story of my great grandfather again really and keep his memory alive to be able to go through and show the photos and the medals has been wonderful [Music] scattered around the grounds of newbie hall is a wonderful collection of contemporary sculptures built up over recent years [Music] but step inside newbie hall and you'll find one of the finest collections of roman sculptures anywhere in britain many of them date back 2 000 years and all these pieces were bought and gathered together by one man william weddle he owed his wealth to an extraordinary inheritance from his great uncle thomas a senior figure in the navy who dabbled in various investments including the notorious slave trading south sea company before trying his hand in one of britain's first lottery competitions in 1710 great uncle thomas hit the jackpot winning 20 000 pounds not bad you might think hang on in today's money that's 60 million thomas weddle went from modestly rich to stratospherically rich and he didn't have any children so eventually most of the money made his way to william weddle in 1756 but his great uncle had made a few canny provisos such as the money had to be used to acquire more land and property like newbie hall and the family had to improve its social standing william used his newfound wealth to take himself off on a grand tour of europe which was something of a rite of passage for young men from the landed gentry taking in the high culture and ancient ruins of rome and keen to collect souvenirs of his travels william went on a buying frenzy 19 massive chests were filled with sculptures and shipped from italy to yorkshire and william weddle had them placed here in his sculpture gallery which was specifically created by the famous designer robert adam to collectors the statues symbolized noble classical virtues and showed off their refined taste but the grand tour fell out of fashion when travel became difficult during the napoleonic wars and then lost its exclusivity with the arrival of rail travel in the 1840s even so souvenirs do turn up on the roadshow from time to time and newbie hall is no exception so this beautiful eagle has swept in out of the tempest not all souvenirs of the grand tour were lumps of roman marble this is also a grand tour souvenir stunning thing how did you get hold of it it's not actually mine it's my son-in-law's he just brought in a junk shop just outside york so very very nearby yeah very very local and does he or do you have any idea where it was made or how old it is well he did say it come from canada i can tell it's not canadian it is from switzerland the region of the town of brienne's which was famed in the late 19th and early 20th century for its carved lindenwood animal models and it's called black forest where even though it's not from the black forest which is germany a culture of carving has always been there up in the alps and there was a nasty famine in 1816 which hit switzerland and the the canton government got together and said look how can we create jobs and create money so the carving industry got together with the timber industry and they started creating these fabulous things to sell as souvenirs this is very fine quality the naturalism of the feathers and the the way that the wind is lifting them it's in almost perfect condition i noticed a small chip um on the tail there's a small loss of about half an inch which could be very easily restored other than that though it's a beautiful color it's beautifully carved pretty good condition so is there anything that draws you into it that you like about the piece particularly i don't really like it myself but my son-in-law likes it the only thing for me is it's um the workmanship that's gone into it it's brilliant i've got to ask you what your son-in-law paid for the thing 76 it's worth a little bit more than that um i think if you took this into an auction house you'd probably have an estimate on it at five thousand to ten thousand pounds sweet very sweet very nice thank you love it well thank you for bringing it it's a rather strange looking fellow um but i'm sure his mother loves him how did you come to own such an object well i had a godfather who was in the foreign office in china during the second world war and the family presumed that he gave it to my grandmother who left it to my mother i ended up with it when when she went none of the family thought it was particularly beautiful so do you like it i've never particularly liked it well i'm going to say despite my earlier comment i absolutely love it i think it's just such a wonderful thing so what is it is it chinese or is it japanese well it's japanese um you've got this almost sort of deer head here with the sort of turtle back and then you've got these sort of claw feet the actual character or this this type of sort of turtle this mythical figure is uh minigami and uh minigames are said to have lived for sort of 10 000 years decorating this lovely kind of pale green and red i mean it's just it's simple but just lovely decoration so we know it comes from japan whereabouts in japan well it's kyoto and it's a type of ware called kiowa which has been around since the 17th century which is during the edo period that gives us anywhere from 1603 up to 1868. i'm struggling with it a little i think probably maybe late 18th or even early sort of 19th century you often see them sort of catalogued as saki slash teapot t basil saki pot my view is that it's actually a sake pot what is saki well it's a very alcoholic um drink so i think it's a bit more fun if it's a sake pot yeah the interesting thing about this you know a few hundred years old is that actually and i've had a good look around this but a few little sort of bites to the glaze here or that it's in pretty perfect condition i love it i mean i think it just it it just feels good in the hand i mean everything about it it pleases you know much like its contents really i'm liking it more and more good good that's the idea you should what's he worth at auction well i'm gonna say that would make between eight to twelve hundred pounds wow that's perhaps one could come to love it who knows like his mother like his mother well just looking at this amazing figure the poise the costume the style it couldn't be anything more than 1920s 30s art deco at its best and we have something in common because this glorious figure well i had one of these as well but before i tell you more about that i want to ask where does she come from in your life she belongs to my grandma and passed to my father and after for me so she had been leaving brazil for quite a while you know before we moved here and she came with us to tursk so so she now lives in thirst yes she's traveled around the globe yeah and do you always remember it you always remember her being around yes she was in my grandma's drawing room and when went to my father's house again in the main city rooms so she's always been loved yes let me guess did she have a name in your in your family no just the butterfly the butterfly that is a name that is very often given to her but her true name that she actually goes by is called the captured bird now she's made by the great firm of goldscheider a viennese firm who established themselves in 1885 by frederick goldscheider and they became one of the most groundbreaking and monumental firms of europe but of all of their output this still remains one of the most famous and one of the most loved and i don't know whether you've ever noticed but here at the back there is a little signature it's very faint because it's been flooded by glaze but of the great sculptor joseph lorenzo well lorenzo was employed by the firm of goldscheider and actually along with this mark here on the base we do have of course the usual typical marks that we'd expect to see from goldscheider underneath with their back stamp and the painters marks and of course the likes of lorenzo and the other sculptors working at goldscheider were so inspired by the movement by the dancers and by the whole era because of course we'd come out of the first world war this awful conflict and suddenly this was a time of partying of enjoying yourself i mean look at her she is pretty spectacular she's very special and actually she was made in a range of sizes but this is the biggest one you often see her dress her wonderful sort of batwing dress decorated i've seen it with this like this with butterfly wings i've seen it with feathers i've seen it with insects she is just the epitome of art deco well let's talk about value right at the beginning i said to you that we have a connection in that i had one of these had been the important word there because a few years ago i had this exact same figure in a slightly different colorway the same size and i dropped her on a slate floor and obliterated her to dust some would say at that moment i just increased the value of yours a little because there was one less on the market and if i wanted to go out and buy another i'm going to need the best part of 3000 pounds to do it she's a family you know she's going nowhere is she [Music] there's one rather practical object that often features on the roadshow the chair whether it's visitors taking a break in them experts holding court on them this is as much a sculpture as it is a chair right and of course valuing them the last one that i remember made the equivalent of five thousand pounds wow but there's one particular chair at newbie hall that really steals the show our furniture specialist elaine binning is taking a closer look it's so valuable she can only bring it as far as the porch so everyone's heard the name thomas chippendale the well-known 18th century furniture maker and here is a magnificent chair that's been made by him in this sort of transitional neoclassical style he was a driven and ambitious man and he understood the value of marketing and in 1754 he published his designs in the gentleman and cabinet makers director titled nobility gentry and then cabinet makers all around the country and overseas subscribed and really that's the thing that would make him famous it's absolutely thrilling to be standing next to a chippendale chair but in particular to be standing next to this chippendale chair because this comes from a suite of chairs that all have the original upholstery and they're the only chippendale chairs in the world that have the original upholstery and the tapestry room here at newbie is the only intact chippendale interior in the world so as far as evaluation goes on a chair like this the owners of the house believe that the chair would be worth half a million pounds but because they're unique it's as long as a piece of string is anyone's guess the sun has come out blue skies beautiful blue stone ring how did it come into your life my mum was engaged to a pilot during the second world war and he was shot down in 1942 my mum was 19 and grieving one of his best friends who was also a pilot gave her this ring and he was subsequently shot down and he managed to walk across enemy territory and get back to england and came back to her saying we're engaged i'm back and she said absolutely not because she was still grieving her fiance the cheek of him to be coming along and then giving her a ring while she was grieving hitting on a grieving fiance not really very fair so she thought it was costume jewellery in the first place and had been handing it out to her friends when he came back she tried to give it back to him he said no keep it it's absolutely fine well it is it is such a beautiful ring and whenever you have a piece of jewelry that's got such a lovely story to it i think it just makes it even more special do you know anything about it at all i know it's gold and i took it into julia's in harrogate to get it to find out a little bit more and she wouldn't give me value and she wouldn't confirm that the stones were sapphires well they are sapphires but they're not natural sapphires they're actually what we call synthetic sapphires which is actually grown from aluminium oxide which is of course the what sapphires are made of but they're grown in a laboratory environment so when you look inside the stones the the growth lines of a natural sapphire will be parallel to each other and yet in a synthetic sapphire they're actually in curves because they're grown in what we call a bull and the bull is round and therefore you get the curved growth lines now in some ways that might might you think oh synthetic sapphires you know i don't like it anymore but i'm sure you do still like it i didn't know you could make synthetic surfaces yeah it's quite extraordinary it all started in the in the victorian period where they were beginning to develop these new things post-industrial revolution to actually help the jewellery market as well because during wartime you're not going to be able to get the stones that you want because trade routes are shut down basically age-wise we're looking at a ring that's from the first sort of quarter of the 20th century but down the center you do have diamonds and the white and the yellow metal is gold do you know what where it's from is it european is it english it looks as though it has actually been made in europe possibly in poland maybe maybe also in in france it has that kind of look about it but it's certainly not a british ring right that's what i wanted to know yeah from a value point of view in today's market because the stones are synthetic obviously it's not going to command the high price that a natural sapphire and diamond ring would but even so you know at an auction someone would no doubt pay around about 800 to 1200 pounds for it wow because it is so pretty well thank you very much for bringing it along it's a great to see thanks a lot it's always great when children come along to the roadshow because collecting things when we're young is how many of us get interested in antiques and history our expert stephen moore is no exception our challenge this week has the name my favorite things and these are three of your favorite things stephen moore our ceramics specialist of course and what we've got to try and do is work out which of these three items all of which belong to you inspired you to become the ceramics expert that you are now so tell us about them well they're all jars they're all mine um this is a ceramic jar by a mailing in newcastle where i'm from it would have marmalade in it and i collected bottles that style i saw stamps and then got into bottles and it wasn't like today when you kind of went to shops you had to dig them up from victorian rubbish tips so i found this bottle tip behind my school so on cross-country days because i mean i love cross-country as we can see even now absolutely i used to stash a bag with digging tools in start cross country stay to the back skive off dig for bottles um and one day i found this and i turned it over it says mailing newcastle i thought oh pottery was made in my hometown um i thought okay finally this my grandmother always called hitler's jam jar okay and in my grandmother's front room it was a georgian tea table which i have now and there was that sitting on it and hitler's janja because it's got this eagle here is that what she calls well that's what she always called it but that's for you to find out oh so not this is an egyptian calcite vars and as a child you know i was born in 65 so in the early 70s when it was a tutankhamun exhibition bridge museum i still resent to this day not being allowed to go age six and i was completely obsessed with egypt so when i found this i thought this is an egyptian jar but in all likelihood it was probably bought at the tutankhamun exhibition it's like i was almost there which anyone any ideas which of these would have got stephen's ceramic juices flowing so to speak the white one the white marmalade jar you think it was this one when you when you're not doing your cross country you naughty boy what do you think which one would you go for the white marmalade jar i think you think this white one as well it looks so old it looks as though it's come out of the ground oh does anyone think anything else i'm gonna go for the glass you're gonna go for the hitler's jam jar for the glass side it's just so different to everything else okay like everybody else i'm going to rule this out because i think this sounds like it came too late into your life okay so i think it's between the marmalade jar and hitler's jam jar not an eagle possibly a phoenix i don't know are you sure it's not an eagle no of course i'm not sure absolutely no idea i think actually along with you i'm assuming is when you were bunking off the cross country so i'm going to go for this being the thing that got you started thanks to our lovely audience here and if there was a prize you'd win it oh good well thank you well good yeah it is i mean the crazy thing hitler's jam jar do you know when it was made 1976 it was for the bicentennial of america and if you look it's got the stars right at the top and the eagle with the arrows and the palm branches it's the seal of the president and yet my grandmother always called it hitler's jam jar just as we get people on antiques roaches oh this was marianto nets and you turn it over says dishwasher safe and when did you buy this then uh two years ago at a car boot sale for two pounds and i kind of thought this stand's worth more than two pound anyway it's such a lovely thing and the crazy thing is that this friend told me it's the same quarries the ancient egyptians use the same stone so that's a new one isn't it this isn't an antique but it's actually descendant of another excellent one it's antique adjacent yes and what is it about ceramics particularly that has appealed to you all these years you know i mean yeah this is cracked and this is humble but you know something which was made 250 years ago and it's exactly the same as you were looking at it at that time so they're miracles of survival i think they're incredible there's something magical about them well only a brief glimpse of this and you're immediately into the territory of the blacksmith and we are only a few hundred yards from ripon racecourse and only a matter of a hundred yards certainly from the the stables here so all of these tools that we see on this jug would be familiar to the blacksmiths tell me about it i bought it quite a long time ago because i've been involved with horses all my life and i was intrigued by the decoration on it right now your association with horse i mean are you a farrier no not now but you were i have showed a horse in the dim and distant past right under extreme supervision okay so well the reason i ask is that um in that case you can tell me what some of these tools are what are these torches things um well uh it's a bit like a bunsen burner and the standy up thing like a strange table this thing here yes it's where you'd have the coals ah right then what's that the water so that's a striking hammer that you'd use on the anvil and then you've got the anvil there the bellows yeah including this rather nifty yes you make it go faster yeah yeah yeah and that to me suggests that undoubtedly this piece was made for a blacksmith yes i would imagine so it wasn't just random decoration now when was this made do you have any idea um sort of vaguely 1700 but i don't really know 1700 e well you're the expert it's about 1800 and i'm going to say it's it is more likely to be 1790 than 1800 okay the the glaze itself this is a lead glaze and it is bluish in tone because it's got a little bit of iron in it and it's called it has a generic name it's called pearl wear oh right it's pearly blue uh i think this is staffordshire right so it's not moved very far from its home unfortunately working with a blacksmith can be dangerous and this jug has seen its fair share of violence you've got a break to the spout but that's about all i can't see any other damage there i think it's a lovely thing so value what did you pay for it what center a tenner living dangerously if you wanted to buy another one like this today i think you'd have to pay between um a hundred and two hundred pounds yeah well thank you very much it's i'm really pleased to find out about it [Music] it's always nice on the antiques roadshow to introduce viewers to artists who they may not already be familiar with and who has heard of raymond ray jones tell us how did you come by this collection when raymond died in 1942 his studio was cleared and the large quantity of paintings drawings etchings we bundle up and put in family storage in 2014 a determined effort was made to try and find a suitable home for some of the more important artworks and after a two-year period they ended up at the whitworth art gallery in manchester these items here are from the residual collection and they were given to my wife who's a great niece of the artist myself as a way of saying thank you for helping with the whitworth project well what a noble thing to have done and you know he really was a very very good artist i mean he is up there with some of the greatest artists of his day i mean gerald leslie brought cursed augusta john i mean he's absolutely top top tier but he wasn't very prolific was it i mean he didn't paint an awful lot of pictures he was as far as i understand it almost obsessive about detail yeah and but we see this in in this watercolor here of venice i mean just absolutely incredible you spend hours looking at that and you can still see other things and we think this is painted in the mid-1930s he used to take painting trips to the continent and he did it on the shoestring budget just before the second world war he ended up in verona and venice where he was promptly arrested as a spy because his drawings were so detailed and accurate after his artistic credentials were checked he was freed and he did the groundwork for this in venice came back to his studio in cabbage bay worked it up to this state of the intention returning to venice he never made it the wall broke out and of course we have these these portrait drawings here well these are studies of members of the saint hives society of artists which he was a member after we moved to carbus bay which is of course near saint ives yeah you know what a collection to have well i mean it's quite difficult to value paintings like this because of course because raymond ray jones wasn't a prolific artist there are many examples of his works that have appeared at auction i would probably say that the portrait drawings are worth somewhere between two and four hundred pounds each and i'd probably say that this watercolor here um of venice is worth six to eight hundred pounds yeah well that's not bad for a scrap scrap sketches and an unfinished unsigned damaged watercolor absolutely impressed well it's a really interesting story so thank you for bringing them along today [Music] well if ever there's a roadshow in yorkshire we always hope that there will be some mausman oak carvings or furniture where did these come from well i inherited these they were made for my grandmother here 1911. florey harrison and so that relates to the initials here and they were made for her birthday in 1933 but they were made by my father's good friend george wheatman who lodged with my grandparents and george wheatman then worked at robert thompson's workshop in kilburn he did and robert thompson of course is known as the mouseman because he put this signature of a mouse on every piece that left his workshop everything from small ash trays right through to contents of chapels pews tables chairs dresses george waitman was one of the first apprentices that robert thompson had working with him and he was one of the best because he was the best carver of the signature mouse the interesting thing about these is that whereas the horseshoe pin dish or ashtray is obviously from the mausman workshop it's not so obvious with these owls or outlets they're carved in such a naturalistically sort of detailed way which it's not very like the sort of very simplistic arts and craft mouseman style that you associate with robert thompson's workshop so it's incredibly nice to have your very personal story they're absolutely lovely and and everything that is known about george wheatman is that he was a really gentle gentleman he was lovely when i i mean i remember him coming to my grandparents and he really was a lovely person good yorkshire man i'm imagining that this is a 1930s piece here these were relatively stock items made even from the late 20s and a really lovely proud mouse here uh the fatter and bigger the better they're all different they're all unique um but this has got a really lovely line to it quite a well-defined neck and a fluid tail which is your favorite piece i think the owls i just love the owls but if i was to then ask you which you thought was more valuable the one that is signed or the one that effectively isn't signed because there's no mouse on them i think i'd still say the owls because there's so much more work in those so let's see if you're right an ashtray like this if you were to buy it at auction now would be around 250 pounds and these unsigned pieces they're really one-offs four thousand pounds oh that's nice our daughters will appreciate that when will they get one each thank goodness there are two of them thanks so much for bringing them along it's a pleasure [Music] i've never thought about scissors other than as functional objects clearly you see them as something rather different have you got your dream pair of scissors out there somewhere that you're looking for i like a challenge i like to find scissors that and i have no idea what they're for like that pair i have no idea what they're for well i can tell you excellent girl tell me it's very simple they're for trimming a wick of a lamb oh so when you squeeze it the bit that you've cut off or a candle which is hot and possibly burning goes onto the plate and therefore doesn't drop on the floor and start a fire right well i'm really pleased to know that thank you [Music] so we've got a very large book on the table here it's a map um something going on here on the cover title it claims to be jeffery's is his map of yorkshire the book binders error he had one job to spell that correctly and he's come up with jefferson's published in 1771 so here's bradford right in the middle of the map that is a fourth street town tiny so this is really the industrial revolution hadn't got going it's one of the great fascinations of maps after dinner parties we love to show our friends and they spend ages pouring over it i would say two to three thousand pounds nice these really are riot of color aren't they lovely they're victorian dating from about 1880 and they're what's commonly known as scraps so you've probably seen those sort of victorian scrap screens those big draft screens that people would decorate yeah this is how they started life right it would be a pastime for ladies and girls to actually to decorate these screens it brought color printing to a mass market really the first time people have been able to be able to actually buy things that were this colorful which really appealed to the victorians they're fabulous it's a lovely collection thank you probably looking at about 200 pounds for them or they're about but um a joy to see and thank you for bringing them in thank you [Music] we have a caterpillar badge now a caterpillar badge always comes with a story the caterpillar club was a club which was invented by a man called leslie irving and leslie irving was the man really who invented the free-fall parachute the parachute with what we would call a rip called the club was formed when the first person used one of the irving parachutes to jump from a stricken aircraft so this wasn't a joy jump this wasn't you know just just parachuting this was life or death and the club represents someone who has used a parachute to save their life who did this belong to and what's its story all of this belonged to my father fred weeks who was a flight engineer for the blackburn aircraft company and in 1940 they'd been working on a flying boat to get further into the north atlantic to hunt u-boats and rescue crewmen and it was built in a hurry and on its test flight it developed major major problems and it was everyone was told to bail out my father bailed out and ended up in the irish sea for two hours and was picked up by the ss transylvania okay so your dad saved his life by parachute and what you had to do then was you had to write off to the irving parachute company and state your case and you've still got the letter copy of the letter that your dad fred yep wrote to the irving parachute with the reference number of the parachute on absolutely brilliant but the best bit is is that when it came back saying yes you can have it it's actually signed by leslie irving himself which is actually quite a unique thing because he didn't sign all of them now there are four different clubs during world war ii there's the caterpillar which we have here there's the guinea pig club that's for people who were burned there's a very rare one called the late arrivals club and that's like a little winged flying boot and that's for people who were shot down in the desert in north africa and i had to walk home after being shot down and the last one is the goldfish club and that's for people who their life was saved by being in a dinghy and you have that as well yes the wonderful thing about that is is that it's a plastic laminated card because they said if you're gonna do it again your card won't get wet which i think is just lovely thoughtful thoughtful for world war two you only really want to join the caterpillar club once yes it is an incredible little badge it solid gold ruby eyes quite a few of these around by the end of world war ii i think there was something like 34 000 members of the caterpillar club but that's not to say that they're not desirable things you've got some lovely letters you've got his logbook i know you've got some other bits and pieces as well i think you're probably looking at a value of 1 500 to 2 000 pounds thank you so much for bringing it along thank you thanks for telling us the story thank you i always love to share top tips on antiques reaction my top tip for filming antiques roto and a gale is to hang on to your pots so um tell me about why you brought them in today these were bought at a particularly special house clearance sale um it was michael's uncle great uncle ron's we bought them because it's 180 they were the cheapest thing there and and also i collect blue and white china so i like them because they're pretty so who was uncle wrong uncle ron um was an antiques dealer it really started when henry morton lee set up his own antique business okay so uncle ron yes you're referring it's ronald lee yes who is one of britain's top famous antique dealers from the dynasty of you know antique dealing royalty really in reality well it's interesting because you have a connection to ronaldi i have a connection to ronaldi as well uh georgina his daughter i spoke to her just before we did this and said do you remember them and she said yes absolutely i do and she's confirmed that they weren't just stock in trade they were his personal possessions and what's more she's pretty sure they came from ham house wow i mean ham house is you know one of the country's treasure houses just outside of london and that is called provenance do you like them i do like them but they are really julie's the foundation of julie's blue and white china collection okay and we've always known they're a bit special but we just like them and and that's why we've got them well i think buying because you liked them was something he would approve of i haven't even said what date they are these are country periods so from 1661 to 1722 you know perfect great age 300 plus years old buyers for these now are chinese collectors so you kind of broke the piggy bank and spent 180 good british pounds yes which was not bad was it really no very good they're great things that with about a thousand pounds each wow if the bell was perfect that would be three to five thousand pounds on its own well lovely thank you very much so keep collecting [Music] it's great just to hear that these were something that he prized and kept at home as his own personal possessions he probably kept his cufflinks in this one you know just like that about him he was very ordinary man [Music] this intimate close-up drawing of this charming horse you almost feel the horse chomping at the bit the artist must have loved drawing this horse and of course it's clearly signed by laura knight who is one of the great great british female artists of the 20th century so how did you get it i inherited it from my grandmother um and she was given it by a very dear friend of hers who is one of dame laura knight's trustees but i love him i think he's got such a kind face you can tell that she was a very sort of strong artist and just in the way she's drawing i mean look at that correction to the leg but it's actually done uh with great confidence and of course you know that provenance you've given is just wonderful it's obviously totally impeccable because there are drawings which have laura knight's signature on which actually quite a few of them aren't by her do you know much about the artist i looked into a little bit because i thought originally that it was a military horse with the saddle but then i realized that she did a lot of circus paintings so my assumption and you'll you'll correct me if it's wrong is that it was a sort of sketch for one of the circus horses so i think we should assume it is one of the circus horses i mean certainly around 1918 she moves from newlin up to st johnswood with her husband harold knight and she then becomes almost obsessive with her subjects in the circus i suppose really she's probably better known for her fabulous newlin subjects painted around lamourna with dazzling light and everything else but she's just one of those great female painters of the 20th century it wasn't easy for female artists at the time i mean she became a full academician in 1936 i think the last female artist that became an academician was actually when the royal academy started in 1768. i mean she was very very significant for british painting and uh any sense of value um no not really actually these sorts of drawings are really uh very much uh followed and chased by collectors and dealers a study like this where she did you know quite a lot of studies and perhaps one day uh still very very desirable and certainly worth two to three thousand pounds at auction thank you well as i stand here in front of this amazing display of clariscliffe jugs it takes me back some 35 36 years to a young lad aged 11 who bought their first piece of clariscliffe and i sense that you're as much of a collector as i am is that right absolutely right what set you off with with this collection i went to an auction once and i uh found a small ashtray in i think it was sunburst pattern and it all started from there i just loved the patterns and the colors so when did it develop into concentrating on on just these little jugs i just found the shape amazing then when i started getting one or two and realizing there was so many patterns to collect i just stuck with it well it's interesting because the shape we've got here is is called the tankard shape and actually if we just look at clarissa's career and how she steps into this you know she really hits the ground running in 1927 and it's in that year when she starts working the pottery called newport now when they started working at newport she actually inherited a lot of old existing stock and shapes and one of them was the tankered coffee set and what we're looking at here is the cream jugs from a full coffee set now you mentioned to me about patterns i've done a rough counter beer we've got about 70. 17 just over 17. 70. in clarissa's working career we believe at the moment we're certainly over the 300 mark when it comes to known patterns now you go from something like this little cream jug simply banded in a pattern called liberty stripe it was quick it was cheap meet the supply meet the demand of the buying public but then you run straight over to something like this may avenue a 1933 design and today to the collectors considered really sort of the holy grail of landscape absolutely it took me a long time to get that one i mean look at the patterns here you've got abstracts geometrics florals landscapes i mean you've got little milk jugs down here that run to 1927 and go right through to 1936 38 even so you've got 70 you've got a bit of collecting left to do i mean what's your goal i'd love to find some more but i don't know where or where it goes i mean you say there's 300 patterns i'm sure there wasn't 300 patterns on on the tank and ship coffee set why not this is claris this is what she did yeah and actually i think there probably is every likelihood that pretty much every pattern she designed will have made it onto a coffee set would you really i would wow so quite frankly sir you've got a lot of work to do i certainly have we've got to look at values and you know when we look across the table here there's individual jugs i mean liberty stripe it's modest say 50 pounds you know it's a very accessible little piece right through to the may avenue there which i i'm probably guessing cost you somewhere between a thousand and fifteen hundred pounds would that be far out yeah fourteen fourteen well when you start to add up the whole collection here i think you've got the best part of fifteen thousand pounds sat here in this collection that's in 70. yeah you've got another 230 to find i'll have to talk to the wife look you've absolutely made my day i mean there's nothing better on a miserable day like today than having a burst of colour from the great claris cliff and this doesn't off fit the bill so keep going and i'd like to know where you get in another five years time well done thank you thank you our day is almost over here at newbie hall but i wanted to share part of the teddy bear collection before we go and this is from about something like a thousand teddy bears given to newbie hall by giles brandreth former conservative mp now television personality and writer of course these are my two favorites so here we have paddington needless to say without a marmalade sandwich under his hat sadly and he is from the stop motion children series from the 1970s i used to watch it don't if you remember it and then who do you think this teddy bear belonged to he's called the prince of love the pink ribbon is a bit of a giveaway plus all the jewelry barbara cartland would you believe anyway i just wanted to share this with you so from the prince of love and paddington and the whole roadshow team until next time bye-bye [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so do [Music] you

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Published: Sun Apr 18 2021