Antiques Roadshow UK Series 11 Episode 5 Bristol, Somerset

[Music] there's no city to which we've taken the Antiques Roadshow that has quite such a rich and colorful history as Bristol where we are today and this old ship is very much a part of that history the SS Great Britain the first ship in the world to be built upon and driven by propeller now restored and open to the public in the very dock from which she was launched in 1843 thereafter she regularly applied the Atlantic between America and Liverpool and made no less than 32 journeys to the other side of the world among the passengers the first English cricket team to tour Australia and in those days you could go first-class to Australia for 60 guineas on the Great Britain in rather less comfort you could travel steerage for 15 now the man who built the Great Britain was the famous Victorian engineer and designer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and everywhere you look in the city there's some tangible reminder of his life and work the Clifton suspension bridge is another of his creations spanning the deep Aven Gorge it's building spans more than 30 years and wasn't opened indeed until after his death but perhaps the greatest of Brunel's creations was the Great Western Railway of which he was chief engineer and the old station that he built at Temple Meads has now been turned into a large exhibition hall this was the headquarters of the Great Western in its heyday the gwr God's wonderful railway as it was affectionately known and it presents for us today I suppose the most unusual location from which we've yet done an Antiques Roadshow because they've removed the rails the iron way and where the 8:15 once left for Paddington we've set up our cameras among our experts today we have as usual of a strong team on porcelain and pottery including David batty and Gordon lang Richard price has joined us to give advice on clocks and watches and the picture department this weekend affair is in the safe hands of Philip Hook and David Collins Eric knows of course is with us as usual and on furniture today we have Christopher Payne can I ask you whether if you've ever been to clevedon court I've not actually been to Cleveland for myself my wife has because she comes from cleaved and whereas I only moved down there last year and the reason I ask is because it's quite close to Nelson and these type of glass ornaments are usually known as nails here but at Cleveland caught they won't have any of it they say that nails he never made objects like this they made glass with white spots in it but never of any of anything of this ornamental maker there are very elaborate models usually from the late 19th century I don't have forgotten in history which relates to that sort of period or when it came into the family at all now all we know is that we looked up reference books after we purchased it and we understand that it wasn't made later than about 1880 but we don't know any more than that I suspect it's going to be fairly close to 1880 because of these glass fibers at the top I think Vance Freud wasn't really quite on the late side and also you've got this snow at the bottom all these ornaments or perhaps it's meant to be splashing water coming from the fountain if whatever it happens to be I think technically that's going to be a later sign [Music] an earlier one right and now doses come with a bar stone sometimes they have a Barstow it doesn't have a glass dome which which we purchased at the same time yeah I think you're very brave to bring it first of all these on stream they're brittle and the domes can go off bag at a moment's notice and when they do they're very very difficult to replace equally when it comes to a true these objects are so fragile but then the difficult to sell because people are concerned on the way home they might break them and if they have children in the family equal that so although the workmanship and the all of mental nature is of a high degree they're not that expensive at all by that I mean around 200 pounds 250 something of that sort it was an early attempt to get away from the necessity of having a huge front wheel from a penny farthing or as they should be called ordinary ordinary bicycle because you can just imagine safety bicycle that's right it's one of the only safety high schools but with much much smaller wheels if you don't ride it right yeah because the talk with the penny farthing to get the gearing right you have to have the huge front wheels and as I said this is an early attempt to get away from the need of a front wheel by having this epicyclic gearing and the front hub and this is a thing called the crypto gear Bantam of about 1900 perhaps a shade before it's had a lot of work done to it of course the wheels are original are they know you've had to replace this you have to replace the wheel rim on the front and the back wheel but essentially essentially everything is potentially everything the handlebars the the important bit that we will have yes and the frame is the saddle they're all original original that's right in first-class condition in good original condition one of these nowadays is how much you think it's worth got wider nd bars 50 I think nearer 500 in good condition but with these and repairs on it it does it does reduce the cost I see we've got a full inscription here which says presented to captain Forsyth SS food Chow for services rendered to the German SS Lydia 29th September nineteen ten it actually happens in the Lydia and captain Forsyth ships you know the ship he was on he was alright he picked up some sailors from the Lydia which was had been torpedoed I think or sank somehow and so he stopped he stopped and picked up some sailors out of the sea we're in distress nice gallant gesture really the Germans were very very good at these sort of presentation pieces I've seen quite a number not necessary and watches but often another nautical artifacts telescopes but not care as that sort of thing what they used to do was to get hold of a watch took off the center section of the outer back inscribed the monogram and obviously the inscription and then set it back into this case yeah if you look closely you can see what appear to be legend marks around here and for solar to see slight discoloration and build where it's flooded after it's been put in so obviously a lot of history attached to this piece yes you have any doctors have a letter who dodged says which came with it from the embassy Marva just got me and still it's got the seal on it so it's got ever again to go with it well that adds actually quite a lot I mean just taking an 18-carat bill watch like that we wouldn't suggest an awful lot of money at auction perhaps up to 400 pounds yes but with all the evidence and particularly with these lovely crests we're talking now probably to the right sort of collector 12 to 1500 pounds yeah a super object I could operate a day a dating agency varying in mind that and the point my mother's got got Judy well maybe it's maybe I'm telling if there maybe it's missed maybe it's Soper maybe it's sofa but either way I'm sure that they make they make a happy pair so you've got the wrong body but there is Authority gonna negotiate a new body first bill this topic came to Europe from China and southern China in a 17th century it was made as Professor Li Shan right the south coast and it was so good minty that the the Dutch - the Germans and the English side copy it and this is an English version is sometimes called ILA's where others were family brothers that came here from Holland but this is much less than that this is say well into the 18th century so but the Murrays is how you distinguish this kind of decoration which is called springing is never done by the Chinese depends on the same manner very very fiddly in Rococo style very light-hearted feeling about it and then of course the topic see all this down here sort of done on a machine it's it's a life little piece probably worth maybe well it's saved two or three hundred pounds maybe a bit more but that's about it this is a most unusual never we've got a South Africa war medal for the Zulu Wars on the bars there 18 77 78 79 in the one how long have you had the member I've had it about 10 years but it's came down from my father and his mother and it was my grandmother's uncles so it's a really it is a family please yeah oh yeah because apart from anything else it's very very historic because all the inscription is on the edge here this is the evidence here master woolen 1st battalion 24th foot Porter master pullin was the quartermaster of the 1st battalion that was annihilated at the Battle of Issus and Lana yeah and that was the day before rocks proof yeah the whole battalion was virtually wiped out to a man there was a handful of men left pulling himself was killed now my first thoughts of this when I saw it I said to myself that is worth six or seven hundred pounds but this medal is a historic piece and a very important piece because he was he is or he was one of the first Italian quartermasters there would be another Italian for the mast earlier for the second Battalion so there's only two of them as far as I know that's right yeah as I said a little bit of magic but the price to a collector of the 20-foot before would be way over a thousand pounds the medals for you extra for instance they fetch far and above any Norman South Africa metal because the magic what is particularly thing I always think about the bow version of this dragon that was very popular patents hearing this Chinese like Dragon River it's all the bulgy eyes or the front the bow version the some peculiar reason always has an arrow coming out of his mouth and it may be helpful to remember that bow has got an arrow you know about a terribly this is what those little sort of quirks about going back years if this'll be the perfect piece but it's a somewhat damaged it's gonna think in terms of about twelve hundred pounds but Debbie's less than half of that okay but I think this property is still about five hundred pound this world is fitted sheet you'd be a lot it's um it's a very fine early whisper sauce boat copied out here to crystallite hope we planted early Bristol blow-dried you know he loves factory but this is the earliest narration when I get here is we're gonna get to it this was to about seventeen fifty two or three with a pattern which is terribly rare called the crescent moon it has a little tiny moon about the top there and the strange fence pattern going round there but the peculiar thing is that it it has on the other side of it a pattern that doesn't exist so far in our record books so it's fascinating to see it down here in Bristol very large sauce boats haven't yet reached the top of the market I think people find the rather lives for their cabinet so they are a little bit less in value than they might be so perhaps this is worth say six seven hundred pounds nowadays it hasn't escalated so much finally this this teapot over here which is a very good example of a Lowestoft teapot with a pudding knee nor band a typical blue and white pattern which has been clobbered over with red ribbon coat basically the pattern under there is what we call men's for your apparel but in the factory at low stuff they clobbered it all over with this ribbon cold recording clock greens bit like hitting somewhat on their head and interestingly this doesn't fetch clobbering as much as it does if it was painting that's right a value of a clobbered teapot perhaps only about 200 pounds twice as much as he did right perfect ladies bottom there is the there's the Brittany mark so it's quite straightforward says Brett B and it's beneath beneath the Rising Sun but all the indications are they made it just made it possibly been a benefit piece shouldn't get any further yeah that didn't I should go into and it's sheer speculation I will appeal and they did go to the trouble of honey glazing it but building it because the gilding of course see these lovely earrings that she's wearing the gilding is always the last item to be applied to any piece of work that's been fine it's the last firing I can see poor little things at a hard time yes but I've never come across this particular figure by brettly I can't help but think that it's probably one of them yeah do you do you hump the other she was one of the pair she walk don't have the other one but it wasn't a pair mirror image it was an identical figure but not painted completely white well that's interesting I suppose really she's handing out there the money which brings me to the valuation aspect of it I suppose that she's she's probably going to fetch in some of the region of least a hundred twenty hundred eight of us possibly a couple of hundred pounds which is she fits within that sort of decorators yes so I mean a great big collector would be interested Brett made pottery in general is never expensive and as a result of that is one of my tips with people to collect to fear God is the highest wisdom really I wanted to know that for a long long long time thank you well that's the translation we've done of it yes what do you know about a cabinet where did it come from i I really don't reckon I've always imagined it's its middle east and that would have been out of Arabic I bought it along with some other household we fix some twenty-five years ago who says it so me it has no I can't tell what his past history is except there's always fascinated me to know where it came from right you're satisfied there now if you could tell me something about Chris I'd be grateful certainly Middle Eastern in origin yes what is interesting about this type of cabinet is that it's Turkish influenced yes but not made in Turkey as far as I can tell this I think has been made in Cairo and is heavily influenced by furniture made for the king's palace in Cairo the summer palace that was erected for the opening of the Suez Canal and I think the Empress Eugenie of France is one of the most important visitors to the palace for the time without agreement in the 1850 so - and the reason for that is this waterfall effect which is very unusual for us our European eyes is the sort of effect that you see on a lot of furniture and mirrors in the palace and in fact on some of the architectural details have you tried to count how many pieces of mother-of-pearl but I should dig dus there's a few hundred there at least the detail is magnificent doing that little slices of mother-of-pearl for the inscription and for all the little stars it's it's it's very very nicely made but it's native craftsmanship yeah I think they could have done this woman's with our eyes closed this panel here is known as mushroom ayah it's the Arabic term or as we loosely translated this mushroom our panel which of course you see on the screens yes and four panels for window panels and for our readers where the women stand or sit sit in the room overlooking the street seeing what's going on with their veils on or they can drop their veil as long as they're behind this screen would that have been made by hand carved out well no made on on a lathe on a lathe but probably a treadle lady doesn't your foot yeah and incredible but I think what would have happened almost certainly somebody would have actually made the turning and supplied it to somebody else so there's some probably some poor chap in Cairo at the time who spent fifty years working life but making nothing but this must Rabbi attorney yeah for somebody else to incorporate into cabinets and into screens and what is nice about them as a screen is that they were formed like this as big five phone screens to put in the rooms and it created a breeze and he's very much in Cairo if you voted twenty five years ago what just in the house sale or something no I bought hubris the tragedy in the house that I bought the house and this came with the house I paid for it with my mouth a bits and pieces I bought so it became more less for nothing we're very little but would you be surprised if I said that today it would make it auction three to five thousand pounds are the rewards above service lever gosh the Victorians have wardens of great ones for this trying to imitate oil paintings and the printed form we ran this is advancement onto a role is not to give an impression of being on canvas yes it's also been hand finished in paint but basically it is a Crenna lithographic reproduction with some oil on it you know I don't know what I don't know I came into the family I know I thought it was a child you were very careful really well they have a very well man look directed into smithereens very well these two objects to survive in the students to become extremely expensive I never seen it [Music] every so often on these road shows as you well know we expect to find locally made things and they never turn up yes it's very aggravating there is this but the Brazilians have brought their things into great levels become seen a lot of locally made things today just a couple of things turned up just this moment term this is Bristol Delft recognized by the lovely bluish tinge to the glaze made within the state through this place two hundred and thirty years ago looking as mint as that they was made always amazes me how you Henri can can tell almost immediately that's Bristol Delft as opposed to Glasgow to London Delta or well it's not easy one usually reckons that if it's got this particular tinge to it and this style of painting it's more likely Bristol than anywhere else and it's come from a local family so one assumes it's been here all this lifetime right this one certainly as a local piece made at the of the Red Cliff pottery which is only just down the road and a very good local pottery making typical things for local people this is a I spread a little money box that you got the buddy out by poking a dive down inside hooky local being handed down through the family since through the family and then Bristol blue glass which I know nothing at all Bristol was famous for its blue famous of blue glass many people call blue glass Bristol when it's not necessarily so but I think this particular piece you have there which again comes through local people it is a definite local beers and quite sought-after among collect it's very collectible now indeed Bristol blue uh-huh there was a nice one Oh Clint law yes there they look like two tower pistols because of the markings on the on the pistols and I put another it matches it lovely what a marvelous pair yes they're nice cavalry officers pistols of the holy onic period yeah Imperial Calvary when you see I'm very interested in oh yes Doris M in the cabinet RSM yeah what regiment I was in the north some secure memory now I notice the date is 1828 so yes they're both day Simon ta I see so now this is rather late for this type of pistol yes although they were used at that time the British armies surrendered their flintlock weapons in 1840 yeah Bruce Lee some regiments might have kept them a year or two or whatever but so that is the date 1840 but this is the type of weapon as I said that would have been used right through Napoleonic Wars yeah used at Waterloo used in the peninsula and they are very very effective weapons at close range of course yeah but there is a there is a condition that's ready oh the love stocks are partly unmarked mmm it's hardly any bruising in them yes let's see what the action was like all very tight isn't it lovely it wouldn't be any powder spilling out of there no no all they want is a new Flint in each one and mainly operational that's right we've done a little piece of leather to go around the Flint yeah but they are defined well I don't know what you paid for them but I'm sure today I'm sure they would fetch all of a thousand pounds Indian election today very nice yeah and you paid 400 pounds 400 yeah I think you made a good investment yeah so delightful to see them lovely pair up this is it - any idea what this cures collection of objects of tissue very well as as far as I know they're there in gravis tissues they belonged to a great-great uncle of ours and he as far as we know was a chief engraver at the Royal Crown Derby works was around about 1890 1900 that that absolutely fits do you know the process and how it works no idea well there would have been a designer of the factory and he would have been he had decided that we are going to do a Chinese pattern like this you'd have torn this all out carefully its then given to the engraver engraver works on a sheet of copper quite a thick plate acaba and he works with a talk with a bureau in which is a very sharp-pointed tool and various other things which reduce stippling affairs adding the traces on to a copper that design and he then works over it cutting into the copper with his tool it's an incredibly slow process and I would guess that to produce a plank like that it may take three weeks four weeks extraordinary then when you've done that what you do is to then take a print onto tissue from that block and the ink goes into the hole is that you've cut you've wiped the whole thing over so you've got a mess and then clean it off and you're left with the ink in the holes we take a clean piece of tissue stick it onto the place and run the two together for a rolling press and it forces the paper into being crags picking up the ink and while it's still down these are cut off up by women and stuck on to the place which has been fired plumbers you can then wait until it dries you wash off with a sponge leaving the ink behind and the paper disappears it can then go into the Caroline is fired and the saint prominent now that can be done either under the plays or over the glades in this particular cup it's under the glaze and here by chance we've got a derby path in which the red has been put on over the glaze yes the Blues under the Reds on top then of course you can go another stage further if you wish and you can gild it that's another process that we're going to the kill them again for that I would there have been a separate issue for the gilding note the killings hand done I see I've got something else here which is quite interesting because this demonstrates the problems you can have when you're trying to stick transfers on something this is Copeland it's about 1840 18 to 16 days and here if you think about trying to stick a piece of paper which is two-dimensional onto a 3-dimensional object it doesn't want to go it creases and the people who stick these on I'm going to do it a really very skillful and they work very fast but it can go wrong at that yes you say it's a bit matched up so she's taking a pair of scissor to and it's all gone wrong in the middle there and very often you'll find hasn't got it on this one you'll find creases in fact it's happened a bit there where the ink has doubled up when you put a crease in it now this is this the entire collection you know at home with butter Morris five or six hundred pieces similar very much smaller and some are cut up right it's one of those things which is absolutely fascinating and so Darby that may be of some value if is possible that some of the cut off on these coppers once they went out of fashion were destroyed yeah I sold the coppers off to remelt them and make new plays so they may have lost some of these patents community and they might well be interested otherwise I'm afraid that the actual commercial value is probably quite small just a few pounds apiece something like that respect which will Tata yeah he's in super condition he's got a composition body which can easily break it can easly cracked now yours has started to correct but it's powerful it's in very good order and he probably dates from just before the First World War made in Germany never designed to be of course as a toy obviously a shop desire and his value well it's more than twelve and six once I can tell you that your value today would be around about four or five hundred pounds so what we've actually got there's anything inside oh there it is there's a mechanism is coinage sure actually working but is it pretty cheapo mechanism really that concerned about eight pounds of each traveese and your little nippers used to communistic about two ounces please be hopeful the backup some to answer that actually dispense them from this in the shop not a lot of not a lot of people know if I can use a microplane ism but they also may jelly babies victory these are the same people that made jelly babies that were pushed a great popularity by the Beatles here in the 1960s in fact I think the company presented the Beatles with a huge jelly baby in about 1965 or whatever well I only remember my father telling me about it well my uncle were over my husband's uncle gave it to him in about 1962 but it had been in the family or for many years I think probably since it was painted because there are no Bristol family by the name of Thomas right we have a view here just below the suspension bridge by the British artist George Alfred Fripp the colors are pretty good considering its age he painted this picture he was a quite a long-lived artist in fact and he painted this picture at the age of 33 it's it's very good from a number of reasons obviously that being a local view but your eye is drawn from the right hand side with those sheep looking down the gorge and you can see then hills in the distance where Avonmouth eels you see in the center there a merchant vessel being pulled up by row boats in the center it's a very very good example indeed it's slight shame here with this fly marks or egg marks whatever I think they can be removed without too much of evidence of them being there in the first place very wise it is a good example it would make him command there for applied price I would think its value would be in the region at auction of around four to five thousand pounds today yes no no I'm quite serious it's a very good example indeed in fact it would have been worth more had it's been conditioned bit slightly sharp slightly sharp that no such as the demand for this artists work that pretty confident they were on that or I know that was that it was back up in dorset by my father probably when I was a child really before I was born it it was dug up yes and you no idea where where it comes from for instance not at all no I think that's ours well it was it was made in Nuremberg in South Germany in Bavaria about about 16 10 16 2011 it's it's supposed to be by a locksmith world Michael Mann and there you will see the remains of a Marvis locked there was in fact some more of these delicate tiny little springs spring mechanisms in there and the there is a keyhole on the front which is a false keyhole actual keyhole would have been covered up here and you can see it there that's the proper keyhole but a little fine bit of brass would have gone across there and covered the keyhole so you thought that the keyhole was on the front and then this amazing lot with umpteen Springs is just operated by one little key and and then the thing opened what they kept in there I don't really know it's too pretty pointless as a safe because if you can't open it you just take it away all these engravings would have been taken almost certainly from their style from contemporary Dutch engravings which these silversmiths and engravers tended to use as as patterns since you don't know where it came from ideas because you've got you know the slightest idea what is worth it it's really quite a bit actually if it was in cracking order absolutely super order I were to have thought about two and a half thousand pounds but I think because of the damage because it's not absolutely the best in brave one I've ever seen I think one would be talking maybe twelve to fifteen hundred pounds but it's still not bad if you dig you don't cut I'd like to dig up fifteen hundred shots any day of the week whoever made this stay well it's like I don't know whether those scores at an ending divides it except that it belongs the family and has always been like it's nothing because it's in such a super condition it's a little bit warped well that has survived for well over 80 nearly 90 over 90 years in this condition the Earl's Court gigantic will from the 1894 exhibition the original was built by chuckle booth sessile booth and I believe that the full-size version of this each of the Gunther's could contain 30 people take 1,200 and what we've got here is a German cardboard hit a toy really funny exhibition a souvenir for a child to take home and to assemble out of hundreds of notes like had small cardboard pieces so to recreate this fantastic I've not seen what but I did suppose I see another one again but it wouldn't surprise me this was worth between say two to three hundred pounds because it's it's very unusual that it's 18 karat gold it's quite a big sort of bracelet Moses hand hand engraved quite an unusual in fact you for doing do you think you might wear that I have done on occasions but not very often it's it's not really my type of jewelry but because of that it's the family well I think not being so that for probably about a thousand pounds and I think I would wear it as well because that's what do is invert now you have this also has left me from mother right this looks very interesting Devon and IVA the idea of a date on this or no no whatsoever I've just known that it's all right this in fact it's colored gold Tech was and it was made in about 1820 and I think probably probably in Switzerland it's in very very good condition you think you like where this and I have one occasions but I didn't I haven't very often because all these little bits tend to catch in whatever you're wearing it might you know put away it is almost the government reason that it's condition is so so mint if you think you think it well if I told you that you can replace until I say they're extremely rare they're in their original condition this is the loveliest thing about this thing my grandmother ever do looking at this ones immediately suspicious about the Vanilli's the veneer here is very very flat indeed you rub your hand along the edge it's absolutely flat now one would expect an old eighteenth-century veneer we're talking of a cabinet made in 1695 awesome mm-hmm William and Mary we've worn up in ears and they would be certainly uneven after all this time and so that suggests that perhaps it's old veneer that's been relayed but it was rebuilt or repolished perhaps possibly it may in fact be new veneer that's bit of put on the top that in a second also up here the molding along the top it's cut against the grain which is normal so the grain runs from front to back like this all the way along therefore it becomes very susceptible and as it gets dry and dries out more it bends or like a finger and cracks as this is done yes having said that there's something wrong with the waist bending it's not quite doing it the right way and I would expect it to be much more shaped and undulating than it is so I don't think this moulding has been on there since the late 17th early 18th century now let's have a look in here again very flat veneers but the right sort of drop handle brass drop handle which one expects to see on this type of furnishing yes now taking this out oh no that's interesting yes this is the thing that puzzled me what the the well these holes which are not shown but not on the other side no right yes we've got a plug in the middle the present handle there showing the brass trevor's of modern thread and then two rather widely placed holes there and let's see if they correspond in turn around there's nothing to be seen on this side nothing at all well that's interesting so obviously that veneer has been replaced yes had it have been the original one that they'd simply replace the hand which does happen along they would have been showing marks there and there and probably another mark under there so under discussion somewhere but having said that we go back to the inside of the drawer which is nicely made oak line draw all made executives want to expect in the 18th century the early part of the 18th century and this the color here all the wear on the inside of the draw lovely cutout for the log which is now gone missing it's a pity that doesn't really matter it looks as though this is no draw yes and I'm sure it is so what has happened somebody has I think taken an old William a Merry chest yes not necessarily at exactly this proportion and rebuilt it yes putting on new veneers were talking on the front and new handles yes so your own detective work was beginning to be suspicious yesterday yes inside the drawer like this it's sort of a practical piece of furniture you also use it a lot yes it is hurtful except for very nice piece of furniture but the value would be possibly seven to nine hundred pounds yes yes no such huge of figures never be of course it won't be an original piece of furniture yes quite yes lovely the reason why one wants to find france's dandy here is of course that Danby is the leader of the Bristol school of painting in what was the Golden Age of painting in Bristol probably the period between what 1810 and 1850 if you look a bit closer into the picture and it is very dirty it could do with a very good clean but if you look closer you could see a lot of the Danby hallmarks here was the sunset that's the another beautiful feathery treatment of the clouds and there's a very delicate handling of the foliage in the tree is - it's a coconut calm fish picture when you get into it and luckily we've being on the spot yet we've managed very quickly just to rush the picture run to the city art gallery and they've confirmed my feeling that it stands a very good chance of being a an authentic work by Francis Denby it would have to be I suppose fairly late one in 1847 who settled a next month and this has very much the feeling of a of one of those later words possibly even a a view slightly romanticized of Devon this is romanticized it's like the Arcadian treatment he's given it and say it stands up stands a very good chance have you had it for a long time we've had it about 15 years in the family it's been longer their family mother had it given to her by an aunt that was emigrating to America yes and that was 50 years ago so we don't know how long it was in the family prior to her and your family has always come from this part yes yes well that rather neatly fits in well the the exciting thing about all this is discovering a Danby and what it might conceivably be worth I mean there is still work to be done and can definitely confirm as yet but it's by Danby but if it were probably going to be worth somewhere in the region of five to ten thousand dollars which you probably didn't expect when you George did you but what a pretty in a very rare plate commemorates the coronation of William and Mary which is of course is it the tercentenary now or 1688 1689 and their crown which is really but what's its history in your family well it came to me about ten years ago from my father I know that it came from his father but I don't know its history further back from that what is interesting about it is it it's in a tin glazed earthenware body called Delftware and we've had a lot of pieces today which it probably come from the Bristol dog factory and it's very difficult to say well this is our local Bristol or bristling ton factory here in Bristol or not family connection with this yes it is therefore because one of my relatives way back I forget how far back now lived at brilliant and some time in the seventeen hundreds I think I'd have to look up some details that's pushing pretty near making this page and visiting ttan really was across the great first syndrome May don't remember that that would be absolutely fascinated here we have a piece ability predicted here doubted their Adele's really a Brisbane after Bartlett well you're looking at a piece which probably on the antique market nowadays with the escalation in the rise of such little simple pieces of the 17th century could well be I don't know in excess of five six thousand pounds but one would perhaps think the Doosan insured for 10,000 parts well the end of a very busy day for us here today and we've seen an unusual number of local things there was that Bristol school picture some Bristol pottery and Delft and finally this snuff box with a rather unusual history an inscription here on the top in silver reminds us that it was made from timbers recovered from the ruins of the old Custom House which was destroyed by fire on the night of the 30th of October 1831 by a lawless mob under the influence of passions inspired by the watchword of reform well I don't know if we've stirred any passions here today and we certainly haven't had a lawless mob or anything like it but a fine crowd of more than 2,000 people our thanks to all of them and we very much hope you'll join us next week at the same time when we take thread across the sea to Ireland we are much looking forward to our visit to Dublin so until then from all of us here in Bristol good bye [Music] the program regrets that it cannot give valuations by pet

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Published: Thu Dec 13 2018