Antiques Roadshow UK Series 13 Episode 2 Darlington, County Durham

[Music] [Music] this week we brought the Antiques Roadshow to the northeast of England we've come to County Durham and the pleasant prosperous market town of Darlington besides aunt Katherine's church the river skirt the limey waters of which were used in the bleaching of linen once Darlington's chief industry that was until 1825 when something happened that transformed the whole life the whole future the whole prosperity of Darlington people came to a booking hall not very different to this to buy themselves the opportunity of a lifetime the chance to travel until those early days of railway development traveling that very thing we now all take so much for granted was beyond most people's wildest dreams and george stephenson inventor of the steam locomotive had the power to change people's lives and here preserved in Darlington's Railway Museum is the engine he did it with locomotion built by Stevenson to hold the first steam train on a public railway anywhere in Britain the Stockton and Darlington railway 27 miles of line that began a revolution in transport at 12 miles an hour and that same line is still in use today crossing the scan bridge exactly as those first passengers did on the 27th of September 1825 an event commemorated by local artist John Dobbin many years later in this romanticized watercolor depicting that great historic occasion an event of a more modest kind perhaps is the Antiques Roadshow and we've come here to the Dolphin Center to uncover some of Darlington's treasures among our experts here today is David batty we'll be looking at the pottery and horseman Hilary K is with us on the miscellaneous table and we welcome back Paul atta Bri will be looking at 19th and 20th century works of art but on a particularly interesting day for furniture we begin with John Bly and it's a very good standard model of a fold over top car table made about 1755 1760 late George a second well look at the features that give us that date in a minute but what is interesting is that in the 18th century there were three methods of supporting a table the top of which folded over to give you a virtually double the size one was where they were a hinge and a single leg came at the moon the next in in in expense if you like was a double hinge and too late which they obviously gave you a leg at each corner but the luxury model the gold version if you write is what we call a concertina actually which is this one and you would always tell that immediately because it's got a veneered rail all the way around created by that action it's a big concertinas in on itself now somewhere under there there's a piece of as the board isn't there which pulls out into that groove to keep the things solid or want you know two or three things that I do like to see this nice dirty dusty color which it should be big it would be unnatural if this were dusted inside here and these hinges which are very clever brilliant bit of hitman machinery and lovely again lovely color all the original scusi never been touched and you know I've often say about thick veneer handles hand-cut veneers look here there's a piece yes wonderful that's coming a little loose also a guide to age is the fact that the veneer is applied that way after about 1760 you'll find the veneers went along the apron or along the frieze so when you see that it's a good giorgia second feature also the tapering legs which end in pad feet and then there's little formalized leaf at the top at the knee not a huge cabriole but just enough shape to give it a bit of life it stands like a gentleman and it stood in your house like a gentleman for a long time no no it belongs to my aunt oh right yes yes you're here by pops yeah I am good yes and it's obviously a family piece because anything that's being looked after this world has generally been in the same house for long oh yes a very long time since the 1940s I believe but I don't know the history before that right well that's far enough these days we're actually looking at the back and it again is a mark of quality that if something can be stood in the center of the room but of course from the front see exactly the same but you have a nice finished edge to the top all the way round useful lovely piece of furniture and today I suppose best part of three thousand pounds for joints oh yeah but when this was made it was fairly revolutionary Josiah Wedgwood was a marvelous salesman for his shop in London he was very much responsible for change and public taste away from the frivolous Rococo to the new classical styles of it were viable in classical interest in the 1770s yes pairs of these were sold who observed a great home to sit on the mantel pieces yes there would have been a pair literally yes we do have the other one they do sit on the mantelpiece at my parents home have they always been in your family yes they have they were left to my father by a great aren't they apparently belonged to a left tenant Williams who had been appointed to the victory by Lord Nelson in 1803 and they've been handed down the family since then it's nice that you can chase them so far back yeah I mean they date a little bit earlier they're probably around about 1775 the was what was called poor three this type of it simulates its stone effect yeah created by blowing a pine powder on from a tube to move it it goes at the end to give this lovely mottled effect oh the nice thing is that gold the gold is survived yes and wears off rather more than this and there's actually quite delicately shaded now the effects of that and in such condition there's no damage on the other one no both of the the little lids have been cracked off there their bubbles rather at the top of being that's all I mean when these handles are asking to get knocked off and survived and therefore I first pretty valuable because they are so decorative as a classic I suppose we're looking at somewhere between seven and ten thousand pounds right right good this is a picture it belonged to my wife's grandfather he bought it I think somewhere between 1940 and 1950 I have no idea what he'd paid for it he bought it as Benjamin Williams leader that's all that is what we've got done here yeah yes a signature and what we've also got is a very typical leader see you which could be a good beard made there were northern Wales yes was a favorite haunt of leader who was one of the leading Victorian late Victorian landscape painters yes some industry influential very very popular very much imitative I see now my immediate feeling about this is that I'm not terribly happy about the signature is not too much of a blow to you yes looking at it done yet there is a little bit weak it's yes it has a feeling of being added though having said that it is quite a well painted picture now the name that does occur to me in this connection is a painter called Dan sharing an imitator what and painted very much in his star went on considerable length of time actually deep into this century in fact I believe there are people still in working in the London auction houses and can remember Dan Sheeran himself coming in just after the Second World War barring his own work for sale which he hoped he might be able to exchange for the price of his next pint I think he was there yeah that sort of stage in his career but I feel what's happened is that someone else has possibly scrubbed out a signature of Sheeran which could have been underneath there is some evidence when mine gets in there of another signature having been there and has put on top BW leader uh-huh so it's I didn't think Sharon trying to deceive anyone I think it's probably some unscrupulous dealer as Sharon we would be talking about possibly a value of five or six hundred pounds actually I suppose as leader we'd be talking about a value of five or six thousand yes this is a long lambda pattern British brown bess musket which was the standard infantry weapon from about 1710 until well into the 1840s this is one that was made in the Tower of London in 1742 and we can see did something actually March from the back of the lock later but even if it weren't marked fair there are features in this weapon that would tell me that this is of this age and the first one as we look at the lock plate it's got a bend in it and we call it a banana style of lock plate and that is an indication that it must have been made somewhere before 1760s when they started to flatten them out very slightly turning it over this piece here is a side plate and it's actually raised out of the wood and that is always again an indication of the age because as they get towards from the polemic wars they flatten off and it's obviously for economy of materials and also and the wrist is an escutcheon and on that would be engraved a regimental mark on some of them with the regiment's number and the number of the musket so that the armor sergeant would know where they were being pinched or missing but the nicest thing about this piece is the fact that it still retains its 46 inch barrel yeah there are very very few of these around because they were quite an unwieldy thing and really when you actually present it to in your shoulder it's quite quite a long tube and also if you look at the end of the muzzle it's going very very thin in there because people running charges and they were very very prone with this length of barrel to damage at the end of the muzzle filing that down and we go to this one this is a year younger which is really rather nice and virtually everything that I've said about the Brown Bess musket is applicable to this pistol which is a heavy Dragoon cavalry troopers pistol any different some this is at the butt end and there is this very large brass but plays these are also called skull crushers for the very reason that once you'd fired these in MLA you would then at least have them as a damn good Club the English cavalry never really used their pistols very much for actual shooting in a fight they use sorts where actually I've seen to charge home with their swords and actually to use the impetus of the horse to really push their their opponents back and how much was this one that was four hundred and fifty right that one three pound fifty three pounds fifty yeah that's one that was a week swing for me yes yes I could well believe that's right if we take this one that is worth on the open market at the moment two and a half thousand pounds which work the the muscular's behind because of the length of its barrel it hasn't lost any of their this pistol there these again are becoming rare they're also becoming very heavy fake if ever you see one with gardener 1747 on the back there's chances are ten to one that is a modern copy this pistol is worth around about fifteen hundred pounds they are two of the best military firearms ever ever seen on the roadshow and you know thank you very very much for bringing them today you really have made my day it's so nice coming to a town or city somewhere in the country and finding a local souvenir piece and this one really sums up where we are beautifully I think we've got on the white porcelain a transfer print in black with blue and pink tinting which has been done by hand here we've got a present from Darlington and we've got scenes round the local area we've got Jairo and Market Hall Darlington that's all back yes it is the same but the ones I like best are these two we've got a couple of railway prints one is the Derwent 25 built by alfred pitching in 1837 and one the number one old engine in Darlington and on here s and dr was Julie stopped him in Darlington railway 18:25 those dates might lead one to think that it was actually quite an early piece but it dates from the very end of the century it's about 1890 to 1908 uh-huh what to me is the saddest thing about this is this on the bottom here we've got the crowned s mark of a German or Tyrrhenian factory and I think this is in fact a practical Scheiber yes and at this date the end of the 19th century our pottery industry which at the beginning of the 19th century right up into by the 1860s was the greatest in the world yeah we were exporting all over the place to America by the end of the century gone completely downhill and we were having our local souvenirs made in Czechoslovakia in Germany yes a really tragic story yes and we've never really recovered from it so German cup and saucer made for the English tourist industry it's not to be enormous failure but here we certainly worth more than if it were sold say in London all yes we're a mechanic and I guess a cup and saucer like that is going to be worth in the region locally of around 100 pounds it's a prize yes I know I didn't know I wasn't gonna take it out but shopping bag actually really think that 10 supposedly it was thrown and by my husband's great auntie she was eccentric and then she smashed the place well I think it's worth having a shot it's it's got the basis of a greater clock but I think your best advice to get it restored we've been in touch with the British or illogical institutes and they will advise with top makers in this area you see I'm frightened of being ripped off if I just go anywhere yes and you've also got to take care that the person actually knows what they're doing this is it I mean you know I mean I can't do anything with it but somebody else might okay stop you're looking at the clock worth 1,500 pounds 200 so you've got something to play with you can find the bits pieces put something together that's rather sad I hope you didn't do that on the way in did you well if you've got the bits hang on to them because it's worth having repaired properly or just glue because this is actually rather a splendid piece a burl was the porcelain and if we turn them upside down this massive mark here normally the war Worcester mark is just that circle with a crown on top but here you've got the retailers mark Thomas good inchoate and then if there's a name that appears here patent metallic and the patron Italian Li refers to the wave this as FAR's is finished the the gilding unlike masculine is not the flat is actually raised you can actually feel it it's quite vivid and the weight the weight picks up these two its otic birds and in that condition what it still has some value my colleague over here John Sandin he's pretty hot on on restaurant you John major tragedy on the spout but it's still got some bad what is it still worth three five hundred pounds probably more like yeah we will here since you know in spite of the damage so keep it in good condition well then lose them whatever you do a family's tale is that it was my great grandmother who gave it to my grandmother who gave it to my mother do you know who made us or we're thinking I was a man called recipe it's very interesting because many people looking at this I think we're quite right to or quite understand that we say it must be 1922 1930s it has a very modern look about it and yet it was designed in the 1870s Christopher dresser was an extraordinary man he was a one of these great Victorians who could do all sorts of things he's a figure who I think is great interest because he was so advanced in his thinking he designed these particular handles because he was very concerned that when he poured a teapot it was actually comfortable to call this actually fits the hand very well it pours very well and he's a very comfortable piece to use it for tea no but when my grandmother came to call that had to be used she wouldn't take tea out of anything else but her silver teapot well she was quite right away now I must stress it isn't silk I know it's not we know that it was always called this silver tea sure it's in fact a silver plate which as you can see yes it's wrong there is we're rubbing off which is too much polishing over many years which is a credit to you of course the handle is distinctive the very strong spout is distinctive above all the very modern shape that is exciting about justice quo there is a mark on the bottom and you can see oppressed in impressed signature along with the Faculty marks and the darman mark that is the date of the registration and it was first introduced the strange thing about this is that many of his pieces had very angular feet this design has originally produced had angular feet that effectively match the spouts they came straight out this must be a later adaption of the design I suspect by the silversmiths themselves because it's not something that he would visit area for the brew thing do you have any idea what if you reverse now I'm God well dresser is a designer who is very very Richard today he's very popular he's becoming appreciated and pieces like that percept like that even though it's not silver I'll expect to fetch about thousand pounds surprise me does it not to disappoint you I can tell you if it was the model with the pointed legs you could expect possibly five times that and still not going into silver he was still for a plated piece so this type of Victorian design is really something to look out for the future my grandmother knew the lady in the picture and always said everyone knew mrs. Sanderson because she always wore long skirts and mr. Sanderson actually had an act shop in Richmond which was in French Gate in Richmond and sold easels and pence and the like I guess to all the artists so converge on Richmond to do with Benton's of the castle and around industry the actual medium is watercolor and body color and the body color is more weight to the paint and I can think you see this quite clearly the way that the structure and the forms are built up regardless of the folds in the dress are built up in a hatching cross-hatching where a diagonal way even here just away from the dress you can see the way that it is built up very carefully but one one comes away and outside the main figure kind of pay no effect round around her you will see that the outside of the picture the buildings and the pan here are expressed in more conventional style now the italians of the 19th century devised this particular technique and they were called divisionist s-- i think it's possible i think we've got to look at the label on the back because the painting has been kept in its original frame and doesn't look as if it's actually being taken out of their frame ever and here's the label here with the darling Darlington Society of artists the subject the washing day the original price and then the artist's name and address now it's a little bit difficult to fix a price on it especially as it's a local artist and I think it's probably a rather unusual painting probably kind of a one-off in many ways but I would imagine that it would be worth something in the region of 1000 to 1500 points you know for 32 year my grandmother been absolutely free lighted yes yeah put those down there well these are three very pretty and in fact beautiful plates actually I'd love to find out where you found them or how you acquired them were they inherit well they're inherited from my grandfather yes he collected them and it was one of his hobbies well he got some nice examples here I mean if you're starting with this which is actually a cohort plate rather in the the Welsh manner it's a very pretty thing and that's probably worth say a hundred pounds this is a very pretty plate here do you know what this is no no nothing at all back and you see Chelsea red anchor mark so it's a bit 18th century English porcelain plate from the Chelsea factory molded in rather than mice and style and beautifully painted there are some minor imperfections here maybe I shall call the value down a bit but that's probably probably affects something the order of 450 to 550 pounds this play here is quite an a sumptuous thing I would answer to guess it maybe even one of the most beautiful pieces of continental porcelain we've had in the Antiques Roadshow it doesn't take a great expert to see the credible quality of painting no do you know what factory it is nothing at all no well in a way it's it's a German - German porcelain factory of nymphenburg turning it round here you will see the mark there's a sort of impressed mark of the shield deserted the Burien shield these plates were were probably MIT come from the masseur was made for the electoral court now they are wonderfully painted by a man called Joseph second Berger who specialized in doing is superb botanical subjects and Marvis insects and also sumptuous building now we get on to business of what one thinks it's worth it's nice that sometimes one can be fairly precise in this particular example I do happen to know that two plates from this service came up from auction in Geneva where they generally they sell very well in an emetic location do you know any idea what you reckon they made no I guess well you're a little bit on the conservative side you know one made last year the equivalent of eight thousand pounds this is a bracelet that you wear no never no would you even have I don't think they wouldn't wear to come from how does it it's been in my husband's family for years many years it was given by no adult and did she go on the into the Easter time I don't know it was she's actually made it for the tireless in Egypt yeah how strange yes well how fascinating these two actually could be Egyptian as possible the rest of them are in fact Japanese and their little objects called og make and they take a functioning part in the equipment that the Japanese war as his waist there were no pockets in the Japanese kimono which was worn by men and women and so they had to carry a pouch around with them or a little nest of boxes called an inroad and that was worn from the waistband which is called the open and to stop your pouch falling to the ground who had bugs this from somebody else a Netscape all right I just got to two holes in the back that takes a cord and the court then passes through the hole in the center of the Ojinaga and that then suspends the powerful in there and you could use this for tightening again so it was a functional object none of these I think 18th century mosted in the 19th century and they're a wide variety from fairly cheap little ones pierced like that of reasonable quality which are worth around 80 to 100 pounds through goodham ones which don't look too exciting but one of these wooden ones is a carpet of a fish and their eyes have been inlaid with silver it's signed Kozan which is nice that's going to be worth around three to four hundred pounds up to bone ones like this which again 150 200 pounds of time up to these really superb quality inlaid ivory ones you pick that as a guess as well they're phenomenal work the ivory ground has been stained brown and yellow in this case then on this one we've got lacquer work with my new flecks of gold individually put in by hand inlay in mother-of-pearl coral tortoiseshell coconut all sorts of variety of objects proteins and separating it is this one which is made of plastic so you could even have a really super ajumma if you wanted it this one is signed these two in fact are probably worth in the region of 500 pounds of piece so the whole bracelet is valued somewhere around 1,500 to 2,000 thank you please thank good TV thank you very much thank you these are the type of accounts which on occasion can give antique dealers the odd part attack because they're living in the hope that they just might be by emile gallé because stylistically they're very very similar the gallery casts but the interesting thing about these is that they're um they're Italian they're by Uncle Masonic I have to say that for every gallery cat there is probably a thousand Masonic these little feline friends Oh literally the good examples are worth in the region around about do you ever use it I bet that teapot has never seen a Teeling yeah because you know it really is not a very practical idea is it yeah it's extremely pretty I really like that I would think it's probably about eighteen mine's a little bit later maybe 1900s and there's quite a good value now for this sort of Victorians where I would think it's probably worth 150 even a little bit as a sodalite surmise for this purpose so these came out of a dustbin principle how did that happen well the lady was acting the venoms and she just saw them she just took them they were German she didn't want Emilia so I got them I heard someone saying when when they came out to go back that they were very nice ashtrays yes that's right well I've never known what the bone you see well they're not ashtrays you probably know that well yes they wouldn't put no surely my love there's some sellers that's right they are salt cellars well they're made of glass and the unusual thing about them is that inside the bottom there is a portrait in each case it's very difficult to paint on glass a painting has to be sealed otherwise it simply flakes off the glass yeah so what they've done here is they've taken a tablet of pink glass they've painted on one side of that tablet yes and they've cut that tablet into an oval and they put little beads of gold around the portrait oh they then take a blank an oval blank made of glass the actual salt itself into which a cavity is being cut and then with the tablet with a picture on on one side they stick it into the piece of glass so you basically sandwiched it portrayed between the two yes these bait two around the Year 1800 the technique is called fishing guard glass and it is something which they specialize in especially in northern bohemia' I notice on the back that there is a piece of paper someone's written sulphide 1800 to 1830 well a sulphide is something quite different and I think on this program we have maybe not in this particular play I've seen what is called a sulphide which is an actual cameo of glass that's inserted into the piece of glass this is not the case here this is something that's stuck on to and well rare things they are but they're not enormously valuable no the value is somewhere in the region of maybe 300 380 pounds for the pair yes the old carcass in the dustbin yes coming through town like darling - I suppose I should have expected to see trains but if I'm always pleased when somebody brings along something yes to do actually at the town that we're here yes what made you bring them in today well it's a quite a long time I've been watching your program and I am a great debate I thought well I'll bring them in very interesting to know on a value of them and that sort of thing well what we've got here a three locomotives they're all old age there's Flying Scotsman the Ellen er that I actually went through Darlington I think didn't it yes the Princess Elizabeth is a fantastic train very big and I think I'm right in saying they had to develop special rails at Hornby to this new trap it's on now is the new solid steel trap that is introduced especially for the Princess Elizabeth but it was the first real model that one been made and that was because of the the way to wait yeah it yeah the real problem with the Princess Elizabeth is finding them in good enough condition because it's the only thing that always happened wheels weren't death and I just want to see what state these are the wheels are in it's always best if you can to keep the original yeah but I can see looking at these wheels here two of the main driving wheels are cracking have you noticed that so the metal fatigue it's going to happen to these wheels yes whether you like it or not but overall you're right I mean it's a very heavy train isn't it I don't know how many pounds that weighs but it is it's really a very good model yeah it's got a lot of detail there if you look in the cab all those details are molded into the metal it's very nicely finished and it is a very good locomotive from all aspects not only as a model but also in flex the coronation it's not made by Hornby it's made by Basset load and there is a trademark inside here I can see saying that it is by basset Lok this is one of the streamlined locomotives that was a nice Mallard that was the first one the coronation the first LMS Dreamland rope it was in competing with the Mallard written but I think I'm right in saying that today whereas the Mallard is in existence the coronation was scrapped it doesn't exist anymore which is a great business now the Flying Scotsman is also by Corey I mean that's much more of a type that one associates with wannabe before the the quality of the Princess Elizabeth can I take it out Jessica we're on The Ellen er oh that's very nice one of the old one of the oil pulling this is in fantastic condition oh except wait a minute we've got a problem on these wheels a wheels again yes so you've replaced some of those wheels with Timmons well this just indicates the point the whole of the rest of the coach is in terrific condition yes and there's no rhyme or reason why that should happen but it's just the the mixture of the analyzer I think it depended which batch but you've got to know him and what's the what's the other one you've got tell there's the the the other type of course it was thought we've got fee of these for the kins of Elizabeth lovely again in really very good condition indeed one point is of course that Hornby locomotives in general aren't rare it's a question of certain models being scarce in others and also a prime thing is of course conditional condition and what you have here are some trains and accessories in fantastic condition so I'm really going to start with the with the coaches I think these coaches are going to be worth around about 100 pounds each the Flying Scotsman Ellen er that went through Darlington that locomotive in its box were probably talking about 400 pounds yes is that these are auction prices the Princess Elizabeth it's got a little bit of damage on the roof there so it's not an absolute mint condition and it is missing some of its some of its wheels but even so I think the value of that would be between 1200 and 1500 pounds and the coronation the Basset no coronation I would have said between two and a half thousand and three thousand please saw the arrow that was on the last series and we thought it looked like some kind of where check it out as I was at the North Hampton Road show last year my father looked at a model of a owls formed a jug and the fifth feathers on the bird were decorated the same technique as your jar it's attack technique which is called slip wear slippers the name of clay mixed with water and the decoration has been applied by little piping on mixtures of clay and water and then juggling us around on the surface to give these wonderful marbled and swirly effects the owls were type which were made in Staffordshire at the end of the 17th century and beginning of the 18th century and are certainly right to mesmerize us as being exactly the same and there's no doubt that this is from that period the shape that I've never seen before it's these certain shapes are well known this one I've never come across I I'm trying to think really what it would be for the similarity perhaps to other pottery vessels made for pharmacists for-profit prisoners blood containers that comes to mind you got a little lip at the top but I suspect it would have had a parchment lid which was tied around on the string and would have been a vessel from a chemist shop a bit of the time and it would date from the 69th is all around about 17 I mean it is it is of course an important piece because of its rarity a scarce type of pottery and then a cigar shape indeed the our jug was certainly more distinctive that we will remember was valued at 20,000 pounds when our Father at that time in this one isn't quite in that league but even so I would think he probably going to be looking at it hard to prize 5000 it's amazing how much they knew of the universe and the globe in 1828 when these were last brought up to date snip I say the universe because we've got a pair of globes celestial and terrestrial as they should be two wonderful pieces of library furniture but of course they're a historical documents I need to spend hours do you look at the history of study them well I do some now and it's interesting to see how the shape of the continents has changed yes this pair of globes are on their original or contemporary stands and they're important because they are flawed loads their proper standing library roads one interesting thing I was looking at these labels and see that their care is maps and globes and papers printed and brought up to date in 1828 an underneath there's a little slip which appears as if it's been torn away and it says 1816 and well what happened was they continued to explore and discover almost every week somebody was going back with another edition and instead of reprinting everything they simply write directly added to it and what you see there is not really where it's been dug out and underneath maps showing but in fact what they've done is simply they used to put a little piece of paper like a little label over the top to disk to cover up the date 1816 and then underneath they printed 1828 and what happens that somebody's picked that off yes and that difference in color is simply the difference in the color of the old shellac and the new these globes are in what I would call virtually perfect condition it's interesting to know we think they've had a hard life yes I know that these have it's perfect coloring and they will enable a restorer to clean them properly what you must never do with globes of this sort is to try them do them yourself these can actually be dry stripped that is very carefully the old varnish removed revealing lovely color underneath and then they'll be properly polished but he's a very professional drop I mean simply is something that nobody should ever intend to do because they are as I say not only of antique furniture interested but of historical interests as well yes they have everything going for them they got their everything works vowels properly and the stands I'd like to look at those for just a second these are on a circular frame which is actually rosewood this is rosewood veneer but the legs are actually beech and painted to simulate rose now that wasn't a cheap thing to do it was fashionable yeah it actually showed you to earth in the height of taste you knew exactly what should be done and here you can see where the paint has deteriorated on that leg showing the beach underneath it doesn't imply a cheap manufacturing tall it's a very very good thing to see these were very fashionable objects so much so that when we come back up to the apron here you can see where the marking wasn't quite strong enough in the Rosewood they actually encouraged it and improved it with a bit of paint as well yes and then boxwood stringing all the way around it's a good piece of furniture and then topped with these wonderful blows they must have come out of an important house of good library I mean do you know any history of asthma they actually belong to my father-in-law who thinks his father bought them moved 4050 years ago but it wasn't in the northeast that have been somewhere in the south of the country so quite possible they've come out with a large house they are very very good again you have them ensure you're looking after them for your files yes we have we have them in children on the house and sure a fine can I ask how much we have them insured for five thousand pounds this pair of globes are worth 30,000 pounds great another heart attack well I suppose you could say this is where we came in we're back with George Stephenson Lee Stockton to Darlington railway and the first engine locomotion we saw it originally the real one in the museum and here is a quite superb model of it now I'm afraid we know very little about the model maker obviously he was a man who knew what he was doing but we do know that it was made in the 1870s and presented to a draftsman in the local railway engineering works on his retirement I mean imagine that most of us might perhaps expect a gold watch after our 50 years and he was given this superb model as a memento of his time in the engineering works what a thing to have now because it was so good I naturally assumed that it was a one-off that it was unique but not at all I'm told that there are many of these models around because often the railway workers after a full shift would go home and they'd spend their evenings working on models such as this and that really I think sums it up about Darlington it's a town totally dominated by the railway era and famous the world over for the quality of the things that were made here well our thanks to the people of County Durham we've had a wonderful day here and I particularly hope that you join us next week when we're on the road once again and we take the program to South Wales so until then

Channel: UK VHS Archive

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Keywords: Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow UK, BBC, BBC 1, VHS, Hugh Scully, model trains, library globes, Darlington, County Durham, Darlington County Durham, Antiques Roadshow Series 13

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Length: 42min 58sec (2578 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 16 2018