Antiques Roadshow UK Series 13 Episode 5 Hexham, Northumberland

it may not look so formidable today but this was once part of the most awesome fortification in Europe on this side to the south the Roman legions and the English tribes who they conquered on that side to the north the Picts and the Scots who they greatly feared and regarded as barbarians and it was here to keep the two warring sides apart that the Roman Emperor Hadrian built his wall the wall ran unbroken for 73 miles from war's end in the east to bonus in the West in places it was 20 feet high with a fort and garrison every few miles this one house dudes fort is one of the best preserved Roman buildings of its kind in Britain in a rich Green Valley just south of Hadrian's Wall is hexam where we've come today a pleasant market town 20 miles west of Newcastle and dominated by the abbey to which it really owes its existence a bishop in the 7th century chose this spot to build what was then the finest and largest Church north of the Alps one of Northumberland's most famous sons was Thomas Buick a master wood engraver and naturalist whose cottage has now become a Museum of his work born in 1753 he's known as the father of wood engraving he loved to sketch from nature and his skillful detailed prints of birds and animals were finely drawn and engraved on wooden blocks his work both as an artist and as a writer on natural history is highly regarded and he illustrated the books of other authors as well as his own we'd be fortunate indeed to see an example of his work here today we've set up our cameras in the Wentworth Leisure Centre in hexan and as we open the doors the people of this part of Northumberland will be meeting our experts who this week include terrence Lockett and David batty among our picture experts we welcome back once again Philip Hooke and Christopher Payne will be casting his expert eye over the furniture so let's now join our experts with the people of Northumberland one godless we put that on the floor yeah what a very unusually tall this has got a fringe Donna things your match down the front come on lovey you're absolutely right it is French yeah is it yes but did you get it in England well I don't know okay I came I think from my grandparents who worked for a French firm so I don't have any I don't really know well it is interesting because they were exported from France and they were so the place like damages and families but it is quite rare to have one in this country particularly that has this sort of body yes and obviously you know it means I walk if yes I do but identified through a tense war event forgotten I said she we brought performing at the bottom that's it I wonder didn't have a key or something like that no in fact we can walk it along I think he's really great he was actually made in 1910 a little and by the French firm which is called SF BJ which is meant to be called associative francais de fabricación the baby a Jew e which which was a conglomerate they started in 1899 and they made these character dolls enhance the mark on the back of the head do you ever seen the mouth well it says yes it says 2 3 7 which is the mode number of the face it isn't unusual and an unusual mode number and the great thing about it is that it has the flock this wig which is so unusual because you people who had them in the past didn't like flock wig and took took it off it didn't feel right it feels all this rough and horrible I love this little quick and these lovely bright blue glass eyes unusual to have a boy doll isn't it and it's unusual and the original outfit and the fact that he walks it is very rare to have a walking one and because of that an auction value would be a thousand fifteen hundred pounds you astonish with cream were jug and it says John and Ann Fletcher the nice part about it of course is it says exome which is where we are today and the date 1792 do you know anything about the cream or anything or very little aroused anxious do I think probably made locally either in Newcastle or somewhere creamer was manufactured right it seems pointless to go to Leeds or to Staffordshire for a piece like this they were used as a lugs or milk jugs big yes jugs in the home and it's so nice to see one with such a you know a personal inscription that's wrong may well have been made as a wedding gift to the two when they got married it's they're quite valuable these days even with the little chip on the front there I would have thought somewhere in the region of between 750 and a thousand pounds because of the local connection and the decoration a de groots have baffled me for several the earth because some whenever I looked his name up in the dust 19th century dictionary of landscape benders he was nowhere to be found what age do you put the man who thought about it at all okay we thought but 19th century middle 19th century his well that's the point so did I whenever I saw pictures by him but in fact they are 20th century pictures they're painted by a man who actually quite recently I believe resided on the south coast of England and painted under the name of a de Groot in this very appealing Dutch nineteenth century style when one knows that and one looks into the pictures there are little telltale signs for instance there is a complete absence of crack earlier in the pictures is no cracking in the paint which you would expect in a picture which was one hundred hundred fifty years old but they're very smooth in that point of view and then again I feel in certain little details he perhaps fails to capture the complete period feeling and thinking particularly of the figures on the left-hand side in the winter scene yeah it almost because they're they're wearing anorak what they should be wearing Dutch 1970 figures and all things added up they didn't quite ring true quite a number of pictures magically to come so one is talking probably roundabout sort of 500 pounds each that sort of figures in a thousand pounds for them this is an interesting opportunity for a comparison you're sending next to your carved table and I've already talked to the owner of this plain table earlier on this morning what is interesting is they're both mahogany they're both Georgian they've any idea of the date if you know that the rain dates I would say 1757 fifty-five just around the time when Chippendale was emerging as a good maker not that I'm suggesting thereby Chippendale at all this one is absolutely plain the top circular no carving perfectly round edge if you look underneath it's a birdcage support nice snap top just like your one on the right yours is another variation this carving possibly we always blame the Victorians when they got interested in reviving the Chippendale style from about 1850 onwards carved pieces of furniture we often see carved oak not so common to see can't recover Hagen it's what's very interesting about this at the top if you feel it like there is actually thinner than the other one yes so what they've done is taken a plain piece of wood and carved amazingly all of this decoration the stippling and these round plate stands here this type of table did exist in eighteenth century known as the supper table for putting plates on food on yes but very very rare to have such an ornate one but of course the Victorians copy the best of the 18th century it's extraordinary think that was one solid piece of wood and they've done it down below to perfect genuine nice underneath it's been remounted the brass cat but still the original one birdcage support a nice balusters and I spent a long time just trying to decide whether that's been recalled or not yes I think we'll call that alright but when you look down here if I think you can quite clearly see that carving is not at the standard of Thomas Chippendale its contemporaries thomas johnson importing some of the best Carver's of english Mohammadi we're working around the 1750s the way to tell that is the fact that the leg if it had been an 18th century these to be carved they would have actually had a larger section of wood and carve the detail on the top what they're done here they've had an existing cut leg already finished and had to carve into it so in fact this is not raised above the general shape and curve of the leg at all mm-hmm and that's the giveaway yes it's the same at the foot and what they've done is always misfired of it is trying to make it into a plural ball for it which is very very common in the 18th century mhm so they've made it Brandon having said that it's still a popular table what did you how did you inherit it or buy it no we bought it quite recently we went to buy a grandfather clock now actually and I saw this and I'm afraid we forgot about the grandfather talk all together because I fell for this immediately you know and we came home with it and you bought the table do you remember how it's described at all not they just said a separate table actually but they said they were probably numerous of them or put out in a room right just not a single one because it is perfectly genuine 1750 at a good table and actually you're giving me quite an interest in commercial problem here because there's no doubt about it that one like this when it's been altered is worth less yes having said that I think a lot of people would prefer the current version as youth kid yes so I have to say that it's probably worth under a thousand pounds but in reality if you put them side by side at auction you might find that yours although altered is worth more these are little miniatures normally they're done on cars and cutouts or just paint it and sometimes I highlighted and guilt what's unusual about these so they're painted on glass but I've never seen any painted on glass before with very very nice gilt laurel leaf borders on the back here profiles and miniature by mrs. Beecham of Fleet Street 1785 letters exactly exactly the date of them I'll say who it is these family members know I bought them in an auction actually how much did you pay for the man I'll show you a good profit I think they've been they're very very popular that a lot of dealers it killed for those they're probably worth for four to six hundred pounds to pair now must be very very rare being on glass [Laughter] now let's not lose anything we'll be picking these up the rest of the afternoon now this year oh I see it I suspect you're missing some pieces because we probably have a difference you've got all its German German Navy but the interesting part about it is it's between the two wars if it was the First World War the top would have had a crown being Imperial Germany if it was the Third Reich with a Nazi doing material - sorry what does have a swastika force it would have had an eagle with a swastika in between the claws at all so between the wars the daggers were made in this form with this type of poem no signs of the imperialism the Nazi period really hadn't come into its own so you've got a German dagger period of time and the value of it if it was to be auctioned would be about 300 pounds possibly a little more was a attractive pieces of porcelain from Japan we've got a standing dish here which would have been used for food and painted and underglaze blue with horses and the design here has probably come originally from China from the eight horses of you know Wang we've only got five here major the Rita and actually slightly difficult today so I think probably around the end of the 18th century to the first half of 19th century and a piece like that going to be worth in the region of four to five hundred pound something like that and this thing I think he's probably a teapot it could just be for wine but it's difficult to say it's in the form of a of a turtle with a dragon's head and it's a symbol of long life and he has this long tail which here is cleverly forming the handle and of course the carapace that the shell has been turned into a diaper pattern with little flowers in it and with a figure forming the knob again very difficult to date my guess is somewhere around the end of the 18th early 19th century and therefore slightly difficult to estimate on but my guess somewhere around 6 8 on the farm somewhere where did they come from well Oh from Japan because we were not in Japan your family my family my grandfather went out soon after Commodore Perry but I know I put 1953 were they buying these I've got to know this collection belong to my mother so she would have started in other century River so one of our time was I yeah they were supposed to be Oh everything she got but nobody asked you and when did she bring him back well it's been end of November 1940 and we bought part of her collection with it what else you and I used to get out and now we leave the people of Hexham and our experts just for a moment for this week's Radio Times competition but first the answer to last week's posing the question was what is this type of table commonly called and the answer is a rent table a term usually applied to a drum table with a well in the center for storing money the lettered drawers were used for filing rent receipts from tenants and Ledger's would have been kept in the base and now to this week's competition object and here it is a lovely painting I'm sure you'll agree it's the work of that much-loved English artist sir Alfred Munnings he was a native of East anger he was the son of a Miller and throughout his life he was passionately interested in horses he painted horses of every description he painted a hunter's elegant racehorses but perhaps his real favorites were these good old honest country cart horses this particular picture really sums up those qualities of Munnings work that are so admired you see how he uses light however complex patterns of light play on the horse's mane here actually gild the mane and the shadow and the sheen on the horse's coat give it a feeling of forward movements of momentum this particular picture comes from a period in Manning's life when he was trying really to capture the very essence of East Anglian rural life and to that end he traveled the highways and byways of that part of England with local gypsies and he painted their ponies by day and slept rough under the hedgerows by night now the question is at around what date was this picture painted now for more information on the competition look at the coffee of this week's Radio Times which is published on Tuesday and that even gives you a few suggested dates to help you and then you'll need to have your entry in the post by Saturday at the very latest and address please to the Radio Times not to the Antiques Roadshow and if you manage to do all that you stand a chance of winning a really worthwhile antiques voucher which you can then spend on antiques of your choice so next week I'll be giving you the answer to this week's Radio Times competition and also revealing another mystery object is a sort of dishes which they would have used themselves and this particular shape using geometric designs and interlocking them is quite characteristic a little fan shape here made it a Rita again yes this one probably about 1700 this is - a leadership I've got five of those Wow various I have one this one's fascinating because it's been shaped in antiquity and repaired with a golden repair which they used quite a lot what about the condition of the other one the others are perfect I've brought this one because I thought it might be more interesting I see weather in there we've got just a mark on here which is fuku which means happiness interesting my sparring crack right in the middle of it so that was anything that's about 1717 10 some other and that I guess you know a set of five dishes I think around two to three thousand pounds to set might even be a bit more this was one is a honey I think it's yes sweet well there Kenneth day is good and five make a circle more or less oh this is a wonderful lovely in colored blue and this brown rim this was copied from the Chinese the idea was that the enameling prevented the chipping of it which the Chinese porcelain was prone to not so proud rate on on Japanese I mean that's extraordinary because I think one of those dishes would probably make five to eight hundred pounds so we're talking five thousand pounds or so fools I've never done anything a thought like that they just love them and that's all that is what one should be doing yes I'm loving them but as one has to consider the values today because anything this one rather later it's probably about 1750 same sort of thing 1750 yeah see these marks on here these stilts marks very typical of a reader paused on that supported his on the kill they just knocked it off and of course it left these these marks on here that's again a fugu mark is this part of a sentence yes ten of those around thank you sir amazing well again three to five hundred pounds each well that's more to come let's have a look they were both depressants for my husband there Charlie exciting because what they are guild of handicraft and that was started by a chap called Ashby under the influence of William Morris what they wanted to do is to get back to this ideal everything should be made by hand so when you look at the various pieces the is the way that the hammer marks are left in them just which is the final what's called planishing so instead of machine polishing afterwards it takes all that out the literally the final in a sense has been polished by a hammer so the stone instead of the instead of being a cut amethyst it's a cabochon which actually comes from a bold head it's I think of a bald hen the French Kabuto so it's got those features which is so typical of a surrogate and the salts because they've they've lost their lioness but that's not a big problem they show the other other thing which is is so typical of him I just got this wire work and how it's lovely look at me he's just brought the movement round there then twisted back and just how everything sweeps into the centre absolutely superb stone set on that even the end of the spoon tiny little carpet or amethyst on there the date is interesting as well the as we look at this one the mustard pot that's 1901 which was when they were in the Essex House which was in Milan Road I've got the liners no I'm sorry I haven't got that honours the liner's we're with the brandy that liners you can get the Lionel's done I mean that's that's not a serious problem and I wouldn't it would have some effect on their value but it's not not a great great effect in this case both we've got the actual build of handicraft mark whoops rich as you see it's G of H limited yes there is a slightly earlier mark that you can find which is a CRA which was for CR Ashman you've got to be jolly careful action without G of H limited mark because after in fact only a few years after these were made in 1902 the whole thing would collapse there they became bankrupt and one of the workers called Gilbert Hart carried on working he was a bit naughty actually carried on using of the G of H bar lots of people think that they've got gone panda car when they've actually got killed at heart say giving us a present yes a very nice present thank you I'd love them I'd lovely the I would ensure those today for a thousand pounds we've got a signed and numbered dustcap signed by Thomas Hallie of London number one 401 and his signature should be repeated on the movement which indeed it is I'm not actually familiar with this maker he's not well-known and yet with this grade of movement which is a cylinder escapement we really oughtn't perhaps know more about him a quick look at the date we've got a full set of Hallmark's they're slightly obliterated but I'm fairly confident in saying that that is 1751 assayed in London so we've got the absolute date on the watch a typical dime against own lovely pierced in engrave balance cork and square baluster pillars all the sort of things you'd expect for a watch of that period I shall just leave the dust cap off for a moment keep looking at that a very nice walk very nice quality typically good mid 18th century I hope you've got it in short yes of course good do you use it at all or not occasionally it should be pretty good time actually yes it's been cleaned sort of thing now that at a sale would make between eighteen and twenty three hundred dollars this is a very unexpected fine for hexam is it something you've had for some time yes I've had it quite a few years it's been put away with its face to the wall because it wasn't a picture that we had a great deal of affection for but nevertheless felt it like the event yeah so you've turned it round afternoon yes well I I'm very glad you did it's absolutely fascinating it's down here you can see a signature hoopha now this is Carl Hoffer who was a German painter actually dated 18 down here 1918 who was as I say a German that really his training was entirely French and Parisian he was in Paris I think from 1908 onwards and was very much first of all influenced by Suzanne as you can see I think a little bit by the whole technique in this picture of the approach to the different shapes and the investigations of the different angles that that that is them says an esky element and of course also the cubism of the Casa and Berg is very definitely taken on board a bit here but the interesting thing about hufa was that being a German in 1940 when war broke out it was not very popular in Paris and was actually thrown into a sort of detention camp for most of the war and only reemerge back in Berlin in 1989 I'm right in saying when he painted this picture civ memories of France still very strong in him but I mean I like I find it very exciting he's he's very bold use of paint yeah it's very similar on with a knife that's right put on with a palette knife very little if the tool put on with a brush all put on this this in this base thick's of creamy way with a palette knife and as a result what you have got here through a certain perhaps lack of attention to cranking in the paint but I think think that it's actually in any way not remedy but I think that it's perfectly possible if it was well realized its picture too to put it back into pretty good order and well I presumably has a picture that was a good standing face into the rear it was not something you had insurance everything absolutely right well I think you certainly should get the usual I mean probably for something in the Legion of 15 or 20,000 fans that was so I think all set you might turn it round face outwards [Music] and we did a bit of mailing on the Newcastle Roadshow three years ago ah and since then I've noticed an escalation in the prices I mean I even know a piece for the basket like this one three years ago would have been about 30 40 pounds or something they in there now what is it and the pride of the Lord whose is this one this is your eggs incredible with this to blind raise decoration on it but these daffodils quite splendid is the in very good condition that's Adam Antiques Fair now is going to be 300 but this is an oil painting yes well it's a nice River scene nice country see got the initials down here LHS but I'm afraid a very minor painter not one but it's very old yeah it must be well it must have been painted well it must have been painted round about 1900 that's what Dave I'm afraid around about five or six smashing by absolutely smashing about 1860 a chap called Louie Wayne was born and he's very very famous man for illustrating cats he was an illustrator and he was a painter of cats he became obsessed with cats he had a cat called Peter that inspired him and he became prolific perhaps acidic unfortunately he went totally mad as a result of his obsession he had a very sad life and he died in a pauper's warden an asylum outside about during the early part of this century and he did some designing important pottery and I think this is made by company called Wilkinson right now his his paint is now worth why doesn't run it even his sketches worth lots of money he died in about nineteen for a short period it designs for porcelain for a very short period probably ten years these are quite rare we don't see many of them valuation the price if you went to buy it option today five to eight hundred pounds I understand you purchased this in Japan yes it was purchased by I think my my smother earlier in the century in Japan could be near this century I think we both know it's Chinese yes it's in fact a Chinese or so-called altar table and I think they were used for formal ceremonial use in China from very early on from the Ming Dynasty onwards until the late 19th century yeah and they would have standing on the top antique devices bronze archaic vessels or in porcelain normally a set of five of them and one of them can be seen or two of them here on the fries at the table which is repeated on your side in this case I've always wondered what they were and that's the sort of device that have had actually standing on the table for burning incense for prayer what's interesting about this and any Chinese furniture is the construction if we look here firstly you can see the wood do you know what would this is no I've always wondered I would like to know it's a species of rosewood a sort of Indian type rosewood but this particular grain or strain is known as a wang who are lien from China I'm trying to the decorational on the freeze it suggests me that this is not unfortunately one of the very early tables they were made from as I say mean times but the decoration got more more ornate as the centuries went along ming net up to 1,300 1,300 1,300 onwards now to the kang see the late 17th century kang seat there yeah and they can be identified but i think this is a later version the decorations are amusing again you've got to repeat on your side but we have fairly clearly perhaps divine and grapes to the sort of european declare that we've got the squirrel a popular Chinese theme the squirrel stealing some grapes very popular the chinese portable decoration what i think is fascinating about this type of table this is enormous nearly seven feet long and a very good size i mean it's a very good height for me and a very good high tail you've had a long time you must have been thinking about the value I won't even guess of what idea I was hoping you'd help me there's quite a rare table I imagine that's something is such a good one with such a nice color nice condition certainly three to four thousand pounds but rocks are you lovely table this is a very fine pair of gallantry medals must be very proud of very soon a funny father but there we are these things it wasn't like that no my father had been away at sea for seven months mother was sitting waiting for a telegram to tell him to tell her that they ship had docked and she was going down to meet him instead she got a telegram to say the ship is being torpedoed and apparently she'd been lying in Southampton water waiting for permission to dock but a German submarine sneaked in torpedoed the ship my father was off duty upon deck but he had promised to keep an eye on a youth who was having his first sea voyage so my father worked out in the engine rooms the boilers at first and he was scolded literally all over he tried to save the boy but he died he lived for fortnight after that no I say it's very sad in as much as if he had got home he was due to set seven months leave by which time they warm to being over this happened in April 1918 nicely and then your your mother would have been given the medal yes she had to go up to Buckingham Palace and was presented with that by George v yes and she could never ever all her life remember what he said to her the Albert Medal was instituted in 1866 it was named the Albert medal after the Prince Consort of Queen Victoria he died in 1861 it was a one class medal and later they made the to cast me a gold LeBron originally it was for saving life at scene and then they enlarged it through saving life on land now the saving life at seed was blue and white ribbon with a blue enamel saving life on land was a red and white ribbon with a red yes yeah that was the difference yes but in a hundred years first and second class there wasn't more than 600 issues so it's quite a rare piece yes and needless to say it should be yeah for saving life yes it's superseded today by the George Cross yes I get the George Cross now instead of the Albert met yes the other one of course is the Lloyds medal which complements the Albert the same action yes the the Albert is inscribed on the back here which is rather nice yes to identify it now obviously I know I mean you wouldn't part for these for all the money in the world but it is interesting to know how much these things are worth even if it's just for insurance houses the Albert medal would be worth something in the region of seven to eight hundred pounds and the Lloyds medal would be worth something in the region of 300 oh good as he's got the two together yes then you just don't plus those two amounts together yeah but another hundred of - yes so if we're talking about insurance you've got to think of perhaps fourteen hundred yes yes very very nice and I'm thrilled that you brought them I really am I've always been very proud of I must say very proud a superb quality I mean absolutely a nice done dating probably for the middle of the 19th centure I would think that would probably make in the region of two to three thousand parts these are magic what we've got here is underglaze blue painting over a couple of boys this is absolutely Japanese taste and round the border it's been hand carved with hairs in in waves and clouds this one actually shows it off better the quality here is superb and it's fired slightly better than the big one yeah that's it you fabulous and of course all they're all done by hand the old uh perhaps I've got ten of theirs and each one is slightly different because I mean the same design I don't know loom fit and of those and how many of these unfortunately I had two but one is being repaired well Lisa khaki Heyman who heard about it right there they they were made at a Rita and the khaki omen combs which there were several mostly with what we call a man is decorated with very subtle bright enamels but they also did underglaze blue and this is typical of that sort of production I think this dish which has got a very small trip down here but otherwise is incredibly rare for a star that size yeah absolutely that's going to make a difference but not enormous I think that dish would probably making the ratio of five to eight thousand pounds I don't know what they do that this stuff this ten is smaller but as far impeccably the design is it's just got to be made yesterday it's Oprah spares and they're all in this state they're all in that state isn't that wonderful markets come out on film being they of course they were all packed away from the end of 1940 to 1970 third shift you know I think these I think these are worth between two and three thousand after times we're talking twenty to thirty thousand pounds with ideally this is one of the most exciting collections I've ever had it's whitening out what I was saying at the beginning of our day here in hexam that we would be fortunate indeed to see an example of the work of the famous local artist Thomas Buick and sure enough we didn't see anything coming off the street as it were but we thought it would be wrong to leave this part of Northumberland without showing you at least one example of his works and so we've chosen this which actually comes from his own home which is now the museum and I gather Clive it's a very rare print indeed I think it's probably one of the rarest things we liked you to see on the Antiques Roadshow really this is one of ten copies printed on vellum there's a sad story behind it I'm afraid Buick having finished the engraving Friday night with all his cronies around took ten boom coffee as proof copies on vellum and after cleaning the plates left it on the windowsill to dry luckily a Buick himself did it and when they came back on Monday morning it was broken and here is that original wood block the wood engraving in its now sorry state it's a very sad sight I'm afraid and that's precisely what makes this print so rare because there were only ten of them taken from the original locked him before it cracked absolutely right now why is he so highly regarded why is he very much the local hero in artistic you know it was an innovator he was an innovator he changed wood angry he changed from wood block cutting to wood engraving and he did magnificent work with animals he observed a lot of them in the wild himself drawing sketching in fact apparently he missed school on many occasions and was severely chastised for that marvelous book life thank you very much indeed and our thanks also of course to the people of Hexham who've given us such a wonderful day here today next week we're taking the Antiques Roadshow to Cambridgeshire and I very much hope that you'll join us then and until then from Clive the other experts and me goodbye

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Keywords: Antiques Roadshow UK, Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow Series 13, VHS, 50fps, VHS 50fps, Hugh Scully, Hexham Northumberland

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Length: 40min 59sec (2459 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 17 2018