Antiques Roadshow UK Series 13 Episode 7 Ayr, South Ayrshire

this week we brought the road show to Scotland we are in err a prosperous town on the west coast some 40 miles from Glasgow it's many miles of unbroken sandy beaches have helped to establish the town as one of Scotland's most popular holiday resorts for all followers of the turf air is best known perhaps as the home of Scotland's leading racecourse which every year plays host to the Scottish grand national in the story of air there's one character one personality who stands literally head and shoulders above everyone else as the local hero and that figure unquestionably is Robert Burns as you're reminded in the names of cafes hotels bars and shops even if you look no further than your wallets it's impossible to escape the dominance of the burns legend which takes on an almost religious fervor in this part of Scotland it seems every road leads somewhere with a burns Association like here the humble clay cottage at alleyway where he was born in January 1759 and is now one of the most visited houses in Scotland this is the Brigadoon the bridge over the river doon made famous by Burns in his poem Tam O'Shanter this is where meg the great mayor lost her tail and it's now a place where everyone stops on the burns Heritage Trail and just in case you ever forget that connection local people here in the beginning of the 19th century subscribed a large sum of money to build a monument in Burns's honor overlooking this idyllic scene we've set up our cameras today in the dam park and this week our experts include Terence Lockett and David batty we'll be assessing all the pottery and porcelain along with Gordon Lang Hilary K will be casting her expert eye over a variety of things mainly from the 19th and early 20th centuries and to select the best of the furniture there's John Blythe so let's now join our experts with the people of a pair this is looked at first sight as if it was going to be by one of the leading decorators on Japanese set somewhere that's mine called Oreos are but or Yabba maison but it's not in fact right and it's somebody copying him and we've got on the back here the mark which says dining on which is great Japan Satsuma this is the Satsuma morn or the badge like this I think his hoes are a bit rusty but I think that's hose on and this is super Oh which means made so to make my hose own that's slightly earlier that's about nineteen hundred and eight and is typically decorated with my new detail imagine the work that went into painting all these seating by hand one at a time with with liquid gold anime up to the last moment absolutely and it's a festival scene probably a spring festival and all these figures are my new clean throw on and accurately dressed I suppose there must be about a hundred figures on there you have a count no I haven't well that's your next task just sit down and count them the only thing I would caution you again you've got it hanging on the wall yes yeah it's these wires these are not a good idea frankly they are braids as you walk about in the house well the traffic isn't it shades it and in fact you can see that here quite clearly the gilding from one of those lately so I would get a pair of snips take that off and buy a plastic coating one and put that on and it'll be most of the price but because he made a shame if he got damaged because it's worth in the region of a thousand to 1,500 pounds thank you my mother was a collector of bits and pieces and as far as I remember she bought this from an and well they were then called junk shops and and it would be during the war just after our house had been bombed and I think this was a sort of gesture against Hitler she was refurnishing and at the same time collecting oddments that attracted her and she can't really paid a lot for it because she was a widow with the school teacher's salary and so on you know we see quite a few soup ladles but I'm jolly pleased that you bought this one in most that we see her what's called the old english pathway it's really quite plain at the top yes but this one's very interesting because that purling at the top there as soon as the Onslow patent it's made unlike any other soup made which you'll find at that time because of this pattern the normally the whole thing is hammered just from one short model of silver yes it should banging away and you end up with ladle now the most difficult of all things to me the racing people realize it's much easier to make a Camden's pair of candlesticks or a coffee pot than used to make that soup label I was so difficult yes that I love the crest yes it's very reminiscent of course of watch soup house department that sort of thing now what did you know that any idea of the date on it the period of it and I had the impression when my husband looked up the silver marks once that it was 18th century and then I had this awful fear that it had been stolen from the House of Commons sometimes the groceries I really know very little of its its origin now the notes the marks at the bottom of the step aha yes now that puts it before the 1780s Otis's yes otherwise they're after the top that made a problematic was it close when it miss shape the stem when they hammered the marks it yes they had to handle them back afterwards and that's why though they've got that robber because that was a pinch look at the marks of God yes the marks answer for London and the 1761 says long reign enforcer and its James Tukey lovely label but there is a slight drawback it's had some trouble Tennessee just there yes yes indeed what's happened it's so often happens with these shells that they split boys would have checked and very very perfect yes and so on fred was rather badly saw that that oh yes without that damage I please expect Onslow patent to be selling the late lightness for five or six hundred pounds right yes with the damage that is going to cut that by about half yes yes I see what we've got here is a picture by one of the really truly local painters who made it quite big in the end of the last century George Houston but do you know where this is actually yes it's behind the family hormon door I yes the figure in the picture is one of his daughters really getting water from the bun I don't know what facilities we would have in the house at that time would say maybe she had to go down there every time they needed to do the washing up but I think she's a particularly sweet to go beautifully painted with that drooping down either side of her face and I think that that particular lens interests the whole composition yes I was told that because of the figure being in the picture he was a landscape painter and this was quite unusual and therefore the value of the picture would be brought down by that I don't think that's true now I think that the fact that the the eye is brought into the picture by that very charming figure is a definitely a plus point to it but somewhat how did you get this picture well my father bought it in the year at an auction people did actually know about 30 years ago it's been in the family ever since yes and he had an association with the Weston family he did it because George Houston's mother had a house in LA fine my father was a grocer yes and he used to deliver a groceries to the family and mrs. Royston used to say come on and see if it is done today it was possible about three or four of these paintings at various stages yes to see so it's all very interesting and his work has become particularly sought after I would say in in recent years and I didn't know to have its insured no we don't because I think you certainly should maybe 20 years ago it was a sort of thing that wasn't worth insuring but now it's the sort of it's a shot up and I would say anything be thinking of putting eight thousand pounds [Music] insurance well this is one of those most secure occasions when it doesn't really matter but this is a fake cow me its feet well using it as a sort of word really because the mark of the end on the back but the Vienna factory closed in 1864 and many factories carried on decorating in the same style using their mark and this is the mark at the end I but added by somebody else though the important thing is the sure policy of it and the workmanship in this is staggering Marvis have you thought about the at how this declaration was done not seeing this bit all this gold what the gold is done by building up various enamel the colored enamel put on first and then building up layers of gold on top amazing the pain today is taking time consuming business but the painting indeed of such super quality beautiful Yucatan almost look like a photograph it is so fine and when you're painting in and them on metal oxides in that ceramic colors they changing the kiln EV to build up the colors over many firings and it takes a very long long time to do that sort of panel so this would have been an extremely costly plate when it was bought there's something which your family bought when the motion-sensitive oh no my dear it's not we were in Africa most of our working life and we've got it there someone was selling it movie night so much it's not a bit hanging us home yes akin and we always sort of shudder and away woman Suzy's many wires one of these so tightly fitted on as this delicately and very popular with the Japanese mark moment prices have soared in the last couple of years for these because the Japanese love them and nowadays I suppose 1400 1500 pounds really my dog should not collect speeds I'm doing this just doesn't seem believable and it's been captured rounder word this type of where bulwark is prone to damage yeah and of course in our modern houses with difference of temperature it is suspect and it is inclined to shift to the carpus will shift and the materials used don't alternates at the same nerve now if we can look at it as a whole it's about 1850 1860 middle of the 19th century and it's continental yes but as I say the most wonderful part about it is this terrific color and of course relatively good condition its name is taken from the man who made him as popular and simple in the early 18th century Andre Charles bull no it didn't take all in England very much we don't see much of it during the 18th century remain very popular in France the 1815 took off over here and interesting enough you've got an example of English who work in this really just really rather charming there is a difference in the design a difference in the appearance somehow the 19th century French examples like the cabinets stuck rather more to the original InDesign whereas there was much more imagination than the English version there are many more people who are willing to collect and pay good money for pink stands than there are for French carry proof there and a little league stand like that today probably in the region of 1215 hundred countries it's quite a valuable object that getting back to this you know the method of manufacturing you take a sheet of each material quite thin about sixteenth of an inch thick was that was the normal 18th century much thinner in the 90s so you make a sound one against the other glue them together with water glue and trace your design and cut it through as a fretsaw would do yes right you then melt the glue and you have two portions one will transfer into the other very needs so in fact you will have some where the pair to this which would be real trouble so you have bull and comfortable one will have the patent in brass and the torsional background the other obviously bicycles the later they get they were or more common they become because they were made in larger numbers yeah and by about 1850 1860 they did make quite a lot of these all be very decorative pieces which reduces their value in both fashion and demand today's market in comparison to the ink stamp not very high but nevertheless as a piece of furniture it ought to be insured for four thousand all right lovely thanks very much there's one piece of clothing that her family will keep it's the christening and if you'll be handed down and handed down and although if you went into a department store and said look I want a handmade fine Lord prison thing though they may charge you two or three hundred pounds for it if you put something like this in action boom oh you bet listen ma'am I mean you really would get the fifty maybe only all day coming here in the taxi from Glasgow Airport I said to come to my colleagues I bet I get a gas burns cottage and I was panicking because I didn't think one was gonna come but sure enough we get one nearly lunch but of course he's local our gold bands the airship hurt and here we've got a model of his cottage and it's fully marked with the goshawk that's because that was his crest and he was a brilliant marketing man idea of people who were cycling around the country or visiting tourist places shouldn't have something to take that it's a souvenir and he went all out of country and produced these little prostitutes of whatever they little theses with arms on a pretty common and there were sort of two rebounds please the cottages are much much rarer and those can be fiendish this one's one of the most Katya I think he was obviously their cobbler and this one who makes about some of them fetched up to 1500 pounds but I'm delighted my day wasn't ruined man you made it for me thank you very much is that how you look at so some people with portent they go like that to see what something falls into whatever you see what these marks here those are pretending to be Sokka marks this has made a silver plate in Queen Victoria's reign she was a queen who lived for a long time on the throne for a 15:30 764 years and some it's made for the Cape Doralee there who takes the tea time we got one of the t-test able to put oranges if that's fair enough okay but they see whether oranges subpoenaed to market a bit needs a bit of it need mister one plasticine you keep processing and oranges together yeah orange very taste its silver plated I would imagine that's worth several weeks pocket money something like 4050 pounds tell me about this marvelous service was it yours was it your children's he took me he had a collection of animals so he decided to make the proper circus I was he particularly interested in so I was always interested in circus as a tiny boy I used to play under the cameras when the circus was in town well I can see that his love of the circus has transformed itself into this marvelous layout and on the whole what we're looking at are LED circus figures now this is this board obviously didn't come with the circus did he make that yes and what about this marvelous arrangement here of the striped awnings all that rests the tent so there's a tent that goes on top oh I must have a look at that afterwards so this is just the the inner circle if you like and what is incredible is the the fact that it's in such good condition now your children must have been very careful with it when they played with their Tomatoes they had to be I can imagine they were obviously closely supervised yes well let me have a look at some of these acts in in isolation at the front there there's a kangaroo boxing with a clown I can see and then there are these marvellous acrobats standing on their hands on the back of a chairs and I think the thing that I like best is is what we've got in the middle here which is this wonderful high wire act with a lady on the trapeze underneath and the clown on top holding an umbrella now it looks to me as if these come from a variety of different makers certainly the high wire act is Britain's because I can see here there's the original box it says they're flying trapeze but that's that's very nice for the original label on it but there are there's another make which is particularly known for some of its circus figures and that's a mate called char burns and quite a lot of the other figures here about that particular made I suppose that this piece here really must be the most exciting not only does it look the most interesting it actually is the most interesting collectors are fascinated by that particular toy and that on its own would be worth perhaps a couple of hundred pounds solutely yes it would in that sort of condition just that that one piece and in fact they're amazing but overall I mean the fact that you've got so many of these different bags and they're in on the whole very good condition I think that one has to be looking at perhaps 800 or perhaps as much as a thousand pounds for everything for the whole thing so I think you did very well not to let your children bring it well when you open these out what about Ethel oh we've got another very special service here but in fact if we turn it over and look at the mark on it you'll see that it's a great very stoke-on-trent and these were made about 1930 they're very interesting because they were actually as you can see sort of Art Deco piece you very much art deco but art deco of the Jazz Age you know the Charleston and inspired these things by fine art like Picasso and people like that the designer of these was not cursed with but on a lady this was of course at Susie Cooper and when she designed these she was working grain grain she'd been recommended to him by the great Gordon Forsythe who was a principal of the school of art of Bursley and he'd recommended her when she was in her early 20s and she designed these just before nineteen she left shortly after that and set up on her own and from 1930-31 onwards until she retired a few years ago she was on a greatest twentieth-century ceramic designers of all time the same but these were amongst the earliest designs and a really very very lively and vibrant and striking and one of the interesting things about them is that these were painted by girls Gordon Forsythe trained girls at the school of art to to paint and pottery and it may well be that somebody of 14 15 or 16 painted these it's quite possible the mark there is of the painters that that lady watching the program today but actually say I painted that yes in 1931 anything the other thing which is particularly remarkably well and why I'm very excited about my sin is it you brought spoons with him yes and you kept long six-month yes and the exciting thing about the spoons is when we turn them over they too are decorated as the platters Suzie Cooper is not as esteem at the moment as Clara spliff but she is in my view an infinitely better designer and early works at there's like this I would have thought if this was sent to auction tomorrow as it were it would fetch at least five hundred pounds only it might seem very strange but you know 10 years ago this sort of truck might very likely have been thrown away and I have to concede that it's not in the best of condition today anyway let's have a little look at it first of all at the movement and the doll really tells us a lot to start with the arica proper limited London and they basically patented this massive balance wheel in 1906 it tells you there but it didn't actually go into production until 1909 and the factory went out of business in 1914 so this particular type of movement was manufactured for five years it came in various different styles the most basic one was on a circular brass case with a glass dome looked rather similar in shape to the sort of modern 400 day anniversary plazas anyway let's see how it was powered obviously you haven't got a battery there at the moment or it will be running but under here we've got this big brass plate and two big nuts to hold a massive dry-cell there's big cylindrical batteries which you can still get but replacing the top consider the quality of the case nice moldings beveled glass do you actually have it running at all or not yes I've had it running I was asked to see if I could do anything with it some friend of mine came across it and an old lady's garage it would be nice to clear out and they asked if it could bring it to me so that they would see if it would cool so it might very likely have been thrown out just a short time ago then I don't think it's been used for a very long time despite the fact they're made in fairly high numbers a lot of being disposed off particularly the ones with the glass domes have been smashed and once you start getting fir debris and various other damage to the escapement and all the brass parts they're actually quite hard to deal with they are fetching at auction at the moment about 1200 pounds we're looking at the Tron gate in Glasgow the East End of a gal Street and that's the Tron steeple that's on the Left that's right yes how much of this is still spending most of it it's a wonderful picture these really exciting street scenes that artists tend to paint attended to paint at the end of the 19th century beginning of this century a little bit under the influence of the Impressionists the French Impressionists that sort of invented this view from a little way up looking down a street see but here it is transposed and and put into Glasgow it's by Charles James lorda yes there's no connection no I've had it for 33 years yes and I found it in a junk shop in glass was West End just found in the junk shop were wonderful well Aldo was a was a painter who was well known for his tan scenes in architectural views and worked a lot in Glasgow though he travelled initially and worked in London as well what's this picture is also very good as is social history it's a wonderful piece of social history you've got the poster on trans you've got the people milling around on the streets we've got the poster on cabs horse-drawn carts also as you probably know it's quite dirty Oh Betty I'm there is a lot of dirt particularly up here in the sky and I feel that well cleaned this picture would be transformed you would get to tremendous depth of color to it that would make it look really pretty sensational it's also a pretty valuable picture I should tell you and as it stands I think you should probably have it covered from 12,000 pounds something like that so it's very valuable commercially and valuable as wonderful social history perhaps you'd like to know that I walked up and down and looked at it several times before I went in and then she charged him 18 and six months what a wonderful period piece it conjures up a marvelous image of the late 17th early 18th century a good baroque instrument and you can hear the the music playing the Bach music playing on this wonderful little spinette the case is as you'd expect you know what it's made of no it's worn up case these lovely period brass hinges and catch you open it up and quite clearly Stephanus or Stephen King London he faked it he's a well known maker working from about 16 68 and working until after 17 11 we don't know when he finished working but we know his work until 17 11 what's interesting about the keyboard of the name board is the decoration here which to me anticipates a star known as the Rococo of about 70 40s or 50s in an instrument which we clearly knows Perrault and you know I wondered for a while whether it has been put in later but I didn't think so the this is ivory this is ebony and again lovely decoration the work that's been done here it looks to me like pressed paper nests or Gothic style decoration pressed onto the end of the little keys here how does it work let's have a look inside it's exactly what you expect here this little sound board which you just pull off to see the hammers and of course the important thing with a spinette as a potent piano is that these little hammers or jacks as they're known pluck rather than strike and strings see if we can make one work needs a bit of everything yes there's a good one so you can see the action there's a lot bit of red felt with a little quill just sticking in there just to pluck the string to make the sound what's important about this type of instrument is to have the condition in good state or it's not in perfect state at least a rhythm for different is very important the soundboard on this appears from initial inspection to be in good condition very dirty that doesn't matter but doesn't bear to be split so the sound will be good once it's cleaned and restored these are really quite rare instruments how long have you had it a long time it was brought in the Cotswolds and abroad we were not sure if it was bought before or after the war right how much Ford you know 200 pounds well does it sound a bad price either before or after the war today a keen instrument like this most of them are listed and as far as I can gather this one isn't known about it's very sought-after it has several distinctive features the birds on the marquetry typical his work certainly it's worth ten thousand pounds and probably up to 20 thousand pounds in this condition well let's define mocking shall we because Rockland is a term given to tree nor wooden objects made up in the village of mockolate now how far is it from here eleven nails eleven math so we're talking local today in every sense yes but if anything amazes me about mock Linda where is the sheer variety of the objects that they produced now most of the objects we've got hip were produced during the 19th century the wood involved is probably Sycamore in most places am i right it's straightforward black-and-white prints these are Scottish views they did of course did they make use full room all over the country I remember years ago quite honestly you could pick up a box such as this for twenty twenty-five pounds but I'm afraid those days are long gone I think today you'd probably at the part with a minimum of 80 hours for a lot such as that so and you collect tea caddies yes fantastic it's another nice yeah that's a good one isn't that lovely that's a you would work yeah he's a rare very very collectible about that and Caledonian Road oh what's the market in London yes it's 50 pound some time ago listen Iceland that's so now that's a good one that's the one about first I was impressed by the fact that they the workmanship on a thing like that fantastic I love this too I mean there's as much work on the in sensors and of course for three different types of teeth that one weird eight round about 1775 1770 1775 lovely I saw another big one in here too alright tip and deal that's beauty straight out of Chippendales drawing these columns at the sides with architectural design and that cost me opponent an alignment Thumbelina and Justin but pound oh that's about their 40 years ago have you got them in Sean well I've got general and two doors but I mean these things have got very expensive within the last four or five years so ever they have gone up enormously since when you collect I mean you're walking in with this suitcase you've got there's over 7,000 pounds of this and so perhaps before you go we want to sit down and just go through them individually right in the meantime I think pair the prettiest fun attempt that I've seen in a long time the designs are the hand-painted with this is love little butterflies and bugs they're very good example it's a birdie Darby four pieces done in the record this are the 1760s early 1760s and with especially with us that lovely lovely little strawberry in our pond here but there sir the whole thing is so successful especially raised on these little feet french ones that have feet but these Darby ones are just give that little bit extra limb and the elegance with this piece is such as this very unusual even one to get to makes them very rarity I thought we're talking around about three or four thousand pairs for the pair now this is by George Frederick Watts there's a sort of grand painter of the Victorian age and by this period which I assume is around just before or around the turn of the century there about he was almost deified so to have your portrait painted by him was quite a very smart thing to do and a very interesting thing to do so if we could just turn this round as portrait I see that it's officer James Morton her see my grandpa off grandfather and I see that we are very much in just over the border in Cumbria and since we're in Cumbria his Gimli great friend was the Earl of Carlyle or he must have known yes and this actually just places us with George Howard the earth of Carmel and the most famous most richest men in the 19th century a painter in his own right and this picture of your grandfather this portrait your grandfather places is there right and if we take that away and we come onto this painting which is obviously a totally different mood indeed this is by Winifred Nicholson correct life of magnificent wife of Ben Nicholson let's just bring it forward a bit and tilt it forward in fact she's the granddaughter of George power the Earl of Carlyle that I did not know that back in the twenties and thirties was a very famous artist in her own right Berta's Winifred Daco she was born yes then she married Ben Nicholson so we have a wonderful ambient right yeah I don't know whether you can tell me when this picture was purchased but picture was a gift it's a gift yeah yes right and where did you Germany out there when well I know roughly it was painted it would have been painted in the early 30s as we are as I recollect my father was a textile designer and forever Weaver's an artist in his own right this must have just been a swap of paintings at that time and it was given by Winifred nickel to my parents and you know time has progressed and it is now ours that the curious thing is that this painting actually spends some not a little time propped up on the back of my mother's wardrobe and she thought that it wasn't doing much good there so she said you can have it and so we took it were very grateful so very very exciting and just a last thing the George Frederick Watts is not worth a great deal of money because he's unvalued to you but not really in the open market maybe a family portrait so I got a thousand pounds right that's very interesting right now this painting is worth I would say today around 20,000 pounds maybe 25 surely not well they were made to replace the original brocade on the chairs which was in tatters right and I was interested in needlework it was my hobby really still is and I got these designs from the Royal School of needlework in London and gradually got them two at a time and gradually over a period of about three years I finished them well I think the colors are quite remarkable because they are absolutely and precisely what they should have I can take no credit for that it's a royal school I think it's modest of you I think you should take every credit in the world because they're beautifully done they are in fact from the back of the poor when I first saw them I thought there was a chance that they might even be original because this coloring and this design is so right for the chairs 17 22 1735 that sort of period they are a curious design chair again actually stand up and have a look at one in detail because you've got all sorts of designs from the top that you would expect to see in a 17:45 chair but then you have this solid splat back which you'd expect up to 1720 you have cabriole legs with carving at the knee which is fine for anywhere around about that sort of period first half of the 18th century but this really rather lovely turned column and then a square block of the foot which had gone mostly out of fashion by about 1730 so you've got this one yeah almost a hybrid in design but very attractive for them and there's no question that these are English and provincial and early 18th centuries so there's no question of their authenticity except I'm slightly concerned about four of them and he who had she had those made her mature six were bought as originals right and four were bought to make up the scent including the two Carver's two lovers they were remarkably well done and the only thing that gives them away is that the passage of time has corroded the Polish that was put on and you can see here where it's warm through the color is is golden dog exactly you can see the pale edges I remember asked the neighbors who to say dear a few said no white edges he would no white edges well there that's him that you would find a perfect example of what he was talking about well the chairs the modern ones the reproductions would cost you possibly somewhere in the region of a thousand pounds each chair to make today as fine as this and so there's four thousand pounds for the new chairs and for the six old ones today's value would be between eight to ten thousand pounds fourteen thousand pounds you know right thing I know back to juice Rolla yes you won't mind me mentioning this that you actually won a prize for the needle that was very strange my wife was connected with the Scottish women's world institutions the Federation president right and they had a show I think in this very Hall and they had a husband Klaus and I and I made these may be sorted for them well done well congratulation to you they're very very fun it's extraordinary that earliest there was shown a similar subject to this on a Vienna style porcelain plate and here was the work of a vienna artist on a plaque of berlin porcelain but the quality of this is really outstanding only the berlin and state factory was able to produce a slab of porcelain as perfectly flat and smooth as this and they're in great demand by independent artists as the best people art to paint on in this case probably Viennese artist has copied a famous subject of the day and copied it very faithfully in the difficult medium of ceramic colors in this case the quality is absolutely superb and on the back of the reveal of is the mark of the Berlin factory impressed letters KPM which makes this a very important piece supporting and painting about 1880 there's always been great appreciation for the quality of these but over the last 12 months there's been it was Greece of interest particularly from Japanese by there are some collectors who are very keen on the to appreciate the quality which burning part represent and in fact a plot identically to this was offered in an auction and sold but what do you think it made no I don't know what do you mean it was all for 22 thousand pounds I thought that we didn't even expect it to even be any clear in the other well that brings us I'm afraid almost to the end of our visit to air but not before this week's competition which as you may know we're running in conjunction with the Radio Times first the answer to last week's question the question was what is the popular name for this type of toy made by French prisoners of war at the turn of the 19th century and the answer is a spinning jenny obviously nicknamed after the early form of spinning machine this intricate model was probably carved from pieces of meat bone found around the prison kitchens prisoners were allowed to make mortals such as this and sell them for cash and so to this week's competition object or should I say objects all lined up and ready to do battle are the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders splendidly fitted out in their kilts complete with the cameron tartan their scarlet tunics and their white foreign service helmets now these soldiers are really a classic example a childhood toys which become for some people afterwards an adult's obsession there are many collectors of these these particular soldiers were produced by Britons in a long period between 1893 and 1966 and virtually every regiment in the British Army was depicted in these models the boxes originally sold for a shilling a time at the beginning of the century but now they can fetch hundreds of pounds which led one chopped auctioneer to say that when it comes to investment Britain soldiers have done better than many other areas of antiques now as always their value is dependent on age rarity and condition and a connoisseur looking at these would be able to tell by the quality of the modeling and the painting that these were produced in the 1950s - an original model produced by Britons in 1900 and one their condition as you can see is very good and another important point is that they're still with their original box and so to the question how much would such a set of soldiers fetch at auction today now to help you have a look at a copy of next week's Radio Times which

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Published: Sat Nov 24 2018