Antiques Roadshow UK Series 15 Episode 3 Berwick-upon-tweed, Northumberland

[Music] making the railway journey from London to Edinburgh and just before you cross the Scottish border there's one particular town on the right-hand side of the line where the River Tweed meets the sea and which this particular traveller has always wanted to visit well after passing through non stop on many previous journeys now at last comes my opportunity to have a closer look at Varick upon tweed barracks fine position with the sea on one side and the river on the other gives it the feeling of being an island but its location so near to the Scottish border has brought turbulence as well as prosperity berrak is the most northerly town in England but it was not forever thus indeed it frequently became the most southerly town on the east coast of Scotland these sturdy defensive walls which run right around the perimeter of the town followed more than 200 years of warfare during which barrack changed hands between the Scots and the English no less than 13 times it's now very firmly a part of England yet the local football team berrak Rangers that play in the Scottish league generations of soldiers who garrisoned barrack gradually wore out their welcome among the people on whom they were billeted so at the beginning of the 18th century barracks were built to house them and they remain among the most notable Georgian buildings in this part of England the army finally left in 1963 presumably by then feeling secure from Scottish invasion and the building's became home to three museums one of which houses part of the famous barrel collection Sir William Burrell was a Glasgow shipping magnate and a collector of fine art he lived only five miles away and in the 1940s donated some of the treasures from his collection to the barrack museum well we'd be fortunate indeed if we were to see items of that quality here but who knows after all it's the very essence of the Antiques Roadshow that as we begin our day we have literally no idea at all what we're going to find all I can say at this stage is that David Botti has already seen something rather lights what immediately strikes me about them or the two things firstly is that they are actually very precisely drawn the painting is very very carefully delineated if you look at this border on here it all works very well somebody's thought very carefully about those little scrolls the whole balance of the design has been very carefully thought out we've got on the shoulders here they ate Buddhistic emblems that's what they are yes and those we we see on many many things they even turn up as marks we've got a five clawed dragon running round here and repeated on the cover and he's amongst clouds which is what these things are supposed to be and there's the flaming pearl Buddhistic pearl wisdom which they are disputing and tracing right so a quick recap we got right Rep rather nicely painted the second thing that's trying to be immediately about it is this weird smudgy dirty Brown looking painting with traces here and there of red I would like to just try something because I've got a feeling that that is not contemporary coloring and outcomes they yeah that's it now this is where the owner starts going what's he gonna do we'll just see what happens if we find a bit of red here it scrapes off okay I wouldn't mind betting that this spray off as well look at that comes straight off this is somebody earn a when in your family brightening the map probably a child nothin deserve a wet afternoon I want to do some painting well paint that then and our fee goes carefully painting in the clouds and the Buddhists together and that's cold paintings we call it that should come off and you've had then have pure blue and white which is how I started out life pounds it a lot this is the real joy on the bottom the mark now cuz Chinese marks once simply cannot trust they stop any old mark on any old thing and you've got to know the way the marks painted and everything else and tied up with a shape of the painting to make sure they'll think they'll come to me this is actually exactly this is what we call mark and periodic now this is the mark of the Emperor Doug Wang it's a seal mark says thar Ching which is great Qing Dynasty dark Wang which is his name nian she made in the reign of and in seal characters rather than written and this was made during his reign therefore his mark and period and he reigned from 1821 to 1850 and that makes an enormous difference because a pair of 19th century export were blown white jars and covers like this are worth a couple hundred pounds but because they're marking periods and I believe that all this dirty coloring will come off it's going to make an enormous difference in price and given them mark it's still a bit flat they would still make four to six thousand pounds surprise yes I've always loved it well it was the seat that was beside my father's desk and I loved it I used to sit on it when I was a child and then peel I was a queen well yes or evil-looking there anyway I just loved it and eventually they said look you loved that chair you know take it and so I did very good and what I liked about it is in fact that's like the Regal look to it the carolien period after the restoration you had this sort of flamboyance and with all these curves interspersed with straight lines you get this wonderful wonderful arm which is almost a human all its love and then of course you come down you've got the turn sections which have to be rectangular of various points to take the junction of the stretches and then right at the bottom you've got little curled foots rather like a little knuckle you know as if you've done that it's called a Braganza foot and it simply was an influence from Spain after catherine of braganza the infanta of spain of mary-charles seconds now the one thing is when it started life it wasn't upholstered it should have two stretchers down the center here none of probably a cane panel yes No there there you can feel here now did you feel that oh yeah there's a tiny stretcher inside there so I've never noticed that right and it comes up to here down the center and then curls away following this outline across here from that point those two points there would have been two bars two uprights and then a cane panel and then again you've got a very fancy line in here look at this wonderful you see and that would all be carved and molded now imagine how lovely that would look I mean it looks fine now yes but I'd do anything about it but imagine how elegant it would just pain panel and across a cane seat yes another posture so this was done Oh in the 20s I should be which was then a lot of them done but it's it's wonderful to see such a pretty chair an important looking chair this lovely shape original paintwork 1675 1680 lovely not a big money item you know but a chair today that would probably cost you Oh 1,800 pounds 2,000 pounds to replace it even in this state but it lovely wonderful thank you such a good character it's not splendid what I love is the most cool twisted glass for school in here shown up in the pond and the birds how many movements in upstairs but one tools we five six movements the only one that doesn't move is the bird by the well it's not English you probably know that it is purchased by an uncle of mine in Brighton in 1939 and have you had anything done to it wasn't working well yes it's always worked well we had it refurbished in the 1970s by gentlemen in Edinburgh when you say refurbished you didn't have any feathers to put on the birds no no just I think really the mechanism yes the mechanism was missed a capias OOP but the lovely thing about this is and I particularly like these bird automatons because they're usually by Bon Tom Blair's bontar who was a French come to me and he was born in 1814 and he became very well known in 1854 he started a shop in Paris yes yes and although this isn't as early as that this the box the early ones would have been warm aloo guilt metal cages and this is probably a 1910 example it's a very sophisticated example some of them only had one one bird in them and this would probably have been made by his son with child who took over when leis stopped in the 80s and they're very collectible and I would say that on a good day we could see this making somewhere in the region of three and a half to five thousand pounds and so for insurance we would be talking about probably six or seven size we've got to find them with the longest many birds and they're in such good condition parish solution you've got not a lot of these [Music] has it got a name thing things yeah it looks like a thing doesn't it yeah it's hardly the sort of thing you could create some really today's legislation would say that probably you could only sell that to a school and college and that probably it would have to be registered because the important export of this type of creature and the general well-being of reptiles is become more and more important so you can't replace it no you can't buy another one no so I wouldn't part with it anyway it's about a strange fascination it it's not a very morbid sense this fascination yes it is superb with this plum colored velvet here the depth of the of the glass beads is three or four or five deep and now very often you only get a single strand of bead oh you really would keep a teapot or browsers everything is so well insulated is remarkable it it's a lovely piece I think value-wise it would be it's good enough to make AC 100 maybe 100 that is for an excessive many pieces anymore anything left on your shoulder why did you pick this I don't know so he was swapped for it with the frequent yes do you know anything about who you thought was on the back yes made by Royal Doulton not at the time I didn't know so you picked a purely because you liked it right he may not keep you warm in the same way the cook does but he has other virtues this is a gesture war - it was introduced by Royal Doulton in 1937 and the current market price for this piece is what do you think it's about 150 biases so you did a very good spot for a foot but I said he may not warm you but he will pay the well you obviously like what's the porcelain don't you you click to these over yes many years this is quite genuine Worcester very pretty little coffee cup from a tea set as the the genuine was to mark of the square underneath the bottom and it says writers rain made about 1770 the pretty little coffee cup worth just on its own without sources I'm not so awesome now oh it's worth around about about 6080 pounds but a pretty little piece this one of course although it looks very like Worcester this little Inc said is not use this video well that's really what is reduce but this is this is an earthenware body very typical earthenware not porcelain at all not translucent so although it looked desperately like Worcester it is made by I think a firm called booze of Tunstall in stoke-on-trent very similar in quality not perhaps was fine but covered up it terribly well is it but made made I suppose a hundred years later than the coffee cart 1870 something like there but still he is Thalia knows how much did you pay for that about 30 shillings I suppose it was trade I suppose well nowadays a couple hundred pounds is made by is even those button was thirty comes love about if he had me was too many Falcons but so it makes quite a difference and then these two super pots both pierced from the Granger factory in Worcester Granger's were a rival to the main was defected eventually absorbed and one of the great specialities were these beautiful pierced basses in on an ivory blazed up Aryan body which is very very beautiful isn't it this one is more dull ground than this one is more glaze but very beautiful and the piercing is lovely piercing the top done by men caught who specialized in this particular thing at the Grange affected his name was Alfred berry yes so he would have done this one and this big pot but unfortunately you take the cover to just to the baby the whole it study will bring it um if I could plead with you never never to use sticky tape over gold one sees it then sometimes in auctions a label is put over it as you lift it off the beautiful gold is lifted off as well this little piece here again to try like desperately hard to get it up but it's going to lift little tiny flakes of gold off as one does it the only thing I can suggest is perhaps later you put it in to soak it into into water and hope that it will lift up afraid you have done a lot of damage to the boss I'm gonna threaten you if the with my new society which is called the RSP CP the roll Society of the pension according to Portsmouth your duck the one they were going to call on you tomorrow but but oh you have done a bit of damage okay but they're still super bombs I suppose this pot here is worth something like about six seven hundred pounds maybe more this one here if the gold have been damaged would have been worth near the thousand pound racket um a little bit less now because of the gold um damage because no matter how careful you are even the little bit yes but I think it's still a suit now we have here a very very nice pair of enamel packs can you tell me who they show yes they're Sebastien Gerard the was a partner with brother Robert the second the crown jewelers yes and he's mine he's my great-great-great uncle right so you you you are a worker odd yes my mother was Gary I mean that is a perfect problem horse they've come straight down through the family so even if we didn't know who Gehrig was to fulfill mr. do as but as the crown unit you'd have been able to tell us there in the original box which is marked Gerard the artists concern was a man called John since now do you know anything about it Steve not at all we haven't been able to find anything at all right he was born in 1811 and he lived until 1884 so he spanned much of the 19th century he was born in Darby and he was trained in Darby as a porcelain paint so although these are enamels on a metal base on gold his real training in life was as a porcelain painter in 1837 he moved from Darby to minsum which many artists did at that time Minton was a rising factory Darby as a sinking one and so they were simply following a rising star and to me the interesting part of the story is when he left mint in 1847 he went to join the government School of Art School of Design he set up in Mora house in London and he was in charge of the enamel painting department so when he painted these and I think they're dated on the back yes 18:15 1851 he was at that point the official government teacher of enamel paint and so oops sliding down and so he fits very much into the whole pattern of the victorian development of the decorative arts now do you have any idea of the value of these well when i purchased them from Jerez I paid one thousand five right I don't know who's that about five six years ago well I I think you did quite well I mean it wasn't the greatest bargain of the century yeah but you wouldn't expect that it meant surprise at the time Simpson is now I think more appreciate that he was there I push it up toward two and a half three thousand for insurance purposes feeling that's a bit less in terms of market values Thursday to two and a half thousand because they also could have their type well this is a fine that I must say a collection of Darwin letters tell me about them who they - their - my grandfather in poetry this is the William Tate yeah that's the winning estate a to then read the book and support three pairs of watch event horses absolutely well the first letter I see is dated 1869 now Darwin as you know was born in 1809 and so he was 16 the oranges that the origin of the species have come out 10 years earlier in 1859 and so he was a very famous man by this time and so your grandfather rights to Darwin and he writes this wonderful letter I thank you for your very obliging them pleased to hear you have been interested in my works as you being so kind as to offer me some notes I should be glad to receive any facts about which you feel quite positive so Darwin was giving me lots of correspondence from lots of people yes now goes on here tell me about this this is the bit about the Drosophila also phenomenal tonic please note that is a carnivorous plant yeah there's a pie catching like I'm drunk mentions it's a rare he preys on Santa solid it particular per portrayal which is particularly important in the years and then he signs it Charles Darwin Charles Darwin signed in fool I mean that's that's very nice indeed with a little footnote at the bottom there the second letter he writes very excitedly because he's asked him to send him one of these one of these plants dear sir your kindness is extraordinary great about the Drosophila and he writes four pages again saying how extremely excited he is we then go on to April the 18th all from down house Bromley Kent which is where he lived and where dives very fine house now Museum and he says I'm not very well after a fall from my horse so right - thank you for your obliging letter etc etcetera etcetera he goes on I haven't been able to go and see the plants in the greenhouses because I'm far too weak and so this is a rather sort of a short letter just signed Charles Darwin and finally June the first dear sir I'm very much obliged your kindness and your grandfather had obviously said that he would have to come and see him and he puts him off and he says I have so little strength but I shall not be able to examine your plants for a considerable time you can send them if you'll please and he signs it again Charles Darwin now is there anything about this collection of letters it seems odd to you yeah I mean I know you went to append you always thought he was very although there was something it's how we really want yes it's nothing extraordinary particularly but you have three letters that are not autographed letters and one that is an autographed letter the unenthusiastic letters are all written by an amanuensis probably his wife and this exciting better this one is the one which is written in his crappy handwriting you can read all the other easily I could read all the others easily and this is the one I had to ponder a lot this is and this is the big one although it's not scientific or that's the one that shine in this one he actually puts a little footnote there which is if you but there we are now Darwin is not unusual because he was a famous man for a very long time in his twenties he was on the voyage of the Beagle and write that book after that voyage and so he was writing all his life so his letters do come off the market quite often yeah but I wonder if you've had these I'm sure well I think a very nice collection of for like that with good content insectivorous plants I mean insecure responsive as Aiden simplify and says all you know do with hole fighting and war restless and the connection with your I would say five to 17,000 [Music] he's a very well love but not have any great value in fact you can also feel his being resourceful Oh even operation right right because his head is still sort of the original packing that's that something called self-care which is like wood wool would draw and inside I might foster favorite but I think I can't tell you what he's going to be worth a lot of money he's English rather than German and his value would be really difficult it can't be any later really than 1874 no earlier than 1866 to me it looks like 67 67 68 it's a sort of thing that was used in the franco-prussian war an interesting of the Germans a lot of them they ground the backs down and short the blades up and use them on their own right but I love these is a chamber for stopping great they got the description yeah I am the bus going to that Morty [Music] thirty-eight about 25 anything on the back of the rock [Music] at auction in Glasgow probably about 20 years ago partly because I liked it and partly because of the subject I noticed it's actually pin the back if there's this little label which says mother and children early English school do you have any idea who might be by which well it was attributed to fiercely in the catalog I want it and hope that it was by well I think you vote very well because in my opinion I think there's a very good chance it is by Tuesday and he's a very very interesting artist but it would you know anything about it at all but was born in Zurich and that we just Swiss Arthur and he's gone in 1741 went to work and rise verbatim and then he was influenced by people like Michelangelo and the great Oh master painter and then after that in 1779 came to England for example the Joshua Reynolds was very impressed by his drawings and encourage them to talk towards the end of his career in 1799 he then went to the Royal Academy where he became professor of painting it was a very very influential figure on a lot of artists but I think just looking at the drawing now the first thing is the subject matter and the subject I think is probably charity this is a very popular subject and the composition is very much taken from the Italian Renaissance painters it's you can see that he's been to Rome and he's obviously looked at a lot of these artists and the actual composition is very much out of that as you can see it's done in panin 8 which is normal but the nice thing is it has a bit of extra impetus in a way in the did it has this watch here you see this baby has a nice white wash on it and with highlighting and I think the highlighting but says oh it may be an oil painting annoying things which is somewhat only unusual can you tell me did you pay a lot of money to this or not I don't remember exactly I think it was about 60 or 70 pounds yes well I think you did pretty well wisely because in fact Tuesday's very topical artist fairly recently a man the story goes a man walked off the streets into an auction house in London with 50 or 60 drawings by fusili but he brought 20 years ago and he didn't know I think he thought they were by Tuesday but he didn't know all those 50 or 60 drawings made a total of 600,000 pounds in a sale so I think what you have here is in my opinion is probably going to be worth somewhere between five and eight thousand pounds everything but they cannot stress to home I mean I think it's probably the most interesting thing I've seen on the roadshow since I've been on it and it's a really beautiful drawing thank you very much indeed this is a very grand an imposing silver punch bowl of the late Georgian period as you stand on your dining room table or sideboard no actually keep it in the bank it has a few points about it that you wouldn't expect to see on a Georgian punch bowl of this period firstly if we look at the main hallmarks which on the body here we see it has the maker's mark of John Bridge and you may notice that those marks were rubbed and rather polished out and this is because again around the front here all the way around the front and on the other side as well is having an inscription which has been polished out and in some places the silver is so thin you can actually push it in and out with your think finger the most curious thing about it though is that the rim which is made in a separate part and you can actually see this line coming all the way around the top is made by a different maker and this has the makers mark of robert gerard stamped quite prominently yeah not a full set of marks they're called Park marks or Editions marks this mark must have been put on in about 1835 1836 around about that time if we also turn it up and look in the base we can see there's another maker's mark here RG Robert guard and again this was put on roundabouts 1835 again William the fourths head so what started off life as a much plainer bowl has been added to some years later and made into a much more elaborate looking Bowl around this side we have a nicely engraved coat of arms which our contemporary with the date of this rim so they've been put on again round about 18 36 37 maybe has it been in your family long yes it was actually my auntie's born and she left it to me when she died all right well because this is not in its original state its value is considerably less than what it would have been had it been in absolutely perfect in a good Georgian Bowl by a good late Georgian make I'm especially one of bridges standards would easily make 10 15 thousand pounds at auction maybe more but because it has been tampered with and because the silver is very thin in places I would expect it only to make about three to five thousand pounds at auction although one would insure it for somewhat more lemmie yes well they will give you chapter and verse on 18th century right damage stay down around the edge so modeling is everything and it doesn't fetch as much as one dinner to do I need in good condition in good condition for 550 yes I go along with that we related yes they did you'd said thank you and definitely waterful what's so lovely about this is the condition of it 25 it's a we did this adventure never seen it it's got four stitches and you that's lovely embroidery roughly around the edge it's got chenille work yeah [Music] probably knows before their time [Music] No Collin usually about those first system the Reds you still got quite a bit already from where you have lost it is in the vessel you don't have any red enough I think that's lost it more than the and they used to be sold even on its own I can see that in a shop being so for somewhere around 500 pounds or be 200 200 what about this one then Henry that's laid out the workload in there have you had this long yes demanda bears in the arm how much you paid for it forty years ago why do you think about gently ten shillings that's not bad it's hello the plates with it well this is now worth something in the well over 200 pounds 200 250 at least you might be asked to pay more than that to be able to buy to the shop as you did 40 years ago no plan you've got a good eye I got it off the desk god what happened as when I was first married I lived in flat in Croydon and one day the old lady who was living next door to us came and knocked on the door and asked my husband if he would help the dustbin down with his old desk because he didn't think they would take it otherwise and while we were living out of our Inge boxes at the time so I thought there was this one healthy person that's how other girls well my son between my two so me about 34 now 32 years ago still AM what a wonderful story well it's it's the george ii late towards the first period death in it absolutely really is yes i'm going to look at a draw first off well if i years it says 1740 1730 1740 gracious oval little oval tops to the draw linings always have ensign on an early eighteenth-century piece of draw furniture and then we're looking at all pine which is good yes for a walnut veneer should be on pine gosh what a treasure that is a unit that's incredibly canada everything's nice about cross banded a nice figured water I think the only serious thing that's happened to it is at some time yes it's been Riva near the top has been Riva near that not in my own probably hundred years ago yes absolutely I would think when those handles were put on some restoration was done to it and I should think that was when it was done simply because of deterioration yes which would detract certainly from the value again to a collector but a little dance back that a little draws near bass early george ii Nijo desk worn up veneers lovely handles really although only four feet sometimes they had to extrude the middle yes nevertheless still a good example of the period six and a half thousand Oh oh yes oh yes oh yes definitely a lively thing there's a little poem on the front here which says once I was the Commandant of copán egg and ruled this little place with just a glance now I'm just a little drip and dance to your command even in my head well it's a strange little poem but if we wind him up I think we'll see but he does just that does he work yeah there he is he's going doing his sort of military gait and I think actually if we put him on his head hung his head - there's a fascinating story about this particular toy because it's based on a historical event and the toy itself is called the captain of Kopernik who in 1906 whilst the town of Kopernik was under military rule for some reason went to the Treasury and absconded with the whole town's money so it was a very famous scandal if you like and this was in 1906 and within a few weeks of that event taking place Lehman the company that made this toy very cleverly converted one of their toys to represent this particular this particular man and this toy is much better known without the great coat on and with a different hat as the layman sailor and they added a mustache to give him a sort of more military look and they gave him dark gray hair what have we got here as far as identification is concerned oh well now that is riveting look at this you've got here the patent date of May 1903 it just gives some some more backing to my theory that they used the the sailor because this event didn't happen till 1906 and here on the bottom we see the 1903 date which relates to the sailor so we know that that once was a was a sailor he's in very good condition look at his epaulets here look at his buttons and this I love this saw didn't just get to his sword again because that's really frightfully swish look at that and look underneath he's the navy blue that the sailor originally is so it's all sort of coming together isn't it so he's by a good maker he's really in very good condition at the back here there's the key that also says layman on it and in his original box like that and in very good condition so often the sword is missing I would say he's going to be worth roundabout say 40 years you're gonna look after him good boxers boxing for me Arthur Melville was one of the great unsung heroes of modern watercolour painting I mean we're looking here at the work of a genius work of a young 23 year old he was studied at Glasgow School of Art at 17 he traveled to France and studied under fasting Lapage producing some extraordinary works and then he travelled south and here he is in Cairo aged 23 with this extraordinary almost uncontrolled dental technique which is completely controlled and describing the coolness of the covered bazaar and contrasts the bright light outside we see here in this area the the the technique he became famous for with both here and here the dappled washes almost punched on but painted onto a wet white paper very difficult and but so beautifully done that we get the dappled light coming in on the body of the melon seller we get here and in the washes here the smoke from the hooker that the steam from the hooker pile and then in contrast these wonderful bright figures almost hazy in the bright sunshine outside this is very exciting it's exciting because it's Melville I don't think this pitch has been seen before has it been in the family in the family for actually think probably fifty years at least or more well it's only been a very long time yeah it's wonderful to discover a new Melville a young Melville a Melville an Orientalist Melville with everything we want I feel very excited about it and that I I think I would value it somewhere between 18 and 25 thousand pounds do you absolutely I think it's a wonderful thing in 1825 my goodness me what does surprise me really well I was wondering at the beginning of the program you may remember whether we'd see anything of the quality of Sir William Burroughs collection during our day here in beragon indeed we did there were at least half a dozen things that we've seen during the course of the day that I'm sure Sir William would have been indeed proud to earn and we end with a fitting memento of a local heroine Grace Darling and she really was one of the the great sort of popular characters of the early Victorian era in torreón heroine yes her father was lighthouse keeper on the long Stern lighthouse just off the fine islands from here and in one great storm she rode to rescue the fourth year of the crew and the captain in tremendous ease I mean look a young girl in her twenties it was just incredible to believe it it's a very good line drawing here of the heroic event oh yes and there were songs written about her well there were times written on teams and a piece of the porcelain everything buried about her but we've had come into the place a descendant of her who's brought this signed affidavit which is bothers with approach and attested before a court in America bond Tweed here and it's it's very attractive indeed it's been a very good day all together Henry hasn't it wonderful and let's hope we have such a good time next week when we were in South Devon my Oh stamping ground so as you might imagine I'm much looking forward to that until then from all of us here embedding upon tweed goodbye [Music]

Channel: UK VHS Archive

Views: 46,327

Rating: 4.689796 out of 5

Keywords: Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow UK, Antiques Roadshow Series 15, VHS, 50fps, BBC, BBC 1, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, Hugh Scully

Id: JqjKTjsIYyg

Length: 43min 4sec (2584 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 28 2018