Antiques Roadshow UK Series 16 Episode 13 Ashford, Kent

[Music] [Applause] [Music] this week we're in Kent we've brought the Antiques Roadshow to Ashford in the heart of picturesque countryside and not far from the ports of Dover and Folkston Ashford retains its role as an old-fashioned market town with sheep cattle and horse auctions still held every week it's surrounded by an area popularly known as the Garden of England a title earned by the prolific amount of fruit and vegetables grown in the rich soil of this part of Kent the old oast houses that punctuate the countryside here are a tangible reminder that hops and beer making have been a traditional Kent rural industry now who would have thought I could be walking in the middle of an English country vineyard and that it's all happened because of the BBC well it sounds unlikely but it's true back in the 1960s a local farmer's wife mrs. barns wasn't this thing that woman's art and a discussion about winemaking in Europe the question was posed if they can grow vineyards in northern France and southern Germany and make very good wine why can't we do it here in Kent as the Romans are done so she answered her own question she planted here on her farm at binden 1/3 of an acre of vines they've now grown to 22 acres producing nearly 40,000 bottles of sought-after English wine only a few miles from the mouth of the Channel Tunnel Ashford is now the site of a vast international railway terminal you'll be able to go from here to Paris in just two hours closer to home is the store center in Ashford and that's where we've invited local people to come with their trinkets and treasures so let's now join them with our experts the little ocarina is the fun how did you come by it we lived in Guatemala for a while and a friend of mine literally dug it out of the ground yes I've always collected these things to sort of the musical and the pottery angles are wonderful to be the ability to make an instrument that you can blow through with with a little blow hole that the sound has to be cut off at exactly the right time I'll tell you straight off it is quite quite jewel it's early Mayan and dates going to be around about 1500 years oh there's a bit of damage there now in that damage because of a old damage now right inside there all the little pottery parts of it are impregnated with manganese with which has been in the ground for hundreds and hundreds of years and it doesn't acquire that look unless it's ancient it would look completely clean inside a break like that it's not worth a tremendous about we with a bit of damage I suppose sixty pounds some I think it's a super bees thank you very much and that it's made out of bare skin right well I will put two right unless it's not German it's French and it's made by the very well-known makers in Paris of the late 19th century in about 1880 by Rui ADA corn and they were a family firm Jean Louie and Gaston decor they were famous for their animals performing which was a great thing in Paris at the labelmate license entry and particularly bears but this one is interesting him that his head moves and his mouth moves as you can see he probably could have a little bit more movement on the mass so he's got music you thought head movement mass movement and his arm and that is really quite unusual but what is interesting you say you thought its basket basket is much rougher than that I mean it's really rough and heavy and this I think is some sort of kakuni ok there's like rabbits a type of rabbit but he's a great cat I suppose have you any idea of valiant not really well I can see at auction he would make somewhere in the region of between twelve and fifteen hundred pounds this is a a wine bottle made of salt glazed stoneware and it could be either Rhenish from Germany southern Germany which came over with wine in it some of them are London made and I frankly not able to tell you which is which but I think this is a German one it dates from the end of the 17th century and they're not that uncommon in fact I've got one at home which my grandfather had got from a building site in London he was an architect and they dug up a whole mass of these they're quite interesting really because they were the when we now get wine coming over in glass bottles in the 17th century they all came over like this with a stopper in it where did you get yours from I found it under the doorstep in house in New England in Sussex ah under doorstep that's significant did have anything in it well there was and Niall some copper nails had a little brass pin possibly some look like a load of fair yep and in the top it was a little cloth and maybe a plaster stopper of some kind riveting these bottles were frequently buried usually in a fireplace and they're black magic they're too worn off the evil spirits from the household and it's quite interesting that the people who did it were often religion they're Anglican and the fur is again it all ties up with they often cat fur and it ties up with the witch's broom sticks and so bits of a cat were put in and in fact in some cases they even killed a cat and stuck it in the chimney so you'll find the bones and the fur of a cat mummified in the chimney has it brought you good luck not really well I should Ribery it under your front doorstep and it probably will value-wise I'm afraid not Great Valley worth about 60 to 80 pounds but a wonderful story well my mother went over to get it when her dutch aunt died and chose it from the estate and none of the dutch relatives wanted it they only wanted the brass things and she chose the clock and bought it back in the back of the car anyway let's have a further look at it I'm gonna start off by taking off the hood and that way we can have a closer look at the dial absolutely typically Dutch some of the Dutch features the arcaded minute ring and of course the canal seen in the top with the windmill one or two people fishing the spandrels which are embossed brass what we call the four seasons very typically Dutch as opposed to English it's a birdcage construction and we've got these lovely turned pillars again just the sort of thing you wouldn't find on really anything other than a Dutch clock and I think this is a comparatively late example possibly between about 1850 and 1860 not as early as one might have expected just looking at the case a lot of the early ones were done in beautiful marquetry very reminiscent in fact of the Dutch furniture of the period and price-wise well as I said it's a good clean honest example and at auction it's the sort of thing that even in today's slightly depressed market I think you'd have no problem getting up towards 1500 pounds well here we are the speaking toy book reproducing the voices of the the goats the cats the bird the lamb and the cuckoo which is absolutely lovely this is about 1900 it was produced in Germany as a lot of these things were and it has which is unusual all the little sound effect bellows here there little bellows inside made out of chamois leather glue and cardboard and as you know when you pull these little tags at the side it makes noises of the go to must try the gate that's lovely for a two-year-old good absolutely not have you any idea of the value of Willamette with these sort of things well I think about 200 250 pounds in the cuckoo now that must be a good one I think originally what fascinated me was the sort of mechanisms that's the different sort of thing the engineer over the years such a simple object and that one you've just picked up much later probably made into this century certainly the end of last generate the commonly called the zig zag zig zag model yes this was the same model is actually called the pool easy-to-use mm easy I which is sort of quite a nice early example of them you know nonsense naming a product that is the Thomasson's patent and that is called the Kings pattern they look very similar except this aside wretches yes they're all early attempts to take the strain out of royal court and I must confess a couple of behind have broken that I did as I child playing with it as a teacher children should never be allowed near anything particularly pottery all their toys I found the key to the china cupboard oh no tiny little baby cups like that well it's a good thing you've broken off this set rather than that set because that's the more valuable one so you were quite selective difficult to value without seeing the whole lot together but but I would think that so it's probably nearer 250 to 300 pounds this object here yes so 25 pimps on it that's right but you might say what on earth is that got to do with drawing corks and you saw that in isolation puzzle Taney originally until of course you get one of those and you cut that into the bottle that's right you put that over the neck of the bottle enjoy it like that now that one is called a lungs patent and in that sort of condition with its original bronze finish 25 P Oh easily 60 80 pounds again with it so that's yes they are very very highly collected yeah that's right I think I was gonna ask you this there's one here that I've never really never really been able to figure it figure it out ah it's odd because although that might have nothing to do with corkscrews we found that he did that's what this certainly doesn't and I think that's actually a surgeon's Japan until it was gonna screw into the course of it I don't think I think that is part of the city's kit now it is new English Cromwellian is Dutch so it's a Dutch helmet of the 17th century it's easily defined one to the other is because the English ones have a single crest and the helmet is joined on the top but these are pressed out and you have this raid effect the idea of the little ring on the top is so that it can be suspended from a saddle or it can be hung up in a barrack room the towel piece here is articulated as you can see and this is where Cromwell's men were called the lobster tail you know the lobster tailed helmet and they used to call them the lobsters it is a helmet that was worn say in the 1640s right through the Civil War in England and used in the Dutch armies it's missing its nasal bar that goes along the front here which can be controlled to the with the screw and they will fall down to protect the nose but all in all it's it's a very very nice helmet I'm just amazed it is a real one it's real all right yes it should fetch about 750 to a thousand in in auction that's amazing painted furniture can be extremely difficult to date do you have any idea at all about these no not at all it they belonged to an aunt of my husband's who lived in Italy all her life in mainly in Rome and when she died they came to us that's all I know about them right so do you believe in to be Italian well I sure as she lived in Rome that's all I can expect yes right everything I think one of the keys to this decorative decoration is the painting this is a typical mid 18th century certainly Italian that style of painting yeah and it's very difficult to regionalize because the Italian painters would have said sketches and designs and prints would have been popular all throughout northern Italy southern France southern Germany Austria all of that sort of area so it's very difficult to actually pin it down but there's something about it of course they took the German and Austrians were but conquered northern Italy and the Italian states the Italian Dukes were in nice Italian Duchy in the 19th century up until roughly about 1860 and a lot of this furniture was made in that school Mediterranean coast now that we known as the middie the South of France which is what I think this came from I think it probably yes yes French but probably made by Italian born craftsmen so it's rather confusing but what is confusing again as I say as the date and I suspect this has been made towards the end of the last century possibly even as early as this century to make it look like an old commode and old Chester drawers yeah and by old I mean that the style of this is typical of the French transitional style between the Kings lower the 15th and no the 16th about 1760 1770 so that's what it's copy it's very pretty as indeed they both are I mean that's the same with that one as well is it the same thing yes really yes it's better made but they certainly have a value their decorative and I think this is the point of this type of furniture everybody wants nice painted furniture I think that would cost you in a good high street shop easily five thousand pounds to raise me yes and what about this one the same for that oh no and I think of it less this is probably more likely three three and a half thousand well it was given to my husband by his mother and she had it from her grandfather who was called an Bagster who were famous Bible publishing family she was born in 1838 and as far as we know she had it from her mother or her grandmother who was given it by Josiah Wedgwood as a wedding present like when Josiah Wedgwood the great Josiah Wedgwood who founded the factory invented by Jasper where her died in the 79th is about 1795 so if it to come from him to the family then when we were looking at the a date in the certainly in the end of the 18th century so looking at the pieces the design here on the cups and sauce is probably one of which was most famous designs the dancing hours were modeled by Flaxman the great sculptor of the 18th century was commissioned to do this design and these dancing girls running white around the cup is probably the best-known pattern introduced in the 1770s and here we've got the very tiny mark of Wedgwood you already have to hunt for it on these little cups very thin and that's a nice early sign the quality of the relief also verifying the these are early coffee cups these are a slightly later design of tea cup illustrator teapots and sugar bowl of the straight science here we've got the set at the dancing hours who got muses classical figures and of a different type are also modeled and provisionally by Flaxman but not quite so crispy relief the detail is not as defined as on the cups and sauces the color was slightly different it certainly has has altered a bit over the years and the marking here much larger Wedgwood is still stamped in there who have letters underneath it date letters of the later code system an X is the date mark which would be 1869 in there so it's been added to at different time so we've got a range here but it doesn't really matter taking it individually we've got the early cups and saucers which really are super qualities rare pieces in their way and there were to be quite expensive the cups and saucers here probably worth about 600 pounds and under pounds each whereas the other three pieces a sit peer the same but later in date the three-piece sets about 250 pounds when you hear some of the values mentioned on the Antiques Roadshow you might perhaps be forgiven for thinking that in order to form even a modest collection of antiques you need to be able to draw from the bottomless well of a very healthy bank balance well that simply isn't true providing that is you're willing to make just one or two simple concessions David right you feel strongly about this very strongly I remember twenty-five years ago when I was reporter people were were worried about condition they would rather have it in good condition but if it was tripped or cracks they'd rather have it like that then not at all and I still feel about that that way about and I think people are much too knotted out about condition what's happened is that 25 years ago a damaged piece was perhaps 1/2 to 1/4 of a perfect one now it's 10% if you can get anything so for people who love objects for what they are that sort of put them in touch with the past by damaged world I mean I do what are the other that these look actually to me at first glance quite quite perfect but I'll they know they're not I mean this one's taking interest because my wife brought this about twelve miles from here last week it's it's transitional Chinese Portland just after the end of the Ming Dynasty in the beginning of the kingdoms about 1650 and the characteristic of this way is that it chews naturally around the age I see it always like that so people would look at this and not touch it every single bits like that so you'd be discounting something which is really quite attractive and this one even more so I mean this is 15th century the Chinese Saladin a lot of this was exported to places like Malaysia and they used it and some of these pieces are still in use for 500 years on and this one has been worn and worn the edges are abraded here is a wonderful piece of Saladin and it cost me for over it was playing straightforward it's a wine jug use the claret red wine and you can imagine with the red wine velvety rich inside we have the sensational object on the table it was made in Sheffield in 1862 by a company called w ng systems and in fact we can see the marks here you've got the maker's mark you've got the lion pesum which denotes the top is sterling silver the date letter which is for 1862 little crown there which denotes Sheffield and at the end of sovereigns head which was a duty mark that was brought off in 1890 now the other great thing about this is the glass it's a combination of the two things and this glass is thickly nicely stark out the company that did start cutting specialized in it but people called Moline a web from Starbridge which is a great glass cutting Center so you have the combination of Sissons monitor web and a wonderful object if you did wish to part with it it would fetch somewhere between twelve and fifteen hundred pounds at auction to see one tray of this color unconditional is remarkable but to have a set of three even if the set might have been larger at some point in their life is quite incredible that papier-mache and they're painted with individual still lives in this case fruit flowers and little birds nest delightfully done the next size up we have an assortment of presumably summer flowers roses futures and down in the corner here a pineapple which is a symbol of hospitality which is quite suitable for a tray on which drinks might have been served I rather like that bit of imagery and then the large one with a slightly more formal scene centered with a renaissance viewer which dates it in my opinion to the Victorian revival of late Renaissance style of the mid part of the nineteenth century I said they're papier-mache and we can see quite clearly down here where fortunately is a bit of damage it's old damage and in terms of restoration in the future not a problem in that you can see the layers of paper as they've been built up and hammered into shape under enormous steam presses I these are very much a product of the Industrial Revolution very difficult to have made before the advent of steam machinery what do you know about them have you had been they came in my wife's family in the middle of the last century and where they made in London or within you know a very good point they are a Midland article and from an insurance point of view what should those be put in at you would almost certainly be equipped estimated 4 to 600 and expect to get a lot more the middle sized one if you took that one in isolation they would consider that rather splendid and also say somewhere four to six hundred that one three or four hundred but in the set of three already we're getting dangerously close to 2,000 pounds so for insurance it's rather more well lovely thing to inherit certainly let's just turn over and look at the back obviously plain gold 18 karat in fact and then on this in a brass bit which we call the cuvette which is the back it's signed Jordan of Geneva and that particular maker always made very nice quality watches and very often automaton watches which this is an example the movement I don't know what you ever opened inside here have you ever opened the back again signed there Jordan Geneva numbered a very nicely pierced and engraved bridge in the typical continental style and very typically about 1800 1805 something like that in data let's have a look on the dial I just open that front glass and that reveals the most lovely scene this is what we call a Jacques Marc caught a repeating automaton watch it's called Jacques MRSA me because these two figures are actually apparently ringing bells when the watch repeats so have you ever actually pressed this pendant yes well let me just show you again press that and one chap is ringing the hours and then the quarters in dong are done by both people on both bells it's a beautiful beautiful scene lovely three color gold figures and down here basket of flowers with birds and a butterfly we've got very nice barley twist band to the watch and all in all as I say very crisp so you obviously haven't used it sitting around in a bank or something or not know just in the drawer oh gosh has it been insured or not not at all well you must must do it realistically at auction at the moment this sort of thing because it's a lovely example I mean there are good ones and there are bad ones and this is a good one and it's very crisp it would fetch about three and a half thousand parts must ensure it believe me we've actually had it for about twenty years right and before that it belonged to my husband's grandfather who was in the fine art business but I don't know any more than that they said they chose well in this case you know this really is the best marine watercolor by sir Oswald Walters brierley that I've ever seen I think it's a yacht review or yacht procession off what appears to be here has to be Portsmouth but to me this shows him at his very very best indeed the free use of the heightening with white the almost few brush strokes in the sky to give an excitement there it really is a truly wonderful picture he became marine painter to the royal family in about the 1860s and on the death of shet King became an I think in 1874 marine painter to Her Majesty the Queen Queen Victoria this picture was painted towards the end of his life painted I see here in 1818 86 he died in 1894 a wonderful wonderful beard well I'd value it for first of all for sale by auction at around seven to eight thousand pounds and obviously for insurance it would have to be a little bit more yeah thank you so much for bringing in such a wonderful picture thank you meant to be learning well this is the master and he is the only one that has a mark which tells tells us categorically that he is by Chad Valley which is great because Chad Valley is one of the really good English firms together with Mary thought that still make teddy bears soft toys and animals 1920s I should think they are 1925 and Chad Valley is very much in demand now when Chad Valley Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which have just made over a thousand pounds dorchen they're much a slightly more popular than this would be but anybody that loves pigs and I'd know quite a few people intellect fears they would probably pay somewhere in the region between 300 and 500 pounds dogs no they're not poor they're spa towns this is a spa glass and what you did you went to aspire in Germany or France or wherever it was and you had to drink the waters and he probably drank some fearful pints of this filthy stuff every day and you bought one of these eyes as a souvenir water actually to drink out of it's not no it's a goblet it actually dates from about 1850 1848 fifties is quite old in splendid condition that often chipped and that's gonna be worth somewhere around four to six hundred pounds they're painted in porcelain painted on porcelain flat and the style looks very worcester like perhaps by a painter either Jersey flight or or Enoch doe that a lot would depend on the back that it's porcelain there and if you ever see that cut out edge like that it's a pretty certain depth that it is Worcester John this has got these tremendously nibbled edges around there and I presume it's it's a flight most of that usually means Western is dates gonna be what somewhere about 1815 1820 really I think I'm doubtedly their flight farm bar Worcester and as such are quite rare oh it is does actually have you started swatting flies with this I think very quickly destroyed whatever you wanted the monitor so it's very much more a ceremonial piece and if you imagine yourself perhaps as a Rani or some dignitary and Rob well you might then have had mail the attendants who would have held such a thing as a formal I suppose price motto or staff of office they sell reasonably well I think that auction this would make perhaps 300 400 pounds but it's quite an object to see on the occasion thank you very much well I'm very excited to see that you have a complete set of the official accounts of Captain Cook's voyages the first the first voyage was in three volumes the second voyage towards the South Pole was in two volumes and the third voyage was in three volumes with a separate atlas now you don't have a separate atlas here do you but I did notice I've just flipped through the third voyage and I see that - all the plates from the Atlas armband into the their voice so as far as I can see without doing a proper head counts everything seems here to be complete Captain Cook as you probably know I mean he was a first for Great Britain he was the most celebrated navigator of all time really he discovered large quantities of Australia he charted New Zealand for the first time so these books have the first maps the first real maps of New Zealand he actually found out that New Guinea was not attached to Australia and also that Van Van Diemen's down at the bottom of Australia Tasmania was not attached to New Holland which is what they call Australia now he was also the first person to record crossing the Antarctic Circle which is collecting ice here by the way collecting collecting ice for their waters he went backwards and forward that was on his second voyage on his third voyage when he went into the Pacific and these are wonderful views of the first views that Westerners would have ever seen of natives of the Pacific here these women in happy are dancing I mean they're absolutely charming these Polynesians and Captain Cook is here in the center with his back to us you see that that chapter is Captain Cook hand in his hand in his ear enjoying the music and his was the most celebrated voyage more came off that voyage more knowledge of plants of habits and islands and navigational aids and all the rest of its came off those three voyages than almost anything else for the previous 200 200 odd years now poor Oh Captain Cook when he got to Hawaii which we'll call the friendly Islands he was unfortunately pendel contract it's nobody knows quite what the problems were there were there are many accounts of it but in 1779 before the voyage had ended he died and then they came back and they produced the third volume these first two volumes were actually printed in the first two voyages were printed in his lifetime the third voyage was printed Austria mistakes so when did you get this I didn't buy it it belonged to my late father-in-law and he was presented with these books when he retired have you any idea of their value no not so ever to insure them no not separately and you keep them nicely on a shelf well as I say I'm very excited to see these about seven and a half my father-in-law would have been delighted well I definitely hope he's watching yes I can remember it standing in the lounge of the parents house when I was a boy but then it seemed to disappear and it was only when my mother died that I found it in the back of the garage with flowerpots on it and my brother and I decided we'd like to keep it had it had it restored and it's been in my home that since why does classic English furniture always seem to end up in the garage what is so remarkable about that is the fact that it is a triple top game quite unusual yes so let's have a look the first one lovely colour that hasn't been restored at all lovely lovely color made for usually for taking tea that's the thing oh I can see it's been used for writing as well they're quite commonly used the writing deserts lots of ink and burn marks on it but nice use good mid 18th century wear and tear and that really is very nice indeed let's just get the leg out [Music] that's very nice indeed and this is really makes difference to these to have the games board like that these woods are very difficult to pin down I really can't work out what they are a type of Ebony a type of Sycamore perhaps this isn't very hard almost like the burner I think it's a very provincial wood that someone has chosen locally in this lovely lovely good-quality Caribbean mahogany no it's another log this is what's so unusual the triple top games table now what has happened in here I'm not sure it's difficult because one would imagine that there must have been some sort of fitted writing service here obviously that was for ink and sand yes depends they're very unusual I haven't seen this before no to get on a table of this type and obviously in here you could put writing implements who gave the chests the backgammon pieces whatever yes it just come down and just you just need to sort of squat from it and love this lovely lovely frieze here nice quality mahogany all the trouble of that curve they're just understated elegance which is typical do you know what date this is I'm not talking about it well this type of cabriole leg the type of mahogany use is typical of the just pre Chippendale period his convenient name to pin in in the 1750s 70-54 this is 1740 between 1740 to 1750 this lovely cabriole leg this acanthus leaf carving sort of Grecian type leaves training nicely down here the lake continuing very strong leg all made of one piece from here down to here this lovely strong claw on board foot that we see many times before so it's a really elegant freestanding table unusually because of this triple top so a garage piece well thank heavens you saved it from the garage what sticker would you put on it if you had to insure it well I was thinking between four and five thousand times but I may be wrong just as well right I think your instinct is good yes possibly could insure it for 4000 yes it's quite a rare fine but I just can't believe that something of even if you found it a few years ago was lying in the garage new blessing yes well done saving it thank you very much I don't know very much except that it's been in my husband's family for a number of years yes right to pass down through yes yeah female generation the male the male name generation that's unusual that the males managed to hold on to the dolls she's in wonderful condition considering she is George the second and she's around 1750 she's had a little bit of a bump on the nose as you can see but other than that she's in excellent condition I don't know have you been keeping her in a box yes she's one of the rarest types of dolls that one can find these days because she's wooden and painted over rather like an old master painting they tend to get very damaged with humidity or central heating or I would say that her wig has much to be desired as and she's got what we call these wonderful four cans she's missing the odd finger but I mean they are so fragile if you think this wood is full of the pine wood and she's got the little mitts and her mittens on her hands and this lovely original silk taffeta dress with the cutout ribbons round sides and on the bodies and then underneath which I always love to see that they've got she's got her original little slippers which are ribbed silk slippers and socks wonderfully Hamlet 'add stockings she looks a little cross she does yeah she's got these pupil lifts eyes and what really defines the date is not only these fork fingers but this this dotted eyebrows and eyelashes little dots and later on they weren't quite so fine and they put a darker line or just a line instead of the dotty well they are very rare they come up at auction I suppose once every two years and when they do and if she did she would make in the region of between ten and fifteen thousand pounds this is an absolutely delightful group portrait one of the prettiest I've seen for a long time it's full of charm and detail can you tell me anything about the suitors well it's a portrait of my husband's family he's Dutch of the perk family the gentleman in the center is a Dutch Reformed minister and he's with his third wife the other two having died in childbirth and that accounts for the large number of children yes yes and we believe that the son of this man is the famous dutch poet char cook and he would be perhaps reciting some poetry as he possibly - yeah performing to a family what I love about it is as I was saying all the detail and they were obviously quite a well-to-do family and we've got a very grand mirror there above the mantelpiece and this over mantel is very much in the style of Boucher perhaps they could have owned a Boucher and I think it's fun also to see how a family lived in those days I mean they're their costumes and even the hat of the toys the children played with these these little toys are fascinating to see it is I notice signed and I find it very tantalizing as I've been looking at that signature quite closely and I can't quite make it out have you managed at all - no we've tried to in our habits you'd be able to tell yes I've tried as well it's it's quite clearly signed here and then it says pukes is 1839 but I can't make out one or two letters and therefore the whole signature doesn't come together but it is certainly of the period 1839 and I would have thought perhaps by add actual Belgian artists traveling around there because it's so wonderfully decorative I don't think it would matter if we didn't know who the family wasn't just because of its charm and decoration I should have thought it's worth in the region of ten to fifteen thousand just not knowing who the artist to spy if we were able to with a bit of research which I'm sure we could track down the artist I think it could be worth a bit more than that perhaps even fifteen to twenty thousand particularly as you say it has the sound of this famous Dutch poet in it well we began our visit to Ashford today in the garden of England and that really is where we end because there exists near here which might call a national heritage collection of old fruit the brock dale horticultural trust exists to preserve and continue to grow fruit which otherwise would long since have become extinct i wonder if you've ever seen these before meddlers they're called a type of pear they were common in ancient Greece and in Rome and a basket of mendler was presented to Joan of Arc as she took ollie on this is a type of quince that was a favorite of Edward the first of England and was grown for him in the gardens of the Tower of London the black Worcester is a medieval type of pear grown originally by Cistercian monks and it appears on the coat of arms of Elizabeth the first this is an 18th century apple known as the cat's head but in many ways the most interesting of them all is this one the Isaac Newton Apple you'll all of course know the story from school days of how Isaac Newton's theory about gravity came home to him with some force one day when an apple fell on his head well when you see the size and feel the weight of the Isaac Newton Apple and this is exactly the same sort of Apple that fell on him that day in 1665 or 1666 you will understand why it made such a big impression on him well I wonder what sort of apples or other fruit will find in Norfolk where we're going next week so until then from everyone here in Ashford [Music]

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Keywords: Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow Series 16, Antiques Roadshow UK, VHS, Ashford, Kent, Hugh Scully, Rare Antiques

Id: VD3y0d2lVXY

Length: 43min 8sec (2588 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 03 2018