Antiques Roadshow UK Series 16 Episode 14 King's Lynn, Norfolk

[Music] [Applause] today we're in East Anglia on the banks of the River Rouge and in the ancient port of King's Lynn once ranked as the third port of England the 17th century Custom House on the key side is about one of the many historic buildings which give King's Lynn its special character in his play private lives no coward told Gertrude Lawrence but norfert was very fat the dull monotony of his voice suggesting that it wasn't only flat but boring to boot all I can say is that Nolan Gertie obviously never came to King's Lynn historically it's interesting and architectural II absolutely stunning many of the towns ancient buildings survived in remarkably good order the guild hall of the Holy Trinity with its striking Flint checkered design dating from 14:21 is certainly one of the best preserved 15th century buildings in Britain inside there's the charter of Henry the eighth's giving the town its name King's Lynn earlier when the land belonged to the church it was known as Bishop's Lynn but it's a royal estate that's more associated with this part of Norfolk today Sandringham acquired by the then Prince of Wales in 1861 and now of course the private country residence of the Queen in the surrounding villages there's much evidence of those royal connections the butcher the baker the Builder and the newsagent all holders of the Royal warrants by appointment suppliers of the necessities of life to the Queen and her family King's Lynn is usually shortened by local people today to simply Lynn and Lynn Sport is the name given to a sports and recreation centre where we've set up our cameras today so let's now join the people of this part of Norfolk with our experts a very bright and shiny para pottery shape I think they had this long time I think about two years that's all the sample you know it's a whole lot of stuff and bits and pieces and these are among yes and they were auctioned for fifteen pounds and he got a fifteen know what was in there no no idea really what was in there right it's a very common story for these but because a great many pairs a sheep turn up in it along nice and the sad thing is most of them are modern reproductions that bees are probably the most copied of all sorts of pottery pieces one sees so what we have to look at here is well immediately when you see them as bright and gaudy as these ones normally very suspicious look at so the reasons as to why they would be lied to why they would be wrong the models like these were made in Staffordshire originally in around 1830 they don't normally have mark sometimes they have on the back a molded mark of Walton or well sold some of the Potters names on them and these have no mark and that's a good sign because the coppers normally are are clearly marked over a spurious name but the handmade objects one looks at the way they've conformed the tree on the back of these is probably the best clue the individual leaves impressed in molds and joined on back-to-back you've got this believer on the back and on the front applied separately and that's quite a good sign also because some of the copied ones are only cast in one piece and not so individually applied as those but one may need to look at the glaze on these and here the appearance of the glaze is rather a strange strong blue color almost too blue the blue is induced in the glaze to make them look a bit more like Chinese Boston in facts why blue was added to the glaze but here the glaze a little tiny crack it naturally forms as glaze cause and and that is something which is there and it's hard to fake and the copy has induce it and here you can see the crazing in there but not very well and that is the best thing of all so these are writers made 1830s but the remarkable thing is that having knocked around in that box there in a very good condition a handsome pair and therefore patron he could find he's got a pair worth I suppose we're looking at about 450 pounds both these delightful children's books were published by Dean and son a Fleet Street Suzy they're both Dean and son and they had from the 1840s though monopoly on movable flap and illusion books for a period of about 40 years in England they were able to produce these amazing books this one it's this summer on this page here but we're actually in winter on this side and we have to move them down gently like this they all need unfolding there we are and we have summer assume these all came from your family to do my father's family have all worked in printing right that's my great-grandfather and he acquired than originally where he was working where he was actually working for Dean yes well there are enormous fun the the thing that amazes me about them this one in particular a normally a moveable book like this when you're turning down the pages children rarely have the ability to do it or to do it calmly the rarest thing about children's books is that is condition this is in lovely condition and absolutely stunning but even what I'm even more excited by the other book that you brought in here which is the Dean & Co royal movable Punch and Judy book this as far as I'm concerned is is absolutely splendid hard to keep my hands off it there is somewhere here but you would expect this this is this is a true movable book look at this one this is wonderful which is punch giving a karate chop it's just too good as they forget about the history of these things just the sheer theater of them I think makes them absolutely wonderful try again playing with the Beatle here they go for a lot of karate chops absolutely wonderful so have you any idea of their value I've no idea at all well because a Dean is very highly collectible there was a there were many other people on the continent late in the 19th century doing these but Dean's were really the pioneers of these and so as such they are very highly collectible now having talked about the condition I think they're both in fairly good condition this Punch and Judy one I would value it between 150 and 200 pounds and this transformation book here which very charming although not as rare I'm putted about 75 to 100 I would love to see what else your father has in his attic I wish were brought in more we've been great fun it was given to me when I was living at Castle Rising by a lady who had been a lady-in-waiting to the royal family and she said that it had been on Queen Alexandra's dressing table well I can will believe that actually it's very exciting to find something of royal problems when we're just a stone's throw away from Sandra Nolan this is a particularly lovely silver-mounted ladies sweetmeat box it's made in France and it's made of rock crystal which is a fascinating material it's very understated it looks exactly like glass but in fact it's very far from the glass first always very cold to the touch it's dramatically harder than glass and it's a natural stone and what we see in front of us is lapidary work it's not cast it's hard stone literally engraved with stars and the bezel and and hinge made of silver gilt and it's made by a firm called Keller who were working in Paris it's absolutely typical of Queen Alexandra's taste she was a great Faberge collector and in a sense this has got rather a lot to do with Faberge raised work in its at least in style and I think it's a very dramatic discovery have you any idea of its value at all no I wonder if it becomes a surprise to you noted to know that it might be worth six hundred pounds wouldn't he he'd yes I'll tell you what I find particularly fascinating the naked lady votes here not not because she's naked lady but her hair you see the way it's flowing down and very Oliver Nana in fact we look at the date they're made in 1876 that's a nice early date it's pointing towards our numbers in this 1876 period the idea of ivy leaves which we've got here but they're very different they're typical decoration of that period the makeup got a makers mark you see just just tucked him there that's actually Hancock's a very important firm of course lovely bit of cutting on the glass as well the some of the other aspects of design one would expect perhaps a little bit earlier but of course it's typical of the 19th century when they're mixing up the different aspects of of design it's a lovely character unusual say particular the way the handle has been produced I could see that quite easily selling for two and a half three thousand pounds is much that's actually not a teapot it's a punch pot it's a punch but I love that restoration you didn't do that that was done a long time ago it's a fantastic example of Staffordshire red stoneware and they're actually imitating what the Chinese were doing in the late 17th early 18th century but this piece dates to somewhere around 1740 1760 that very broad era I love these vine sprigs and that that's really a clue if you didn't already know it to the fact that the contents of this were alcoholic martini actually they've made a really good solid handle because once you fill that up with your jolly old punch it's going to be a pretty massively heavy object I would say that's still got bit of value it's probably still worth somewhere in the region of three to five hundred pounds now it's a very very nice object mid mid 18th century wouldn't be worth it if it had been complete then it would have been worth about twice that amount well it was left to me by an elderly lady and just hang it up and paid no more attention to it this is quite the best garnish after I've ever received and that includes ones in museums like the V&A the stitcher is unbelievable and it seems to be completely unfaded which is and then there's all this open work the wrong framework and what is nice is that it's actually dated knitting stitch that's what made me think possibly that 1769 wasn't perhaps genuine and it's just just the right sort of date to it I mean you find the same sort of motifs on a fabric of the repeat after me cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo that's who he is cuckoo cuckoo is a one of the Japanese gods of good fortune and in keeping with his good fortune he's actually covered in a number of medallions which actually mean good luck and health and generally good wishes I've never seen a piece of Japanese cargo weather quite this big it's enormous the other thing that's unusual is that his staff of long life and longevity whips off top comes off and looking down inside we've definitely got a hollow arm that communicates right into the base of this B so in theory you could drink something else of yeah I don't know what I want to drink anything out of here now you haven't used it as a tea pot do like sake yes you do yeah well or maybe this is what you should you should fill it with sake and have a wild party in there but suddenly so can I or can I offer you some more in there worth six to nine hundred pounds something now this is obviously a Georgian cupboard I mean that the quality of this mahogany here this flame figuring is beautiful isn't it yes lovely quality yes so here we have a good Georgian cupboard yes but as you know well originally belonged to the Bureau over here well my mother had this part done she wanted to have it raised a little and had it put on the feeds you see right there that's how it happened the first thing is thank heavens they're both in the same family of let's say even the same house that's the best thing but I think the worst thing in the world would be with the interest in antique furniture today and the values today to allow this divorce to go on much longer yes I think they should be married again and I think it'd be difficult to do the feet would come off I think quite easily yes they're roughly in that Jordan stop to this tops been added and so there's been an alteration to the top of this well you see this actually is what my mother had if you have them split up right and one of the ways of turning is to look at the back boards to see if they're they're made in the same way or from the same piece of wood this I looking at the back of perfectly original back boards this one has been restored and reinforced that could all stay as it was now what's the inside like it's a again a lovely color it's been very well looked after and well the Sun yes yes and a very very nice interior endless little drawers the George has had a wonderful time with all these tiny drawers yes obviously you'll know about what's inside there they lose their secret drawers yes we're in there lovely now wonder what he put in there well I won't tell you what I put it there okay to me it's not very secret anymore it's got a nice wear and tear it's obviously been well used and well-loved now it's interesting with this because you've got here a bureau worth shall we say on its own this Bureau with the alterations it just turned up on its own at auction it would make probably barely even two thousand pounds fifteen hundred to two thousand five the cupboard over there well it's very nice he's a lot of work doing on the feet are obviously wrong that came up by itself probably barely five hundred pounds gosh so as separated pieces so two to two-and-a-half thousand up to three thousand pounds per mode have you ever had it valued as an entire piece no there's talk but I think that it would be certainly double I figured I've just given you so for insurance figure and back together even forgetting the fact they've got to spend the money on the work but as they are together five thousand pounds yes yes well my great uncle Jack drew was a secondhand dealer in Norfolk in the thirties forties and fifties with a pony and cart and when he died he had sheds and even old double-decker bus full of stuff and this was one of the things we rescued from the horse's stable there are you very very lucky you'll have a surprise perhaps it's by very well-known designer and ceramics man called William de Morgan who was a friend and associate of William Morris and was a great expert at tiles it's particularly known for reviving the art of lustre decoration which was completely for the loss but this is in what he calls his persian colors quite a number of his tiles are on blank tiles made by other manufacturers but these are very thick and I think these are the tiles that he made himself some of them were made of pressed clay and I think these might be quite quite early because of them and I suspect you'd be rather surprised at the value of it no no idea whatsoever well these days one of these complete tile panels and the thing that's good about it is that you've got the whole picture here sometimes one is missing but it's obviously complete the design would fit to two to three thousand pounds adoption so you did very well to rescue it from a cart yes since the 17th century giving a gold box has been a way of transferring a large sum of money to somebody without embarrassing them and it's a particularly appropriate gift for a monarch to make to somebody who is loved lower status than they are and this is a particularly interesting example because within its engraved from the Queen Dowager to a mr. Brue yeah have you any idea who monsieur rua is well I think he is the great-grandfather of my great art I don't actually know anything more about him he must have helped its Queen Adelaide where in that fact she's referred to as the Queen Dowager cuz Queen Victoria was already raining by that time and there's no doubt at all that your your ancestor must have been a great help to the Queen on some level or another there might have been a lawyer might even have been a cook but anyway she's a being I've chosen a French gold box which was made um we call it an empire box was it's obviously made after the French Revolution and it's made in 18 karat gold and that's why I can take this extraordinary finish you can see quite clearly that the background of the decoration is what we call granulated and it has a sort of mossy texture to it but the other ornament is raised up and it's chased it's made by using a Buren a steel chisel to work the gold it's very malleable and the pure of the metal and more malleable it is it's a very fine example and in fact it's an absolutely mint condition and has probably come down to us in exactly the same state as Queen Adelaide gave it have you any idea what it might be worth no idea at all it's actually worth about five thousand pounds it's a pleasant surprise fake windy there aren't many occasions you know on the Antiques Roadshow when we can show you something and say this is absolutely priceless but that is certainly true of the object in this box is it not Ian priceless beyond value absolutely because of course what we've got here is King John's account dating from it dates from about thirteen forty and is the earliest known English secular domestic standing cup that we have absolutely best taking isn't it I mean the fine its enamel and silver gilt and the final a milling here around the base I mean I just never seen anything like it and they give this wonderful jewel mic quality yes to the piece and of course they represent the sporting life of the 14th century the various characters that we can see enameled round here with horns with dogs and the lovely seams around the base with the hounds chasing the hairs in fact Italy every scene and then there's lovely touch just in one of them the Hound is actually chasing a fox just that little bit of difference and why a cup with the cover the idea of a cover goes back out to Tom at charlie apparent if you look in bead bead figs this lovely reference to life being like a bird flying in through one door of a house and out of the other so of course when you want banqueting you shared your banqueting area with various birds in the rafters so lids were useful and I gather that the the cup and incorporates those three things wine obviously women and song indeed this chapters blowing a horn so we've got sports we've got music wine we've got music and when you've finished drinking the wine then right on the bottom a fair maiden so wide women and so on absolutely so it really is as I say priceless unique there simply isn't another like it in the world there it is one of the great international art treasures well tell me what do you use these for ashtrays well that's one thing you could send it that's not their original intention did you know that I think the pickle dish is something well pickle dishes how do they get into your ashtray collection well they were my husband's arms when she died we have them they are called pickle leaf dishes and I'm going to look very closely to see whether the glaze has been damaged usually glazes are very hard the last like substance but English porcelain as a glaze which is much softer and where I should imagine a few embers of ashes would not really do them much many favors um this is sort of East End porcelain by which I mean this is porcelain made by one of the very very early English porcelain factories at Birth burb produced huge quantities of burn white porcelain from an early period from the 1750s onwards and so much blue and white that they were beginning to compete with incoming Chinese blue so one of the names they gave themselves was the new tent on China what a nice name the design we see here is a very traditional bow design of a cluster of grapes set against the veins and smaller leaves of the overall vine leaf shaped dish and here we have nice little detail if we turn over we'll see that the intention in the design was to have a little stalk coming off as a leaf would have and on the second piece here the intention was the same and you can just see the residue of what was there as a stalk but it fell off it fell off at the biskits firing but they still carried on because even though it was imperfect porcelain was a very rare material and they decided they couldn't afford to waste anything well you going to carry on them using them as ashtrays no we don't smoke that's just when people come around there was the other people use them in their strays incredibly they are in good conditions I'm going to say that they're worth somewhere in the region of 300 400 pounds each this lovely girl although not a garden gnome is in fact important because she's the Victorian ancestor of many of the garden gnomes we loathe or love today and tell me where you came by her I bought it locally off my wife Sandy yes and she bought it from a local market in the wisbeach area right and originally there was two of these oh boy and a girl and she went to the auction and bought bid but what she thought was the girl but actually bought 200 for a pound for pound women yeah those many years ago I couldn't tell you all about it 25 right but it's very rare to see a garden figure intact of this period this is made of a material called terracotta terracotta was the great building material of the late Victorian period now the most familiar building in terracotta pond can think of is Natural History Museum in London that's very decorative facade designed by Waterhouse it's all made of terracotta animal sculpture and so on and this is a direct relative of that the terracotta boom of the Victorian period affected architecture it affected chimney pots everything you care to think of and of course it also affected garden ornaments and of course terra cotta was perfect cause it was weatherproof the great thing about this also is that on the front here is the maker's mark J blush field of Paddington now blush field a major maker of terracotta in London a pioneer was in fact a maker of the terracotta for the Natural History Museum so he was a he had a major business and while his proton-proton inant workers architectural obviously they made their money producing figures like this for a mass market it's a good piece of sculpture mass-produced of course from moulds in the factory but blast field is one of the great names and to see a piece here is an unexpected treat now a pound was a good price I think it was a fair price it wasn't taken the market was it yeah because that's still a very good market isn't it round here I think you did well I'd certainly paid quite a bit more than a pound even 20 years ago and I think I'd very happily bid up to 300 pounds 350 pounds for her so your pound was well invested yeah do you know what these were used for her I haven't a clue but several people think they were candles mm-hmm the actual purpose of these is as sources they would have had little cups that went into the holes and their type of source we know as a tumblers saucer the idea is that look at the how deep hole Holmes a cup very tightly live one of the crumbles or the shakes they verbs hold them securely and the cup wouldn't spill and they wouldn't lose the drink were all over the table so that's the purpose and they are Italian they're made in recent northern Naples at the place called Castelli where very bright colorful decoration was done but these would be 1690 1700 in day something like that they don't look it because the glaze is extremely hard it doesn't wear it doesn't love it hardly chips around the rim and these are in remarkable condition they look so so clean and bright doesn't it but and that's why so often people have brought these to road shows not realizing there anything at all but we're able to look at the colors look at the way they're painted in in a great three style the family Potter's who made these the gray family were specialized in these very atmospheric landscapes and they're painted in vey delicate tones especially the effects of the trees and some lovely distance can be achieved these little very cartoon like simple figures and very stylized buildings are distinctive so for their age lovely condition their subtle little being incomplete being just the sources but even so a jolly nice condition pleased like that is going to be worth about six hundred pounds very good well these are a delightful pair of paintings as you can see there by Edmond Bristow one of them is very nicely signed here for us who was a 19th century English afters painted in the sort of first half of the nineteenth century but they're also very amusing because of the subject they are really an allegory of the folly of human arrogance they're actually a sequel painting one following on off the other here you see the beginning of the jewel the dandy standing with his fat cigar and his top hat taking on the commoner who looks rather worried I would say for the jewel of theirs obviously his the dandies seconder and here we have after the jewel where the dandies hat has fallen off he's been I would say mortally wounded wouldn't use and there the commoner creeps off rather rather are concerned about what he's done and I think this type of painting was originally developed in Germany around about the 18th century and it was a sort of way of sending up human pomposity and using animals in paintings rather than using human beings how did you come to have the paintings well they were left to us by a family friend they're in very nice condition it's lovely to have a pair one is signed the other one doesn't appear to me but that's of no consequence I think because they're a pair and because they're so amusing I would say they're worth between four to five thousand I hope it's a nice surprise lovely do you know where that name comes from teddy bear it comes from a Teddy Roosevelt who was a president of the United States and he went on a hunting expedition and we managed to shoot any bears and so one of the organizers captured a bear head and tied it to a tree and said they are this one photo shoot and he said no I refuse to shoot that bear I won't do it and that bear became known as Teddy's bear and that's why all bears then became known as teddy bears after all these years he deserves to have a nice retirement and I hope you put him on the shelf with all your other bears have you well you look after this one my background to it was nearly disposing of it about three months ago until I saw one of your previous programs showing a willingness especially the value of that bass which made me think and doesn't bother surely would put something into a box to go into a car boot sale like that yes why don't I never find these a car boot sale oh yeah well that being said it's it's yeah it's all there it's a lovely piece of more property a nice a pleasing shape to my mind the signature by the way w Moorcroft on drew them was actually written by Moorcroft himself it was so all the signatures all the monograms are Makarov body have either been applied by William or grotto or in 80 years is son Walter the patent is actually called Clermont don't ask me why the Clermont have been a clue but the technique is known it is known as lining or Choob lining yes you can actually see the way that it's being applied it's it's almost like fighting on icing on a cake and then the the glazes are and are applied afterwards value how much you reckon you would have put on in a carburetor probably about five pounds yeah I'd be delighted to pay fine quite and the chances are that it may well be up to 800 or slightly more so I think there's a moral in this is now before you put anything in a car boot sale it's tuned in to the Antiques Roadshow that's very true it's Japanese yeah that's nice to me rather good quality yes 19th century yeah but beyond that I couldn't pay very much further I had remembered seeing actually let's start on these because these are the best bits of the whole Varma this is superb bit of bronze casting I've got a third tear isn't the oddly Terrapins they've got tails yeah so that that means they're Terrapins we haven't had a therapy next block here you've been up with a Polish I haven't you yeah good actually I say good you haven't done any damage because usually if you polish something like this you destroy it but this is the correct color yes the correct I mean the word patination is applied to bronze furniture and this is what people carefully polish off he's taken a hundred years to get into that with half an hour's worth you can renew the Kapiti it becomes shiny dull uninteresting because the interest is in the color that has built up it's really listening and I'm going to suggest that it's worth somewhere in the region of maybe four to six hundred pounds somewhere in that region great well we see a lot of robusta on this program and I was enjoying it but I I don't really recall seeing such a subtly beautiful royal war was the beasts and all the time I've been doing the rear chair it's very very beautiful it's a soup of ours how did you come by it she died about five years ago when she left fast to me it's made in 1883 but it's particularly lovely on this beautiful placed Aryan body which is what the body is looking like ivory really the painter or the Gilder rather because that's mainly the work of the girl that has put this fantastically sumptuous bit of raised enamel and gold work on the piece and the this work that takes an enormity of time it's not that's like painting Highland cattle or birds or flowers on it which is a fairly quick process done over two or three firings but this involves the building up by a very very slow patient work over weeks and weeks of time this elaborate raised work it really is fantastic the quality of the work is absolutely marvelous and there are people about the can do work like this now but the work would take such a long time now the costs of making such a piece would I suppose be something like about seven or eight thousand pounds to produce an item of this quality by hand nowadays because the enormity of time it's not perhaps everybody's cup of tea nowadays but to me I think it's superb I suppose if it went into auction I'm but expect it to fetch something like about twelve hundred and fifty pounds but I should think probably from the insurance point of view you'll be thinking nearer in terms of a couple of thousand it's a Mickle a flintlock Kurdish right the workmanship on it is truly magnificent the stock is made of walnut the insects all over Ohio free and where you see it it is green then it's stained ivory so it is ivory throughout you have all this brass pick work all over it and then of course the thing that really sets it off is all the gold along these facets along the top and it's magnificent Damascus steel it's a nice stopper the date would be about 1800 as near as I can say but being a traditional weapon have used before and after this this particular date the rifle itself he's very heavily grooved is your seed right the way through they're very very heavily groove it must have been quite an effort to load because when you get a rifle barrel and then you've got to drive a ball all the way down it's very difficult see what isolated silver that's right yes you can you can get the minister with silver bands but then this is such a superior weapon that it was obviously owned by a man of some consequence now have you any idea of the value I'm sure you would like to know what I well I feel that if you sold it by auction it is such a nice stopper then it's got to fetch something in excess of 3,000 pounds so there you are I bought it in an auction auction yes recently about ten ten years ago I think but what I thought it was pretty I got it for about fourteen pounds it instantly recognizable as the work of that great art deco for French glass maker Reni Lalique and the character on the top is actually none other than Cupid and I can tell you that he designed this particular box and cover in 1919 and it goes by the title of our more ascesis which is a lovely title it's in frosted glass and what's more he's actually heightened the the molding with this blue stain now you've got to be very careful today because there's a lot of Lalique glass out that's been really stained and the simple test is if you can if you can wipe it off then it's probably right it's the the modern staining that he's virtually impossible to get off very softly made and I said is you know quite desirable I mean 40 pounds ago I mean I would be very happy to find one of these for 400 I'd be very happy actually define one I think for 800 when I think about it I think I'd be very happy to find one for a thousand so one I don't know I I have dreams about pretending these auctions and you obviously attended the dream of my the auction of my dream should I say and thank you so much for bringing the end result into us today that's really good yeah it isn't really it's not any money there well my father bought this one in Guildford in 1969 in a shop for two pounds fifty and just because he likes it's impacts and realized that that it wasn't a quality picture it's a wonderful it's a wonderful example by George weather or rather typical of his works I mean he was like so many of his generation a great fan of Turner but this takes Turner into the height of Victorian watercolour painting and here he is in the midst of a hotbed of artists in Whitby and Robin Hood's Bay up the road and they were this marvelous crew of artists he was actually not an official artist till he reached 50 years old he moved to Whitby in 1830 age 20 and worked for a bank 50 but painted aways an amateur painter I mean not what we would call a managed painter because he's highly professional and always in this rather minut style with this wonderful light I mean this I think this is I mean we can see the influence of Turner painting right into the Sun we can see Whitby Bay here the magnificence of the bay you really couldn't have a better example it says it's superb as for your two pounds fifty I think today this picture is worth in the region of four or five thousand pounds and it's a really cracking example which moves us on to somewhere else from high Victorian to again a wonderful example by an artist I don't know terribly well in fact Jewish suit in fact with the strange name which I imagine comes from the north of Europe but he was a man who worked in England in the 1890s 1900 very different from the weather all much softer much more northern European not painting in the height of summer painting in winter and these rather gentle colors in that almost Dutch way but again a very beautiful example of a soft highly formed technique of gentle coloration of a feeling for detail a feeling for the atmosphere I love the dead wheels it's wonderful no I just I couldn't agree more but if that one was two pounds fifty how much was this I bought that in an auction in Whitehaven for two shillings in 1969 so you're in rather in competition in your you were winning on the price yes on the price taste is not as expensive as Wetherill he's not a sought-after he's not as prolific but this is a cracking example and your to Bob today would be a thousand fifteen hundred pounds thank you very much indeed well finally today to the mystery of the goose on the Kingsland silver this yu-er and a dish a part of a collection of silver that was commissioned by the town of Kingsland from a London goldsmith in 1683 but for 300 years or so the true identity of the maker has remained a mystery because the assay office records at that time were destroyed in a farm the only clue as to the makers identity is down here the maker's mark comprising a goose inside a dotted circle and ever since it's been known as the goose silver it's only recently and as a result of the most meticulous research that the true identity of the maker has become known his name was John duck so this is no goose it's a duck or mr. duck had a great sense of humor whichever way you look at it magnificent pieces of silver and that together with a King John cup that we saw earlier has given us some remarkable things to see today well next week I particularly hope you'll join us for the last program in the current series and we're going to count it down so until then from all of us here goodbye

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Length: 43min 2sec (2582 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 03 2018