Antiques Roadshow UK Series 16 Episode 3 Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria

[Music] this week we've brought the Antiques Roadshow to Cumbria and to barrow-in-furness at first glance the ruins of an old Abbey may seem an odd place to come looking for the origins of a modern shipbuilding town but in fact it was 12th century monks who came to this part of Cumbria and became very much the founding fathers of the town itself and the means by which it earned its living the whole original prosperity of barrow-in-furness sprang from this monastery the monks first of all Benedictines and then Cistercians may have come here originally to convert the heathen masses to Christianity but they quickly became enormously powerful and wealthy landowners farmers and architects they administered law and order and they were responsible for the early development of the iron mines the dissolution of the monasteries under Henry the eighth meant the loss of monastic influence in the area and by the middle of the 19th century Barrow was still little more than a village but everything changed with the Industrial Revolution the coming of the railways together with easily available iron and coal and its position on the sea meant that Barrow was ideally placed to build ships and so for more than a hundred years that's precisely what they've done here in Barrow they've built practically every kind of ship you can think of ocean liners oil tankers battleships aircraft carriers destroy us and now most important of all submarines the Devon shirt dock complex behind me is described as the most advanced naval shipbuilding facility anywhere in the world and it's here that the Royal Navy is new Trident submarines are taking shape not far from the Vicker shipyard is the part leisure center and that's where we are for the day among our experts on pottery and porcelain we have David batty Christopher Payne is our man on furniture this week while hilary k and eric knowles will be covering the late 19th and early 20th centuries so let's now join our experts with the people of batter and furnace it's made in Whitehaven by the wilkinson factory john will consume and to patent called Marcela's which is one of their very favorite patterns they produce this a long time and for years and years no one even knew there was a factory at Whitehaven but in important factory producing pottery coming all around the coast going over to the Isle of Man and Ireland and America and and this presumably is found locally was it this piece yes it was an STL actually yesterday yes that's where the old lady lived in that stair it's past as you probably know the bedroom sets there won't to be a great big basin no there's no basement shade but there but it's nice locally here because a bit just if people know it's white if you get away from the area people aren't interested so much and I mean a job like that would probably page I don't know 30 40 pounds but locally up here a piece of local interest is going to fetch two or three times they're always lovely to get something in its original case but do you know what it is I think it's like some kind of carrot holder absolutely right yes it's a visiting card case they not of course playing cards which was often the mistake that's made now there are two types active card cases ones for gentlemen and ones for ladies at the decorational this is most appropriate for lady but in fact is not the decoration itself that tells roots for a lady but the very size of it the had it been a gentleman's one it would have been about that sort of size so let's have a look and see was actually made in Birmingham I've got the Birmingham anchor there where indeed many of these card cases were actually produced that was one of the major centers on production of them and the maker just their ancient tea that's Hillier than Thomason very good Birmingham gone and the year in fact is 1851 1851 there's not bad gay and what is so fantastic is say that it is literally as it was made yeah of course largely due to the fact that it's in its original pace but it's a family wonders at all no I am far about two months ago into a local car boot sale and it was in a box with some other things and just picked it up and brought it how much did you pay for it of the boots that are free pound not and I think you might see a bit of a return on that have you only any thoughts as to what it might be worth not all I would say today because of its condition it causes such a pretty one all in its original case ones located value in the region of five hundred pounds kid in there where did you say the car boot so keeping our secret the most useless piece of furniture in the house why is that well it's when you want something out of the bottom it's too far to get down and then I only keep channel in the top so it isn't very useful right and what do you use it as at the moment all this bit of junk in here usually right it's been made here as a typical fitted writing desk of about eighteen thirty eighteen forty but do you think it started off life like this I have no idea it belonged to my grandfather and it had been in the family a long time so you've no idea what it really was no no idea it was a piano was it really it's been converted from a piano yeah the keyboard would have been in here and this is fairly obvious really they've left this rather conveniently that would have been for music but obviously we're going to write at it why not leave it for papers and the co copying notes and things like that all this has been put in you here new yeah we'll talk about when later the keyboard section has been taken out of her oh I can see you now so that's why he says it's a useless piece of furniture yeah because firstly when you write it there's not much room for your knees but secondly you've got to move everything and knees out of the way to get in there underneath because it's never designed to do that at all yeah but the most telltale sign is on the back here there's a little hole where on both sides where they've been handled yeah to lift it up and on the top here there are hinges what's left of hinges now if we come back keep my hand there this top section would have hinged upwards to allow you to get into the to tuner to get into the strings because the strings would run through here vertically so if you like an early upright piano very very few of them survive in their original state for two reasons one they were wooden frames and therefore they went out of tune very easily so they have to tune them all the time which is a nuisance expensive and difficult and secondly because you know the concept piano took over and the flat grand piano became more more popular so we have here a typical piece of furniture of the 1840s converted I don't know when into from a piano an upright piano into a writing desk so does it have a lot of value well it's been in the family probably stay in the family and that's all I wouldn't know about the value so the value is largely irrelevant to you probably yeah however it's it's interesting because it's quite an unusual piece of furniture but these converted pianos and I've seen Square pianos converted in the same way not worth as much as the original pieces of furniture let's say between a thousand pounds and 1,500 pounds of auctions you know this is this is a film a yeah I suppose is probably that he's be the best known of this group yes again this character I think does absolutely usually as a monocle and at all a top hat right he looks like something out of PG would yes absolutely Guffey sink and this one I like too destroying it by Michael Rosen I never heard of him but it looks like sort of them Jurassic Park hundred years ago isn't it yes but it's a beautiful drawing all these extraordinary animals look at them I mean it's messy sort of sort of one-eyed beautifully done yeah the detail yes it's marvellous isn't it yes but Steven Spielberg would like that it's it's true to say it isn't it that the markings that are attributed to the farms in Cumberland and what was then Lancashire and Westmoreland are still the marks that are used on the sheep on the fells nowadays most of them here and coming from 18-49 that's absolutely fascinating and here we have this is a an amazing these are some dress design hats designs and reminds me of sort of Vivienne Westwood or or was that lady who makes those funny hats mrs. Schilling and yes but I love this one here this lady here was obviously it has a rather large behind that's one interesting style anyway and I rather like this one personally this film a1 which reminds me of Jack Nicholson yes and in fact it is entitled but Joker so I don't know but it may be maybe Jack Nicholson's grandfather what do you think I did I mean you know film a for instance can make a great deal of money and you know he could make several hundred pounds and I would have thought that sixty drawings like this which they probably vary in price from the lesser ones would be twenty or thirty pounds and the more expensive ones might be in there three or four hundred pounds you know one must be looking at something like 6,000 pounds remember this for insurance yes yes and possibly more from Barrow to the South Seas it really could be the story of the globe and it could be the story of Captain Cook because of course he he sailed from from white navy and at the back here it says fergus's terrestial globe engraved by G right and based on Captain Cook's discoveries and this globe obviously incorporates a lot of the discoveries that he made particularly down here we have Australia or as it's called on this particular globe New Holland that's right and there are some interesting dates we can say when it was discussed New South Wales was discovered in 1770 and so on there's obviously a story to this I'd love to know where it came from we must have written to the Peabody and all sorts of places like that my husband had a friend in Norway and he's very exciting we cannot find out any other globe like this one the thing that interests me most is the way that it's mounted now with a lot of globes they're mounted decoratively to be used in a library too to really be a piece of decoration as much as a object of interest this looks much more like a piece of sort of physical apparatus it looks like a piece of laboratory equipment it has the ability to tilt and unusually it has this brass equatorial ring and it seems to me as if it's going to come to pieces does it come to pieces I'd love to have a look inside yes it is possible no I do have love I do now with with globes I tend to like to wear gloves particularly if they don't have a good layer of varnish on which this doesn't because I don't want my acid to get in there so I'm going to take this off undo the screw at the top now could you hang on to this end because I need to get to the bit underneath there we go right and it looks as though it'll just lift out that's it oh this is exciting could you leave that just to one side for me yes surely lovely no that's fine I feel like I'm sort of getting into a time capsule in a way so easily you don't believe it oh I rescued my goodness me this is absolutely incredible the whole of the hemispheres have been strengthened by layer on layer of additional paper but they're all invoices and they're from look look at this from a silver maker Joseph's camel Richard cross League date looking under the date 1791 we can date we can date it absolutely precisely oh how fantastic it is her genetic yeah but this is even more riveting because it looks to me as if we've got some sort of what is this magnet yes it's magnetized so it replicates the Earth's magnetic field yes that is just extraordinary well now it's all beginning to fall into place here we have a piece of philosophical apparatus research apparatus replicating the Earth's magnetic field through which then they could perhaps avoid some of the terrible calamities in navigation that had that had occurred this was the point who could get way off beam and land up in totally the wrong place well it's a wonderful wonderful object and it really deserves I suppose to be in a museum the globe itself had it been an absolutely normal terrestrial globe in a normal stand we would have been talking about perhaps 3000 pounds but I think with this extraordinary philosophical side to it and the research side I think we must be talking about at least double that when we bought our house 20 years ago when we came to barrel it was in it it was fastened to the wall family already at the front door wonderful it stayed there for years and then we had to do some repairs to the walls we could be done and it hasn't been put back up again that's nice it's so nice to buy a house and find something sort of edges of interest still there don't think it happened today something no well I'm house was built in 1901 so it's more or less the end of the beam there since the beginning yeah I saw you struggling in with this I thought it was a piece of William de morgan's pottery he's an interesting character as a friend of William Morris's and he set up a pottery in London making first tiles but then he went on to make pots as well and he's become extremely collectible I mean very very high prices yes and he was very influential at the time and other people had a go at doing DeMorgan influenced where's this one is made by herman top you saw that they were just outside Leeds and they were making art pottery from 1882 to 1900 and for the nice thing about this one is that we've got a full mark on it here yes they called it FiOS which is actually rather misleading I mean found seized at emulators earthenware which is not what this is at all you know this is just now from where this one I would suggest he's probably nearer the beginning of the period than the end narrow 1882 of them into this century and is very very de Morgan in style yes now de Morgan didn't originate these himself he was very much influenced by pottery from Turkey his Nick and also to some extent bye-bye pottery from Italy so there were lot of him influences coming together on de Morgan's so what we've got here is a Berman tossed tile coupling a de Morgan tile which was copying of an is Nick piece so yeah a whole lot of Link's running through yes it's slightly difficult thing to put a price on a mom knows what a blue earth it was to Morgan but it's very rare for Berman Tufts but it is very decorative my guess is that if it came up for auction it would fetch somewhere between 500 and 1,000 pounds you better go and buy another house [Laughter] it's very architectural yes very very simple yeah and it's just a functional object yes any idea at all where it came from well it it did come from a great house in in Yorkshire I don't know which one and it was bought by a dealer and then ultimately it came to my friend right you don't know how long it's been in that family here but the person that I was in touch with did say it could well have been made for that house right I mean it's music to my ears when you say it's come from a great house in York because there was one great cabinet maker from Yorkshire well there were several great captain hangers from Yorkshire but this one in particular yes whose name Chippendale Thomas Chippendale yeah and this is exactly the sort of work you would expect from Thomas shipping yes now Chippendale as you may or may not know did a series of designs yes all the gentlemen in cabinet makes makers director the first one was published in book form in 1754 and these I think it was a three guineas the book and people all over the country order the book and use the designs and interpreted them as they wished and so I'm sure if we look through the director we would find a lot of elements on this table which are very similar to Chippendales work but just from the nib just the qualities of this table the wood a beautiful piece of mahogany lovely I think I think it's Honduras mahogany just at the time when they changed from Cuban to Honduras well used and abused made of course as a serving table for the dining room yes imagine somebody coming down and lifting silvered silver entree dishes with kidneys and all sorts of exotic things for breakfast every morning for two or three hundred years so I don't think there's any doubt at all about the age of it it's exactly contemporary with Chippendales first for 1755 1716 yes the legs that's tremendous and they're just the idea of got a triangular shape yes indeed but Pierce with these Gothic niches rather like the the Gothic almost like a narrow slit in the castle of a terrace but very Gotha size which matches it to like the corner brackets here at the apron where it looks like a flying buttress of the church the church roof the vault of a roof so very simple very simple very church like an extremely elegant as a table a good eighteenth-century table of this type of it very much in the Chippendale manner yes I would say it certainly would make at auction between certainly four to five thousand pounds yes without any doubt at all yes and if we can pin it down I think that figure could be exceeded possibly even doubled or even treble it one could pin it down - moment things didn't get exciting in the world of pewter until around about 1900 and my eyes light up when I see quite a simple tray like this but it's it's the design and anybody who is watching this program in the Isle of Man will be shouting the words Archibald Knox because this pewter tray is a design of Archibald Knox he of course was working for Liberty and Liberty had introduced his his kinloch range of silver in the beginning of the century but of course being in silver it wasn't particularly affordable to most people so he decided that he would extend the range and make something called shudra k-- and which was going to be in pewter which was you know more for the masses and I like this tray I've seen it in various forms in other words with this this well for example you often find it filled with turquoise enamels right it's really put in the carton a bit before the horse because Liberty actually did start introducing children where as a result of selling this sort of thing in earlier years this is this is German are cuter and Liberty was busy retailing this type of in his shop in Regent Street and and it sold very well and I think that's what prompted him to introduce his range of children pewter this I noticed I'm just at a quick paper underneath this buy out of it who a relatively short lived company I think they're they they were selling in a round about 1901 and they were bought out by a larger company of wmf in about 1905 so it had a very short lifespan but in that time they did produce some very sort of novel avant-garde if you might say shapes but just to look at it one would say well what makes this Art Nouveau well it's really very much the sort of sculptural qualities this very sort of naturalistic this clock doesn't really stand it looks as though it's evolving doesn't it that's right it's point it's something you know this is sort of a fantasy type object if we can let's look at the the face it's given a very original treatment even even though even the hands are in the form of sort of stylized or opening leaves if you remember what you paid for the thing about 50 pounds of thing and probably about 30 or 35 for that right well they I mean they were they were quite reasonable buyers I mean this today is going to be worth somewhere in the region around about 200 250 and as for the tray maybe around about a hundred 120 but it might add a little wool detail which normally goes missing and in fact the most normally goes missing as well so it's a great pleasure to see it on the end of occipital rod because we often see them a bits of balsa wood and all sorts of strange things on the end where it actually dates from the 1930s this German toy made by phone with layman who started making toys like this in the 1890s and their particular speciality was really ingenious novelty toys she said it a little bit of uses of for slightly rusty toy one of her ears is a little bent but she's a very early model because she has the painted finish whereas the later ones became the sort of slightly map flock covering if she ever came up you probably expect this little preacher to fetch between five and eight hundred pounds really she's very very scarce indeed to clear air with the most complete I didn't say for insurance purposes you ought to think of a big very insured around about two thousand pounds we'll keep her a little funky we have some nice bedrick spotter books from the area here all these are all first editions and it's very nice three of them assigned first editions on their own generally worth about a hundred to one hundred and fifty pounds but when they're signed and inscribed as these ones are the price then goes right up to about a couple of thousand pounds and so this is a very exciting live all cash the books which have been brought here today I bought it it 30 years ago and bought it is a very good price the auctioneer knocked it down to me actually for three pounds and I took it out to my car found it was too big to get in and a voiceover my children asked me if I'd sell the frame which was not very appropriate frame for five pounds so I took the painting in to pounds I've always admired you on terraces left I think his use of color is rather clever and you can see I'm in this rather sort of loose mist semi impressionistic style of paint and his coloring it sort of betrays his Glasgow training I think there's something very reminiscent in the style with other Glasgow artists who are working at that time such as Arthur Melville this one actually is Edinburgh that's right yes as we can see we've got the flying buttresses of some John's Cathedral to help us with locating it but we have it in a position in the in our home so that he doesn't have full sunlight but on the other hand when the Setting Sun is on it those Browns and yellows and pale greens and blues they all bring this thing really alive most of the works I've seen by John Terrace have been coastal views and landscapes rather than street scenes and I find this somewhat unusual in a way that subject matter but a really good pitcher nevertheless and certainly its value has increased a little bit from the original purchase price I think we can certainly look to a figure of 1500 and perhaps more at auction best news I have today Eric there's one name among glass makers that keeps on cropping up on the Antiques Roadshow his name was mentioned last week we have this glass bowl by him today Lalique of course now what was it that makes Lully so preeminent among glass makers well I think he was one of these people who who took mass production techniques and applied it to decorative glass work in a way that no other designer had done before so all of a sudden these things became affordable they were never cheap they they weren't you know medium price but at least for the most part they were affordable and he had such a fertile design mind he his designs run into literally thousands he designed everything from perfume bottles which was his sort of first venture I'm straight through to ceiling lights of course if you go to Jersey now you'll find an entire church interior designed by Rene Lalique a quite a fascinating character well about this bill that's just come in I know I mean here we are a wonderful sort of straightforward daily herbal it's called daily err it's actually molded on the underside with the dahlias and it's quite typical insofar as it has this sort of opalescence can you see this sort of milky pinky blue which she does change color in different lights almost a almost his trade well although some people say he was the only person that knew the super to need and when he died but she did in nineteen forty or forty five he took the secret with him that's not true I mean the lots of people were emulated I gather sacrilege of sacrilegious people used to cut those in half and use them as warlike shrew I mean here's a classic example here's a shell bowl and his agents in in London were in Knightsbridge in Basel Street they were called briefs galleries yes I actually met somebody who worked in there during the 1930s and if you wanted one of these balls made into a into a pair of wall lights they'd simply carve it down the center and of course you're left with two hemispherical which would then go up on the wall I mean if you fancied one of these as a ceiling light they'd simply drill it in the four corners or frequent and they put a chain and the thing would sort of hang up there in your in your living room but this is the thing it's the car mascots that so many people collect isn't it particularly the vintage par-4 9th yes that's true you've got a cross over here between the automobile you type or collector under the Lalique collector the record price I've had for a Lalique mascot would be about twenty-two thousand pounds one well I found the first the first later in a pile of other plates in in a budget jump market really and then once you found the first will now beauty through another pile I came across the second loss the other does their 18th century it's so glazed stoneware and um absolutely we have a lot little pips around here get data around about 1780 that's two hundred and ten years or so old what I need wonderful condition he's usually knocked about in damage but that's not a nice number did you pay for them well as twenty pence worth between twenty pence each you've been ashamed of yourself well I mean actually asking pricey was even a most part of all of your planet's so it shows it could be done the sting of a super little joke this is very beautiful this is black glaze I suppose made in Staffordshire often called Jack field where this very shiny black wonderful color iron rich clays that bring out this marvelous get that color doesn't need any pattern anything dumped on it just to be look lovely like that a simple and very very little bit jug this is the same purchase marasuchus and a cabin sell for ten pounds - I don't know the beautiful little teapot isn't that super that the shape is lovely you see that in white salt ways sometimes with decorations this this is called a crab stock the crab stock spouts look like that the stock of a crab and the a handle which is absolutely beautiful what are the prices of these two and I bought I bought that on a tray at home option for four pounds for the whole trip well that teapot I think is probably worth nearly hundred pound racket you're four pounds but working spins and this jug is a little bit damaged but it's I think it had two beautiful I suppose that's around about 50 60 70 pounds let me back there so you're a few four pounds what is it fault on something at all say pound 26 pounds 24 the turtle thank god that's where the few hundred how dare can I interrupt yeah is that alright I think it is yes right as rain yeah it's funny isn't it I mean whenever we go Clara's Cliff pass out no it's more than that it's today is probably what six to nine could possibly even a thousand I mean I have to say that you know four or five years ago at the height it was probably been about twelve fourteen hundred pounds so it's been as something of a casualty I think that the recession which is anything else this is a conspicuous gallantry medal issued to the Royal Navy is it not but perhaps you don't know but there were only 72 issued to the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines in the last war so this is quite something I mean a Victoria Cross of course is a high award but down the scale this is very close to a Victoria Cross but what can you tell me about it it was awarded to my eldest wrote there and this is your eldest brother Jimmy yes and that's at the palace with their mother and really he was in submarines human submarines was enough how interesting and the award that they had he actually got this floor where was that don't we do underneath right okay and I was looking at some correspondence and there was a letter came a few years in Italian than that really yes and he was asking if you have been accorded any on there I always say the British noise does me as the enemy thought you deserve I think I should tell you that this medal is that rare that it's worth in excess of 2,000 pounds and I think you should ensure it or at least put it on your insurance for three well this is an absolutely fascinating collection of Buddhist bronzes I must say they all appear to me to be sino-tibetan and either you've inherited them or you you are a serious collector because they're wonderful things do tell me mostly collected on the hoof I was a soul of temporary medical officer for various traits in the Himalayas macabre taste to the Himalayan art culture which I hadn't known about did you get into monasteries and yet you stayed in monasteries whether enormous lot I must say we start with this one here they won't the the unifying factor part miss little chap who was I think it looked but quite old actually and had 17th century or even not even slightly earlier it's a lovely soft gilding to it this is a little R hat or Buddhist monk yes but if you take that one out a nice tranquil chair it is yes this one here is interesting because it's so this sign is a bet one it is actually inscribed in Chinese and it's dated but if you read that it says it is the Chen long period here and it actually gives a cyclical date here if I look at my little cheek book I see but it can either be 1770 with you if it's then 60 years up it goes to 1830 but it has to be 1770 because it was in impression long period right and this is actually quite a common type you do see a lot of these with dates ranging 1770 stood about 1900 incidentally you know that they obviously know that there are little paper press girls in each figure used to be all they reliquaries at all I think so yes no no I think the little prayers wrapped in little bits of paper but it apparently was taught to me to bring bad luck if you've ever took it out so really don't forgot to think about it but we won't open this haven't taken us that's right an intact one which they usually are that's right this one's intact I think they're all all show the same dirt dirty which is have a look at Sparra right right which in Chinese is goddess of mercy grunion sometimes there's many heads over I think they're very it's very complicated indeed but have a look at spa remember it's a terrible difficult world word to pronounce I'm a friend of mine used to say well hats say have a look at Sarah very quickly and you'll get go by so have a look at Sarah yes anyway they're lovely things I think I presume I think this one is the most valuable and perhaps worth a thousand perhaps you should insure it for twelve thirteen hundred pounds that order these two here unless I suppose that something worth something of the order of five to eight hundred pounds and this about the same although it's dated I mean but it needs a fairly common type anyway it's been a little low hand there I suppose it's very sweet worth three to four hundred something that order great so it's a super collection thanks so much bringing them thank you very much this to my mind is one beautiful little jewel it's a luster decorated ball and in the in the center we've got these sort of Persian type characters again sees these beautiful sort of colorful glazes which have got a sort of lustrous surface the border is filled with these these animals and animals hunting it's a very busy very very busy scene is it a family piece no it was bought by my father that's a house sale I have sale of a very old family friend yes did he ever tell you how much he paid must be getting on for thirty years ago but I've no idea how much he paid for it okay well this particular piece dates from around about 1928 1929 Wedgwood at this time were busy producing luster decorated where's that featured fairies and they were the work of a lady called Daisy making Jones now I know for a fact that this particular design is by Daisy Mae kick Jones and I know that in 1928 she was given a book of Persian poems that was a limited edition of only 55 and the engravings in there inspired her to produce this ball now the poems in question were the poems of a 12th century Persian poet his name was in his army so but let's just have a look at this wonderful exterior you've got these these these these panels with these wonderful wonderful flowers I mean the colors are just sort of I mean I mean you can keep the crown jewels I'd rather have this all I think it's a real treasure I really do and and what's what is quite a rare thing have you any buddy and put a value on it did you feel no no good I'm very pleased to be the first because I have no hesitation in telling you that this ball is worth somewhere in the region of around about a thousand pounds and I don't say that lightly yeah bar flatten bar and the throat porcelain works Worcester in London house number one Coventry Street Bar flatten bar period is from 1804 to 1813 they lie happily within that period and they are absolutely some certainly some of the love this groups of these things I've ever seen not only lovely pages of flowers which perhaps attracted to at the first place but extraordinary marbling this is an attempt to do a kind of a marble and I'm not quite sure what marvel it is with it's very beautiful hand painted and gilded therefore simulate marble and the pots are so beautiful and so with eagle handles and these wonderful little pearls but the pearls are separately rolled out balls of way they're not molded like some factories you know a bar flattened bar used to make their little balls and play separately and stick each one on to each one is just that little bit married you know they wobble them they move about in there you know that you get behind them there they're completely separate and made bowls I love me the flowers of course are superb that's what do you to them to start with is in the quality quality of the quality of the painting is absolutely outstanding I'm not too sure who did the painting there's two possibilities one is sama Les Halles who was the chief flower painter at Worcester running from the end of the 18th century into the 19th century and the other possibility is William Billingsley who came down to Worcester during the bar fact bar period from Derbyshire and was there until he went off to Wales but whether there by Billingsley or a stalls I think the painting is sumptuous on that lovely pale blue groundling which is absolutely beautiful those long five years after thinking I was the one ask how much he paid about 2300 for those that was a old I mean we're just taking with them so oh yes you had to yeah well for perhaps a little bit of hope of the horizon for you is the fact that his last five years there's been quite an escalation in the price of both light bar and flat bar barbar following period and pieces of this quality are now getting salt all over the world and the prices have just escalated I think your turn 2300 this is probably moved back to 4,000 or 4,500 actually yeah you know the road to ruin very nice well during our day here we've learned of many associations this area has with famous people John Ruskin Beatrix Potter and I learned today for the first time Stan Laurel of the famous Laurel and Hardy partnership Stan Laurel was born in Alveston ten miles away from here in June 1890 and apparently he used to practice his famous lugubrious expressions as a young lad in the windows of the local shops now there is today a Laurel and Hardy Museum and Alveston and they've loaned us one or two personal mementos of his this was a bowler hat he used at a Royal Command Performance in front of the now Queen mother at the Coliseum in 1947 and this was a cocktail book that apparently he used throughout much of his adult life hardly a day would go by without a sundowner mixed from the pages of this book now the partnership of Laurel and Hardy was famous for the phrase another fine mess you got me into Stanley well apparently Oliver Hardy never said it the actual phrase was another nice mess you got me into well correcting that another nice program they got me into here in barrow-in-furness we very much hope that you'll join us next week at

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Keywords: Antiques Roadshow UK, Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow Series 16, VHS, Hugh Scully, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, 50fps, BBC, BBC 1

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Length: 42min 54sec (2574 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 02 2018