Antiques Roadshow UK Series 16 Episode 5 Kidderminster, Worcestershire

[Music] [Applause] a locomotive on the Seven Valley Railway gathering steam and about to depart for Kidderminster this week's location for the Antiques Roadshow it's a journey of seven miles passing through some of the most beautiful countryside but this part of Britain has to offer no wonder that people come from all over the world to enjoy this whiff of nostalgia for the age of steam it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive wrote Robert Louis Stevenson in the nineteenth century well I might just add to that it's better to travel comfortably and what better way could there possibly be than this now one man who must have made this particular journey countless times was Kidderminster his most famous son Sir Rowland Hill he was responsible for reorganizing the English postal system and in 1840 he introduced the penny post and with it the famous penny black before Hill it was the recipient who paid for the letter rather than the sender come to think of it not a bad idea the bank manager you could always refuse to pay for it and in common with many other local heroes all over the country Roland Hill is remembered in his home town in a time-honored way Kidderminster itself still displays evidence of its industrial past and although one rarely associates the dark satanic Mills with the textile towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire Kidderminster was throughout the Industrial Revolution a typical mill town but above all its associated with the carpet industry indeed by 1800 it had become the carpet capital of the world the industry still flourishes here though not on anything like its historical scale in the heart of the town is the wire forest glades Leisure Centre and such as their enthusiasm the first person in the substantial queue that's built up outside was here at five o'clock this morning a full five hours before we our doors so let's now join our experts with the people of Kinnaman stone there's a seriously large pot well it belonged to my great-grandfather and then my great-aunt ELC had it and my father can remember as a small boy being lowered into to get his Christmas present wow that's terrific but it has to be quite smaller yes because that's a smaller yes I thought it'd be rather frightening well there's obviously the height of his excitement yes terrific it's Japanese clothes on a were the technique is to actually hammer the VARs shape out of metal usually pop up and then all this is effectively glass fired onto it and it's then polished and being glass or metal it's actually very fragile despite its slight size it's it's a risky object if we look at this we've got some wonderful chrysanthemums on here you go down here and we've got a dent and some cracking can you say yes and you can do nothing about that it's impossible to restore or repair because if you hammered that out for the inside the whole lot would just blow off there is one other problem with it has it occurred to you at all do you see anything funny about it no no it's the shape it's the wrong shape it goes beautifully up to here and then it stops and there should be and it should actually come out like that and what happens at some stage is probably fallen over and become very badly dented and they've had it cut off and this brass word has been put on in this country to cover up that damage so it's not a perfect thing at all but it is a monster date turn of the century 1900 now of course that's going to affect the price quite a lot but it still is a good large decorative lump and that's what the market wants I could see this in a hotel somewhere you know fantastic we thought Panasonic I think Oh got some I'm looking down I think this would probably be make somewhere around three to five thousand pounds jolly nice soft chair yeah do you know which factory has been responsible for making this poor thing well my husband was given it in about 1948 just before we married by Baron ductile who was my aunt's stepfather and he said it was Hague China what we have is porcelain it was actually made in Germany and it ended up being decorated in the hague or Den Haag ya know if I could take the tea caddy it's got this wonderful sort of silver top a very endearing subject a shepherd s asleep all these subjects very typical of a period between sort of 1750 1760 now the mark for The Hague porcelain factory is in actual fight a stork but that's basically being adapted because if I turn it on its side what we're left with is a letter a though they've tried to disguise it because that the a is under the glaze as per our thought is on top and the a stands for the ansbach factory which was situated in Germany and they were the people who supplied the white walls to the Hank so we've got we've got a representative selection here from a service of how many pieces we've got 31 pieces of work together do you have them insured at the moment there because I think we're talking is somewhere in the region of around about 8,000 possibly up to 10,000 pounds so it's we're talking serious money and it seems a shame to talk about money because when you look at these objects the amount of pleasure that they give you just you just can't wait oh well I don't I really don't blame you what we're looking at are a pair of very nice peddler dolls they're made of carved wood which has then been gesso covered which is a sort of whiting to give it a base for the color and they've got rather nice peg joints here at the at the elbow for instance and the type of dolls which were made in either growth in the Grodner child area of Austria or the Sonnenberg area of Germany from the early 1800s onwards and I would have said that this pair would be dating from perhaps the 1830s if I say a pair there's actually another little anyone at the top it's absolutely wonderful the one that I'm holding here is very much the conventional type of peddler doll what is also typical are some of the the lovely wears that she has here there's a pair of bellows I can see and then little bits of knitting and pins oh and I like that the broom is wonderful but the bristles made her defense she is very much the conventional pedal and older with her wares but it's this chap who I think is absolutely fascinating he is sort of oriental merchant look at his face it is in fact a lady's face which has been made that one account for his bosom he's got he has got a good bosom he hasn't deal perhaps we ought to call it pigeon chest it's really happen on this occasion again same sort of date as the other but he's got a little animal fur beard attached at the bottom there and he looks as if he's got much more interesting wears to sell lots of lovely little deep oh no no no look at this this is terrific there's a hand held balance here so he could weigh out his his goodies and there's even a little look at this a little tiny pair of little Turkish slippers at the bottom terrific they are very very attractive and because you have such a lot of interesting trinkets with them they're going to be quite valuable I would say that the lady here because she's a more conventional type would fetch perhaps between five and seven hundred pounds whereas the Turkish trader I think a little more I would have said between perhaps seven hundred and a thousand rounds two interesting pots your report in here one of course coffee pot with the spout the other having their coffee jug coffee pot coffee jug let's have a coffee pot first though the shape here is pear shape is typical of the mid 18th century the decoration on that the game all agrees very nicely with that beaded edge about their top and bottom that you'd normally expect to find by about 1718 so in fact well maybe they can see that they date there we've actually got a date there's 1777 so that that's fine that adds up you still get the shape which is the century mid 18th century shape of that period but they want to features that actually do agree with that later date now the jug this one has a bit bitter lovely simple playing life my favorite quite typical with the wickerwork with this time for the drug they normally are the silver handle covered with wickerwork whereas that of course is fruit when it's apple or pear wood now that's rather fascinating to see the coat of arms can you see it's Ananas in shame you know the significance of that no I don't it was made for a woman and a woman always in heraldry will always represent her coat of arms in a lozenge shaped a sculpture what goes back to medieval times and it was considered unseemly for a woman to carry a shield because that was an implement of warfare right but jolly interesting that loccent shape the cosmic maker's mark you see there now that's in a loss of shape punch this MP now when women saw the Smiths particularly middle years of the 18th century of earlier when they registered their punch they're normally but the same thing that's lozenge-shaped punch to indicate that it was woman so this is in fact Mary piers Mary appears as work actions jolly Jolly Rev I would have thought to ensure that one for about four and a half five thousand pounds and this one lived earlier is actually gonna be less expense but insurance would be on that one about seventeen hundred and fifty two thousand pounds that sort of level the reasons is as much as anything because coffee pots always sell better on the market than coffee truck which i think is crazy actually it's a shame because as I said that one is my base so simple those I always think of Jacob buyers in the market but I don't think there's much doubt about the nationality of this from France do you have any phone any history about it yeah well I do actually my grandfather in the 1920s went to a sale of dealer Dudley's different things that he had for sale and he bought this table with some other types of furniture there similar to this he handed it down to my father and then my father handed it down nice landing down to my turn it's typically over the French furniture that would be in stately homes in England throughout especially the last century or the 18th and the 19th century the style of it is typical of about 17 between 1714 1760 it's a mixture in a way of work somebody called bvr B he was known by his initials Bernard banner Eisenberg and yet 17 forties then a little bit later in the 1760s at the end of the lower 15 style somebody called Jean Francois urban working in Paris for the court and all the Paris nobility there's a very easy way of dating some French furniture is not always easy but from 1743 those a requirement the guild requirement for all French craftsmen that may threaten East to stamp their furniture they always stamp the furniture underneath at the end of the French Revolution in 1791 this was actually abandoned this policy it wasn't necessarily more but a lot of the French makers continued to stamp their furnish because it was built into their traditional but in the 19th century they didn't hide the stamp they were looking a bit more commercial they'd often put the stamp as we have here on the draw like that this man is quite well known to be actually Paul saw Marnie he worked in Paris from 1827 until 1877 and what's interesting about him his widow took over when he died in 1877 with his with his son and they were working in till 1934 making this type of furniture but we can date this too prior to 1877 because of the stamp it doesn't have his wife's name on as well so it's a very nicely made piece of furniture the quality of this metalwork is not the best the casting is good but there's not much gilding on what we might call the or model or the gilt bronze there's not a lot of gilding and it's all rubbed off on the edge where this has been a well used well-loved practical piece of furniture very pretty small ladies writing desk have you got it insured do you know they are not insured with a house in children's and they sort of put a price on it around 4000 pound right I think could more likely get three to four thousand pounds at auction and so I would actually say in short for at least six thousand pounds it's just not enough even though the market may be a little bit weak this sort of thing is very popular because it's nice pretty small and you can take it anywhere even the Antiques Roadshow over 100 pieces of it all the plates soup plates terrines and it was made from my late husband's family when one looks leap one's history that's that's a Darby patent but of course it isn't it isn't I've never seen this pattern and at the Worcester Factory before but here we have the mark of chambers were sir this is aware that they were making in 1818 10 I think it's sufficient to say that it's obviously with an awful lot of money so you reckon it has a little value yes I think it's worth thirty thirty thousand pounds that's something is it tiny to 40% that is interesting I'm sure my sounds will be delighted I mean this is a sight unseen I think he's got some it was that kind of - do you know what it is looks like something fun to do with making golf gugus wrong no no nothing to do with golf no focuses much bit from which end now it's for filing a horse's teeth how about that once you'll be in every dentist across well my grandfather bought it from the Liverpool Art Gallery and then my father had it and it came to me after he died in 1962 well this painting is by a Scottish artist and the monogram here is Jay a H and it stands for John Adam Houston what I particularly like this painting is the weight of the background this distressed brick wall with the old posters is in wonderful contrast to the high fashion here with her wonderful cape and her under Kate's and beautiful gaiters and lovely shoes with the highlights on it make a contrast between very highly finished painting and rather distressed background when Houston came to London there were other artists who were painting in similar styles and must have been a considerable influence on him William Powell Fred for instance who did famous paintings like Derby Day and also many who in the end was the most successful painter of his time okay through any idea of what your thought it was worth none whatsoever except it's obviously in for Pickers oh well that's nice a cop that I like well I think you're right it's definitely in four figures but were you hoping for five no there I think realistically it's worth between three and five thousand pounds so I hope that's satisfying it's actually by yes that's why I bought it and I have no intention of getting rid of it anyway besides I've it sewed as much as that it's been my profession for about 20 years it would belong to a light art of mine and because it's quite pretty just of my life it's interesting because it's actually a sentimental thing it goes back to around about 1825 the start of the 19th century such pieces of sentiment symbolized many different things you get flowers set with things like forget-me-nots but this with the key is basically the key to my heart and there it's a tiny little padlock drop so if you think about the symbolism of a key perhaps unlocking the padlock the love of my heart and then it's suspended beneath the little ruby in their heart are three little colored gems with these sentimental brooches quite often the first letter of each gemstone spelt out a word so you get sometimes the words like regard where the first letter will be ruby perhaps this actually the gemstone spell rage and I don't necessarily think that that's what was trying to be perform there but it you know it it is a charming piece a ruby in the middle and if we have a look turning it over inside is a tiny lock of hair so that lock of hair one pursues with that rock crystal cover literally goes back to about 1825 and it's in excellent condition so often with these you find the brooch pins are broken that kind of thing but this is an absolutely pristine condition so an interesting piece with the symbolism something a lot of people would want and I believe a brooch like that or to make in the region of 800 to a thousand pounds if you can establish and to insure it a piece like that you've got to insure it for around about maybe fifteen hundred pounds but it's a super piece and quite rare to find one in that condition with those gems this is a retailer stamp not a maker stamp on a similar table to yours so this is in the 1820s and 40s when this table was made it's very similar to yours we just closed it you see the dis a mineral effect of the marquetry top but this is exceptional what I find extraordinary is that it's so big they haven't actually made the top of tipping top yeah you'd expect it to have a little handle like that one and to lift up because essentially it's made as a breakfast table to go against the side of the room when you're not using it during the day but this one was made for a big house big and solid do you know anything about its history we know it was something to do with Hitler also we've been told and it was brought back over here after the war and that's all we've really been told about it right it's a difficult history that isn't it's something we could never prove there's no doubt about it these figures here are strongly Continental yeah that in a sort of a vaguely late 17th century early 18th century style of dress with these lovely musicians very typical to work done for the court of the 14th in the late 1700s I think if you hadn't have told me about the possible although perhaps doubtful we're not sure German provenance then I would say it was more like live in English table because it's typical that the form of these English breakfast tables what's interesting about these they were made to be used and they'll be covered with a cloth the value of them there is dramatically depending on the size of them yeah and if you can get eight people around the table like this it tends to be more valuable than a six-seater because people who like to have eight rounder for a dinner party yeah having said that I would be frightened of using this what wine glasses on wooden - we don't ever use it at all we were just too frightened of anything absolutely happening to it so nothing's allowed on it apart from one ornament in the center well don't be too frightened of it I think that it's been well used over the last 150 years it needs to be continued to be used perhaps not with wine glasses not with water and please never with a bowl of flowers in the middle here I think that the scale of it when you look down here is wonderful the big base is the four supports to keep it steady it's really very unusual for a table of this size and type and I think it probably could be a very rare German equivalent of the English circular breakfast table have you got it insured or we've got it insured but I'm not sure what it's actually insured for do you remember the price roughly it was two thousand three hundred that we paid for it right he was certainly today have to insure it for a minimum of twelve thousand parts per thousand I'm amazed I'm up to do it amazed I sent a poem into the BBC children's hour when was this I won this and so I'm deprived of it at the time I was going to the article later and that's when it got used mostly it well used too isn't it so I just think it's quite funny that the BBC's got its own and yes absolutely the clock of course is French dates from round about the turn of the century 1900 give or take a few years and I call it a clock it's in fact of timepiece because as you probably know it doesn't strike just has one winding square there for the time it then has an aneroid barometer over here with a reference setting hand and in the centre of thermometer so from the point of view of the timekeeping it's comparatively straightforward the fun bit is up here and as I'm sure you know it to be mentioned again so what do you know about it I don't know a lot of this history I know it came in and the family about 25 years ago well let's just see if we consists in motion now thank Bill he needs a little bit of a push but there it goes we've got a cylinder there we've got a tube or governor and an enormous flywheel and the beam on the top there's a huge Cure's so I'm sure you'll be aware so it should right around your side as you say a vast spring barrel probably will run for maybe three or four hours obviously completely different clockwork than the clock itself over several years now as regards the beam engine the thing was fundamentally developed for raising water from the mines particularly the Cornish chin mines and they were shipped all over the world any form of automaton clock particularly these Industrial Revolution clocks and this is an unusual one bear that in mind I think that will fetch at least two and a half thousand pounds of auction and get it home safely well I certainly will unfortunately I'll manage to break the down that it lives under on the way down here well don't feel too bad about it because quite honestly really isn't affect the value excellent thank you I don't know when it was made but it was given to it as a wedding present to my grandparents right in fact you can see we've got the mark of Thomas underneath which nice it ties up with the with the lid there and the marks there from the 1880 is that sort of period so a really lovely set supera sin in that sort of condition and at auction at a set like that is going to sell for gosh I have to think about 1200 or so with its original cases it's a really lovely set that does not matter right now that's lovely to see don't see so many of those in England you see them rather more on the continent but the splendid idea that of course for pouring yes it does capture so then you could do the whole thing as a one-handed job now various things have been going on here because if you take the main body of the teapot the sockets and the spout there's old age from 1781 but when this was made originally those feet were not there so there's a Victorian editions and of course the handle as well with those ivory installations that this sort of period in the 1780s you would have a fruit would handle it would be apple or pear so what they've done is to put on a silver handle and they've added the feet and say luckily they have actually done it legally so the little additions mark there and the handle goes ooh there's it's not separate set of marks two quite different much later than the marks underneath had that been in its original States and in good condition one would have been looking easily at 1,500 pounds for us for the one teapot as it's been altered really a fraction about perhaps a third of that sort of value would be about as much as one would think all on that even that might be pushing it to bed now little by little sort of Bachelor very pretty part neoclassicism and in fact we have got there a set of marks which are for 1790 itself that's got this handle that you were talking that's right that's that's the color and that's exactly how the handle should have been on that but I don't believe that that was made in 1790 what I think we're looking at there is a forgery and an outright or trick probably made at the beginning of this century there was there was a very famous group of forgers their name Dennis day on silent and twine more often than not when they put a set of marks on and I'm pretty certain there's a lion contrivance barks I just see what this marking they yes they have marked on the lid there as well that's a very funny shape to the P the actual plaque outlined of the punch and it's I'm not too happy about that leopards head mark loosely just just there it's got a funny sort of angle at the bottom it which is fairly typical of lion Winans so they actually formed that's who forged the hallmarks that really should go to Goldsmith's home and they will bring it within the law they'd have to take those marks out and then if you want it they would mark it as a new piece so one wonderful one one fascinating but lots of things have been done to it and one very naughty one Christopher you appeared on the roadshow as we know for years and you've even compiled an encyclopedia of furniture yet we come here the Kidderminster and you find a piece the like of which you've never seen before it's extraordinary it's what's so fascinating about English furniture basically it's a bondage or copying the French style of the 1780s lifts over you could support the plat by the drawer and it has this very unusual arrangement to these concave doors good very good cupboard space underneath and the recess allows the sitter perhaps to get a bit near with their knees too right why is that unusual because normally the bonod de jour would be standing simply on four tapering legs without the cupboard underneath exactly but what's the extraordinary about this and I simply don't understand the reason behind it is if you don't mind giving your hand it comes apart if you come up here put one hand under there yeah another one on the back well done that's it and we just lift it I cannot explain why it comes apart in this way well what could be an explanation I mean some enthusiast has designed a piece of furniture and giving it to a cabinet maker to make fine I can understand that wanting cupboards below why not if that's what the customer wants after we forget that these people were the commissioned piece exactly exactly many of them were most of them were so we're looking there for it a piece of furniture that may well be unique what does that do to its value strange enough it doesn't change the value very much people when you say the word unique people imagine to think of high figures yes but not necessarily at all and in many cases when the thing is less practical and perhaps less elegant with this box section underneath or I think it's perfectly charming and should be in a museum it's not necessarily worth any more sometimes even less and the date 1780 1790 and what would you expect it to fetch at auction today I should say between two and a half thousand and three and a half thousand pounds and really no different therefore to the value as a simple four-legged bonnet edge or a standing tree no more interest but no difference in price thank you very much the pretty thing is the doll isn't the dial lovely here and all these Continental painted dial verge watches are very very commercial at the moment date of manufacture is going to be about 1800 to 1820 and someone who bought or having but actually it's a present from my sister when I was home ownership can ago this the sale that amongst all the other stuff I'd like you to have this shake was over in America Thank You Dori but in the current market we'd be talking of about 400 pounds he's a rather generous present the finest bowie knives were made in Sheffield so all the American collectors that clicked the so-called american bowie knife largely are sheffield made and they was exported from england throughly that's hudson bay company and down through america some of these aren't really a joy to examine this particular one is an american one by Tiffany now Tiffany bowie knives are valuable today and this particular specimen should realize in auction something like two to three hundred pounds but this is by my real gem my Phil it's a Sheffield bowie knife by Moorhead now this is a cracker it nearly is right here we have four stags Buffalo and elk so this is a real hunters trappers knife and on the other side the hunters companion but what a lovely looking thing this Moorhead one I feel it's your classic knife and that in auction could fetch four or five hundred pounds but in general you have a collection here worth something like four to five thousand pounds all told is the most attractive corner cabinet is there any family history with it no family history my grandfather bought it at least 60 years ago from a lady whose husband had worked abroad and that's poor we actually know very much it's Japanese and it's typical of the kind of wares which were being exported from Japan in the late 19th and even into the 20th century this one is really quite a good quality one and it's very unusual to have this domed front to it and what's nice is they've used so many different techniques on it we've got gold lacquer with different qualities of size of the gold and he's actually gold leaf in there it's pure gold we've got mother-of-pearl these birds are in fact horn and this is crushed eggshell I was quite fascinated by this nice spent quite a lot of time at home trying to crush eggshells to make it look like that I couldn't do it I think what they must do is to flatten it into the lacquer and then spend a lot of time sanding it to get it absolutely smooth and this was picked up this technique was picked up in France in the 1920s and 30s by a lacquer called John Jr who made cigarette cases and so on out of it and they and screams I mean they're now terribly sought-after these as always with Japanese cabinets slight you get at least one of them sliding and what's good about this is they've decorated the inside with these sort of red clouds it's terrific we've got some damage heavenly this thinkwise mean we've lost a bit up here to that you've got that yes and what about these bits that are missing yeah we got the pomegranate and we do have the two knobs for these pearl they were a little bit suspect so we've left okay bit of mother-of-pearl where you got almost all of it well I could put put me put back and honestly you could almost do it yourself you could send it to have it professionally done it would cost a lot of money what's most important if you don't do that it's to keep the pieces together it's amazing in all the drawers we date right I think it would sell well I think that would probably make somewhere around thousand to fifteen hundred pounds dollars coming in this week well this is a nice scene bird box it used to be my one claim to fame that I could whistle the tune down to somebody on the telephone and if they said all he is that some that sounds just like mine I'd be able to say well I'm sorry to fake the ones that I that I've seen most often come from Holland and that's where they were originally made and you could either have them in this rather nice antique finish or you could have them really shiny and on the whole people don't overpay for mine I think that that they are attractive and I think most people pay between a hundred and hundred and fifty pounds the problems come when people buy them for a lot more than that thinking that they have bought a nineteenth-century one but obviously it wasn't the case with you most unusual collection of gold and tortoiseshell bracelets it's obviously a range of a journal showing the different designs that he could use I mean just to see one of them will be quite unusual because this design doesn't it is not seen that for that frequently but to see 11 is extremely rare one alone would probably be worth around 150 200 pounds and at least but to have 11 of them one would have to suggest at least in the region of two and a half to three thousand pounds for the whole group but because they're so unusual because the condition is so fine there's every possibility that as a group they can sell to three to four thousand pounds versatility I think is what all this is about there's a tiny sweet delight the little piece of furniture do you know anything about it very little really I know it was in the family home when my grandfather built the house in turn-of-the-century beyond that I know very little so you know how old it is no it certainly must I supposed to be 100 if not a bit more than right it might be a lot more than that good guess it's about 1820 mmm it's a very interesting form of marquetry and typical of France of almost exclusively 1820 to let's say 1840 yeah all right so the Charles the 10th here and she'll Dee's period everything I love this idea of it's a little lady's writing desk or whatnot I don't think there's a name for it we've always called it a whatnot but I mean what no name with the writings of it but it's actually even for something of our size it's very practical to use you can it's a little bit shaky but it needs with the restoration very nice and leather top all works beautifully nicely made inside lined in maple rosewood here and I sort of draw for pen and everything there little slide here again this lovely soft satin birch or maple here they're so charming to have that the idea of that swinging over your knee you just took a right that casual little billy do in the days when you couldn't just pick up a telephone what is interesting what helps perhaps to date it and to identify the nationalities this type of marquetry yeah it's in a type of sycamore or what was commonly caught of what Claire a clear wood inlaid into rosewood which is a typical wood of the second quarter of the 19th century both in England and France but the idea of this was rather interesting because you've probably seen French furniture with a big gilt bronze mouth this was in the days of more more in recession if you like after than the periodic war when people were trying not spend quite as much money as they had in the empire period and this idea is supposed to be the gilt bronze mouths food group it's the same pattern roughly but inlaid yeah and so this became part of the decoration the idea of in lane he would like a gold beef mouse it makes a pretty charming and really quite rare and unusual to piece of furniture I'd have thought any antique they would happily sit here and write you a check for well at least 2,000 pounds and possibly three it's a very critical piece of furniture who needs a little bit of tender loving care these are two of the most sumptuous Japanese macenroe I think we've ever had on the Antiques Roadshow well they belonged to my husband and they were given to him by his father as about 16 or 17 years ago they're marvelous that they're not the strain Japanese taste at all and they're not actually made for the Japanese home market these are made specifically for export to European collectors who working out there in Japan you know about in radio presume yes yes they hold the Japanese seal that sort of thing and an instance to once came across one that I actually had the original medicines in it and there were little tablets and I think they were sort of breath freshener things the technique itself is known as should be armored because originally in about things the late 18th century seven teenagers are there there abouts there was an ankle Senzo who perfected the technique of in laying and mosaic or mother-of-pearl and shell onto leather pieces and he was started off as a farm and he lived in the place for should be an armour these are both ontological subjects it's a Kingfisher they're on a branch of flowering what wisteria whispers its anthems or peonies here above a stream and this one here which is a beautiful shape and I think a rare a shape than the other one this has two marvellous oriental ducks here and if we turn them over turn over this one we have a more of a story here it's a stunning design isn't it and it shows it so he's a mythical Japanese drunken fool bishoujo here he is sitting down playing it appears or trying to trap a tortoise and it said it's a particular type of Japanese tortoise called a minnow gommi he's flaming tail and this is so nice also it's quite complete with its little Natsuki ever no dancer there we are a marvelous things well that's worth I think sort of three and a half to four that this one here right I think is even nicer actually because it's more unusual the Schafer's is beautiful being a double guard and it opens up here and it's even lined in silver so they're wonderfully finish isn't it I think one could safely expect that to fetch and it says four thousand four now possibly so have two wonderful things which certainly total in the area something we also enjoy looking good wanna do sir thank you well now as we come towards the end of our show particularly warm thanks to the people of Kidderminster today I'm afraid the weather has been not on our side have been raining for most of the day they've had to queue some of them in the rain yet without a single word of complaint so many thanks to them and we end with this fine lithograph of a local character called Philip Kissin now he was a traditional cottage craftsman and he was well known in this part of the world in the 19th century for the making of these ladder back chairs and he made these chairs in the workshop of his own cottage and he sold them for two and six months or four shillings so Philip kisseth grand old man bringing us to the end of this edition of the Antiques Roadshow next week we're in Anglesey and I very much hope that you'll join us so until then from all of us here in Kidderminster good bye

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Length: 43min 0sec (2580 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 02 2018