Antiques Roadshow UK Series 17 Episode 17 Accrington, Lancashire

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] when someone mentions Accrington what springs to mind for most people I suspect Accrington Stanley that Football Club nicknamed the Reds that would have found a member of the league in the 1800s the team has a colorful history and it certainly put Accrington on the map though today that map is colored white as a carpet of snow provides a chilly though picturesque venue for this week's roadshow for centuries Accrington has been an industrial town like Newcastle Emlyn Weaver's did a few weeks ago it flourished with the textile industry and at one time the landscape here was dominated by mills the cotton mills of Lancashire clothe the Empire but what of the people of Accrington Joseph Briggs was a man who made a very special contribution to the town although at the time nobody really appreciated it in the early years of this century Briggs trained here in Accrington as an engraver then at the age of 17 he emigrated to New York in search of fame and fortune and eventually he got himself a job as Foreman at the Tiffany glass works the name of Tiffany glass is synonymous with luxury and luster chemists and designers combined their talents to produce unique techniques trails of golden glass and the classic traditions of military service kills which eventually took him from Foreman to personal assistant - Louie Tiffany himself but fashion can destroy as well as create the angular shapes of the Art Deco movement killed the Tiffany market dead Joseph Briggs was ordered to dispose of the glass left in the works and much of it would have ended up on the rubbish tips of New York had he not had the foresight to save it and form his own personal collection a souvenir of his years at Tiffany but thankfully he brought a large selection of the pieces of Tiffany he saved back home to Accrington and gave half of it to the town at the time the collection was more or less worthless but Accrington thought highly of it and put it on public display where it remains to this day beyond price and certainly irreplaceable well I wonder if any of those other pieces of Tiffany glass that Joseph Briggs saved will turn up during our road show here in a kington today let's now discover as we join our experts with the people of this part of Lancashire actually we call it the wobbly chest because of the way that the front goes it's always been known as that a flower nicely in the wobbly chess it's a lovely shape isn't it a really good strong shape and this makes it into a really special you can chest of drawers in my opinion do you know where it comes from I thought it was French right it's French influenced I think it's more probably German and we'll look at the linings of the drawer in a minute but before we get to the drawer I just want to draw your attention to the top what have you been doing up here I mean more especially over there near years have been using for an ironing table or something no this is the condition that I inherited it's in 16 years ago I inherited it from two auntie's who have no children who looked after so I imagine that's how they inherited it too I really don't know anymore Matt no idea it's probably done 100 years ago 50 years ago certainly it's inexplicable but so strange which should have been done so crudely so naively I just want to re-emphasize this shaper this is sort of this serpentine shape was very popular in the middle of the 18th century under the lowest 15m from influence the king of France the Rococo influence and it's very well done I'm very strong because it's it really is not a lot of room it's a very narrow chest it's under a metre about three feet wide and it's compacted this very strong serpentine shape we've got history worn out draw linings which is quite interesting and I was expect you to be pine so you say French nice about to say German well I don't know it's French it's just something that I have been told over the years when I've had it I think actually although the shape is Germanic probably the compressed shape made me think it was dramatic look at these walnut linings especially with this rounded top here he's very typical of France at France in the middle of the 18th century so perhaps it's French German borders it's extraordinary some of it is it is a country piece I mean the lock here it's just made of steel in England's this time you have a nice party brass lock really very well made but this has been almost made by the local iron man I'm not is none of the drawers open without the key I know that's quite interesting is it that you have to you have to have the key I love the handles and this in a way this rather odd asymmetric shape of this handle and these are in lovely condition they obviously have been taken off they have been they were the original yes and the legs are unusual aren't they yes because they're all part of the side of the chest and you see that you see that a lot in France in Germany of this time so it is a good 70 40 70 60 chests of drawers and French borders let's say have you had an insurance valuation we did have one a few years ago at 2,000 pounds I think actually two thousand pounds for insurance is not enough because I think you can put into auction you could probably have a reserve of two thousand pounds so I would double that for insurance thank you thank you long to an uncle my father who died in 1937 and we used to go to his house every Christmas and I always coveted this and when he died my father bought it he bought it yes I do then I might fall yes you paid five pounds for oh my goodness how wonderful but you probably know it's made of coromandel wood which is a type of Ebony and we have this guilt metal mugs but what I love and it's one of my favorite things this this medallion here is Pietra dura and these little medallions on their own as pictures that go on the wall are now is very collectible and we have some also on either side of the drool here so in its own way this box without anything in it is worth a great deal of money and look what we've got inside it is absolutely pristine have you played with it well played with the drafts and they're also played with the chess so we have a fully stocked compendium yes which really dates back to the 1860s and of course in the 19th century this is what you didn't even and I think if I press this here we have magic rules come a lot right so we have shake up yes wonderful library we have the cards the original green yes but not this considering it was made over 130 years ago about four or five years ago I think there was some of the casing was missing in the front so I have it that's not very much no no have you ever had it valued well we had the contents of our house valued in 1982 and the people that value of the contents valued this them at 750 our insurance yes well for insurance today I think you should be talking about two and a half if not three thousand per much desert yeah it is a very it is a serious box it's just great well I went on holiday to the Alabama they entered a fishing competition with my husband and I actually won the fishing competition yes but unfair elude to fish one through the gills and one through the tail did they give you this as a prize no when we came back a follow day my husband went to an option sailing Chester and he bought it me do win in the fishing competition so this was a prize for a fishing competition was wonderful because it's got this most exquisite modern fish on the top the Royal Lancastrian pottery is a very famous Potter is one of the best 20th century pottery they have some marvelous workmen there William Burton was one of the organizers of it they started making our pottery about 1903 they made a lot of wonderful glaze effects like this which has this lovely underglaze blue yeah the fish which we see here these would be done by having a slip because they slightly raised ugly from the surface of the piece and then this would be lusted over it now if we have a look at heat underneath it shows us a good deal about it you can probably see first of all I like very much the idea that we've got the original label which was when it was first put on we've also got here the Roman letters 413 which means the piece was made in 1930 and then underneath here we've got in luster in the luster the initials RJ for Richard Joyce and he was another of the great decorators at the factory I suppose really the most credit that they should be given to the chemist of the firm man called Abram Lomax who in fact came from Blackman and he developed some 500 different glaze recipes you see some wonderful pieces from Ron Lancaster but this is one of the best I've seen and I've never seen it one with the model fish like that and these wonderful fish around the outside would you mind if I asking you what you paid for it of the option 20 years ago 30 pounds 30 pounds well today you can certainly have to pay 1200 1500 pounds at least thank you very much [Music] what a shame about the crack did that happen today put it on the ground be careful it doesn't it doesn't tear the paper I love the bright colors in the watercolor the so often these fade if they go in the sunlight but this hasn't I would think that's worse in the region of Roberto two or three hundred pounds so yes the Amari teapot late nineteenth century I would say 20 25 pounds the nice different his piece but in bit warm well I know you're interested in things of good taste so I had to bring you this excuse me barging out are you a dog lover that's it it is a real dog's dinner of a piece but it's so bad it's good it's wonderful and slip past the plastic biscuit where would you say French biscuit the dog don't know it's no French or German and he's lost his poor Theodore poor I would think it's worth around 200 pounds yes amazingly wouldn't you it's absolutely a real real masterpiece and I bought it about 13 years ago at a craft fair from a lady that renovated Org linen and this was in a box on the floor I said how much and she said eight pounds that is incredible I mean I think it's one of the most stunning pieces of 18th century employable I've ever seen from the point of view of quality what I love is that how all the flowers are done with absolute botanical accuracy I mean it's beautifully worked how did you clean it because she wasn't in terrible clever added it very carefully with a toothbrush and a bar of soap and just at each a little bit and then I hung it on the line to try I suspect with textile conservation to be absolutely horrified didn't but the result is absolutely I mean it's as good as the day it was embroidered yeah Mustain from about 1740 I think you should certainly insure it for up to four or five hundred pounds they were supposed to have come from her cell rooms in Inverness and a friend of mine purchased them and he wanted to come along here today but he didn't like the way that so he asked me to bring them for him yes quite all the snow and it doesn't seem to put a lot of people off coming there but so there's no absolute direct kind of family association well this watercolor and this one here are of Rachel and Frederic Forbes and the artist as a miniature point painter called William Booth who was born in Aberdeen at beginning of the nineteenth century and from the date of these which is 1841 it was just within his lifetime now I think that this portrait of Rachel here is absolutely exquisite quality I think she's a very beautiful woman and so elegantly posed I'm not too keen on him to be honest narrow waisted yes and this high chin this kind of uniform accentuates the figure but it may be seen rather strange to actually call them miniatures because in fact they are what some kind of tend 11 inches high if you could imagine that that would be encompassed in a small miniature frame right the quality would still be there to show through and show how brilliantly are painted the bird's-eye maple frames are rather elegant and so they're just as they were done price-wise a little bit difficult but I'd certainly think that a thousand or 1500 pounds would be the value for the bear my father bought it and gave it to me in his lifetime it was one of the nicest things that we had so what a lovely gift to have to me to see a piece of silver like this so played and yet so elegant you know it's absolutely loved it it's made to fine timaeus tan anyway by one the fineness of the silvers was actually John Schofield it was actually made on the hallmark here it has what stone as the ink you said whenever you see the sovereigns head on silver it's raised but this one is actually cutting it's very very worn but it's there and that was when they introduced duty on silver it's obviously not a coffee pot by the design it's made as a claret jug very very elegant do you use it too no no we have it out on the piano and enjoy looking at it so do I enjoy looking at and now when you come back to real basics I suppose what you want to know for me as what it's worth what it wears would you ever guess of it I would have liked to out sitting with you well I could see that in any option making certainly between two and two and a half thousand pounds it's a beauty it really is and thanks for being at wrong today glad I did Thanks these absolutely fascinating both beautiful plates superb place on me after the subjects of Lancia and they're marked here of a staggered Bay after servlet Lancia RA by RF early hurling was a magnificent poster artist in the 1870s were the 60s and 70s and these are superb some of the finest pearling plates I've seen wonderfully pierced at the border hand cutouts and their little pearls put around the the edges of the piercing eye I suppose nowadays he spake and we were about 700 800 pounds on the way they're absolutely beautiful so look after them treat them very very careful and here two plates from a later period of Worcester painted by an equally marvelous pain to pull Charles Baldwin Charles Henry Clifford Baldwin signed they include down there with superb birds the birds are absolutely wonderful do you like those oh I do yes how long do we have those it's just about 1982 yes did you buy them all yes of all of them yes because we're like that's them that's the way of buying things Italy this one's a little bit damaged it's had a little bit of repair restoration at the top you probably knew that did yes it's discovering now you can see where it's discolored most repair just colours after a while one way of telling it but if they're still superb please how much did you pay for a 300 pound for the 300 for the bell I supposed this one assigned Baldwin plate-like there that beautiful birds must be like about 500 550 pounds and this one well not so much obviously with the damage 5060 pounds it's a pleasure having them well at the beginning of the program I was telling you the story of Joseph Briggs the Accrington man who saved a remarkable collection of Tiffany glass from the scrap heap quite literally and gave half that collection to the town and it's now in the house art gallery and they've kindly better see three of the pieces at rather closer quarters the extraordinary thing I find Paul is how it is that this in the 1930s was thought fit for the scrap heap and now is so sort of them it's an extraordinary reflection of the changing pattern of taste I mean what we've got to think about is what are we putting on the scrap heap now really because these pieces are seen as that the high point of glassmaking experimental glass making in the late 19th century I mean Tiffany is the great name the French makers set set the ball rolling but it was Tiffany who really took it to new heights of excellence now what about the technique of making this was it actually very difficult from a technical point of view yes it was I mean what Tiffany did as did other glass makers at the time was to revive old techniques lavars near you the millefiori well here's a technique known to glass makers in the nineteenth century but he did it in a different way and made it much more complex and much more demanding but what was really new was pieces like the so called lava glass this was trying to achieve effects in glass has never been seen before well I suppose the most famous pieces of all are are the lamps which of course are now very often reproduced you've got to be careful it's a very dangerous area this one is fine it's a very nice Tiffany lamp of a sort of classic 19 early 1900s period eight nineteen ten perhaps and of course it was electricity you know this great new domestic revolution was not just the glass it was the chain it was the changing nature of the interior environment it showed and the escalation in the value of Tiffany is just quite spectacular is exactly there now getting back to being considered in the scene in in the right light you know by the looks of it you're not only a lace collector or a bobbin collector but I should imagine you also me please yes yes I had lessons from an old lady in Buckinghamshire 30 years ago she taught us to make the pillow didn't didn't make that yes you made it yes it's filled with bran no very good for the heart and then you may have we made we made the point the pricking and put the marks on those marks show where the thick threads will follow the pattern right and presumably the thick threads have a different bobbin which would be this one here and we decide the who you we call a cow and to car that's right is that right so here you have about 50 bobbins with the lovely little spangles bangles and yes to wait to weigh them down so what have we got here right see oh you've got some pewter and wood ones which are highly collectible these can be found now for about five pants each so you've got quite a lot here already and then we have another layer down right we've got some more with names on we've got one I particularly like which says marry me quick and love me forever yes that is one of the finest one but yeah that's very amusing and that can be worth fifty pounds on it I didn't know how much he paid probably paid half a crown for each in John Bligh's father's shop oh I want to cease listening John Bligh selected a money a trip down on the bus and see what he got available fantastic these bobbins on this pillow are probably worth three to four hundred and what we've seen here will add up to about a thousand parts from a thousand six but here we've got a fine run of three English shotguns by the great English maker Wesley Richards who are still going at this moment in Birmingham this is a converted pin fire gun which started out life with a French design cartridge it's a little pin which stuck out the top and it would originally have come out of the top of the lock sir and if you look there there is just a tiny little bit of infill in that and then converted it subsequently to centerfire cartridge which is to all intents and purposes the same as we use today we've move on to this other one this is very much the same principle but was actually built as a centerfire this differs from this earlier one of the it's got a safety feature fitted into it in that you can't actually make the hammer fall on the striker properly unless you've pulled the trigger it's known as a rebounding lock and that was very important if you've got cold hands and you're trying to it yeah and your finger or thumb slipped on it and it went off before you were quite ready then it might have been like anymore yes and then pushing on to this one which is perhaps I think the most important of the three so yes the simple fact that it's the Antonin Dealey patient box law action but still employed today it's called a box locked and simplify for the action actually looks like a box all that's happened really is for the mechanism in there has been compressed and put into this piece of steel you can date these quite accurately from the fact that this one was a pin fire gun which we'll put it sometime before 1870 yeah this one about 1875 to 1880 and this one certainly before 1885 this is not in the best of condition it's Eric lost a lot of the checkering off there but certainly from its interest point of view yeah and there is a tremendous amount of interest being generated by early shotguns yeah but far more than was ten years ago you couldn't give them away - yeah so this somewhere 300 400 pounds yeah this one round about five five and a half and this one because it's got the Wesley Richards gold name there somewhere five to eight hundred something like that about 13 14 1500 forums yeah whoever uses it I don't to be Crowley simply parents actually looking after at the moment for me you know it's Burmese grass which was first produced in the Mount Washington grass works in the United States in 1886 really nobody's quite sure why it was called Burmese because supposed to have been the formula for it was supposed to have been discovered by a burmese glass worker and then it was made under license by Thomas Webb in Starbridge who called it Queens Payton Burmese were because Queen Victoria was very keen on it she had services hobby I'm almost certain this is Thomas Webb and it's so unusual to have such a large one you know with these little bars isms and it seems to be in perfect condition but this is what I haven't seen very often before these would hold night lights that you put in and of course clothes between here but usually they are just glass but these are made entirely in the Burmese glass and they've got Clarke's patent trademark very light written inside them absolutely standing you know of course that the it has uranium image the glass gold and uranium and that's what causes it when it's reheated at the furnace the pale yellow shades through into quite a deep pink as it's really heated the other thing is that if you put a Geiger counter near it it would go mad because of the uranium in it but I mean it's not dangerous you didn't worry about it but how did you get it I've inherited it from my grandma's you're very very lovely is you got it in short and my parents have actually dealt with that for me to tell my me as far as allure proximately 900 I'm not gonna slide out there a bit yeah I adapt it to about 1,500 now [Music] it's another one how much is this doggie I'm doing no more dogs today but 435 pounds had a very very good boy after Antonio was that ring today if it came up for auction would make summer and the reason about 350 to 450 pounds so goodbye at the Tollan about this one ta-da compound one pound fifty what would the child what a pity you didn't get the chain as well one pound fifty right well that is actually mid-victorian that actually would take from well about 1860 or 1870 that's all the period it's got a foiled amethyst in the center and it's set with diamonds on the top a nice enameled around the outside edge very popular from the archaeological finds and so at that time you've got the locket back it's actually gold I know if you realize that for one pound fifty unlock it like that would make today I would have thought ran about eight to twelve hundred pounds so would you mind telling me where you bought it I'm and is the shop still there it's gone oh what a pity can I love to go around well it would have been extraordinary I supposed to have come all the way to Lancashire and not seen a pair of Lancashire Claud with these but these once upon a time yours did you ever wear these no they belong to Milton your mother and she remembers using these did you ever use clogs when you were ago I wore clogs yes did you when you were young yes it's very I mean suppress them difficult to imagine what it was like wearing and in they look of it they were very uncomfortable were they no no are they were the most comfortable is Footwear that you can get weather especially when you were doing a lot of standing walking and one imagines because of the way they're made they quite literally and this is proven it lasted a lifetime yeah we send you're looking care yes you're obviously too young to have won this magnificent prize how did you get you well it was passed to me by my mother who received it as a gift from a neighbor about 40 years ago 35 years ago so we don't know who it was awarded - yeah - pretend it was me anyway but what we do know is who made the pot the pot was made in Birkenhead the della Robbia factory by charles walker now we have della Robbia charles walker and in fact the date 1904 so obviously it was ordered what for this extremely brilliant student and the first need to know who it was and I still think it's probably worth more than two thousand pounds I better not hit it with the Hoover anyone do that not good for the Hoover you know so here we have a cabinet which to all intents and purposes should endure all the details not Chippendale the first thing I would say is the size of it makes me suspicious about the date I would expect an 18th century piece to be a bit bigger so let's actually look at the details and see if we can find out what date it is this lovely Chinese Chippendale pagoda cresting up here is absolutely typical of his work but these cornices and this should come off by these of it were made surprisingly in the 18th century in the 1754 sixties they will be made in in in three-piece plywood I'd expect I would be a modern thing but here you can see it's in the solid and if that have been made by Chip and Bert or his contemporaries in the 1750s or 60s I'd expect to see one two three pieces of plywood each piece came in other way so if I can use my fingers administration got the grain going one way on one another way on another another way it's built up a lamination and makes it much stronger here we've got it cut out of the solid which is not eighteenth-century way of doing it Chippendale or his contemporaries but a lot of used painted decoration like this those are very unlikely mahogany ground which was a very common wood in the 1750s but not to have this sort of painting when you look inside you can see it's one sheet of glass now again in the 18th century and always would have been however many pay that glass thirteen or seven in this case or whatever individual pieces of glass putted in a typical 18th century piece of course it could have been replaced and broken but it's unlikely because the Astra girls are perfectly original and the drawers no doubt here will tell us even more again one of the first rules about furniture it's a general rule but it normally works you never get this quarter molding until about 1800 but in fact this is even later than that the first revival of the Chippendale style was in about eighteen thirty four quarters and then again in the 1890s nineteen hundred but also in the interwar period how long have you had this beautiful twelve years right but it's older than that but it's not a lot older than it could actually be just before the Second World War or even just after sir so it's not really an antique piece of furniture but it's a nicely made piece of furniture made in a good-quality factory and they probably made 10 20 even 30 or 40 of these when they made them you'll never find another one I probably never see another one in my career but it's a nicely made good quality cabinet I am sure that will keep appreciating in value I'm sticking my neck out here because you've bought it 12 years ago which is comparatively recently how much think may I ask you how much you pay for it 1200 pounds from an antique shop walls yeah yeah I would say that this is worth certainly for insurance ie from a dealer will cost you two and a half thousand pounds so it's doubled in 12 years yeah yet it's not even 50 years old Wow look at that now tell me about these there are passes that my mother-in-law bought in a sale I have no idea how much she paid for and when was this it would have been in the thirties do you know what these are yes well I know that they're more profitable day right yes do you know any more than that [Music] well there was a more preference but having looked at them now I'm intrigued because these a thought always thought were a pair and they obviously are yes and one of them has done which is old damage and there is a damage of that one so I mean I assume that's detracted from the value so I really don't know right William Moore Croft started working for McIntyre and company in 1898 and the first range he produced as a design and was called Florian ware and these are very good examples of Florian where we've got the Florian where mark on the bass they're the printed mark we've got Moorcroft signature this doesn't mean he made them it meant that he was the designer and he signed all the pieces that came up to the standard that he required so he would prepare these designs on paper they would then be applied to the VARs by train emphases who would use the slip trailing technique which is very like decorating a cake and that would give you the raised outline all hand-drawn and then color would be washed in noir Croft was very much a William Morris follower at that point and therefore these sort of designs with their flowing thorald happens are very Morris life and this was his great mentor he then moved on to other things a garnish like this is very unusual indeed because one gets the single VARs is you quite rightly say they're not quite a pair but that's because every one was done differently every one was done by hand so the were variations this is all the same design it's simply how the design has been changed by different shapes and how different skilled girls decorating slightly changed it this was an Emmet and irritability of the princess pieces like this was sold by liberties in London and indeed much of the Florian ware was first made for liberties and was illustrated in liberties catalogs from about 1901 onder's so we're dealing with a very very stylish upmarket product what interests me is that in the 1930s these must have been seen as absolutely at rock-bottom in terms of design decoration taste you know the last thing these are is art decade so your mother was going out obviously with a good eye and buying things which at that point had no interest at all and the damage is old damage we've got very nice examples of early riveting this in itself is part of the history of the piece we're quite wrong to change that and get it restored professionally as you could now if this set was perfect oh I wouldn't give you any change from two and half thousands yes but that's what that's but that says they are the three of them yeah you wouldn't know that would be perfect yes yes empathy is two and a half to three I think they're perfectly reasonable for a collectors there because a set is so unusual and even with the damage you're well over a thousand fifteen hundred I think of three possibly more and this came to you from announced did it well it's a piece of genuine Tiffany lava glass it's signed by typically there if you haven't looked it and well you brought me a lot of other things which perhaps you're a bit disappointed about they weren't worth a great view I think on this one you might be a little bit surprised it's difficult to give an exact option figure but it's going to be something like 1,500 2,000 pounds I'm sure this on the on the rim is awarded to private eight will more as his arms as he relative what do you remember about your relative well they was in the ball was massaging the naked bazaars and they was on this wall so they gave him the biggest horse and make him a level with the others and they went to Egypt it was in China about ten years that's interesting in that it's got the to clasp on it for the defense of Ladysmith yeah and also Fort Alana which raises its value fighting City and the two two of them together makes the medal worth something like about hundred hundred and fifty pounds add to that we've got a a group then two of them of 250 yes yeah let's see it open there's the hidden lock this is a strong arm bit is it right excellent is this something that you've been heretic tore how did you come by the open god what it was how long ago was that 1958 this story was that these things were believed to have been some of the chests that held the jewelry and the coin on board the Armada and then they were sank off the coast of England and they were brought ashore nonsense these chests were made for several hundreds of years and in fact before this one was made they were in use commonly in England for at least two to three hundred years and in fact what they were is quite simply a secure chest now these things when they're this elaborate you can almost date them exactly to the mid 1590s and this one in fact has got a date here 1595 which is exactly that they don't expect not always do they have now the other thing is that often they weren't made in this country at all if they were made in this country then they were usually made by foreign work these wonderful locks here are usually continent so you know how many bolts this has gone okay and it is amazing that turning that key turns all these locks can you turn the key in the lid you'll see if you actually see the bolts come out there we are see how that from one key moves 13 volts out it's absolutely wonderful so can I be read and ask you do you remember what you paid for it in 1958 imagine 60 pounds well it has gone up quite a lot but I always am a little disappointed with what these objects make when they're sold by auction but you can't use them for very much you know so the demand for them is not very great have you any idea what it might make today Oh No it would make between a thousand and twelve hundred pounds so 460 pounds not bad and you can be sure of one thing no burglars ever get it was given to my mother in the late 30s by a very old lady who lived in our village my mother happened to be very kind to her this is what she gave her thank you thank you yes it was a thank you and did she have any contacts with the forest but Oh Bailey I'm not aware that she did but she did have some nice Japanese bits and pieces in the house it was lovely oh it is Japanese and it was made around 1900 it's a brilliant example of was on a technique and you're using it for the correct purpose it was an incense burner and you put lavender inside there's so many different cruzando type techniques but this one is using thicknesses and wine we can go to the panel here and see that the actual design is done in very thin outline but then the actual cartouche up here is done very thick beaten silver wire wire applied to the body of the piece so a lot of troubles gone into the piece a lot of trouble when tins of making of the knot which is a chrysanthemum chrysanthemum about to explode it's rather a pretty little thing and then wonderful little panel of a whole bird in flight against the what appears to be a a snowstorm brilliant it has a wooden box which is satin lined but it Japanese box yes the wooden box was such a nice writing inside it was falling apart when I last movie please keep it key but it is the original box okay almost certainly made by a maker called Tadashi one of the prime lasagna makers in this technique and when you go home put it somewhere safe and insure it for nine thousand pounds well earlier today I talked to you about this Tiffany piece we had a look at it we've had several other Tiffany type pieces in today and nearly all of those have turned out not to be by Tiffany but we quite shot this one is I gave you a valuation of it and you remember that was yeah well we're gonna have to revise that you probably would not find one of these for sale any of them might have to go to America it's about one and ten thousand pounds would be round about the business I'm sorry I disappointed you this morning I don't give you a proper evaluation well I don't know about Breakfast at Tiffany's but it certainly felt rather like tea time at Tiffany's here today because we've seen more examples of that beautiful colored glass made by Tiffany's in New York in the early years of the century more here in Accrington than I can ever remember on any other Roadshow so certainly Joseph Briggs who we talked about at the beginning of the program made quite an impact on local cultural life next week it's tea time in Norfolk so until then from all of us here in Accrington good bye

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Length: 43min 6sec (2586 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 08 2018