Antiques Roadshow UK Series 17 Episode 19 Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire Part 1

[Music] [Applause] [Music] this week we bought the Antiques Roadshow - oxfordshire and - one of our greatest country houses over the years we've been in some magnificent locations but I don't think anything quite as grand as Blenheim Palace built in the English Baroque style Blenheim massive exterior implies changeless stability but during the last 250 years many tides of fashion have swept through its rooms leaving a wealth of art and antiques successive Dukes of Marlborough have collected according to their tastes each attempting to make a home of this colossal Palace built in recognition of their ancestors great military victory near the village of Blin time on the Danube in 1700 and for over there beyond the clock tower on the magnificent east entrance gate there's an inscription which reads under the auspices of a munificent sovereign this house was built for John Duke of Marlborough and his Duchess Sara by Sir John Vanbrugh between the Year 1700 and 5 and 17 22 and this royal manor of Woodstock together with 240,000 pounds towards the building of Blenheim was given by Her Majesty Queen Anne and confirmed by Act of Parliament but even in the early 1700s 240 thousand pounds would not have bought you seven acres of magnificent Palace and outbuildings like this when the project began in 1705 no final budget was agreed and as the relationship between Queen Anne and the Marlboros cooled so the money for Blenheim dwindled John 1st Duke of Marlborough the national hero for whom Blenheim was built ended up by forking out six two thousand pounds of his own money to get his gift completed Sarah supervised Blenheim construction and she fought to personalize the building and to restrict some of andrás more monarchist extravagances despite many arguments between Sarah and van breh you've only to look at the quality of the work to see how good it was and the prices were reasonable - this trophy above me was carved by greenling Gibbons and cost just 40 pounds records show that the choosing of the ornaments was a most laborious business in which countless models were hoisted to the skyline and checked from every angle the interior of the palace reflects the symmetry and formality of the exterior and several duchesses since Sara have complained how hard it is to furnish but today this English Versailles which Walpole called the palace of an auctioneer on account of its jumbled legacy of art and antiques offers a grand welcome to our visiting experts and the people of Oxfordshire now I can only assume that you keep this little tray in your china cabinet is that right keep it on my dressing table what what you're actually using it to put hair clips and things on us never occurred well if I were you I would refrain from doing that I would think about the China comb but I mean it seems such a shame because some I mean have you ever given it a really close look yes I got magnifying faster and I was thrilled because all these little tiny little see use round they were all quite different yes well let's let's have a look at because I have to tell you know I've been in this business a good number of years over 20 years but I never ever tire of admiring good Satsuma now when the Satsuma believe me and Satsuma but this comes pretty pretty high on the on the Richter scale of serious Japanese Satsuma and this type is not something when it's so detailed was almost this will almost certainly made in Kyoto that was the center let's have a look at this scene because I mean have you ever counted how many ladies there are actually milling around this street market because each one of these girls has got an individual face look up the quality it shouts at you doesn't it and not only that as we move across you can see that they're milling around the marketplace with the can you see the stall behind this this wonderful canopy and you see it here oh and smothered absolutely smothered with millefiori the even that even the supports are very very finely detailed to get this sort of detail I think you need a single hand you need a single hair and you need the patience of a saint but it doesn't stop you've had time to look at this what show me your favorite little episodes that are going around around the border in these little vignette well mine I like the one down the bottom here is somebody's obviously just missing a boat is Mystic missed the boat you know in that wonderful fun shape panel and all these these shapes you tend to find them turning up on English pottery and porcelain from the eighteen seventies 1880s it's just the sheer workmanship the sheer craftsmanship there's gone into making an object it's a little gem in every sense of the word and please don't put any more hands in a china cabinet thank you so oh I suppose we haven't touched on the subject of money have we if I were you I would insure this for 2,000 pounds really because it is in every sense of the word a princely train really thank you very much [Music] well it's handed down from my grandfather by my mother and I don't really don't know how my grandfather acquired it he didn't collect quite a few cloth he did he didn't visit Paris sans no although they did travel a bit to Italy quite a lot but I'm not sure where it came from I daresay I could try to find out but he always took it with him everywhere as his bedside clock yes yeah did the idea of these were actually supposed to be carriage clocks that you traveled with them is slightly dubious there are too many may there are so many of them the real point was you could take them from room to room not that you galloped along and a horse with if you go back about a hundred years which is approximately the date this clock was made sometime in the 1870s 1880s anybody who was anybody who wanted a fine clock or watch would go to the firm of the one in in France and they made quite a lot of objects that almost one-off and I think this clock is probably in that jar it's decorated in the emotion amel it's what one two three four five six sided which again is very unusual for a carriage clock decorated in emotion enamel a technique that goes back more than four hundred years before the clock was made but has been beautifully reproduced here with this gray painting design technique and if you follow it round it's actually got what has got science music lady on the back with wings whose name I've forgotten at sculpture represented by a lady holding up a miniature figure and then art right around the other side the columns are silver and the handle is very much in the style of when slamming it sets of 16th century work now the movement I wish we can see if we just open the back has again a technique that was peculiar to noir or a feature that was peculiar to him is to fit the alarm dial on the back of the clock and it's fitted inside the white and a small white animal down at the bottom is actually the alarm setting doll most clocks of this period would have it on the front but rather than ruin the sculptured sculptural effects of the enamels he's just put it on the back and he did that quite frequently well it's probably worth I'm going to take a shot on us it's very rare very unusual I would think that's probably worth the fat end of 5,000 pounds [Music] very pleasantly surprised what we have here is the the early history of the the flushing water closet this is a this is early 19th century probably from the 1820s and we have this wonderful blue printed bow if only laboratories looked like this now how plain and dull they are by comparison yeah here you have this a lovely Italian it seemed as though it were off the center of a large meat dish probably by Wedgwood I think isn't that this edge would a number of manufacturers in Staffordshire produce these sanitary wares and of course the 1820s 1830s was the great point of change I mean prior to that you did not have a flushing gavel trip because there wasn't such a thing and once they developed and once of course the infrastructure of the pipe work had been laid in the cities and towns to which you could connect it then of course the modern sanitary revolution took place what is particularly rare about this one is if we turn it round and swing it we see here all the secrets revealed and that's the detail that went into in those old days yes it's wonderful counterweight and the red on either side and it would be invisible at all this would normally be boxed it yes and when you lift that handle well I think we should demonstrate demonstrate so when you had completed your business you gave the het handler a mighty pull better the letter poured out from behind this battle what washed round at the bowl and then you let the handle go and it's all sealed you know the turn Bob drunk Bob's your uncle it's a wonderful thing well I mean my offer as evaluation would be five six hundred pounds today I think I'd be a fair price what do you know burr I don't know anything at all about them except that my aunt who live locally gave them to me some years ago these rather aunties are related in some ways the story begins with this piece down here because this is produced in Japan around 1700 is produced in the colours fashion at the time the Amaury colors of red blue and gold and in fact the shape of it is also Japanese it's based on the basically on a kind of cos anthem shape that one was so fashionable the Chinese themselves produced the same color of the scheme a little bit later about 30 or so years later we have these two plates which is standard Chinese dirty different rather more fragile than the Japanese so we are related and this one in turn is back to China China again is looking at the shape produced by the Japanese I said I'll do my teapot is a Chinese version of that one but they're quite different if result we'll we looked at the basis of these turn them over you can see a totally different treatment see that this one here is cut it has no real foot it's just simply the whole organic form and this one has got a typical Chinese foot which is slightly dredged run you see this little edge around here it's cut away that is pretty typical of early 18th century late 17th century Chinese Paulsen material itself is quite brittle this is not this feels rather waxy and heavy it's very heavily produced this is much lighter much time blastia if you look you can see the blue is totally different let's take the blue on this one it's easy to see the blue on here is greyish the blue on here is a nice sharp translucent color it's a nice clear blue color so they're quite different there are subtle variations differences between leads of quite different material so in in all ways these are related not only in color but also in the shape [Applause] [Music] [Applause] that's one of its little foibles yeah well I'm certain that it was made roundabout yes 1909 the the actual rolls here looking very good condition and of course the way that it works is that there's a bellows under here which is operated when you turn the handle and that forces are out through these holes here we can just take that out through those holes and as the gap in the paper appears so the air comes out and and sounds the note it's a very nice box indeed and pretty quite popular these days musical mechanical musical instruments in general are very sought-after and one in good condition like this with the directions great conditioning this is very nice and in fact even the outside isn't - it's anyone where someone obviously puts their hand when they're turning yes that's lovely to see that over the years has been blown away value I would have said 300 400 pounds stay soon lovely thing right I'm gonna lose with care but use it I can see it's obviously giving a lot of pleasure at the years my mother was a rider and in here it is London and rider which is a jewelers shop on Bond Street in my mother's will it was put down reputed to be by the great artists in event to should leave if it were actually knee that dates the early part of the 16th century now this I can tell you straight away is the 16th century but it's a 19th century copy of a medieval jewel in the 19th century we had a couple of very very good italian artists that tried to copy all the medieval jewels some of the enameling here has done to Jetta simulate gemstones I mean obviously this type of purity was being a time when lighting wasn't very good didn't have lighted who had to tell you had candlelight as on so therefore they brightened up their jewelry when you're sitting all the old Holbein paintings and so on all this lovely polychrome in only I mean 90% of cameos at one sees a ship made of shell this is made of hard stone it's very interesting to see it because if we turn it to one side you can actually see the bands of agate yes and they're in different colored bands and the whole technique of cutting cameos is to pay her away those bands and yet still leave the colors of jade that you require but unlike the shell cameras which are very very soft to work with hard stone of courses so it's a very very fine cameo and no doubt you've had it insurance I have but any sort of got round to getting it valued properly so I put it down as a valuable piece of jewelry probably about 600 plans I don't know but that's what it's at at the moment as much as 600 well I didn't know what it was that they said if it was any more then I should need to get it more valuation well I know if it's good news or bad news for me but I'm afraid your 600 wouldn't buy this today really I think if you were to go to a retail shop to buy this today you probably looking at somewhere between about two and a half thousand pounds my gosh so I'm afraid your insurance policy's got to go up Robin so tell me again between turn two and a half thousand pounds in spite of the fact that there's much other than stones missing but that's nothing well I think without knowing what they're for they have to be some of the prettiest objects that one could ever see I mean they're so bright and Pavillion Regency yes have you had them a long time I got them about 20 years my argument to me about 20 years ago they're absolutely beautiful and without doubt with this black lacquer and gold leaf on those cases were made in the sort of 1800 to 1810 period but the interesting thing of course is that they are cases for globes and two of these miniature globes both celestial and terrestrial intended during the 18th century for educational purposes and objects of amusement and as well as education which they loved now the fascinating thing is that both of these I'll go I must take one out both of these blow-ups are early 18th century now the the thing is that normally when you have such a an instructional piece is this you would keep it up to date so you imagine as soon as Captain Cook starts traipsing all around the world and charting us and did so brilliantly everywhere he went they bought new papers to put on to bring up-to-date the globe for all for obvious purposes reasons now the thing is that these have never been touched there's an indistinct makers mark there which i think is good as soon or good certainly it's difficult because it goes right across the goal which is a strip of paper so it's difficult to be precise about that without a little more research however I'm going to put it back as I don't handle it any more than I should do originally they would have probably had little Shagari in cases there's little tiny leather outer casings and the norm was to paper the reverse on the inside of the case so the celestial globe would have the terrestrial globe on the inside of the case and vice versa yes so somebody thought sufficiently about these aid to keep them in their original condition never touch them and be to have them mounted in 1800 or 1805 why they should do that we don't know we probably never will but these were jolly expensive to do I mean this is these are trim these are turned wood yes the nice thing about them too is that they only actually fit one way they're not round now you can't you can't fake that you see because the wood is shrunk just sufficiently to make it slightly over and you can't turn a slight oval you have to turn a perfect circle so if these were perfectly round you doubt them there can be no doubt as there are authenticity or their great aim and I think that absolutely stunning and they were a gift 20 years ago about that I think yes oh yeah well these are extremely desirable they've fashionable objects one has to think about their monetary value as well as their all right the family value which of course is beyond price yes a pair of globes of this size and this type and date in this condition would probably make eight to ten thousand what that's a really in these stands then you can doubled it and this pair of globes and stands is almost well certainly well twenty thousand don't feel faint so ourselves might say absolutely true they are wonderful my dear have you ever had family in Russia no we haven't it belongs to my daughter-in-law I was given it 15 years ago by a lady in her will we we know them as nest egg dolls but actually they're known as matryoshka dolls and which means little mother I love them and I think no one knows really why they started to make them like this but I do think it is because of the womb the you know coming out of the womb and it's a wonderful game because what they used to do is they used to put little skittles in they used to put little girls would put chocolate in and then make their sisters guess which one which one it was in this is a rather grand gentleman who I think is to pick one of the patriarchs of Russia and there is his wife and four children normally you would have seven but I think we're missing the second last one because he fits he doesn't like the interesting thing about your little baby is that he comes apart and usually they were just one solid piece of wood you can see that wonderful colors of the inner ones compared with the matured coloring of the patriarch himself there very good condition although he's got a crack down the middle and it's possible they were made by the bogorodskiy firm which was in the Moscow district it's unusual to get an early one like this which I believe is second half 19th century and its earlier than 1900 and if all seven were there it would make a little bit more what I was quote which I think we're talking about between 800 and 1,200 pound oh she will be surprised Oh what is he saying she haven't got any idea at all she just said remember taking please and find out how old they are she'll be free lovely hand paintings yes I love his face it's wonderful things stopping an erratic address I was you're just an old happy he said trouble will get no three things happen the first is you get forgetful I can't remember the others you're as good as the out of himself no I don't think anybody could be a good of Tommy Cooper these are Tommy Cooper this is his original I'll stage ham yes the lot sixty I bought in an auction place I heard there's been option when I sadly after I was disabled and I couldn't get there yeah rang off and I made a bit over the phone and was luckily successful and how much did you pay for them the Oh mangy old chicken in the hand well it all came in one loss yes I rang up and said what do you want what about the Fez was the best roast as yet there was affairs a weather game of weather very fast yes I actually said I would go to 500 pounds of the past you know you big weather vane going right but they were you didn't get the fed up the mayor's real chicken and the mangy old chicken and they said no they said hands lights of all big hands and it was hams and I got the lot for 80 pounds so you were a great fan of to I was I was in the he was a great staff they had the great star I wrote to mrs. Cooper said the letter went with the check and a left or a little card come back she said I'm you know I sort of said that she must have been very proud of Tommy you know yes and she said I'm sorry about before her accident may I'm pleased you've got the chicken made Tommy always be your elbow Gwen Cooper oh that's jolly nice and it's just fun to said there are great sentimental they're very good sentiment they were my husband's movie to start with um many years ago he taught me was a bad debt way back in 1950 I should think or thereabouts and what was the debt for undertaking so with it was the cost of a funeral after if you knew out where the owners couldn't afford it at the time yeah no I wouldn't like to hazard a guess what a funeral cost in those days I wouldn't buy but we will come to what they're worth in in a moment the title thing being here in Oxfordshire is to find a set of Oxford windsors this may sound a little strange but it's it's an Oxford style of Windsor literally they are a scroll back chair but you can see when you look at the up right here which ends in a scroll which differentiates them from the more generally known hoop back which is made out of steam bent ash these are especially nice because they are associated with Oxford itself in the style where you have a a curved top rail and the two cross rails here with the little turned roundels and the chairs made from a mixture of woods fruit wood in the rails beech legs and elm as always for the seat towards the end of the 19th century this sort of chair was the most common shape and quite often they the later ones become very crude and not very interesting so people often overlook these and sometimes neglect them and end up painting them that's why it's such a pleasure to find six that are all together in one place what lifts these from the ordinary apart from the fruit use of fruit wood is the delicacy of the work on them the scribing lines here here and round the seat a fairly ordinary turned decorated leg which you find later in the century around about 1850 1860 but when you stand back and look at it all these little touches lead to something which is really rather delicate and very elegant what would you think they'd be worth to a collector I have no idea what I would expect to see them being sold for something in the region of 1,500 to 2,000 pounds with such yes you do suppose me I couldn't tell you get off them we've had it for 30 years and we walked in the Isle of Wight and here we now are isn't it wonderful well it must date from the sort of 1820s at the very latest are some of the this of the partridges under the main tree they appear in a barrister hall-patton book in 1815 but quite a lot of these dress fabrics probably date from about 1820 I mean they're roughly between that sort of date it would be the work of an individual worker and it just suddenly - is marvelous of balance is marvelous I mean we're really with this lovely brought again that's a print with this yellow background for about eighteen twelve to fifteen and you know probably they would but what is so wonderful this is not a trace of faded knowledge and it's obviously never used or made up that's incorrect or you can imagine it would have given hours of amusement to a child at that stage and one of the common elements that you have with should we get to you in a minute one of the common elements that you have with these early layman toys and this would probably be made between nineteen five and nineteen ten is you get a very good quality lithography and you can see in the back here and all the wheels this lithography is very detailed in stark comparison to the hand-painted bits here the head and the legs and so on which is really quite crude and I would have said a toy like this today would be talking about perhaps two hundred and fifty pounds guns come in all shapes and sizes but rarely do they ever come as small as this it's I think a16 or perhaps even a 1/7 scale fully working replica of a pinfire revolver made in Bal 1817 1880 and it'll be made in Belgium in probably the same sort of gun quarter that actually made its Big Brother it's fully functional even down to a tiny little hammer comes back and the little tiny cylinder that revolves there a hammer sits at full why this was made is it's a bit of a mystery I mean people who always made small objects of virtuosity but also for decoration anonymous I think that given that it's got this large ring on its trigger it was for a gentleman as what's chain what about did you get it from when my grandmother died and we were clearing out her house we were just found it I find and did she have any sort of continental connection or anything I know you thought what it might be worth no II just but we bought a pot or vast to be valued and my father said take this little gun with you you can just slip it in your pocket no idea it's very fine workmanship Gold places engraved and it's got mother of pearl grips it's a thing that has been made by somebody with a tremendous amount of skill and as such the price is going to reflect that I think that if you have put this into sale room it would easily make five hundred pounds without very much difficulty there are people who collect these and it really makes me wish that I had a watch changer put it on look at those peacock feathers absolutely amazing Hyundai yes this fan here yeah not just a fan all the way all the decorations around her dress sleeve the bottom of the dress here amazing tell me about the sitter well she is my great-great grandmother she is your great-great grandmother yeah and she was a court home and they obviously had money then and they obviously had money they're given that Samuel quarter the generation later put together that wonderful collection which is the basis of the quarter destitute collection I can see the monogram done here ejp Oh Edward John pointer who was one of the leading painters of the last part of the 19th century in fact he ended up as president of the Royal Academy in 1896 he became president Academy this is painted considerably earlier in his career and what's interesting about it is that it's it is very much what one might call an aesthetic portrait the peacock feather was very much an emblem of the aesthetic movement so your great-great-grandmother has been dolled up as a as a piece of aesthetic furniture she one thing that worries me is that on peacock feathers meant to be unlucky no I mean from her point she wasn't a very nice person so I've been doing aerobics she looks nice but she was she wasn't her answer pointer is an artist who is very highly regarded now in terms of Victorian painting in fact recently they want to over excite you recently a pointer was sold for five hundred and fifty thousand pounds but I hasten to say this this is a watercolor and a portrait so not remotely in the same league but it is probably worse in the region of seven to ten thousand pounds and it should be insured for at least ten so I hope you'll continue to enjoy her and be careful of the peacock feathers thank you thank you very much this has been called the most important influential children's book in the history of books or books in general but imagine my surprise this is not only the first public edition 1866 to find but if we turn to the end paper here that it was a presentation copy as well now who is Annie Rogers she was my aunt your arms yes and she knew obviously knew where Lewis count well professor Sorel got is her father Oxford present yep was her friend first friend of hers go yes and I think he was Annie's Godfather and also Michael Clements Godfather the first edition of Alice was in fact printed in 1865 he gave his publishers macmillan & co was such an enormous amount of trouble in fact he refers to them in his letters there has never been such a firm who had to put up with such a troublesome author because he queried everything the typeface the binding whether it should be blue cloth or red cloth and all this sort of thing and he led them a merry dance but they were very happy to do it the first edition was printed in 1865 and when he looked at it he decided the illustrations didn't come through properly enough so he recalled every single copy of that first edition and disposed it now when I say every single copy there are some that got out so the 1865 Alice does exist but the nor normal one the 1866 one which is the stricter the second issue the true public last edition but this is amazing because not only have you got Alice's Adventures in Wonderland you've got through the looking-glass there phantasmagoria the hunting of the snark a first edition all signed copies double it's also signed as well including a French Alice signed and a German Alice side I mean this is just the most incredible connection this sort of thing just does not appear these days I would delighted it and you've made life even worse for me by bringing me along in these wonderful letters of his as well all in his very typical that's a very typical this violet ink that he always used and this one which I particularly like my dear Annie I send you a picture which I hope will be one that you would like to see if you're muammar should DS one like it I could easily get her one your affectionate friends CL Dobson do you know why he called himself Lewis Carroll why doesn't the name because Carol well it's interesting actually but obviously he was a professor of mathematics as you know and he decided that it was whatever reasons that it wasn't proper or wasn't dignified to put rev CL Dodgson on what is really a children's book and so he decided to call himself Lewis Carroll if you notice the first two letters of his name CL well he can turn the Mack words that's LC which is Lewis Carroll Ludwig can be translated as Lewis Charles Beeker can be translated Carroll so that's how he got his name this is the most incredible collection I hope you have these in short yes but possibly inadequately enjoyed well I hesitate to use the word priceless but it's not a priceless collection I think there is a finite price Lewis Carroll has been going up an awful lot in the market recently I think what we're looking at here is a collection worth I don't know fifty or sixty thousand pounds one that nearly ought to be in the bank I haven't fought but thank you very much for bringing it along it's a lovely collection one of the problems one always gets with small pieces of furniture particularly of a desirable type like this is whether or not has been cut and shaft as they say Alton reduced the better to fit the modern market where small pieces of desirable so you have to start looking first at the proportions which in this case are very good and then you start to look for any detail that will will will add to its authenticity or give you that clue and first off we look at the most striking little detail is this black line inlay now black line inlay actually became popular after 1805 I think coincidentally with Nelson's death rather because of it Henry Holland was one of the first designers to introduce it in fashionable furniture and gillo has used it quite a bit this is Gil OHS quality but I think it's southern counties rather than North however if this had been reduced in height which is the first thing you look for then this would not tie up and this has never been alter had never been changed also unless they were going to object from top and bottom which starts to get very complicated the keyhole would be in the wrong it wasn't started seeing a keyhole halfway up here you start to wonder about it you know so looking at it the rest of the details follow through there's no alteration science whatsoever there are however one or two things that are a bit peculiar and I think that before we go into that let's have some family history oh well it it came from my grandmother region and she passed it to my father in 1916 and I suspect it was in her family for a long time a sort of family that stayed in one place and had possessions for one hopes well it has that feel of being a family piece it's not something that's ever been out of a family home its member being through the trade let's start to look one or two things that are good first off you wonder whether or not it was always a glazed door because we are looking at a specimen cabinet or book cabinet made a one-off I mean this is not a typical piece of furniture can't say oh yes it's another little secretary bookcase it's it's quite special and therefore we look to see if it is all original here you've got an inset black line this is a bit of Ebony which comes around it'll see on this side that the base it's quite flat on here you've got some putty here particularly you've got patty coming in what seemed to me to be more putty in this side than that and I therefore wondered whether it had been broken and replaced cycle isn't quite alight on the site isn't it the glass is bowed yes just two nice pieces of 1800 glass so they had to fit the cabinet which was square and then change it with putty it always listed in the family listed the sheraton cabinet it could well be late Sheraton if you press the button your end will have a look at the quality of that quadrant I mean the end mechanism here the brass with that quadrant running into it is superb if you look here the way the veneers are laid onto the end pieces fabulous quality but now we're starting to look at something quite important as getting better quite exciting them inside quite a plain row of drawers yes now the person who ordered it wanted that specifically they didn't want a block in the middle they wanted a a bank of drawers so to decorate them to lift them out this is all mahogany to lift them out of the ordinary they used Partridge wood now that was very expensive very expensive right alright and you bought a small block and the color changed quite quickly through the timber so as your sliders change in the drawer that's right I've always wondered this it's light as you sliced it through so the color change they put it on like that may I ask you a question this is why these lives at some point it was decided or it was an option they weren't quite sure whether they would go to envision homes at pigeonholes exactly I guess and chose it no no no I don't like this no let's put straws out so that was at the time of manufacture oh definitely absolutely no question event then the only thing is and here again you've got this repeated nice it's almost like the little spearhead the the one dull part of the doors of the base see this is superb quality timber here and then you've got this really quite boring bit of mahogany was it glass perform now it was material his pleated silk pleated silk and if you open the doors you open your side you can see where the material was tacked along the bottom along the top now if you start putting a nice sort of shot silk road leading to the box pleating then it starts to lift the whole thing so we can assume it was made for not a huge man smokers absol ad would have been a lady in the academic field because this was a document chest down here and this would have taken documents or maps or drawings architectural drawing drawings right because they all do in that absolutely and these would have also been drawers it would have looked magnificent whenever what happened to the draw well a long time ago somebody found it was probably the right size for a bottle of scotch Johnny good drinks covered out of it so that basically this has been done a long time it probably covered it done quite a long time ago but there is some signs of wear down the sides so that's that should I go back and get this replaced no don't hurt leave it just as it is it's wonderful as it is and it will never look the same it will always look restored and it produces it's lovely character and all this beautiful surface you've got so there that's the story of it I wish we knew that lady or small person to whom and what they did and what they drew but we just know but anyway that's the story of it now we have to come to the park which I've never too happy with really money money it's it has no price to you because it's beyond price in the time right but you should have it in sure I mean it should be specified yes yes it's not specifying it list it and add it to your insurance policy with the value of twelve and a half thousand pounds it's it's an important attribute Furniture a joy a delight we've been guests here at blenheim today so where better to end our visit than here in the green drawing room which was originally used as a guest room and decorated in the French style of the 1700s this great chandelier and several of the furnishings were bought by the 4th Duke of Marlborough who sent his brother to the sails that were held at Versailles after the French Revolution but this is not your last opportunity to look at some of the great treasures of Lenin because we'll be back here next week with a special programme in which will not only see much more of the house but also some of the hitherto unseen highlights of this year's Antiques Roadshow so until blenheim part 2 next week from all of us here goodbye [Music]

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Length: 43min 8sec (2588 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 08 2018