Antiques Roadshow UK Series 17 Episode 4 Wrekin College, Shropshire

well this is made just as the cameras were in the 19th century beautiful mahogany wonderful seems great brass banding around here obviously a precision instrument very sturdy very sturdy because what we have here require great accuracy so that you can see the final result this it's a krema scope and these are what are known as chroma grams and you have here is a set of three stereo photographs now stereo photographs being photographs which are taken by a stereo camera 3d 3d exactly the cameras lenses were as far apart as your eyes so that when you put them into a viewer you've got this marvelous 3d effect now here let me just take this down here we have three filters a red filter a filter being a piece of colored glass a blue colored glass and a green colored glass and by laying these in the appropriate way they have to slot in very precisely these are black-and-white photographs of course or black-and-white positives they're very clear pictures if you look at and then that ground glass screens fits in there there's a reflecting mirror to project the light onto the image and then that fits all together like that and hopefully if everything's in the right slot the mixture of the red blue and green filters will create a color photograph it's amazing isn't it it's wonderful yes and of course at a time when color photography was was unknown this would have been a most like Kermit watching the television and today really very collectible well it's going to be worth between perhaps fifteen hundred pounds in 2005 it's a major piece of photographic equipment now this is a Loving Cup made for presentation yes for presentation and it was fun I know that the last name was Lister yes I couldn't tell you what the initial role that it was left to my husband in and mr. Lister will this is a super Loving Cup I suppose they did most beautifully by heart aw yeah is he relation yes my husband's franca what's the actual pain Jo that exotic parrot he actually paid - yes so the person that was made for this so it's got a marvelous mark this is called the ampersand mark which is one of the great cohort marks of the mid 19th century and the hearts horn is one of the great painters I think it's a wonderful Marg I think that's tremendous yeah this is mr. Hart's horn himself he came for heart form and he's wearing this some fabulous I don't think it fits me I've got a bigger head but before he started painting for coal port about 1859 and Graham on into the 20th century so he is them I'm very very great paydirt although this is a little bit damaged yes so look after it but I think its value well inestimable in the family but I would reckon something like about 800 to a thousand pounds they look after the way oh yeah I'm here to them for my grandma oh yes yeah I don't know how much you pay over them I know that she didn't pay very much because the shopkeeper told her they were fake I don't know I think I'm breaking the tenth commandment here because I really didn't cover these and this is very very exciting for me because these are by the Davenport Factory I've written about them but I've collected Deven bought myself for nearly 30 years so it's really exciting to see these and I don't think I've seen a better service really the whole time and certainly not once signed by the artist they very rarely signed their works this one you see here painted by our Ablett now we can tell quite a bit from it the mark itself here you'll see Davenport long for Staffordshire that's where the factory was founded in 1794 and it closed in 1887 the the number underneath there is a pattern number that gives us a clue to the date as the mark does and these are really going to be about 1865 something like that oh I see you thought it would they were made in 1910 no no they were made at least 50 60 years before that and they're really are super quite splendid I mean there's lot Katrine there's a whole range of different things here every one with a different scene now of course in standard bone china the shapes of the 18th and well an individual plate now at an antique fair would be certainly under the fifty maybe two hundred parents know yeah there are very very good pieces so x 12 and certainly I think we've got fifteen hundred pounds two thousand pounds certainly insure them for that I'll be lucky if I got about 10 pounds of play well I'm sorry about upset you but they are they are so good the condition is so good this particular pair of pistols are English they are screw off barrel percussion pocket pistols well a gentleman would buy if he's going to do a journey from London to Dover carrying money or valuables he would have a pair of pistols one in each pocket this was a usual thing in the old days of coaching I mean one never knows we all footpads with a hi women that sort of thing now you've got the bullet mold here with a little block on me there we are so you've been completely screw off the barrel now the Gunpowder was put in this recess here and then the ball was placed on top and then the barrel was screwed back on to the ball now the purpose of this is that when the Vista was fired the shot would parry one way and all the gases would be behind it the best doors have hidden triggers [Music] and the trigger comes down on the second pool so that when you fire it the triggers can go back in into a nice smooth position when you want to clean the pistol there we are that's a safety so that you can clean around the nipples now the pistols themselves are made by a man called Southall now Southall had a business in London from about eighteen fifteen to eighteen forty so you've got a very very nice pair of pistols here is there any family background yes they belong to my in-laws and they brought has failed in the sixties to attack on a bag they think it was about 75 pounds well today and that little pair of pistols and they're so delightful it would fetch something in the region of a thousand so a nice increase over the years [Music] I'm going to make you take any one of these items home with you is that right which only funny again today you can take the candlestick okay well that's very nice because that leaves me a dist 1716 oh really Staffordshire worth 1500 to 2000 pounds [Music] I took out I'll let you take it home but it is a particularly beautiful little object and well what do you say about it an object neither it speaks for itself but that's beautiful detail in modeling of the head and very little color just to hiking the whole modeling of the piece the use of water well now there is a lot of interest in church Ileana this one is a very famous portrait it's extremely well known you Churchill had thousands of them and gave them out to everybody what is really nice about this one is that not only is it signed by Winston Churchill and that's naturally genuine signature but it's also signed by Vivian who is the very famous photographer who took this picture original now these are highly collectible but problem is that this is faded so it's only worth 750 to 800 the color is wonderful it really shines at you have you been polishing it lovely oh yes that's the old polishes mother made you know they always with the beeswax of children but looking at that one's always a bit suspicious about these oak chests or coppers made for linen and when you look at the proportion of this there are two things I don't like the legs are a bit high the top here overhangs a bit too much and so what to me looks like a really first-rate beautiful color Peter 17th century furniture I have to take the stage further investigated a bit the front paneling is absolutely fine 17th century paneling all of this is absolutely right the carving the depth of carving the pilasters the lovely little arc hading with his Geass carving here but when you examine the side panels and the front panels there's a difference in the quality of colouring so one has to ask oneself did the same man maple front in the side and I'm afraid I think that somebody made the front in the 17th century possibly for a copper possibly to go over a fireplace and so if somebody's made the sides about the ninety two hundred years ago to match the front and there any family history about it well I'm just going to prove me wrong it is some family history though isn't that lovely so it was in a cow shed all the other furniture was taken on a horse-drawn wagon which set on fire as the men was smoking I see so the copper being left behind that's wise it was going up in smoke right yes I'm gonna just open up the top and look inside the giveaway is at the front here when you look at the 17th century wainscot paneling the wall paneling it's been applied or the frontier has been applied to it it's either join there with an old-looking lock which is in the 17th century a lot I'm really really I think it's really been made to look like an old one although this is a beautiful piece of oak furniture I'm sure it's been made up just fancy yeah very carefully done from old timber although she used to go all those years ago and I still think that it was something because of the beautiful color that would cost about 1,500 pounds to buy in a shop at least yes yes quite an expensive piece right yes in London one day I went to an antique market and I saw this pair and I rather liked them so I decided to buy them they're both extremely good examples of this artists work they're both by Charles Dixon and he was able in a few strokes of his brush almost to show the excitement of movement of marine subjects and he's better he's very best known for his marine subjects he was he flourished during the latter part of the 19th century and worked right right the way up to the 1930s I think he died in 1934 era and also typically the panoramic shape that he he used so often approximately 10 inches by 30 inches across yes a couple of points I have to make about them and that is their can their condition particularly the condition of this one has been a little bit affected by damp and drying has somewhat toned down the freshness of the color if we look back to the top one you can see the sharpness the lightness of the sky whereas I know this is slightly darker in the sense of the water color in the sky but it's darker still because of that I've not done it much good thing ever well now value today if they were off at an auction would be something in the region a five to seven thousand pounds your investment 30 years ago here is I can't see that well there you are calmly how did that happen unfortunately don't know that before it heavens your your possession may have been careless packing right the cup itself is a wonderful wonderful piece of neoclassicism the decoration over here as fine a decoration as you are ever going to come across on a piece of late 18th century silver a sacred silver of course it's silver covered with gold there's the figure of big tree blowing out from a trumpet proclaiming the victory and of course the laurel for the victors you see the moles just just round out then the cameos that appear here horses racing along and of course this is really obviously what it is all about because right down at the bottom they find Doncaster Cup 1783 of that in fact is actually the date of the cup there's the date that for 1783 and the maple William Holmes verifying my of London it's allowed us to got the Leopards here yeah so Jane the dissolve London London made the design is based on Robert Adam design and in fact they're a series of cups made for the Doncaster races but also the Richmond racers all of them superbly produced did you win one each time every year is great I didn't have to give it back that was the wonderful thing you could actually keep the car amazing and to keep a cup like this marvelous absolutely marvelous so you could not really find wish to find a finer piece of neo classic silver Doncaster Cox Richmond cups do always cause a lot of excitement when they come onto the market and I'm thinking about this what I should be thinking in terms of about 20,000 pounds so if we knew it was a dog's gotta be said live in relative connoisseur [Music] like I was saying earlier this part of Britain was very much the crucible of the Industrial Revolution iron smelting began here in 1700 and 9 and although one associate iron with massive structures like the iron bridge in fact it was also used was it not paul for decorative purposes magnificent things like these kindly loaned to us by the iron bridge museum yes this piece I think says it's all we've got iron use for the first time has a decorative domestic material we've got the combination of that the unlikely combination married with cohort porcelain delicate porcelain hard coming together in the sink stand which says all about everything that came out of this valley in the 19th century it was as you say the center of it all the story of course begins with a cooking pot like this very basic everybody had them there's nicely dated 1714 only five years after smelting yes and Dobb is painted for casting from sand the 1707 so this is right at the beginning of the casting process that's where the history begins and it develops on from that through all sorts of domestic uses as you say railway engines and bridges going on but the art side of it expanding steadily through the 90s they living side by side and culminating in magnificent pieces like that which at first glance of course looked like a bronze yes in one level it's sad that the arms that arms smelters felt they had to imitate bronze but of course they couldn't sell their material without the bronze finish to it or had difficulty because it was not accepted as not as immaterial it had been in Germany in the late 18th century but here John bells famous figure from the Great Exhibition of 1851 the Eagle flare reproduced here with his permission in iron with a bronze finish it's a wonderful the superb estate about what you can do with are wonderful and then right up till fairly recent times I gather they were making pieces like that as apprentice pieces yes you can imagine the skill of making and casting this piece finishing it and this is how you were passed out if you could make one of these basically you could do anything and so these are the most familiar statement about Coalbrookdale and what they are industry meant in this area I bought it in an old furniture say who's in a box 1960 it was my kid by chillingly what was in the box full court carpets epidermis you didn't bring any other pieces on with his day no I just so you think there's something special about this well I I know what the rest are but I don't know what this is okay well on first sight it appears to be German or Continental tin glazed earthenware which is known as famous where it's walked in glazed earthenware because there's a skin of tin glaze that foot on top of this pale chalky body and it often flakes away at the edges and that's that's a classic sign of tin glazed earthenware it's actually not German it's it's looking at it closely this egg yolk yellow and this very soft blue and the whole bluish nosov the glaze it has a softer feel to it than German Delftware German fails and and so I'm going to say it's English it's English and it could well have come from Bristol date you can have a guess at abate AG into is about 1700 very nice little object pretty thing before I get even more nervous I'm going to take this off because that's introducing a terrific strain you can see it as a crank developing along there with that it's going to make it worse okay all right now it's it's worth somewhere in the region of in between four and six hundred pounds [Laughter] [Music] oh my goodness he's probably the man who put that's all yeah yeah I thought so it sounds like that sort of person they say it began in Worcester and finished English so the latest yes this is this is 1651 when he fled before this is Charles a second to be on the run but why why is he surrounded by Cromwellian troops are they his own true yeah in general terms so they both sides wore the same to the round that's right yes this is made of heavy leather yes a buff coat would withstand a spent haul and the spent ball could actually kill you is this a ricocheted ball no no no I spent all your something is a be a bowl that's lost its force yes and it will hit so it'll go into those buff coats and it wouldn't penetrate the mystery I'm really saying but this was far more beneficial to wear a buff coat then the breastplate because the breastplate would open like a tin can inwards and do far more damage what's particularly nice about these diamond earrings is they're lovely condition and the the nice original case it's comes from Streeter and they were very well-known jewelers of the late 19th century in Bond Street they were quite a large prolific firm and there's a catalog which have been still get reproductions I'll sharing all the original prices of these these would probably have been about 5 pounds in the 1880s going to the earrings they're old cut diamonds there what are called cushion cut shape stones and they're the television screen shape they're not quite round and they didn't really introduce the completely round guy with until the 1910 1920 and so you can date these to the late 19th century because of that shape and also if you look very carefully at the diamonds you'll see that the the very back facet or a modern diamond comes to a point these have a different flat cut across the back which looks like a little black hole if you look carefully through the dive and and the cutting of the top part is much higher because the Victorians tried to keep as much of the weight of the guard as possible whereas in the nineteen hundred's 1920's 1930's they work out they scientifically how to cut the guard was to give the maximum reflection and these older diamonds have a rather attractive steely look which the modern ones don't have [Music] and the value of these is worked out to a great degree by the diamond weights and we use this rather fascinating little gadget here which has different sized holes to see in shape the diamonds and because they very very slightly you generally speaking have to use your loop to make sure that you've got the right size and the stones around the edge are about ten points that's the tenth of a parody a tonnage there's 80 points one sixty or two and the center stone is about thirty points each so you've got about two and a quarter carats and they work about two and a half thousand it's quite a good rule of thumb to say that her a carat of diamonds and a nice desirable pair of earrings like this is worth around a thousand pounds of carat it's about good we're working it out my great-great-great-grandfather and we believe it was made for the Great Exhibition what was his name do you know Charles Edmonds struggle and he was a cabinet maker in Islington London oh right well it's nice so we know it's a London piece yeah that's interesting the great exhibition was 1851 yeah now there were other exhibitions subsequent to that the style of this would be unlikely my opinion to be as early as 1851 the reasons being are the general Chippendale shape which I'll come to in a minute of the legs and everything is not typical of the eighteen fifties at all is a very different style and I think more easily to identify is this little writing compartment here which is much more typical of furniture made let's say from about 1880 to about 1900 and certainly without any information from you I would have said that it's made around 1890 it's a late Victorian and although it's very fine quality I doubt it was exhibition quality if you actually see a piece of exhibition furniture it's quite extraordinary quality I mean this is the best cabinet making but they actually spend a lot a lot longer doing the inlays choose more expensive veneers more expensive work on it generally speaking I'm not knocking there's a tourism that's just the story this well I hate to turn it upside down I really don't think it's that early where I think we get even later still is the is the lakes or the Chippendale influence and the easiest bit to look is really quite simply here this open fretwork here it can you see it's got almost a sort of Chinese you look about it hasn't yeah latticework some gothic Chinese and in fact in curved it covers the three things that the three principles that Chippendale used this sort Chinese latticework this is verging on the Gothic Islamic here and this is the third of the the three borders if you like that he followed in the 1750s when he was designing this Rococo sea scroll here but that again is very Chippendale and leading to this cabriole leg and again you've got the fretwork we've talked about the open fret in the bracket this is blind fret here yeah quite simply you can't see through it is blind similar sort of decoration this star became very very popular in about the 1885 1890 period the Chippendale revival became very very really great gathered momentum and this is not intended in any way to be a fake or even a copy of the original it's an eclectic view of how a Chippendale desk should have been the improved late 19th century version it's a very sophisticated piece and very attractive have a stab at what is worth I've got a clue there I would imagine a retail price for at least 4000 pounds ok as you can imagine a picture like this is of great interest actually to a number of experts here in fact I've had the privilege of checking it out first of all with Roy on the uniforms because the thing about the Victorian artists they tend to be very accurate and Roy is a great expert on costumes and everything else but I wanted to ask him about whether Charles the second costume and all his men's costumes were correct and he led me all the way through it so he told me all about the Gherkin and how it was replacement Barama against powerful spent bullets and about the helmets and this is a rare helmet with three bars etc but the other thing that's accurate is that this was the Battle of Worcester which Cromwell defeated Charles the second and this is just after the battle Charles is running off yeah hittin it that's the famous story the battle took place in the beginning of September in 1651 and and you can see that everything's accurate about it it's the beginning is obviously an early autumn they fled from the battlefield their horses are hot you can even see the sort of panting breath of of the horse in the evening a cold evening that's sort of the excitement that I find about these Victorian pictures they're very accurate and they take you in a real way into a moment in history how did it get this was one of the collection from Sir John Bailey who was a founder of reeking college and when he died he'd quest some of his largest pictures to the school and this particular picture got rescued and wisdom was placed in one of the boarding houses now I suppose because they're so out of fashion nobody thinks about them but in a way it does help the imagination of this rather desperate day well the Headmaster's a historian there and these are interested in the picture that it was a very famous picture in his day was exhibit the Royal Academy in 1898 so it was famous then and it's not so popular today but it still would command quite a good value on the market I should say around ten thousand pounds ten to fifteen thousand you had them framed on the wall I can never remember them being framers and as far as I know she said they've been thrown to dragon bone their mother brave the frames on not the plaques no no the detail in this is fantastic there's so much going on it's such a complicated scene this type of austrian german park of the late 19th centuries become terribly desirable recently they come in a great variety of styles this is a most unusual one because of the intricacy of the design all these components which fit together to form a story the chest the chest players and the bathers and so on make no sense at all if you put it all together no and yet it makes a wonderful intricate design and this slide is an erotic air that they have is very characteristic together this at this type of painting this should fetch about fifteen hundred pounds so you know there's quite a lot of money tied up in a piece like this however that's only part of the story because if we take that one away which is actually my favorite I like very much something out of that and then much more classic is this one which is a very much grander piece wonderfully painted by an artist called Gardner who was one of the top artists in this porcelain painted Pack style late nineteenth century again the same sort of date this is the thing the collectors really go wild for which do you prefer you prefer this one for the start of the painting what it represents and from childhood memories as well right Black's like this at the very top of the market have fetched large sums indeed and if I say to you 8,000 pounds possibly 10,000 pounds and possibly even more there is a taste for these in Japan where they have paid even larger sum [Music] we've got a lovely collection here of noir Wellings we've got photographs the dolls themselves the original molds now tell me how you got hold of me well actually darling since my aunt was my art from fantastic because of course her Factory was in Wellington a time where we are now and I think that did started in about 1920 say about 1926 yeah the dolls that she is best known for are the Velveteen and the cloth dolls of course and during the day here I've had a lot of people who used to work in her Factory but tell me about this old couple because they are very these were done for the festival of britain exhibition I think 1951 yes yes and this is actually aunt Nora's only couple that she kept that's lovely to feel we've got more willing zone favorite dolls say that's that's marvelous but I can understand perhaps why they weren't great sellers there they're very evocative but they're not really beautiful no not at all they really collectors yes I sense aren't they rather than they weren't a mess mass-produced doll and this is more ammonia yes the artist's eye comes through here with the mixture of the colors vibrant orange against this lovely hello obviously it's just gorgeous and the popularity of Norfolk nor willings dolls has really gone up and are you interested in the value I don't know yes of course I mean obviously these will never be sold then you know there'll be my grandfather's I hope from this one I would have said would be perhaps two to three hundred pounds as an estimate but something like the old couple particularly since they this particular pair where were Nora weddings own personal favorites perhaps between six and eight hundred-pound well that's nice to know thanks so much pretty valued thank you I was good my mother yes you did for fifty pens from some outside and auctions throw some doing had bought some frames this was one of the frames and the frame was actually broken so she went along to this person said do you really want that well because I'd like the picture and they said have a fifty P that's beautiful wonderful party Jesse King yeah was one of the Glasgow girls in Glasgow at the turn of the century it was a powerhouse of design and Jessica was not only an illustrator but she was also a designer she designed wallpaper she designed fabrics but she became internationally famous at the beginning of the century for book illustration and book covers she went to Paris with her husband da Taylor who was also a designer and furniture and she's got the interest in the art of batik and she wrote a wonderful book which she disguised as a fairy story on the outer petite and also in Paris she got were influenced by Bakst who was the Russian ballet designer and that brought a lot of colorant at work so when they returned at the beginning of the first world war fled back to Scotland to cuckoo Bree her designs became much more colorful but I think this is a sort of middle period Jesse king and by violent I mean that early on she's if you like even more detail than define my new lines later she becomes much broader but here she is very still very fine but very colorful as well she's a particular favorite of mine and her very best things are not on paper but on vellum and this is on vellum on exam well you can see this is almost translucent feel to it and it's a very special watercolor as for the value three to five thousand pounds Oh homeless wonderful Japanese well it is it's it's very very boldly painted this is this is a pomegranate to symbolize fertility if you've got chrysanthemum for immortality but the whole way this is done this is a very unusual dish as a source of dish or deep source edition and it's broken up into these kind of zones and the way it's done is so schematic it's actually done by the Japanese looking probably at Dutch copies of Chinese they're actually doing it through an intermediary that's why it looks so simple and so skimmer ties but it's a very early piece this one called it dates from about 16 16 16 17 it's a wonderful example of the early export material made by the Japanese copying the Chinese and one of the good things about this is unusual to get this on on this type of thing is the fact that this horse is tagged it's a good characteristic of Chinese porcelain it's SAG's that's why they in the end they started putting a little still supported red iron red round here absolutely typical and this rather battered say well who wouldn't be after all this time is it's probably around about 200 pounds it could be worth tofu car isn't [Music] well when you brought this in earlier today sir I thought we might have had something interesting and I'm very grateful that you took the trouble to go home and bring us the rest of the objects she's a marvelous carved wooden figure of a Chinese lady complete with little miniature feet bound feet and in fact of course she lives here in the top of the clock it's in our opinion Chippendale Chippendale taken from Chippendale designs which were first published in 1754 and in what is called the the Xinhua Zuri style what we're not quite sure about is it it could be provincial in other words people copied it generally in the country they didn't get it quite as good as they did in London but the more I look at it the more I think it's it's perfect and it could have been one of a pair because the Chinese lady is looking very much that way and we wondered if maybe there wasn't another one they quite often work one o'clock one barometer for a thermometer it could have been in pairs wonderful thing you've got no history on it it belonged to my father father that's all I know about it he didn't know anything about well I think it's very difficult this this carved wood furniture oh it is oh it's definitely one yes no it's it's soft would probably pine and it's all covered in thin coating of gesso the plaster of coating and then paint it now normally these clocks were gilded there's no sign of any gilding on the case it was probably painted something on the lines of this sort of Buffy brownie color to match the painting in the house I was just wondering can your card for this cut here yes that whole figure here was one block of wood it was cut and pierced and then stuck on in separate pieces the whole clock is made of separate pieces you'd never get a big piece of wood that size and carving in one it dates I think from about 1760 and if we can just look at the dial of the clock it's actually sign that not which is probably Nottingham almost certainly abbreviation of Nottingham now I can't find any record of him in the books I have here with me so we don't really know at this point anything about him there's a monogram lower down and that would appear to be T C usually that's the monogram of the owner and a lot more research would be needed to discover if we could find out the owner of the piece it's possible it was in an important house near Nottingham originally the dial was all silvered which over the years has worn off the movement is also period date we're probably talking 1755 1760 ish I think and really a wonderful object now hmm it comes to evaluation I'm I'm gonna have to go out on my own it's a very difficult piece we've only had a short time to look at it I think I'm going to go for something in excess of 20,000 pounds in excess of 20,000 pounds well I must say we certainly did not exaggerate the impact of the building of the iron bridge on the local decorative arts throughout our day here we see dozens of pieces like this this particular bone china mug made quite literally as a commoner garden souvenir and so probably for a shilling or two now valued at three to four hundred pounds and a similar value is put on this fine print which is particularly interesting for us because it dates from 1782 just one year after the bridge was opened well we've had a great day here in Wellington but I particularly hope that you'll join us next week at the same time when we're off then to the coast of East Yorkshire so until then from everyone in Shropshire the Antiques Roadshow is back next Sunday at the slightly later time of 5:30

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Length: 40min 8sec (2408 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 06 2018