Antiques Roadshow UK Series 17 Episode 5 Bridlington, Humberside

well now on bbc1 more hidden treasures and tucked away family heirlooms get to see the light of day as the Antiques Roadshow rolls into town [Music] [Music] the coast of Yorkshire and the resort of Bridlington is our destination for this week's Antiques Roadshow bridlington has been a favorite spot for generations of Yorkshire men and their families a town where the traditional industries of tourism and fishing exist happily side-by-side of the two fishing is by far the longer established for at least 1500 years men have been harvesting the sea here and for much of that time using locally built boats like this they're known as cobbles they're specially designed shallow-draft allows them to be hauled onto the shore even in the worst of weather and storms at sea have been a familiar part of life off the auction coast this great lighthouse at Flamborough Head was built in 1806 to guide ships into the relative protection of bridlington so called Bay of safety where they could shelter from fierce northerly winds however on one infamous night in 1871 the wind suddenly shifted to the east a more than 400 ships were trapped in the bay at least 30 of them were sunk and dozens of seamen lost their lives many of those ships sunk in the great storm were said to be severely overloaded with coal which they were transporting from Newcastle to London and after that disastrous night pressure built up for greater safety at sea the Darby MP Samuel plimsoll championed an idea from Lloyds the insurers to prevent ships from sailing dangerously low in the water and this was the result the plimsoll line mark clearly and visibly on the hull of a ship as a guarantee to the insurers that she was not overloaded if Floyds inspectors couldn't see the plimsoll line the ship was uninsured so that Bridlington storm of 1871 helped to evolve a system that was simple effective and used the world over well some of the people of Bridlington look a little overloaded today as they approached the spa Royal Hall where our experts are waiting to see what they brought along well of its type it's a little gem it doesn't have the feeling about it or being bought recently no well I think my mother bought it at auction about 60 years or so ago and we've been cared for ever since now it's a standard model at the sort of table that was designed and made after the 1860s 1870s very popular in late Victorian homes and houses from about 1875 when mass production of the model became popular what lifts this one out of the ordinary is the quality and the decoration nearly all of them were decorated with a burr of some sort where walnuts bought burr maple several of those very tight Birds I design timbers the important thing is that this one has a border here of walnut which has got little panels of marquetry with ivory bell flowers in Sassoon you see that then you know you're looking at quality and we look for further clues and to do that and if you look down here this is the standard pattern a turned column and a simulated flute all read in this case created by a line of black but between the Burr and the black is an extra little line of boxwood now when this was new this was a golden honey color similar to this then there was white and then there was black and if you look very carefully you could take a magnifying glass and look very carefully the quality the precision with which that is put in is super this is exhibition quality and also all of this beading is gilded its gilded brass and here two gilded brass on here now when that was new that must have sprung like Dew in the Morning Sun absolutely lovely really love and then a sweep of the leg and then a Grecian key pattern here so you've got a combination of Renaissance style in the classical manner it is an English run and it might have been made by Holland and Sun or Crais was another great maker of this type of furniture it really is quite exceptional and as far as I can see nothing about that well you know I really wouldn't worry I mean what a little splash has gone through left on overnight or something has eaten through the polish it's much better to see that than try and restore it because you'll spoil the rest of that wonderful patina which you can never get again so I would leave as part of the joys of me now having said all that and bearing in mind that most of the mass production models are in the sort of two to three hundred pound range you have to consider whether or not this has been in short you have it specifically invention I thought it's in the 2-2 300-pound mark no no it's I would have thought more likely to be in the two to three thousand that should be installed for two and a half thousand five it is as I said a little Jenny thank you very much thank you well my father bought it from the little house window shopping finally about sixty-five years ago and he paid a Guinea flooring and the shopkeeper spent tipping them you'll never regret buying that was he a collector of porcelain yeah Matt Barber yes you what's your eyes did he tell you what he thought it might be oh and yes he knew it was it go I got a goat and a joke yeah Chelsea Chelsea the the goat and B jug was one of the first models done at the Chelsea factory and it has an incised triangle carved into the base before it's fired and they are known with the date 1735 on them right at the beginning of the factory yeah and of course they are actually terribly rare and a good one will make five ten thousand pounds and and one with a date on it even more than that but I have some bad news for you it's not Chelsea no it's not it's coal port and coal port made these bone china ones even the wrong material in the 19th century yes and they did go as far as putting the in size triangle onto the bottom now the thing that interests me about this is two things a tenor if you can see that the change in color and how flat that is that was done because it were warped a bit in the kiln I got some rubbish stuck to its bottom and they put it on a grinding wheel and ground it smooth right yeah and actually this mark has been carved into the base after it was fired alright so he didn't have a mark on when it was made so that's another indication it couldn't be right it's also far too thin it's slip cast and of course it's cold to be going because you've got a go to the beach yeah as it is it's going to be worth somewhere in the region of 40 or 60 pounds yes but now what do you think about this one well we've always called it the dental beavers in the family mm-hmm but we think it's perhaps water well Darby did both those blue grounds and the style of gilding and in fact if we upend it you can see in there for Darby Marc the crown above two battens and the Saudis Darby yeah the the family tradition was right yes it's a camp on a shape of ours it dates from the early 19th century it's very very beautifully painted with flowers and that is wonderful work no I mean it's a it's a good Roz it's going to be worth somewhere in the region of twelve to fifteen hundred pounds very nice I think this is one of the most charming sets for a very small child to have well you're giving it yes I want my parents gave me it and I think they gave me it for Christmas the year that the film came out Snow White and 7.38 that's right yeah and I mean a you know I've had them in a box for years and years and years and when I've moved home they've moved with me but I never thought of them has been a collector's item as I haven't got the original box I haven't no unfortunately I wish you had but no avens well they're in wonderful condition very often Snow White is missing because she's treated as a doll gets really separated from the peers of course we've got sleepy sneezy dopey doc I'm going to pick grumpy up from him they've all got this it shows they're made by Chad Valley yes they started off in the 19th century as Johnson Brothers and they moved to Birmingham in 1917 and because it was the Harborne on the Chad the River Chad they then changed the names Chad Valley and that's how they were born as it were and they registered in nineteen nine and started making soft toys of all sorts the fact that you've got the whole set and me Snow White in her original clothes and her lullaby still works the last ones in such good condition at auction realized at 2500 pounds never know and it surprised me mm and that didn't have the box either really my word isn't that sweet a little dog on a cushion a little screw top and the initials AO and 1795 which is absolutely right as rain it's made in Yorkshire in a style that's called Pratt's where that's all this lovely color this ochre color at ochre yellow and these little tiny spots of blue and ochre was a very very typical Pratt we're and I suppose it's a little snuff box it's almost 200 years old terribly unusual very rare any idea what the value is I'd written something like about six to eight hundred pounds perhaps even more this is a Derby teapot and a very fine one too but the interesting thing about this it's not actually this itself not people it is the cover because it has been completely restored but this has been brilliant done now you tell me well I bought it damaged really because I thought I'd never be able to afford a perfect piece yes and the lid was in probably about fourteen pieces together with some awful Brown glue and there was even a hole in it and I thought it was worth doing but it is fantastic I mean look at the colors I mean the blue is almost matching there and it is matching the actually if you put those two together the gilding okay you can't get his burnished color because when that that is material gilding and when that was put on it was then fired to a higher temperature if you're restoring something like this you can't get that lovely burnished effect this is why it's like they're raised it's not yes he's actually raised it slightly but the painting is immaculate and the color of the porcelain there the way it blends in and the little knob here and so forth is brilliantly done let's say this teapot in fine condition mint condition would have been worth five hundred pounds with a damage or restore tea a cover it's probably worth how but if it was just without this very smash cover it was worth hardly anything at all so you have taken the plunge you spent a lot of money I think very wisely to this Mart and restored a wonderful object thank you done brilliantly and the story has to definitely yes they are the sort of cards that school boys at the time would go into the local shop and they'd buy a little pack of the cards and in fact on the back here it has all the details about the Baines football cards made by veins of Bradford and he invented this type of card and they were really made for collecting sometimes children stuck them into albums but in fact in this case they're very scarce because they've never been stuck into albums and they're loose but they're beautifully produced lithographs they're all colored lithographs and you can see that they're very well colored has anyone ever valued them for you interest still in the brown bag right so I decided that put them in these albums yes well if these came up for auction today I should think they might sell for something in the region of a thousand to fifteen hundred pounds I promise you yes yes they're really wonderful I've seen people at television you know and after they've known Alabama too yeah they will up to me by an elderly relative that collected them over a period [Music] about ten years and they've been in my life together just you've done a cleanup job on them they don't know terribly dusty the thing we can say about them generally is that you have a collection of English drinking glasses dating from between about 1760 and about 1820 but the blast that attracts me most of all because we're almost in the right region for it is this glass well she always thought it was a big day yes it'd been enameled by the brother and sister who went in for that sort of thing and she bought it just for that the field beers were based in in Newcastle that's right that's right very very sought-after glasses but sadly yeah the problem with that one is its condition yes if it weren't for the fact that this was severely broken this would be a thousand pounder and I think to maybe an academic collector someone who would want that particular example of painting this saw has a residual value maybe in the region of 150 pounds my mother bought them during the war from Carmichael's in Hull and the worried Nicole and she just bought the two that's rather sad to hear that because these are not actually a pair there are two different dates yes and two different makers yeah one is made by William Kate in 1767 this one is the one made by Dorothea mills in 1764 but they're a lovely design of candlestick yes and candlesticks in the 18th century were made in two ways either cast filled the best ones were cast yes and had they been the same date maker yes at auction they would probably fetch in a region of two and a half maybe three thousand pounds the fact that they are different dates and makers even though they are exactly the same design yes I think they probably fetch in the region of twelve to fifteen hundred pounds well I bought that in a house sale no and I paid two pounds for it two pound you know expect you do know what it is it's a bowie knife right click back blade the maker here is William Sansom and company Kings Cutlass the horse's head is traditional with these early type of bowie knives this is natural antler right now bowie knives are collected by American collectors some of the finest bowie knives in American collections were made in Sheffield and also many were sent through the Hudson Bay Company and they filtered down through into America right and I'm sure that any American collector would really love this very nice if you were to sell this today your 2 pounds has been a wonderful investment because you would have to pay 2,000 pounds you're joking I'm not joking really yes indeed okay I I'm being very my I'm being very kind I think it could fetch more but I'm sure of 2,000 pounds good dog so what a wonderful investment it wasn't bad yes maybe there wasn't part of a thousand well right oh good that's fair you've made my day my friend thank you very much that's very interesting to come across the English bracket clock which is not in a wooden case it's in a brass case and I understand you have the original receipt for it but he typically originally what my late grandfather had when he purchased it from the very delicate fragile that Romney's fragile on the clock so he purchased this in thank you 1948 and he paid ten pounds you don't know the history of pot before that then not at all well the reason i asked-- idea is that you've got a brass case but you can see on the frontier traces of a darker color and if you look on the bill it says in fact eight-day english striking clock in a bronze case and our other suspect that's when it started like this clock was actually bronzed shot dark chocolate brown color the clocks of a very good one is a good english made movement a striking clock striking on a bell quite loud the traces of a material on the inside of the case as well and i wondered if that was originally put there to muffle sound a little cause it was rather too loud so you might think this is a library or something like that I'm also interested by the ecclesiastical imagery of the clock the Rose window effect here arches over here I'd like to think this was originally made for church men but I wouldn't like to say but I think it represents is the explosion in ecclesiastical architecture that took place in the mid 19th centuries placed this firmly in the Victorian era another nice touch they've got the key here which opens both the fronts in the back do you know what the key is for I mean apart from locking I do you know why they locked up their cases well the main reason is once the clock was wound biomass Thomas's of a house or the housekeeper it was a lot and that meant the servants couldn't alter the hands of a clock if they were making their work it's a good convex silver dial signed s middle at Samuels middle of Sheffield now the civil is actually a family firm they went back to the earliest 1770 and was certainly working as late as 1840 agog the records that I suspect this book is somewhat later in the eighteen fifties or even sixty so they continued them but we have the original receipt here which says it's worth ten pounds worth a little bit more than that for insurance purposes I think the round the figure table under pounds okay good thank you well the first thing to be said about these is that they're not terribly valuable no it's just what they're extremely interesting objects do you know anything about in ourselves or even over so well no no they were my mother's and I believe she got them from an antique shop they have a mark on the bottom it's an a our monogram for the initials of the elector of Saxony and king of Poland who Gustus and our four eggs now like every little princeling and heiress to crack in the late 17th early 18th century he wanted his own porcelain factory because porcelain was so highly rated that if you could get your own porcelain patterning discover the secret of making true or hard-faced porcelain then you were going to become one of the most powerful people in Europe and Augustus would completely bonkers about porcelain he built an entire Palace the Japanese Palace which he filled with oriental things and he got his setup the Meissen factory which is just outside dresden now major pieces were made at the factory for him and the AR mark was put on the bottom at that date in the 18th century and indeed right up until the late 19th century there was no protection covering trademarks so you could copy anything right and because Dresden had got such a great name factories confident I mean if you think of the great English eighteenth-century patches like Wooster and Derby and Bo and Longton all of Lowestoft they were all putting cross sword mark and look the factory in my synthetic map on the bottom there but the real for Jace's and in fact this mark we know is of a lady decorator in Dresden called her Lena Wolfson and then mice and took her to court at the end of the 19th century and she lost the case and that was the first time when a mark became protected and so nobody s calm yet and she changed her mark to a crowd this is typical of her work in mice and style but not exactly copying of my sleep and this is actually a chocolate Department with two hatches yes although I don't think you could ever really be used it'd be jolly difficult to drink out of something with these notches in it your porridge will run down inside your mouth purely a cabinet yes but they're very pretty and people like this sort of very feminine feel to them and they're going to be worth each one in the region of 40 to 60 pounds of time their life story you told me that quite a lot but I didn't know I'm pleased thank you one is used people on the Antiques Roadshow coming in with things they've found in their attics that when a museum find something in its attic it's really quite something well your curator of Serie B Hall which is the local museum and art gallery to bridlington what what can you tell me about it well we don't actually have any information about it at all we don't exactly know where it came from we certainly don't know who the artist is we can't find a signature on the picture anywhere but what I find particularly fascinating about it is is that it's absolutely packed full of local beef because this is bridlington Harbor isn't yes this is the north side of Benton Harbor looking towards the North Pier as you say it's got the most fantastic detail in it I mean the quality of the painting is really tremendous I'm thinking particularly of details like the washing hanging up here and the the brickwork is so brilliant they rendered isn't it and if we look on the harbor wall there were there's very elegant figures promenade along I think from the costume there we wouldn't date it that much after 1900 I wish I could tell you just like that whoo it's painted by I've been racking my brains trying to think and I honestly do not at this stage know but it's a really wonderful wonderful piece of painting it's certainly a picture that one could imagine at auction being worth well in excess of ten thousand pounds anyway um let's go on to the next one because the next one was rather a thrill as well now this what immediately of course caught my eye is the fact that it's been partially cleaned and you can see what a beautiful blue has come through where the cleaning has been undertaken and more of these figures have been revealed also down in this corner the more that the dirt has been cleaned off the more of a revelation it's been and I can hardly bear that it had whole job hasn't been done you know why that might have been well again we have no records of who gave it to us how it arrived at the museum or indeed what sort of conservation and cleaning walls started yes so it's definitely job has got to be completed George definitely got to be completed because of it what we have here is the subject is in John the Baptist preaching to these very murky people over here it seems to me to be probably Italian possibly roundabout painted round about 1700 my recommendation would be in this situation before actually taking the cleaning any further I think it's such a good picture that possibly it should be photographed in this state yeah and the photograph sent to the National Gallery and wanted to wait their response and then they may indeed be the people actually to undertake the rest of the cleaning because I think this is a picture with quite a potential to it I mean I would certainly wouldn't hazard a precise estimate of what it might be worth but even in this state it's obviously worth several thousand pounds but with cleaning and further research and a full attribution then maybe we're talking about well tens of thousands of hours so let's hope with some this is the beginning of a new era for the Britain Museum and our cat yes and I think this will be it take pride of place in our banging thank you very much well I've seen a good many tea caddies over the years but none prettier I say it's specifically because of that decoration on the top which is as much of a Regency girls bouquet as you could ever see honor on a little piece of furniture which is what this is so tell me how long have you had this is a family one it's not mine it's my stepmothers even the family for and she said it's either grateful and father or her grandfather I'm not sure it's right but he was in the tea trade apparently yeah it has to be round about sort of 1795 to 1810 that's all very very charming indeed the inside of course was originally with the foil and the idea was of course the tea was quite expensive but it was so fashionable that when you enter someone's for dinner instead of taking a pot plant you either took a cone of sugar or you took a little present of tea and then you've got a sort of everlasting gift because when the team is finished and you replenish it and keep the box and of course quite a valuable collector's item into piece which would certainly cost you in the region hundred pounds to replace oh yes right here a Nia's mirror or a view of the heavens published by Samuel Lee eighteen The Strand now Samuel Lee was publishing at about the time when the Prince Regent became King so his bouts of 1820 1830 but this is what surprised me I know the box is dirty but the inside was absolutely virtually as fresh as the day it had been printed these wonderful cards showing the firmament and stars that we could expect to find in the heavens here we have pursuits and the capital and user this is Percy looking absolutely outraged here the head of Medusa with all these snakes coming out of them going on we have wonderful ones here they're such gorgeous colors but what relation they have to be affirmed I just over there Scorpio Capricorn I must say this is one of my favorites this is a Ryan hunter in the form of Hercules here with his lion skin the lion skin almost appears to have got red lipstick on if you could see that when you hold it up to the light of course you could actually see through the little pinpricks that have got paper behind to make the the Bay of Pigs as you can see through them tell me about that where do they come from I came from my husband's grandfather's father so he's great-grandpa great-great-grandfather and then when our eldest boy got to be six or seven he handed them to him he thought it that's amazing because they wouldn't they wouldn't have been knew when they when his great-grandfather hadn't but they have been kept in absolutely remarkable condition the set is 32 cards but you only have you you're missing four I didn't know how many those in the second house it which is surprising because they are in such superb condition I would have expected them to be complete but that doesn't really matter they're highly collectible if there were 32 a complete collection I'd value them at 655 yes well laughing for not so much less about 450 something like 20 30 pound these are exciting and as I say holding them up and looking at the Stars with them must have been a great fun well I inherited it from my mother about two years ago she purchased it in Blackpool for from a couple of ladies many years ago I don't think she pay very much for it do you know what I have no idea but I know that she wouldn't pay very much because she didn't have the money to it to pay very much you know and do know anything about the sculptor who has signed the piece yeah no this is this is one of the reasons that I wrote this BC because it's always intrigued me M Mauro stands from Maturin Mauro who lived between 1822 and 1912 and was one of about sidon artists with the name of Mauro whole family of them in France generally working in the late 19th century typically doing bronzes but here you've got a marble presumably the first stage before then did the casting perhaps from it in bronze of the same model I think the story here why she is exposing herself like that Cupid done the bottom here has let's fly one of his lair arrows or is about to let fly at the sea and she's preparing herself for what it's about now in terms of value if you look at the column which is a separate part yes those can make five seven hundred pounds that sort of figure even without the marble statue on top relatively the price for a good almost are Nouveau marble like this isn't that great no I would have sought for the the figure on the stand or perhaps talking up between three and five thousand pounds which is presumably an increase on mothers I'm given by up or indeed I'm serving I'm certainly was it's my husband's great-great-great grandmother's from we know that because there's a portrait of her actually wearing it to me it's a very nice piece it's what we term a para or a suite of jewelry and it would date from around about 1860 to 1880 very typical of the style it's actually Mountain 15 karat gold set with these little half pearls these are actually cut in half and close clipped into into the joints to save them standing up to proud and also to keep down the cost you got two for the price of one emeralds in the center now when I say emerald it conjures up very very expensive germs but in fact these are what we turn foiled emeralds I have colored paper behind them to make them look a good color they need necessarily be a good quality it has all this what is terms a Trask my work and be work on it that's accomplished from the ancient etruscan jewelry the one danger point with these always and it's nice to keep things in the case but always be careful when you close the case because of these little fringes they're very very delicate invariably they get shut in in the corner of the box you know it's a very very nice sweet and if I said to a torch and I would expect that's weak to make something in the region probably about 2,000 pounds he was have to be sure at the corner so whatever you do look after it no better keeps in the bottom of the drawer anyway I'm not really the splendid pair of plates where did they come from in a bright nor'easter in the early 1930s what did he pay for them six Kimmage for the to upland six guineas you could feed a family for a month on whose guineas in the purses there was a fair amount to punt wasn't it yes do you have you done any research on them or found anything out about them at all well into the shop they came from the south they Czar's yacht I wonder that could possibly be true they are of course both Russian as you're determined yeah one of Alexander the third day-to-day t91 and this one is Nicholas the second 1903 and it's an interesting that they are lo different years they're the same pattern and it suggests that they have had remade the pattern to match and the yacht sounds like a perfectly sensible pedigree they've improved quite considerably on his six guineas yeah would you believe 1,500 pounds 1,500 pounds I think yeah three thousand pounds the pair really very nice indeed will you take great care of them please yes better packing than you brought them immaculate we got a box no it was found wrapped in tissue paper and there wasn't the door really he only moved into the house oh no he actually belonged to a friend and the mother-in-law died and she found that wrapped in tissue paper well the drawer what's so wonderful about it is all that is papier-mache layers and love good paper which is then painted and this wonderful mad hairstyle which was really in fashion in sort of 1820s beautifully what I love about it is the fact that she had a kid body we can't see it because underneath this silk dress is bloomers but you're also right down to her painted shoes little commercials world know the limbs and the shoes and the arms are all wood and they were made in the southern part of Germany Sonnenberg and they were made in many hundreds if not thousands and exported all over Europe in fact all over the world but usually they were exported unclothed and what might have happened was they were sent over here and closed in the fashion of the day yeah by possibly couturiers here who then put it through the toy shops of the time her dress of course is original the only thing I would say is that the pink is an extra it would have been pink but then have one thing that goes when it's painful film in that condition at auction I can see that making upwards of a thousand pounds possibly 1,500 just felt little faith it's a part of history it is really I think so please put a very presence of surprises well I know actually I purchased it of a farmer was selling up his goods and chattels I went into the house and this was there and I said we'll look just this table as it is there guys no leaves and I asked him how much he wanted his tail and he said five pounds it was filthy dirty an inch of grease on fire found and when I got home I thought it didn't look like a large right dining table and I thought there must be leaves for the Hat I'll go back and achieve so the table with the leaves has cost a ten wonderful one have you had anybody look at it and tell you how old it is I mean you know anything about the years ago I had an antique dealer come up and he looked at it and he said oh yes he said I think I've read something about that table made by Richard Gill oh it's the type of action which gillo did develop which he called his universal table in fact became popular after 1820 this isn't a gillo table but it's a it's a gillo style table the interesting thing is of course the the base itself which does give us a clue to the date in that rather late double knee which is very sort of 1830s really yeah the other thing that's happened to it is because of the expansive table to give it extra stability at some time someone's extended the legs you see this part here yeah that was actually put on probably a hundred years ago yeah because originally that the casters would have come down there I did wonder what why that was the toe so that was an extension to make it wider by about four to six inches yes to compensate for the the vast expanse of table yeah but apart from that the base is fine there's nothing wrong with that if we just pull it out together you pull an eye pork together that's right well that's fine then you can see the action which was the universal type of expending extending dining table now it's got three leaves you say three leaves each twelve right I would suggest that originally there would have been a fourth leaf it will just take a fourth leaf will you pull it right out which would make it a 14 c2 which was common at that time now the problem is what do you do when it's fully extended because it becomes unstable and have you ever felt under these corners if we close the table up now have you ever felt under here at each corner there's a hole yes and what was supplied with this table originally was for leaves and for turned legs and when you had it fully extended new spirit collection and that's what those are all now it's a wonderful color I mean you've you've cleaned it properly and treated it over the years and the best thing for a dining table is use and it really looks good it's a credit to you and I think you bought well in today's market draw 10 pounds investment has turned into 10,000 much was there it's worth ten thousand pounds on the open market today extending dining tables are very much sort of what appeal to the Edwardian public was children and dogs and here you've got the ultimate collection of children and dogs in one picture you can see it's by Arthur J LCM and it's dated 1905 have you had it for a long time at 25 years did you inherited it yeah we're quiet um friend of ours they left it in a will for my wonderful well I think it's the most wonderful present to inherit I think the subjects so charming you have a little boy trying to throw a snowball Hood's sister which is typical sort of thing that my children do what I particularly but it is the quality of the fur hair on the doll and the expression and the tremendous attention to detail throughout the whole picture and it seems to me it'd make a perfect Christmas card correct and you have like deer will just be made a Christmas card well that's fascinating do you have it insured by any chance oh you don't well I think you oughta minutes it's I think say exciting a number have appeared at auction in London over the years and I believe that it should be insured for fifty thousand pounds and I think if you so did it might be worth between 25 and 40 thousand thousands but the sky's the limit really was something as as interesting as this and as commercial as this you get to wealthy people who want it you know anything might happen so what you get you ought to take to a bank perhaps and keep it there or something so it's wrong a shame there isn't it beautiful well we've had a very interesting and rewarding day here in Bridlington and we end now with some tangible mementos of a local heroine she was the great woman aviator Amy Johnson whose family lived here in Bridlington this is the flying suit that she designed and had made herself together with the helmet and this is a scale model of the famous gypsy moth aircraft which she called Jason and in which she made her epic journey from England to Australia in 1930 of course the first woman ever to do so this silver plaque presented to her is in the shape of Australia and you can see that her route from England is actually studied with rubies and emeralds but you know for me the most eerie memento of all is this bag which is the only thing we have providing a clue as to what happened to Amy Johnson in 1941 she was delivering an airplane for the RAF and was lost over the sea we still don't know to this day whether she was shot down ran out of fuel or got lost in the fog but shortly afterwards this a personal bag was recovered from the Thames Estuary and all of this kindly loaned to us today by the sir B Hall Museum who keep a permanent exhibition in honor of Amy Johnson so our warm thanks to the people of Yorkshire we are off now to Sussex where I very much hope you'll join us next week at the same time until then from all of us here

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Published: Thu Dec 06 2018