Antiques Roadshow UK Series 18 Episode 11 Peebles, Peeblesshire

[Music] [Applause] many people come to this part of Scotland to see the Monroe's or the Corbett's but not as you might think local families but the names of the highest hills in this part of the borders and if you're walking those hills or indeed fishing the rivers likely as not you'll stay in Peebles which is where we are for this week's Antiques Roadshow the borders are very sparsely populated that's part of their charm and appeal but it's known that people have lived here for many thousands of years because the whole area is rich in archaeological finds few years ago man was walking along a riverbank and saw an unusual shape lying in the water he picked it up and discovered this a Bronze Age axe head evidence that there were people living in this area around Peebles some four thousand years ago this is one of those parts of Britain where the Sheep vastly outnumber the people which is just as well really because the wool from their banks clothe the local population for hundreds of years eventually spinning and weaving developed from a cottage industry into an industrial process this particular firm has been weaving in this part of the borders since 1666 machines like this they weave Tarpons for every single Scottish regiment in the British Army this one coming off the loom now is for the newly formed Highlanders regiment the cloth is strong and tough in fact they even say it's bulletproof you can never go very far in Scotland without becoming aware of its rich history few places are more intimately linked with that history than track where lived in by 20 generations of the same family and visited by 27 kings the entrance to the house and the estate is marked by some impressive looking gates they were built in 1737 following a visit from Bonnie Prince Charlie the fifth Earl said the gates were to stay locked until there was a Stuart king on the throne they've been locked ever since and are likely to remain so for a year or two yet of much more recent origin is the gates leisure center in Peebles and that's where we've invited local people to come and meet our experts if you were to list the greatest illustrators of the 20th century you'd probably think of that's Arthur Rackham in England you might think Redmond you lack in France and perhaps Keene Nielsen in Scandinavia but you'd also think of this woman Jessie M King who is really Scotland's greatest illustrator of this century tell me about how you come to have this wonderful wonderful drawing this picture was given to my mother and father as a wedding present from Jessie M King she painted it for them she painted it for them absolutely wonderful because and don't tell me they got married in April April and this nice little bit of poetry April brings the Primrose sweet scatters daisies at our feet and there are these two typical Jessie King girls on the gathering that the primroses and the daisies really charming done in pen and ink with a little bit of watercolor hate name but how did this association come about Jessie I'm King used to go into my Gran's Tea Room how wonderful look tell us now who is which yeah this is my grand DMK husband fascinating so that is your grandmother with the great artist herself in your grandmother's Tea Room in Kaku P it was called the Paul Jones tea and this would be what about 1925 I think so there's a real piece of piece of history it's absolutely wonderful Jessie M King who is very sought-after now as an illustrator I mean this is a late work was she died just after actually 1941 she died your parents were married in 1946 we should probably insure it for sort of two and a half thousand pounds so that's a pretty nice wedding present now this is the important thing in my opinion because here we have a sword of the 74th regiment now the 74th regiment fought with Wellington the SA wellington always felt that this was his finest battle and we have a say on here with the elephant the number of the regiment 74th and of course today this regiment is the island light infantry well of course with amalgamation that's right and then when we come to look at the blade here it has all the battle honors of the peninsula war Salamanca Victoria you name it they were there now the thing is that makes this different from any other Dirk is the pommel because it's peculiar to this regiment the way it narrows in and flattens out at all the Hilton made of bog oak this is a little piece of nonsense here I know we're it that's why that's one yeah you wear it yes and fill dinner a treat with a local buns really do drum major we have the sword and well it's jolly interesting I didn't know that oh that's fine no well then necessarily I mean this is just a piece of plastic that's right it serves its purposes but in fact of course it doesn't go with my daughter but I do feel this is too good to wear and it's too valuable to wear this Dirk it was put into auction today with fetch 1500 pounds fifteen fifteen hundred pounds because the murder this duck is his around about 1845 that's quite an early patent yes it was but I didn't know I see and what's that not to be just one you know occasionally I feel it should be treasured more on capture an official madman yeah I'm not really the sort of thing I would have expected to see on a one of these days in Peebles of all places but tell me a little bit about these where did you get my grandparents spent a lot of time in India and they were given to my grandmother I think by an Indian friend an Indian prince is that that would that would figure well that's where they can't fit it's not the sort of thing at all that one sees not just here but in Europe you tend to see these things if you travel in the East or in very very rare private collections you might see something like this date of manufacture on this sort of stuff is actually very difficult to be precise because if we go back to the Mogul time these things were being made then as well but I would hazard that these ones by the color of the gold work by the cover here this polychrome work the blues and the Sky Blues is probably around about the mid nineteenth century period and then you've got these stones here do you know what these stones are going around how they raise diamonds they are diamonds they they are called rose cups it's just like a flat slice of stone you've got this pair of confronting serpent-like creatures yes each of the serpents has got a ruby bead that forms the tongue you've got the blue royal blue here which contrasts very effectively with the sky blue in the center band but then if we have a look and just turn it you can see that the little motifs are duds and you've got some very very pretty dogs contrasting with different colors of flowers so it's got so much packed into a very small sort of environment the gold is a very high current with all this Eastern jewelry the gold is always a very high pure gold so the character gold I would suggest is probably 22 carat gold and I would say that they are very much pieces worthy off aprons the women would be tiny wouldn't they're that wore these but does it characteristically yes if you think that the young girl when she got married was given these bangles and she may be no more than 14 or 15 in some picture of why they're so snare so small princely pieces come through to you if they were sold in an auction broadly speaking between five and seven thousand however they are rare there's every possibility with the right people there they could be ten to fifteen thousand pounds plus so in short and if you haven't gotten covered it's really an exceptionally fine German porcelain tea bowl and saucer and it was made by the mice and Factory which is a very very famous Factory in Germany still functioning today and it was started by a man called Berger who was an alchemist and he started off by producing stoneware because porcelain had been made in Europe until he started it it was only produced in on the Orient and China in Japan and then around that time he brought it to this to to Germany maybe we might have a few more you might have a flying business I think it's certainly something that you want to go warm and check out to see if you've got any more it's particularly nice example and painted with indianature bloomin flowers please and a very unusual boron on my son with this sort of puce diaper and alternating floral which sort of blue Scrolls on either side it's an extremely unusual border the date of its 1725 this is the really early food where they were still looking to China for inspiration and this is very much an oriental style decoration that's why they called indianature bloomin and even a tee ball and saucer like this with the little chips that we we've noticed I mean one would estimate it easily at six to eight hundred pounds but it wouldn't surprise me then if it went on up and me in two thousand pounds because it's such a yes such a very yes mice and tea Bowl and saucer of this period which is very collectible lovely to see such a nice example before um you can tell it is an early Mickey until now only Mickey right the early Mickey's can you see his eyes it looks like a piece of cake with a section taken out of it doesn't it yes I see that and it's called a pie crust I know those pie crust eyes only existed on the early Mickey's after about 1934-35 they disappeared on its own it's valuable but with all its it's bits and pieces it's even more valuable what's it worth to watch five no you people got Mickey honey but take me off it's okay do you know how much it was new in 1930 well I was trying to work there though I think probably a media better phone 30 shillings and news days right I mean today in all its packing it's worth about three to four hundred and they made a lot of Lancome is one of 50 new shades yes I think what really makes the difference with you is that you were you were one of those rare beasts a careful child yes well in actual fact they didn't existed it for about a year and then one became of a little bit embarrassed having one became oh boy yes and I put away in the drawer and I think I've seen since then probably sometimes just wound it up occasionally unless hence its condition thanks a lot to show you too mr. rice good fine thank you well it's a international sheepdog Society trophy presented by the one-day love family right I'm the the rules with the trophy is that it was for a hired chef of splice others couldn't compete - right and they had to be went three times and all with three different dogs at international level so that's why would be so long and being a one-note rate well I stuffed the chicken dog trailing about fifty 1958 I know in it and 64 67 and 70 dude say if the third target failed and competing yet so your name is down here three times sixty four sixty seven seventy two yes it's on every every year they went and a lot of famous men before most names are on it that's what makes it so good yes it's almost difficult with valuations on things like this because this is a one-off piece isn't it but if you actually work out each piece of silver knees Birmingham Anton 32 I would put a valuation of coinsurance between thousand twelve hundred pounds so you're very proud ma'am very plain and happy members of three dogs that's right actually great frames I think it was probably bought by my grandfather at auction probably in the North he just built a large house and he was furnishing it between 1864 and his death in 1900 also so he was furnishing the house between 1864 and and there are think he died in 1900 that's very interesting because the tables not that much older I mean I would have said sort of 1860 1850 1860 from the table so it might have been just second half do not just second half it's entirely my imagination that is important on the auction sale but I know he haunted them well if we look at the base that wonderful stubble scroll foot yes itself ending what we call a paper scroll deeply molded lots of shape lots of life then coming up into that circular base very typical of any time after sort of 1845 1850 and then that sort of petaled very very smart design and then of course inlay don't you see that the harp and typical Newmarket redesigns yes we were the the United Kingdom is represented yes and then this section here the Irish makers loved you would and that's what this is this is seasons of you rather like an orange segments of segments of you would and then in the center underneath the the master area will help I would remember if when it wasn't damaged it must have been like there this has been like this for I would say at least this centered sort of 100 years really because it's almost got a patina of its own it is damaged from water I mean it's the traditional thing somebody has left flowers and leek lore over watered it and not just once but I mean several times and I think every week once a week I would say so yes it sort of thing well it's damaged now we might as well let it go to interesting things firstly the beautiful thick veneers which can be seen here these are hand-cut veneers to get that great thickness of life and depth into the timber I wouldn't do anything with it I mean there's no point in having it restored or mended this is authority when you spoil it I think you know what can you replace it with it's part of it part of its character I think the best thing to do is put the put the mat over it which is there in it and put some flowers up and it's a beautiful table have you had it valued at all immigrants oh no no I've never so have been out of the family I suppose bought it for insurance purposes you'd have to consider it in the region sort of four thousand pounds I'm afraid it's just included in my ordinary household I should let it rest like that yes because I can't replace it exactly a most lovely claret jug here a real real beauty and it has an inscription on the front they're presented to Charles Watson a [ __ ] by the dunce curling club as a mark of esteem and recognition of the valuable services as their secretary dumps February 1861 well that is a really lovely claret jug how did you come by that well my mother gave me to me in a present many years ago and she fell heir to it because my father was a partner with mr. Miller in a legal business in Dallas and his brother actually was the secretary of the dance club yes right right and here we have a little a curling stone on the top it's made in Birmingham in 1860 which ties up precisely with the day to be of the Beast full load of marks there but it's it's really wonderful lovely cut glass stunning condition you want to ensure that for two-and-a-half to three thousand pounds I'm thrilled I've seen it many thanks indeed pleasure you know it is remarkable on the roadshow we see many autographed books many commonplace books many books with receipts in but I don't think I've ever seen one as early as this this remarkable piece of calligraphy here is signed by Mathew linen and the date here is July 16 1920 before and as one goes through it things get better and better and better look at that wonderful little illustration here spouse a bazillion sis what is the best recipe to make a fat lady respect to keep her eyes open and her mouth shut well I think delightfully politically incorrect but I'm all for it I mean I think it's just absolutely charming and he goes through he has this remarkable I mean there isn't that absolutely charming that little page boy there looking very cocky I think he'll accept to be charming and he's done a lot of these are arms of his friends and this one I love this one here this kitchen girl she's carrying pigeons and I suppose it must be a hair there along with the other bits and pieces now that is absolutely superb there's Swiss soldiers who were the soldiers employed by the Vatican as you know but dressed up in the most extraordinary they were mercenaries they're all dressed up in the most extraordinary costumes we've seen this wonderful feathering I mean how they could live it down with other soldiers I I really don't know but they're just absolutely incredible and this whole book is absolutely full of this quality of illustration this quality of armorial illustration to this one's rather odd this lady seems to have left her glove or dropped a glove and this gentleman picking it up it's a pity about the faces here they've gone black or almost invisible yes what has happened I think what is what has happened is it's the lead oxide in the white paint and it goes black after a while but it is absolutely a corker I mean I couldn't I can't fault it it's humorous it's funny it's full of lots of pieces of information I noticed a recipe for bottling gooseberries earlier on did you know did you see that yes he's full of household hints that's called hidden yes oh now that one this is William Tell isn't it William Tell and his dear Silas with with an apple shot through on his head that is just absolutely gorgeous and he's looking so demure it is incredible tell me how you came by I'm afraid I can't it's just been in the family for just and we don't appear to have any connection with this chap at all and so um you played with it as children I'm sure well a little bit yes because the pictures was Oh beat what do you say with these sides it's absolutely wonderful well I think that is quite incredible good do you have it in short No well it's a museum piece one that should certainly be in a museum because as I say apart from places like the Berkeley and in Oxford the National Library of Scotland and the British Museum I know of no other place that would have examples of a book like this I would value it I mean if I saw that on the open market I would probably expect to find it around what 15,000 pounds something like that it is quite charming thank you so much so tell me how did you come by this beautiful object I bought us at an auction about 40 years ago you know it's Bromley personally Japanese yes and it was it's it's called Satsuma earthenware it's Marvis it was made at about 1900 of course this particular one is actually signed by Kinkos owners particularly with makeup but the reason I think this is so special is and is perhaps more interesting other ones we've had on is the question of the design in so many of these Japanese earthenware Satsuma vases of this high quality I should say our except some what over-decorated I mean every single square millimeter is has a little butterfly or a butter or a petal of a flower and so forth but this one the design here is so wonderfully open here are these beautiful ladies here Corby gene which simply means beautiful woman in Japanese and their their arms that morphed behind here hilt and they are obscured by their parasols yes all right and each parasol is decorated differently so this has running script here on it here representing a good wealth or what happens something like that this has a design of lanterns on it this has a design of palanquin and you come round and there's another lovely section round here they've used the space of the parasols to great effect here you have more running script and you have one of these straw things I think what that might be is and if you've ever been to Japan well if you go to the temple gardens you go in the sort of I think it's the when at the time of year when you're likely to get Frost they cover the plants with with straw until then below this you have they want their wonderful robes the robes are stunning aren't they I bet you've looked at this for ages come you find a different detail every time you love to do tax payers and also they bought the borders are quite beautiful and is very typical yes don't you think have you seen other pieces of this quality before haven't well i it's a wonderful thing to see and I it's Marvis I'm very glad you could bring it along expect you want to know what it's worth you yes how much well let me ask you what you paid for then let's go back to that time sure it well it was just a few pounds I just can't remember exactly well it's certainly worth about four thousand today thank you very much it's very good to know well this to me is the most extraordinary shock I was in Japan a few years ago and I was invited to a festival and I was dressed up in the samurai uniform and photographs were taken and blow me somebody in Japan has actually cast me as a samurai warrior they'd be truthful that's not the story at all he is supposed to be a Japanese warrior but I don't actually think he may be Japanese but I wouldn't be any surprised if he's not European where did you get him from well we just bought him in an antique shop in Edinburgh and they found him in the back garden somebody sold him to them and he was just in the back garden in Edinburgh and that's all we know about him right I have to tell you that he is brand-new the first thing they almost invariably have this wiped on patination and this is quite illogical to have it here and not on here you would find on a genuine one that have been out in the garden a difference in color between the bronze here and underneath for example and this is exactly the same so a clue what I would have hoped you would have done in which I would impress on people a whole time is to get a receipt on which you get the person in the shop to write all the information about that when it was made who made it whether it's been restored whether it's what dated is everything and then if there's a problem you can take it back in and we'll get your money back now in this case you may love it we do love it is the body's the only criterion might be old and we just thought well it's this we just loved it we finally was reading about that all what matters as long as you didn't grossly over pay for it rosy over paper then it doesn't matter if you love it that's the main thing I will say no more take it home and enjoy it and say good morning to me every time you pass it to my granny she died about 1951 my secret behind it down before that but there's no knowledge of where it may have come from through there because it's the sort of style that often was popular in say France it's actually made in around about 1900 and the style is the style of the French Goldsmith Rene Lalique and it's of that period the nouveau period at the start of the century where pieces were made in very very pretty colors very soft naturalistic themes where you get something like in this case two leaves but then you've got this cascade of little flowers but the subtlety of the colors where you've got this very very pretty - the light green contrasting against is very pretty salmon pink it's all of that theme at the start of the century wherever piece was made it had to be gentle and soft now the thing that I like about this the most and I don't think people would necessarily do this but when you hold it up to the light the color of the of this work is such that the light literally pours through it like a stained-glass window but the in this sort of workmanship in this condition is rare and the reason it's in good condition is obviously it's been housed in this fitted box for literally the past seventy five ninety years anyway it's got a little diamond set in the center there and at the bottom we have a a natural pearl that is suspended off the bottom there the vast majority of these are worth in the hundreds maybe 150 200 pounds but this one stands out from the crowd this one is worth 800 to a thousand pounds as much as that simply because it is so collectible that condition is so fine and it's such a wearable little piece Philippe I must say I've been rather thrown in these chats with experts because they were surprised me by picking the least expected things I thought you might come up with an English landscape as a favorite thing is that rich is a book it's a book indeed it is because really books in many ways are the love of my life I think I've got lots of those so many books my wife's constantly complaining about the number of books that litter our house and whenever I get the chance I drop into a secondhand bookshop wherever I am I love bugs and this is a rather special this is run a special one what I've collected in a small way is modern first editions the first edition particularly of books that have really appealed to me personally so this is one of the special ones this is indeed one of the special ones it's strongly carry the looking glass war one of his early ones and it's special to me because Licari is my in a way my hero your kind of writer my kind of writer absolutely and of course you are now a successful writer in your own way you're on your third novel that's right I'm on my third art world thriller and I very much acknowledged John Licari as my mentor I'm sort of in art school of Licari but what is it about first editions that gives them a special appeal to collector and indeed a special value was he just the most popular book that Licari wrote will be the most favorite that's a very interesting question because it is not actually necessarily the most popular book that he wrote that is the most expensive first edition it's the rarest book that what the probably the earliest one before he became truly famous probably the most valuable the carry first edition is a call to the dead his very first that just not many people have ever got their hands on this is a relatively early one it's number four and I mean a book like that is I think now worth about 120 hundred and fifty parts so when you disappear in the middle of an Antiques Roadshow you're usually what round the corner in the second-hand books well they're probably doing one of two things I'm either around the corner in the second book trouble or I'm writing an extra chapter of my next book in their way we have two remarkable tabletops this one more so and this one rather modestly so but we'll talk at this one first this is your cereth missus right what do you know about it nothing nothing I'll tell you very quickly what it is it's Italian slate specimen marble and the center is a micro mosaic you've probably looked at that closely you can see it composed of tiny tiny tiny little bits of colored stone or glass making the scene and these were made in Rome and also to a lesser extent in Florence during the 19th century and they were sold just as disks of slate to the grandtourist to bring home to have mounted as they wanted once they got back to England or in this case Scotland now a very valuable thing in London so without any doubt one of that quality for getting the base just the top is certainly 3000 pounds plus it's a remarkable thing this one in its way this belongs to you doesn't it sir this one in its way it's modest it's not I'm not gonna say 3000 pounds but in its in its way it's just as interesting because it is not inlaid and you you can see you can see that it's and the remark it's printed it's a printed process and it was made it's almost certainly American it was made during the latter part of the nineteenth century for export to Europe and also for the American market it was made on a very commercial basis is not across to a made thing it was churned out in a factory and it was made to look like a marquetry tabletop of the 18th late 18th century and to find one a printed one of this date it's only a hundred years old to find one of this date in this amazing condition is quite remarkable as a modest table on the base that it on it's only it's less than a hundred pounds but with this talked to a collector I don't know what they'd pay several hundred definitely several hundred I would imagine that you must have a very large mantelpiece at home well no actually I keep it in the unit in the dining room really because it's it's not a particular rarity and it's but it's just the largest one of these clocks I've seen for a very long time and if you can imagine in a Victorian house particularly in Scotland with a large mantelpiece marble fireplace and this would have sat in front of a mirror you we see these clocks quite frequently they're made in the late 19th century Victorian cast bronze but this size is exceptional do you know anything about it well my father worked on an estate Donen Wigton sure and the big house was gutted by fire in 1933 and he managed to carry it out to safety and because of that his employer gifted it to him later on it's fantastic I mean it must have been made for us for it for a very large house the movement is very straightforward this these clocks we can turn it around fortunates on a rotating table because I wouldn't even want to think about lifting it up the movement is what is known as a movement puppy standard French movement and indeed when you look at the back of the clock you can actually see it almost looks like it's an afterthought it's a complete barrel with its with its glass back and frame it just bolts in excellent quality nope no criticism of the quality of the movement but they are the standard movements that we've produced in numbers and the in the case would have been individually designed according to what the retailer wanted these plots as it's late example it dates from the last quarter of the last century 1880s something of that made 1870 1880 normally they're not particularly rare and they're not particularly valuable because they turn up in numbers but this size is exceptional and whereas I suppose the usual size about there would be seven eight hundred nine hundred pounds I probably think this would fetch something in the region of maybe three even four thousand pounds nice good thing to carry out the house well golly it's a bit rough isn't it - yes blind you it's very old so it deserves to be rough the nice thing about it is that that you haven't been tempted to have it restored yet we're sort of stabilizing it rather than restoring it just terribly important so I mean you know what it is any little fog Rainier or cabinet the thing is that it's an exception the early 130 barrier li1 you've had it a long time I discovered it when I was about 16 in my grandfather's house he died and it had become deserted and it would have ended up on a bonfire so when I was 16 I I discovered it lets out I have a look at I mean this this figure alone I mean it's very interesting this is late 1630 17th century the whole thing the very form of it now where precisely it comes from is difficult because you've got overturns of a sort of Spanish look yeah it's an Italianate thing from a distance but when you start to get close to it I think this is Portuguese now the original fast event I go to ask yes I think you're going to have to you know it's a bit dated now you have now have some sort of idea of the grandeur of the thing made for a an immensely wealthy merchant now the nice thing is if we start to look at the details you'll have told that for a few minutes you know it's okay if you see that that's a Ming bronze I've never seen that this is sort of chinesey perfect yes now the influence from that I have never seen on a piece of European furniture of this period yeah and here they are repeated in the top again so they are absolutely amazing this Manor got hold of a Ming bronze yeah and shown it to his cabinet maker and said you've got to do something but it's look this is the latest thing from China gosh and here now you work some architectural movement here he's a right-handed carver yeah now you know about work don't you such a make musical instrument yeah you know it flows much easier with the way you naturally work yeah so all the right-handed scrolls are wonderful look at the life in that yeah it's bare you can see you can feel and do it but you didn't get on so difficult it's a flat scroll and not such a nice one there I'll never look at that the same this always look at their different that's brilliant well you must have loved doing that sign thought he was putting off doing the lefthand as long as good but just wonderful thing I mean one of the most exciting historically exciting pieces that I've seen for years but don't do anything else to it if there's only absolutely you've stabilized the woodworm don't try and have it done up and leave it because it's part of history as it is if this were ever sold on the continent where it would sell best they never restore things they would leave that because that's the thing that's the sign of age you sleeve all this absolutely can't do that very easily live with it enjoy it as it is I will old do I have another 60 years now if you want it in sure I did have it valid once by someone who didn't know a lot about it I don't know it should be in short if you've got a good description of it yes which he might have given you for that's fine take some plenty of photographs of it and then shore it for 12,000 as much as that as much as and you'll get a long way before you ever see at another I'm just delighted it's been a great thrill one of the nicest most interesting things I've seen well this is just an extraordinary feast a veritable feast of cribbage boards how long have you been over in 22 years 22 years worth of collecting well I'm going to have a quick canter through these and I'm gonna stretch in front of you and pick up what I think is probably the oldest one which is made of Sycamore and inlaid with a single very simple spray of foliage with a bud on the end a beautiful thing probably date from around about 1717 between 1717 1780 and as he's typical with most of the examples in your collection you have this nice hidden compartment in the back for concealing and keeping the counter markers I'm going to show the next one of that period similar period and this one's made of yew wood and if we have a look on its reverse there's a compartment the inside we have a label and it says that it's a cribbage board made from some U which was discovered underneath the riverbed at Woollett and they thought that they you had been there since the deluge that's Noah and the flood which had happened 4140 years before is extraordinary but it's a lovely little cribbage board and an exquisite little period piece it's tight every collection I think has to have one and sure enough you got it yeah the scrimshaw cribbage board which is purporting to be made out of some marine ivory and if we look carefully on the end of this so-called tusk you can see the flaws in it and it is in fact made of a plastic resin so I'm afraid if you thought that you'd water and late 18th or early 19th century a genuine article I'm afraid isn't it well I'm delighted to hear there then if you'll forgive me I'm going to grab my favorite which most certainly is this one I'm going to revolve like that this is effectively a Regency one it's called pen and ink work and you very carefully do this with a needle and a fine and Indian ink over a pre-prepared surface you get these exquisite designs we look at that one upside down you get this charioteer this mythical charioteer typical sort of high Regency type of decoration and you have a sliding compartment and you keep the cards and Skouras again inside it's a wonderful thing a real work of art well I've done a little tally of what we've got here on the table and I would recommend that for insurance purposes you should get them covered for nearer eight or nine thousand pounds just this section so quite what you've got at home as well in addition I wouldn't know but this is a small part of it then you should certainly be thinking quite seriously advise buried covered it's nice to play with them nice to play with them very nice to examine them - thank you well alas not everything is quite what it seems on the Antiques Roadshow and our fearsome looking samurai warrior here turns out to be a modern variation on a traditional old theme but no matter we still had a really splendid day just look at the long list of wonderful things that we found that mogul jewelry of John Benjamins the Virginia that Portuguese writing desk that John Bligh discovered and of course Clive's super book I don't suppose we will ever find another one like it so our warmest thanks to the people of the boarders next weeks we're in Oxfordshire in fact on the banks of the River Thames so I very much hope you'll join us until then from all of us here in Peebles good bye

Channel: UK VHS Archive

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Rating: 4.6602316 out of 5

Keywords: 1996, Antiques Roadshow, Antiques Roadshow Series 18, Antiques Roadshow UK, BBC, BBC 1, VHS, Hugh Scully, 50fps, Peebles, Peeblesshire

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Length: 42min 42sec (2562 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 10 2018