Antiques Roadshow UK Series 24 Episode 19 Houghton Hall, Norfolk Part 2

[Music] welcome to our second visit to Houghton Hall in Norfolk this magnificent Palladian mansion scene of last week's roadshow was built by Sir Robert Walpole Britain's first Prime Minister Sir Robert was a good-natured and sociable character whose life ended unhappily he lost two wives in quick succession and then became seriously ill himself and although he had a reputation as a financial wizard when he died in 1745 he left behind massive personal debts this Orangery in the north wing of Houghton Hall used to house much of Walpole's fine collection of old masters but his grandson had to sell them to pay the creditors fortunately most of the other contents of the house survived so the staterooms form a magnificent showcase for the work of the finest designers and craftsmen of the age we'll be hearing from the roadshows Christopher Payne about the influence of the remarkable William Kent on the furniture and the decor at Houghton but first for your delight some items we didn't have time to show you from our roadshow here last week what do you think of the date well we believe it probably belonged to the grandparents don't we so that takes us back to wynn 1860 yes yeah we've got to go even further back because this was made around 1790 how do you know what it is is that a creamer it is a cow creamer so it would have looked at home on the tea table with your posh bone china teapot you have this rather unpause unlovely do you think is unlovely or yeah you think it's quite ugly I think she's lovely Wow look at the expression on her face that's a slight wide-eyed surprise as the milkmaid does her business under underneath here she's milking her into this rather inadequate milk yeah and if we turn around we can just catch the expression on the girl's face there she is she's looking out to make sure she's not gonna get clobbered by this huge cow she's really broad stocky I'm afraid she's been rather badly handled though in her time yeah dude responsibility no nothing nothing to do with it okay we've lost the horns Ross the ears you've still got the stopper amazingly but this tail which of course should come over in a loop like this and from which you would pour the cream comes out of mouth like that that in its mangled state it's probably worth a thousand pounds I did it risking it in the state that silver you're saying restored well there are bits new drawn but I don't know if it's the tile we did find out legs and things like that what she's got four legs so I wouldn't put any more on but if you've got a tail and ears and horn yeah I mean they look very similar don't know that and spongy effective I do I'd go straight home and get the drawer open and see what you can do I must say that if somebody offered me milk out of a 200 year old cow creamer I would think twice about drinking it because heaven knows what is crawled inside her belly in the meantime I mean we you know that's firmly stuck in I'm not going to try to get that out but I suspect it's got plenty of life in it so what do you think this is then no idea a massager massager difficult to say really it's an oddball massage isn't it they very much want you to grip this with your left hands it's got L on the end of the handle and R on the end of that panel you're making two contacts here with your fists then you spin it like this these rubber panels or gutta-percha panels these early early honeycomb sections grip against something and it might well be your skin as a car gun generator effectively inside the hub of it all and learn behold it generates electricity and whether that electricity is going to do me any good as I rub it on you and make a spark which effectively goes through my hands or whether the massaging process does use some good at the same time I'm not altogether sure but should we try we can't see I'm getting with very little electric charge off it so how does it work for you you get an electric charge you don't you don't well that's what it's supposed to do and it says vite roller on it so it was made in the 1920s all 1930s for its health-giving properties and what do you think it's worth right I think you would get for it is a bit of fun yeah maybe a hundred interesting very interesting well this is great isn't it Charlotte miss horse it goes wound and round I think it goes up and down doesn't it always that's right round and round and round and up and down and it was designed just as it is at the moment to keep children happy but at a particular moment wasn't there well it's actually a nice cool hairdressing horse did you put a child on this keep them happy as Charlotte is incredibly happy you just cut the head cut the hair and they wouldn't even know anything about it no where did it come from they came with Queen Mary fantastic really anything to do with the Queen Mary has a certain cachet these days because it was from the Golden Age as oshi cruising and ocean liners so to find this piece I think is wonderful and it's something that you use on a on a daily basis I suppose well I think that in the right sort of auction I could see it fetching perhaps five to eight hundred pounds and make it one great bit of memorabilia and thanks so much for bringing special and thanks very much indeed for modeling it short you did brilliantly round about ten years ago my wife worked in the jewelers and she came home several times and recounted how a young lady was troubling from Hong Kong to purchase Swatch watches that were limited-edition I being put in the safe by the manager for this young lady to come over for it and he was thought maybe we'd join in what seemed to be a good game at the time right I'm here today to see how this useless plastic we've got well it's a will will will come to the Dynamo at the end but now they are a wonderful bit of a period piece really these are all about 10 to 15 years yeah not as old as 15 9 to 10 years now a very narrow time band that we collected over right right and and this one for instance which is rather Imperial looking de piece is by Vivienne Westwood it is and it's system rather spit of packaging and you've got this this flick book with it where it actually you know show it shows at the time as you flick through it and because we've in Westwood is still very much a yes tas style icon so you know without a doubt that's that's a a very stylish piece we actually went down to the swatch shop in london when she came along there to purchase that one yeah right and can you member mascha patriots roughly all of them were around 25 pounds right well that's actually not an awful lot of money is it and it's incredible to think someone was coming from Hong Kong and making a part of money out of it yeah at the time I will say this this one yes absolutely brilliant this was for soup district depressant soup de Poisson after soup and here it is but what's fishy about this I suppose what says starfish on it yes and I suppose it's some sort of sailors net little fisherman's net so it's caught up in and all that sort it's great isn't it and why they were such nice conditional basically as soon as we stop collecting we put them all in a box to move house to the bigger house and they've never been out since right now of course like so many collectibles modern collectibles they go through as a rollercoaster life and it's quite interesting that you've started and your wife spotted an emerging market and there's no doubt that by the mid night is these had started to make really quite considerable sums of money but what happened next was that swatch recognized that actually people were stockpiling them and rather than what they'd intended them to be to a certain extent which was the sort of you know she accessible watch for people yeah and they've gone backwards again having said that though I do think that there are real style icons some of them the Vivienne Westwood one I suspect today in a collector's market you'd probably get somewhere around fifty sixty pounds for it so it's double the money because in real terms it isn't double the money no inflation not with inflation but you've got a choice you either cash in now and and actually don't get very much or you keep them and see if the roller coaster goes on I would certainly keep them yeah you have nothing else are we given to our children as throw away watches it's interesting because when you look at this side you've got these wonderful gilt decoration with what this is called kyuta pattern and Castle pebble pattern and then you've got these great Rococo scrolls and looking just at this one would have thought my goodness that's French I'd serve in 18th century they made exactly this decoration then we turn around here we see that the flower painting is in fact typically Russian from the imperial force in fact I'm not absolutely sure whether this is just the end of the 18th century or the first 20 years of the 19th vertical since the collapse are from communism in Russia's or no fall people started really getting mad about Russian things so I think your friend today should be considering insuring this for something like a thousand pounds so it's quite a nice little nest egg now all Chumbley all the wonderful things that are on display in the public parts of the house these items have come from the private apartments haven't they yes this was has always been in the Hall the entrance hall downstairs and under one of the mahogany tables and used as a as a waste paper basket I'm afraid we decide a very practical put a liner in it I suppose you want to do that there should be a pair to it there is a path that's the other side you coming in or going out of there well they're paint buckets that accounts for the fact that it has a gap so that you can lift the plates in a night and they were carried from the kitchen to the dining room in pairs and carried on a yoke so you wouldn't like me that's so heavy anyone that's quite heavy with that yes yes I've milk pills so they've sort of carried the meaning in pairs this is rather a nice sized one and probably for dessert plates rather than dinner plates right it's particularly pretty little brass mount around here just sort of took 1810 to 1815 which is about the right date for these things they they sort of tended to go out of fashion by about 1830 and weren't introduced as such until the sort of 1780 so they're fairly short lifespan and their value I mean in pairs usually today between six and eight thousand pounds depending on their size and quality but of course as soon as you have a provenance like this great house then then prices can make anything because in the future it means that someone's going to end it and say well this came from happen hall yes I think we have to ignore the provenance side and say a pair of these should be insured for say a seven and a half to eight thousand pounds but as their provenance meat makes them unique then they couldn't be replaced well I think we should certainly shouldn't be using what a few plates and just remind you up and then we have this extraordinary extraordinary wasa elbow which is made of one of the most dense Timbers known which is lignum vitae if you threw that into the lake he would sink it does not float and this was a wassail at Christmastime and you toasted your friends the orbits big enough to get into is like a sort of punch absolutely oh yes yeah sure with that pours and alcohol and all sorts of things I mean it really is a stunning piece it's one of the largest I've ever seen there is one maybe and Tad bigger but if not certainly the same size in the Victorian out the museum which has a crisscross pattern cut on and the original fitments to go in those little holes and those were little cups with a spike on and I suppose 16 14 this was made where does this live by the way this lives by Sir Robert Walpole desk in the library doesn't have any but this does it stands on the floor but really it should should be exhibited there this in today's market could easily make twenty five thousand pounds really yes so pop it on a table that would definitely so this would have been the entrance hall to the house yes when William Kent came to Houghton in 1725 this room was an empty double Q room he decorated it and furnished it with his own furnishings his own wall decorations in this ancient Roman style in a sharp contrast in fact to this room here the saloon look at this these are rooms that are really made to impress aren't they it's very theatrical isn't it and it's meant to be people come in here and see this wonderful great big expanse of furniture look at the chairs in bullion chairs like Kent himself or York Sherman covered here in this red calf way very rough material it's the same as the wall material here yes sir but of course isn't it just the original yes it is it's been on the chairs since they were here made for this room in 1745 just look at the decoration here I mean that you've got this shell which is repeated often in the house and on Kenton furniture and it's gilt here gilt with mahogany ground so the whole chair is made of mahogany and carved carved by James Richards a local sculptor master sculptor who worked often with Kent but there's something about it was not quite as strong and as vibrant perhaps as London furniture would be it's beautifully carved and beautifully designed but it's not quite got the sophistication of perhaps even some of the other furniture in the room for example here the over doors incredibly impressive isn't it we've got this marvellous decoration in this Roman style whether you notice in the top there you've got the sunflower mmm which is the sunflower of Hollow and Kent repeats that in the ceiling up here you've got the Apollo and his Sun chariot is this all the work of Kent the whole room is all his he was a decorator now Robert Walpole was a keen Huntsman and that's reflected isn't it in in the frieze yes you've got the hounds chasing the hair all the way around the frieze here which is a theme repeated right throughout the house in fact and they were hunting almost every day here and Kent did the whole room he did the furniture here if you look example the side table over there with his Fink's is holding and supporting his crest the Saracens head and I'm sure he brought his friends in here for a good hard day's hunting they came and had a drink in this room leaving mud all over these carpets I hope they left their boots outside wherever we go around the country we'd love to come across items of real local interests and manufacturer and here we have a to Shetland armchairs family ones probably yes these tears were belong to my grandfather and grandmother this one to my grandmother this went to my grandparents as the size would indicate yes and they were made in the village close to where they live and they would have been made by local craftsmen somebody in the village made just by a local woodworker right I suspect he wouldn't have been furniture maker he would just have been joining us and the interesting thing about them is that yes they were made by a local craftsman to a design that is hundreds of years old almost this panel back set in this kind of framework held together with mortise and tenon joints down through like this is a style of construction that was common in the in the 17th century and throughout the 18th century although these almost certainly were made much after but made by a man working in a very old tradition which is lovely to see it's interesting that every area of the country has its own indigenous form of chair the most common one we see of course is the mrs. Windsor armchair what are these things worth here I wouldn't have thought very much just is the thing isn't it had they been a Windsor armchair ie local to southern England they have a set value hundreds of pounds in many cases thousands of pounds I suspect these are going to be very much in the low hundreds two or three or four on a very good day I would have thought that was the very outside you need not give me the good deer to get up what is this extraordinary object that's your your dumb is that oh yes look at that honey how'd you come our Wales eardrum all right when you cut them up then just Becca no wonder win you're a wailing man were you yep in the SS southern Venturer was your vessel yep well that's a weird object isn't it um why did you paint it out with this musing face well I had two of them no I cut them down and they put the two together uh-huh then a flubber fish made a proper place and then the novelty was taking it apart I'm looking at money do tell me where you've got this lovely picture I bought this in antique shop in Aberdeen in 1954 and I 1665 64 in the 70s in the seventies well it is absolutely wonderful as you can see he's made of shell there's a few shells slightly missing here but enough in every other respect it's in wonderful condition they were made mainly as Valentine gifts by prisoners of the First World War the shells probably come from the Caribbean it's had a new frame of it but otherwise it didn't really wonderful lovely colors very deputed often they came in pairs so one on it - were talking about somewhere in the region between a thousand and fifteen hundred pounds absent my wife bought this at the sales all roughly about ten years ago well it's a lovely search now this would embrace the dining table of a rather splendid Victorian home and it's actually electroplated and it's very much in the Moorish taste I would say because they're very eclectic in their designs in the 19th century they copied idea small most everyone and it's partly silver-plated then it's partly gilded as well and that was quite a difficult thing to do because you had to lacquer all the bits that you didn't want to gild and then take it off again afterwards it's very much in the style of a firm called Elkington and company from about the 1870s or 1880s but they there is no mark on those marks there oh yeah well that's the design registry mark and with a suitable little table you can actually work out the year that it was made well at least a year in which the design was registered because it could have been made after that but they've always producing new designs and I haven't got the key with me but that that would certainly be around 1880 beautiful glass the original glass and all this lovely engraved decoration and to have user we've just put it on decoration of up for sure well out of reach in case it gets knocked down then how much did you pay for this tell me well that's the ticket from the sale room 62 pounds well just to give a sort of like for lying figure I think if this were to come up in the sale today I think you would be looking at somewhere between two and two and a half thousand pounds very nice indeed it was blowed up by my son Amish fireman but maybe seven eight years ago mm-hmm and how long has been there a goodness knowledge right and I don't know what it is right well let's have a look at it because I love a mystery object that's good and one thing I can say for certain that it is a thing of purpose where it was dug out was it anywhere near the shoreline here be a bird and maybe a hundred hundred fifty yards for the shore right I think I can tell you what the purpose is and it's a little bit confusing because you notice a bit a little bit rough here well this tell would have extended and would have been fitted onto a back plate now that back plate would then have been fixed to a bulkhead or whatever in a captain's cabin and it actually supported here a barometer because this is a gimbal support for a ship's barometer mm-hmm as is it's probably worth the princely sum of maybe 3040 pounds but if nothing else it's a wonderful conversation piece that is yes we were always told it was a spur oh well it just goes to show you can't believe everything that you turn it and I'd feel very sorry for the horse that got pricked by that dolphin yes very true what do you know about all these wonderful designs we actually find them in my mom and dad's house in the Attic and all we know is that they were most probably painted or drawn by the previous owner of the house I mean this is the most extraordinary collection of designs from a museum in Sheffield meticulously hand-drawn and illustrated in watercolor by a student of the Sheffield College of Art each of these objects is almost pick up allocable if you look at it the way is what she's painted them they were done by somebody little signature up there it says student's surname Fordham underneath it says Christian named Ethel em now she was a registered artist who hung paintings in the Royal Academy she had her paintings accepted there but they weren't of this type they were actually flower paintings and still lives and she was operating between 1935 1940 that sort of period if we look at them we've got a huge number of different very complex historical designs here she was obviously fascinated by the sheer technical difficulty of painting silver and gold then here we get this amazing clock design very very idiosyncratic thing and she's put very firmly to be presented in silver are decorated with cloisonne enamel she's designed all where the enamels had to go all the patterns have been delineated quite clearly and section through she knew exactly what the three-dimensional sign would have looked like it's very unusual for a woman at that time to be doing this yeah she was obviously highly skilled I mean I've never seen a sugar caster like this it's just so off the wall he's brilliant absolutely brilliant beautiful but then we start looking at her at her her life because she's assigning herself here nags and she was Fordham before that's right so we know that she's been married we know that she's become Ethel nags now Ethel nags is not on everybody's lips as being a great designer but she should have been if you look at this work it was something quite out of the ordinary and it makes you wonder whether when she got married she sublimated her own career for that of her husband here we have a double sheet of the most delectable jewelry you could possibly imagine I mean nowadays we're used to seeing our nouveau designs come up in the auction room as we see them on the market and our mouths water if we're keen on jewelry to look at things like this so I mean if you were to ensure the whole lot for about four thousand pounds it wouldn't be far out right okay yeah seems like a lot of money but I think it's worth it I think I have to be insured and they have to be photographed most important we lived in China about 10 years ago and my daughter was about 2 at the time and these generally are Chinese hats that children used to wear toward off evil spirits and so it just seems to me an interesting item to collect and would wander around antique markets looking for such items I'd imagine that these would be probably late 19th early 20th century but they're protective as you say the the dragon hat here on the right hand side with a little the female riding on top presented for that very reason now about the shoes these are faceting once you buy these well I think basically to go with the hats but obviously I don't think they're children because they're not rounded yeah um so I presumed they were for bound feet yes and I just thought they were very pretty and just a piece of history I wanted to tears banishing history in this case because I think there are some very old ladies around today who still have bound feet mutilated feet which is rather frankly think about but these are are certainly grown-up shoes so they are these are found quite a lot over here but these are not he's a very unusual they are so pretty I mean it's wonderful colors of purples and the Reds soft breads and the Kingfisher blue I don't know I'd imagine you're looking at maybe a hundred to maybe 150 for each of them each of the Hat somewhere in that region may be a bit more they are relatively old maybe a hundred years maybe there's been less than two some cases I think they're absolutely thank you I was acted by an elderly lady I looked after her good many years right she definitely being her will wonderful now what is Earth did an elderly lady see in a picture like this to suppose I don't know she's had it many years and I believe she was left by someone else for the present when there's some when they passed on she made possibly being the model for this picture do you think yeah I think she could have possibly been I really don't know and with 93 when she diverged it early this year well she could well have known Alan Douglas Davidson for that's the artist it's very typical of him he did a series of these nudes yeah I believe often at the same model and he seems to manage to persuade quite a few girls to take him I'm not sure they were all professional models I think they're often you know the daughters of the local Baker order yeah absolutely obviously had a way with them yeah but they're all sort of rather marvelously theatrical like this yes it all seems to work together and it's just really nicely painted the colors good and the shading and the light and she's got this wonderful sort of expression looking though yeah she's wearing these wonderful bangle earrings and these flowers in her hair it's very clearly a setup short yeah and I often wonder whether his composition has something to do with photography because there was a certain kind of slightly risque photography that yes derocker in the 1890s amongst a certain kind of rather raffish gentleman at the end and that you'd keep him in a cabinet again hidden from above the missus loot over the Mackay TN pride life in the macular power absolutely forgot important cigar exactly you got it yeah this one I think is so good that I would not be at all surprised to see its first between four and six thousand words much at that absolutely it all starts off with this little fellow here that one there yeah in Dublin I found it actually in Dublin when I was looking for a tall cinema was collecting glass cinema looked for a little and I saw a lovely little dog oh really and a vendian saw this fell in love for me started I call them Venetian mosaics I don't think absolutely every single one of them you've got here it comes from from Venice some come from Rome yeah and the art of the mosaicism one I mean it comes from Byzantium and and when you went to the Mediterranean countries this was a perfect souvenir to bring back here's the Venetian lion laid out in in mosaic against a background of what we call gold stone which is a glass full of copper filings but um anyway it's one of absolute myriad words types that one finds in in in in mosaic you've represented nearly all of them some of them are sentimental here is the forget-me-nots flower possibly for mourning some were understandably devotional when you go to a Mediterranean country you'd expect to have a strong Catholic accent to some of the jewelry and he's here across decorated with flowers but also with the dove of Christ in the center and it's a very very exciting connection now and how many years have you taken him to build me table I'm not crossing my fingers all right it's 77 I started in 77 I thought you can say 77 years I mean a really really great collection so 2026 what is it 26 years or something and and thrilling so how many other of them altogether about 150 150 in the whole collection yeah and what do you expect to pay for one today in an average one to be honest if I pay for them I'm very me but I don't look at the value I look at what I like yes so you can pay anything from I think nowadays probably starting around ten pounds but if they go up to mean some of them are very expensive you can get up to 200 300 pounds my goodness but I usually stay clear of them the servants will come out here into the dining room from the kitchen which is in a different part of the house where it's kept a long way well on purpose because of the fire hazard so they would come in here and put the food on this marble slab here with these nice Matthew Boulton wine coolers just thrown in for fun but the whole concept here is in fact Kent wonderful marble pieces here contrasting colors of marble and I think this is one of my favorite pieces of furniture in the whole house there's this great big sumptuous table in this Palladian style as is of course the gilt wood mirror again designed by Kent and it's complete contrast here to the rest of the dining room here in this antique Roman Manor in fact the whole room is a tribute to Bacchus above the fireplace here in white cetra marvel is that sacrifice tobacco's of Iran by micro rise back one of the greatest sculptors of the time but look at the details on the fireplace look at the grapes on here yes you almost really you could pluck one as you could from the ceiling look around the edge of the ceiling you've got the cornice and carved decoration of grapes again all to do with wine drinking enjoyment merriment in this Roman style even the coffered ceiling is a Roman style no expense has been spared with this ceiling Kent before he came here and been working for Georgia first the king at Kensington Palace who was far more parsimonious what about the table itself is this the work of Kent no it's not it's extraordinary size for an early 18th century dining table in mahogany very rare to get this very large size and with the meals to match I imagine yes but somehow it remains a very intimate room doesn't it yeah well from one intimate room to another from bacchus to Venus and here we have this bed in this green velvet which of course is a color of Venus and the color of sleep an enormous bed 17 feet high typical of the large beds of State in these big country houses at the end of a parade of rooms a Kenton motif again the shell as you see on his furniture and decoration right throughout the house and other houses in this case a double shell supported on a broken arch pediment very architectural very strong just look at this expensive use of green velvet meters and meters of it very very expense at the time this cost something just over 1200 pounds that's about the size of the rubble wall poles window for a year what a thought but everything is rich in this room look at the set of tapestries here Brussels tapestries slightly later perhaps and the bed itself depicting the loves of Venus and our donors here we have Venus lying on her day beds supported by our attendants watching these Cupid's here having some target practice over there but I think even more amusing is this scene here you've got this great big scene of the furnace making arrowheads I put here or a chair of there working the bellows heating the fire there another one hammering away he's not wearing little apron I notice dangerous were another one flying up in the air keeping the stone cool by pouring water on it it's a wonderful room setting very rich and sumptuous what do you know about this I know nothing about it it was my mother's she was what is he blue focusing if she liked it bit of a magpie was sure yes and I acquired it when she died and I've always been a part of it but I don't know a thing about it I don't know what it's made all so it's been a part of your life for a long time a long time and I enjoy it you said you don't know what it's made of I certainly from the front it is a bit difficult to tell partly because I can see that this isn't the original colour it should have been it should have been a probably a more of a chocolatey brown color rich chocolate brown highest I think this has been painted black it looks like almost unless it as unless it's being patinated in its darkened down but I'd have expected it to perhaps be a bit more like this you see yes and this color here is much more coppery color yes that is in fact what it is made of copper it's made of copper mm-hmm it's appropriate that it's in this area because the person that made this is a very sought-after currently sought-after arts and crafts metal worker John Pearson and he did have associations with Newland which is not a million miles from here this piece I don't know if you've ever noticed this but it's signed JP for John Pearson yes and conveniently dated 1905 I've never seen that so that's something that you've learned today yes I think the subject matter of the ship is wonderful you see this sort of image very much on William de Morgan tiles of the period with ships these lovely dolphins in the waves you know it's a wonderful example good subject matter good metal worker popular at auction at the a lot of thought perhaps a thousand 1,200 pounds at auction well the the shape of this is absolutely unmistakable I think there's a rather sarcophagus shape is what identical it which is really characteristic a Regency cell aret or wine cooler now what do you use this for I'm using keeping magazines in as my parents did before me so it's been in the family for some time yes I inherited it from my parents but I know that they had it with some considerable time have you been on the family at least 40 minutes forty years so they use it for as a magazine Canterbury as well yes they did they called it comes away and when we look inside that becomes absolutely obvious because it now has divisions for the magazines but in fact still at the bottom right at the bottom here is the little bolt which women has been the the barman so to speak for the let out the water from seller X and it would initially part of a Tim liner as well too protect the this rather beautiful mahogany frothy water and very classical very simple it has the the lion mask on either end like chunky quite quite bold being quite carefully modified if you'd like to become a Canterbury accept that to me the legs looked a little bit light for the weight of the seller at Excel and I wonder if perhaps the the legs were also added quite quite sympathetically in a way so this is a bit too light when the adaptation was was made that something like this ought to be six or seven hundred pounds in a sale room suspect Confederates knitting did you bring your knitting with you yeah pretty good well I like it very much I've seen it for very many years sitting on the mantelpiece yes of my cousins right right and I know very little about it except it was in fact apparently given to my great-great-grandfather in 1725 I think yes that would be that would be right it looks like a jerk yeah with a little spite that is very sad because it wasn't it was a tankard without a spite and that is the original coat of arms on it yeah absolutely lovely which are presumably yours and you presumably know yes made in Exeter so it's fairly local made by a man called Pentecost Simmons or Simons and it's a cracking beautiful wonderful made tankard and is everything you want except for that spite which was caught on top is lovely top is absolutely original no problem at all but that spout is a real bore yeah and it's it's been put in I should think in sometime in the 19th century even maybe the 20th century and if you wanted to set it yeah that would actually have to go two girls miss Hall in London where it will be looked at by a panel called the antique plate committee who would then decide perfectly rational yeah this is a later edition and it would be stamped with a little tiny modern additions mark then would be allowed to be sold as the lost hands you can't sell it which means it's fabulous yeah actually of course that is not that's simply not the case really you know a good exodus tankard would be worth I should think let us say four to five thousand once it's got a modern editions mark on that and everybody knows that it's genuine but there's a modern bit on it or relatively modern bid on it I'm not sure to be honest but I would think you'd probably knock it down to about 1,200 1,500 plans yes it's really very sad the interesting thing about and I would say rare thing about it is it's all in different languages you've got Greek you've got Hebrew it's in German here it's in Latin it's in Italian and last but not least wealth which i think is most unusual and here's the story how humpty-dumpty the King's favorite sat on a wall how the same Humpty Dumpty fell off four had the king having heard of his favourites misfortune ordered out and he returned over again all his horses and all his men repaired to the spot and superintended in person here he is in person the turnover raising of the prostrates Humpty Dumpty and here he is heaving and heaving but Humpty Dumpty won't come up of course and the key is looking absolutely horrified very unsuitable shoes I would have thought he'd got on there it really is the most charming little thing what a pity it's in such appalling condition where did you get it from it's my new jeans along she was unable to be today obviously in the condition it's in it's not going to be incredibly valuable but I can tell you in fully restored state in fine condition would be worth in excess of 500 pounds in the state that it's in in no more than about 200 250 because quite a lot of work will have to go into it to stick it all back together again rather like Humpty Dumpty yeah we couldn't end our visit to Houghton Hall without mentioning the magnificent stable block probably one of William Kent's earliest attempts at architecture today the building houses an exhibition depicting scenes from famous battles this is June the 15th 1850 the armies of Wellington and Napoleon confront each other across a French farm the Battle of Waterloo is underway next week some more gentle confrontations on the Antiques Roadshow until then from West Norfolk goodbye [Music] we're going to be back on the road over the coming months recording programs for the 25th anniversary series which will be shown in the autumn to find out where we're going to be the full list of this year's dates and venues is on the BBC's Antiques website at www.ge.com you K forward slash antiques

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Length: 43min 38sec (2618 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 26 2018