Antiques Roadshow UK Series 25 Episode 11 Ramsgate, Kent

[Music] this week were unannounced to Ramsgate in Kent a town as English as fish and chips and as multilayered in its history as a pickled onion lovely jubbly set on the Isle of Thanet and the stone's throw from the continent Ramsgate has always been a popular place with the holiday visitor in 55 BC Caesar's legions came to look liked it and stayed for ages then waves of dames and Saxons laid out their beach towels whenever they saw the chance for a break throughout these interesting times ram's gage presented itself to the world as a small fishing village but in the 18th century a new and lucrative industry emerged the whole area with its secluded bays hidden caves and tunnels was a Smuggler's paradise everyone was involved there a few people considered it dishonest and even fewer would dream of betraying the smugglers when Daniel Defoe came to visit in 1723 it was suggested that he didn't ask too many questions or some serious ill might befall him it was an offer he couldn't refuse it was here in 1769 that the Battle of botany bay took place the legendary bootlegger just snelling that his gang were unloading the latest contraband when they were rudely interrupted by the revenue net in the confusing Snelling and four of his men broke away and raced up the cliffside when they got to the top a revenue officer was waiting for them they shot him dead but it wasn't a good day for the Snelling gang at the end of the skirmish ten of them lay dead on the beach another eight were arrested and faced the hangman's noose in 1940 soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force were trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk and the little boats of Ramsgate were about to play their part in operation dynamo the greatest mass evacuation ever undertaken On June the 1st commander Charles Herbert Lightoller by an ironic stroke of fate the most senior surviving officer from the Titanic join the flotilla in his motor yachts and honor with his son Roger and an 18 year old sea scout Gerald Ashcroft sundowner had never carried more than 21 before now light olives guest list was 127 plus a crew of three she was bursting at the seams but despite bulletins bomb sundowner brought her precious cargo safely to Ramsgate and today she rests in the care of the Ramsgate maritime museum and now it's all ashore to the Ramsgate Sports Centre to see what fascinating plunder the people of Planets have brought to our experts very smart these Victorian shoes do you wear them yes I do I am at least twice a year and they were given to me as a present on condition that I wore and this is the person around to check up whether you are wearing indigo right so you are obliged yes but it's a traditional court true isn't it but with a bit of glitterati on it but a beam work and it's quite a contemporary shape so it's no sort of trial I have to wear it no no it's beautifully comfortable to wear I wish you - dancing - dancing yeah to die for to dancing stand in court - like that maybe somebody would pay 10 or 20 pounds for them that's awful - but what about this extraordinary handbag is this something that you were - not anymore yes he has been out but I now feel that his time - for him to retire but technically a handbag made out of an armadillo shell must be a very rare object well I would have thought so the Victorians I think if you stood still long enough to chew chew and turn you into a hamburger well I've never seen an armadillo handbag on and it's an amazing thing and worth what well 50 pounds Bret 50 or 100 pounds this is a rare thing - tell me how it would have been used with the hook on the on the back which would go on to waistband oh yes on your skirt then this is a hook so you'll put your wall onto here and then when you weren't busy knitting or crochet when your hands were doing something else you would put your crochet hook into the middle and you could adjust it the length down according to the length of your extraordinary isn't it it's definitely continental I mean it might be Russian it might be Polish it might be one of those kind of countries it's not marked proper tiny little mark but tiny little makers initial and people collect sewing accoutrements I mean they're popular and this I think is extraordinarily rare today you get probably four to six hundred pounds for it in a sale my father-in-law made drinks cabinets for each of his three children yes but it is actually a commode this is a wonderful conversion of a piece of furniture dating from the 1760s or 1770s lovely mahogany on the front very good handles which may be the original they may be slightly later but there's a good mark under there to show that that handles been there for a very long time and they're certainly of a style which is characteristic of the 1770s period this originally would have had a ceramic pot in the middle of it not this glass shell and it was as you say a commode store but as those things became redundant most of them were thrown away some of them are actually converted into chests of drawers which is really something Spears whereas this has retained its form and made it in something incredibly practical looking down inside I can see you've made compartments for bottles and a shelf there for glasses and then a shot for certainty on it is it's all in such a way that the additions could be removed absolutely but I mean what what you have done is retained a very very good piece of 18th century furniture and one which in a sense is as interesting for what's happened to it as it as it would have benefitted just survived completely untouched well despite the fact that it's been altered I think it's something we would appeal to a true collector and to a connoisseur and I would really suggest that a value for insurance on this of 4000 pounds it's a lot it's a really lovely old English piece of furniture obviously a robust a collector I could recognize these without even looking at the box that one I've held it longest bought that about 15 years ago and the other items about 6 or 7 years ago so this is your oldest piece with you it comes from the 1850s Chamberlain's Worcester yes before they became law was to title but beautifully made in the handmade flowers all applied and stuck on I mean little basket of flowers like that's going to be what's around about 800 to a thousand the king of the lot is this extraordinary um goat's head centerpiece yes it's golden in the shape books of right on after a Greek or Roman shape yeah that for the table with a man put flowers in it or reads or rushes or something but incredibly made so that you can see both sides see you've got the fruit on this side and these gorgeous flowers on this side painted by Fred Roberts there's fine yes Frank Roberts of Marvel's painter of flowers and fruit that's a beautiful well I found this you know in a little shop in the Cotswolds and the man was very busy so I couldn't speak to him and we were in a hurry so he had to go but a year later I went back and I couldn't believe my luck when it was still there and then the chap told me how much he wanted for it and I thought it was rather a lot so I thought I'll think about it and I went back the next day thought what I would pay and he came up with the very same price so that that was it could you suggest what you paid no but I paid about 400 for it yes is that all yes it's perfect as far as I know it is yes it looks absolutely perfect yes I've never seen one as beautiful as this I've seen the shape before but not not so absolutely marvelous so heavens port 5000 oh my god was fantastic I was drawn to the drama of the sea and the idiosyncratic coloring and the line in particular and I discovered that Michael Ayrton was first and foremost interested in drawing honed his skill through studying Durer's wood cards and I say this edging here beautifully detailed and then the trauma the sweep of the wings of booths whole whole thing is lifted got a lot of movement I love the light against dark dark against light the whole thing is beautifully balanced and poised just at the moment I think the tide is on the turn the cross of me you think it's been airing it's coming back life I don't think he's had the recognition he deserves really because what was he I mean he was a great critic yes I mean perhaps his first and foremost to some remembered for being a great critic decades with the spectator as their leading critic wasn't it better designer and then a sculptor in later life yes I think I can see that coming here with very you mean the way he's used the brush to leave those those marks from the brush in the slabs of paint and then he seems to filled those with color that's not dirt I don't think don't tell me to have it clean no I think cleaning pictures until you fully understand them it's a very dangerous thing to do now this one if you cleaned all that off I think you may be losing quite a lot of what the artist wants to put across a certain gloominess a certain Twilight movement you know but I love the way these seagulls come out of it almost like bits of seaweed or orbits of driftwood on on the tide organics of growing out of it and and I think the whole thing's very moody and very the 50s color but it's actually dated 1946 but at this moment in time I believe that he was very highly regarded much more so than any of his peers he was seen as that there's because I've got the great white hope that British painting how does he raked now because one doesn't hear quite so much less so I mean it is probably reflected in the value of the picture I mean what did you pay for it if you don't my mask I paid two hundred and fifty pounds yes about 25 years ago well an auction estimate might be six to eight thousand pounds but I think the the correct price for this picture ought to be closer to 15 I think worth every penny and I haven't finished looking at it myself it's a lots of carnism there it's a very complicated picture and it's a reward I must say I'm not aware of forensic evidence appearing on the road say before now so what are these dental x-rays for well we were intrigued by the fact that if you look in the neck you can see some glass where right and reluctant to try and take the heads off I asked my dentist very kind if he would take x-rays of them which he did and as you can see the results so you needed to know really whether it was yeah anyway we're gonna see yes it is yes so we've got the bottom the bottom half where we can see the pin in the latest of it here right in the middle of it we can see that there is a scent bottle it's a hollow tube running down the middle of I'm sure it is and it's made by a fan for Sukkot and does the yellow one have the same as well it's also the percent bottle make sure you said a German shook oh that's right it's and of course they made all sorts of toys and novelties you know from the 30s right through to the 60s how long have you had them many years but I have no clue where they came from really and I have thrown them out two or three times and recovered them because they are so dainty you better got them in the bin and then fish them out yes gosh well I'm jolly glad you did if you were to sell them now you would probably get somewhere between two or three hundred pounds for the bigger one and around about 100 250 pounds of and smaller one so I'm so glad you didn't throw them in the bin well you and I know what this it was but to all intents and purposes most people looking would just think it's an elephant but here's the missing piece which we pop on his trunk and it turns it into a mystery timepiece do you know roughly when they were made no I'm afraid not they're made in Germany about Germany up but just before the start of the first war about 1910 very roughly and they made various models the elephant is very prolific there's a kangaroo and there are various figures there's a figure of Diana there's a slight Aurora figure of Cleopatra who is rather tall and scantily clad and then the biggest of them all is a what we call the bat and ball boy who's got a bat in one hand and he's got me they all had exactly the same of this mystery movie today yep and this particular one just stopped it briefly they're made by the factory of the young members as I say a German factory and they made quite a number we don't know how many and of course a lot of them would have been destroyed particularly in the second war some of you had an awfully long time actually full of junk and my son inherited it and sorting through bits of pieces and this was just one of the things that you know took his family but a dream and wish I could find this in a box of junk I loved it so he obviously has no idea of its value no not at all well you couldn't tell him that even in the rough like this if you put that to auction at the moment able to fetch about six hundred and fifty pounds by the time it's cleaned and overhauls I sell these for about twelve hundred and fifty pounds each that's in top retail condition very collectible people love these elephants well I thought this might amuse you Michael since we're in Ramsgate we've got a souvenir the Victorian period or just after lovely thing in fact I know this bit because that's the what was then the new lighthouse and we walked around it yesterday while we were filming the local ingredients yeah so interesting and this one's got the railway station on it and bathing machines which they've pushed you out into so your modesty wasn't you didn't have to walk into the water yes so the men wouldn't see you in your all-over dress and you wouldn't see yourself either that was that was important very important absolutely so this made it made me wear well bizarrely enough it was made in Germany and this is actually about 1910 somewhere around there wherever we go we will find nearly always a German local souvenir they're not enormous ly valuable but this is actually of its kind quite a good one I would think probably around sixty eighty pounds something like that because you've got the cup and the sauce yeah where did it come from an old aunt who died and we cleared her house that's basically it I learned nothing about it's a nice little tin and stretching up I don't think it was ever made to hold biscuits like this one is made just like a biscuit tin but actually it's a string box and inside you'd have a ball of string take out the piece of string through that little hole and have a sharp blade on the top and you take out the piece of string and pull off a length and sever it on the blade which is missing a bit of social history and a biscuit tin collector I think would pay about 40 pounds for that when I was a little boy I used to collect pennies and of course you'd put them all in date order and there always be gaps and one of the gaps of course is 1933 and every little boy wanted to have a 33 penny and they never find so how could you have a 33 penny when only 8 or 9 are known to exist when I go to cafe and she picked up in it it was small bag of coins I couldn't believe my luck but Sir well of course if once a sort of doubting Thomas we start on that basis how would you fake it one of the ways you could fake a 33 penny is to have a thirty-eight penny and you would cut little bit softer eight to turn it into a three that would look great on this side but the problem is it would be the wrong King because letter three was charged to fifth and 38 his choice of six so you have the wrong King on a 33 penny so that's nice at all the other thing is that apparently you could have an Australian 33 penny we the same Oh No is it wouldn't be the same on both sides so the head you would have to put an English head on an Australian penny how would you do that well I'd have to cut it down the middle and put the two halves together and it would look a bit like a hamburger and you'd have a line down the middle and this this one has not brought that line so it's not an Australian penny with a English head on it so we know that much I was is not a 38 money so that's okay now there are ways of fiddling with a letter with the numbers but both those two threes look incredibly similar so the next question is is it a fake one fake or roughly one faker yeah it does turn out so this could be the CSV and that being the case it's going to be worth twenty thirty powers is a thing that even collectors we want to have because it would fill a gap even if it's not the right one well yeah because I mean there aren't that many fakes so it's not a common thing however if it's right and I think you know we have to say if but if it is right it's going to be worth somewhere between twenty and thirty five thousand powers as a minimum yeah so you know it would be well worth a ticket to the right man to check it out this is my husband's or rather his grandfather's so it's been in the family for the best part of what 60 80 years yes that's right okay it's a lovely little enamel plug I know it looks to all intents and purposes rather like a watercolor or or even an oil painting having said that because it's got a lovely depth to it and the great thing about it by the way is that you can have this in daylight for as long as you like and those colors will not fade because this is basically blast paste it which is painted on onto a copper copper base so those colors are as fresh as the day it came out of out of the kiln but this this panel started off life possibly in a town called Bilson because this was the center during the 18th century for the enamel trade date why's that you're looking at around about 1770 may be 1780s in the case of this plaque now I'm saying plug because there's every chance that it may have been the lid to a box that it may have been set in a hinge mount and actually what you're looking at is the cover to a box but let's just look at the composition push you up for you your eyes led into it first of all in the foreground I love that spotted dog yeah and that lovely tree fabulous tree and this rather exaggerated spire of the church it's it's almost three-dimensional isn't if you just look at the surface you can see how it's given that three-dimensional effect because it's the enamel is slightly raised yeah well if it was mine I would certainly have it on my content list for a figure of a round about 1,000 pounds because I know full well that that would be the sort of figure that I would probably have to pay if I went to a specialist dealer replace it a day do you know anything of the history of the chair I know that my grandmother bought it at auction in Wales our believe and we think she paid ten and six for it remembers that yes well it's a very nice chat it's not Welsh no the design is typical of French Empire furniture dating from around 1800 to 1810 and this sort of form which is much stiffer than the English Regency equivalent it's more serious whereas the the English Regent eventually tends to be a little bit more frivolous now whoever recovered this Jake's that's not the first tapestry was obviously very sensitive to the chair itself it's very beautifully done actually my grandmother my Belgian grandmother and my mother my grandmother taught my mother how to do tapestry and they did one each well it's very beautifully done and I think it enhances the chair but let's just turn it upside down and see what we can see underneath it okay slides on its back so you've got a very very nice old dry Beach frame sometimes these chairs when they're made in Paris have a makers mark stamped on the frame which this one does not appear to have also very often these chairs are made with the corners pegged together not with a brace going across as this one's got but this is a lovely original feature with our nails going into it and obviously we are upholstered here when it's been recovered so what I think we're looking at is a chair made on the continent of Europe within the first 10 or 15 years of the 19th century it's something that ought to be insured for 3,000 pounds and it's jolly nice giddy and time now to look at this week's archive clips remember we're asking you to choose the items that will include in the last program of the series to celebrate 25 years on the road and this week we're talking about those bargain buys what happened is when I was first married I lived in Latin Croydon and one day the old lady who was living next door to us came and knocked on the door and asked my husband if he would help the dustbin down with his own desk so I thought there was this real healthy person that's it what a wonderful story well it's it's George second late towards the first period death oh oh yes oh yes oh yes and do tell me where you got it it was actually at a car booths in Exeter soaked it in some water and washing up liquid and it's been beside my bed there's a mark under here which is the imperial eagle which shows that it came from a shop patronized by the imperial family in Russia Henriette Rana has been described as the queen of the cat painters it's a family picture no it's my sister's picture then she got from a boob sale does she think was worth anything which is just the catch probably thought it was a chocolate box frame well it is an original painting which is very beautiful I think it's obvious what it is it's a it's a tiny miniature potty a little chamber Potter I suppose for a little dolls house a little child's miniature service about two months about two months there's not a family penis no I'm happy to acquire it I bought it a car boot sale the car boot sale but I've never yet come across a complete little car fleet toy chamber ponds so to register your vote bring Oh eight seven hundred one hundred eight seven oh and when you hear the prompt press one two three or four on your telephone keypad depending on your choice alternatively you can see the clips again in full on our website and vote online at www.ppsd.com UK forward slash antiques for more clips for you to see next time now back to the experts Johnny Johnny just in the same suit but looking slightly different a much younger one signed John the same suit again except this one isn't signed at all another one surrounded by garden debris I suppose you'd call it and this one looking nonchalant and a saved sailor suits I'm Johnny I've never seen so many photographs of Prince John the youngest son of Georgia fist and Queen Mary why have you caught them I have them because my great-uncle was riding master broom and Kings messenger and lived where my mother lived with him for many years through her childhood and early teenagers tell me what sort of relationship did your mother have with Prince John for him to send her so many pictures sign photographs they were childhood friends his son s mrs. bill who was known as Lala encouraged him to have friends and there were lots of children on the estate and my mother shared many times with him cycling around these bicycles and they would go for rides together in the perineum track generally have many happy times together the other thing which I have to say I think is quite outstanding and I don't think I've seen another letter of his and that is this letter here from your cottage in Sandringham and it says dear mr. Strato stretcho I know mr. threatened but he's left the inn off I hope your arm is better are you going to charge with my love from John I think that's a lovely letter what happened to what happened to his arm oh my uncle had an accident and broke his arm riding in he had a rather sad child who didn t you say had a nice child but he but he was he was ill he was he had a medical condition which she couldn't be well controlled in those days yes this stuff is you know it's it's it's I can't believe but I can actually see you quite so much of it the little sign John is here they're going to be in the region of 400 pounds each for of 500 pounds each the bones a signed John they're probably 600 700 the letter they are incredibly rare incredibly rare that I think has to be about sort of twelve to fifteen hundred pounds and this one of my favorite photographs of the two young kings their prince albert georgia six and edward who became Edward the eighth I think that's absolutely absolutely wonderful that's got to be about six or seven hundred pounds as well you've got so many wonderful things here but I know that the value passes you by completely I could tell by Oh expression but you couldn't care less because you're not going to get rid of this material I like this really yeah do I think he's a pretty blog excellent this is made of earthenware surely yeah and they were made in quite large numbers in the 1870s through the 1880s it was the time of the aesthetic movement right when we were influenced by Japan right and you had beautiful ladies dressed up in sort of semi Japanese crossed with early 19th century dress it right weird yeah and they were called stunners and she's a stunner now many of them were painted by amateurs often very gifted amateurs women went to evening classes and they learned to paint on pottery and porcelain right and this may well have been copied from from a print in a magazine or something like really it's signed down here Florence jarred I don't know the name and the date age in 81 I think he's like yes but he's well done yes these are often not that well done right on the back we've got an original paper label mm-hmm we got our name up here yes again F judge yes and this is Howland James and this was a competition and you entered your prize painting on pottery or porcelain almost actually almost 'verily partially not porcelain shop and you could you could sell it or you could win a prize and this was on sale for 16 pounds lot of money then both bridesman obviously highly rated where did it come from My partner was given it some years ago but quite a few years ago she had it for many years in the north of England and then it was handed on to her uncle now he had it for numerous years and he died a short while ago and it was finally handed back to it other than that I know very little about right and you have it hanging up there yes I asked that because he's extraordinary often on this program you ask the person whether they like it and they don't like it at all you wonder why on earth they've got it I like it you do like it quite right - I think it's a very likeable object and very saleable I think that would make probably in the region of 800 to really excellent very nice indeed yet come from France you I do sprint announces Leon 1894 you're not from Leon yes my family's Ian really yes because this little box if you've gone to the equivalent of the dome in 1894 in Lyon you'd have taken away little box like this who's the image on the top which is behind glass and if you look at it it's all shiny underneath the surface though yeah they put a bit of silver foil underneath the glass you'd have put a little piece of jewelry or your favorite object inside to keep it safe pop it on your dressing table quite cheaply made out of standard metal but delightful little object any can be worth sixty pounds thank you very much so tell me how did you actually come by this walking stick my father have in 1951 and the lady cleared everything this is so this is the only thing left behind in the house it's actually what we call scrimshaw which is and it's something that would have been carved on board ship by a sailor probably in the 1850s on a whaling ship and the most important thing about these is that the sailors just had so much time on their hands you know countless days just spent at sea doing not very much and so whoever it was carved this wonderful and piece of what we call scrimshaw and measuring the carved little holes in here and this bit it's very much like a lace bobbin over the son of 1850s 1860s and that's how we we can date it the other nice part of it is this tiny little lozenge of tortoiseshell there so wherever the whaling ship went it must have gone into warm waters as well where there are actually Turtles so it could have gone as far south as Bermuda and as far north as as as the Arctic so have you any idea what you think it might be worth none at all nope I thought of giving it to charity a few times well I think charity starts at home because I think fully cleaned up and restored it's something we'd be looking at around about 800 to a thousand pounds so not bad this is a splendid mid 19th century best quality hunting rifle do you know do you know which country it comes from I've got an idea but I'm not absolutely sure Swiss Austrian yeah I'd go with either of those anywhere within the sort of Germanic world it's very very typical of the rifles that they used for hunting boar deer and and Shamwari it has two triggers because it's precision is so great that when you the lock and you're ready to shoot you pull that back trigger and it sets the lock so this the hammer it's just sitting on the edge of its and as soon as you touch the first one it goes off that makes for very accurate shooting it's got double set triggers and it's very very typical of continental firearms where they want a great precision if you were shooting over quite a long distance at say a camera on a rock that's probably the only opportunity you're going to get all day and you don't really want to miss it so it's an aid to accurate shooting a rather heavy German farms all sort of big chunky things they're practical and very very much made for use but this is also beautifully decorated you can see that it's got a little gold inlay the animals on there and also on the barrel this silver the lock mechanisms got this safety catch as well which acts as another feature to tell you that it's of the very finest quality and also if we look down here there's a little box in there do you know what that's for no not for the powder for the linen patches which they wrap the bullet in and that made it engaged with the rifling grooves which are cut down the inside of the barrel that made the ball spin as it came out it may be very very accurate and it's also got a very interesting rear sight on it which is actually adjustable both for elevation for the height and also for windage which is the right and left so that's another feature that tells you that it's very very high quality piece the bit that I like best about it is this wonderful carving down there very typical cheek piece you always get them on German farms and get your head up and makes you look down the line of the barrel but they've just the wood is so good and so tight that they just carve that lovely hunting scene in there where there's a chap with his mate and a couple of dogs out for a day's hunting and he's obviously been successful because he's got a Roebuck slung over his back have you any idea what it's worth no really it's a great deal to me in sentimental tears also worth not inconsiderable amount of money about three to four thousand pounds it's a lovely lovely thing tell me what do you know about these I know very little about them they were left to me by my late brother and all I do know is that he thought they were from the Dutch East India Company and we come from South Africa and my brother lived in Cape Town if you and he thought there might have been a Dutch East India Company link presumably you think you know their Chinese do I have no idea what right they are Chinese they're Chinese and they are based on English silver originals of about 1720 right but actually these date from about 1760 so they were copying something which was out of date by thirteen fourteen fifteen years even maybe but they are 1760 and quite rare survivors another interesting point about this when the Chinese model is or cast it or mold it they forage in the kill take it out glaze it and fire it at full temperature the first firing is just to harden it off and normally nothing happens at that first hardening up off stage but this one has split now normally you chug it away but this cost in Chinese terms quite a lot of money to make is a complicated object so rather than dump it they filled it with clays and fired it right so then comes down it's taken from Ching de Jen where it's made and glazed all the way down to can't on where the decoration is put on and this would have began especially to European taste and I think French taste I think this is company designed made for the French market beautifully decorated hand-painted in family rose enamels unusual with this iron red band of stiff leaves around here not common at all they are apart from that firing crack which doesn't count they're in perfect condition new lighting do not mad about them but they said I may not man well this got sentimental value so they are very special thing about sentimental value is that your offer enough will overcome it two thousand three thousand no okay that's as far as I can get well maybe fill out no I think I would rather because of the memory of my brother yes well that's a nice thing to remember him by I think they're utterly utterly charming and you're very very lucky thank you very much thank you very much thank you you were obviously quite a fan of Louie Wayne look at me tell me about this one this is the one that my mother bought for just a matter of a few shillings at an auction no I knew what it was she recognized it as Louie way and that was the one that really inspired me two things no the one that kicked it off yes I know that he's much much copied and much faked and yet I think this one's fine it's got an honesty about it but if it's right it's got to be really very early don't you think it seems to me different from the rest of them which are much more stylized much more much stronger I love this oil painting I mean this cat has quite a lot of character and I think they should be in the board room of many direct you know you think very improper morphic isn't it is it's just so human and what about this tell me about that this is called Peters first illness but Peter was his first cats and I thought it portrays always images of illness here that human you feel feel for the poor cat just looking at him so it's really quite early to isn't it yeah well then let's have a look at some of the illustrations that you brought with you did untrained here there's a story I'd like to see whether it's true or not Ranieri Wayne went to some tea part he was asked what he'd like to drink and he said well just a saucer of milk story they obviously had a sense of humor very definitely these are extraordinary aren't they I found it very interesting that when he went mad in around the 1920s and he's found in dire poverty and one of the asylums by a reporter than the prime minister I think is Ramsay MacDonald at the time and HG Wells made an appeal on his behalf on the radio to raise money we put him in a better condition and that was that was accomplished wasn't it and this one I think is one of the oddest there's something really quite disturbed about that difficult to put ones finger on and yet it is don't you think it's a large eyes yes it really anyway what about values have you any idea well that's it I've been reading about Louie Wainwright since I bought these in 1975 that 100 150 for this and 200 for the rest can't leave the 22 yes 22 of these these I think share one of his sisters when they came back - yeah that was 25 years ago so I have no idea how things have changed well I can give you some idea of that I mean these 22 things well they're going to average out it probably four thousand fifteen hundred pounds each that sort of thing I didn't ice that but this very strange one here where's quite a lot more perhaps and then when we come to these other ones if I'm right and this is an early one then it being such a collector's market Louis Wayne and it is an early one it turns out to be an important one and certainly we know that this is his own cat Peter in this case here well then these two pictures probably 1500 2000 perhaps two and a half thousand for that one and this one this oil painting well it's probably worth about three maybe four thousand pounds isn't it and also I think I have to tell you I might have been a bit conservative it could be worth more especially without problems I look after them there yes I would well another day of treasures revealed and some questions answered I did like the line of the lady who said she had a painting for 20 years and still haven't finished looking at it you can have another look at it and all the other treasures on our website

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Length: 42min 51sec (2571 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 30 2018