Antiques Roadshow UK Series 25 Episode 12 Oban, Scotland

and the Inner Hebrides open once earned its living in the fishing business now it's a hugely popular holiday town a busy ferry port and the unofficial capital of the western highlands two men were instrumental in the early development of Oban in the 18th century they were the Stevenson brothers Hugh and John poor but enterprising they became skilled tradesmen and started building and then chartering ships their vessels transformed the little fishing village into a major trading the Stevenson's expanded their interests acquiring farms quarries and tanneries then there was the whiskey for this and other blessings the Stephenson boys were dubbed the founding fathers of Oban another illustrious name locally is McCaig they were a powerful family here in the 19th century and opens most famous landmark the McCaig tower dominates the town the McCaig Empire was built on tobacco tourism and banking and of his Jon Stewart McCaig who decided as a good and philanthropic Victorian to build a monument to his family and at the same time to give work to the unemployed stonemasons of Oban the highlands always attracted artists and poets Wordsworth days of water Scott Keats and Tennyson all found inspiration here no one captured the mood and flavor of the place better than Felix Mendelssohn he'd be just 20 years old when he sat here looking out of the islands and claimed to be so overcome by the beauty around him that the strains of the Edwardian overture just came into his head now let's walk down to the quorum halls to see what will inspire the experts on today's Antiques Roadshow that comes on the miscellaneous they're very useful okay you know you brought along the perfect thing for sitting in your conservatory on the edge of your garden directing your gardeners as they are putting potting on all the plants and really is a magnificent piece of furniture and what I long to know is where you got it from we bought a house in 1984 and the seller of the house just left it in the garden and then my husband and I decided to make a feature of it in the side garden and it's been there ever since I think is actually a bit of winter garden furniture I can see it in a dripping corner of a conservatory with the sound of water behind stranded by ferns and aspidistra now what is interesting about it and I longed to know how it got here I think it was made in Portugal the Portuguese in the late 19th century a specialized very much and these sort of tortoiseshell glazes but it is a massive hunk to transport around and some it's a very solid object Kaldas called us that the de la reina was the great Factory in Portugal have made this kind of well that's where I think he comes from I've never seen one before and you've never seen another one have you no I think you should have it insured outside and make sure your insurers cover you for something in the garden 2,000 pounds maybe I mean if you wanted to go out and buy another one it's very hard to do yes yes and as I found at the beginning it's very comfortable it's extremely comforting my grandfather and his father were in a shipping partnership and they traveled extensively in the Baltic countries as far as to Petersburg and they obviously acquired this during their period there is a note with it which says acquired from the Old Curiosity Shop sooo Petersburg and what date was that that would have been around about the turn of a century as far as I can guess give or take 10 years yes well actually it around and about the turn of the century is exactly when it's made and that's exactly why it's a rather sophisticated one really it's almost the last gasp of icon making before the Russian Revolution and of course with the Russian Revolution the making of sophisticated icons there's not simply not allowed so in a way this is a very heightened view of a very ancient art form that comes from Byzantium have you thought about more about this this this metal tell me what you think about that well to me the thing is almost divided into two parts one is the very ornate and stylized metal surround and the other is the essential human part of these faces looking at with compassion well absolutely right in compassion to be central to all of that this is a very important object in the Orthodox religion and in a way the silver casing is there to protect what is seen as a metaphor for heaven icons are tiny bits of heaven snatched down for a mortal world to look at and it's really how they've been viewed for very long time so in order to sort of them to protect them these oklets have been made the box is if you like to to cover the icon it's probably come to as enormous surprise to you that underneath this is a meticulously painted icon in in full underneath here if we were try and pin these nails and take it off we would find the entire icon in paint with the same level of sophistication as we find here we quite forgivable for you to imagine that these images were simply painted at a later stage not serves the Old Curiosity Shop something I want to return to you because I don't believe it was an old Curiosity Shop I think that he went to one of the most famous Goldsmith's in Russia at that time and I know he did as a matter of fact because at the foot of the icon here I can see the signature of a goldsmith called Povera of Cheney Cove who was a competitor of Faberge and somebody would like to work in the old Russian taste they're very important in Russian homes too they occupied the right angles of rooms because it's long being believed that Reich handlers were inhabited by the devil himself that evil lived at right angles so these are positioned in a room above the head at the corner of the room you'd have a collection of them probably anyway a beautiful beautiful relic of pre-revolutionary Russia I think it's a rather sort of awful to try to price it at all really because it is a holy emitter and I'm going to have a go at it I think it's worth fifteen hundred pounds for insurance I received it as a present when I was probably about four and the judge of that is the fact that I could sit on it and my little legs paddle along it had nothing no mechanical propulsion so I was the engine so it was your bottom it was my bottom that did all this all this sort of pushing down on the top here well you're forgiven because at least you didn't destroy the thing no and when you say you were given it when you were four for who was the donor quite quite it's a fantastic looking but a machinery isn't it you've got a model of a P to alpha Ram a racing car and it dates from the 1930s now you've got it in its traditional Italian racing colours the exhausts zipping out to the back here the big filler cap so that you could put the petrol in at enormous speed and lovely bits of detail if we look at the wheel here at the back we've got the spoked wheel and the the quick quick release racing finish on that wasn't it was hardly high-tech wasn't when you when one looks at the way that racing cars exactly if it doesn't fit hit it and looking at it this side we've got the handbrake and here is the arbor where it would have been wound up with the key now I'd take it you don't have the key you're not serious you've had it all this time so you said so as a lad you never took these screws on and looked and saw what was underneath in there is a really powerful clockwork motor I mean these things were built to really exam and they were made in France and they made them in lots of different colors and they are very popular with collectors because they appeal to two different types of collectors on the one hand you have the toy collectors you also have the owners of the real cars and of real Alfa Romeos generally who want this because it's a really really good toy representation of the real thing and as we know because of the bottom damage it's not in brilliant condition so the value is going to be limited by its condition but even so I would have thought we're talking about around twelve hundred to maybe fifteen hundred pounds so when you get it home see if you can find a clock key to fit this and you'll never have to sit on it again thank you it was part of a very large collection which was put together by Miss Hope MacDougall of MacDougall who was the daughter and then sister and then on to plan Chiefs are very very highborn waving I suppose she collected literally thousands of items in her grand fastness down at galavan near Obon and this is really a draw of sewing as she displayed it in the private museum that she set up in fact her house became a museum yes just about sewing oh no I mean everything from an industrial loom to pete spades to fishing obviously she's died I imagine and what what has happened to the collection well very quickly the trustees and an army of local people packed it into boxes and put it into store and we are now Jackie and I are just now in the very very beginning is starting to unpack it and document it and show it to the community what quantity you dealing with hundreds thousands do you think it was a bare minimum 3,000 some people recognize as an article relevant to Scotland is comparative with other parts of the world let's look in the box and see because it was about the beginning of the forties it was on one girdle and it was my friend here for me personally I had children do I've had it for a long time well he's wonderful and I think he dates back to the 30s he's made of a composition his face and his hands and of course the rest of his body is a cardboard box yes there we are for sweeties and it's lovely to have a father Christmas like that and when they when they come in to auctions for sale it's quite rare and if he were to come up for auction I can see him making about 200 to 300 pounds I'll have to keep my granddaughter the tobacco industry goes beyond the distillery history which people generally think of as the beginning of Obon yes there was a tobacco factory dealing directly with the new business of tobacco growing in Virginia at the very beginning of the 18th century in oven so it's very much how the town grew up it grew up on tobacco and alcohol in effect I'm sorry - I'd be sorry and it's a fact of life these are very familiar of course to scottish snuff mo very nice example with all its bits for preparing and serving the snuff and of course on a more domestic scale this is what you put in your pocket I love these little tiny ones with a the ladies this one certainly was this one was owned by Colleen MacDougall who was the previous chief of the clan of Dougal whether she used it herself I don't lay Dee's did take snuff I mean it's a fairly established isn't it incidentally the gentry of Scotland with their connections for the old Alliance and far great pleases you sir as you know a grand object I mean they're very collectible and one like that I mean you're looking at several hundred pounds because it's such a classic example the great quality Zamir much of the thing much of the collection of course is that values rarely enter included now talking of values and low values what on earth is that that is from ford post office Ford is a tiny village on Lahore and there may be 30 miles from Oban yes and it closed in 1986 and the postmistress maybe Cameron was there for 40 years right and when the post office closed down she gave the contents effectively from her desk I think we've also got the desk so these are simply that the postal stamps so we wanted forward on your lap she stamped the postage she did with the right postal stamp that's great mr. Duggal did clear out an awful lot of shops locally there are Smith's and the boot makers and the tobacco so as soon as the shop closed she was on the doorstep it's pretty doll in her bag well I thought it had something to do with tea you do a team would leak out through the bottom tea trolley and all I see what you mean I quit some is it it's suddenly you're on the right lines it's to do with eating and drinking ah it's actually a cheese coaster was that mother to imagine depending what part of the country would come from half a cheese here and a Stilton man I'm from Leicestershire oh great where are you from oh I'm from Russia is there a local cheese no no I think you say it's called a coaster because it goes along on the dining table you got the wheels here which is so so delightful aren't they very very pretty and this whole thing dates from about 1780 1800 late Georgian of course we've got a condition problem here you can see quite clearly this quite bad damage there but but it's a a tiny one which is lovely they usually bigger and that wonderful outline that from where zigzag is really interesting and rather rather probably taken by that I think it's rather sweet what's it worth well I thought it was Victorian that they seemed that you said it was earlier than that they would say maybe 200 pound so you what you've got grading as we've been talking here what do you what we get to see corrosion is Victorian or maybe a hundred and twenty-five hundred pounds so lovely this is what we believe and is marked in her inventory as a Shetland wedding dress you didn't now women that have been made I don't know but the style of it looks to be a slightly drop waist it a drawer extraordinaire it's almost sort of custom cut on the bias and it's amazingly complicated piece of knitting no this of course is so what are we looking at early 19th century I would say later actually entirely sure we've got a lot of work to do on this because the even the Shetland Museum doesn't have these these are really as far as we've been very rare you've got one too with a beautiful coral pink one as well and there's none in the Shepherd's I do they acknowledge they existed they do now they didn't know they existed until we time the idea of a woodland wedding dress is completely new to me but of course it's the only textile technique you have of course you make it and we only assume it's a wedding dress it's marked down as one it's a very very fine dress if not for best well it's a wonderful thing this I think is probably significantly valuable I have no idea but it's such a rarity I think it's to me very exciting to see how a local lady can involve ourselves in ordinary life and leave it for the future three cheers for mr. MacDougall time to show you this week's archived clips remember we're asking you to choose the items will include in the last program of the series to celebrate our 25 years on the road and this week our subject is the great collections that have come up over the years my father collected them extensively through most of his life and he passed them on to mom now that he's gone and we we're still learning about what they are right there from really now that is marvelous these are very collectible gosh that is a very rare box that is the most wonderful piece a water collection I have full marks Oh father well you probably know that majority of these pictures in this gallery I should call it by numbers of the class code school Glasgow boys and they were group of artists who sort of form together in the 1880s and initially they weren't terribly well received and it wasn't until really a little bit later that people in Glasgow began to realize that actually there was a bit of talent here and they started to get very enthusiastic this is far away the best collection of pictures that I've seen on the show and whatever it is eight or eight years or so he had very good sense and I just think he probably paid hardly anything for my father particularly had a great love of was to China and this is part of what he has left to me did he know the painters himself I'm not sure with my father actually but certainly my grandfather who was a well-known character in Worcester he certainly knew Harry Davis and thus Tintin's right and weakness you see their work here and I can see the magic name Harry Davis on this one yes we've got some very unusual pieces to get this subject he's famous really for his French style landscapes and sheep yeah you've gotta cut you've seen these were made as labors of love by the artists as great bits of porcelain but now expensive pleasures too henry moore was the most original artist of the 20th century in fact not and sin not since wrodar in the 19th century I think had anybody been quite so original as him you could imagine my surprise to see such an enormous collection of letters from this incredibly great artist and quite a few of them Illustrated like this one to dearest evylyn now who is dearest Eva she's my mother you've got a collection here of what 30 30 odd well love letters very intimate letters anyway shall we say many with lovely drawings it I mean this is just so typical of Henry Moore just it's breathtaking so to register your vote ring Oh eight seven hundred one hundred eighty-seven oh and when you hear the prompt press one two three or four on your telephone keypad depending on your choice or you could see the clips again in full on our website and you can vote online at WWDC co dot UK forward slash antiques next time another four clips to choose they're on the tops of old cigar boxes I understand actually that makes sense they're about the right size for that aren't they and how did you get them my mother got them from an old friend with whom Lesley hunter used to come of stage things and he would go out into the local surroundings and just paint so these are by Leslie hunters I don't suppose you ever met him did you a mother must have met him she may have done but I really don't know so my mother died when I was in my twenties and where was the house in lenzi which is just outside classroom and because he he painted the most wonderful pictures sometimes but he was a disorderly person he didn't really have much sense of money or or much practical sense at all I think he was quite otherworldly he is regarded as a so-called Scottish colorist like Cadell Ferguson and when he's doing this kind of very informal oil sketch his own pleasure and interest I find him absolutely wonderful I particularly like this one on the left is so fresh and it shows his thinking so very clearly I love the way he leaves the grain of the wood just the tobacco the cigar box lid just left so he's using the color of the board to come through as part of the picture very quick and impressionistic and do you like that about that I do they're very natural-looking they're very much like the countryside round about where I used to live as a child yes I particularly like the way he's used the end of the brush in the wet paint because they're painted quite quickly and he's taken the end of the brush and he's pushed it into the sky just to suggest a bit more of cloud and he's pushing the paint around with with maybe his hands as well although I can't see any fingerprints he's using quite a broad brush and quite a thick paint having a lot of fun just touching an effect but his life is so interesting isn't it his parents took him to America when he was very young and he we're going to teach himself how to paint his parents came back to Scotland and he stayed on and I believe he had an exhibition in San Francisco the entire contents of which was destroyed by an earthquake in the beginning of the 20th century he earned enough money to work his passage and ended up back in Scotland these are suspect might have been done in the 1920s does that add up in your because I they were in my parents home you know never I can remember and of course I was born in the nineteen twenties but they may very well have been around that period I think that the markets very hungry for a good Scottish colourists picture so it wouldn't surprise me at all but the one on the left at least should be worth six to eight thousand pounds but the one on the right I mean I think the markets fickle they may decide that that is not quite as nice by the way I would probably say that that is his worth only about a mere three to four thousand well thank you very much brain and I think that's in lovely it's very interesting we go and put them back in wall okay thank you very much maybe de Levin and four foot two and that one's nano right right I mean what's interesting about that it's not the first time I've seen cabinets made like this obviously it suggests they've made for a niche in a particular house one imagines perhaps either side of a big fireplace by architectural you've just got a slightly narrower niche just by four inches very strange tell me where do these come from Russia - yes my dad lived over there for about six years right right the wood is fascinating it there are two things which are a real giveaway for this the style is somewhat Germanic with this bow front to this concave front here it's very very Germanic the reason for that the German architects and designers were working from Captain or gate onwards in Russia and of course there's another thing is the timber itself it was a wood much favored by the Empress and the Emperor especially Nicholas and Alexandra for example in the early 20th century they love this type of birch which badge but a specific type of birch specific to Estonia Karelia it's known as Korean birch I think is what northern Russia Czar Finland area that sort of area and they're huge forests of it it was a common local wood especially in times of blockade of Europe when the French were blockaded by the English Navy in the early 19th century they couldn't get the mahogany's and the precious wood from South America the Caribbean and so they would use their local native Timbers but of course they're much cheaper as well so there's an economic factor as well and it's difficult to know quite what sort of houses were made for probably quite a substantial house certainly not a peasant house or a farmer's house but probably not one of the grand an aristocratic houses for that so halfway between and they take probably 1810 at the very earliest let's say if they're on Moscow house and there's a slightly provincial house properly 1820 or even as late as 18 30 or 40 but I don't think the exact date within 10 years matters because what we have is a very very stylish pair of cabinets indeed or not quite a pair this is a shame they're not quite a pair very quick I just want to look I mean what do you think these have you've got one at your end there's a couple I need each end here two years and I haven't got keys for them sorry I've never it doesn't seem to be a Capulet right yeah we got inside very very plain well all you can see is just in there it's been boarded up again well one can only imagine therefore putting the chamber pots in I think they're probably dining room pieces dining room sideboard so they probably had tons of food and wine and spilt on them which helps the patination and you have little potted in each end so the gentlemen could do whatever necessary when the laser hits the room I think what insurance that you have got on them at the moment just ordinary whorehouse insurance under the household insurance well do you rise what these would make at auction these at auction would make a minimum of twenty to thirty thousand pounds here and certainly for insurance I'm afraid forget 20,000 or 30,000 got to be thinking in terms of forty or fifty thousand pounds for insurance well I like them I don't want to find love this particular chain was the Provost of Auburn in days gone by before we merged into a larger Authority but this was the the Provost of Albans chain so in honor of your visit today and to the people of Auburn we decided to bring it out to see wonderful and these the arms are open they're over on the Lord of the Isles yes indeed excellent but you've also brought along a much more if I may say much more interesting by a chain because looking at it it's got so many wonderful features particularly the boats and the castle and the coat of arms what can you tell me about these various symbols roasty was a very important report in days gone by yes the Lord Mayor of London invited all the Provost of the United Kingdom to London the markers of Bute as resident yes wasn't yeah he was down at the shore and he was not greatly enamored that the Rossi had a single tear chain only and so on returned the Marquess at his own expense presented this triple chain to the borough of Rossi which as you'll see has Scottish perils and the galleons depicting that Rossi was an important seaport at that particular time ride with the chain went the title of Admiral of the kite wonderful title yes not been rescinded well you know the first thing that I'm strike when you know I pick it up is the sheer weight of it and it is 15 karat gold the value of the gold alone is is pretty considerable but as you rightly pointed out throughout the whole chain here that is lovely little pearls inset all around and what I particularly like the fact that the galleons have what appeared to be carved rock crystal behind them like sort of Suns arising the suns but the sheer quality of it is absolutely stunning now there's one thing that has signaled real alarm bells in my mind and that is this rather faded stamping here which says Bar Canton and crowd they were very interesting makers particularly that they were makers for one of the most important architects and designers of the 19th century a man called William Burgess the only thing is that this is not what I call absolutely typical because his style is much more with big cabochon stones and gems and although we've got pearls however it is quite possible that this was based on a design by Burgess and if it is a Burgess design you have something very very valuable indeed are we allowed to know what its insured for I think in exists of 25,000 there's a little while back yes I have to tell you that I think that is exceptionally modest regardless of whether it is by Burgess or not because if it's not by urges I think it should be insured for nearly three times that amount really yes really remember this is 15 carat gold yes now if it's if it can be traced to a Burgess design then you better rush off to withdraw because I think we're then looking well in excess of a hundred thousand so possibly a hundred and fifty thousand yeah but it's a fantastic piece not so much for bringing us along well we're grateful to you thank you very much indeed adopted great-great-great uncle was a Glasgow magnet and she'd found this treasure chest in the sands on the Gold Coast but alas it didn't have any treasure so how long ago we're talking about Oh 17 something meanwhile your treasure chest yeah so if you had a distilled Rijn yes our treasure chests were twins music in here we have the secret compartment where we kept all our special treasures very very special this is it's very ancient what by opinion and this is and here is the treasure necklace and silicon's we all love playing skeletons it was given to me for a charity storm I took it to a friend who's knowledgeable in antiques and asked her what she thought I should get for it if I it's very honest of you good way to do it yeah well it's not fair to the charity is it when she told me I was tempted myself to buy it and that was it in this lovely bright iridescent condition Benghazi not quite the lady had used it for her pimp pressures really and she had surrounded the rim with the last blast and various things maybe to protect him I don't but when I took it off and washed it I thought well this is lovely I'm going to enjoy having it well these wonderful peacock iridescent colors are often associated with Louie Comfort Tiffany but Tiffany made real where and what you've got a lot on the bottom of this is Orion now the great competitor to Louis Comfort if he was a man called Frederick Claddagh he started Stephen glass and this is Stephen glasses version of Tiffany had real well it's not going to be as valuable as the Tiffany which at the beginning I they could have hoped it was when it came out of its paper but I think if this went to walk it would make somewhere between three and five hundred pounds so it was a very good buy you had its second it was but it's still a beautiful object which I should enjoy but it's the absolutely genuine article as shilling in all the long john silver's films and everything yes story I'm weighs a ton yeah first wind to carry it right cool trying to put it back together we can't do that you know it takes a wee bit of time I honest that's all right but this we're very expert at this so we've had so many treasures in it so let's but we're not doing it correctly I'm sure you're familiar with Hamilton and inches who've been Julis for a long time in Edinburgh and still oh I probably I think you should in business is one of us to perform most of the jury firms here but here we got a signature on the dial of this very obviously French clock of Paris what we have is a piece that they have imported had their name put on it but it was actually made in France circa 1900 are you familiar at all with the technique of the actual way it's made I think it's called Plus on isn't it actually cloisonne is a technique that's basically Chinese it's the idea where you solder bits of wire onto the surface of metal which creates trousers these are cells if you like in the French mud you fill the cell up with enamel powder you fire it it goes to glass and afterwards you grind and polish the whole thing and you've got to pass on a enamel which is exactly really what we look like we've got here but there's another way of doing you take the sheet of method and make a design you cast it with all the puzzles in it effectively then it's called shrimp in Vietnam and you've got something that looks exactly the same we've got other nice details about the Clubman very fine enameled dial which is very elegantly over-the-top really honest with flowers and little circuit of the rather elaborate pierced gilt hands and also the the the cast and pierced mask of flowers all around so it's a sort of a full monty and it's got everything going for it I suppose one would probably say that it's about 3,000 something that's insurance oh I could add another thousand for that if you like maybe four no I'm I'm not joking I mean yes four thousand pounds to replace that clock you would do every country has a secret surface but the point about a secret service is that its secrets and so nobody really knows much about it but this document here in front of us signed by George the first which is quite a quite a rare signature of Georgia first points out that he is actually giving money for a chap to be a spy and it's it's to our trusty and well-beloved John scrip or his assignee is the sum of six thousand pounds for our Secret Service in that account and that is an amazing sum of money on stroke or would it be for a whole lot of people well I think he would be recruiting spies and doing all sorts of things like that but that is just quite incredible don't you think in those days how did you get it how did you get this I found it in my grandfather's papers and was he related to this scripture no I wondered whether his wife's right by to come down through the shields of Sharky's but for a historian this is this is brilliant brilliant stuff then we go on to this next one here now this is a mystery to me it's nothing particularly in this it's it's not a particularly important document the only important thing is that it's actually signed by a George are here yes now the date here which is the fifth of July 1771 so this is in fact a very fine signature of george the third georgia third but the one that excites me more than any is this one this one which is to do with money yes printed money it's in terrible condition absolutely appalling well where's the rest of its most imperfect anyway this is to Isaac Newton Topton Hayes and others in his trust now Isaac Newton at this time not only did he obviously we all know him about having an falling on his head but he was also in charge of the mint the key here the King's men's gifts and this is an order to pay a sum of money out two hundred pounds and so on and so forth but if we turn it over we have a wonderful reward we have Isaac Newton's signature there and Hopson Hays they'd all actually endorsed it he was his associate he was under him at the mint so that is that's really a very very exciting now value this thing if it was just an ordinary document signed by Georgia first I would say it was worth 200 pounds because it actually proves that this John scrote was in fact a spy I have to value that much more highly I would say somewhere in the region of what 400 500 pounds it's a very nice piece this one which is signed by Georgia third is really just as I said just a just an ordinary document no more than about two hundred two hundred and fifty pounds but this moth-eaten horror here signed by Isaac Newton is very important and I would have to value this at five thousand pounds you don't know where you go lying about do you it's Faberge it is and you tell me is this a gift from somebody it was a gift to my stepmother from a close family friend took about 45 years ago and she in turn very generously passed it on to me well it's a very magnificent gift in a way isn't it and it and and the point about sebasi objects is is that they are the grandest gifts that ever were and they come from a society of unparalleled luxury people living in pre-revolutionary Russia had their lives decorated in this way and every possible aspect of their lives their wallpaper their furniture their Goldsmith's work their jewelry their servants their horses their carriages were all of the dramatically high standard of craftsmanship and Faberge in order to survive had to compete with that I think perhaps if you're talking about Faberge you may be interested in particular work masters they presided over different workshops and one of the most famous was Henry quick-strike who is the maker of this box absolutely and probably allowed him to sign the box as well and we see his mark in the lid in conjunction with shahbazi and Hendrick Strom is arguably the most distinguished of the fabergé work masters he was maker of the famous Imperial Easter eggs which were fifty and he was called the chief work master so this is very very exciting too in the lid satin it says Faberge sand Petersburg Odessa and London if the London branch is shown we know that it's made after 1903 and we also know that wickstrom took over in 1903 so we can date this box between 1903 and 1950 and it's a box for a specific purpose have you know what it's for cigarettes in Vienna juice to sit on the mantelpiece with cigarettes in it but myself doesn't make okay I don't smoke cigarettes oh it's used to be used for that lurking inside here are two hidden compartments under here is one and what do we find in there no that I think is maybe something else it's a little ring of inner had you found that in there before no well I wonder whether you had actually Guinness did before that that's the ring well it's it's the end of the cigarette holder and lurking in there is the amber mouthpiece no I don't think it's gonna come out for us um it's it's decided to part company with that none of this maps us by the way but it would make much more sense to us alright now if we were to look and see an amber it's wonderful and then at the other end we found this little compartment here yes I find that little compartment striker yes and tell you what wondered about that material you know what that is no I do it's shagged reading that's the skin of a Japanese array it happens to be very abrasive that's a it almost feels like metal it does well it was very very hard undone and in there would like matches we no match has been in there because this sulfur and I was actually acted on the metal and turned it black so here's everything for a smoking lady in 1900 she shouldn't have smoked but then everybody's go up to 1900 undone and this was what a lady of very high status and probably dramatic wealth would have carried to a dance to take three or four cigarettes hidden within this container here I think we got to talk about a bit about its value and this is certainly good news and bad news I'm afraid it's not in perfect condition areas wanna do bang know we also have really won't be knocked about a bit but unfortunately does matter with Faberge had it been in perfect condition I wouldn't have shrunk from telling you that it was worth twenty thousand pounds twenty that is quite a surprise I had it valued a few years back and I was given about a figure of three thousand bottles well somewhere in between lies the truth because three thousand pounds is very modest to twenty thousand if it were perfect it isn't perfect so it's going to be very difficult to define this I think I'd like to be certain of a figure of six to eight thousand for you at any time because it is very subtle very beautiful very exciting piece of fabric and couldn't be more thrilled to have it thanks very much for bringing what an intriguing selection full of surprises exotic objects from Russia tales of espionage well it's more like a john buchan novel than an Antiques Roadshow you'll find all the facts 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Length: 42min 53sec (2573 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 30 2018