Antiques Roadshow UK Series 25 Episode 23 Dunrobin Castle, Scotland

the schemes are well-intentioned went disastrously wrong and the Highland Clearances came to be bitterly resented so the inscription on the Duke statue which was built a year after his death in 1834 has a certain irony of loved revered and cherished memory erected by his tenantry and friends well the present incumbents the Countess of Sutherland has been kind enough to invite the roadshow to set up camp in the gardens of her ancestral home if you're a digital viewer and you want a second guess the experts press your red button now weathers looking but threatening but there's already a good-natured gathering of the clans so there are Highland Fling commence perhaps to confirm when all that akhirin Sutherland of a retired nurse and she discovered in monastic and Hardeen riot okay well it's a typical World War two nurses cave but I think ah take with the difference look up there now I do know something about this because being in the Army for five years myself and being in the hospital this is what the lad used to do you see they all fall in love with the nurses and sisters and then they say have my divisional sign and the nurses and the sisters take them and then sew them in you can imagine the people that they must have nursed through the period of time I mean this is the guards division through the I I think I did see Highland division wonderful and these of course are told the County regiments Norfolk ox and bucks Somerset light infantry Durham light infantry and the lady in question no doubt was a sister or and it was indeed a sister in Normandy itself really during the war yeah Oh marvelous marvelous I think it's a treasure it really is now in auction a cape like man would be around about 150 pounds I'm judging you there now the capes that I've seen yeah but again it's the old old story of two people take a shine to it and collecting nursing memorabilia and well then of course it takes off and there would be more money I think is like this and I realized my first love in virology is actually watches so I'm not gonna spend long up yeah hold on please what is interesting about this clock it presumably halt Kirk is actually not the name of the maker that the name of the town cool coat free church village you know and from up here I don't know if you've ever noticed it but written over many of the actual building numerals are the names of various people whether they're the names of people who wound the clock whether it is 19th century graffiti I don't know well I suppose I could say it's a classic Scottish clock and it is up to one extent except for its height which is quite enormous I don't even know I'm gonna I'm verging on six-foot there must be about eight or nine feet up there now it looks to 110 some purposes if it's actually made of mahogany in fact it's actually pine it's piling softwoods and the whole clock has been painted to look like a flame mahogany over the years that's obviously faded back and it's clearly been kept in a fairly dry situation because all the joints have opened up and of course wint was new the painting would have been very bright very clear and you would not have seen any of any of the cracks or joins in it at all no the movement is a straightforward timepiece you can see from I'm not gonna take the hood off I had vision of crashing back but but I'm sure the room is very standard Scottish movement probably an a shape simple time to lose certainly not the movement but possibly the case yes if somewhere nearby because it is such an extraordinary size that it would undoubtedly have been a special commission yes I first you'd say that if you wanted it I really wanted if you've had a place for it which obviously you have could be worth quite a substantial amount of money however if he lived in a nice small flat in London I don't think you cut it off so really it's awfully difficult things about it but certainly I've got to be insured for four figures and more thank you very much I can remember this table when I was just a wee small lab probably about four or five year old at my grandparents house where we use for they used to live in Rockford in Hartford sure I know what what it's made of but apart from that I really don't really know what period is all what its value is so you say know what you know what it's made of I'm gonna test you now what would then I suspect that Donna gets power I would respect it I suspect it's Burrell but I didn't say that to trick you it's not a bad guess and I like the way you've gone through the process of over with Madonna arrays etc and you're quite right it's not oh can you can't seem the deliveries it's actually not an Englishman digital sort at all or British would hear you it so yeah well done hmm now you should have said that first time to see would you know where it's from the Thea would West Indian isn't it no it's it's from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco right and it became it came into this country or into into the British Isles into use really through from through France and of course because the northern Morocco North Africa was a French colony and they found the warden you first use it in the bog 1814 fifties in regular quantity I mean the whole thing has a very French look and feel to it French spoke Italian to my eye certainly not of English you mean that's not an English piece design star wise I wouldn't have said right I get to push you now because it's interesting you've got your own thought process going so why isn't it English then what what quite probably it's English construction because the quality of construction is extremely high throughout I mean they've got coating on the drawers and mmm the drawers the drawer slip in here as all tells me it's very very English for me but in terms of construction but the style in it just it's just not English furniture I don't think I need to be doing this to UWM doing very well on your own you're quite right I mean that's exactly English drawl Construction wonderful mahogany sadly the quartum feeded molding they're typically what you expect for an English an English draw but of course in this it's not Italian sila call it more a French style right and when you look at the base those sort of columnar supports it's tipped of what they'd called the louis xvi scale and that star became very very popular in from about eighteen fifties onwards and of course a lots of political troubles in prague and a lot of French craftsmen came over to England to work and French designers were very very sought after in England and paid more than their English counterparts to bring in this very sophisticated French design and the ormolu here is typical a norm is an English word for bronzed or Malu yeah so it's just simply gilt bronze right see the brass amazingly but we always call it bronze so sounds better but the colour of that is more typical the English colour of metal it's a good piece of furniture I think that if you had it in a showroom done up in a London or showroom where they type like this type of high quality high Victorian furniture I can see it being six and a half seven thousand pounds retail price it's a good for my husband over 20 years ago he has a fetish for sale rooms and enough to cry this that wonderful feel fantastic well he's obviously got a very discriminating eye and and this is only one part of it okay clearly it's made of molded glass and in a strange way glass centaurea got a rotten to do with one another since deepest antiquity I think people have realized the glasses and an extraordinarily attractive material have you thought about the color how where it comes from behind no wondered about that yes I mean I think it's probably a near colorless glass but behind the some some green foil that's actually giving this strange luminosity to it and I think you know who it's by don't you I do tell us Rene Lalique Rene Lalique well Rene Lalique was trained as a doula before he moved into the world of glass and he's really the towering genius of the our niveau movement it really one can say that the jewelry that he made was broke all conventions it had nothing to do with with what had gone before it wasn't near classical it was all over it was the new art but this is I think very haunting example of it and have you wondered also about how it was worn I also wondered about the back how it was in so beautifully ornamented with the bug well I think it's ornamented at the back I know it's just a very clever strategem to echo the the design of the foliage that you see on the front the only thing that's missing is this sort of I suppose deer antelope figure really isn't here but when you turn it over its the bid the pattern is shown blind at the back almost a die stamp thing it's in three sections like that's because it's what we would call a stomacher it's to be worn on the front of quite a stiff bodice and I'm thrilled to have a piece of like jewelry on the Antiques Roadshow I've never seen it before very very exciting I'm a complete and utter devoted fan of his work and I think possibly a figure of three thousand pounds would be good today my dear uncle Isaac we're back again in our castle home only two professional gents live in castles me and Hall came and here is a picture of me and Hall Kane and of course if we turn over this wonderful greetings and curious illustration more illustrations but it's signed with the magical name Jack be late the brother of the poet WB Yeats so tell me who is uncle Isaac uncle Isaac was their fathers brother their father of course was john butler yeats and they were obviously very fond of uncle Isak who i believe is very good to the family and you know bought their paintings and there and WB's books and so on and so forth because some obviously when especially WB I think was very pretty poor and but Jack always made a living from his painting and what is your relationship to uncle Isak uncle Isak wisdom and john were the brothers of my husband's grandmother panty Yeah right right and so that's how they've come down to you really I must say they are absolutely wonderful letters I mean we've got four letters here but they're all beautifully illustrated with little cartoons but Jack Yates as a painter is absolutely top-notch of the boat and isn't he I mean his paintings go for do they really have you got any no I'm afraid not why not they were lost during a house smooth I don't believe it I think that's that's that's horrible but here he is again this is an idea for a pleasant communication and here he is giving her dog a bone all sighing Jack behave well he's asking uncle Isak master to send the dog a bone when he writes in it I rather like this one this is how to avoid catching and there's the fish of a nut on top that's my favorite illustration other ones well they're absolutely tremendous full of news full of family and gossip and all sorts of things like that I think there were about four thousand pounds surprise you know this is obviously not the morning tea services [Music] pintado are my finances of the modern Spanish time their holidays and this is a plate made for the American market it makes the American market by Johnston brothers and can I ask you how much you pay for a mug like this yeah that was what some years ago today if you saw those been in a normal expect this somewhere in the region of 120 hundred makes you powerful thank the good factory it's well painted and it's actually very unusual having no coffee town I'm looking at a very fine portrait of a ship and from a glance you think oh well this is this is done in oil and on canvas or on board and palliative it is of course but the rest of it is all textile and what I want to know here we've got the Napier and it says the Napier of Liverpool down there and jbp Campbell commander are you or have you ever been a mr. Campbell and no he's my great-grandfather very good we believe that this was done by the ship's cook a Chinese gentleman when they were becalmed and that apart from the painting he made the bits of pieces of uniform and you can quite clearly see I think that's sure did you look very much like shirting material and this is either black or very dark navy so yes yes and the fields are made of linen and they're beautifully beautifully embellished and embroidered because it would be one thing just to have rather a crude piece of embroidery but this has been done with such dexterity so it's a very good quality ships portrait of a type that is unusual because usually they are merely painted and here we've got lists of all the various members of the crew dated New York 19th of September 1890 and I'd like to look at the wages here the carpenter got $60 which was six pounds it's interesting to look at me the exchange rate then happy days a month's wages they were actually not badly paid and then it goes all the way down through the various different jobs down to the boy down here who got two pounds two pounds a month not so great being a boy this is great it really brings it brings it to life it's fantastic when you think that they're gonna roam the world and in that yeah and these are strips that you fear in a serious boat now you know and they're just wandering around the world that seems to me 1,400 tons of manganese in the whole to be swapped for beef and pork yeah it's amazing it is a great sale and so value we come to the inevitable question of value I think this is an incredibly commercially popular piece it's something that will never go out of the family I'm sure hopefully it won't but it's the sort of work which in the last literally in the last two or three years has got into a whole different price range three years ago I would have been probably sticking my neck out to say that that would be worth twelve hundred pounds now I think we can safely say that that would be worth in the region of five to six thousand pounds the market has changed dramatically I had a great-grandfather down in the South of England and he used to go up to the continent of probably Holland and Belgium and buy paintings from the for starving artists brought them back to the UK and then ship them over to America and Canada and sold them to our cousins over there for rather large much money there was myself and those that II liked an awful lot he kept over in Britain and I'll arrest inherited them through the family form a very interesting well I think these two watercolors are by nurse comes an artist your Hanif plumbers and Lamas is one of the principal members of the aches to love artists working around the ports of Revenue Gong and the Dutch coast during sort of mid 19th century notice that sort of time roughly ruin your grandfather wasn't that would say about 1850 or so yes I see that interesting we're just saying about him sort of bringing all these artists over to Europe and fathered a field because bombers was an artist to in fact didn't find tremendously at home his subject matter was one that didn't appeal to the local market in Holland and that a number of galleries and dealers in Scotland who very were very fond of this subject matter and had sort of many customers for the watson plumbers they're just very beautiful and appeared of drawings such as this I think would be quite desirable I would have thought that if they were being sold at auction together I think they could go on making the region of about seven to ten thousand pounds for the thing for the day good news a very popular mark and obviously the market is no it used to be my grandmother I mean they were handed down to her her daughter and when she died and father got them he founded a mansion down to me there and what do you feel about you've heard of stuff for two dogs yes here we've got separate already these were made by a pottery who will always be anonymous but we never know who made them in the 19th century they date from about 1850 1860 and what I like about the thought about their rabbit is that they follow exactly the style of the dogs and if you could imagine them sort of sitting on their haunches like that it would be a separate a dog now obviously they would originally have been made or the would have been made a pair and you got two of a kind which doesn't matter but a left and a right faced each other is how they would originally being sold it's a strange thing but fee for some reason the rabbit although made by many pottery is picked in the 18th century is very rare and collectors are desperate to get the rabbits they can get dogs by the top in every size they can get cats come rabbits they're hard to find so to find two sitting on my table is really quite exceptional so you wouldn't talk for them for the world how much is the world don't know but just know I wouldn't partner alright if I tell you they are worth two thousand pounds each we had an antique dealer come round the house and they offered us fifty pound fell appear well I'm glad to say you didn't take these are astonishingly rare I don't know why they're just extremely desirable well this little teapot looks as though it's come straight out of the Arabian Nights what sort of adventures did you have getting hard for them well it was quite an adventure it was a castle in pasture in the fifties I think and they were selling everything within the castle and my I looked on that and instead of that I got see all for a pound all three elements in the same lot in the same lot how far would you gone do you think if you hadn't oh no I couldn't have run very far because I feel young and I couldn't afford anymore what would the other - one was a scent bottle of that Jim yes the other was a just a sort of dish really with tan-colored with the ultra in the outside edge I don't know anything about it right but the scent bottle fell off a mantelpiece once oh yeah that was it so this is the sole survivor this is for one pound now people ask you what is porcelain porcelain is white and you can see light through it this is white and you can see light through it but the extrordinary thing about risen burg so-called porcelain is the actual clay body that this is made of is not technically speaking porcelain it's not the classic combination of china clay in china stone it is technically an earthenware and it's low-fired it's much lower fire than better horsemen and yet the extraordinary thing is you can see light through it it is paper-thin I mean when I hold it like this it's like holding a piece of paper and it is incredibly delicate so I'm not surprised that your scent bottle shattered to smithereens when when it hit with that now date of manufacture you found out what the data is about it okay okay well you know that it's raw isn't though because there it is it's got the mark it's got the crown name Rosenberg and there's the stalk biting a snake and this is a factory in the hague in the Low Countries and there's the artist site of the SS Pfeiffer dating it well if it's that straightforward all of this swirly design is an echo the whole swirly design of thee of the vessel itself and and it should be beautifully done in different colors wonderful outlines and then here in the foliage it's sort of filled in with an ever decreasing circles long tail bird sitting in the tree but predominantly foliage predominantly the swirls of ER niveau and of course it is on the road it is it has survived since around the Year 1954 shape have you ever been I think it would shatter if you put a hot liquid in here now how much did your pound on you well I think today a collector of Rosenberg would probably pay you somewhere in the region of two thousand pounds thank you I haven't got two thousand pounds on these but there'll be plenty people who'd be interested it's a lovely lovely example five shot Adams revolver now what background can you tell me about it I took these two weapons and payment for a garage ballot my I run the local garage right and this was government payment for an outstanding bail that was over 20 years ago mainly you know have an interest in firearms right that was offered these and payment which I was happy to take great well I don't know what the bill was but I think you've done well because we're on 400 phones at the time really in auction this would fetch two thousand pounds today but this is the one I'm intrigued with yeah make nice so we have a gentleman's pair of pocket pistols no doubt their Continental they're not English ah the Liege Belgium tooth now so made in Belgium yeah hidden triggers as you it so the trigger comes down and when you ease it off up those the trigger sometimes the trigger is on the return spring it takes it up itself but in this instance no ivory grips often you find that when ivory is in boxes like this and you turn it over the other side is quite yellow oh yeah ivory likes to be exposed and sometimes I've had pistols were perfectly white one side and absolutely yellow the other but this one has kept his colour quite good now what have we got here we've got a combination bullet mold the idea of the block there is to put it into the entrance of the barrel to turn the barrel off when you turn the barrel off you put your powder in there you put the ball on the top and then screw it back on and the idea of that is because once you fire the pistol all the gasses are behind the ball yeah whereas in the older type of pistol you run the ball down and then it came out again and the gases would escape and here we have your little percussion explosive caps that go onto the nipple yeah it's a very nice nice set piece this I've been describing them as muff pestis with that Marek no oh no Matt Mauck pistols are decidedly smaller than this or they're gentleman's pocket pistols now for a pair of pistols like met today you'll have to pay all of 2000 pounds yeah they're nice quality something to be desired yeah a good investment fun I think so yes have done well yeah thank you very much for bringing them to you thank you so here is most Biloxi withdrawing and how did you come back the join was in my brother-in-law's house David Chang co2 glass artist he apparently got it as a gift from the trick please drink straight from strength I think but I'm not sir I think it's the most wonderful life drawing it illustrates for me the ability of the draft and of William strain now there are I suppose anatomical thoughts about this drawing and in a sense I don't care about them at all but I'd like to talk about them first so we can discount them really and look at the larger picture as it were well first of all the obvious thing is that he's done he's a he's miscalculated the size of the sheep and missed off the feet he's done them up here top right as if to show what he would have done if this was the right typical of an artist who was more interested in getting something done quickly in line than thinking about the finished product and then further upper body you can see that the hip is not quite right not just slightly in the wrong place you could argue that those shoulders that just a tiny bit too narrow you could argue that the angle of her head and the neck set upon those shoulders is not quite right you could argue that the the arm is lost the left arm is lost up round underneath her head and doesn't articulate with the rest of the body in short you could really take the straw into pieces if you cared to and then again you look at it and you think no it's a beautiful drawing salutely beautiful and that the sureness of his life as he as he sketches out forms and models the flesh and as he as he manages to communicate to you until you something of the the texture of and the volumes of her body she really lives she really lives I think it's absolutely lovely astraying is an uneven artist as we've discussed the ports of this story but I've rarely seen of the more attractive to inviting in general term absolutely delicious and they've got no hesitation in putting at least 3,000 pounds on it absolutely god never thought that at all now you have a professional interest in that instrument and you're not a publican are you yeah no no I had a professional interest there until a few years ago which was a dentistry it's a source of for extracting teeth probably almost certainly that's one for a lot less more to where the hook would go in between the roots on the tongue side of the truth and the truth of the rotated out in that and that way and this is the opposite side as you can see air should be there they on the right side yeah what have you remember is that and how old is this instrument of torture I think these are probably just late 1800 that's I guess to be honest with you you know so that the teeth were sort of twisted out not all that no they rotated out yeah so I pull them the old joke of a comic yeah I rotate them yes that's right yes that was it much more okay but this box now I know this is a treasure of yours as well well it's obviously somewhere on how well either born or ivory in to be honest I haven't investigated this to which it might be when tufted bear gasps who could do for a number of centuries quite probably quite possibly a toned Elizabeth first Fame or even earlier would you say this was male or female well from the size of the truth it could well be female but I don't think that that's a I think it would depend upon the shape of the piece of board and the size of the Moses to have the character I wonder if it has any any value probably just sentiment oh absolutely yeah yes now one of the reasons I like and I'm interested in the period at the end of the 19th and early 20th century is that we get so many different ideas coming together Art Nouveau arts and crafts William Morris modernism they all sort of come together and this clock I particularly like because in a sense it represents all of that do you like it not particularly that's a good somebody likes they've long to your house it's all bad from here right so he just turned up one day with this clock pick up one day over that time what did you say quite just divided up for so where do you have it in the house in a corner so it's overshadowed by your disapproves I've had to sit in the hand of television behind it behind the television in the corner I like it because Prasad its architecture and this was a period when there was a very adventurous approach to domestic architecture we've got lots of symbols and decorations which again represents the idea of William Morris not some god they got flowers we've got pretty sort of pre-raphaelite girls you've got a girl there representing day you got another girl here representing night we've got so many elements that take us into that period the sun's so much going on and I like the idea also that we've got something that is architectural but made completely out of pottery do you know who made it or anything about I don't know anything about this right the tea made by a company called Foley in Staffordshire and they call they produced a range in the early 1900 which is called intarsia we're now entire zero means nothing to find I sort of made up trade terms that represents that period the designer was a man called Frederick Reed who worked for a number of companies in in the staff at our industry and the quality of interview is also it's always this very exuberant very colorful sort of arts and crafts arts and an Art Nouveau decoration inside you where is it has become very collectible because it's the name designer it's a well-known representative it's period so we're looking at a top that is gonna be quite a lot of money so what do you think you paid two or three hundred maybe about bad what do you think that was too much yeah you'd be horrified horrified yeah well it's actually worth about between a thousand fifteen hundred pounds what does that mean it's also start liking it good I think your husband's got an immaculate taste well it's a pretty spectacular box in there very really it's a piece of furniture do you know what this is called it's a handle it's a coughing mount handle with wonderful gothic gothic crucifixes it's straight out of Dracula but the mounts are stunning now let's open it up shall we yeah there it is the contents tell me about this violence which my mother sprained least to play with my mother in an orchestra just for fun and when she died my mother was left the violin with the case the lady didn't like the key because she thought it looked like a coffin yeah and she had another everyday case which she used for the violin but when Mom got the violin she was left to live in this case not the other one well it was principally the case that attracted me I have to say when when when you brought it in and it is a spectacular thing beautifully lined and this violin was actually made and fitted up for this case I mean it really made perfectly the profile and you have in here the eautiful little boxes you keep your rosin in there and you'd probably keep a spare set of strings and then your chin pad the bows tuck into the top here so it's a very very high cloth box but rather like of books you know the cover isn't always an indication of the quality of the content and I have to say that this bow is very very bad news indeed it's it's not a particularly straight bow its nickel mounted and there's nothing special to tell us about that at all so let's get to the body of the instrument quite a pale varnish and rather a striking back I could look inside and read out the label there's a paper label in here now we see hundreds of islands on these roaches over the years and they always say Stradivarius but this one doesn't this one say is excuse my friend it says MIT ID or a dowser ozox was this yonder 1844 and 18-49 then it gives the name Beth modèle Luce alleged a loophole in other words a Luce a violin maker he was the pupil of loophole and then there's a signature all of that is printed and then there is an actual ink signature says Bevin Adela Aparri 1853 well I'm not a violent expert that's the first thing to tell you but III can tell you that this is a very very well made violin and something else is rather fun if you rock this violin you'll see a little fluffball rolling about they develop over the years and and and it's known as a mouse I I'm a cellist might put a mouse in my cello I would never get rid of it so never get rid of that little ball of hair that's rushing up and done Ben Liddell is a well known maker not as expensive as his master Lupo in fact it's a family of makers and I would just point out to you that the going rate for a bairn adele fiddle is somewhere between ten and fifteen thousand pounds so I think it would be in your interest to go and find to go and find a real violin expert but I'm sure he'll tell you what I think it's a perfectly genuine piece made to fit in this beautiful box and it's a shame you do it play somebody in the family is going to be tempted well she's got a lovely fiddle to grow into you should been short for 25 so we cover it up so did you play with her when you were child we did yes we used to be Lucia dance in Glasgow and we always wanted to see the dog we wanted to see a rustic and we ran through to the room where she was kept and watched her smelling the flowers you're off did she tell you anything about you know we do know an awful lot about her we don't know very much about her history at all except that my father's brother took her home from France after the end of the first world war and he gave her to his younger sister how lovely he has a very special head by the firm of azumarill in Paris and I didn't really have to look at the back of the head because I could recognize the look of this jumo faith but under this lovely mohair wig she's got a mark which says Ted Izumo bt e f g DG which stands the song guaranteed the grooves on the moon without guarantee of the government so it's before they get the register so that tells me immediately that she is a serious automaton these heads were made for the firm of leopold lumber as in Lambert now layer for lumber actually was working in Switzerland it has a Swiss movement and her movements very good considering she goes back to about 1890 and they then dressed her in Paris and these wonderful silk and satin dress and these buttons to me I just exquisite Huntley is it'll set him button at the end just that little finish is so typically French she is so pleasing to the eye she is so pretty that the automata collectors would pay probably as much as four thousand pounds at auction for her well it turned out to be a brawn blustery day done Robin but full of bright and beautiful things and of course if you'd like to see those things again you'll find them on our website an answer to the question will you no come back the answer is yes a sequel is planned and done Robin too will be coming to a stream near you very shortly in which Lars tarpon eyes will be investigating the inside story of the castle itself and so then from the Scottish Highlands goodbye

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Length: 41min 33sec (2493 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 30 2018