Antiques Roadshow: Windermere (1996)

a national park of outstanding natural beauty and much of it so perfectly preserved thanks of all things to a rabbit and that's not quite as daft as it sounds because in 1902 a woman who later came to live in this cottage near the shores of Lake Windermere published her first book of children's stories the book was called The Tale of Peter Rabbit and she was Beatrix Potter in her cottage everything remains as Beatrix Potter left it when she died in 1943 this for instance is the very kitchen range and the chimney up which Tom kitten disappeared when he wanted to escape from his mother and here at the top of the stairs is where Samuel whiskers discovered the rolling pin that he hoped would turn Tom kitten into a roly-poly pudding and here in the kitchen garden in front of the cottage was the very rhubarb patch where Jemima Puddleduck laid her eggs with the proceeds from the books Beatrix Potter was able to buy a sheep farm and eventually became so wealthy that she bought in all some 7,000 acres of the Lake District including this beautiful farm a trout peck the driving force of her ambition to acquire land was preservation a passionate conviction that all this beauty had to be protected forever from the developers and the ravages of industrialization she became friendly with cannon Rawnsley one of the founders of the National Trust and in an outstanding act of generosity left all her land including her cottage to the trust and therefore to the nation well I wonder if we'll find more mementos of Beatrix Potter here in Windermere our home for the day is the lake school so let's now join our experts with the people of the Lake District has this been in the family long no not long Battier a year well how did it get into the family well I took a bored bored 14 year old boy to an option and told him to go and look for something to buy yes and he came back with a car boot type box off the floor and he said he wanted it because there was the tail inside he hid this is the tin that is the tiara it was very dirty but he said that was the tin he wanted and he bid for it I bid for it on his instruction how much do you pay for it I paid five pounds five how far would you have gone probably up to ten because I thought the box contained the rubbish okay right it's not a tin it's a bronze box and this is the sort of thing that was coming out of Japan throughout the liter the latter part of the 19th century in this case we have a bronze carcass which has been cast and carved with a scene of two figures and an attendant standing before a waterfall now that's a very very typical Chinese Japanese scene of people out of doors enjoying nature as it happens actually we have another figure down here with with with about turn this could actually be an illustration from a particular Japanese romance but I'm afraid I'm not able to tell you what particular remotes that is what I can tell you is that these lovely spot limits are done in a variety of alloys of bronze a bronze silver and gold of various mixtures giving you a complete spectrum of color I'm amazed you were able to go away with it for five pounds I thought you might have to be stretched to ten pounds to buy it because did it look like this one you know it was filthy and all my husband did when we got it home was wipe a damp cloth over it to see whether it needed cleaning with rust so or anything oh the metal started to come up and he said I'm not touching this anymore well that that's probably quite good news I'm going to turn it over because yes on the back here we've got the name and the place of manufacture this part of it says Made in Japan and the other marks again I can't tell you what those light it's rather more well marked than the majority of Japanese boxes of this period well I think you did very well I mean considering that you watered the five pounds and you could sell it in special I sell for somewhere between say six six hundred and a thousand pounds that's not too bad he'll be very pleased very pleased got a good eye so that'll be the villager eventually at the end they're just filming and this is a Carey's table globe and they were normally sold as pairs this is obviously the terrestrial one since it's showing the earth but there was a pair to this that showed all the actual stars and this ones must be 120 inches diameter it's exceptionally large for one they've actually sat on the table what's its history did you had it for a long time it was given to my father about I think 20 years ago and that's all I really know about this well it's quite nice because it tells a lot about it it's here on the label they all had these sort of trade label and it says quite clearly carriers nutristore globe exhibiting and really what it was made for was to actually demonstrate all the latest discoveries and you read da da da da da and it says as discovered by Captain Cook so all that his discoveries in the late 18th century are actually put on here but they keep kept on after having printed that they kept on updating it it's all the new discoveries came along so if you just read right down at the bottom in here it says with additions and corrections to 1829 but what's nice about it it actually shows how the globe was constructed like the segments of an orange and you just see coming down here how they were actually printed in this sort of shape and then they were applied to the go one by one now this is good indeed a lot of restoration and the only way to do that is to very carefully pick away and peel off these segments and take away that this is the the darker colour in here is the original lacquer and the whiter areas where the lacquer is gone so that's all going to come off it's all gonna be washed the hand colorings got to be done and then it's got to be very carefully stuck back onto the globe again so it's a very long and very expensive job its value at the moment in this sort of condition probably around about three or four thousand pounds it's good at cost another three or four thousand pounds to actually restore it but then you could end up with something worth twelve to fifteen thousand pounds so smashing these but it just needs a lot of love and attention thank you very much you actually got the maker's mark there William Grundy and he was working in the mid 18th century and actually the date letter over there is for 1747 so it's a george ii copy it's not oh alright now something very interesting about it as well it's a left-handed coffee pot why is it left-handed coffee pot I don't know normally the coat of arms is engraved well so that when you're poor if you're right-handed the cater valves the crest to show you are left-handed you put your case bombs on that side so again you could see as it was pouring yeah so I know it sounds like a joke but this is actually a left-handed coffee box the coat-of-arms absolutely original beautiful engraving of the arms there for the middle years of the 18th century often with this type of palms I find people of some sale later decoration all the rest of it because they did make the maps that you claimed but this one is absolutely right for parrot so this decoration wasn't added a lot like no no no I mean literally it would get back from the ourselves in 1747 and it was decorated in 1747 so this is all the Ryoka the movement in it all absolutely arrived from Paris and if you look at the spouse I mean the very fact has got this lovely shell you have the boss of the mouldings all right for a decorated part and again the way the finial is produced so 1747 lovely pop beautiful original condition have you have these horses to value really today for one as good as this I think you've got to be looking at the best part of 4,000 it's a really super pot and a left hander Brian RP is unopened oh it's one device to go to people what did you do with the baby never I bait no you don't eat you don't put them in your kitchen a beautiful setup kitchens in every day Bieber was a lifestyle it wasn't just a shop it's a first the Antiques Roadshow very very realistic this is isn't it I mean look him in the face you waiting for him temple later I let people think it's starved actually he's a bit later than the was his solid bronze I used to see these turn up in catalogs described by has been rather good shots factory go shots which is there on the place the German word for copyright not quite but the giveaways there giveaways there that little mark that little bars with a be beat the Bergman with Franz Bergman working in Austria in about 1900 and I saw worth quite at quite a series of these turn up at auction recently and that particular type was making anything between sort of three five six hundred pounds could have depending on size so members they're um they're certainly in demand they would call relationally well they are the ruination is the ruination of yes yes we do that we should do these nor fingers drink cards racing and worst of all the women look at them they're this is fast the first girl there with us the dancing girl they're wonderful things are they there are now they're enameled gold which um is Shawn Levy anomalous a very sophisticated technique the the bowl has been cut away and it's if the design is flooded into it and painted onto it so anyway they're sort of not only are they they they they're an old racist cufflinks and there are the wealthy old rakes having some a sense oh they are yes what have you put them in short for about 200 pounds well they might have cost 200 pounds when they were made actually which isn't about 1925 and and and they're really awfully good things I think today you open show them for six to eight hundred pounds good lord one of the things I like most about happens is the variety that they both in terms of the object and the manufacture and here you've got some in tortoiseshell colored glass silver and the designs are quite extensive I mean you've got some here which are golf clubs you've got others which are very are Nouveau and some of them are pretty vicious aren't they like this one here which is enormous and of course you needed something to protect the happens and here we have the perfection at pinpoint protector coming in all sorts of different colors and the nice thing about happens is you can build up a collection like this having paid not much more than a few pounds for them and yet as a collection it's worth many times what you paid for it and I would think you've probably got one of the largest collections of happens in the country our neighbors had it in the tool shed no yes and for 20 years and the old lady was throwing it out and she said did I want it I knew very sensibly said yes please well yes Wireless well it's a very interesting example of typical cluttered Victorian room we've got a wealth of detail here there's a marvelous mixture of furniture and also a great interest in all things Elizabethan the Victorians were very interested in the Elizabethan era and we can see all sorts of examples of this in the painting for instance the table here is harking back to the Victorian times also I think the chair and the cabinet yeah now it's clearly signed in the right hand corner jf Bates and she was not as called Jessie Fairfax Bates who was painting at the turn of the century round about 1910 and it's beautifully painted I mean the detail is exquisite look at these arum lilies here which of the Victorians again were very fond of and this also helps us to date the picture because this victorian blue pottery bars only came into use in about the 1890s do you think this could have been perhaps a studio was set yes because I think that perhaps a lot of these items could have been props for the artist in his in his paintings we've got a wonderful mixture of the armor here in the corner and a gun yes propped up against the armor then this wonderful Victorian centerpiece here and then one or two of his sketches or pictures propped up against the wall like here and here and then I think in the typical Victorian mode they couldn't resist a bit of sentimentality and he's placed the two kitties playing in the foreground to add a little bit of atmosphere to the to the picture have you any idea what it might be worth no idea but I think because it's in such excellent condition and it's terribly decorative you can go on looking at it for a long long time I think it's worth at least a thousand to 1,500 pounds thank you very much I mean one of the nice things about this is that it's understated eyeball rather classy things I mean at first glance a nice mahogany bow front Chester drawers 80 century both Ranchester drawers before 1800 rather than after which is in itself is is unusual these days when you stand back and you look you see how the feet actually stand proud at the bottom they don't follow the line of the side down they stand out underneath that molding it gives it a look of balance does it stands my father used to say stands like a gentleman it looks in stands prob it was designed by a proper designer wasn't just made as a bedroom piece it was made as a rather subtle piece of furniture and it was it does lots of other things we've got a top which rises up on hinges and a ratchet we'll put that to there and because that's not a lot of uses it is it comes up from the back like so and all the candles or your pens or maybe a cup of tea is not too full brilliant so you've got an architect table or or a designers table an artist table on top of a chest of drawers then that worked in coordination with one of these this drawer all right so Pius now you see that line that was a sliding tray he's got a side of which there was a hinge and then on yet another ratchet that part would have come up so you actually pulled this right out pull the slide back and then close the drawer to say there which would then give you another writing surface and you sat and you could copy so you could you could copy your manuscript or whatever or your drawings unbelievable quality absolutely wonderful point how high does that come up this one yes can we lift it right back yes look here look these are as new as new you see those screws how they're sort of ground off across the surface it's only a detail but that's how they finish screws up until about 18 20 18 20 the machine mate screws these are hand-cut boots wonderful and look at the shadow you know wonderful where the heirs never got to the surface and of course you see so much more with these bright lights anyway you did you see the dust well there's bound to be dust good heavens I don't mind a bit of dust no we have to do that sir okay into that house in there then this one goes down first and the color of the top whoops so how long have you had this I mean is it a family piece I've known it all my life right and it was a mother's bedroom she was born in 1901 so it's been in the family that long and before that I think it was my great-grandparents well we go back usually counting 30 years of her generation but that doesn't take us back far enough for this and there is no question of it being 1785 to 1795 the color of the timber the choice of the timber the way the whole thing is put together it just if you couldn't see better wonderful the nod knobs are different I mean they were put on in the 1840s 1850s as they thought to bring it up to date perfectly logical thing they didn't like the ones that were on there change it should have metal knobs metal yeah little metal knobs much smaller than that so now we will talk about value very difficult to value you could expect it to make anything between five and a half six thousand pounds that sort of thing wonderful wonderful but it has been quite understandably this is one of your favorite things yes it is why well it's a flora Danica basket that was given to me as a wedding present by my grandmother who was Danish and whom I adored and I have a great sort of affinity for anything Danish being half Danish myself and because I thought this was so pretty I then started collecting flora Danica postman I don't think I've ever seen this factory before it's quite stunning in the decoration and in the general quality of it yes tell me about factory well all the pieces are characterized by this very beautiful gold pierced border and the other thing that is immediately recognizable is the Royal Copenhagen mark very well marked which is to signify these three blue lines signify the three C's around Denmark and then each the flora Danica plates or baskets or trays or whatever all have in Latin the name of the flower that is painted on the base of the basket it reeks quality what's the period of this this is about 1870 and was bought by my great-great-grandfather when the first floor of Danica's series went into production for the public eye not for the royal family I think it's a very Item actually so much something a girl would fall in love with now this is wonderful who is he well he would be thinking some major isn't it cuz he's got a spa and it was given to me when at about nineteen fifteen or sixteen by my grandmother and he never had a name rarely it was just Teddy yes it did have an eyeglass and his right eye out unfortunately yes so stuck in with a pin and it's come off so this was given to you when you listen to me in about nineteen fifteen or sixteen now he is is known his unknown where he's made by a company called hardware than Co oh yeah they were established in Finsbury Park in 1915 and they started selling these fairs very shortly afterwards so that fits in with your memories he was known as the ally bear oh and he was dressed in the costume of the various Allied troops yeah and he was an enormous success they were sold and they were very very popular you can imagine somebody going off to war they would give this perhaps to their their child the company itself our weather didn't last for a very long time they went out of business in about 1930 so they had a sort of brief period of glory and he is quite sensational not only his face here but of course his costume which is in wonderful condition you haven't been tempted unlike other children to undress him no I am I played with him but I never wanted to pull him to bid I never pulled any of my toys to pitch well I can see this benefits were very careful child he's absolutely charming he is in such lovely condition and he's by this very good maker in auction he would probably fetch between about three and four thousand pounds oh well it's fine with me I'm delighted there you see you're staying with mum now Gillis all about it now I can you say it rather than me right we've had the picture for a long time yeah actually come out thirty years throughout the time you've had it everybody who's seen it has made the joke about of course yes the dead have you ever had that afraid no I would thought it was probably painted about the 1880s 1890s now have you been a nice live parrot yeah and very colorful it could be very dead it could be a thousand fifteen hundred and I think quite frankly you can be lucky do you think it's worth more than a hundred fifty pounds right tell me a little bit about these shoes well we just found them in a box at home I mean the family has been in the house several hundred years it's a family here yes petty my mother was a Miss petty so we reckoned that these would probably have been contemporary with her great-grandmother nylons old grandfather all because she was she was a Miss Patti I would have plowed a date between about 1750 and 1770 yeah that's what I thought yeah I mean they are quite extraordinary now there are several interesting aspects to these not least the fact that they have their patterns yeah now these were put on to the bottom of the shoe as they were attached by a you can see here you would have tied a ribbon around them once you put them on like so you would have tied them across with the ribbon and this was for outside work yeah but the extraordinary thing is that most of the patterns that I've seen have got a very high so because the reason that you put this onto your shoe was of course to keep it out of the mud so most patterns are about an inch or certainly half an inch thick whereas these if you went out in the mud this that the silk starts immediately and you would have destroyed the the the quality of it is very strange when you look at the bottoms of course you can see why this is in such good condition they've never been used well I think they've been worn a little bit but I didn't think even outside that looks like inside yes I would think you know they've been used for dancing yes and looking at the inside here which is all lined with this white kid beautifully lined and with the linen here I can see Pierce marks and I'm sure and here too I'm sure that there would originally they would have gone over like that or probably actually the other way and you would have had exactly you would have had a lovely syllabus right yeah and wouldn't they have been loved yeah when they were all and look at the neatness of the stitching going through here which is going through many layers a very tough leather and so on and the quality of the work look at this beautiful neat stitching almost looks as if it's been done by mice rather than by humans really quite extraordinary yes I've always loved them really are going to be great heirlooms in the future for your family if you prove if it provided you continue to hand them down these would probably make between about three and five thousand pounds in auction they are absolutely sensational and I'm very very pleased that you still love them and that you share them with us today well the basic model of this is a screen tape and it was first designed and drawn as far as we know by Sheraton in his drawing book at the end of the 18th century so by the 1790s usually in satin wood this was a fashionable piece for a lady to have stood in front of the fire the front let's down and she can sit and write screening her face from the heat of the fire I mean that's basically it but the combination of so many different features in this just fascinating gives it a much later date than that and I'll show you why that basic foot it's a cheval end it's a standard end with a swept leg tapering down to a floor caster at the end with a knee further up the top you've got that sort of rather nice knee with a little flower on it that is typical 1800 to 1820 that's early 19th century then you've got these classical columns with Corinthian caps to them columns which would give us a date of any period of classicism from 1785 through to 1820 again but with that we've got out as a main material now this became fashionable after 1820 not before had been fashionable in the 17th century then returned in the 19th century in the george the third fourth period georgia fourth period and into William the fourth and then it faded out gradually and then came back in 1890 at the same time in 1890 came all these Japanese designs the time of The Mikado and plush hats and sun shades and Japanese wallpaper and all these are appliques oven of lacquer and inlays of mother-of-pearl and ivory and bone and this is typical following the work of a man called sugar yama very famous in the 1850s and the style caught on he used to decorate ivory and lacquer work we started to use these sort of decorations onto oppa and mahogany as well so you have Japanese ray you have classicism and we have pure Regency design all mixed together which make this 1890 to 1904 the turn of the century so having said all that before we look inside tell me the family history right well all I know is that my grandfather might purchased it from a sale of furniture after the 1920s and it's been inherited through the family through the family ever since yeah well so that would make sense because it would just be second-hand it would have had one owner only 1920 now that if you press the button your Inge okay and that force will look at that that amazing we do that again see how that that's interesting isn't that and it's got a name on there's a Thornhill's patent oh great well actually that confirms the date I mean that ties in very nicely although Thornhill's were going right through till the twenties but that is that's quite an early patent number two isn't that wonderful well there's the idea you see I mean she obviously sat she could sit facing the fire or the sunlight of the bright light she could look out into the garden perhaps and yet have the light shielded here which made it better for writing now if you had this restored we have had it restored him and I've still got we've still got the original of this whoever did this done a cracking good job well I wanted it to be as supposed to be original as we could get it so really isn't that nice to see good craftsmanship how lovely well let's close it up and what do we have to do anything special just lift it when it's empty and then across photographs of the family I've forgotten there that nice there is a tremendous bow for 1900 pre-first World War Japanese er II such a fine example would probably realize in a in a fashionable house sale you know they're they're well attended these days and people really do buy for quite high prices things that we would have dismissed perhaps 10 years ago this could easily make 4000 pounds it's a serious collector's piece Jeffrey excuse me Diaz we're all a bit puzzled by this any ideas point out at that top is a protector toppling years on and then it's rather gruesome at the end my goodness looks rather so surgical isn't it once you think surgical yeah well I don't really I was joking she's bothering yes I really will not be in that surgeons hands this is hollow that's hollow inside so we think it contains some kind of liquid yes it's delivering a measure of some some awful poison or something probably for we saw now that was her theory with her yeah it was a weed killer yes maybe it goes straight down into into the root of the we yes like that I wouldn't like it to go straight down into my breathing and then through that channel there yeah there's a dose of killing liquid yes why I could find a lot of uses feel good really yes this is a piece of leg blazer with a joggled this is called jogging this marveling at juggles ground so although yes you do get masked on want to loot the pieces the actual material of the piece doesn't really correspond the question is have any bottle section like this been excavated from the mussel uper sighs oh no yes for mantener but we're not confusing the latest theory is and that makes some sense it's a weak killer so you fill this with the wind killing liquid then you put that point into the roof of the wheel there's a killer weed no I think it's pretty [Music] my golf swing a lot of good hasn't it well I'm surprised because Bobby Jones is reckoned by many to have him the greatest golfer of all time he was an American and in 1930 he won the British and American Open and amateur champions just something that's never been done before or since and he retired at the age of 28 and never played professional golfer game well the plus 4 yes yes absolutely you don't wear plus P plus 2 O plus 2 so well that's very nice this was used as an educational aid and it takes you through his swing both ways and you can see how he plays the shots the drives and the mashie and it's a lovely example of an early golf piece of education have you got it insured or not no well golfing items are quite sought-after these days and I would think a book like this in good condition should be insured for about four or five hundred pounds these long and elegant fighting swords are known as rapiers from the Spanish phrase a father the repairer which means a sword for wearing with clothes as opposed to a sword that would be worn with a harness of armor they're particularly known in this type of configuration as a swept hilt rapier from the very obvious fact that the hilt has these wonderful sweep throughout it with the bars that form it's very complicated guard if we start from the top you see there there's this large bulbous piece of metal it's known as a pommel which is in fact a counterweight for the very long blade the blades were kept long so that you had a long reach against your opponent and obviously with a blade as long as that you had to be able to control it very carefully and you needed this counterweight in the form of the pommel it's a very very important part of the sword moving down the hilt is the grip and this was wood wrapped in plaited and twisted wire and finished off rather nicely with these typical Turks had knots there and again that was not only decorative but also functional with hot sweaty hands or gloves that might well have been wet or perhaps even bloody and you needed something with plenty of purchase on there to really get a good grip of it and then finally if we look at the guard in its entirety we see there's a two bars there that protect the knuckles these other bars here protect the hand in general and particularly the bars down there protect the fingers because in this particular style of fighting you would pick it up by looping your finger through there which is obviously on that part of the blade is blunt that ensure and you just hold it like that or like that to give you more leverage and purchase on it so the advantage of having the long blade produce the slight disadvantage in the balance so there was always this provision with this piece in Elizabeth caso you could look your finger after certain styles of fencing these date from 1580 to about 1600 I believe that these are probably of English manufacturer because they are fairly crude in their work and ask you where you got these from I've Adam well in the family my father got them in the twenties a cat remember 20 1924 something I learned and he bought at a diving outfit of a friend and he found me bottom in Windham a lake and there the old fashioned diaper diving but the hard hat were too hard out with leather boots in a horse pipe to somebody cranky oil yeah and the pump yeah that's amazing yeah he just was rummaging around on the bottom yeah windy and Families a pound is absolutely amazing because really in terms of preservation they're very good obviously this pitting down the blade then I've seen others of this sort of ages in far worse state than this and Livia probably have never been anywhere near any water so now although they're at 1582 1600 thereabouts in terms of value the one with the broken point I would put somewhere around about 500 pounds a very nice good ordinary munition quality saw the sort of sword that was produced in fairly sizable quantities near probably also for military uses less yeah this one is a little better in its quality and is worth somewhere between 750 to a thousand so certainly as a sword that's come out of the late it beats King Arthur yeah so this is this is in fact a Beatrix Potter drawing well tell me I have a leg injury from an abscess not bad keep while away at the time yeah and so what was actually on on there nothing nothing at all the only one I have is perfectly play I see and she just stood by they he just stood by the table and and just put this a paper on to it then she just drew it so I have the under the original piece of paper yes and who chose the syllabus she did she brought them for me so she brought all the silks and everything yeah that's absolutely wonderful and double decided Beatrix Potter let's have a look at the letters I think this is wonderful I'm fairly perplexed about wages she writes I've got to rely at least from the wages board stopper in her entitled to three pounds 12 shillings for customary hours with deductions house for shillings I presume that's what they're allowed milk six pence a quarter potatoes one and fourpence insurance one and threatens hate me were these absolutely wonderful in Beatrix Potter terms I suppose the fact that they're signed he lists for the fans of Beatrix Potter would not be as good and in fact I tell you what counts slightly against them well yeah in in in the value terms they're invaluable to you obviously but as far as the market is concerned I would reckon that these letters would be worth somewhere in the region of five hundred pounds each and I really don't know what to say about this an original Beatrix Potter drawing well I have thought sometimes I don't pick in it to see what had washed out because I had it washed hisses oh I can't imagine something like that I thought it might have had to have a signature to be sure well I think you give it the problems you see you knew Beatrix Potter she told you to do it it couldn't be a better provenance quite frankly so I think we're talking a relic like that from this grand old lady I suppose two thousand pounds it could be anything obviously to you it's priceless but it's certainly worth and market terms Peter Rabbit that sort of money I have been told that it's a Faberge brooch we're not I haven't had that very far and the box was the original I think it's absolutely true how did it come to you in my grandmother's well she was she a Russian lady no no but I don't know that's absolutely all I know about it well it's no doubt at all it's by Faberge in fact it's a particularly pretty example and it's in the form of mistletoe leaves and berries which have been very cleverly suggested with these moon stones and highlight it with little dew drops of diamonds and it certainly does have its original case but it's also signed just here on the clasp and by it with the initials of the work master Eric Colin the craftsmanship is absolutely meticulous and one would expect that a Faberge I think he's probably the most famous jeweler and goldsmith ever to have works in a sense but this is a most charming example in you're absolutely right it isn't in the original case there's one aspect of the case that worries me a bit in love the the base has been relined this is not the normal velvet case and I think that's a tiny shred of evidence that it was bought as secondhand as it were into your family and that an antique dealer has seen that the base of the case is a bit sort of soiled and wanted to make it fresher and cleaner and it's done that very nicely and the proportions of the the box are exactly right for the jewel and of course it's just a love message in a sense to give to a young lady as a twig of mistletoe I mean especially invitation to a kiss isn't it and this one is very enduring one it's not only going to last through Christmas but throughout the rest of the year and so of many Christmases following it's made of red and green gold here is the red and the green gold and andaman stems as I say are very effective metaphor for the barriers I wonder if had your question insured at all don't I'm not sure probably under the household yeah there were hundreds we did have it valued about I think 10-15 years ago and they didn't feel it was worth much yes they were wrong actually they were very wrong in fact it's worth really quite a lot of money indeed it's a very subjective sort of jewel indeed because its intrinsic value is absolutely negligible it doesn't really add up to more about forty or sixty pounds but I think it was put into the right sale and there were two people after it who were desperate to have it because it is such a charming romantic conception I think it might go as high as six thousand pounds yes thank you thank you very much for bringing in thank you well yet another extraordinary collection of things here at Wyndemere who would have thought we'd find such a marvellous selection of things to show you so until next week at the same time from all of us here in the Lake District good bye [Music] the Antiques Roadshow regrets it cannot give valuations by post next tonight here on 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Channel: Coldclough

Views: 69,349

Rating: 4.7432432 out of 5

Keywords: Antiques Roadshow 1996, Antiques Roadshow BBC, BBC1 1996, Windermere

Id: MrSKhAk4zFk

Length: 43min 1sec (2581 seconds)

Published: Tue May 01 2018