the items on this list are extraordinary one item valued at1 million holy moly sometimes our love for things makes us look beyond their imperfections and what state was it in uh it was in a very battered State a lot of wormholes that was the case of this man who bought a musical kit box during an auction at fairing he stated that the box was in bad condition when he made the purchase that he had to revamp it by polishing and refilling the man said he was attracted to the mechanical structure and Ingenuity of the box and persuaded his wife thankfully his wife was able to see past the imperfection of the music box and let him bid for it he won the bid at £50 the musical kit box described as extravagant by the appraiser of the show was made by one of the most exceptional 19th century musical box manufacturers Nicole F of Geneva the company was founded by Jean Louie Nicole in 1814 Center Croix Switzerland Nicole frz was well known for making some of the finest musical boxes in the world the musical kit was a self-playing music box which produced Sound by the vibration of metal reads in England they're called readed organ boxes still worth a lot of money today I would have said a box like this would would be in the region of perhaps £2,000 right moral lesson look beyond the surface and I want to give myself the treat now of listening to [Music] it this episode of the Antiques Road Show took a different approach when one of the shows appraisers took a look at the portraits in ickworth house a Country House in England owned by the National Trust an organization for Heritage conservation amongst the portraits in the house includes a painting of an unknown man by tishan a portrait by Hogarth and the one which was of interest to the appraiser who is this uh this is the self-portrait of Madame VII lean she is the painter of the portrait of the fourth Earl that we saw earlier ah you can tell it's a self-portrait you can always tell self-portraits there's something about them it even if you don't know anything about the picture at all you can still tell it and it's something about the way that the person VII a French painter who specialized in painting portraits she wasn't very popular in her time and was mostly known by Aristocrats and Rich patrons who kept up with her activities vigi has created 600 portraits and 200 Landscapes her artworks are held at Major museums in Paris London and New York although she wasn't widely known she was the highest paid painter of her day her artworks have been sold at auction for millions of pounds this couple thought the table they bought was just an ordinary piece of furniture but it wasn't do you know what a date this is no I don't know I know how long ago I bought it I bought it 30 35 years ago a couple brought a wooden table to the show and the man revealed that he purchased the table 30 to 35 years prior for £600 the table had been initially appraised for £35,000 but the man was in denial about it high appraisal so he brought it to the show could his instincts be wrong does the table value that much unknowingly to the man the table was made during the 1820 Georgian Regency period a period when four King Georges sat on the British throne consecutively the furniture made during this period is known for their elegance and high quality and the Georgian period is said to be the Golden Age of Furniture Design everybody would love to own such Furniture we know we will the original Timber used in making the table is mahogany however the table had been tweaked and the Timber on the taable toop was replaced with a leather top cuz somebody has I'm afraid made a big mistake with this this was never designed to have a leather top and somebody has cut it out quite nicely to let a leather top in flat if it was made to have a leather top well it would had what's called crossbanding so the grain would be in different directions it be this way around here the grain running like that and then pointing down towards the back of the piece Also the table equally had fade marks on some parts because the owner had placed it in an area where it was exposed to the sun sadly these imperfections made the table's value decrease but even due to these imperfections the table was still appraised at 10,000 to 12,000 in the end the man's in thinks were right but he still begged a win compared to the £600 buying price for it remember the famous Dandy comic back in the 1930s in this episode of the show fans of Dandy comic were treated to a nostalgic walk down memory lane the daughter of Albert Barnes the editor of Dandy comic Grace the Antique Road Show with a collection of drawings which was made specially for her by the artists of the comic this collection includes a momento which was was drawn by Dandy Comics temporary artist Charlie grig it's not every day you stumble across custom art made by such historic comic artists this lady must be stoked this is my father or a caricature of my father he was editor of the dandi from its first day in 1937 until he retired in 1982 Albert Barnes who was the original editor of the comic from 1937 till 1982 had given the artist Dudley Watkins precise instructions on how to make his cartoon character in the comic look barnes's daughter began having custom Christmas cards drawn specially for her from around 1950 and these cards were a representation of her and her Antics one exception among them was a card she received in 1958 I started medical school in 1957 I think I started doing anatomy about that time you see and I see what you've got to drink is a decanter of group a blood wonderful the artworks for Dandy are very valuable and rarely sold because they are mostly held in The Archives of its publisher DC Thompson have this very special group drawn by some of the best names in the cartoon world and also featuring some of the most important Comic characters um makes them financially quite interesting too I would have thought that each car is going to be worth upwards from £150 don't you just wish you could trade old Christmas cards for that amount of money well as far as I know it's always been in the family certainly for a 100 years and um I'm told that this sort of thing was fashionable in the 1860s and there were a number of family christenings around that time and it could have been a present given to one of my ancestors there they said this must have been designed by one of the most influential contributors to the child's nursery motif water crane but the amateurish painting on the cupboard says otherwise the Victorian cupboard which had been in a family since the 1880s was brought to the show by one of The Descendants the cupboard was made during the Victorian period and was a nursery cabinet designed for children's use it was widely used and in Vogue in the 1860s a lot of artists made painted furniture at the time the man who brought it said it might have been given to a family member as a gift the appraiser felt the painting had an amateurish look and was most likely done by an amateur artist it um there's a man called Henry Stacy Marx who was a tile painter and decorator independent artist who worked a lot with mintons and he produced a set of tiles and Designs called The Seven Ages of man which were in exactly the same sort of costumes and settings as these there's a slightly curious sort of primitive nature to it which makes me think it's actually by somebody who who was in a sense a trained amateur the fact that they were able to pin the cupboards design to a well-known artist meant the cupboard didn't value at an extremely high price with no name I think 2 to 3,000 is about absolutely right yes the sentimental value of this cupboard is definitely worth more than the money value it quite hard to keep an item in the family for a whole hundred years members of this church probably had no idea that they drink communion from such an expensive chalice I use though that is my traveling communion set for visiting sick parisher always in use I mean obviously they we used quite a lot by uh the part rer and the war and so the trenches as well the Chis in the communion said as the mark for Hayne and Carter which is a manufacturing silver smith founded by Thomas Wallis SN in London around 1758 a box of the communion set was valued at cool £300 but wait till you hear the value of the big chalice the bigger chalice had a Latin inscription that read chalice given to the church in 1633 a Hallmark on the body shows that it dates back to 1609 During the period of James the first the silver smith has done his best and this can be seen the nice thing about it is you could actually see how the silver smith has actually raised up this bowl with all the hammer marks all the way around it can you see all the planish they're all where he's actually raised it from the flat so it's quite you've got this nice KN stem and also quite a nice uh pedestal this man wasn't prepared when he was struck with the valuation I would have thought for insurance you're probably looking at somewhere around about the 9,000 Mark so you know that's the sort of figure you got be looking at for insurance cuz that's going to cost you that to replace it right good thing the church keeps their silverware and a safe this episode blessed the audience Audi's eyes with a World War II drawing of e Shepard artist of the popular cartoon character Winnie the [Music] Pooh I'm poo what's a poo you're sitting on one a man brought in the illustration of eh sheeper which was named gobling Market Christina Rosetti wrote a poem and it was all about a little girl who goes into a goblin market and can't resist what they have there the man had bought it for 50 pounds at peterfield Bookshop 15 years prior the back of the drawing indicated it was owned by punch a magazine company where Shepherd worked as an illustrator the drawing is said to have been made in 1942 right in the middle of World War II at eh sheeper had been through the war and observed its impact this is when the Black Market was probably at its height nylons being sold here uh this rather sad one of this of this hen actually selling not not only eggs but actually selling carcasses as well this particular illustration is unlike the drawings of shepher the drawing was described by the appraiser as eerie and frightening this is probably due to the unruly state of the black market which was caused by the war shepher himself considered the black market an unpatriotic thing hence why he might have portrayed it with an eerie drawing the appraiser noted that the drawing was exceptional but people are more interested in E Eh Shepherd's popular illustrations his original drawing of the hunted Acre Wood even set a record for book illustration and were sold for £600,000 no value today I suppose about 600 or 700 not bad for a paper drawing purchased for £50 what happens when a popular artist makes an art piece outside your building and gives you ownership of the art a popular artist Banky made a street art named mobile lovers on an old piece of wood outside a man's youth club it was painted on the 12th of April 2014 the man had brought in the painting with the hopes of getting money so how can we help you I need to raise as much money as I can for that club so that we can survive so Banky was a famous street artist and Studio artist who was born and bred in Bristol he is very popular both nationally and internationally but despite such Fame he remains anonymous his other Works include the grin Reaper and the girl with the pierced ear although Banky gave the man a letter which clearly states that he was free to own the art I hope this finds you well as you know I recently pained on a doorway near the club This was meant to be a small visual gift for the area but apparently a financial one would have been more useful you have my blessing to do what you feel is right with the piece I'm a great admirer of the work done at the club and would be chuffed if this can help in some way and then he ends best wishes Banky so this appears to be giving you the go-ahead regardless of the absence of the certificate the man had an offer if you have had an offer of something like £400,000 my instinct would be better safe than sorry take it the appraiser advised him to take up the offer to avoid losing out altogether this is no doubt a great deal for the man we know you love to hear about these extraordinary items which is why we put up these videos just for you I'm sure you know that that is the crown monogram of uh Wilhelm the second yes I grandson of Queen Victoria yes you would think this pocket gold watch owned by the grandson of Queen Victoria would be worth millions of pounds but will it be the watch that belonged to Kaiser William II the grandson of Queen Victoria was brought by a guest on the show The Watch along with a silver medal and citation was presented to the man's Grand Uncle William Phillips for the rescuing of some German Sailors on the high seas on the 13th of March 1906 the watch was in very good condition and hardly used this watch R of first class luxury I suppose if it came up at auction now and a collector bought it you'd probably get in the region of 1,500 with the citation as well it's not a lot but without that the watch would be significantly less money well it's not only the cost that counts having a watch that was owned by a royal family member is indeed fascinating this 1920s aptus camera showcases the highly complicated nature of cameras in the past in an episode of the show a man brought his father's 1920s aptus camera his father was a beach photographer in cwin Bay and used the camera to take while you wait photograph of people the complicated steps involved in taking pictures using this camera are mindblowing now it's rather rudimentary looking camera but a fantastic technique so you load the magazine with plates yes put the cover on that's correct and then take the cover off take the cover off there we are and in order to pick up the plate we lower this lever yes and then push the you've then taken your photo um and you've got a sort of great black uh sheet over your head the camera was made by a company in Liverpool called more and Company the APTA series cameras were one of the most successful semi-automatic cameras one fascinating thing about this camera is that the pictures come out reversed the left side of objects appears on the right when the pictures are printed out the outcome of these pictures was in the format before the introduction of Polaroid which are called ferat type plates for this camera what makes it stand out is its uniqueness and its ability to still function after all these years and um it is a fantastic early instant photograph as it were not hugely valuable I suppose at auction today a camera like this would be worth about3 or 400 this camera might even become a rare and highly valuable item someday back in 2010 a woman named Pat brought a painting of her grandmother to the show and said the painting was passed on to her by her father in the late 60s my father gave me this painting that I remember it so well when I was a little child in Yorkshire England the painting was made by the famous American Artist Robert Henry who created notable artworks such as a snow in New York Dutch girl in white and the Spanish Gypsy Robert Henry was a friend of the family and was commissioned to paint the portrait in Bedlington England where her grandmother resided in August we have records that he was then commissioned to do a portrait and went to England to paint a portrait ah this is it Pat had initially tried to appraise the painting at the repository of Henry's work in Boston was disappointed to hear that because it was a family portrait no one would want it and they said it was not worth much more than Grandpa paid for it and Grandpa paid $4,500 and the reason it's not worth much more is because it's a family portrait but could the repository be wrong about the worth of Pat's grandmother's portrait Henry's famous paintings which are displayed in the Tate Gallery in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York have been auctioned at extremely high prices ranging from $200,000 to $1 million the appraiser on the show Fairbanks disclosed that the painting was extremely valuable I believe you should probably ensure this somewhere in the area of $250,000 to $300,000 it is a it's early it's at the time of the founding of the Ashan school that's not all in 2016 the painting went up in value ranging from $500,000 to $700,000 how's that for a family portrait this man's wish to own his grandmother's Bohemia yellow glass vase was fulfilled when she passed it unto him as a young child he liked the glass vase and was extremely fascinated by it the beautiful carvings on it and the way the vase Shone when hit by light is indeed fabulous the vase was wor by the man's grandfather went to many auctions when they were living at Buckingham and uh so you think he bought it Au I think he bought it at auction he collected Venetian glass and furniture and painting Bohemian vases were made around 1860 to 1870 in the seik Republic it is based on the medieval shape of a lided silver cup and cover and the glasses were both hand made and hand cut Bohemian glass is one of the most valued crystals in the world because of its transparency and delicate carvings they are of great quality and are good choices to offer as a gift for any occasion these zes are so attractive that they say most tourists cannot resist buying them whenever they visit Sheck here if this is so are there many people still willing to spend this much money on their glass I would think that you would expect to pay at least $4,000 4,000 this man's grandmother truly gave him a great gift in 2004 a man brought in a gold pocket watch which was passed on by his great-grandfather George Thompson who was an anglo-american living in St Paul his great-grandfather was an owner and editor of St Paul Pioneer Press and dispatch a newspaper company in the United States the pocket watch was custom made in 1914 by the popular Swiss company and luxury watch manufacturer Patek Filipe the watch had been neatly kept and was brought to the show in its original box the man had appraised the watch 15 years before he brought it to the show and it was valued at $6,000 an appraiser on the show had informed the man that Patek Felipe was purchasing watches of that kind for their Museum this watch at auction I suspect would bring close to A4 million doll no yes quarter million this is one incredible watch I've never held a watch like this in my hand what you're kidding amazing right but this isn't even close to what this watch was valued a few years later and that watch today we estimate is worth at least two and possibly $3 million two years later the man sent the watch to a popular Auction Company Su the biz where it was sold at $1.5 million plus buyers premium but that's not all in 2019 this same watch is valued at $2 to $3 million one can only wonder how much this watch will value in 10 years time the watch has now been acquired by the makers and is being displayed at the Patek Philipa Museum in Geneva well you can say that the watch finally found its way back home natural flowers are beautiful but this artificial flower is even more beautiful and costs Millions of pounds a flower known as the regimental Jewel was brought to the show by its custodian the flower was made by house of furge a jewelry firm founded by Gustaf furge in 1842 Russia according to a descendant of fur's founder Tatiana furge the flower was presented as a gift to soldiers of the Bor War by an aristocrat Georgina Ward Countess of Dudley what's more special about this flower is that is one of the 80 surviving furge Botanical studies this flower has an Exquisite makeup its stalk was made out of gold and the flower itself was made with silver and beautifully Charmed by small silver stamin the center also had diamonds and the leaves were made from Siberian Jade the original box of the flower was made with the wood of the holly tree from Siberia a large collection of fur Burge items is being held at of a Burge museum opened in Baden Baden Germany the shows appraiser noted that the fur Burge flower was one of the most unique items he had come across that I'm going to tell you in my opinion that this is worth a million pound really wow goodness gracious who wouldn't be amazed at that the custodian of the flower however noted that it is not for sale as it belongs to the werer Army regiment during an episode of the show in 1999 a man brought an original painting of his great great grandfather and his family which was painted around 1820 do you know who all these people are yes this is my great great grandfather and his family uh this was painted about 1820 um they lived in leth just outside Edinburgh the painting had been passed down for generations and though the man was fond of the painting He was unaware of who the painter was and hoped to get some answers on the show could the painter be one of those historic painters with rare and expensive artworks he finally got an answer when the appraiser informed him that the painting had once been exhibited in the Scottish National Gallery in 1956 and was attributed to a miniaturist named Charles Robertson's Charles Robertson was a 19th century British painter who made paintings with oil and watercolor e was the vice president of the Royal Society of painters and etchers some of his works are being held by the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool although Robertson's artworks were greatly valued his artworks didn't have a good track in the marketplace does this mean bad news for the man who brought in the painting it's got to command £5,000 I think it could even go up to £20,000 and perhaps more good if that's not good news then we don't know what is thousands of dollars a man whose grandfather collected things as a hobby handed down three porcelain plates onto him out of the three plates he brought the first was a coalport plate which was first produced in 1795 in shopshire England the cport plate was popular for its intricate design and fine craftsmanship the second plate is an 18th century English porcelain plate from the Chelsea Factory which was aimed at the luxury Market in 2015 an item with the Chelsea anchor Mark was auctioned at $442,000 wait this plate also has the Chelsea anchor Mark engraved on it the third plate is a continental porcelain from the German porcelain Factory of nymphenburg which was painted by Joseph zackenberg who worked at the factory as a flower painter from 1760 till 1770 Joseph is said to have designed the plate for the court of the Duke of braia Maximillian thiri Joseph of braia the first out of the three porcelain plates was appraised at $100 unfortunately the second porcelain plate with the Chelsea anchor Mark reduced in value due to some minor imperfections but still valued at an impressive $800 and the third has a the intricate design on this set of Exquisite table wear would attract any buyer to make a purchase a man brought in three pieces of table wear to the show the pieces included two cups and one plate both cups were painted by Harry Davis who is known for painting incredible table wear the plate on the other hand was made in 1932 and hand painted by George Evans who was Harry Davis's student Harry must be a very proud teacher a plate equally had enamel work of the edge designed by Tommy Morton um is this fantastic enamel work on the outside and this is done by tubby Morton the Gilda that enamel work around there would have probably taken 10 times the time to do the painting table wear with Harry's signature is said to guarantee high prices but wait only one of this man's cups is signed what will happen to the other um because it's not signed well I can't see a signature I think Perhaps it is there but hidden away um I'm going to put a sort of a cautious cautious 3,000 on it but this one I think which is side side Harry Davis it's very very lovely um I suppose one's looking at perhaps 3 to 4,000 yeah okay this one this one is just impossible to put value on cuz it's it's desperately unusual I I've never seen anything else since that that approaches it in the extreme quality of cross perhaps inure for something like 5 or 6,000 can you imagine how much it would have been valued if it had the signature the smaller steel version of the popular sculpture Angel of the North North located in England appeared on an episode of the Antiques Road show it was a smaller bronze maette which Anthony Gormley used to persuade council members to commission the making of the 20 M Angel of the North Anthony Gormley is a British sculptor he uses his own body in many of his works as a basis for metal castings he has created other notable sculptures like another place Horizon field and Iron Man not long ago a a similar work of art was sold for £2 million would this work of art also be that expensive so I think on the basis that this is half the size I would comfortably value it at a million pound isn't this is one of those Swiss watches that appears to give you a lot more for your money than is actually there it wasn't very expensive This brilliant Swiss watch is equipped with a full calendar mechanism it gives you the month the day of the month the day of the week phase of the moon the seconds the hours the minutes and indeed it also has a Chron the watch was left in a deposit box at the bank but when the bank started demanding rent money for the Box the man decided to take the box home the watch was a Swiss model and wasn't very expensive when it was newly manufactured the watch's cette included an inscription that was used to heighten people's belief that it was indeed a good craftsmanship and it truly was a lovely piece the watches weren't widely produced and just like most objects these watches get worn out pretty fast when used frequently due to the fact that these watches weren't expensive when they were newly made the appraiser said that they would have cost about 80 to 100 would they get more for it now you probably would have to pay for this now sort of trade price to be around about £33,000 I'm glad you broke the Box open Weir yes yes indeed the deposit box was really storing a gem the great grandson of a well-known realist painter and illustrator Ralph Hedley brought one of his paintings to the show one would think that the painting was inherited but it wasn't I didn't inherit it I bought it uh for about 50 in 1971 Hedley was a local artist with a good reputation some of Ralph hedley's work including hat in a cottage window and last in the market are known worldwide and reproduced as prince in 2004 his work the tum sold for 44,000 lb pretty impressive for a local painter the painting that was brought to the show was a depiction of the brick making process hedley's great-grandson also brought along another painting that had tried to replicate headley's painting and after comparing the details of the two the appraiser affirmed that it wasn't as good as the original depending on how much he spent on the painting he made a good profit right what did you say it cost you I can't remember £50 £50 19771 yeah not bad I think a fair value is 354,000 I would there are plenty of other unique items that have appeared on the Antique Road Show watch more of our videos to hear all about them
