Priceless Antiques Roadshow - Series 1 - Episode 1 - (1/3)

is your life we're about to unlock a bit of a treasure chest inside is it many thousands are beautiful and fascinating objects each with a story to tell and it also reveals some secrets about a show that's become a bit of a national institution welcome to priceless antiques roadshow I've watched the Antiques Roadshow as long as I can remember I've just finished my first season and I can tell you it's been a bit of an eye-opener I marveled at the encyclopedic knowledge of the experts and the sheer eclectic variety of objects brought in by the public with 31 years of history under our belt we thought it'd be a good idea to take you deep inside the Rhode show over the next three weeks the team will share previously untold stories as they come face to face with classic finds from the past truly priceless moments have you ever wondered what were the most expensive items ever seen on the show how did a mild-mannered art expert manage to outrage the women of Shropshire the whole reason that you've come to this WI is because of the remark you made Caesar today is the appointed hour of my penance and Roadshow veteran Henry standard takes us back to his on-screen debut when the Antiques Roadshow was a toddler in the world of television we all love those jaw-dropping valuations when an expert has floored us with a five-figure bombshell and there have been plenty of them over the years but from 500 hours of programs which were the real caucus here are 5 finds was shocked viewers with staggering valuations who could forget the time when david batty valued a piece that Nora Ambrose brought to the Antiques Roadshow what what do you think this is as an object a horse a tea party well Nora she brought is a large teapot I think it might well have been a punch pot actually Wheeldon we're mid 18th century why do why you socialize the teapot well my mother-in-law told me when she was a little girl that they used to use it as a teapot I've been chatting to Nora and she was wonderful she's I suppose she was then in her seventies and chatty and spontaneous my mother Lord David to me she said to me look after it now cuz she said it's over a hundred years old she said it was very old when I was a little girls it's more than true this is actually a very ancient port indeed oh it was the first time that I think anybody had ever teased a client over the pricing I think it might be worth several hundred pounds pretend Hera don't think so you wouldn't have thought so oh so even if I told you it was worth six or eight hundred pounds of you really shorten Oh what right what would you say if I said it was worth two thousand pounds oh you're kidding out well I am kidding us oh it's actually worth about five to six thousand it was just perfect and she said of course I never said it are you alright Chuy's later I went up to the department where I was working in the auction house and there was a teapot she wanted to sell it well what a wonderful way to start our new series of the Antiques Roadshow it was a life-changing event because with that money she was able to buy her council house in Liverpool in which she lived paying rent for more than 30 years so suddenly she had something that she could hand on to her family well the first item we saw of really enormous value I remember was in Barnstable in 1986 it's been in the family for quite a while my grandfather gave it to my mother in 1930 and basically it's been up in the loft on most of the time it was very strange the way it turned up the couple who owned it didn't know the first thing about it and thought it was valueless and they weren't even going to bother to come to the show but the dog needed a walk and the dog's favorite walk was in the park right by our front door so as they reached for the dogs leave when leaving home they said why don't we take that picture we don't know anything about it just on the off-chance we'll take the picture so they took the picture off the wall and brought it in with doggy and the experts that day was PTIN at home yeah it is an extraordinary painting I don't know who this man but I know it's a wonderful painting I would hope that some indications I mean it would be too much to hope really that this was a lost painting by Richard there it was well-known that Richard dad had painted this picture but it had been lost for about a hundred years and suddenly out of the blue it turns up completely unexpectedly in Barnstable it was breathtaking obviously I've only had a few minutes to look at this um and it needs some investigation so what I would like to ask you to do is if we may take it to London on your behalf and investigate it further yes only interested as well so with the owner's permission we took the picture back to London took it to the expert we said look is this the long-lost Richard dad and she said yes it certainly is so then we had to go back to the couple in Barnstable went to their bungalow with a film crew and that's when Peter gave them the good news and the valuation it is an international version where lost picture and I feel that it could possibly make someone here 100,000 pounds oh he had just retired from his job he was a driver for the Royal Air Force and so a hundred thousand pounds for them would have been very useful and they decided to sell it and the buyer appropriately was the British Museum so that painting set set the bar was the highest valuation we had ever had to that point but the record didn't last very long because in Crawley just a few years later we found something of even greater value now crawling you know I'm asked about Crawley probably more than anything else I've ever done very China it was a most extraordinary day this chap arrived and produce the stank's head out of his bag now my heart left at that moment the stag's head Starck up a wonderful object absolute stunning peeled it inside and of course these are very collectible actually one of the production team said it was at that moment I just lit up like a Christmas tree would suggest do you think in terms of about 10,000 pounds not sure what to say I mean these are little things but they seem to be worth we've got more what else we're gonna do I'm a bit flabbergasted by that well not all right now this one Oh I think this could be an early wine taster 1607 in this case so that's King James the first now that is exceptionally rare it was kind of hard to take in really at a time to think that we had a little James the first wine tasting cup that was you know it was a fact David I think this fat Davis that hold that to me that rock from a lady I would say one should be thinking in terms of what at least twelve to fifteen thousand pounds in fact we never saw all of the silver we did a rough a sort of guesstimate of what integral value was which we thought was probably approaching a quarter of a million pounds but it is an extraordinary thing because one could actually say that you changed somebody's life may that family had been struggling and suddenly by selling a few of the items in that collection which they subsequently did their lives literally changed simply because the Sun that morning had bought those pieces in to the road you it took another 10 years to eclipse that find missus but in Dumfries books expert clive Farrakhan knew he was about to make roadshows history it's so detailed a mouse reading a newspaper on a stool and I notice it signs HBP Helen Beatrix Potter and 1890 the collection of Beatrix Potter had the most wonderful provenance they came through Beatrix Potter's brother who farmed in the borders and and there they were some finish some unfinished I love this one actually I did if you've got a favorite among the but I think this is my favorite it wind Tina tabby licensed dealer in tea and there she is looking very

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Length: 10min 0sec (600 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 08 2010