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00:00Our venue for today, Shuttleworth House in Bedfordshire, has all the attributes we love
00:08on the roadshow. A beautiful historical home, set on a wonderful estate with graceful gardens,
00:14water features and a runway. Complete with a collection of historic aircraft dating from
00:24the dawn of aviation in hangars close by. We'll have a look at them later. But the
00:29pride of the collection has to be this beauty, 1942 Supermarine Spitfire, and it's about to fire up.
00:42Chocks away.
00:48And our experts are also cleared for take-off. Coming up.
00:53It's very slinky-malinky, it moves beautifully on the hand like that.
00:57OK, this is a passion challenge, isn't it?
01:00Oh, yes.
01:01There you go.
01:02And this market is on fire.
01:06Crikey.
01:07For a mug.
01:08Wow, good old Auntie Jean.
01:16Welcome to the Antiques Roadshow.
01:18Well, under the canopy of the trees, we're here with the most spectacular botanical vase. But before I fill in some of the blanks and tell you about it,
01:34how's it come to be in your life?
01:35How's it come to be in your life?
01:35I got this about ten years ago from my mum. And prior to that, her great-great-grandmother was gifted it by a major who was serving in France at the time.
01:47Really?
02:01And it came to me and I was asked to take it to the Antiques Roadshow, which is taking a little bit longer than anticipated.
02:11My mum did say if I bought it then it changed hands and it becomes mine.
02:15Really? So at this pivotal moment, we are now transferring title from mum to you.
02:24Yep, absolutely.
02:25Wow.
02:27She might not be on the same page as that.
02:31So what we're looking at, it's fairly monumental in terms of its scale.
02:36We're looking at a piece of classic Art Nouveau French cameo glass.
02:42Now, when we're looking at French cameo glass and Art Nouveau cameo glass,
02:46there are certain names that we always want to hear, certain names that we always want to find.
02:51One, of course, is the great Émile Gallet, and the other is the firm of Dorme.
02:57Now, based in Nancy, and you can see they've got the Cross of Lorraine, which is always in their mark.
03:04But they were a glass house that were really pivotal at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century.
03:10Formed in 1878 by Jean Dorme, he opened the factory with a move to creating beautiful, fine art glass.
03:19But it was his two sons, Auguste and Antonin, who really grabbed the baton and ran.
03:26And then in 1904, sadly, the glass world lost Émile Gallet.
03:31Now, he had been the trendsetter, and with his passing, they saw their opportunity, and boy, did they go for it.
03:38And for me, this piece, I think, is around that 1904, 1908 period.
03:46It's cameo glass.
03:48So with cameo, you have a process in the hot, where different colours and layers of glass are gathered.
03:54So it's cased over, one over the other.
03:57And you've got this beautiful gradation of colour from, you know, this lovely canopy of leaves,
04:03down to this very dark base.
04:04Then, principally, what happens is they mask it, and it's dipped in acid to cut away what's not wanted.
04:14And then you get this secondary cutting where you start to see the veins in the leaves.
04:19And then there will be an element of hand finishing to bring this up to the finished piece.
04:25Yeah, beautiful.
04:26It's an exemplary piece.
04:28And I think in the market today, at auction, you'd be comfortably looking at £2,000 to £3,000.
04:34Wow, fantastic. Gosh.
04:38You're very, very welcome.
04:39And clearly title is now yours.
04:41So go and enjoy it.
04:46I honestly didn't know how much the vase would have been worth.
04:49So to know that it had value, but also to know it was a really considered gift originally,
04:56makes it really special.
04:57So, yeah, delighted.
04:58This is an incredibly colourful picture, and it's actually so distinctively bold.
05:16It is unmistakably the hand of an artist that's from very far away from here,
05:21an artist called Prefet Dufault from Haiti.
05:24And I'm wondering how this picture from Haiti came to be here today.
05:31I used to work for a lady in the 90s, and she was Deputy High Commissioner of Jamaica.
05:36When she died, the family said I could have anything in the house that I liked.
05:40And I liked this picture because it was very colourful.
05:43And the little people reminded me of Larry as well.
05:47So, yes, I loved it.
05:49So Dufault became one of Haiti's most well-known artists.
05:54I mean, he was born in the 1920s.
05:55He was largely self-taught.
05:57He worked with his father, who made boats.
06:01And so I suppose he became very good at observing things.
06:05You know, he watched his father, he watched the people around him.
06:07But he was largely self-taught.
06:09So he's painted it in oil on board, which is quite typical for him.
06:14It was likely painted in and around the 50s or 60s.
06:17And I think when you look at some of the detail, actually the people are really great.
06:21I mean, you've got them in a kaleidoscope of colour.
06:24I love the reference you made to Larry and Manchester, because he, of course,
06:28was also really well known for painting crowds of people.
06:32But I suppose, unlike Larry, who really painted from his experience,
06:36and although his cities are imaginary to an extent,
06:39they are based on his experience in and around Manchester.
06:43Whereas Dufault was quite different.
06:45They are all imaginary landscapes.
06:48There isn't a town that looks exactly like this.
06:50And I think that's part of the beauty of it, that this was completely created in his mind.
06:57I'm sure, though, that like Larry, his people would have been people that he came across,
07:01that he then peppers into the landscape.
07:04I love, you know, you've got someone with a walking stick here.
07:06You've got little children playing by the bridge.
07:09You've then got people sort of slowly carrying things, walking up the road.
07:14And what I love is that he had this incredible sense of colour to bring together
07:21orange and yellow and green and fuchsia and make it work in the landscape.
07:26It was really, really quite special.
07:29I mean, he was apparently inspired to paint because one day he saw a vision of the Virgin
07:35Mary appear at him at the top of a mountain and she commanded him to paint.
07:39And so he did have this sort of very strong, you know, spiritual side to him.
07:44And I just wonder whether that's why you've got so many mountains in your picture,
07:49that it's quite a significant panorama across the back of the composition.
07:54As I say, he did become pretty well known in his lifetime.
07:58And so today, if this was to come to auction,
08:00we would probably put an estimate in the region of £800 to £1,200.
08:03Right. OK.
08:04Yeah.
08:05It's just lovely, isn't it?
08:07Oh, that's great. I haven't seen one of those for a while.
08:17Do you know what it is?
08:18Well, I've only known it as a passion gauge.
08:20Oh, right.
08:21You hold the bottom bulb, and then if you're passionate, it bubbles up.
08:26Oh, my goodness.
08:28Oh, my goodness.
08:30Oh, my goodness. There we go.
08:31There you go.
08:32Hot stuff.
08:33OK, this is a passion challenge, isn't it?
08:36Oh, yes.
08:36There you go.
08:37Oh, yes.
08:40Whose was it?
08:41We found it in our granddad's things.
08:43Do you know where it would be from?
08:45They're assumed to be French, although I've never seen a maker's mark on one.
08:49A value, I'd put it at perhaps £100, £120.
08:52I think it's terrific.
08:54Yeah, it's great fun. We love it.
08:55It's good fun, yeah.
09:07So, I didn't do very well learning German at school, so I'm going to use what German I have
09:11to try and decipher or translate the plaque on the top of this, and as far as I can see,
09:15it says, we, Wilhelm, and that's Kaiser Wilhelm II, basically, by God's grace, the German
09:21Kaiser and Emperor of Prussia, give this presentation to the officer of the British ship, Torhead,
09:29J.G. Brew, for his help in rescuing the crew of the German ship, Helene.
09:35Now, we've got a pair of binoculars and a case, and I really would love you to explain to me
09:40what you know about this, please, and this gentleman, J.G. Brew.
09:45So, this is John George Brew, and he is my great-grandfather. From what I am aware of,
09:50he was in the merchant navy, and he was on the Torhead, which was travelling to South America,
09:58and they came across a boat in distress.
10:01And as is such in the maritime world, you always go to the aid of distressed fellow sailors, which is
10:09obviously what they did. So, here we have a medal which is dated 1902, and as part of this group,
10:14that was the medal. It's kind of a Humane Society-style medal that was given for saving life in maritime
10:22situations. But I think the story gets even more poignant in a way, doesn't it? Yes. Because here, we have his dog tags
10:30from the First World War. That's right. What happened to him? So, he joined the Irish Fusiliers in 1914,
10:39and in 1918, unfortunately, he was shot at and injured by the Germans, and captured by them,
10:47and died a week later in German captivity. Gosh, really? Here he is in 1902, rescuing the German crew
10:55of a ship, and the Kaiser awards him this as a gift. And in 1918, the same Kaiser's army sadly ends
11:05up shooting him, and he dies as a result of his injuries. And, you know, I do find that a very,
11:11very poignant story, and a terrible end, really. So, I'm going to put a value on this. And I think,
11:17in reality, if it came up for auction, it would probably make between £500 and £1,000
11:21at auction as a story and a group of objects. As I say, that very poignant idea about man's humanity
11:30and inhumanity. Absolutely, yes. All encapsulated in one, I think, amazing little story. Thank you
11:36for bringing it. Thank you. Thank you very much.
11:38So, you woke up this morning, you thought, Antics Roadshow's in town. I know, I'll take a rocking
11:51horse along. Absolutely. Tell me more. So, I was the chairperson of a local community preschool
12:00that unfortunately has recently closed. But this was an item we'd had for many years that had been
12:04donated to us. And when it came time to clear, we weren't quite ready to get rid of it. So, we've
12:09been holding on to it for a bit. And I thought, actually, today's the day to bring it along and
12:13see if I can find anything out about it. Okay. So, what do you like about it? I love his little face.
12:18It's quite sweet. And the joins here, these kind of peg joins, the way it's brought together.
12:24I have to say that when you brought this to my table, I thought, I know that work. I turned it over,
12:29as I'm going to do now. And there is actually, almost sort of stamped on the base there, a mark,
12:36which I recognize instantly. And that says, Kai Bögersson, who is a really significant figure
12:44in the world of Danish design. He actually trained as a silversmith and he was a real craftsman.
12:51He starts in silversmithing, he moves into toy making. And he does that from a small workshop and
12:57shop in the center of Copenhagen. And he was known for these animals. He designed a whole menagerie,
13:04most famously a monkey, but also a puffin, an elephant, a hippo, all sorts of animals,
13:09which are hugely popular and which is still being made today. Oh, wow.
13:13And if you just look at the design for a moment, the great thing is,
13:16this has been designed with children in mind. Was it a popular toy?
13:20It was very popular. It was mostly like between two and four-year-old children who were using it.
13:26And any time it was out, they would automatically gravitate because it's just the right size.
13:29They do crop up from time to time at auction. We need to bear in mind condition.
13:35It's been well and truly loved. But I think even so at auction, I can see this fetching between
13:40100 and 150 pounds. Oh, wow. That's great for a Daniel item. But I mean, I think one of the best
13:49things about it is how much love it's had over the years. Yeah. Yeah. You seem a little surprised.
13:52I am. I am a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't have expected that.
13:56Well, I'm very glad you did decide to bring it to Antiques Roadshow today.
14:00Thank you very much. Yeah. Thank you so much.
14:11Our venue today is known as Shuttleworth House, after the family who lived here. It was built in 1875
14:18for Joseph Shuttleworth. He'd made his fortune manufacturing some of the world's earliest
14:24steam-driven farm machines and tractors. In 1932, the estate was passed down to his grandson,
14:31Richard Shuttleworth. Aged just 23, he'd become the owner of a huge estate and a fortune to match.
14:38Having grown up in an engineering family, it's no surprise that Richard developed a love of mechanics
14:44and machines. And with his newfound wealth, he was able to indulge his passion for cars,
14:49like this magnificent 1890s Panart.
14:52He quickly started building up an array of fast cars, which eventually would become a world-renowned
15:05collection. But Richard wasn't just a wealthy collector gathering fast cars. He was a genuine
15:12racer. In 1935, he won Britain's first Grand Prix at Donington Park, driving his Alfa Romeo.
15:19But flying was to become his true passion. And this is where it all began, his very first plane,
15:25a 1928 DH-60 Hermes Moth. It set him back £300, plus one guinea for the registration fee.
15:34And he quickly clocked up hundreds of air miles, often with his dog, Tipper, on board.
15:39The one plane soon became a collection of many more. His oldest aircraft, a 1909 Blerio,
15:47was restored by Richard himself, with his mum and sister sewing the linen wings using the family's
15:52billiard table. Today, it's famous as the world's oldest flying aircraft.
15:58With the outbreak of World War II, Richard joined the RAF in 1939. And despite his extensive flying
16:03experience, he still had to do official training, including learning to fly night missions.
16:09Sadly, just a year later, during a night flying exercise,
16:13his plane crashed and he died. He was just 31.
16:18His mother, Dorothy, kept his entire collection, eventually opening it up as a public display for
16:24everyone to enjoy. Richard Shuttleworth was ahead of his time, restoring vintage aircraft long before
16:31it was common practice. Today, his collection has international acclaim, attracting tens of thousands
16:38of aviation enthusiasts. And today, our roadshow visitors.
16:44I want to know, how long have you had this mug? And is this how you learnt the alphabet?
16:55It is how I learnt the alphabet, but I've had this since I was a baby. So my godmother gave this mug to
17:01me as a christening present in, dare I say it, 60 years ago.
17:05Oh. I was never allowed to drink out of it because it was my precious mug.
17:09So it was always on a shelf in the bedroom or in a cupboard. And it was only in my latter years
17:14that I've been given permission to have it myself.
17:17It is a very beautifully, graphically designed piece.
17:23And it is by the Wedgwood factory. But the magic to it is the name of the designer.
17:28And that's Eric Revillius. Right.
17:30So he was a British painter, designer, book illustrator, wood engraver. He was a very,
17:38very talented man. So Eric Revillius was working from around 1920. Some of his designs
17:47were used by Wedgwoods and some of his designs were for his freelance work. Now, he's very well
17:53known for the coronation mugs. So he did the coronation mug designed for the late queen and
18:00for her father and for the king that abdicated. But before all of that was going on, he designed
18:09this mug. So this was known as the nursery alphabet mug. And surprise, surprise, it came in blue,
18:18but it also came in pink. Yes. You've got the blue one, which I think is far nicer. But it also came
18:25in green and yellow, which were rarer. And I think rarer because they weren't as popular. They didn't
18:32make as much sense perhaps as the pink and the blue. So if we turn it over, designed by Eric Revillius,
18:39Wedgwood made in England. But what's more fascinating than that is all the wonderful pictures and letters
18:48around the entire circumference of this mug. He ran out of space. But the clever designer that he was,
18:58he put the Y and the Z on the inside. Now, Revillius was in the Second World War and sadly lost his life.
19:07And the popularity of these pieces has continued to grow. So if this came up for auction today,
19:13it would make somewhere in the region of £300 to £500. Frikey. For a mug. Wow. Good old Aunty Jean.
19:25I am very glad Mum told me not to use it. I always thought it was just a mug,
19:29but it's clearly a very special mug. It was such a treat to see the Eric Revillius mug. And I was
19:37excited and petrified really to tell this lady about something she's owned for so long. But it
19:43was beautiful to help bring it to life. And for her to tell me her story, which is, you know,
19:49what Roadshow is all about. A lot of people don't like dolls. They find them sort of rather spooky.
20:05But this, I think, would be the exception to the rule. What can you tell me about her?
20:09Well, she's been in the family for a few generations. She's my husband's great grandmothers.
20:19I was gifted her by my mother-in-law because I really liked dolls. And I actually like quirky things.
20:23So I'm presumably the first port of call to hand it over. OK, so she obviously thought that this
20:29was quirky enough to warrant being given to you. Exactly. I'm not sure exactly who made it,
20:35but I can tell you it is German and dating from about the 1840s to 1850s. And it would have been
20:41not an inexpensive item at the time. So it would have been sort of a quite an affluent,
20:44perhaps middle-class family that would have purchased it for, you know, for one of their
20:48daughters. She's got a composition head and she's got sort of little painted features and she's got
20:54rosy cheeks. And I love her sort of her updo hairstyle. And then she's got these really long
21:01wooden arms. From the elbows down, they're wooden. The bottom part of her legs are wooden with these
21:06little painted shoes. And the rest of her actually is made of cloth. And what's interesting is that
21:10the clothes are period with her. She's even got undergarments, she's got little petticoats on,
21:15and then she's got some bloomers under that as well. And you know, it's all those sort of little
21:19things really that really add to her appeal. But you know, what's quite remarkable is the condition
21:24which it's in because I've seen a number of them and they're nearly always perhaps missing feet
21:29or they have some damage on them. So what is it you sort of like about her particularly?
21:33Well, I like dressmaking and things like that. So obviously, I'd like to know the
21:36detailing on the dress. And you've dated her for me, which is lovely. And I like the little
21:41intricate details of the lace. She's just really different and special.
21:46And the fashion for dolls actually in recent years, it's very much sort of fallen out of favour.
21:50They don't make the sort of sums of money that they used to. But these more kind of naive
21:56and early dolls are still very desirable. And if she were to be at auction, I could see her
22:02quite comfortably making about three to 400 pounds. Really?
22:05Yes, I think she's lovely. I really love her. Oh, thank you very much. I'm going to treasure her.
22:12Yeah, she's beautiful.
22:24Given its reputation as a centre of aviation heritage, it's little wonder we've been treated to the odd
22:29flyover by vintage aircraft, like a Spitfire. Part of the most famous aerial battle in history,
22:36the Battle of Britain in 1940. It saw the Royal Air Force defending the country against large-scale
22:41attacks by the German Luftwaffe, preventing an invasion and marking a turning point in the Second
22:46World War. Mark Smith saw some mementos from one of the actual pilots.
22:53Today, we've had the sky filled with the sound of the Merlin engine. We had a Spitfire fly over us.
22:59But during that summer of 1940, that sound would have been the sound of Spitfires and Hurricanes as
23:05they took off in the Battle of Britain. And if those men called by Winston Churchill, the few,
23:10hadn't won that battle, World War II would have been a very different place. Who was this man?
23:16This man was Duncan Stuart MacDonald, my father, who fought in the Battle of Britain. He flew from
23:22Tangmere, flying mainly Hurricanes. He flew 81 sorties. In the battle? In the battle. And he shot down
23:30three enemy aircraft. Now, during that summer of 1940, it was these very, very young men who went up
23:38again and again and again, sometimes four, five, six times a day, to stave off the Germans as they
23:44came towards us. And to shoot down enemy aircraft during that very short period that he was actually
23:50flying, in September and October of that year, is quite incredible. So we have a distinguished service
23:56order. We have a distinguished flying cross, which is dated 1940, because this was awarded for the
24:04Battle of Britain. We have the 3945 star with that tiny little bar, the Battle of Britain, only two
24:11and a half thousand of those ever issued. Aircrew Europe, Africa, Italy, defence and a war with a
24:19mention in dispatches. And I know that after 1940, he went on to have another distinguished career as
24:24what we call a train buster, attacking ground troops all across Europe. We've got these other things.
24:32This thing is called a C-type flying helmet. It's not from the Battle of Britain. It's a bit later.
24:37Was that his? That was his and the goggles are his as well, yeah. What was he like? He was very gregarious,
24:45fun, very good dad, lovely man. Did he talk about this? Yes, he talked to me a lot about it and had some
24:53very funny and some very frightening stories. But in general, he and his friends from the war didn't
24:58talk about it very much. Did you know he was a Battle of Britain pilot? Oh yes, right from the
25:03beginning. Yeah, I always thought I might become a pilot, but I didn't have the ability. In 1969,
25:10I went off with my mum and dad to the cinema and we saw the film The Battle of Britain. Did he watch it?
25:15Oh yes, he was nearly involved in producing that film. Oh really? So we knew all about that. They had
25:21a lot of trouble finding the Spitfires because there were very few flying them. I think there were only
25:26six in the world. If this came up on the open market, it would sell for £40,000.
25:33And I think that actually says what we mean about people from the Battle of Britain.
25:43Thank you so much for bringing in today your dad
25:47and his medals and taking us back to the skies of 1940.
25:51Thank you very much. Thank you.
25:59Thank you for bringing this lovely Japanese woodblock print to us. We don't see this
26:03every day. It's quite rare find. What can you tell me about it?
26:07Well, I know very little actually, apart from the fact that it was given to my grandfather by
26:12a lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Navy. His name was...
26:16Kinjoshi Yamamoto. A lot of them are reproductions with a lot brighter colours
26:23and they are very decorative and sought after. But this, what we see, is the original of Hiroshige's
26:29early work. If you look at the back of it and you can see the original piece of paper. That's when they
26:36dried it and that's the old repair work. And that paper is the original woodblock print from early 19th
26:44century. It's decorated with two ladies washing a cloth by the river and accompanied by a boy here.
26:51And it's in the mountains inscribed with nice calligraphy as well. And the colours obviously
26:57faded. Unfortunately, the edges have been cut down. So it's going to make an impact on the value.
27:04Unfortunately, it's going to be about £200 to £400. If it's in original perfect condition,
27:10it's going to be around £2,000 to £4,000. Well, very pleased that it is genuine. Yes,
27:17it makes it of more interest.
27:23As with many grand houses, Shuttleworth has enjoyed a lasting association with the local community.
27:31The son of one of the long standing tenants of the estate has brought along an ornate cup to show our
27:36silver expert, Duncan Campbell. I gather this cup and cover has a very strong association with
27:45Shuttleworth where we are now and indeed the RAF. Perhaps you can explain to me what that connection is.
27:52When I was born in 1946, Mrs Shuttleworth gave that to me as a christening chalice. But on the front,
27:59it's got an inscription to Richard Shuttleworth. Yeah. Well, it goes back from when the Shuttleworth
28:06Trust used to own all the land between here and Bedford. And the tenants of the estate gave that
28:11to Mrs Shuttleworth when Richard was born. And my father, after the war, ran the aviation side and
28:18the cars and the aerodrome Old Warden. And he had a long career with the Shuttleworth Trust,
28:23up until 1966 when he retired. So Mrs Shuttleworth, having lost her beloved son in action, gave
28:31a christening present that was given to him to your parents. That's correct. On your christening.
28:36The silverware itself is a copy of a late 17th century cup and cover, which was the height of
28:42fashion in 1680. And when this was made, it was actually presented in 1909. But the silver hallmark on
28:50it is for 1903. Oh, yeah. And the maker's mark of the Barnard brothers, who had a reputation for making
28:59very good quality silver of this sort of type. In 1903, this type of antique silver was incredibly
29:06fashionable. Everybody wanted it. It would have been a very expensive gift for the tenant farmers.
29:12In a sale room, it would make somewhere between, say, 250 and 300 pounds.
29:16OK. Thank you very much. Quite a nice christening present. Yeah. Thank you.
29:33This is such an important life-saving medal. It's the Albert Medal. And it was usually awarded for
29:47life-saving at sea. But this is the first time this medal was awarded for life-saving on land.
29:55Wow. I didn't know that. And what I really like about this medal in particular is it's actually
30:01engraved on the back with the details of why it was given. So it says, presented in the name of Her
30:09Majesty to Richard Hopkins, your ancestor Collier, for saving life at the Tina Wythe Colliery, April 1877.
30:19So tell me, how have you come by it? Well, it's actually a family medal. We think that the
30:26gentleman that was given it was our grandmother's grandfather. On the Welsh side of our family,
30:33there was a mining disaster. He worked at the mine at the time. And with some others,
30:38he helped save some men that were trapped in a flooded mine. It was a major disaster at the time.
30:45Yes. Because it killed five people. One of those was a 13-year-old boy. My goodness.
30:52And trapped nine others in various small cavities. And these were little cavities.
30:57It took 18 hours to rescue four of them. It took nine days to then rescue the remaining five.
31:05Your ancestor was one of four shifts of four men that were working 24 hours a day. And these would
31:13have been friends, family members, colleagues that they were rescuing. That's incredible. Can you imagine
31:20how cramped and claustrophobic it must have been with the fear of the water rising?
31:25Absolutely. Terrible condition. And the elation when they actually pulled them out. Yes. Yeah.
31:31And this is why Richard was awarded this and all the other rescuers were awarded this medal. Public
31:37opinion was so strong that Queen Victoria decided to award the Albert Medal, not just for life-saving at sea,
31:45to extend it to life-saving on land. Right. And at the same time,
31:52they were awarded this wonderful silver pocket watch. And they're in beautiful condition,
31:57both of them. So they were obviously absolutely treasured. You can tell. Yeah. Have you had these
32:02valued before? No, we haven't. We haven't had these valued. No. And because these were awarded together.
32:10Yeah. And when you see them at auction, they're always sold together. Yes. Right. So a value is between
32:17£8,000 and £10,000. Oh, my goodness. Oh, wow. No idea. You've told his story, so even better. Yes.
32:24Yes. Lovely. Thanks so much. Oh, thank you. Pleasure.
32:31I'm very surprised. I'm surprised about the story of his bravery. And how long it lasted. I knew it was
32:40a colliery disaster. I had no idea how long they were down there and how hard they worked to get
32:46those men out. Yeah. To be involved like that, I think it's... The man was so brave. I'm so proud
32:51that he was in our family.
33:01I've been in this industry now 30, 40 years. And the thing that's always amazes me, how you watch
33:06markets rise and watch markets fall. Things come in and things go out of fashion. So it's so wonderful
33:13to be stood in front of an object that it is the hot ticket at the moment, something that is so on
33:18trend and so sought after. And of course, we've got a wonderful White Friars Banjo vase. But tell me,
33:25how did you come to be its owner? Well, in the mid 60s to early 70s, I worked for a department store
33:31in Oxford Street in the China and Glass Department. And we used to sell White Friars amongst other
33:38things. But it must have been about the late 60s that the White Friars factory cleared out a lot of this
33:44range. Wow. In fact, there was so much of it, the staff were limited to what they could buy.
33:49Do you remember? How much did you pay? Well, it was very, very cheap. It was probably
33:55maybe 10 shillings. It might have been pre-decimal. Right. Or a pound or something like that. Wow.
34:00Yeah. I mean, really, really that sort of era. What we're looking at, we've mentioned the name
34:04White Friars. And of course, a company and a factory that has been in existence long before this
34:09was bought to market. But more specifically, let's talk about who the designer is. And of course,
34:14that is the great Jeffrey Baxter. Now, Jeffrey Baxter joined White Friars in 1954 and his early
34:21work being very smooth, very clean, but moved forward into the 60s. And he introduces this range,
34:27which is called the textured range. But they were born out of his imagination in the fact that within
34:33the moulds, he would literally put things like screws, nuts and bolts, copper wire,
34:38or even pieces of bark to give this wonderful textured effect. Not only have we got the form,
34:44we have to determine the colour. If we take this up to the light, we can just see that there is a
34:49slight blue hue within, which tells me that this is indigo. Now, it falls very closely to other colours,
34:57such as pewter and willow. And the three are all sort of very close within the spectrum. But I'm happy to
35:03say that this is an indigo one. When we look at these, and when we look at Prysam, as I say,
35:07form first, then colour. And this market is on fire. Because today, this is 2,000 to 3,000.
35:18No. Oh, my goodness me.
35:25It's so nice to have something that is so much of its era, so instantly recognisable. Thank you so
35:31much for sharing it and letting us tell all about the designer. Oh, dear. Oh, wow. Goodness me.
35:43One area of collecting we're seeing increasingly on the roadshow is movie memorabilia, which has
35:49rocketed in value, especially when it relates to the biggest film franchises.
35:54Expert Stephen Lane specialises in this growing market. Stephen Lane, great to see you from the
36:01prop store. We love it when you come on the programme with your fabulous items for us to play basic better
36:07best. There's, of course, one obvious thing they've all got in common, which is a Bond theme.
36:10You're absolutely right. So talk us through them. What are we looking at?
36:13So what we have is three different items from three different Bond films starring three different James Bonds.
36:19And the James Bond films have become a global phenomenon. 27 films in total, starting in 1962,
36:25when Sean Connery first appeared as the character James Bond, right through to 2021, the last film
36:31that we saw Daniel Craig star in. This is from Moonraker, 1979, starring Roger Moore as James Bond.
36:38And this is a model miniature space ranger. So these were used for some of the distance shots,
36:45the special effects shots during the film. Obviously, it's modelled on a full-size costume.
36:50It was a costume that was worn by an actor, and they built these in different scales. This is a 1-6 scale.
36:55And this was crafted by Derek Meddings and his team, who is obviously famous for his work on
36:59Thunderbirds, Superman and many, many other films. And they're rare. They're really hard to find,
37:04very hard to come by, very, very desirable by collectors. And this sort of encapsulates everything.
37:09It does it all in one shot. Walter PKK? Walter PPK. Oh, you're so close.
37:14Yeah, absolutely. So this is Goldeneye, moving on to 1995, where we have Pierce Brosnan as James Bond.
37:21The Wolf of PPK was Bond's weapon of choice, actually, from the inception of the films,
37:26right the way through to Tomorrow Never Dies, where they changed to a P99, but actually rotated back to
37:31a PPK in Quantum of Solace and right the way through to the end of the series that we know of so far.
37:36Now, let's talk about my favourite. I mean, this sumptuous dress. And also, this is miniscule, isn't it?
37:43It is. And what film is this from? And this is from Casino Royale, 2006, with Daniel Craig as James
37:50Bond. Designed, custom-made by Roberto Cavalli for Eva Green for the film. And I think this has the
37:57Bond wow factor as well. It really is. Don't we think, ladies? Well, chaps as well, I'm sure. I mean,
38:04that is fabulous. So this is basic better best. So we're talking, there are three different values,
38:10and we need to work out from the lowest to the highest. What are the three values we're talking
38:14about? 20,000, 40,000, and 100,000. Okay, I've got my theories. I've got my theories. What about you,
38:25with your lovely dog? What do you think? What do you think? Yes, hello.
38:29The gun being the lowest one. The lowest, okay. And the dress being next, and then the Moonraker
38:41figure, the highest. Okay. Yeah. Oh, I don't know. Do you agree with us?
38:45Um, dress basic. What's harsh? It's beautiful, but basic. Um, Moonraker better gun best. Gun best.
38:58Does anyone think the dress is the best out of interest? Oh, yes. Here we are at the back.
39:03So we think the dress is the best, the gun basic, and the astronaut figure is in the middle. Right, okay.
39:13Okay. And I love the fact that you talk in unison. That gives it extra value. Okay.
39:20I mean, I love this the best. There's no question about that. I would have thought the gun. I mean,
39:27when you think about the opening sequence of Bond, and you see him through the bar of the gun,
39:31and he turns and he points. I mean, that is the thing that you so associate with Bond. Okay, I'm going
39:36to say this is the best. That's my starting point. Okay, I'm massively swayed by how much I like this dress.
39:42So I'm going to say basic, better, best.
39:50Controversial.
39:53Right, what do you, what do you say?
39:55You got me again.
39:56Oh, yes.
39:59I've got to work harder at this.
40:00Oh, that's great.
40:03Well done.
40:04Right, well, was my methodology right in terms of...
40:08Yeah, I mean, I think you're right. I mean, ultimately, something like this is highly
40:13desirable, but perhaps it has a ceiling, because it's more of a background item than it is going
40:18to be a main sort of close-up principle piece. I think the dress is wonderful, but ultimately,
40:23as I said earlier, you are talking about the most famous movie weapon in the world, and this is the hero one.
40:29And it's the Pierce Brosnan Goldeneye film has a lot of love as well. It was a reboot for the franchise,
40:33and yeah, I mean, you nailed it.
40:36What was it?
40:3620,000.
40:3720,000.
40:3840,000.
40:3940,000.
40:3940,000.
40:39100,000.
40:41100,000.
40:43Well, I love the Bond movies, and Casino Royale, as I said, was my favourite,
40:47so what a treat to see these. Thank you so much, Stephen.
40:49It's been a pleasure. Thank you.
41:07So you bought it where?
41:08At a toy show. Well, it was in the job lot in a box in front of the stall. There was trains and
41:14die-cast cars, and I just fished out, thought, that looks very interesting.
41:18Well done, you.
41:19And the chap that was selling it said, it doesn't work, you know, so I said, okay,
41:24but it seems an interesting article. So he said, I've got the key for it, but I tried to wind it,
41:29but it didn't wind.
41:30Right.
41:30So I thought, okay. So I said, how much would you like me to pay for it?
41:35So he said, well, I want about £50 for it. I painstakingly took it apart,
41:41and there's a clockwork spring in there, and I managed to heat it up with a blow lamp.
41:46Well done. And remake the spring, and then painstakingly put it all back together again.
41:50And I have to go underneath the tail, because that's where it is, yeah.
41:53Yeah. So, excuse me, cat.
41:55That's brilliant. Well done, you. Have you done that before? Not to a cat.
42:05Not to a cat, no, no.
42:07Not to a cat.
42:08Rue de Caen in Paris started making all these different things. Some of them are musical,
42:15and mainly for grownups to entertain when they had a dinner party or people staying or whatever.
42:21It wasn't for children at all.
42:23It's rabbit fur.
42:24It is.
42:25On a cat. They used rabbit fur a lot when they were making automata, particularly animals.
42:31So, talking about 1920, 1930, they paid £50. I mean, I'm going to be outrageous and put 600 to 800 on it.
42:40Really?
42:41Right.
42:42It's lovely.
42:43Because everybody wants an automata.
42:45Yeah.
42:45I just think it's absolutely hilarious, and I'm going to make it work again.
42:49Very good he's not jumping off the table.
42:56Yes, very well behaved.
43:11Well, here at Shuttleworth, I suppose people know it mostly for the Amazing Aircraft Museum,
43:16which is over in that direction. And one of the prizes within that museum is an airplane called the
43:24Blerio 11, and it's the oldest airworthy airplane in the world. And the model we're looking at here
43:33is a Model 11. It's based on that very first channel crossing by a motorized machine in 1909.
43:42So, look, you're obviously a bit of a Blerio fan, because you built it, didn't you?
43:47Yeah, I built it. It took nearly three years. I built it on an absolute whim. I had a pair of wheels,
43:52and I thought, what can I do with these wheels? I need an aeroplane to go with the wheels,
43:56so I built an aeroplane to go with the wheels.
43:58Let's just explain what is so special about the channel crossing aeroplane. I mean, it had never been
44:03done. The Daily Mail, the newspaper, offered a £1,000 prize.
44:08Lord Northcliffe, I think, was it?
44:09Lord Northcliffe, for a motorized crossing. Because, of course, balloon crossings had been
44:13happening since the 18th century. So, on the morning of the 25th of July, 1909,
44:20half past four in the morning. That's right, yeah.
44:22Off he set. The only gap in the weather to do it.
44:25And 30 minutes-odd later, he saw the flag over France, and he knew that he'd done it.
44:31Mr Fontaine, I believe he was called, waving the flag in the field.
44:34And here we've got everything we need about that day. You talk me through it.
44:39I can tell that's taken before the flight. This is the landing with the flag with Mr Fontaine and
44:45the flag. I mainly acquired the postcards so I could get the dimensions to build it. That's why
44:52I started collecting them. But then it became, you know, you ended up with all the other memorabilia,
44:57which went with it, yeah. And let's just talk about the other memorabilia, because you do have some
45:02a cracking object here. It's a dinner for Monsieur Bleriot in Piccadilly,
45:08and it's dated July the 26th, 1909, the day after, after the achievement.
45:14Yeah, yeah.
45:15And it is signed. It's signed not only by Bleriot, but who else?
45:19It's, I think the first signature is Alice Bleriot, which is Louis Bleriot's wife.
45:23Yes.
45:23There's Louis Bleriot, there's a Mr Fournier, and there's got Mr Alfred Leblanc,
45:29another very famous French aviator. They were all kind of part of Bleriot's circle.
45:35Yeah, yeah.
45:36So you have that, but then what I think is wonderful is, tell me what happened on July the 25th, 2009.
45:42When I attended the centenary celebrations at Dover, they flew a Bleriot over, and there was Louis
45:49Bleriot's grandson, who was also called Louis Bleriot, was there, and he saw the model and
45:55luckily he signed an autograph. Look at that.
45:58A hundred years between the signatures. Isn't that great? Okay, we're about values. I'm not going
46:05to value that. It is priceless, but I am going to value that, which I think is an absolutely fabulous
46:11piece of memory. I've never seen another one. Never seen another one.
46:13Never seen another one. I'm going to put that at between five and eight hundred pounds.
46:17I think it's absolutely spectacular. Wow.
46:21We love people who are passionate about their subjects, and I think, you know, today in this
46:26setting, we couldn't have asked for a more enthusiastic enthusiast. So thanks so much for
46:31bringing them all in. Thank you. Brilliant. Thank you very much,
46:34thank you. What have you got, sir? I have a set of aeroplanes that were made by my great uncle
46:52while he was fire watching at Rolls Royce in Derby during the war. Really? What are they made of?
46:57Balsa wood? They are just amazing. How do you put a price on those, do you think?
47:04Well, that's an interesting one, isn't it? I don't know. I reckon someone would pay 150 quid for that.
47:10You're right. I reckon so. Well, thank you. Only because they're just so fantastic.
47:14Excellent. Thanks very much for bringing those in.
47:21Can I have a look at this? Yes. Ah, a chitty chitty bang bang.
47:25Yeah. Oh, wow. Where did you get it from? It was my father's. He did little collections,
47:31he bought odd things if he sold them, and he bought that as well. Well, it's, um, obviously,
47:35it's made by Corgi Toys, and it's a model of the car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the flying car,
47:40and it has a little lever on the side that when you pull it, the wings fly and you flip out of the side,
47:45and so often with these is that the little figures have gone missing on it. This is complete,
47:50and what's even better, obviously, since original packaging,
47:53so I would afford perhaps 70 to 100 pounds, something like that. Thanks so much.
47:58Thank you very much. Cheers.
48:10So, judging by what we have here, it looks like I picked the right jacket out of my wardrobe this
48:15morning. What we have is a section of a rowing boat, and it's been turned into an umbrella stand.
48:21Yes, correct. Very British on-bred, obsessed with the weather, but we're also obsessed with
48:25rowing Henley, Cambridge, and I see Corpus Christi on here, so this must have been Cambridge boat. Why?
48:31We bought it from an auction, and, um, I firstly wanted some sofas at this auction,
48:38then John started to look at the auction. I saw it in the corner, saw the picture, which didn't do any justice,
48:43and I just thought it was brilliant, and I said we've got a space in the hall for it. So you wanted
48:48the sofas, you wanted the rowing boat umbrella stand, so everyone is happy. So I guess, therefore,
48:56you have a passion for rowing? No, I like swimming, which you probably do a lot of in that boat,
49:01falling out of it all the time. I like things that I think are well made. I'm not an expert in any manner
49:06of means, but somebody took a lot of trouble with this. You can literally see the workmanship in it,
49:10and I just appreciated it from the word go, really. Yeah, and it is beautiful, plus it serves
49:14as a purpose. Indeed so. Yeah. Well, absolutely, I mean, the craftsmanship is fantastic. Um, you can
49:19see all of the little holes have been plugged, they've all been sort of pulled together and cut
49:23in the most wonderful manner. They often use red cedar for the exteriors, lightweight, hard,
49:29good sort of wood to be using for that, and you've got mahogany additions on here too. Now,
49:34when you see these, you often find them, and so I mentioned the wood, in sort of a much darker,
49:39almost sort of mahogany type wood, they've never seen water. Oh, I see. So it's these things produced
49:46for the sort of retro market. But this one to me looks like it actually is the aft section of a boat.
49:53So we've got Corpus Christi and Lent Boat 1925. So I think Cambridge, they have the bumps. So the bumps
50:00effectively are so known because the cam is quite windy and narrow. Oh, right. So you can't do side by
50:05side racing. So they had to sort of effectively bump. Oh, right. Okay. We wondered what that was,
50:10didn't we? Now, you got your sofas and you say you got this for a good price. Can I ask what that
50:14good price is? Well, without fees, it was £260. I think we can bump that up a little bit. Good,
50:20good. So I'm going to say £600, £800, maybe even £1,000. Oh, well done. Thank you very much.
50:24Thank you very much. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. I'll let you buy something else again.
50:27So what would the whole boat be worth?
50:29You could find it.
50:38Shuttleworth celebrates daring feats in the air at the turn of the 20th century. But at the same time,
50:44explorers were charting new territory on land. And over the years, our experts have seen many
50:50artifacts relating to Arctic and Antarctic adventure. One of the most remarkable explorers
50:56was Ernest Shackleton, who made four expeditions to the Antarctic. Book's expert, Matthew Haley,
51:01has discovered two hefty tomes documenting an early quest.
51:07This is the account of Ernest Shackleton's 1907 to 1909 expedition in two volumes,
51:13and it's called The Heart of the Antarctic. And obviously, Shackleton became famous later on
51:17with the Endurance, where it got trapped in the ice. And then they had to sail off to South
51:21Georgia to get rescued. It's really one of the stories of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.
51:27Have you read it? You know what? I haven't. And that's probably more so because of,
51:32I think for me, how fragile it is. And how did you come to have these books?
51:37It's been passed down through the family. I came to my dad in the early part of last year,
51:43when my grand passed away. There wasn't much named in the will, but these books in particular were
51:48named. Actually, we were talking about it on the way here today, that if the house burnt down,
51:52this was the thing to get out. And it was kind of like, but why? We knew a bit about it, but
51:59didn't really have the context as to why it was so important.
52:02Well, it is very important. And it's actually because it bears an inscription from Ernest Shackleton
52:07to Dee McKenzie with the author's compliments in remembrance of certain help a short time ago,
52:13Ernest Shackleton, 1914. What's this all about? Mr. McKenzie was my great, great grandfather. He
52:21moved from Inverness down to Peterborough and was the station master there for a little over 20 years.
52:28What we do know is that they certainly came to contact with each other, worked together as a thanks.
52:34He left his books and signed them. Well, Ernest Shackleton's first editions are inevitably somewhat
52:40rare. Actually, Heart of the Antarctic, there was a limited edition done that was signed by various
52:45people, including Shackleton. This is the main edition, as it were, not the limited edition,
52:50but it's very special to have the inscription. So that makes it one of a relatively small number
52:54of copies with a personal dedication. And I think if it were to go into auction,
53:00I would expect it to make something between £2,000 and £4,000.
53:06Wow. That's more than I was expecting. Probably explains why we're meant to get,
53:12if the house burns down, why we're meant to run that out first.
53:15It's probably the thing to rescue from the house. It's amazing. I'm so glad to have seen it.
53:19That's incredible. That's amazing. Thank you so much. Thanks.
53:31This is a sublimely beautiful diamond necklace. And here it is with you. But everybody wants to know
53:37what it has to do with you. So I was given it by my grandma to wear on my wedding day. It was actually
53:44passed down from my father's side. And he was actually from Mumbai. And it was very sentimental
53:49for me to wear on the actual day because my father sadly passed away when I was nine years old.
53:54So she gave it to me to wear on my day to remember him. It's a very beautiful, superbly articulated
54:01thing and very flattering actually. And we can pick it up and see that immediately. It's very slinky-malinky.
54:07It moves beautifully on the hand like that. And of course, it moves beautifully on the neck.
54:13But when I first saw this, I was slightly thrown off because the quality of the diamonds is absolutely
54:18marvellous. And when they are marvellous like that, it makes my job quite difficult because I'm looking for
54:23floors and fissures and this, that and the other to tell me that they are in fact diamonds.
54:27So it took a little while to establish that they are.
54:30Okay. And these baguette diamonds, these brilliant diamonds are set in white gold. And every setting is pierced
54:39by hand. And these are miraculous objects because they're made by hand. But there doesn't seem to be
54:46any obvious sign of human activity at all because the craftsmanship is so superb. The thing about diamonds,
54:53the great mystery of them is that they're the hardest material known to man. There is nothing
54:57that can come near them. The second hardest is the sapphire, but they also have a scintillation to them,
55:03a return of light, a refraction of light. And that's what people associate with them. But only diamonds
55:10can do this. When we see a piece of jewellery, there's lots of design features that help us date
55:15these things. And this is definitely a 20th century thing. And I'm going to go for the 1960s, something
55:22like that. It's quite difficult to do it in the absence of hallmarks. But there is a sort of
55:28handwriting of jewellery and a design form that helps me to tell those things. And so this is a very
55:35covetable object, a very desirable object. Everybody would want to wear this one. And so I'm going to go a
55:41little bit raving mad and tell you that it's worth £25,000. Wow. Shock. Definitely. Brilliant.
55:55Amazing. Amazing. But obviously the sentimental value is kind of a lot more. Beyond that. It is,
56:01completely beyond that. Thank you very much for bringing it.
56:03My grandma definitely said that it was kind of like real. But there's so many diamonds on it. I
56:13must admit, I just question myself that it was actually real. You do miss your father when you're
56:18getting married and walking down the aisle. So having that piece of him there that I've known that
56:23he's been part of his family for kind of a long time was really, really special.
56:36It's the end of our day here at Shuttleworth House. But before we go, I want to share this
56:40little beauty with you. Now, you've heard of Cornish pasty, Yorkshire pudding, Bakewell tart.
56:45What about a Bedfisher Clangor? Now, here it is. It's a kind of traditional suet pastry. It was made
56:55the night before for agricultural workers to take out in the fields the following day. But the great
57:00thing about this, and this is a top idea, is it's savoury at one end and sweet at the other. Now,
57:06I'd never heard of these before, but you have heard of these, haven't you? They sound great.
57:10From the Antiques Trow Show here at Shuttleworth. Bye-bye.
57:18Bye-bye.
57:48Bye-bye.
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