Antiques Roadshow (1979) Season 48 Episode 1

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00:00our venue for today Shuttleworth house in Bedfordshire has all the attributes we love

00:07on the roadshow a beautiful historical home set on a wonderful estate with graceful gardens water

00:15features and a runway complete with the collection of historic aircraft dating from the dawn of

00:24aviation in hangars close by we'll have a look at them later but the pride of the collection has to

00:30be this beauty 1942 Supermarine Spitfire and it's about to fire up shocks away and our experts are

00:48also cleared for takeoff coming up it's very slinky malinky it moves beautifully on the hand like

00:56that okay this is a passion challenge isn't it oh yes there you go and this market is on fire

01:05Crikey for a mug wow good old auntie Jean welcome to the antiques roadshow

01:18well under the canopy of the trees we're here with the most spectacular botanical vase but before I

01:45fill in some of the blanks and tell you about it how's it come to be in your life I got this about

01:5110 years ago from my mum and prior to that her great great grandmother was gifted it by a major

01:59who was serving in France at the time and it came to me and I was asked to take it to the antiques

02:07roadshow which is taking a little bit longer than anticipated my mum did say if I bought it then it

02:13changed hands and it becomes mine so really so at this pivotal moment we are now transferring title

02:21absolutely from mum to you yep absolutely wow she might she might not be on the same page as that

02:29so what we're looking at it's fairly monumental in terms of its scale we're looking at a piece of

02:37classic Art Nouveau French cameo glass now when we're looking at French cameo glass and Art Nouveau

02:45cameo glass there are certain names that we always want to hear certain names that we always want to

02:50find one of course is the great Emile Gallet and the other is the firm of Dorme now based in Nancy

02:58and you can see they've got the cross of Lorraine which is always in their mark but they were a glass

03:05house that were really pivotal at the end of the 19th beginning of the 20th century formed in 1878

03:12by Jean Dorme he opened the factory with a move to creating beautiful fine art glass but it was his

03:20two sons Auguste and Antonin who really grabbed the baton and ran and then in 1904 sadly the glass world lost

03:29Emile Gallet now he had been the trendsetter and with his passing they saw their

03:36opportunity and boy did they go for it and for me this piece I think is around that 1904

03:42okay 1908 period it's cameo glass so with cameo you have a process in the hot where different colors and layers of glass are gathered

03:53so it's cased over one over the other and you've got this beautiful gradation of color from you know

04:01this lovely canopy of leaves down to this very dark base then principally what happens is they mask it

04:09and it's dipped in acid to cut away what's not wanted and then you get this secondary cutting where

04:16you start to see the veins in the leaves and then there will be an element of hand finishing to bring

04:22this up to the finished piece yeah beautiful it's an exemplary piece and I think in the market today

04:29at auction you'd be comfortably looking at two to three thousand pounds wow fantastic gosh

04:37thank you thank you very very welcome and clearly title is now yours so go and enjoy it

04:42i honestly didn't know how much the vase would have been worth so uh to know that it had value but

04:52also to know it was a really considered gift originally makes it really special so yeah delighted

04:58this is an incredibly colorful picture and it's actually so distinctively bold it is unmistakably

05:17the hand of an artist that's from very far away from here an artist called prefet du faux from haiti

05:24and i'm wondering how this picture from haiti came to be here today i used to work for a lady in the

05:3290s and she was deputy high commissioner of jamaica when she died the family said i could have anything

05:38in the house that i liked and i liked this picture because it was uh very colorful and the little people

05:45reminded me of larry as well so um yes i loved it so du faux became one of haiti's most well-known artists

05:54i mean he was born in the 1920s he was largely self-taught he worked with his father um who was

06:00who made boats and so i suppose he became very good at observing things you know he watched his father

06:05he watched the people around him but he was largely self-taught so he's painted it in oil on board

06:12which is quite typical for him it was likely painted in and around the 50s or 60s and i think when you look

06:18at some of the detail actually the people are really great i mean you've got them in a kaleidoscope

06:23of color i love the reference you made to lowry and manchester because he of course was also really

06:29well known for painting crowds of people but i suppose unlike lowry who really painted from his

06:34experience and although his cities are imaginary to an extent they are based on his experience in

06:41and around manchester whereas du faux was quite different they are all imaginary landscapes there

06:48isn't a town that looks exactly like this and i think that's part of the beauty of it that this was

06:54completely created in his mind i'm sure though that like larry his people would have been people that

07:00he came across that he then peppers into the landscape i love you know you've got someone

07:05with a walking stick here you've got little children playing by the bridge you've then got

07:09people sort of slowly carrying things walking up the road and what i love is that he had this

07:16incredible sense of color to bring together orange and yellow and green and fuchsia and make it work

07:25in the landscape is really really quite special i mean he was apparently inspired to paint because

07:32one day he saw a vision of the virgin mary appear at him at the top of a mountain and she commanded him

07:38to paint and so he did have this sort of very strong you know spiritual side to him and i just wonder

07:45whether that's why you've got so many mountains in your picture that you know it's quite a significant

07:51panorama across the back of the composition as they did become pretty well known in his lifetime

07:57and so today if this was to come to auction we would probably put an estimate in the region of 800

08:02to 1200 pounds right okay yeah it's just lovely isn't it

08:14oh that's great i haven't seen one of those for a while do you know what it is well i've only

08:18noticed as a passion gauge oh all right you hold the bottom bulb like that and then if you're

08:24passionate it bubbles up oh my goodness oh my goodness so there we go there you go hot stuff

08:33okay this is a passion challenge isn't it okay oh yes there you go oh yes

08:40whose was it we found it in um our granddad's things do you know where it would be from they're

08:45assumed to be french although i've never seen a maker's mark on one um value i put it at perhaps

08:50100 120 pounds i think it's i think it's terrific really yeah it's great fun we love it

09:06so i didn't do very well learning german at school so i'm going to use what german i have to try and

09:11decipher or translate the plaque on the top of this and as far as i can see it says we wilhelm and that's

09:17kaiser wilhelm ii basically by god's grace the german kaiser and emperor of prussia give this presentation

09:25to the officer of the british ship tour head jg brew for his help in rescuing the crew of the german ship

09:34helen now 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 jg brew so this is um john george brew and he is my

09:47great grandfather from what i am aware of he was in the merchant navy right and he was on the tour head

09:54which was traveling to south america and they came across a boat in distress and as is such in the maritime

10:03world you always go to the aid of distressed fellow sailors which is obviously what they did

10:10so here we have a medal which is dated 1902 and as part of this group that was the medal it's kind

10:16of a humane society style medal that was given for saving life in in maritime situations but i think

10:23the story gets even more poignant in a way doesn't it because here we have his dog tags from the first

10:31world war that's right what happened to him so he joined the irish fusiliers in 1914 and in 1918

10:41unfortunately he was shot at and injured by the germans and captured by them and died a week later in

10:49german captivity gosh really here he is in 1902 rescuing the german crew of a ship and the kaiser

10:58awards him this as a gift and in 1918 the same kaiser's army sadly ends up shooting him and he dies

11:06as a result of his injuries and you know i do find that a very very poignant story and a terrible end

11:13really yeah um so i'm going to put a value on this and i think in reality if it came up for auction it

11:18would probably make between 500 and a thousand pounds at auction as a story and a group of objects

11:25as i say that very poignant idea about man's humanity and inhumanity absolutely all encapsulated in one

11:34i think amazing little story thank you for bringing it thank you thank you very much

11:45so you woke up this morning you thought antics road shows in town i know i'll take a rocking horse

11:51along absolutely tell me more um so i was the chairperson of a local community preschool um that

12:00unfortunately has recently closed but this was an item we had for many years that had been donated

12:05to us and when it came time to clear we weren't quite ready to get rid of it so we've been holding

12:09on to it for a bit and i thought actually today's the day to bring it along and see if i can find

12:13anything out about it okay okay so what do you like about it i love his little face it's quite sweet and

12:19the um the joins here these kind of peg joins the way it's brought together i have to say that when

12:25you brought this to my table i thought i know that work i turned it over as i'm going to do now and

12:32there is actually almost sort of stamped on the base there a mark which i recognize instantly and

12:38that says kai bogeson who is a really significant figure in the world of danish design he actually

12:47trained as a silversmith and he was a real craftsman he starts in silversmithing he moves into

12:53toy making and he does that from a small workshop and shop in the center of copenhagen and he was

13:00known for these animals he designed a whole menagerie uh most famously a monkey but also a puffin

13:06an elephant a hippo all sorts of animals which are hugely popular and which is still being made today

13:12oh wow and if you just look at the design for a moment the great thing is this has been designed

13:17with children in mind was it a popular toy it it was very popular it was mostly like between two

13:23and four year old children who were using it and any time it was out they would automatically gravitate

13:27because it's just the right size they do crop up from time to time at auction we need to bear in mind

13:33condition uh it's been well and truly yes but i think even so at auction i can see especially between

13:40100 and 150 pounds oh wow that's pretty as it's great for a dinner item but um i mean i think one

13:48of the best things about it is how much love it's had over there yeah yeah you seem a little surprised

13:52i am i am a little bit yeah uh yeah i wouldn't have expected that for well i'm very glad you did

13:57decide to bring it to antiques roadshow today thank you very much thank you so much

14:10our 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

14:23steam driven farm machines and tractors in 1932 the estate was passed down to his grandson richard

14:31shuttleworth aged just 23 he'd become the owner of a huge estate and a fortune to match

14:39having 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 like this

14:49magnificent 1890s pan art he quickly started building up an array of fast cars which eventually

15:03would become a world-renowned collection but richard wasn't just a wealthy collector gathering fast cars

15:10he was a genuine racer in 1935 he won britain's first grand prix at donington park driving his alfa

15:18romeo but flying was to become his true passion and this is where it all began his very first plane

15:25a 1928 dh60 hermes moth it set him back 300 pounds plus one guinea for the registration fee

15:33and he quickly clocked up hundreds of air miles often with his dog tipper on board the one plane

15:40soon became a collection of many more his oldest aircraft a 1909 blerio was restored by richard

15:48himself with his mom and sister sewing the linen wings using the family's billiard table today it's

15:53famous as the world's oldest flying aircraft with the outbreak of world war ii richard joined the raf in 1939

16:02and despite his extensive flying experience he still had to do official training including learning

16:07to fly night missions sadly just a year later during a night flying exercise his plane crashed and he died

16:15he was just 31. his mother dorothy kept his entire collection eventually opening it up as a public display

16:23for everyone to enjoy richard shuttleworth was ahead of his time restoring vintage aircraft long before it

16:31was common practice today his collection has international acclaim attracting tens of thousands of aviation

16:38enthusiasts and today our roadshow visitors

16:50i want to know how long have you had this mug and is this how you learned the alphabets it is how

16:56i learned the alphabet but i've had this since i was a baby so my godmother gave this mug to me as a

17:01christening present in dare i say it 60 years ago oh i was never allowed to drink out of it because it was

17:07my precious mug so it was always on a shelf in the bedroom or in a cupboard and it was only in my latter

17:13years that i've been given permission to have it myself it is a very beautifully graphically

17:20designed piece and it is by the wedgewood factory but the magic to it is the name of the designer and

17:28that's eric revilius right so he was a british painter designer book illustrator wood engraver he was

17:37a very very talented man so eric revilius was working from around 1920 uh some of his designs were used by

17:47wedgewood and some of his designs were for his freelance work now he's very well known for the

17:54coronation mugs so he did the coronation mug designed for the late queen and for her father

18:01and for the king that abdicated but before all of that was going on he designed this mug so this was

18:10known as the nursery alphabet mug and surprise surprise it came in blue but it also came in

18:19pink yes you've got the blue one which i think is far nicer but it also came in green and yellow which

18:27were rarer and i think rarer because they weren't as popular yeah they didn't make as much sense perhaps

18:34as the pink and the blue so if we turn it over designed by eric revilius wedgwood made in england

18:41but what's more fascinating than that is all the wonderful pictures and letters around the entire

18:50circumference of this mug he ran out of space but the clever designer that he was he put the y and the z

19:00on the inside now um revilius was in the second world war and sadly lost his life and the popularity

19:08of these pieces has continued to grow so if this came up for auction today it would make somewhere

19:13in the region of three to five hundred pounds frikey for a mug wow good old auntie jean

19:21i am very glad mom told me not to use it i always thought it was just a mug but it's clearly a very

19:30special mug it was such a treat to see the eric revilius mug and i was excited and petrified really

19:40to tell this lady about something she's owned for so long but it was beautiful to help bring it to life

19:45and for her to tell me her story which is you know what roadshow is all about

20:01a lot of people don't like dolls they find them sort of rather spooky but i this i think would be

20:06the exception to the rule uh what can you tell me about her um well she's been in the family for

20:11a few generations she's my husband's great grandmothers and i was gifted her by my mother-in-law

20:20because i really liked i was and i actually like quirky things so i was presumably the first port of

20:25call to hand it over okay so she obviously thought that this was quirky enough to to warrant being

20:31given to you exactly um i'm not sure exactly who made it but i can tell you it is german and dating

20:37from about the 1840s to 1850s and it would have been not an inexpensive item at the time so it would

20:43have been sort of a quite an affluent perhaps middle-class family that would have purchased it

20:46for you know for one of their daughters she's got a composition head and she's got sort of little

20:52painted features and she's got rosy cheeks and i love her sort of her updo hairstyle and then she's got

20:59these really long wooden arms from the elbows down they're wooden the bottom part of her legs are

21:05wooden with these little painted shoes and the rest of her actually is made of cloth and what's

21:09interesting is that the clothes are period with her she's even got undergarments she's got little

21:14petticoats on and then she's got some bloomers under that as well and you know it's all those

21:18sort of little things really that really add to her appeal but you know what's quite remarkable is

21:23the in the condition which it's in because i've seen a number of them and they're nearly always

21:27perhaps missing feet or they have some damage on them so what is it you sort of like about her

21:32particularly well i like dress making 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 um and i like the little intricate

21:41details of the lace um she's just really different and special and the fashion for dolls actually in

21:47recent years is very much sort of fallen out of favor they don't make the sort of sums of money that

21:52they used to but these more kind of naive and early dolls are still very desirable and um if she were

22:00to be at auction i could see her quite comfortably making about three to four hundred pounds really

22:05yes i i think she's lovely and i really love her oh thank you very much i'm going to treasure her

22:11yeah she's beautiful

22:24given his reputation as a center of aviation heritage it's little wonder we've been treated to the odd fly

22:29over by vintage aircraft like a spitfire part of the most famous aerial battle in history the battle

22:36of britain in 1940 it saw the royal air force defending the country against large-scale attacks

22:41by the german luftwaffe preventing an invasion and marking a turning point in the second world war

22:47mark smith saw some mementos from one of the actual pilots

22:51that's what's going to be said today we've had the sky filled with the sound of the merlin engine

22:57we had a spitfire fly over us but during that summer of 1940 that sound would have been the sound

23:03of spitfires and hurricanes as they took off in the battle of britain and if those men called by

23:08winston churchill the few hadn't won that battle world war ii would have been a very different place

23:13who was this man this man was duncan stewart mcdonnell my father who fought in the battle of britain he

23:21flew from tangmir flying mainly hurricanes he flew 81 sorties in the battle in the battle and he shot

23:29down three 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 or 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

23:49flying for 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 battle of

24:04britain we have the 39 45 star with that tiny little bar the battle of britain only two and a

24:11half thousand of of those ever issued aircrew europe africa italy defense and a war with a mention in

24:19dispatches and i know that after 1940 he went on to have a another distinguished career as a as what we

24:24call a train buster attacking ground troops all across europe we've got these other things this thing is

24:32called a c-type flying helmet it's not from the battle of britain it's a bit later was that his that

24:37was his and the uh goggles are his as well yeah what was he like he was very gregarious fun very good

24:46dad lovely man did he talk about this yes he he talked to me a lot about it and had some very funny

24:53and some very frightening stories but in general he and his friends from the war didn't talk about it very

24:59much did you know he was a battle of britain pilot oh yes right from the beginning yeah i always thought

25:04i might become a pilot but i didn't have the ability in 1969 i went off with my mum and dad to the cinema

25:12and we saw the film the battle of britain did he watch it oh yes he was uh nearly involved in producing

25:18that film really so we knew all about that they had a lot of trouble finding the spitfires because

25:23we're very few flying them i think there are only six in the world if this came up on the open market

25:30it would sell for 40 000 pounds

25:36and 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 and his medals and taking us back to the skies of

25:501940 thank you very much thank you thank you for bringing this lovely japanese woodblock print to

26:02us we don't see this every day it's quite rare find uh what can you tell me about it well i know

26:07very little actually apart from the fact that it was given to my grandfather by a lieutenant in the

26:13imperial japanese navy uh his name was uh kinjoshi yamamoto a lot of them are reproductions with a lot

26:22brighter colors and they are very decorative and sought after but this what we see is the original

26:28of hiroshige's early work if you look at the back of it and you can see the original piece of paper that's

26:36when they dried it and that's the old repair work and that paper is the original woodblock print from

26:43early 19th century it's decorated with two ladies washing a cloth by the river accompanied by a boy

26:50here and it's in the mountains inscribed with nice calligraphy as well and the colors obviously faded

26:58unfortunately the edges have been cut down so it's gonna make an impact on the value unfortunately

27:05it's going to be about two to four hundred pounds if it's an original perfect condition it's going

27:10to be around two to four thousand pounds well very pleased that it is um genuine yes it makes it of more

27:18interest as with many grand houses shuttleworth has enjoyed a lasting association with the local community

27:28the 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 shuttleworth

27:45where we are now and indeed the raf perhaps you can explain to me what that connection is when i was

27:53born in 1946 mrs shuttleworth gave that to me as a christening chalice but on the front it's got an

27:59inscription to richard shuttleworth yeah well it's uh it goes back from when uh the shuttleworth trust

28:06used to own all the land between here and bedford and the tenants of the estate gave that to mrs

28:11shuttleworth when richard was born and my father after the war ran the the aviation side and the cars

28:18and the aerodrome old warden and he had a long career with the shuttleworth trust

28:22up until 1966 when he retired so mrs shuttleworth having lost her beloved son yeah in action gave

28:31a christening present that was given to him to your parents that's correct on your christening the

28:36silverware itself is a copy of a late 17th century cup and cover which was the height of fashion in 1680

28:43and when this was made it was actually presented in 1909 but the silver hallmark on it

28:51is for 1903 oh yeah and the maker's mark of the barnard brothers who had a reputation for making

28:58very good quality silver of this sort of type in 1903 this type of antique silver was incredibly

29:05fashionable everybody wanted it it would have been a very expensive gift for the tenant farmers in a

29:12sale room it would make somewhere between say 250 and 300 pounds okay thank you very much quite a nice

29:19christening present yeah thank you

29:38this 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 wow i

29:56didn't know that and what i really like about this medal in particular is it's actually engraved on the

30:02back with the details of why it was given so it says presented in the name of her majesty to richard hopkins

30:12your ancestor collier for saving life at the tina with colliery april 1877 so tell me how have you come

30:21by it well it's actually a family medal we think that the gentleman that was given it was our grandmother's

30:29grandfather on the welsh side of our family there was a mining disaster he worked at the mine at the

30:36time and with some others he helped save some men that were trapped in a flooded mine it was a major

30:43disaster at the time yes because it killed five people one of those was a 13 year old boy my goodness

30:52and traps nine others in various small cavities and these were little cavities it took 18 hours

30:59to rescue four of them took nine days to then rescue the remaining five your ancestor was one of

31:07four shifts of four men that were working 24 hours a day and these would have been friends family

31:14members colleagues that they were rescuing that's incredible can you imagine how cramped and claustrophobic

31:21it must have been with the fear of the water rising um absolutely a terrible condition and the elation

31:28when they actually pulled them out yeah and this is why richard was awarded this and all the other

31:34rescuers were awarded this medal public opinion was so strong that queen victoria decided to award the

31:42albert medal not just for life saving at sea to extend it to life saving on land right and at the same

31:50time they were awarded this wonderful silver pocket watch and they're in beautiful condition both of them

31:58so they're obviously absolutely treasured you can tell yeah have you had these valued before no we

32:04have we haven't we haven't had these values and because these were awarded together yeah and they're

32:11when you see them at auction they're always saw together yes right so a value is between eight

32:18thousand and ten thousand pounds oh my goodness no idea you've told his story so even better yes

32:24yeah it's lovely thanks so much oh thank you i'm very surprised i'm surprised about the story um

32:36of his bravery and how long it lasted i knew it was a colliery disaster i had no idea how long they

32:43were down there and and how hard they worked to get those men out to be involved like that i think it's

32:49it's it the man was so brave i'm so proud um that that that 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 markets

33:06rise and watch markets fall things come in and things go out of fashion so it's so wonderful to

33:13be stood in front of an object that it is the hot ticket at the moment something that is so on trend and

33:18so sought after and of course we've got a wonderful white fryer's banjo vase but tell me how'd you come

33:25to be its owner well in the mid 60s to early 70s i worked for a department store in oxford street

33:33in the china and glass department and we used to sell white fries amongst other things but it must

33:39have been about the late 60s that the white fries factory cleared out a lot of this range wow in fact

33:46there was so much of it the staff were limited to what they could buy do you remember how much

33:50did you pay well it was very very cheap it was probably maybe 10 shillings it might have been

33:57pre-decimal right um or a pound or something like that wow yeah i mean really really that sort of era

34:02what we're looking at we've mentioned the name white fries and of course a company in a factory that

34:06has been in existence long before this was bought to market but more specifically let's talk about who

34:12the designer is and of course that is the great jeffrey baxter now jeffrey baxter joined white

34:18fryer's in 1954 and his early work being very smooth very clean but moved forward into the 60s and

34:25he introduces this range which is called the textured range but they were born out of his imagination

34:31in the fact that within the molds 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 we

34:44have to determine the color if we take this up to the light we can just see that there is a slight

34:49blue hue within which tells me that this is indigo now it falls very closely to other colors such as

34:57pewter and willow and the three are all sort of very close within the spectrum but i'm happy to say that

35:03this is an indigo one when we look at these and when we look at price them as i say form first

35:08then color and this market is on fire because today this is two to three thousand no oh my goodness me

35:25it's so nice to have something that is so much of its era so instantly recognizable thank you so much

35:31for sharing it and letting us tell all about the designer oh dear oh wow goodness me

35:42one area of collecting we're seeing increasingly on the road show is movie memorabilia which is

35:48rocketed in value especially when it relates to the biggest film franchises

35:54expert steven lane specializes in this growing market steven lane great to see you from the prop

36:01store we love it when you come on the program with your fabulous items for us to play basic better

36:06best there's of course one obvious thing they've all got in common which is a bond theme you're

36:11absolutely right so talk us through them what are we looking at so what we have is three different

36:14items from three different bomb films starring three different james bonds and the james bond films have

36:20become a global phenomenon 27 films in total starting in 1962 when sean connery first appeared

36:27as the character james bond right go through to 2021 the last film that we saw daniel craig star in

36:33this is from moonraker 1979 starring roger moore as james bond and this is a model miniature space ranger

36:42so these were used for some of the distance shots the special effects shots during the film

36:47obviously it's modeled on a full-size costume it was a costume that was worn by an actor and they

36:51built these in different scales this is a 1 6 scale and this was crafted by derrick meddings and his

36:57team who was obviously famous for his work on thunderbirds superman and many many other films and

37:02they're rare they're really hard to find very hard to come by very very desirable by collectors and and

37:07this sort of encapsulates everything it does it all in one shot walter pkk well for ppk oh and you're so

37:13close yeah absolutely so this is goldeneye moving on to 1995 where we have pierce brosnan as james bond

37:20the wolf of ppk was bond's weapon of choice actually from the inception of the films right

37:26the way through to tomorrow never dies where they changed to a p99 but actually rotated back to a ppk

37:32in quantum solace and right the way through to the end of the series that we know of so far

37:35now let's talk about my favorite i mean this sumptuous dress and also this is miniscule isn't

37:43it it is and what film is this from and this is from casino royale 2006 with daniel craig as james bond

37:50designed custom made by roberto cavalli for eva green for the film and i think this has the bond wow

37:57factor as well it really is don't we think ladies well chaps as well i'm sure i mean that is fabulous

38:05so this is basic better best so we're talking there are three different values and we need to work out

38:11from the lowest to the highest what are the three values we're talking about 20 000 40 000

38:17and a hundred thousand okay i've got my theories i've got my theories what about you with your

38:25lovely dog what do you think what do you think yes hello um the gun being the lowest one the lowest okay

38:35um and the dress being next and then uh moonraker figure okay yeah oh i don't know do you agree with

38:44that um 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 i've been oh yes here we are at the back so we think the dress

39:05is the best and the gun basic and the astronaut figure is in the middle right okay

39:12and i love the fact that you talk in unison that gives it extra value okay i mean i love this the

39:21best there's no question about that i would have thought the gun i mean when you think about the

39:27opening sequence of bond and he's you see him through the the barrel of the gun and he turns any

39:31point i mean that is the thing that you so associate with bond okay i i'm gonna say this is the best

39:37that's my starting point okay i'm massively swayed by how much i like this dress so i'm going to say

39:42basic better best

39:46all right what do you what do you say you got me again oh yes

39:59i've got to work harder in this oh that's great

40:04right well was my methodology right in terms of yeah i mean i think i think you're right i mean

40:10ultimately something like this is highly desirable but perhaps it has a ceiling because it's more of a

40:16background item than it is going to be a main sort of close-up principal piece i think the dress is

40:21wonderful but ultimately as i said earlier you are talking about the most famous movie weapon in the

40:27world and this is the hero one and it's the pierce broslyn goldeneye film has a lot of love as well it

40:32was a reboot for the franchise and yeah i mean you nailed it what was it 20 20 000 40 000

40:39100 000 000 well i love the bond movies and casino royale as i said was my favorite so what a treat to

40:47see these thank you so much stephen it's been a pleasure thank you oh

40:53so you bought it where it's a toy show well it was in a job lot in a box in front of the stall there was

41:13trains and die-cast cars and i just fished out thought that looks very interesting well done you

41:19and uh the chap that was selling it said it doesn't work you know so i said okay but it seems an

41:24interesting article so he said i've got the key for it but i tried to wind it but it didn't wine right

41:30thought okay so i said how much would you like me to pay for it so he said well i want about 50 pounds

41:37for it i painstakingly took it apart and there's a clockwork spring in there and i managed to heat it

41:44up with a blow lamp well 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 yeah so excuse me cat

42:02that's brilliant well done you have you done that before not not not to a cat no no

42:06ruy de con in paris started um making all these different things some of them are musical and

42:15mainly for grown-ups to entertain when they had a dinner party or people staying or whatever it wasn't

42:21for children at all there's rabbit fur it is on a cat they used rabbit fur a lot um when they were

42:28making automata particularly animals so um talking about 1920 1930 they paid 50 pounds i mean i'm going

42:36to be outrageous and put six to eight hundred on it really right it's lovely because everybody wants

42:44an automaton i just think it's absolutely hilarious and i'm going to make it work again

42:48very good he's not jumping off the table well here at shuttleworth i suppose people know it mostly

43:14for the amazing aircraft museum which is over in that direction and one of the prizes within that

43:22museum is an airplane called the blerio 11 and it's the oldest airworthy airplane in the world and

43:31the model we're looking at here is a model 11 it's based on that very first channel crossing by a

43:38motorized machine in 1909 so look you're obviously a bit of a blerio fan because you built it didn't

43:46you yeah i built it took nearly three years i built it on an absolute whim i had a pair of wheels i thought

43:52what can i do with these wheels i need an airplane to go with the wheels so i built an airplane to go with

43:57the wheels let's just explain what is so special about the channel crossing airplane i mean it had never

44:03been done the daily mail the newspaper offered a thousand pound prize north cliff i think was it

44:09yeah that's yeah for a motorized crossing because of course balloon crossings had been happening since

44:14the the 18th century so on the morning of the 25th of july 1909 half past four in the morning that's

44:21right yeah off he set the only gap in the weather to do it and 30 minutes odd later yeah he saw the flag

44:29over france and he knew mr fontaine i believe he was called waving the flag in the field and and

44:34here we've got everything we need about that day you talk me through it i can tell that's taken before

44:40the flight this is the landing with the flag with mr fontaine and the flag i mainly acquired the postcards

44:48so i could get the dimensions to build it that's why i started collecting them but then it became you

44:55know you ended up with all the other memorabilia which which went with it and let's just talk

44:59about the other memorabilia because you do have some a cracking object here it's a dinner for

45:05monsieur bleriot in piccadilly and it's dated july the 26th 1909 the day after the day after

45:12after the achievement yeah yeah and it is signed it's signed not only by bleriot but who else it's

45:19i think the first signature is alice bleriot which is louis bleriot's wife yes there's louis bleriot

45:24there's a mr a fournier and there's got mr alfred leblanc another very famous french aviator they

45:31were all kind of part of bleriot's circle yeah yeah so you have that but then what i think is

45:38wonderful is tell me what happened on july the 25th 2009 when i attended the centenary celebrations at

45:44dover they flew a bleriot over and there was louis bleriot's grandson who was also called louis bleriot

45:53was there and he saw the model and luckily he signed an autograph a hundred years between the

45:59signatures isn't that great okay we're about values i'm not going to value that it is priceless but i

46:06am going to value that which i think is an absolutely fabulous piece of i've never seen another one

46:12never seen never seen another one i'm going to put that at between five and eight hundred pounds

46:17i think it's absolutely spectacular wow we love people who are passionate about their subjects and

46:24i think you know today in this setting we couldn't have asked for a more enthusiastic enthusiast so thanks

46:30so much for bringing them all in thank you brilliant thank you very much hillary thank you

46:46what have you got sir i have a set of airplanes that were made by my great uncle while he was fire

46:52watching at rolls royce and derby during the war really what are they made of balsa wood they are

47:00just amazing so how do you put a price on those do you think well that's an interesting one isn't it

47:06i don't know i reckon someone would pay 150 quid for that you're right i reckon so well

47:11only because they're just so fantastic excellent thanks very much for bringing those in

47:20can i have a look yes yes ah a shitty shitty bang bang yeah oh wow where did you get it from

47:28it was my father's you did little collections he bought odd things if you saw them and he bought

47:33that as well well it's um obviously it's made by corgi toys and uh it's a model of the car from

47:38chitty chitty bang bang the flying car and it has a little lever on the side that when you pull it

47:43the wings fly you flip out of the side and so often with these is that the uh the little figures have

47:48gone missing on it this is complete and what's even better obviously since original packaging

47:53so i would afford perhaps 70 to 100 pounds something like that hey thanks ever so much thank you very

47:59much cheers

48:09so 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 very

48:21british umbrella obsessed with the weather but we're also obsessed with rowing henley cambridge and i see

48:26corpus christi on here so this must have been cambridge boat why we bought it from an auction

48:33and um i firstly wanted some sofas at this auction then john started to look at the i saw it in the

48:40corner saw the picture which didn't do any justice and i just thought it was brilliant and i said we've

48:46got a space in the hall for it so you wanted the sofas you wanted the rowing boat umbrella yeah yeah so

48:53everyone is happy so i guess therefore you have a passion for rowing no i like swimming which you

48:59probably do a lot of in that boat falling out of it all the time i like things that i think are well

49:04made i'm not an expert in any manner of means but somebody took a lot of trouble with this you can

49:08literally see the workmanship in it and i just appreciated it from the word go really yeah and

49:12it is beautiful plus it serves as a purpose indeed so yeah well absolutely i mean the craftsmanship is

49:17fantastic um you can see all the little holes have been plugged they've all been sort of pulled together

49:22and cut in 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 when you see

49:35these you often find them and so i mentioned the wood in sort of a much darker almost sort of mahogany

49:40type right they've never seen water oh so it's these things produced for the sort of retro market

49:48but this one to me looks like it actually is the aft section of a boat so we've got corpus christi

49:54and lent boat 1925 so i think cambridge they have the bumps so the bumps effectively are so known

50:01because the cam is quite windy and narrow right so you can't do side-by-side racing so they had to

50:07sort of effectively okay we wonder what that was didn't we now you got your sofas and you say you

50:12got this for a good price can i ask what that good price is without fees it was 260 pounds i think

50:18we can bump that up a little bit good good that's why i'm going to say 600 800 maybe even a thousand

50:23pounds oh well done thank you very much that's good yeah yeah i'll let you buy something else

50:26so what would the whole boat be worth if you 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 artifacts

50:50relating to arctic and antarctic adventure one of the most remarkable explorers was earnest

50:56shackleton who made four expeditions the antarctic books expert matthew haley's discovered two hefty

51:03tomes documenting an early quest this is the account of ernest shackleton's 1907 to 1909 expedition in two

51:12volumes and it's called the heart of the antarctic and obviously shackleton became famous later on with

51:17the endurance where it got trapped in the ice and then they had to sail off to south georgia to get

51:22rescued it's really one of the stories of the heroic age of antarctic exploration have you read it you

51:28know what i haven't and that's probably more so because of i think for me how fragile it is and how

51:35did you come to have these books it's been passed down through the family i came to my dad in the early

51:41part of last year and when my grand passed away there wasn't much named in the will but these books in

51:47particular were named actually we were talking about it on the way here today that if the house burnt

51:51down this was the thing to get out and it was kind of like but but why we we knew a bit about it but um

51:59didn't really have the context as to why it was so important well it is very important and and it's

52:04actually because it bears an inscription from ernest shackleton to d mackenzie with the author's

52:09compliments in remembrance of certain help a short time ago ernest shackleton 1914 what's this all about

52:16mr mackenzie was my great great grandfather he uh moved from inverness down to peterborough and was

52:24the station master there for a little over 20 years what we do know is that they certainly came to

52:31contact with each other worked together as a thanks he left these books and and signed them well

52:37ernest shackleton's first editions are inevitably somewhat rare actually heart of the antarctic there

52:42was a limited edition done that was signed by various people including shackleton this is the

52:47the main edition as it were not the limited edition but it's very special to have the inscription

52:51so that makes it one of a relatively small number of copies with with a personal dedication

52:58and i think if it were to go into auction i would expect it to make something between two and four

53:02thousand pounds wow that's more than i was expecting probably explains why uh we're meant to get if the

53:12house burns down why we're meant to run that out first it's probably the thing to rescue from the house

53:17it's amazing i'm so glad to have seen this incredible that's amazing thank you so much thanks

53:21this 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 some very beautiful superbly articulated thing

54:01and very flattering actually and we can pick it up and see that immediately it's very slinky malinky it

54:07moves beautifully on the hand like that and of course it moves beautifully on the neck but when i first

54:13saw this i was slightly thrown off because the quality of the diamonds is absolutely marvelous and when

54:19they are marvelous like that makes my job quite difficult because i'm looking for floors and

54:23fissures and this that and the other to tell me that they are in fact diamonds so it took a little

54:28while to establish that they are okay and these baguette diamonds these brilliant diamonds are set in

54:35in white gold and every setting is pierced by hand and these are miraculous objects because they're

54:43made by hand but there doesn't seem to be any obvious sign of human activity at all because the

54:49craftsmanship is so superb the thing about diamonds the great mystery of them is that they're the hardest

54:55material known to man there is nothing that can come near them the second hardest is the sapphire but

55:01they also have a scintillation to them a return of light or a fraction of light and that's what people

55:07associate with them but only diamonds can do this when we see a piece of jewelry there's lots of

55:13design features that help us date these things and this is definitely a 20th century thing

55:19and i'm going to go for the 1960s something like that um it's quite difficult to do it in the absence

55:25of hallmarks but um there is a sort of handwriting of jewelry and a design form that helps me to tell

55:33those things and so this is a very covetable object a very desirable object everybody would want to wear

55:38this one and so i'm going to go a little bit raving mad and tell you uh-huh that it's worth 25 000 pounds

55:50wow shock definitely brilliant amazing amazing but obviously the sentimental value

55:58is kind of a lot more beyond that it is completely beyond that thank you very much for bringing it

56:05my grandma definitely said that it was kind of like real so um but there's so many diamonds on it

56:12i i must admit i just questioned 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 he's

56:22been part of his family for kind of a long time and 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

56:39little 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 the

56:55night before for agricultural workers to take out in the fields the following day but the great thing

57:00about this and this is a top idea is it savory at one end and sweet at the other now i'd never heard

57:06of these before but you have heard of these haven't you they sound great

57:09from the antics throw show here at shuttleworth bye bye

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