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Antiques Roadshow Season 48 Episode 7
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00:00This week's Roadshow comes from Lister Park in the Yorkshire city of Bradford.
00:08Our visit here today coincides with Bradford being chosen as City of Culture and across
00:152025 all sorts of venues are celebrating every kind of art. It started with a grand opening
00:23ceremony and events have continued throughout the year celebrating the best of Bradford.
00:32Many of them are taking place at Cartwright Hall our venue for today. It has wonderful
00:37exhibitions inside and fascinating pieces outside like this one. Normally there's a
00:45classical bronze statue here on display but artist Osman Youssefzada has wrapped it in
00:51this blue fiberglass to symbolize the migrant experience of wrapping up your
00:55possessions and life ready for a new start. Today though it's all about unwrapping
01:04and our experts are busy unpacking treasures brought to their tables.
01:07Good luck, perseverance and wisdom. So which relates to you?
01:12Oh gosh I'm just the jack of all trades.
01:16To be rid of the hands? What will hold for a wish?
01:21Cutting wedding cakes has ruined more sword blades than warfare.
01:25Champagne tonight.
01:28Welcome to the Antiques Roadshow.
01:31You've brought a bit of a doodle to my table here, but on closer inspection it's quite an interesting
01:47doodle.
01:48This face looks a bit familiar. John Lennon. A bit of a hero of mine. The Beatles are the best
02:06group in the world. They're not too bad, are they? Where's you? We bought it in holiday about 18 years ago when we were in Las Vegas at the Caesars Palace.
02:15Original John Lennon drawing in a blue pen, handwritten and signed. I'd be getting into Jazzman. I've been trying to avoid it all my life.
02:22With love, John Lennon. And it's initial JL 79.
02:26Does he do a lot of sketches like that? Oh yeah. He was a serial sketcher. He was sketching from when he was a little boy.
02:32He was sketching right up until his death. He just couldn't stop sketching.
02:36So, do you pay a lot for it? Well, I'm a bit reluctant to tell you because then the wife will find out.
02:42Go on. Just between me and you? I have two thousand pounds. Two grand?
02:47You need to get your hearing tested. I didn't say that.
02:55Well, do you know what? It might have been a bit of money at the time.
02:58And you probably might have been paying about the odds, but they're not going down in price.
03:02And I could clearly see this if this was a proper authentication, five grand.
03:07Five grand. Really? I'll tell the wife that one then.
03:17This is a beautiful vase. I'm almost lost for words for it because it is just glowing. Isn't it?
03:24I mean, it just, and especially in today's sunlight, it is absolutely glorious.
03:29How did it end up here today? It was a mistake. I was at an antique fair and I bought it.
03:35I thought it was one thing. Right. And it wasn't.
03:38What did you think it was? I thought it was Royal Lancaster.
03:40I can see why. So the luster, the sort of stylized design.
03:45I then decided it was fake copy. And it went under the kitchen sink for two years.
03:51Went under the kitchen sink? Yes. Where it sort of kicked out.
03:54Did you have a leak or something? No, it just happened to be rattling around.
03:57And I happened to be looking on the internet one night and out pops that vase.
04:02And it was like, hang on a minute. That's the vase that's under the sink.
04:05So what did the internet say it was?
04:07The internet said it was Zolny Peck. Right.
04:09Which I believe is Hungarian.
04:11It is. It's Zolny from Pech in Hungary.
04:15And it is the most brilliant example of their work.
04:20At the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, they developed what were called Eosenglazes.
04:26So these, this lovely sort of ruby luster, this sort of gold luster.
04:30But these were incredibly difficult to fire in the kiln.
04:33And when you turn it round here, we've got the rising sun.
04:36We have this path with these geese.
04:40It is a work of art. This is as good as any painting.
04:43In fact, it's harder to paint in ceramics like this.
04:48Anyone can take a bit of oil to canvas and call themselves Leonardo da Vinci.
04:52But to paint on something like this because you are painting your work of art and it's going into the kiln.
04:58And when you look inside, you can see how these runs.
05:01This is what happens to the kiln.
05:02It almost melts to the point of destruction.
05:05And then you either get magic or failure.
05:08But you have got magic. And this is the most beautiful vase.
05:11Zolny is red hot right now.
05:15Hungarian people are buying it back.
05:17Can you remember what you paid for it?
05:19I paid £20.
05:20You can add a few notes to that.
05:23Your £20 mistake vase.
05:26If that was going to auction, I would estimate that £5,000 to £8,000.
05:31And I expect it to make towards the upper end, if not a little more.
05:36I don't know what to say.
05:38I am genuinely flabbergasted.
05:40Thank you. It was a mistake.
05:42That's not a bad return, is it?
05:44Champagne tonight.
05:46I really like this.
05:56And I'm really curious as to know what made you bring that to the roadshow.
06:00Well, I'm fascinated by the Wild West.
06:04So when I see something like this, which I think came from America, I like it.
06:10What makes you think it came from America?
06:12I don't know. I just do.
06:14Because it does.
06:15Oh, does it? Okay.
06:17It's a powder horn.
06:18Yes.
06:19You know, for carrying the powder that you...
06:20Put in the musket.
06:21Exactly.
06:22And it's cow horn.
06:24This is a fabulous thing.
06:26I think it's stunning.
06:27Yes, yeah.
06:28And it's the sense of design.
06:29Yeah.
06:30And the way it's executed.
06:31I've never seen such high relief on an American powder horn.
06:36Where did you buy it?
06:38Skipped an auction market.
06:39It was just on a stall.
06:41Was it a lot of money?
06:43Well, I paid £90, I think.
06:45It was enough.
06:46Yeah, but it's important to me because I like it.
06:50This is an amazing example.
06:52I've never seen one with relevant points filled in with colour.
06:57I don't know whether it's wax or a kind of lacquer.
07:00And this would have been colourful.
07:02It would have been garish originally.
07:04You know, this would have been bright green, like emerald green.
07:08And in the end there, we've got a picture of a woman.
07:14Oh, I didn't know that.
07:15In a big hat.
07:17There's her face.
07:18There's her shoulders.
07:19Yes.
07:20And it's set in under the transparent horn.
07:23Wow.
07:24And you've never seen that before.
07:25No, no.
07:26And I just wondered if it's a kind of pin-up that the hunter carried this pin-up.
07:33Because it looks like a printed image.
07:35I mean, one can't tell and you'll never take it out.
07:37You can't.
07:38No, no.
07:39This is very curious.
07:40I've never seen that.
07:41Really?
07:42Gosh.
07:43Amazing.
07:44Fabulous thing.
07:45Value.
07:46I think it would be estimated at 1,500 to 2,000.
07:50What?
07:55Good heavens.
07:56It's one of the best I've ever seen.
07:58Really?
07:59Yeah.
08:00Well, I'm looking at two beautifully painted playing cards from Iran.
08:17How come you own these quite rare little playing cards?
08:21Yeah, I'm from Iran.
08:22And these are like a collection of my family.
08:25It's from Qajar dynasty.
08:27So that would pitch these over 150 years old.
08:31The game of ganifa did die out in Iran really at the end of the 19th century.
08:37So they're actually lacquered card.
08:41These were all hand done and each suit had a particular color.
08:46And this is actually a seated bowman.
08:49But on this side, this beautiful young woman.
08:53She's got a wine glass in her right hand and a bottle in the other.
08:58She's having a good time.
08:59Yes.
09:00Now on the value front, 40, 50 pounds each.
09:05Okay.
09:06I'm just going to keep them to have peace of my country with me all the time.
09:10Fantastic.
09:19Do you know, I don't know whether I was more enamored of Milo the Jack Russell or your chair when you first arrived.
09:31I think it was the dog.
09:32I think it was probably.
09:33I'm a Jack Russell man.
09:34I've always had Jack Russells.
09:35Yeah.
09:36Obviously, your chair is centre stage as well as Milo.
09:39And I have to say, as soon as I saw it, I was kind of, whoa, that looks very interesting.
09:45And what did I do?
09:46I asked you if we could turn it upside down and have a look at it.
09:49Because often they have a stamp on the bottom of them.
09:51Right.
09:52So that to me means an awful lot, but means an awful lot to you too, doesn't it?
09:58Because your name is Morant.
10:00Yes.
10:01Tell me all about it.
10:03I was tracing my family ancestry and I found that George Morant started a furniture business back in the late 1700s.
10:13Yep.
10:14And this is one of his chairs.
10:17You have a credible family history right back to George.
10:21Great, great, great, great grandfather.
10:24That's pretty amazing.
10:25Yeah.
10:26So, how did you find it?
10:28Back in 2020, I put Morant furniture into an online auction site and this came up.
10:37Right.
10:38Along with quite a few other items.
10:40The other items were like in the thousands of pounds.
10:43Yeah.
10:44And this was there for £36.
10:47You bought this for £36?
10:49Plus £50 delivery.
10:50It cost more to deliver it.
10:51It cost more to deliver it than you actually paid for the chair.
10:53Yeah, it was in Coventry.
10:54Right.
10:55OK.
10:56The name Morant in the history of furniture is very, very important.
10:59We're talking about someone in effect who was almost kind of like a latter-day Chippendale in a way.
11:05Mm-hm.
11:06These were not just people who made furniture.
11:08They were interior designers.
11:10And interior designers and suppliers of furniture to royalty and the aristocracy.
11:15Mm-hm.
11:16So, quite an incredible pedigree and history.
11:18Now, looking at this chair, it's not in A1 condition.
11:21I mean, that kind of doesn't matter.
11:24It's mahogany.
11:25Mm-hm.
11:26It looks to me to be sort of William IV in style.
11:29It also has a design registration kite mark on the side there, which I haven't deciphered as yet, but I think you had a go at it, didn't you?
11:37I believe it's 1843.
11:38OK, so that makes it Victorian, not William IV.
11:42So, we've got that kind of crossover, kind of slightly Gothic-y, Macanthus-y look, that crossover period.
11:48I'll be honest with you.
11:49The 36 years of being in this business, it's the first Morant chair I've ever touched.
11:54Wow.
11:55So, to me, it's quite exciting in a way.
11:59I'm going to talk about value.
12:01I can't believe you paid £36 for it.
12:06I think it's worth £3,000 to £5,000.
12:09Really?
12:11I'm amazed.
12:15Is that in the condition it's in?
12:17Yeah, that's in the condition that it's in.
12:19It's getting repaired.
12:20In the meantime, wherever you've got it parked in the house, I'm sure Milo will enjoy sitting on it in the meantime.
12:27I don't know if you'll be sitting on it any more, Milo.
12:29I mean, I thought it might have been £100 if that, but £3,000 to £5,000?
12:44It's stunning.
12:45It's stunning.
12:46We've got two rather lovely, delicate rings here. How did you come across them?
13:02That one was left to us by her great, great auntie.
13:06Okay.
13:07She used to collect antiques and jewellery.
13:10Yeah.
13:11That we found in like a booker back junk shop.
13:13Really?
13:14Gosh.
13:15Yeah, we spent, what was it, £20?
13:16Yeah.
13:17Don't tell your dad.
13:18Brilliant.
13:20Really, really pretty.
13:21Have you got a favourite?
13:22That one.
13:23Mine too.
13:24Yeah, it's gorgeous, isn't it?
13:27Well, they're both actually what we call mourning rings.
13:30And one of them is slightly older than the other.
13:33This one is what we call a Stuart crystal mourning ring.
13:37And it dates from the mid to latter part of the 17th century.
13:41And then this one is a crystal mourning ring.
13:44And on the band on the inside, there's a date of 1781.
13:49Now, mourning rings during this period were seen as really important remembrance for loved ones.
13:56And embracing that rather than necessarily being completely sad about the person that's died.
14:03It was very much about remembering them as a person, which is good, isn't it?
14:06But this one here, which is the older ring, also has some gold inside the Stuart crystal.
14:13Which has dislodged, unfortunately.
14:16And it would have actually had initials spelled out, which is a real shame.
14:20And this one here, with all of the stones, actually has quite a lot of wear on the surface.
14:25But even so, it's a lovely old ring.
14:28Now, mourning jewellery is highly collectible now.
14:31People absolutely love it, particularly when it's a lot older.
14:35Are you a fan of jewellery as a whole?
14:38Um, yeah.
14:39Yes, yeah. And how about you?
14:40Not so much as this one.
14:42Well, it's lovely.
14:44And obviously a bit of a sleuth, you know, going out and finding all these beautiful pieces in bric-a-brac shops.
14:50It's fantastic.
14:51So, as far as value is concerned, the one that we have here, which you found in the bric-a-brac store, paid £20.
15:00How does £400 to £600 at auction sound?
15:06You're not selling it though, are you?
15:10No.
15:12I think if it hadn't been as worn on the top, we would have been looking at nearest £600 to £800 as an auction estimate,
15:20with the potential to get a little bit higher if you'd have got the bidding frenzy going.
15:25The one that belonged to your great-great-
15:27Auntie.
15:28Auntie.
15:29Yeah.
15:30That one's lovely.
15:31And these are highly collectible.
15:32A shame we've got that little bit of damage in there.
15:35But, nevertheless, auction estimates we'd be looking at between £800 and £1,200.
15:41Wow.
15:42Wow.
15:44Fabulous.
15:51In 2025, the nation's spotlight has been turned on Bradford, a city of culture.
15:57It's a prestigious prize, awarded every four years to a city to celebrate its arts, culture and heritage.
16:04And there are events all across Bradford, attracting people from the city and beyond.
16:12It's inspired a rich diversity of artistic expression.
16:17From performance.
16:19Sculpture.
16:21Such as Saad Qureshi's Tower of Now, a tribute to the rich variety of life in Bradford.
16:29Another project for 2025 is a collaboration between local artist Razwan ul Haq and our venue, Cartwright Hall, exploring the ancient tradition of Islamic calligraphy.
16:39Razwan, you're an artist who specialises in Islamic calligraphy as an art form.
16:48And it has a long and honourable tradition, doesn't it?
16:51It certainly does.
16:52If we look at this one, which is 18th century, you can see that it's a horse, but it's also Arabic calligraphy.
16:57Arabic has this wonderful plastic quality. So it's writing, but it's also art, you know, and it's flowing. You can use letters in a variety of different ways.
17:09And these are your tools, the tools of your trade. So tell me about your two inks.
17:15So this ink over here, it's been made from the ground from Bradford City Football Club.
17:22And there's a special mushroom here. It's a shaggy ink cap mushroom and it gives you a dye.
17:28So I added that and it's made a beautiful ink.
17:30And the red one?
17:31Bradford is known for its curry houses.
17:33So here we took some turmeric and also some chilli powder.
17:39And I mixed them together, but they will fade.
17:42So I added some red oxides from the river here, the River Beck.
17:46Now this is fascinating.
17:48Because this is a piece you did in conjunction with a boxing gym.
17:52I wanted to do something different.
17:54So what we did was we took a group of boxers down to the British Library and then they looked at some really old texts.
18:01So they chose some texts and we brought all the texts here.
18:04And now you've created this fantastic dynamic figure with this punch and then this swoosh of red here.
18:10Yeah, so with this figure you see some Arabic writing, but you also see letters that spring out.
18:16So this dot represents over a thousand years ago.
18:20And this Nukta is from a script that was developed in Persia about 400 years ago.
18:25Representation in Islamic art is not the same as in the Western tradition.
18:31It's not, it's not.
18:33So whenever I'm doing a calligraphy for a mosque or a holy place, then I won't have a drawing of a figure.
18:40We will just have calligraphy.
18:42Boxing and calligraphy don't, on the face of it, sound like two things that go together.
18:46What made you put those together?
18:47In calligraphy, there's an enormous amount of discipline that you have to do.
18:51So you have to practice daily, same with boxing.
18:55And also you have times where you go into the zone and in the moment you forget everything.
19:02And the same happens in boxing as well.
19:05Very interesting to hear about this. A venerable tradition.
19:08Thank you so much for explaining it to me.
19:27I think it's fairly well known that I'm very fond of swords.
19:30This is the 1821, 45 pattern.
19:35But it seems to be put through a boil wash.
19:37It's a lot smaller than it should be.
19:40Why have you got a miniature sword?
19:42This was presented to my great-great-grandfather in 1856.
19:47Right.
19:49At that time he was six years old and he was the mascot of the North Gloucestershire Militia,
19:54which I believe is a voluntary regiment.
19:56And at that time, in April 1856, the regiment was in Aldershot being presented to Queen Victoria.
20:04And Queen Victoria took special notice of him and asked him what he would like as a gift,
20:09because she took a liking to him.
20:11And he suggested he'd like a horse.
20:14So that's a fairly punchy call, isn't it?
20:17I don't think she thought that was a very good idea.
20:19So she suggested making him a sword, a special sword, just for him.
20:22And she presented some money and commissioned this sword.
20:26So it's much smaller so that it would fit.
20:28And yes, there's his sword belt, which is absolutely teeny-weeny.
20:32Yes.
20:34I wore it myself once or twice when I was six or seven years old and it was tight on me even then.
20:38Fabulous.
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21:07Fabulous.
21:08And it has to flex. Oh, wow. I've never tried that. And once you've done both that
21:14You then check the blade for straightness
21:17and in this case, it is
21:19dead straight
21:21It then becomes a proved blade shows the quality of the sword. Is it steel? It's steel. Oh, yeah, very good steel
21:28These are known as the gothic hilted swords, right?
21:31They are probably one of the most elegant of the swords as a fighting weapon
21:36It's about as much good as a short stick
21:40Because there's the guard is weak, but I said elegant elegant weapons just for every six-year-old needs indeed the perfect birthday present and it's still very sharp
21:49I know it would have been has it ever been used for cutting wedding cakes? Yes at all family weddings stop it
21:58Cutting wedding cakes has ruined more sword blades than warfare. Oh
22:01You are putting it and they're mostly made out of fruits. Okay, so you've got acids in them
22:07If you really feel that you must and I really advise against it. They must be cleaned assiduously afterwards
22:14So have you considered what it's worth a few years ago?
22:17I remember popping to an antiques fair in Sheffield where I'm based and a local expert there on my description
22:24Suggested that if I took it round to his shop the next week he'd give me two or three hundred pounds for it
22:28So I was quite pleased at that it's very generous not oh full-size
22:34sort of that pattern is
22:374600 as they get smaller
22:40They get more valuable. Yeah, and also you've got the little story which is etched here on the chape
22:47I would put that at a conservative
22:51800 to a thousand that's very nice those are terribly elegant swords a
22:55Miniature one and with the victoria connect. It's fabulous
23:01I'm very glad to know some more about it personally
23:04I think because it's such an important family heirloom
23:07It makes you feel more connected to the item knowing where it came from and its importance. Yeah, it makes me like it even more
23:12Actually, so this is an Aussie Clark dress who was probably the preeminent designer of the 1970s
23:36Were you a great follower of fashion? Not especially I did have a Saturday job in a boutique
23:43In Bradford bought this one from a different boutique. I have to say
23:47But it was just it was such a bargain. It was in the sale. I was still at school
23:52I didn't have much money just my Saturday job money and I thought I have to have that dress and because it's the only
23:59Special dress I've ever had that's why I still got it now
24:02Well, it's absolutely fabulous to see it was he Clark
24:06He was from Lancashire went to Manchester School of Art and when he left Manchester School of Art
24:10He went on to the Royal College where he was quickly spotted and he was introduced to a monk called Alice Pollock
24:17Who had a boutique called Quorum and she brought him in to do lots of designs for her and?
24:23quickly became incredibly successful, but not monetarily because even though he was a brilliant pattern cutter
24:30He gave away so many clothes to pop stars of the day people like Mick Jagger and his girlfriends and lots of film stars
24:37So everybody wanted an Aussie Clark dress basically they weren't terribly good at business
24:42So after a few years they parted ways and their deaths were bought up by a company called Bradley and this dress is actually
24:49Aussie Clark for Bradley dress well, so a slightly later in date and to be the very early 1970s
24:55Yes, would that be the sort of date that you purchased it? Yes
24:58So how did this make you feel wearing this in the in the 1970s as a very young girl?
25:02Obviously really special you can see how beautifully it hangs it felt I
25:08Felt a million dollars wearing it
25:10Yeah, yeah, no, it's lovely and it's very typical his style little sort of puff sleeves very tight bodice low cut you know long flowing dress with a with the the frill on the hem and he was very influenced by
25:22Dance and people like the dance and the Jinsky sort of very free-flowing
25:27Dresses almost 1940s and his inspiration, but very much in a 1970s style and a lot of these designs were the patterns were by his then wife Celia Burtwell yes
25:39And it's the pieces with the Celia Burtwell prints that are particularly desirable
25:43And if you were to sell it at auction, you're probably looking at around
25:48Four to six hundred pounds possibly upwards of that and retail I regularly see them in excess of a thousand pounds business
25:55Because they are they are really desirable pieces. That's amazing
25:59We think we know they are we think there's some sort of
26:10Sorry flinting block, but they were abandoned in my mom and dad's garden
26:14So they woke up in the morning and there were suddenly two beautiful wooden boxes with 20 of these inside really how long ago was this 30 years?
26:22Okay, well, I mean you're absolutely right in your assumption of what they are
26:26Yeah, there were lots of these I mean literally millions
26:29I mean this is a pattern that would have been put not necessarily always on a sari
26:33It could have been on other things as well could be these curtains, you know shawls. Yeah, I mean are they hand-carved?
26:39Yeah, all hand-done
26:41It's a lot of work gone into this this looks like a 19th century one, right?
26:46Yeah, this does look like a late 19th century one
26:48But one of these would be between 30 and 50 pounds each one
26:52Wow right, you know, I really like these I love seeing things that come from India. So thank you for bringing it in. Thank you very much. Thank you
27:03Is this yours? It's my mother's
27:06This is my grandmother gave it as a gift to my mother. Okay
27:08My mother used used it for when me my sister were kids and play games
27:13to play pretend we went to the shop or a cafe and we did the same thing we drank orange squash
27:18And children do but I mean yours is a bit more fancy than mine
27:23So let's look at it. I mean this has got what's it say
27:26Bond where fine china foreign
27:30Now this will either be japanese or german
27:36And just after the war when people wouldn't want to buy japanese or german goods
27:40They put foreign on it right, so it's not saying it's german or it's japanese right
27:45This is probably german china made in the french style and this is gold luster. It's a gold gold
27:52Should we root my hands
27:54What will hope for a wish
27:56This might buy your chips up in bradford okay, it's tens of pounds. I'm okay, okay, but prices memories memories
28:03Yeah, exactly let's drink the granny
28:10Well, I've seen you winding towards me with this gigantic sculpture and I nearly fell off my chair
28:21There's only one person that this could be and that is a person who I once met
28:26Arthur Dooley from my hometown of liverpool
28:29A welder in the shipyards. He was a real firebrand character a catholic communist sculptor
28:37How do you know this piece i've had it all my life?
28:41My mom used to sit me on the radiator and make me polish it from about the age of three
28:47Pretty emotional about this piece. Yes
28:50My dad collected art and sculpture and then we've been left with some very nice things this one of course has the memories from polishing
28:58But unfortunately my dad died when I was only five years old so it really is
29:05So this is a heart piece, but this is a memory of your father as well as being a beautiful sculpture
29:10What do you like about it?
29:11I love the feel of it actually
29:13I get cross with people that put sculpture behind things and you can't
29:18Can't feel them
29:19It'd be great in front of a mirror wouldn't it because they can see the back of it as well
29:23It used to be it isn't now, but it used to be here. It's signed gladiator by arthur dooley
29:29It's dated ad 71. So the year for that is 1971 quite an early work for him
29:35He was a boxer and he's been known to get up and have a fight with people in pubs
29:41over art
29:43His foundry was in kirby just outside liverpool
29:46He would have made a plaster maquette out of this and then he would have sent it to that foundry in kirby
29:51Where they would just like made a mold of it and then he would decode it and then he would have polished it
29:56He's left this edge here purposely
29:59Unpolished and a bit rough to complement against this the the polished bronze
30:06So much it's worth
30:08I would say that if this went into auction it's going to have a pre-sale estimate of five to six thousand pounds
30:14Okay, but you know what I think it could go for a little bit more as well. It's that good. I love it
30:22I really do let's say i'd
30:25Fire in the house. It would be the first thing that I dragged out other than the dog and my other half
30:30I
30:39Was born in 71 my dad bought it and it all feels like a bit of a connection shall we say
30:46This is a really
30:59Awesome landscape
31:01It's unmistakably the hand of trevor grimshaw
31:05Who became very well known for these very timeless smoky industrial landscapes
31:09But what's so incredible about it is that he usually draws on a tiny scale
31:15Whereas this is absolutely
31:18monumental
31:20Where did you find it?
31:22I
31:23Managed to buy it from a friend of trevor called jimmy and he was a carpenter
31:29He did odd jobs for trevor and rather than be paid for these jobs
31:34He took pictures in lieu of payment and you managed to buy this from jimmy
31:38Yes, I just happened to be at the right place at the right time simple as that really
31:43Well lucky you because this is quite an extraordinary feat of drawing
31:49It's not painted. It's all in pencil
31:52He's managed to achieve this
31:54Really incredibly atmospheric sort of smoky effect sort of mystical mysterious quality
32:01You can feel the smog
32:02And then to contrast that with this bold
32:07Industrial framework that stretches across
32:11The foreground he's been a real master at getting every possible tonal difference
32:16You know, he he did go to art school. He was at Stockport college of art in the 60s
32:21And then he went on to develop this incredible style that is absolutely his own
32:26He's always put in the same category as lowry
32:30For obvious reasons, it's industrial landscape
32:33And I always think that's a bit unfair
32:35Because grimshaw developed a very different style
32:40It's actually really hard to value
32:42I'm not surprised to be honest
32:44Um, you don't really see
32:45Grimshaw's on this scale his little ones come up all the time
32:48Yeah, a few thousand pounds
32:49Yeah
32:49An auction estimate you'd already put much more than that on this
32:53Let's say, you know, four to six thousand
32:55But with an estimate of four to six thousand, I think
32:59You would get some crazy competition for this
33:01And it would make much much more than that because this is a really special thing
33:06I mean, you could just I could look at it all day
33:08Thank you. Thank you very much
33:13We like a challenge on the roadshow and we're drawing inspiration from bradford's asian community
33:19With a selection of mystery items curtsy of our specialist in asian arms and works of art
33:25Ranjit Singh
33:27Ranjit, we're calling them mystery items
33:29They're frankly terrifying
33:30I mean look at them
33:32They are but what I want you to do Fiona is think outside the box
33:37Okay, all right
33:38I'm going to give you two options for each object
33:41All right, make sure you're all listening because you're going to be helping me
33:45So the one closest to you
33:47Is it a device to stop intruders into an indian fort in the 18th century?
33:54Or is it an expanding cannonball shot from the 18th century?
34:01If it was a device to repel intruders, how would it work?
34:07One of the balls would be
34:09Inserted into a little bracket on top of the the entry to the fort
34:15And when the door would be opened and then intrude exactly
34:19Yeah
34:20Drop down
34:21Or a cannonball that would kind of shoot out of a cannon and then expand
34:25Exactly
34:26As it went
34:27Right, okay
34:33Now do not tell me this is a fancy rolling pin
34:35I'm not buying it
34:37No, no rolling pin
34:39But is it a object for an indian wrestler belwan or a strongman
34:46To strengthen his muscles
34:49Or is it used by indian washer women when they're washing their clothes on the riverside
34:55What so to beat the clothes
34:57And if you if you're using this to strengthen your muscles
35:03It's not very heavy
35:04So how would you use it to strengthen your muscles?
35:07Nowadays modern weights you do get different
35:10Different weights so perhaps this is for a beginner or maybe it's more for endurance than than strength
35:17Okay
35:20But there is some damage to this part
35:25So is it used for beating clothes in a barrel maybe?
35:29I see
35:32What about that scary looking thing down there?
35:34I mean it's not that sharp actually if at all
35:37Okay
35:39Is it a south indian hunting boomerang or is it
35:46A south indian ceremonial ricicle
35:49For the maharaja to have the first harvest
35:55Young lady, what do you think?
35:57Can you remember?
35:59Is that to shoot out of a cannon or to drop to hurt an intruder?
36:05I would probably go to drop from the ceiling
36:08Drop from the ceiling and at the end
36:10Boomerang
36:12A boomerang
36:15That one's to do with rice the first crop
36:17You sound very sure about that
36:19Sure yeah
36:22I think that's for testing your strength
36:26Is that how you do your weights like that?
36:28No
36:30A peg washing
36:35So we've got all options now
36:37So I'm going to go for the cannon
36:39I'm going for the cannon
36:40I'm going for a washing implement
36:42Sort of pound the washing and wring it out
36:45And that if it's not very sharp
36:47It's either because it's old and it's got blunt
36:49Or it's because it's ceremonial
36:51So let's go for ceremonial
36:53Okay
36:54This is in fact an 18th century
36:58Tribal hunting boomerang
37:02It's quite similar to an Australian boomerang
37:05Except it doesn't come back
37:07All right
37:07I knew I'd get you with this one
37:11Because I believe there is a European tradition of beating clothes
37:16Yeah
37:17But it is an 18th or 19th century exercise club
37:23So how would you use it?
37:25There are techniques to use it
37:27Let's see them
37:32Are you going to make me do this on TV?
37:34Do we want him to do this?
37:35Yeah, right, come on
37:37Okay, I'm no expert
37:39People train with these all their lives
37:42I'll give it a go
37:43I'm going to take my
37:44Let's all stand back
37:46The trick is to get it upright
37:48And to balance the weight there
37:51And so you start there
37:54And you swing it like that
37:56And the light weight is because you are working the ligaments, working the joints
38:05Working the endurance, getting yourself fit and stronger
38:08Maybe you warmed up for something a little bit heavier
38:10Very impressive, Ranjit
38:13Very good
38:19So you've got two wrong so far
38:21Yes, I know
38:22You don't need to remind me
38:23That is an 18th century expanding cannonball shot from India
38:33So if you notice one ball is slightly bigger than the other
38:36So that means when it's folded up and put in the cannon and shot
38:40The different weights make the concertina expand and then
38:45And then you get the circular motion
38:48Say no more
38:49You know, it's going to do some damage
38:51Yes, it is
38:52And they are quite sharp
38:53Yeah
38:54Wow
38:55God, how fascinating was that?
38:57Oh my goodness
38:58Really interesting
38:59Thank you so much
39:00God, can I give it a go?
39:01Thank you
39:03Okay, watch out everybody
39:07Oh!
39:08Yeah, well done
39:09Yeah
39:09I see what you mean
39:23Every once in a while I see something that I absolutely want to own
39:27And this is one of those things
39:28I love these guys
39:30I love the object
39:31Tell me what you know about it
39:33Well, I really
39:33I know nothing except I bought it on online auction
39:38With my daughter in mind
39:39She's studying marine biology
39:41And she loves the octopuses
39:42So octopuses in Japan mean good luck
39:46They mean perseverance
39:48And they mean wisdom
39:49So which one of those three relates to you?
39:52Oh gosh, I'm just the jack of all trades
39:54You don't know
39:55I'd say perseverance
39:56Perseverance
39:57It's a difficult field to get into
39:59And I'm really excited that I'm doing it
40:00So, you know
40:02This guy must be perseverance
40:04Yeah, yeah
40:04He's getting in there
40:05He's getting in there
40:06But wisdom as well
40:08Why yes, very wise
40:09Absolutely
40:10And that sort of aquatic theme continues throughout
40:14I mean we've got this amazing decoration on the front
40:16We've got these lovely
40:17Look at these kind of crashing waves
40:19Which goes all the way around the outside of this
40:23What is called a moon flask
40:25And then on the back
40:26We've got these lovely kind of aquatic plants as well
40:29So it is
40:30An aquatic feast
40:32There we are
40:32So Japanese
40:34This may well have been one of a pair
40:37So if I'm lucky enough
40:39I could find the other one
40:40If I get there before you do
40:41I can get it
40:43And I come round to the sort of shape of it
40:45So this was made I think in about sort of 1870
40:48Really?
40:49I do, yeah
40:50Sort of 1870, 1880
40:52Right in the middle of what they would call
40:53That sort of aesthetic
40:54Japanism movement here
40:56And elsewhere in Europe
40:58I mean the quality of it
41:00I'm the one thing I will say is
41:01I'm amazed it's not signed
41:04If I'd done this
41:05I'd want to sign it
41:06Because I'd want everybody to know I made it
41:09Having said all of that
41:10I will say that actually Japanese porcelain
41:12Is a little out of fashion
41:14And I think that's sad really
41:16I think if that came up for auction
41:18It would make between £8 to £1,200
41:25Well that's wonderful
41:26Hopefully it's more than you paid for it
41:27It is
41:28Great, well there you go
41:29There's a profit in it as well
41:31That's good
41:41I brought a playbill from the Lambra Theatre
41:44It's about 100 years old
41:45And they just basically advertised
41:47What would be going on in the theatre that week
41:49But they're super rare
41:50I mean in 35 years I've found three of them
41:53The Lambra Theatre has dazzled audiences in Bradford for over a century
41:59Welcoming legends from Laurel and Hardy
42:01To Morecambe and Wise
42:02With its iconic domed façade
42:05It remains a key landmark
42:07Taking centre stage in the City of Culture celebrations
42:10And Lisa Lloyd is waiting in the wings
42:16So you've brought in three playbills
42:20Why specifically the Alhambra?
42:21I came to university 35 years ago
42:24And within two days I'd got a job working at the Lambra
42:26Showing people deceits, selling ice creams
42:29And it was just a joyous place to be
42:31And I became enchanted with the place
42:33And on the walls of the corridors they've got some of these posters up
42:37And I thought one day I'll own one
42:38And 35 years later I own three
42:41Three shows the rarity of them really
42:43Yeah
42:43But you know they are rare items
42:45Because they're just throwaway items
42:46You know they're printed on the thinnest paper
42:49So I guess perhaps these were saved maybe by somebody who's one of the acts
42:54And thought that they would just keep it as a memento
42:57But the Alhambra really is a local landmark isn't it?
43:01One that was built in 1914
43:03It must have been a magnificent site
43:05Yes
43:06And it's really prominent in the city centre
43:08There's a lot of development gone around there
43:09But the Alhambra's still there
43:10Yeah the rooms are still really visible aren't they?
43:12It's such an iconic theatre
43:14I just love the social history that's in the stories that must be in these playbills
43:19Well I think you know we think some of these names
43:21There's one or two that I recognise here
43:23For the later one that's 1958
43:25So Jimmy James and this one Jimmy Jewel
43:28They were huge stars at the time
43:30Because this really was the heyday of variety performances
43:34So which is the earliest one you've got?
43:36Presumably this is the earliest
43:37Yeah this is the earliest
43:38So this is 1926
43:40I actually got this from a bookshop in Melbourne in Australia
43:43In Australia?
43:44Yeah
43:44Albert Whelan was a big Australian star
43:46So I imagine it found its way back with him or somebody that he knew
43:50Yes as you can see it's Albert Whelan the Australian
43:53Roy Rivers musical unicyclist
43:55He was still performing into his 80s
43:56A musical unicyclist?
43:57Yeah
43:58Yeah I mean he was huge in the states
44:00He went on to have a big career in the states
44:02So you find out some things and then other names are just lost to time
44:06Yes
44:07By the 1960s with television really it was kind of very much in decline
44:12Yeah it was
44:13A lot of the acts had dropped away
44:14Variety was dead really
44:16They're really interesting social documents aren't they
44:20And you know I'm really delighted that you've brought them along today
44:23You do see playbills come up for sale
44:26And I would guess you're probably looking at maybe £100 to £200 each for them
44:30That sort of price
44:31And you know in the Bradford Year of Culture
44:34It's really nice to have a little piece of Bradford history
44:37So thank you very much
44:39No you're very welcome thank you
44:40Well this is something I didn't think I'd be valuing today
44:49A lovely little 1970s Lego set
44:52Whose is it?
44:53It's our mum's
44:55It's your mum's?
44:55Yeah
44:56And where did your mum find it?
44:57At a car boot
44:58At a car boot
44:59At a car boot
45:00And how much did your mum pay for it?
45:01£3
45:02Three quid
45:03Brilliant
45:03So who's the big Lego collector?
45:05Me
45:05Yeah
45:06You
45:06For me it's pure nostalgia
45:08And that's with everything with collecting
45:10You have your template trains and people grew up around them
45:13And Lego was something that I absolutely loved as a kid
45:16This particular set is around 1970, 1974 I think this one was produced
45:21And some of the earlier Lego like the Lego systems
45:23Is really really finding its feet in the market now
45:26And there's huge collectors for it worldwide as well
45:28So the fact that you're finding this at a car boot is brilliant
45:32Do you actually follow the instructions?
45:33Because when I was a kid
45:34I got the instructions and then just threw them away
45:36If it's a set
45:37Yes
45:39But my patience very much dwindles
45:40So I usually just like make my
45:41We have like a lot of spares and I just make my own things out of that
45:44I can relate to that
45:45That's exactly what I did
45:46So all my sets were incomplete
45:48Bit like this one
45:49So this one is actually missing
45:50I'm only missing the bench
45:51Just need two two by four of the same age
45:55You're also missing the instructions as well
45:57So the instructions with Lego sets adds quite a lot of value to them
46:00Probably 20% of the value
46:01We do have the whole box though
46:02You do have the box
46:03And to be fair considering this is 50 years old or so
46:06It's in pretty good condition as well
46:07It's in good condition as well
46:08But yes you are missing the bench
46:09But you have got the most important bit of figures
46:11The money maker
46:11The money maker exactly
46:13Exactly
46:15Brilliant
46:1610 times what you're paid you'll probably get
46:1830 to 50 pounds
46:19Oh that's lovely
46:20And I think if you could find these blocks and you can find the instructions
46:2450 to 80
46:25So it has to be like the aged pieces or can I just literally get smart
46:28where I can draw like when I get home
46:29No it's got to be the aged pieces
46:31I think you two are fantastic
46:33And well done on your three pound investment as well
46:35Wonderful
46:36I saw this glittering in the sunshine
46:48And it's a wonderful little thing
46:50Obviously it's marked Dunhill
46:51So it looks like a cigarette lighter doesn't it
46:53Yeah
46:53Where did you get it from
46:55I don't know
46:56My husband died recently and I was clearing his desk
46:59And this just popped up
47:01Oh I'm really sorry to hear that
47:02But um did you think he was maybe a secret smoker
47:06No he was a secret hoarder
47:09Secret hoarder
47:10Well one thing I can say is he hoarded something really really good here
47:14Because this isn't a cigarette lighter at all is it
47:17No
47:17It's a ladies compact
47:19So the obvious one is if we open the front hatch here
47:23We have powder inside with a little mirror
47:26There we go
47:28Pull this section out here
47:29We have a lipstick
47:33If we pull this out here
47:35A mascara
47:37And if we flip open what would have been the wick cover
47:40We have a perfume holder or bottle
47:43Which is made of aluminium to stop the perfume degrading the metal
47:48On the bottom is a little number
47:49Design registration number for 1928
47:53Is it gold plated or is it just
47:55It's actually gilded brass
47:57Do you know it's quite a valuable little item
47:59I've no idea what it's worth
48:00Which were 700 to a thousand pounds
48:07Thank you Phil
48:08This is by a archie reese griffiths
48:23That's right
48:23He's a pit painter
48:24So he started as a coal miner and became an artist in the 1920s
48:30Yes
48:31You've ever been down a pit
48:32I have
48:32I've been to Capstone Corrie
48:34Going towards Wakefield
48:35When you get down there they turn out the lights
48:37So all you've got is the man's helmet
48:39And oh yes
48:40It's dark
48:41That dark is like the dark you've never seen above ground isn't it
48:45No
48:45It's astonishing
48:46Yes it is
48:47Velvety dark
48:48That's correct
48:49Somehow this painting captures the mood
48:51And these lanterns here you've got five lanterns
48:54And they reveal what the title of the picture is
48:58Hawleyers in difficulty
49:00Yes
49:00This cart which is probably carrying coal
49:03Is on four steel wheels that have fallen off the rails I think
49:06And you see this horse here
49:08Pulling incredibly hard
49:10You see the energy there
49:11And there's another man there
49:12And he's pushing with his legs from the back
49:14Yes
49:15And these two men trying to get the thing back on the rails
49:18Very very effective
49:20It's oil on a piece of old plywood isn't it
49:23Yes
49:23Yes
49:23Yeah
49:24A lot of times artists especially poor artists
49:27Would have found anything to paint on
49:30Possibly backs of wardrobes and things like that perhaps
49:33Well as a result you know it suffered a bit
49:35Because he hasn't prepared it properly
49:36And so you see the grain of the wood through it
49:39But even so it's very dirty
49:41It's got probably got sort of coal dust on it or something
49:43I don't know
49:43Possibly
49:44Can I can I show you what it would look like if you cleaned it
49:47Yes
49:50And um
49:51Oh wow
49:51You can see really that the light begins to work
49:55Now if this picture was cleaned and varnished
49:57You'd be able to look into it like a wet stone
49:59And see these colors and subtleties
50:01Yes
50:02I was thinking about value and um
50:04It's so moody and dramatic
50:06Two to three thousand pounds
50:08Oh
50:08Oh
50:10Oh
50:12Very good
50:19Fantastic end to a fantastic day
50:21And I'm sure when it's cleaned up it's going to be a really great piece
50:25And the valuation was well quite frankly stunning
50:39You came to my table with a very ordinary black box
50:43Yes
50:43Well when I opened the box
50:47There was no ordinary jewel inside
50:49So please tell me how did you acquire this
50:52Well this was my mother's
50:54I think she bought it in the early 70s
50:56She wore it out an awful lot
50:59To dinner dances
51:00Um round table this kind of thing with my father
51:03You know and Jane saw it uh a long time ago and always admired it didn't you
51:09Yeah definitely it's so beautiful it's so fine
51:12You're absolutely right I mean we have the name Grima
51:14Yes
51:15It filled my heart with joy when I saw it because I absolutely love um Andrew Grima's work
51:22I mean he's sort of the godfather of the modernist jewelers
51:26He transformed jewelry in this country from the 60s right up until the early 2000s
51:33Yes
51:33Do you think your mother went to German Street to buy from his shop there?
51:38It wouldn't surprise me
51:39Yes
51:39It certainly wouldn't surprise me she has that kind of style
51:42It was just big slate um slabs in front of the shop and tiny windows where you had to sort of peer
51:49through like you were looking through an Aladdin's cave
51:51Oh right yeah
51:52Um and his workshop at the time they were doing things that no one else was doing
51:57He would have this wonderful symbiotic relationship with his craftspeople
52:02And he would give them sort of like make me a leaf brooch and they're going how am I going to do that
52:07And he said well you're the maker yeah I'm the designer you know so that's your problem
52:11Yeah
52:11You've got to solve that
52:13And this is a beautiful leaf and it has the one diamond and that is to represent a dew drop
52:21Yeah
52:21Yeah
52:22Yeah
52:22Yeah
52:22The casting process to make something like this is incredibly skillful
52:27Mm-hmm
52:28And I mean to show all the veins like this it's so thin and delicate and the way that he's managed to get
52:36but the leaf as if it has fallen on the ground
52:38Yeah
52:39Yeah
52:39Yeah
52:39Every single jewel he made was different
52:43Yeah
52:43Oh wow yeah
52:44So when you wear this brooch you know no one else is going to be wearing it but they will all be admiring it
52:52That's for sure
52:53Yeah
52:53And that's why his jewelry is so collected
52:57So gosh I would say that's going to be at least six to eight thousand pounds
53:04Wow
53:04I wasn't expecting
53:09That's amazing I didn't expect didn't expect that but she had a good eye I have to say bless her
53:13Oh my gosh but she bought it herself or did your father buy it
53:16No she bought it herself
53:17Oh she bought it herself that's even better
53:20Highly approved of women buying jewelry for themselves
53:31On the roadshow we've been fortunate to see many fine works by the renowned furniture maker
53:36Robert Thompson crafted in his workshop here in Yorkshire and all featuring his trademark signature of a carved mouse
53:44And there's no shortage of them on ronnie archer morgan's table today
53:50The pieces you've bought are are remarkable
53:53You've really got an eye for quality
53:56But every piece you've chosen
53:58Is precision
54:00Like this wonderful money box
54:03The big slice of cheese with a mouse going through and poking its head out the other side
54:09Look at that yeah
54:10I mean look at that isn't that clever yes I just love it so witty
54:17Robert thompson carried on the tradition that william morris started in the 19th century of bringing craft
54:26back to production
54:28These owls they're extraordinary late 50s into the 60s and they've got their breakfast in their mouths
54:35They have
54:37And they're a pair but they're a flanking pair
54:40So they face in opposite directions
54:44I mean
54:45They're just stunning
54:47So what did you buy first?
54:49I think it was probably the ashtrays
54:51And then what made you want to go on?
54:54Because we just love wood we love anything nice we like things that are tactile
54:58I mean you've got this wonderful stall here look how that's made it's gorgeous
55:02I mean that's just a stunning bit of
55:05Yorkshire oak
55:06Which is what everything is made from
55:09And the tapering leg there I mean that's not easy to know
55:13Lovely craftsmanship and you've got the little mouse again there
55:17Yes
55:18The signature
55:19I mean it's not rare this stuff
55:22There are a couple of things on this table that are rare and it's these
55:25What did you pay for those about 600 pounds each about 600 pound you were brave?
55:31Well, yes brave, but we love them so but I like that because that's a commitment to what you love
55:37Yeah, isn't it? I mean do you like these
55:39I mean they're amazing who doesn't yeah, I mean it's not that you don't see at mouseman stuff
55:45It's that you don't see a group of things by mouseman like these
55:50Um, yeah, they're extraordinary and I suppose you want me to value them
55:57A stool like that could easily make
55:59800 pounds wow yeah good pair of those bookends five to six hundred four to five
56:07These owls are something else you paid 600 each. Yeah. Yeah
56:13They'd now make comfortably six thousand each no
56:19wow wow
56:21So the whole lot here is between
56:2414 and 15 thousand pounds wow wow you are so clever wow thank you you've got such a great eye
56:32Not going anywhere we're keeping them
56:44Whenever the cameras are about to stop rolling at the end of a day of the road show
56:47I always think that is the moment to have a cup of tea even better with a biscuit and look
56:53This is a special tin to commemorate Bradford city of culture
56:57Editable archives and inside are the most
57:02Beautiful biscuits all telling a different story about the history and the culture of Bradford over the centuries
57:10And i'm going to pick one. I think this one
57:13It says welcome in in english and in arabic and in burmese a meld of languages to reflect Bradford itself
57:22Oh
57:24Delicious
57:26From the auntie strojo and everybody here. Bye. Bye
57:52Okay
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