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00:00Our venue for today, Shuttleworth House in Bedfordshire, has all the attributes we love
00:08on the roadshow. A beautiful historical home, set on a wonderful estate with graceful gardens,
00:15water features and a runway.
00:21Complete with the collection of historic aircraft dating from the dawn of aviation
00:25in hangars close by. We'll have a look at them later. But the pride of the collection has to be
00:31this beauty, 1942 Supermarine Spitfire. And it's about to fire up.
00:42Chocks away.
00:48And our experts are also cleared for takeoff. Coming up...
00:51It's very slinky-malinky. It moves beautifully on the hand like that.
00:57OK, this is a passion challenge, isn't it?
00:59Oh, yes.
01:01There you go.
01:02And this market is on fire.
01:05Crikey, for a mug.
01:08Wow, good old Auntie Jean.
01:16Welcome to the Antiques Roadshow.
01:18Well, under the canopy of the trees, we're here with the most spectacular botanical vase.
01:45But before I fill in some of the blanks and tell you about it, how's it come to be in your life?
01:49I got this about 10 years ago from my mum.
01:53And prior to that, her great-great-grandmother was gifted it by a major who was serving in France at the time.
02:02Really?
02:02And it came to me and I was asked to take it to the Antiques Roadshow, which is taking a little bit longer than anticipated.
02:10My mum did say if I bought it then, it changed hands and it becomes mine.
02:15Really?
02:15Yeah.
02:16So, at this pivotal moment, we are now transferring title...
02:21Absolutely.
02:22..from mum to you.
02:24Yep, absolutely.
02:25Wow.
02:26She might not be on the same page as that, but...
02:29So, what we're looking at, it's fairly monumental in terms of its scale.
02:36We're looking at a piece of classic Art Nouveau French cameo glass.
02:42Now, when we're looking at French cameo glass and Art Nouveau cameo glass, there are certain names
02:47that we always want to hear, certain names that we always want to find.
02:51One, of course, is the great Emile Gallet, and the other is the firm of Dorme.
02:57Now, based in Nancy, and you can see they've got the Cross of Lorraine, which is always in their mark,
03:04but they were a glass house that were really pivotal at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century.
03:10Formed in 1878 by Jean Dorme, he opened the factory with a move to creating beautiful, fine art glass.
03:19But it was his two sons, Auguste and Antonin, who really grabbed the baton and ran.
03:26And then in 1904, sadly, the glass world lost Emile Gallet.
03:31Now, he had been the trendsetter, and with his passing, they saw their opportunity, and boy, did they go for it.
03:38And for me, this piece, I think, is around that 1904, 1908 period.
03:46It's cameo glass. So with cameo, you have a process in the hot, where different colours and layers of glass are gathered.
03:55So it's cased over, one over the other. And you've got this beautiful gradation of colour from, you know,
04:01this lovely canopy of leaves down to this very dark base.
04:04Then, principally, what happens is they mask it, and it's dipped in acid to cut away what's not wanted.
04:13And then you get this secondary cutting where you start to see the veins in the leaves.
04:19And then there will be an element of hand finishing to bring this up to the finished piece.
04:25Yeah, beautiful.
04:26It's an exemplary piece. And I think in the market today, at auction, you'd be comfortably looking at £2,000 to £3,000.
04:34Wow, fantastic. Gosh. Thank you. Thank you very much.
04:39You're very, very welcome.
04:39And, clearly, title is now yours. So go and enjoy it.
04:43Thank you very much.
04:46I honestly didn't know how much the vase would have been worth.
04:49So to know that it had value, but also to know it was a really considered gift originally, makes it really special.
04:57So, yeah, delighted.
04:58This is an incredibly colourful picture, and it's actually so distinctively bold.
05:16It is unmistakably the hand of an artist that's from very far away from here.
05:21An artist called Prefet Dufault from Haiti. And I'm wondering how this picture from Haiti came to be here today.
05:31I used to work for a lady in the 90s, and she was Deputy High Commissioner of Jamaica.
05:36When she died, the family said I could have anything in the house that I liked.
05:40And I liked this picture because it was very colourful. And the little people reminded me of Larry as well.
05:47So, yes, I loved it.
05:49So, Dufault became one of Haiti's most well-known artists.
05:54I mean, he was born in the 1920s. He was largely self-taught.
05:57He worked with his father, who made boats.
06:01And so I suppose he became very good at observing things.
06:05You know, he watched his father. He watched the people around him.
06:07But he was largely self-taught.
06:09So he's painted it in oil on board, which is quite typical for him.
06:14It was likely painted in and around the 50s or 60s.
06:17And I think when you look at some of the detail, actually, the people are really great.
06:21I mean, you've got them in a kaleidoscope of colour.
06:24I love the reference you made to Larry and Manchester, because he, of course,
06:28was also really well-known for painting crowds of people.
06:32But I suppose, unlike Larry, who really painted from his experience,
06:36and although his cities are imaginary to an extent, they are based on his experience in and around
06:41Manchester, whereas Dufault was quite different.
06:45They are all imaginary landscapes.
06:48There isn't a town that looks exactly like this.
06:50And I think that's part of the beauty of it, that this was completely created in his mind.
06:56I'm sure, though, that like Larry, his people would have been people that he came across,
07:01that he then peppers into the landscape.
07:04I love, you know, you've got someone with a walking stick here.
07:06You've got little children playing by the bridge.
07:09You've then got people sort of slowly carrying things, walking up the road.
07:14And what I love is that he had this incredible sense of colour to bring together orange and yellow
07:22and green and fuchsia and make it work in the landscape is really, really quite special.
07:29I mean, he was apparently inspired to paint because one day he saw a vision of the Virgin Mary
07:35appear at him at the top of a mountain and she commanded him to paint.
07:39And so he did have this sort of very strong, you know, spiritual side to him.
07:44And I just wonder whether that's why you've got so many mountains in your picture,
07:49that it's quite a significant panorama across the back of the composition.
07:55I would say he did become pretty well known in his lifetime.
07:58And so today, if this was to come to auction,
08:00we would probably put an estimate in the region of 800 to 1200 pounds.
08:04Right. Okay. Yeah. It's just lovely, isn't it?
08:14Oh, that's great. I haven't seen one of those for a while.
08:17Do you know what it is?
08:18Well, I've only known it as a passion gauge.
08:20Oh, right.
08:21You hold the bottom bowl.
08:23Like that.
08:24And then if you're passionate, it bubbles up.
08:26Oh, my goodness.
08:28Just like that.
08:30Oh, my goodness. There we go.
08:31There you go.
08:32Hot stuff.
08:33Okay. This is a passion challenge, isn't it?
08:35There.
08:35Okay.
08:36Oh, yes.
08:36There you go.
08:37Oh, yes.
08:40Whose was it?
08:41We found it in our granddad's things.
08:43Do you know where it would be from?
08:45They're assumed to be French, although I've never seen a maker's mark on one.
08:49A value, I'd put it at perhaps 100, 120 pounds.
08:52I think it's terrific.
08:54Really, really great.
08:54Yeah, it's great fun. We love it.
08:55It's good fun, yeah.
08:56So, I didn't do very well learning German at school, so I'm going to use what German I have
09:11to try and decipher or translate the plaque on the top of this, and as far as I can see,
09:15it says, we, Wilhelm, and that's Kaiser Wilhelm II, basically, by God's grace, the German Kaiser
09:22and Emperor of Prussia, give this presentation to the officer of the British ship, Torhead,
09:29J.G. Brew, for his help in rescuing the crew of the German ship, Helene.
09:35Now, we've got a pair of binoculars and a case, and I really would love you to explain to me
09:40what you know about this, please, and this gentleman, J.G. Brew.
09:45So, this is John George Brew, and he is my great-grandfather.
09:48From what I am aware of, he was in the merchant navy, and he was on the Torhead,
09:55which was travelling to South America, and they came across a boat in distress.
10:02And as is such in the maritime world, you always go to the aid of distressed fellow sailors,
10:08which is obviously what they did. So, here we have a medal which is dated 1902,
10:13and as part of this group, that was the medal. It's kind of a Humane Society-style medal that was
10:18given for saving life in maritime situations. But I think the story gets even more poignant in a
10:26way, doesn't it? Yes. Because here we have his dog tags from the First World War. That's right.
10:33What happened to him? So, he joined the Irish Fusiliers in 1914, and in 1918, unfortunately,
10:43he was shot at and injured by the Germans, and captured by them, and died a week later in German
10:50captivity. Gosh, really? Here he is in 1902, rescuing the German crew of a ship, and the Kaiser awards him
10:59this as a gift. And in 1918, the same Kaiser's army sadly ends up shooting him, and he dies as a result
11:07of his injuries. And, you know, I do find that a very, very poignant story, and a terrible end, really.
11:13Yes, yes. So, I'm going to put a value on this. And I think, in reality, if it came up for auction,
11:19it would probably make between £500 and £1,000 at auction as a story and a group of objects. As I say,
11:26that very poignant idea about man's humanity and inhumanity. Absolutely, yes. All encapsulated in
11:34one, I think, amazing little story. Thank you for bringing it. Thank you. Thank you very much.
11:46So, you woke up this morning, you thought, Antiques Roadshow's in town.
11:49I know. I'll take a rocking horse along. Absolutely. Tell me more. So, I was the
11:57chairperson of a local community preschool that, unfortunately, has recently closed. But this was
12:03an item we'd had for many years that had been donated to us, and when it came time to clear,
12:07we weren't quite ready to get rid of it. So, we've been holding onto it for a bit, and I thought,
12:10actually, today's the day to bring it along and see if I can find anything out about it. Okay. So,
12:15what do you like about it? I love his little face. It's quite sweet, and the joins here,
12:21these kind of peg joins, the way it's brought together. I have to say that when you brought
12:25this to my table, I thought, I know that work. I turned it over, as I'm going to do now,
12:31and there is actually almost sort of stamped on the base there a mark which I recognise instantly,
12:38and that says Kai Bogeson, who is a really significant figure in the world of Danish design.
12:47He actually trained as a silversmith, and he was a real craftsman. He starts in silversmithing,
12:52he moves into toy making, and he does that from a small workshop and shop in the centre of Copenhagen,
12:59and he was known for these animals. He designed a whole menagerie, most famously a monkey, but also a
13:05puffin, an elephant, a hippo, all sorts of animals, which are hugely popular, and which is still being
13:11made today. Oh, wow. And if you just look at the design for a moment, the great thing is,
13:16this has been designed with children in mind. Yeah. Was it a popular toy? It was very popular.
13:22It was mostly like between two and four-year-old children who were using it, and any time it was
13:27out, they would automatically gravitate, because it's just the right size. They do crop up from time to time
13:31at auction. We need to bear in mind condition. It's been well and truly loved. Yes. But I think
13:37even so, at auction, I can see this fetching between £100 and £150. Oh, wow. That's great for a
13:46dinner item, but I mean, I think one of the best things about it is how much love it's had over the
13:50years. Yeah. Yeah, you seem a little surprised. I am. I am a little bit, yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't have
13:55expected that. Well, I'm very glad you did decide to bring it to Antiques Roadshow today. Thank you
14:00very much. Yeah, thank you so much.
14:11Our venue today is known as Shuttleworth House, after the family who lived here. It was built in 1875
14:18for Joseph Shuttleworth. He'd made his fortune manufacturing some of the world's earliest
14:24steam-driven farm machines and tractors. In 1932, the estate was passed down to his grandson,
14:31Richard Shuttleworth. Aged just 23, he'd become the owner of a huge estate and a fortune to match.
14:39Having 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,
14:49like this magnificent 1890s Panart.
14:58He quickly started building up an array of fast cars, which eventually would become a world-renowned
15:05collection. But Richard wasn't just a wealthy collector gathering fast cars. He was a genuine racer.
15:13In 1935, he won Britain's first Grand Prix at Donington Park, driving his Alfa Romeo.
15:20But flying was to become his true passion. And this is where it all began, his very first plane,
15:25a 1928 DH-60 Hermes Moth. It set him back £300, plus one guinea for the registration fee.
15:34And he quickly clocked up hundreds of air miles, often with his dog, Tipper, on board.
15:38The one plane soon became a collection of many more. His oldest aircraft, a 1909 Blerio,
15:47was restored by Richard himself, with his mum and sister sewing the linen wings using the family's
15:52billiard table. Today, it's famous as the world's oldest flying aircraft.
15:58With the outbreak of World War II, Richard joined the RAF in 1939. And despite his extensive flying
16:03experience, he still had to do official training, including learning to fly night missions. Sadly,
16:10just a year later, during a night flying exercise, his plane crashed and he died. He was just 31.
16:16His mother, Dorothy, kept his entire collection, eventually opening it up as a public display for
16:24everyone to enjoy. Richard Shuttleworth was ahead of his time, restoring vintage aircraft long before
16:31it was common practice. Today, his collection has international acclaim, attracting tens of thousands
16:38of aviation enthusiasts. And today, our roadshow visitors.
16:51I want to know, how long have you had this mug? And is this how you learnt the alphabet?
16:55It is how I learnt the alphabet, but I've had this since I was a baby. So my godmother gave this mug to me
17:01as a christening present in, dare I say it, 60 years ago. I was never allowed to drink out of it
17:07because it was my precious mug. So it was always on a shelf in the bedroom or in a cupboard. And it was
17:13only in my latter years that I've been given permission to have it myself. It is a very beautifully, graphically
17:21designed piece. And it is by the Wedgwood factory. But the magic to it is the name of the designer.
17:28And that's Eric Revillius. So he was a British painter, designer, book illustrator, wood engraver.
17:37He was a very, very talented man. So Eric Revillius was working from around 1920. Some of his designs
17:47were used by Wedgwood and some of his designs were for his freelance work. Now, he's very well known for
17:54the coronation mugs. So he did the coronation mug designed for the late queen and for her father and
18:02for the king that abdicated. But before all of that was going on, he designed this mug. So this was known
18:12as the nursery alphabet mug. And surprise, surprise, it came in blue, but it also came in pink. Yes.
18:21You've got the blue one, which I think is far nicer. But it also came in green and yellow,
18:27which were rarer. And I think rarer because they weren't as popular. They didn't make as much
18:33sense perhaps as the pink and the blue. So if we turn it over, designed by Eric Revillius,
18:39Wedgwood made in England. But what's more fascinating than that is all the wonderful
18:45pictures and letters around the entire circumference of this mug. He ran out of space.
18:56But the clever designer that he was, he put the Y and the Z on the inside. Now,
19:02Revillius was in the Second World War and sadly lost his life. And the popularity of these pieces
19:09has continued to grow. So if this came up for auction today, it would make somewhere in the
19:14region of £300 to £500. Frikey. For a mug. Wow. Good old Auntie Jean.
19:21I am very glad Mum told me not to use it. I always thought it was just a mug,
19:29but it's clearly a very special mug.
19:31It was such a treat to see the Eric Revillius mug. And I was excited and petrified really to tell this
19:41lady about something she's owned for so long. But it was beautiful to help bring it to life.
19:46And for her to tell me her story, which is, you know, what Roadshow is all about.
19:59A lot of people don't like dolls. They find them sort of rather spooky. But this I think would be
20:06the exception to the rule. What can you tell me about her? Well, she's been in the family for
20:12a few generations. She's my husband's great grandmothers. I was gifted her by my mother-in-law
20:21because I really liked dolls and I actually like quirky things. So I'm presumably the first port of
20:26call to hand it over. Okay. So she obviously thought that this was quirky enough to warrant
20:31being given to you. Exactly.
20:33I'm not sure exactly who made it, but I can tell you it is German and dating from about the 1840s to
20:391850s. And it would have been not an inexpensive item at the time. So it would have been sort of a
20:44quite an affluent, perhaps middle-class family that would have purchased it for, you know, for one of
20:48their daughters. She's got a composition head and she's got sort of a little painted features and
20:53she's got rosy cheeks. And I love her sort of, her updo hairstyle. And then she's got these really
21:00long wooden arms. From the elbows down, they're wooden. The bottom part of her legs are wooden with
21:06these little painted shoes. And the rest of her actually is made of cloth. And what's interesting
21:10is that the clothes are period with her. She's even got undergarment. She's got little petticoats on
21:15and then she's got some bloomers under that as well. And you know, it's all those sort of little
21:19things really that really add to her appeal. But you know, what's quite remarkable is the
21:23condition which it's in, because I've seen a number of them and they're nearly always
21:28perhaps missing feet or they have some damage on them. So what is it you sort of like about
21:32her particularly? Well, I like dressmaking and things like that. So obviously I'd like to know
21:36the detailing on the dress. And you've dated her for me, which is lovely. And I like the little
21:41intricate details of the lace. She's just really different and special. And the fashion for dolls,
21:47actually, in recent years, it's very much sort of fallen out of favour. They don't make the sort
21:51of sums of money that they used to. But these more kind of naive and early dolls are still very
21:58desirable. And if she were to be at auction, I could see her quite comfortably making about
22:03three to four hundred pounds. Really? Yes. I think she's lovely. I really love her. Oh,
22:09Oh, thank you very much. I'm going to treasure her. She's beautiful.
22:24Given its reputation as a centre of aviation heritage, it's little wonder we've been treated
22:29to the odd flyover by vintage aircraft, like a Spitfire. Part of the most famous aerial battle in
22:35history, the Battle of Britain in 1940, it saw the Royal Air Force defending the country against
22:41large scale attacks by the German Luftwaffe, preventing an invasion and marking a turning
22:45point in the Second World War. Mark Smith saw some mementos from one of the actual pilots.
22:53Today, we've had the sky filled with the sound of the Merlin engine. We had a Spitfire fly over us.
22:59But during that summer of 1940, that sound would have been the sound of Spitfires and Hurricanes as
23:04they took off in the Battle of Britain. And if those men called by Winston Churchill, the few,
23:10hadn't won that battle, World War Two would have been a very different place. Who was this man?
23:16This man was Duncan Stuart MacDonald, my father, who fought in the Battle of Britain. He flew from
23:22Tangmere, flying mainly Hurricanes. He flew 81 sorties. In the battle? In the battle. And he shot down
23:30three enemy aircraft. Now, during that summer of 1940, it was these very, very young men who went up
23:38again and again and again, sometimes four 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
23:50flying in September and October of that year is quite incredible. So we have a Distinguished
23:56Service Order. We have a Distinguished Flying Cross, which is dated 1940, because this was awarded
24:04for the Battle of Britain. We have the 3945 Star with that tiny little bar, the Battle of Britain,
24:10only two and a half thousand of those ever issued. Aircrew Europe, Africa, Italy,
24:17Defence and a war with a mention in dispatches. And I know that after 1940, he went on to have
24:22another Distinguished Career as what we call a train buster, attacking ground troops all across Europe.
24:31We've got these other things. This thing is called a C-type flying helmet. It's not from the Battle of
24:36Britain. It's a bit later. Was that his? That was his and the goggles are his as well, yeah.
24:41What was he like? He was very gregarious, fun, very good dad, lovely man. Did he talk about this?
24:49Yes, he talked to me a lot about it and had some very funny and some very frightening stories. But in
24:55general, he and his friends from the war didn't talk about it very much. Did you know he was a Battle of
25:01Britain pilot? Oh yes, right from the beginning. I always thought I might become a pilot, but
25:06I didn't have the ability. In 1969, I went off with my mum and dad to the cinema and we saw the film
25:13The Battle of Britain. Did he watch it? Oh yes, he was nearly involved in producing that film.
25:19Oh really? So we knew all about that. They had a lot of trouble finding the Spitfires,
25:23because we're very few flying them. I think there were only six in the world. If this came up on the
25:29open market, it would sell for £40,000. And I think that actually says what we mean about people from
25:41the Battle of Britain. Thank you so much for bringing in today your dad and his medals and taking us back to
25:50the skies of 1940. Thank you very much. Thank you for bringing this lovely Japanese woodblock print to us.
26:02We don't see this every day. It's quite rare find. What can you tell me about it? Well, I know very
26:08little actually, apart from the fact that it was given to my grandfather by a lieutenant in the Imperial
26:14Japanese Navy. His name was Kinjoshi Yamamoto. A lot of them are reproductions with a lot brighter
26:23colours and they are very decorative and sought after. But this what we see is the original of
26:28Hiroshige's early work. If you look at the back of it and you can see the original piece of paper,
26:36that's when they dried it and that's the old repair work. And that paper is the original woodblock print
26:43from the early 19th century. It's decorated with two ladies washing a cloth by the river accompanied
26:50by a boy here. And it's in the mountains inscribed with nice calligraphy as well. And the colours
26:56obviously faded. Unfortunately, the edges have been cut down. So it's going to make an impact on the
27:04value. Unfortunately, it's going to be about £200 to £400. If it's in original perfect condition,
27:10it's going to be around £2,000 to £4,000. Well, very pleased that it is genuine.
27:17Yes, it makes it of more interest.
27:23As 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
27:45Shuttleworth, where we are now, and indeed the RAF. Perhaps you can explain to me what that connection is.
27:52When I was born in 1946, Mrs Shuttleworth gave that to me as a christening chalice.
27:58But on the front, it's got an inscription to Richard Shuttleworth.
28:01Yeah. Well, it goes back from when the Shuttleworth Trust used to own all the land between here and
28:08Bedford. And the tenants of the estate gave that to Mrs Shuttleworth when Richard was born. And my
28:14father, after the war, ran the aviation side and the cars and the aerodrome Old Warden. And he had a long
28:21career with the Shuttleworth Trust up until 1966 when he retired. So Mrs Shuttleworth, having lost her
28:28beloved son in action, gave a christening present that was given to him, to your parents, on your
28:36christening. That's correct. The silverware itself is a copy of a late 17th century cup and cover,
28:41which was the height of fashion in 1680. And when this was made, it was actually presented in 1909,
28:48but the silver hallmark on it is for 1903. Oh yeah. And the maker's mark of the Barnard brothers,
28:56who had a reputation for making very good quality silver of this sort of type. In 1903,
29:02this type of antique silver was incredibly fashionable. Everybody wanted it. It would have been a very
29:09expensive gift for the tenant farmers. In a sale room, it would make somewhere between say 250 and 300
29:16pounds. Okay. Thank you very much. Quite a nice christening present. Yeah. Thank you.
29:32This is such an important life-saving medal. It's the Albert Medal. And it was usually awarded for
29:47life-saving at sea. But this is the first time this medal was awarded for life-saving on land.
29:55Wow. I didn't know that. And what I really like about this medal in particular is it's actually
30:01engraved on the back with the details of why it was given. So it says presented in the name of Her
30:09Majesty to Richard Hopkins, your ancestor Collier, for saving life at the Tina Wythe Colliery, April 1877.
30:20So tell me, how have you come by it? Well, it's actually a family medal. We think that the
30:26gentleman that was given it was our grandmother's grandfather. On the Welsh side of our family,
30:33there was a mining disaster. He worked at the mine at the time. And with some others,
30:38he helped save some men that were trapped in a flooded mine. It was a major disaster at the time.
30:45Yes. Because it killed five people. One of those was a 13-year-old boy. My goodness. And trapped nine
30:53others in various small cavities. And these were little cavities. It took 18 hours to rescue four of
31:01them. It took nine days to then rescue the remaining five. Your ancestor was one of four shifts of four
31:10men that were working 24 hours a day. And these would have been friends, family members, colleagues
31:16that they were rescuing. That's incredible. Can you imagine how cramped and claustrophobic it must have been
31:23with the fear of the water rising? Absolutely. A terrible condition. And the elation when they
31:29actually pulled them out. Yes. Yeah. And this is why Richard was awarded this and all the other
31:35rescuers were awarded this medal. Public opinion was so strong that Queen Victoria decided to award the
31:43Albert Medal, not just for life saving at sea, to extend it to life saving on land. Right. And at the same
31:51time, they were awarded this wonderful silver pocket watch. And they're in beautiful condition, both of
31:58them. So they were obviously absolutely treasured. You can tell. Yeah. Have you had these valued before?
32:04No, we haven't. We haven't had these valued. No. And because these were awarded together. Yeah. And
32:11when you see them at auction, they're always sold together. Yes. Right. So a value is between
32:17£8,000 and £10,000. Oh, my goodness. Oh, wow. No idea. You've told his story, so even better. Yes.
32:24Lovely. Thanks so much. Oh, thank you. Pleasure.
32:31I'm very surprised. I'm surprised about the story of his bravery. And how long it lasted. I knew it was
32:40a colliery disaster. I had no idea how long they were down there and how hard they worked to get
32:46those men out to be involved like that. I think it's the man was so brave. I'm so proud that he was in
32:53our family.
33:01I've been in this industry now 30, 40 years. And the thing that's always amazes me how you watch markets
33:07rise 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
33:18and so sought after. And of course, we've got a wonderful Whitefriars banjo vase. But tell me,
33:25how'd you come to be its owner? Well, in the mid 60s to early 70s, I worked for a department store
33:32in Oxford Street in the China and glass department. And we used to sell Whitefriars amongst other things,
33:38but it must have been about the late 60s that the Whitefriars factory cleared out a lot of this
33:44range. Wow. In fact, there was so much of it, the staff were limited to what they could buy.
33:49Do you remember? How much did you pay? Well, it was very, very cheap. It was probably
33:55maybe 10 shillings. It might have been pre decimal. Right. Or a pound or something like that. Wow.
34:00Yeah. I mean, really, really that sort of era. What we're looking at, we've mentioned the name
34:04Whitefriars. And of course, a company and a factory that has been in existence long before this
34:09was bought to market. But more specifically, let's talk about who the designer is. And of course,
34:14that is the great Jeffrey Baxter. Now, Jeffrey Baxter joined Whitefriars in 1954. And his early
34:21work being very smooth, very clean, but moved forward into the 60s. And he introduces this range,
34:27which is called the textured range. But they were born out of his imagination. And the fact that within
34:33the moulds, he would literally put things like screws, nuts and bolts, copper wire,
34:38or even pieces of bark to give this wonderful textured effect. Not only have we got the form,
34:44we have to determine the colour. If we take this up to the light, we can just see that there is a slight
34:50blue hue within, which tells me that this is indigo. Now, it falls very closely to other colours,
34:57such as pewter and willow. And the three are all sort of very close within the spectrum.
35:01But I'm happy to say that this is an indigo one. When we look at these, and when we look at price,
35:07and as I say, form first, then colour. And this market is on fire. Because today,
35:16this is 2,000 to 3,000. No. Oh, my goodness me.
35:21It's so nice to have something that is so much of its era, so instantly recognisable.
35:30Thank you so much for sharing it, and letting us tell all about the designer.
35:34Oh, dear. Oh, wow.
35:39Goodness me.
35:43One area of collecting we're seeing increasingly on the roadshow is movie memorabilia, which has
35:49rocketed in value, especially when it relates to the biggest film franchises.
35:54Expert Stephen Lane specialises in this growing market.
35:59Stephen Lane, great to see you from the prop store. We love it when you come on the programme,
36:03with your fabulous items for us to play basic better best. There's, of course,
36:08one obvious thing they've all got in common, which is a Bond theme.
36:10You're absolutely right.
36:11So, talk us through them. What are we looking at?
36:13So, what we have is three different items from three different Bond films, starring three different
36:18James Bonds. And the James Bond films have become a global phenomenon. 27 films in total,
36:24starting in 1962, when Sean Connery first appeared as the character James Bond, right
36:29away through to 2021, the last film that we saw Daniel Craig star in. This is from Moonraker,
36:351979, starring Roger Moore as James Bond. And this is a model miniature space ranger. So,
36:42these were used for some of the distance shots, the special effects shots, during the film.
36:47Obviously, it's modelled on a full-size costume. It was a costume that was worn by an actor,
36:51and they built these in different scales. This is a one-sixth scale. And this was crafted by
36:56Derek Meddings and his team, who was obviously famous for his work on Thunderbirds, Superman, and many,
37:01many other films. And they're rare. They're really hard to find. Very hard to come by. Very, very
37:06desirable by collectors. And this sort of encapsulates everything. It does it all in one shot.
37:10Walter PKK? Walter PPK. Oh, and you're so close. Yeah, absolutely. So, this is Goldeneye,
37:16moving on to 1995, where we have Pierce Brosnan as James Bond. The Walter PPK was Bond's weapon of
37:23choice, actually, from the inception of the films, right the way through to Tomorrow Never Dies, where they
37:28changed to a P99, but actually rotated back to a PPK in Quantum of Solace and right the way through to
37:34the end of the series that we know of so far. Now, let's talk about my favourite. I mean,
37:39this sumptuous dress. And also, this is miniscule, isn't it? It is. And what film is this from?
37:45And this is from Casino Royale, 2006, with Daniel Craig as James Bond. Designed, custom-made by Roberto
37:53Cavalli, for Eva Green, for the film. And I think this has the Bond wow factor as well.
37:58It really is. Don't we think, ladies? Well, chaps as well, I'm sure. I mean, that is fabulous. So,
38:06this is basically about a best. So, we're talking, there are three different values,
38:10and we need to work out from the lowest to the highest. What are the three values we're talking
38:14about? 20,000, 40,000, and 100,000. Okay, I've got my theories. I've got my theories. What about you,
38:25with your lovely dog? What do you think? What do you think? Yes, hello.
38:32The gun being the lowest one. The lowest, okay. And the dress being next, and then the Moonraker
38:41figure the highest. Okay. Oh, I don't know. Do you agree with us?
38:46Dress basic. What's harsh? It's beautiful, but basic. Moonraker better gun best, maybe.
38:57Gun best. Does anyone think the dress is the best out of interest? Oh, yes. Here we are at the back.
39:03So, we think the dress is the best, and the gun basic, and the astronaut figure is in the middle.
39:12Right, okay. And I love the fact that you talk in unison. That gives it extra value. Okay.
39:20I mean, I love this the best. There's no question about that.
39:22I would have thought the gun. I mean, when you think about the opening sequence of Bond,
39:28and you see him through the barrel of the gun, and he turns, and he points. I mean,
39:32that is the thing that you so associate with Bond. Okay, I'm going to say this is the best.
39:37That's my starting point. Okay, I'm massively swayed by how much I like this dress. So,
39:42I'm going to say basic, better, best. Controversial. Yeah. Right. What do you say?
39:55You got me again. Oh, yes. I've got to work harder on this. Oh, that's great.
40:03Well done. Right. Well, was my methodology right in terms of? Yeah. I mean, I think you're right. I mean,
40:11ultimately something like this is highly desirable, but perhaps it has a ceiling because it's more of
40:16a background item than it is going to be a main sort of close-up principle piece. I think the dress
40:21is wonderful, but ultimately, as I said earlier, you are talking about the most famous movie weapon
40:27in the world, and this is the hero one, and it's the Pierce Brosnan Goldeneye film has a lot of love
40:31as well. It was a reboot for the franchise, and yeah, I mean, you nailed it. What was it?
40:3620,000. 20,000. 40,000. 40,000. 100,000. Well, I love the Bond movies, and Casino Royale,
40:46as I said, was my favourite. So, what a treat to see these. Thank you so much, Stephen.
40:49It's been a pleasure. Thank you.
41:07So, you bought it where? At a toy show. Well, it was in the job lot in a box in front of the stall.
41:13There was trains and die-cast cars, and I just fished it out. Thought, that looks very interesting.
41:18Well done you. And the chap that was selling it said,
41:22it doesn't work, you know. So, I said, okay, but it seems an interesting article.
41:26So, he said, I've got the key for it, but I tried to wind it, but it didn't wind.
41:30Right. So, I thought, okay. So, I said, how much would you like me to pay for it?
41:35So, he said, well, I want about 50 pounds for it. I painstakingly took it apart, and there's a
41:41clockwork spring in there, and I managed to heat it up with a blow lamp, and remake the spring,
41:48and then painstakingly put it all back together again. And I have to go underneath the tail,
41:52because that's where it is, yeah. Yeah. So, excuse me, cat.
41:55That's brilliant. Well done you. Have you done that before? Not to a cat. Not to a cat, no, no.
42:08Rue de Caen in Paris started making all these different things. Some of them are musical,
42:15and mainly for grown-ups to entertain when they had a dinner party, or people staying, or whatever.
42:21It wasn't for children at all. There's rabbit fur on a cat. They used rabbit fur a lot when they
42:28were making automata, particularly animals. So, talking about 1920, 1930, they paid 50 pounds. I mean,
42:36I'm going to be outrageous and put 600 to 800 on it. Really? Right. It's lovely.
42:43Because everybody wants an automaton. I just think it's absolutely hilarious,
42:47and I'm going to make it work again.
42:51It's very good he's not jumping off the table. Yes, very well behaved.
43:11Well, here at Shuttleworth, I suppose people know it mostly for the Amazing Aircraft Museum, which is
43:17over in that direction. And one of the prizes within that museum is an aeroplane called the Blerio 11.
43:26And it's the oldest airworthy aeroplane in the world. And the model we're looking at here is a Model 11.
43:35It's based on that very first channel crossing by a motorised machine in 1909. So, look, you're obviously a bit of a Blerio fan, because you built it, didn't you?
43:46Yeah, I built it. It took nearly three years. I built it on an absolute whim. I had a pair of wheels. I thought, what can I do with these wheels?
43:54I need an aeroplane to go with the wheels. So I built an aeroplane to go with the wheels.
43:58Let's just explain what is so special about the channel crossing aeroplane. I mean, it had never been done. The Daily Mail, the newspaper, offered a £1,000 prize.
44:08Lord Northcliffe, I think, was it?
44:10Yeah, that's, yeah.
44:10For a motorised crossing. Because, of course, balloon crossings had been happening since the 18th century. So, on the morning of the 25th of July, 1909, half past four in the morning.
44:21That's right, yeah.
44:22Off he set. The only gap in the weather to do it. And 30 minutes odd later, he saw the flag over France and he knew that he'd done it.
44:31Mr Fontaine, I believe he was called, waving the flag in the field.
44:34And here we've got everything we need about that day. You talk me through it.
44:39I can tell that's taken before the flight. This is the landing with the flag, with Mr Fontaine and the flag.
44:45I mainly acquired the postcards so I could get the dimensions to build it. That's why I started collecting them. But then it became, you know, you ended up with all the other memorabilia which went with it.
44:58And let's just talk about the other memorabilia because you do have some cracking object here. It's a dinner for Monsieur Bleriot in Piccadilly.
45:08And it's dated July the 26th, 1909. The day after. The day after when he went to London. After the achievement. Yeah, yeah.
45:15And it is signed. It's signed not only by Bleriot, but who else?
45:19I think the first signature is Alice Bleriot, which is Louis Bleriot's wife. Yes.
45:23There's Louis Bleriot. There's a Mr Fournier. And there's got Mr Alfred LeBlanc, another very famous French aviator.
45:31They were all kind of part of Bleriot's inner circle. Circle. Yeah, yeah.
45:36So you have that. But then what I think is wonderful is tell me what happened on July the 25th, 2009.
45:42When I attended the centenary celebrations at Dover, they flew a Bleriot over and there was Louis Bleriot's grandson, who was also called Louis Bleriot, was there.
45:54And he saw the model and luckily he signed an autograph. Look at that.
45:58A hundred years between the signatures. Isn't that great? Okay. We're about values. I'm not going to value that. It is priceless.
46:06But I am going to value that, which I think is an absolutely fabulous piece of memory.
46:11I've never seen another one. Never seen another one. Never seen another one.
46:14I'm going to put that at between £500 and £800. I think it's absolutely spectacular.
46:20Wow.
46:20We love people who are passionate about their subjects. And I think, you know, today in this setting, we couldn't have asked for a more enthusiastic enthusiast.
46:30So thanks so much for bringing them all in. Thank you. Brilliant.
46:33Thank you very much, Hilary. Thank you.
46:35What have you got, sir?
46:48I have a set of aeroplanes that were made by my great-uncle while he was fire-watching at Rolls-Royce in Derby during the war.
46:55Really? What are they made of?
46:57Balsa wood.
46:57They are just amazing.
47:02How do you put a price on those, do you think?
47:04Well, that's an interesting one, isn't it?
47:07I don't know. I reckon someone would pay £150 for that.
47:10You're right. I reckon so.
47:12Well, thank you.
47:12Only because they're just so fantastic.
47:14Excellent.
47:14Thanks very much for bringing those in.
47:16Can I have a look at something you've got in your hand?
47:23Yes.
47:23Ah, a Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
47:25Yeah.
47:26Oh, wow.
47:27Where did you get it from?
47:28It was my father's.
47:29He did a little collection, so he bought odd things if he sold them, and he bought that as well.
47:34Well, obviously, it's made by Corgi Toys, and it's a model of the car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the flying car, and it has a little lever on the side that when you pull it, the wings flip out of the side, and so often with these is that the little figures have gone missing on it.
47:49This is complete, and what's even better, obviously, since original packaging, so I would have thought perhaps £70 to £100, something like that.
47:57Thanks ever so much.
47:58Thank you very much.
47:59Cheers.
48:00Cheers.
48:04Thank you very much.
48:34And I firstly wanted some sofas at this auction, then John started to look at the auction.
48:40I saw it in the corner, saw the picture, which didn't do any justice, and I just thought it was brilliant, and I said, we've got a space in the hall for it.
48:48So you wanted the sofas, you wanted the rowing boat umbrella stand, so everyone is happy.
48:55So I guess, therefore, you have a passion for rowing?
48:58No, I like swimming, which you'd probably do a lot of in that boat, falling out of it all the time.
49:02I like things that I think are well made.
49:05I'm not an expert in any manner of means, but somebody took a lot of trouble with this.
49:08You can literally see the workmanship in it, and I just appreciated it from the word go, really.
49:12Yeah, and it is beautiful, plus it serves as a purpose.
49:15Indeed so.
49:16Well, absolutely.
49:17I mean, the craftsmanship is fantastic.
49:19You can see all of the little holes have been plugged.
49:21They've all been sort of pulled together and cut in the most wonderful manner.
49:24They often use red cedar for the exteriors.
49:28It's lightweight, hard, good sort of wood to be using for that, and you've got mahogany additions on here too.
49:34Now, when you see these, you often find them, and so I mentioned the wood, in sort of a much darker, almost sort of mahogany-type wood.
49:42They've never seen water.
49:44Oh, I see.
49:45So 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.
49:53So we've got Corpus Christi and Lent Boat 1925.
49:56So I think Cambridge, they have the bumps.
49:59So the bumps, effectively, are so known because the cam is quite windy and narrow.
50:04Oh, right.
50:04So you can't do side-by-side racing.
50:06So they had to sort of effectively bump.
50:08Oh, right, OK.
50:09We wondered what that was, didn't we?
50:10Now, you got your sofas, and you say you got this for a good price.
50:13Can I ask what that good price is?
50:15Without fees, it was £260.
50:17I think we can bump that up a little bit.
50:19Good, good.
50:20That's why I'm going to say £600, £800, maybe even £1,000.
50:23Oh, well done. Thank you very much.
50:24That's good.
50:25Yeah.
50:25Yeah, I'll let you buy something else again.
50:27So what would the whole boat be worth?
50:29I think you could find it.
50:39Shuttleworth celebrates daring feats in the air at the turn of the 20th century.
50:43But at the same time, explorers were charting new territory on land.
50:48And over the years, our experts have seen many artefacts relating to Arctic and Antarctic adventure.
50:53One of the most remarkable explorers was Ernest Shackleton, who made four expeditions the Antarctic.
51:00Books expert Matthew Hayley's discovered two hefty tomes documenting an early quest.
51:05This is the account of Ernest Shackleton's 1907-1909 expedition in two volumes, and it's called The Heart of the Antarctic.
51:15And obviously, Shackleton became famous later on with the Endurance, where it got trapped in the ice,
51:20and then they had to sail off to South Georgia to get rescued.
51:23It's really one of the stories of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.
51:27Have you read it?
51:28You know what? I haven't.
51:30And that's probably more so because of, I think for me, how fragile it is.
51:35And how did you come to have these books?
51:37It's been passed down through the family.
51:40I came to my dad in the early part of last year, when my gran passed away.
51:44There wasn't much named in the will, but these books in particular were named.
51:48Actually, we were talking about it on the way here today, that if the house burnt down, this was the thing to get out.
51:54And it was kind of like, but why?
51:56We knew a bit about it, but didn't really have the context as to why it was so important.
52:02Well, it is very important.
52:04And it's actually because it bears an inscription from Ernest Shackleton to Dee McKenzie with the author's compliments in remembrance of certain help a short time ago, Ernest Shackleton, 1914.
52:15What's this all about?
52:17Mr McKenzie was my great, great grandfather.
52:21He moved from Inverness down to Peterborough and was the station master there for a little over 20 years.
52:28What we do know is that they certainly came into contact with each other, worked together as a thanks.
52:34He left these books and signed them.
52:37Well, Ernest Shackleton's first editions are inevitably somewhat rare.
52:41Actually, at Heart of the Antarctic, there was a limited edition done that was signed by various people, including Shackleton.
52:46This is the main edition, as it were, not the limited edition, but it's very special to have the inscription.
52:52So that makes it one of a relatively small number of copies with a personal dedication.
52:58And I think if it were to go into auction, I would expect it to make something between £2,000 and £4,000.
53:06Wow.
53:08That's more than I was expecting.
53:10Probably explains why we're meant to get, if the house burns down, why we're meant to run that out first.
53:15It's probably the thing to rescue from the house.
53:17It's amazing. I'm so glad to have seen it.
53:19That's incredible. That's amazing. Thank you so much.
53:21Thanks.
53:22This is a sublimely beautiful diamond necklace, and here it is with you.
53:36But everybody wants to know what it has to do with you.
53:39So I was given it by my grandma to wear on my wedding day.
53:43It was actually passed down from my father's side, and he was actually from Mumbai.
53:48And it was very sentimental for me to wear it 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.
53:57It's a very beautiful, superbly articulated thing, and very flattering, actually.
54:03And we can pick it up and see that immediately.
54:06It's very slinky-malinky.
54:07It moves beautifully on the hand like that, and of course it moves beautifully on the neck.
54:13But when I first saw this, I was slightly thrown off, because the quality of the diamonds is absolutely marvellous.
54:19And when they are marvellous like that, it makes my job quite difficult,
54:22because I'm looking for flaws and fissures and this, that and the other to tell me that they are in fact diamonds.
54:27So it took a little while to establish that they are.
54:31OK.
54:32And these baguette diamonds, these brilliant diamonds, are set in white gold.
54:37And every setting is pierced by hand.
54:40And these are miraculous objects, because they're made by hand,
54:45but there doesn't seem to be any obvious sign of human activity at all,
54:49because the craftsmanship is so superb.
54:52The thing about diamonds, the great mystery of them, is that they're the hardest material known to man.
54:57There is nothing that can come near them.
54:59The second hardest is the sapphire, but they also have a scintillation to them,
55:04a return of light, a refraction of light.
55:06And that's what people associate with them.
55:09But only diamonds can do this.
55:11When we see a piece of jewellery, there's lots of design features that help us date these things.
55:17And this is definitely a 20th century thing.
55:19And I'm going to go for the 1960s, something like that.
55:24It's quite difficult to do it in the absence of hallmarks.
55:26But there is a sort of handwriting of jewellery and a design form that helps me to tell those things.
55:34And so this is a very covetable object, a very desirable object.
55:38Everybody would want to wear this one.
55:40And so I'm going to go a little bit raving mad and tell you that it's worth £25,000.
55:46Wow, shock!
55:53Definitely.
55:54Brilliant.
55:55Amazing, amazing.
55:56But obviously the sentimental value is kind of a lot more.
56:00Beyond that.
56:00It is, definitely.
56:01Completely beyond that.
56:02Thank you very much for bringing it.
56:04My grandma definitely said that it was kind of like real.
56:09So, but there's so many diamonds on it.
56:12I must admit, I just questioned myself that it was actually real.
56:16You do miss your father when you're getting married and walking down the aisle.
56:20So having that piece of him there that I've known that it's been part of his family for kind of a long time was really, really special.
56:27Thank you very much.
56:57But the great thing about this, and this is a top idea, is it's savoury at one end and sweet at the other.
57:06Now, I'd never heard of these before, but you have heard of these, haven't you?
57:08Yes.
57:09They sound great.
57:12From the Antiques Throw Show here at Shuttleworth.
57:14Bye-bye.
57:14Mmm.
57:27Bye-bye.
57:29Bye-bye.
57:29Bye-bye.
57:53Bye-bye.
57:55Bye-bye.
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