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Antiques Roadshow Season 48 Episode 10
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00:00today we've come to a city once known as the wall capital of the world its local footy team is known
00:08as the Bantams it has one of the UK's oldest concert orchestras the Bronte sisters live
00:13just outside the city where are we Bradford in Yorkshire a place very much in vogue in 2025 as
00:21Bradford's been chosen as this year's City of Culture venues across the city have been taking
00:26part in the celebrations including our home for today Cartwright Hall and there's plenty in store
00:34for our experts as they look to uncover some hidden treasures I can be a bit obsessive about
00:41this sort of thing a bit of a Frankenstein repair which is typical Victorian pairs with
00:48ceramic glassware I had some serious skill to be able to staple it back together but I've
00:52been practicing I'm not going to be selling this I'll be keeping it in the family that's very
00:58good put this back on the price goes down welcome to the Antiques Roadshow
01:06so this is a really lively sketch of a dog on a hot day like today it literally
01:36feels like he's panting to have a drink of water how did it come to be yours it belonged to my
01:43great aunt it was done for her husband who was a plumber and wherever he went the dog went he fitted
01:53the bathroom for a gentleman and the gentleman painted the dog and gave him it as a gift for
01:59fit in the bathroom well that's a lucky gift because the the painter is none other than
02:06Wright Barker who's who's originally from Bradford and he's probably one of the most famous if not the
02:12most famous painter of animals in the late 19th century it's signed here W Barker but then the date
02:18looks like August AUG 31st and this is like an 03 yeah so it could be 1903 so Wright Barker
02:26is most well known for much grander pictures he loved dogs and he did paint lots of amazing pictures of
02:32dogs they're a little bit more detailed he also painted these huge monumental almost sort of hunting
02:37scenes and he exhibited them you know the Royal Academy amongst many other places I've seen a few of
02:41Wright Barker's paintings in the past where they've been quite wide and from a distance whereas this is
02:50quite a close-up and more personal I think this is a quick sketch in oil he was probably waiting
02:57around for your great-uncle to finish the bathroom spotted his dog and thought whilst he was waiting for
03:04the loo to be fitted he'd just have a quick go on the canvas and how amazing that he then gave it to
03:09your great-uncle yeah it is amazing and it was highly regarded by my uncle and my aunt uh as a
03:16child I I just loved the painting and I've always loved animals so when my aunt died it went to my
03:23mum but I sort of commandeered it from her well lucky you um because I think if this was to come to
03:29auction today I mean Wright Barker is really well known but this is just a quick sketch yeah by him
03:35it'd probably be worth in the region of 800 to 1200 pounds okay yeah yeah it's not bad for just just
03:41a quick sketch so this was a wedding gift uh to us from a friend uh about 11 years ago or so okay so
04:02we have this very ornate Indian axe from the 19th century I don't think it was made for real use it's a
04:13ceremonial object or a presentation object which is actually very fitting for the for the reason it was
04:18given to you yeah 1880 covered in wonderful floral work in silver in a technique called koftgari the technique where the
04:29polished steel would be cross hatched with a sharp tool and then silver wire hammered on in this
04:36wonderful ornate decorative floral design and every single surface of the axe is decorated so no expense
04:47was spared in the creation of this I'm interested to know what it means to the both of you now as you
04:55know Sikhs venerate weapons so this is something that we it's quite important to us to have in our
05:02house and have on display as well it's part of our heritage and it's a unique item so it's really
05:09wonderful to see the artistry behind the objects and what they mean I think if it came up in auction it
05:18might make anywhere between two and three thousand pounds yeah good so very generous
05:25wedding gift to you and and I can see you you treasure it and for religious reasons venerate it so
05:33that's great to see
05:34usually people come to my table and they're showing me a jewel in a box but you came and showed me this
05:51bunny brooch in a plastic bag could you tell me the story behind it well I only put it in that plastic
05:58bag to come here to be honest I'm pleased I'm pleased about that um I must have bought it around about 25
06:06years ago probably from an antique fair just because I liked it well I am very delighted that he's here
06:14because as soon as I saw this and felt it I just knew oh we've got something special here
06:20it's 18 karat gold I love the way look at the way that stylized fur is going in all different
06:30directions isn't it it's it really has a lot of movement and for something that is basically metal
06:36it has life to it yeah and that's because it's a good quality piece of jewelry it's got here the eye
06:44which is sapphire and the little eyelid is diamonds little circular cut diamonds this was made in the
06:5360s because this whimsical jewelry of winking cats and dogs yes yes um they were made by quite a few
07:03different jewelers of the time yeah Cartier Tiffany Kaczynski and if I turn it over there's quite a few
07:10marks big one made in France yeah so that's an easy one there are also French gold marks
07:20but there's a but and and the but is I think the LS that is engraved at the top by the ear
07:28is nothing to do with the maker oh right there is even sort of a scratching marks down the side
07:35but that's someone's sort of shop code oh right so that's got nothing to do with the maker on it
07:41either and I think it could even be um one of the out workers that made it all right and not inside
07:50you know the Cartier workshop or the Van Cleef and Arpels workshop so it would just need a little bit more
07:56digging as is without it being attributed to a particular jewelry house you know it is so beautifully made
08:05you're talking of at least Ā£3,000 I've got about a thousand you thought about a thousand
08:12if we can attribute it to one of the jewelry houses that I've mentioned you would be looking about
08:19eight to ten thousand pounds nice increase it really is lovely and it does not want to go back
08:29what a superb little Georgian rummer glass is that what it is that's what it is and where did you get
08:45that out of the skip if I'm honest about it the builders they were just there that day and I said
08:51can I have that out of the skip and they said yep fill your boots and I got that and a few other bits
08:57but that's my absolute favorite because it's perfectly imperfect exactly someone's gone to
09:03the effort of repairing this bit of a frankenstein repair which is typical victorian pairs with
09:08ceramic glassware they had some serious skill to be able to staple it back together if it was perfect
09:13it'd probably be worth 20 pounds but with a typical victorian repair I think it's doubled in value I
09:20think it's worth 50 to 80 because it's exactly what you said it's perfect it is imperfect I just look at it and it makes me smile
09:29these are two lovely little items they're real Victorian collectibles uh-huh brass and wood yeah and they both got a little secret haven't they yes what I think is a snuff box you've got to get at the right times before before it'll open so that's a combination lock yeah on a snuff box
09:58and you open up yeah to reveal your snuff yeah I mean I love these and it's a nice condition do you remember them as a little boy oh yes yeah oh you do
10:09I remember trying to find out the the combination around because you have to get the both the combinations in the right place and then it opens I don't want to fiddle with it now because I don't want to lock it forever yeah
10:19they're rare they're not that rare I've seen quite a lot of them and I've had quite a lot of them um and it's a really nice example and this is a bit of treen
10:29treen treen is made of wood basically but this is a masterpiece of manufacture I mean how do you take a piece of timber and turn it
10:38remove it remove the center make a little receptacle in the middle with a lid and make it all fit together
10:48again like a puzzle hmm like it's never been taken apart yeah it's so clever isn't it it is yeah
10:56this is for hiding your money yes a little bit of it anyway I suppose well quite a lot
11:03I mean where did you get these uh well they were my grandad's they've always just been in the house
11:10I don't know where they came from you don't just that he we've always had them your granddad's yeah
11:16they're older than your granddad you know when your granddad was born 1902 yeah so these are both older
11:22than that these are both 19th century and he would have collected them in his lifetime I love the way it's
11:28made exotic timber because that's what that is yeah where's that come from I mean this is probably
11:35you know from Honduras or Cuba or somewhere like that it's not English but this turning is is very
11:44western it's very English yeah so he's got it's a lovely weight and it'd be even heavier when it had
11:50yeah when it's got the gold in it yeah but they're both a nice condition really nice condition people
11:58collect them hmm this I would say is about 150 pounds Lord that's how much one like that a
12:06collector would pay but this one and tree is on the up now things with secret compartments that are even
12:13more desirable and I would think that one would command a price today of about between two and three
12:18hundred pounds yeah excellent yeah so your grandfather had a good eye he did yes
12:28new people that come into the house I'll say oh have you seen my snuffbox and sovereign case and
12:36they'll say no and I'll show them and now I'll have a lot more to add to the to the story
12:44picture the scene it's 1926 we're in the middle of the general strike the coal miners have gone on
13:00strike other people have gone on strike to kind of express sympathy for them and even newspaper printers
13:06have gone on strike so what does the government do it prints its own newspaper how better to deal
13:12with an information vacuum the British Gazette published by his majesty's stationary office May
13:18the 5th 1926 how did you come to have this and it's something that my father acquired during an office
13:25clearance in the 1970s it was just something that was going to be thrown away and he sort of rescued it
13:31and brought it home I mean thank goodness he did it's it's really a propaganda instrument for the
13:38British government it talks about first day of great strike not so complete as hoped by its promoters
13:43you know we're keeping the show on the road everything's going fine it's almost got to kind
13:48of keep calm and carry on sort of feel to it and at the very end after I think only eight issues
13:54they say general strike over job done yeah what's really special about this is the newspaper was
14:01edited by Winston Churchill and what makes this copy particularly special is it has Winston Churchill's
14:08signature on he was chancellor of the ex-JECA at the time Stanley Baldwin prime minister at the time
14:13it's a really quite rare thing per se yeah Churchill collectors will be really interested in this I mean
14:19it's a fascinating moment in his career I can see it making two to four thousand pounds at all
14:25really really well it's nice tonight it's an amazing thing I've never seen one before and I'm delighted to
14:32as part of Bradford City of Culture celebrations Cartwright Hall is the first stop on a national tour
14:43for a painting that was saved for the nation in 2023 painted by the great Sir Joshua Reynolds it's a portrait of
14:51my from French Polynesia who became much admired in high society after he arrived in London in 1774 but Joshua
15:00Reynolds isn't the only prestigious British painter to grace the walls of Cartwright Hall there's one artist
15:07Yorkshire born who has pride of place with his own display David Hockney rose to fame in the 1960s
15:14with his vibrant pictures of Californian blue swimming pools instantly recognizable with those round
15:21glasses and his shock of blonde hair he is a global art superstar but it all began here in Bradford
15:30curator Jill Iredale is here to tell me more I've never seen works from his teenage years like this
15:37we are incredibly lucky to have these really early drawings they're from the end of his grammar school
15:43years he went to the grammar school across the road from here he was a well-known figure at that time
15:49walking around the streets all painting and drawing from life as you can see here practicing perspective
15:55that was the time where he really learned to look and in order to draw you have to be able to learn to
16:01look he looks as if he kind of came out of the womb as an artist fully formed and he obviously loved his
16:06home city very much so he is quoted as saying that in order to draw and paint a place you have to love it
16:12which I think he certainly did
16:13Hockney's fame for his experimentation blending realism with the abstract to varying perspectives
16:24and his use of photo collages and that spirit of artistic exploration was already evident while he
16:31was a student at Bradford School of Art I love this in particular this kind of collage as a young man
16:38set against this very staid prosaic traditional typeface of a broadsheet newspaper it's cut out
16:44from magazines the back is newspaper and it's a self-portrait obviously yeah well not so obviously
16:51I mean I always thought he had blonde hair that was his famous you know image didn't realize that he
16:56dyed it you know you didn't think that blonde mop was natural I did and so he he obviously this I mean
17:03we're really lucky to have this because there isn't another one of these made out of magazine
17:08a newspaper he didn't repeat doing this technique again but I think why it is fantastic is because
17:14it shows you his unique sense of style in 1957 I mean it's a pretty cool look for the time isn't it
17:20yeah and this use of of of paper cut out pieces of paper it sort of echoes what we see in the in the
17:26in the swimming pool yeah that idea of layering of different materials that you have starts right
17:33here he then left Bradford went to the Royal College of Art graduated in 1962 and then became
17:40pretty quickly an international superstar of the art world he definitely never looked back although he
17:48did often come back obviously to visit his family well with that accent of his which he's never lost
17:53there's no mistaking his roots no Bradford born and bred
18:05might I make a suggestion
18:07no I'll just put it there that's better isn't it I think so so tell me about this incredible chair
18:16well it's been in the family for about 80 years um it's not at all comfortable but it is a decorative
18:23piece and the reason why I'm here today is because I don't know its age I don't know its origin and I've
18:30been to know a little bit about it you've come to the right place good um it is made from walnut
18:36it comes from Italy oh which part of it do you think it might come from a wild guess
18:42well the romantic in me would like to think Tuscany but I doubt it you're not that far away other side
18:50of the country this is a Venetian chair oh and it's absolutely classical Venetian uh it dates to
18:56the 19th century it's from a school of carving which was established by somebody called Andrea
19:01Brustelon in the late 17th century and he carved these amazing fantasies in water often sometimes to put
19:08Chinese porcelain and things on and this is what it it's it's a fantasy chair we sort of call it
19:14grotto furniture yes so you know you get with shell backs and shell seats uh and they were often retailed
19:20by the glass retailers so this was probably sold by somebody like Salviati yes in around about 1850
19:281860 they were to commission them from uh local carvers who would have done the carvings on the gondolas as
19:34well so and I think what I love about old wood is you know somebody's put the hand there they've
19:40stroked it there all the bits that should have been stroked and they've got a lovely luster to them yes
19:46have you ever wondered what kind of bird it is we've always referred to it as the eagle chair okay and
19:51then someone just this afternoon as I was getting out of the car said phoenix I would agree with it it is
19:58a phoenix ah so a phoenix is a fantastical bird which are supposedly born in flames they have this
20:04long neck and this kind of eagle type beak but when you look around the bottom they've sort of indicated
20:10the coals of of the fire and of course a phoenix isn't a real bird it is a fantastical bird so what
20:17better to have a fantastic chair with a fantastic bird and it was never meant to be anything other
20:22than a fantasy object so this would have been if you were a well-off person you went to some like
20:28venice you would want to bring back I suppose what I'm saying it's a high-end tourist souvenir but of
20:33the very top quality and despite the fact that it's kind of useless as a chair yeah it has great
20:41decorative peel and it's very much the sort of thing today's market is looking for I could see that
20:47making four or five thousand pounds very nice put this back on price goes down the price go down with a cushion
20:57yeah
21:02these five little dolls tell the most extraordinary story um how can you have them they came to me
21:10from Canada I had an auntie that lived uh partly lived in Canada and she gave them to my mum
21:17that's a really good association because what these are they're known as the dion quintuplets yes and
21:24they were born in 1934 to a french-speaking Canadian family quite a poor Canadian farming family the first
21:32documented birth of five identical babies born to the same mother that she all lived to adulthood
21:39as you can imagine that was you know an absolute sensation the quintuplets were such big news at the
21:46time yeah that many companies saw it as a business opportunity yes some even produced souvenirs such
21:52as these dolls they're actually made by a German company right called Armand Marseille right and
21:58they're an extraordinary survivor you know these Armand Marseille dolls baby dolls they're not at all rare
22:03but what is rare to see the whole set of them together still in their original blanket wrapping they all have
22:10these little little dummies and they have painted features little open mouths with teeth and also
22:17they have blue glass open and closed eyes some people might say it's a little spooky they are quite scary
22:24the heads are what's called bisque which is an unglazed porcelain yeah and the bodies are a composition almost
22:31like a type of packet machƩ type composition yeah did your mum play with them very much yes she did play
22:36with them and i did as a child but my mum was um an only one and she was quite a sickly child so she got
22:43them on the bed you know when she had scarlet fever and she'd get them out and just play gently with them
22:47i think so they were so they were well looked after yes well they're a super rare set um they do occasionally
22:54come up for sale at auction all right and um i would expect them to make some in the region of three
22:59to four hundred pounds oh goodness that's a complete surprise
23:13we bought today um an item that we've had for a number of years it's always been out on show in the
23:18house and we just love it but no one's known any history about it being one of those mysterious
23:24objects that no one can put any answers to
23:36well this is the first of its kind i've come across on the antiques road show
23:41what is it something we've never got to the bottom of is it religious is it not religious and does it
23:48hold something because it's hollow some of the little characters looks like possibly from india
23:53then or persia but then you start thinking some of the glyphs is it egyptian you were on the right
23:59track with persia it's actually from iran right did you expect that if you look at the gold that is
24:05inlaid in a technique we call damascening and iran is a very ancient country with a very ancient culture
24:14and of course a fantastic carpet weaving tradition painting lacquer work and this incorporates so
24:23many of those motifs that you see so often in iranian art these are actually stylized arabic
24:30characters okay but it is slightly anachronistic so it looks more ancient than it actually is i feel
24:39i want to put you out of your misery and tell you what it is please do it's actually a mirror case
24:46yeah so made in iran in the mid-19th century even though the motifs owe their origin to maybe three
24:54four hundred years before a little catch up she comes there we go and you would have a mirror inside and
25:04you've noticed it's got this tilt mechanism so you know perhaps for a lady putting on her makeup or
25:11her jewelry she would rely on something as exotic as this beautiful isn't it it is and worth somewhere
25:18between eight hundred pounds and twelve hundred pounds that's something like that mystery solved
25:35susan ridyard 1979 i was cycling along the shipley canal yesterday and uh my goodness it really
25:43reminded me this watercolor of that and is that why you bought it yes i did i mean i'm
25:48regularly walk on the leeds liverpool canal and when i saw this watercolor i just fell in love with
25:54it it just reminds me of you know i grew up in a terrace property it was in an antique shop and
26:01he had it on the wall for a good three months nobody noticed it i went past it and i i just connected
26:09and he wanted uh about 10 pounds for it is it worth more than you paid i'm sure it is to me it is
26:18i think it's worth 100 pounds and you should keep it for sure i mean it really has a connection for
26:22you all right thank you thank you
26:35i really get fired up when i see a really naive piece of stone carving and particularly old heads as
26:40well and what's quite difficult is actually deciphering them but before i get into that
26:46you're going to have to tell me where you got it from right well it's been uh handed down in the
26:50family probably from the 1960s it actually was given to my mum by her auntie right and it had been
26:57discovered by some archaeologists digging in her garden so your mum's aunties back garden yes and
27:03he's known in the family as mr ugly for obvious reasons it's okay uh and he was it was given to
27:08my mum eventually and then she placed it outside an antiques business that we ran and it was sandstone
27:14at the time right okay because of course now it's very very black isn't it so it wasn't black it wasn't
27:20no how did it start off nice and sandstone and then end up so black well it was mounted on the wall
27:26outside the antiques business and it was sandstone and then within probably six or eight months during
27:31the night somebody came and chiseled it out and stole it and my mum was quite disconsolate about it
27:36i bet and possibly two years later she came back parked on the driveway outside the business and
27:42almost did a double take because the head had been replaced exactly where he was when when he'd been
27:46stolen really and yet he was it was this this color this jet black color oh that's interesting my
27:51mum thought he must have been in an englenook fireplace or something like that to get that color
27:55do you think someone didn't get quite the kind of experience that they wanted from this well it's
28:00either guilty conscience or a run of bad luck i would i would think to take the risk of actually
28:05returning it to where it had been yeah that's a really interesting idea i have to say to me it looks
28:10very 15th 16th century medieval basically later medieval and what was it made for the only bit of
28:17information that was sort of passed down verbally was that when she was given it they said that it had
28:22probably been over the portal of a house right was often put in those positions to to keep evil
28:28spirits at bay or ill wishes yep yep and that it was unusual and that it had its teeth bared where
28:33other examples have closed mouths and that's all i know about you know the whole i'd really agree with
28:38that i mean interesting that you mention about the bare teeth um i'm not so sure about the symbolism
28:44of that particularly but the idea that it's trying to scare something off perhaps yeah all of those
28:48elements to me go together to make it an intriguing object and of course it has value and i think
28:54that it would make one to one and a half thousand pounds nice to know thanks for bringing it thank you
29:09we have an array of sumptuous jewelry here glistening in the sunshine joey you're going
29:19to tell us all about it and it's basic better bests come on that's what you're waiting for
29:25and we have to write these in order of value from the highest to the lowest so come on joey kick us off
29:33okay so i've got three pieces of art deco jewelry here dating from 1925 to 1937 but i think this is a
29:43period where you see the most innovative of designs what should we start with this one okay a pendant
29:511925 pendants really came into their own in the art deco period because of the short tunics that the
29:59ladies were wearing and this is actually carved in amazonite which is a natural stone from india or
30:07africa and it has black onyx and it's an 18 carat gold and it is signed janizic and he was an italian
30:16who came over to france with his craftsman all right well that is stunning what about this so this is
30:25a diamond plaque brooch made in platinum by dusso soire a french jeweler and also during this time
30:33you had innovation of um technology for cutting stones look at that yeah yeah you see when you
30:40have all those diamonds together it's like a mosaic of brilliance isn't it and what about that i mean
30:46that's an extraordinary looking piece isn't it well this is 1937 and this is by someone called suzanne
30:54belperon all the colors have been really well thought out and this is a brooch which you could
31:00wear on your shoulder you could wear as a belt and it very much this was influenced by african art
31:05what stones are we looking at there citrines and it is gold now the difference here is that suzanne
31:12belperon never signed her pieces because she said my style is my signature and even though these are only
31:20a little bit more than 10 years apart they feel like they're from different areas don't they yeah
31:24exactly exactly that's why you have so many people collecting sort of the art deco period because it's
31:29so varied and what values are we looking at for these three sumptuous pieces so we're looking at 20 000
31:38pounds we're looking at 40 000 pounds wowzers yeah and we're looking at a hundred thousand pounds
31:46they're very special pieces all of them okay any ideas um i'm thinking the citrine i can't say
31:57basic because it's 20 000 pounds um followed by the pendant and the diamonds and platinum got to be the
32:03most expensive yes well i'm gonna go with my gut i think that the middle is basic 20 000 yeah then i
32:09think the diamonds is the second one is better and then i think that is best the citrines is best
32:16the latest piece yeah no but i'm just in shock at the amount well that's you and me both well i think
32:23if she doesn't sign it then it's got to be a hundred thousand just the dimes are too obvious to be a
32:29hundred thousand you're very sure of yourself well i'm just going with your gut i'm just going with your
32:34good all right okay right this gentleman's very sure about that being the best basic better best
32:46did any of you go for that combination oh no oh no we're shaking their heads okay
32:53well i think you should have listened to the gentleman behind you
32:56oh really a couple of those have you so this belperon is a hundred thousand pounds why
33:11a lot of reasons why the market has really changed yes diamonds did reign supreme but diamond plaque
33:19brooches don't anymore people want something that's different the way that she used
33:26her materials that's what people look for now okay so tell me this is not the basic
33:34it is okay we'll come to that in a minute then so this is better yes is this because amazonite is
33:42some incredibly rare thing that i've never heard of it again it is because 1925 it's quintessentially
33:48that art deco period and it is signed janazic he is again a jeweler that people are really looking for
33:55and and collecting and it's because it is so it's so original i mean it looks good now it doesn't look
34:03dated and i think that's the difference because the brooch looks dated i'm feeling bad for this brooch
34:10now well look i'll happily have this jay honestly very nice it looks very good with jeans i'll wear it for
34:17the rest of the day give it kind of modern twist you're very welcome oh
34:24these two pocket globes i think they are absolutely exquisite where did you get them from well they
34:37came from my grandfather as long as i remember they were in a cabinet in their parlour and when i was at
34:44school i was very interested in astronomy so my grandfather gave them to me they're beautiful i mean
34:49you've got so you've got two here obviously one is missing the case so you've got one which is georgia
34:53third so probably late 18th century possibly beginning in the 19th which is this one in this
34:58absolutely exquisite fish skin case but you've also got the celestial map inside which is just stunning
35:07really is i mean it doesn't take away from this one as well i mean this one has seen a bit more wear
35:13hasn't it yes so we have one which is slightly more valuable than the other yes the smaller one without
35:18the case three to five hundred really but this one three to five thousand i'm amazed you've absolutely
35:27made my day you really know that's nice thank you very much today i brought along an autograph book that
35:38i think i was about 13 or 14 when i bought it for a dollar and it has american civil war general's autographs
35:45in it
35:58i never thought that i would be transported from here in bradford back to the american civil war
36:05so who is this gentleman here so this is fitz john porter he was a general and he was port-martialed
36:12because he disobeyed orders at the battle of bull run which was a very important battle but he was
36:17later um vindicated and he was pardoned there aren't many names that that stick out from the american
36:24civil war but gettysburg and bull run yes other other two that you know most people know and then did
36:30you know about this other signature i did but i didn't believe it was real i thought someone was just
36:35having a laugh okay because it is um ulysses s grant yes probably the most famous general from the union
36:45army in the civil war and a president of the united states and you didn't think that was real i just
36:52honestly thought someone was having a joke and how did you find out that was so i went to the ohio
36:56historical society and they said yes indeed it was real they compared it they looked at the dates and
37:02everything and and said yep it's authentic so as it's american civil war and and you are an american
37:09does it mean something to you it does um most particularly because ulysses s grant is from ohio
37:15from my home state so absolutely it has some resonance for me cost you a dollar a dollar okay um
37:24um the signature of of grant is around about 800 to a thousand pounds
37:39if i got a tenner that's ten times what i paid for it i'm shocked well uh the other chap is more
37:46difficult because he is a general but i i can't work that one out and if you've got more generals in this
37:53you know this is a really important piece of civil war history wow only in this job do i get to hold
38:00a book signed by ulysses s grant
38:13well when this came out of your suitcase my eyes lit up this is a remarkable piece of sculpture we've not
38:20seen anything quite like it before but instinctively something that i think is made in south india
38:26probably made for the european market right it's east meets west it's obviously been painted was it
38:33in this sort of condition initially the guy who was selling it he found it in a cellar and it were all
38:39just covered in dirt and grime and muck and he cleaned it all off and then he started revealing this
38:45yeah let's start at the base it's almost like a chinese sort of lotus base you've got these trailing
38:52sort of almost lotus flowers you then get this frieze of amazing these are these are so indian these
39:01particular motifs and then we we move up and then we find that we've got these pendant flowers we've got
39:10piercing um it looks like it should be a lantern right but this is made of wood yeah i'm thinking
39:17date wise uh and i stand to be corrected and often i'm but date wise this strikes me as being around
39:24about 1850. oh the reason i say that that this composition is very close to some of the alabaster
39:32carvings that are coming out of malta and out of southern italy i mean it's just amazing when you saw it
39:39i want to know what you were thinking i just thought it was something beautiful good and i
39:44wanted it in my house well anyway having said that what's it worth i'm gonna stick my neck out
39:52i reckon this at least a thousand to twelve hundred really maybe a bit more maybe a bit more wow
40:01this is where i have to ask you a very personal question
40:03how much did you pay for it 35 pound i think you want to a nice little earner my son it's a stunner
40:14good yep
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41:14we've got a 45 record here but you've got a very unusual story with it haven't you it was given to me
41:22by mr tom jones wow signed it before he had a hit and of course the record's called it's not unusual
41:31it's amazing so that's when he was just starting out 1965 i was visiting a school friend's parents pub
41:39which was in the center of bradford i used to go down there quite a bit see the guy sat down he said
41:46i've just brought out a record will you listen to it see what you think so we listened to it found
41:53him a bit later on in the day and they said what do you think lads i said we think it'll be a hit
41:59and he goes i hope so i got him to sign the card and there it is as a record we could probably buy
42:06this between five and ten pounds but with the story the signature i think it's got to be worth
42:12somewhere between 100 and 200 pounds yeah i'm amazed yeah nice i've bought in um these little shuko
42:29toys i've got about 40 of them this is my favorite and this is true wilpetta and when i was a child i
42:35was always fascinated by his story he grew fingernails that were never cut and his hair was always a mess
42:41and and as a little boy it was always just fascinating that he got away with all that stuff
43:00we're looking at a really fabulous collection of novelty toys how did you start collecting them
43:06well the collection started with my granny and for my granny they started as a bit of a love story
43:11with her um fiance as he was then bringing her these tiny little ones as gifts each time he
43:17would come to see her and what what year was that roughly oh well they got married in 1936 she was
43:24wooed with with these little toys so yeah that's how it all began and i've added to them over the years
43:29with toys that have lit me up and because they're lots of fun and they they dance and and play drums and
43:35play violins and all sorts of all kinds of things yeah well they're all by the same company um it started in
43:401912 and 1921 it became uh shuko from the founder's name schreier and company based in nuremberg
43:48so your granny left you with a with a collection of how many oh there was probably about 15 in that
43:54original collection and i probably got i'm afraid about 40 now i can be a bit obsessive about this
43:59sort of thing yeah so it's grown we love obsessives now what's it like living with an obsessive oh it's
44:04great because i i've added to the collection for him as well with things i've found and oh so it's
44:10been birthdays christmas yeah fantastic well you've brought a nice cross-section of ages too
44:17i particularly like these drinkers around the front here the drinking monk with his munich beer stein
44:25these toys were whimsical they weren't trying to give you a message they weren't trying to
44:29educate you they were there just for fun yeah absolutely and you can i've always enjoyed telling
44:35stories with them telling stories to my children as well what's your favorite well my favorite would
44:40be struvel petter just because um we had the book i was brought up on struvel petter who it's this book
44:47of cautionary tales yes that's right german book of cautionary tales and can he work for us yes he can i have
44:54the key talk amongst yourselves all right here we go right there he goes yeah very good tumbling my
45:03favorite i have to say is this one which is rather rather rude he's got a button behind and he sticks
45:10his tongue out at you i mean the the the prices have fluctuated hugely and what we're looking at here
45:20i'm going to give an average of about 75 to 100 pounds because condition varies some are absolutely
45:26pristine some are a little bit um handled but i think we're talking about 4 000 pounds um should be
45:33maybe five but it's a really satisfying area to collect and they make you smile yeah
45:47this is a very interesting little group of objects what made you bring them here to the road show
46:07today uh my daughter my daughter said i should come and see an expert about them have these got something
46:13to do with that shirt you're wearing well no this is a uganda katengi shirt central africa and these are
46:19from west africa yes how they come to be in your possession my grandfather uh built the railway in the
46:28gold coast back in the 1920s 1930s he was a civil engineer an engineer yeah built helping to build the
46:35railway and as he went through various parts of the countryside he was given various gifts and one of them
46:41was a set of these gold weights they didn't have in those days standard weights like grams and ounces
46:48i mean so they had to use little different shaped objects which would be similar right the way across
46:55the whole country we should exchange roles sorry sorry no no i love it i love it tell me all about
47:02these and what culture of people made these uh i'm over to you on that one ashanti shanty okay i don't know
47:12but they're a lovely little group and they're objects that represent things in their culture or their
47:17fauna and flora all the myths right and mythology and that's a pair of bellows for making the fire hot so
47:25they can smelt the gold you'll see these in in museums and things this is nice from western ghana
47:33western ghana yeah do you know what it's called a fertility doll acu arbor acu arbor the young women
47:40would carry these to encourage conception right and very interesting to me when they were taken as slaves
47:50to the americas right a lot of them would hide them and carry them with them oh right so it would
47:55connect them with their ancestral homeland oh that is really interesting but occasionally these get
48:00found in america right i have i have actually lent them to somebody who wanted to get pregnant and she
48:07did so they do work yeah they do work they often had beads strung from there this is over a hundred years
48:15old and late 19th early 20th century as are these they're great so should we get down to value or
48:25or don't you want to know well you could if you know if i could well i would say this little collection
48:31of weights is between three and four hundred pounds right right but this little beauty
48:39is a very nice one and an auction estimate for this could be between two and three thousand pounds
48:47wow really as much as that oh that's that's very nice but i've been practicing i'm not going to be
48:54selling this i'll be keeping it in the family that's very good but if you decided to tell it and not
49:01keeping it you could actually say it's been test driven and it works test driven that it works and
49:07identified by an expert yes you you
49:23a pendant belongs to my wife oh my goodness may i take it out yes gosh look at that
49:30isn't that gorgeous did you give it to her yes oh where did you find it in a secondhand shop in
49:39needs wonderful have you had it a long time nearly 50 years and do you know what the stones are they're
49:47amethysts you're absolutely right they are amethysts and date wise we're looking around about 1840
49:54maybe a little bit earlier but the way that the stones have been mounted is is very much this
50:00early victorian period so they are letting the light come in behind the stones intensifying the
50:06color and i have to say it's what people are looking for today they love color anything that
50:13looks fun exciting a really really pretty piece how much did you pay for it i think it was 100 pounds
50:20okay that's such yeah it's a reasonable amount isn't it to pay for i couldn't afford a chain
50:25i quite like this idea here this wasn't on it when you when you bought it no no well you've kind of
50:33got the fashion right because during this early 19th century period going into the victorian period
50:38people often got bits of moray silk or velvet and would hang pendants on that as well so you were you
50:45know you knew what you were doing when you decided to do that now everything to do with gemstones has a
50:51language and a meaning and amethysts are to do with devotion so that's a perfect link to the fact that
50:57you bought it for your wife isn't it but they also have a second meaning because in the ancient world
51:03they were associated with bacchus who was the god of wine and it was believed that if you wore amethyst
51:10whilst you were partaking in alcohol it would prevent any problems with a hangover
51:17so i think that you've you've scored with this really haven't you there we are so you bought
51:23it in an antique shop and about 50 years ago for 100 pounds and auction environment i would see this
51:30being estimated around about 1500 to 2000 oh that's a bit of a shock and it could fly because you know
51:42the colored stones are doing so well sure your wife is going to be thrilled when she hears yeah
51:47absolutely stunning just there it is in the sunlight beautiful
51:58hello 1500 to 2000 wow gosh that's considerably more than we paid good heavens now what should we
52:12do with it you could wear it tonight oh yes i'm going to take me out somewhere
52:28formal gardens all the way from china to formal gardens here in the north of england um they do
52:38complement each other rather well actually so what can you tell me about them well they've been in the
52:43family a long time our great great grandfather had a merchant ship and traded between london and china
52:50and our great great grandmother and all the children lived on the ship it was their home it's interesting
52:54you mentioned merchants because a lot of merchants bought these back as souvenirs there are four of
53:00these we know there are four because we've got spring and summer and autumn and winter are missing you
53:06never know you know we may we may find them yet somebody might come forward well look they're chinese
53:12from canton oh and what they are they're gouache which is a type of watercolor there were a number of
53:19these done in the 18th and 19th century there are many many different artists of this type of and there
53:25are very few that we can actually attribute these to but the most famous of all of these is an artist
53:33that's known in the west as ting hua and i have no hesitation in saying that i think these are from
53:40the studio of ting hua wow um and that dates between 1809 and 1870. the other thing that strikes me about
53:48these a lot that we see are much much smaller than this um and here we've got these banners with uh
53:57text calligraphy on and each of these is a poem about spring about the moon and you know nature and so on
54:06i mean i i love the organization of this wonderful kind of formal garden here a real example to us of
54:13how your pot plants should look and then interestingly you've got the birds just here um birds chirping
54:21signify kind of life and renewal you know the colors are magnificent how they've lasted in all of that
54:28time so if you think you know these probably date from what 1820 1830 something like that is mind-blowing
54:34but also the you know the detail when you look at the terraces the pagodas the you know the trellised
54:40walkway i mean it is just so beautifully done which is why i've made that attribution i can't think of
54:46anybody better at doing this type of work um these are desirable today um these are fashionable i have
54:54no hesitation in saying that actually i think if these came up for auction they would make between eight
54:58to twelve thousand pounds oh gosh each no 46 000 each not bad thank you very much they are beautiful
55:09things a lovely box with the unmistakable logo of patek philippe to my mind the the very best watchmaker
55:24over the last hundred years or so now tell me how did you get this it's my wedding uh gift from my mom
55:32was this something that your mother had had for many years yes okay it's a typical 1970s product
55:39and the material which i'm sure you know is tiger's eye and that is what we call a chatillon stone
55:49and has this wonderful luster and when it moves these lines shimmy looking like a tiger's eye
55:55it's all in 18 karat gold brilliant cut diamonds really really unusual piece from the 70s now remember
56:06at that stage they were really heavily into natural things do you love it or do you love you love it
56:13there's no middle feeling for this yeah it's piece of art it's more than a watch it's more than a watch but
56:19it still has a value yeah and it's quite a useful value i don't know maybe five five five thousand
56:25no no no no no no no no a little bit better than that if you had to go to a decent jeweler to buy
56:31that he'd be asking between 25 and 30 000 pounds okay so i have to say it's probably the most generous
56:41wedding present i've ever heard of lovely thanks a lot thank you very much thank you
56:49our day is nearly over here but before we go i want to show you these
57:00gorgeous gorgeous globes that look for all the world like christmas tree baubles don't they
57:06but they're not they are witches balls and the earliest ones date back to the 1600s and people
57:10would hang them in their door frames or in their window frames and it was thought that they repelled
57:15evil spirits and witches and also the witches didn't like to see their reflection so they'd be
57:20driven away by these baubles these ones are victorian they're just gorgeous aren't they
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