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Antiques Roadshow 2025 - Hill of Tarvit 2
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00:00Today we're on the east coast of Scotland just a few miles from St Andrews and our venue is the
00:08stunning Hill of Tarvit mansion with Edwardian architecture and beautiful gardens. It's a place
00:15full of quirky features and even surrounded by its own nine-hole golf course. It was designed
00:21in the 1920s but then fell into disuse for decades after it was commandeered by the Ministry of
00:26Agriculture during the Second World War restored its former glory in the 21st century. Golf is
00:32still played here and I'm gonna give it a go and that will become immediately apparent I have no
00:36idea how to play golf and I don't think the antiques over there with our visitors are in any danger right
00:42here we go and our experts are all above par today looking for those antique classics.
00:56This is the best outfit I want it for every future Roadshow. Well there are certain names within the
01:05firmament of art and design that will raise anyone's pulse and one of those has to be Pablo Picasso. Is it a fake?
01:12No. Wow. It's interesting because from a silver point of view it's kind of been wrecked. Yeah.
01:19Should you really pull it off? Doctor Who villain? Absolutely. Welcome to the Antiques Roadshow.
01:26We've had quite a lot of comments about this piece since it arrived on the table. Quite an extraordinary looking thing.
01:39Certainly is. What do you know it as? It's an aperne but we just call it the family heirloom. The family heirloom. Well the apparent is the right terminology. Aperne is a French word and that's what it is. It's a centrepiece.
01:51Obviously not from this neck of the woods. No. I think we have got emus. We've got kangaroos and we've got an indigenous hunter. Tell us a bit about the inscription plaque. It's to Mr Peel I saw.
02:03Yes. It's to Edward Peel who was my great great grandfather and he became mayor of Durham and this was a present to him from his son who'd obviously emigrated in New York City.
02:14And that's a French word. And that's what it is. It's a centrepiece. Obviously not from this neck of the woods. No. I think we have got emus.
02:20We've got kangaroos. Yes. And we've got an indigenous hunter. Yes. Tell us a bit about the inscription plaque. It's to Mr Peel I saw.
02:32emigrated to Adelaide. Right. And it must have been sent over to him as a
02:38present for his appointment. When Edward Peele died it never went back to him so
02:43it came to Robert Peele's sister. She married my great-grandfather and it just
02:49came down. So what did you think when when you inherited it? There were two
02:54things that came. One was a solid silver soup turin and one was this. Yeah. And I
02:58lost the toss and I got this. You'd have preferred the soup turin. It may be more functional. Anyway it's fine. But of
03:04course a new parent has got a function although this one's highly decorative.
03:07This is for fruit but let's have a closer look because it's made by an Australian
03:12silversmith as we would expect and we've got a nice plaque with his name on it
03:16here Vent W-E-N-D-T of Adelaide. We know the date so it's late 19th century Australian
03:23silver from this period with a known maker and a known inscription gives it a
03:29bit more provenance and cachet. I would say if this turned up in a sale here
03:34you're looking at three thousand to five thousand pounds.
03:53Well looking at this pair of bookends the style and design of them sort of belies
03:59who actually made them especially when I say the name Clarice Cliff but before we
04:04unpick the mystery of them a little bit got to ask how did they come to be yours?
04:08They were my mum's so I can remember them when I was a child propping up books but
04:13in the guest bedroom so they weren't really on display for everybody to see so
04:16when we were clearing her house out I claimed them and they're at home now with
04:21holding up books as well. So what it's worth remembering is that for all of
04:25those whimsical landscapes all of those bold geometrics Clarice loved modeling and
04:30here it is in absolute full display. At Wilkinson's in 1922 she was formally
04:36indentured as a modeler before all of the other designs came about and all
04:40through her career she would revisit that as something to do and here we've got a
04:45fabulous pair of bookends some call them the cottage this is the Tudor mansion
04:49but it's this idea of this whimsical country you know bucolic lifestyle that
04:55she wanted to recreate but I'm even going to say to you that I know who painted
04:59these and that's the work of a lady called Elsie Nixon. Now this technique
05:05here is called Delicia and Elsie Nixon was called the Delicia girl and in terms of
05:11the date you're looking around 1932 to 1934 and actually if we just turn them
05:18upside down we've got exactly the marks that you'd want to see Bizarre which of
05:22course is the range by Clarice Cliff to the collectors well some like collecting
05:28geometrics some like collecting landscapes some like collecting these which fall
05:34under the bed of novelties and a pair of these today is going to cost you
05:38somewhere between three and four hundred pounds that's good not that I want to sell them because
05:44I quite like them they're very pretty
05:45well what a glorious sunny day blue skies above us blue beautiful necklace tell me how you got this
06:00necklace it came to me about 15 years ago from my mother and the lady who delivered my mother
06:07sadly none of her own baby survived so that left granny Martindale as she became known in the family
06:16without any of her own surviving children so when mum was 21 she'd managed to buy the sapphires for
06:24mum's birthday how well and she bought them from a pawn shop well that's interesting because the the date
06:30of this actual necklace is the late 19th century so we're talking around 1880 to 1890 yeah it's
06:36quite quite much older than I thought exactly so we've got this gorgeous row of sapphires and it
06:42would have probably been bought by somebody who traveled in India the stones are more likely to come from Sri Lanka
06:50Salon and they would have been pieced together when they got back to Britain into this row of beautiful
06:58stones mounted in this gold claw setting and also the lovely fine gold chain so when we're looking
07:05at the stones in order to get the value we need to look at the consistency of color not just of the
07:11stones as they sit on the necklace but also when you look into the stones to make sure that the color
07:16is the same from the top to the bottom and we also look inside the stones and on the surface for
07:21floors and inclusions the one thing that we can't tell for sure when we're out on location like here
07:28because it isn't done in a laboratory environment is to make sure that the stones are all naturally
07:33colored with no heat enhancement there this is when the gems are heated to improve their color and
07:40their clarity which has become to a point accepted within the jewelry industry sapphires are also the
07:47stone of devotion all right in the language of jewelry world that would be very appropriate wouldn't it
07:54just now the colored stone market is also at the moment doing exceptionally well if the necklace comes
08:01back that all the stones are natural no heat treatment then you're looking at a necklace that is going to be
08:07well in excess of ten thousand pounds that's when they could fly granny martindale would
08:13be amazed well you've made my day thank you very much for bringing them in and cherish them i will thank you
08:21very much thank you thank you
08:27wow that is an extraordinary object what do you know about it it's come down through my husband's side
08:36of the family yeah over several hundred years and um my husband now owns it it's a hair ball which has
08:44come from a horse's stomach um and the horse would have worked in the dundee juke mill so it's all the
08:51fibers from the jute yeah and and then when the horse died they discovered this in its stomach
08:56wow but what a size i know and it's such a weight and it's almost perfectly spherical i think it's a
09:05wonderful object and in a way it's sculptural isn't it and i honestly think that in a sale where they
09:13were selling cabinet curiosities i think this would be given an estimate of two to three hundred pounds
09:20and i think could make as much as 500. i think it's a fabulous object
09:25so look i am absolutely itching to get my hands on this lovely pendant you can tell me what you know
09:42about it and what you would like to know about it well my grandmother wore it a lot so i remember my
09:47grandmother wearing it but it came from her mother my great grandmother who was part of the sort of
09:54arts and crafts movement i think on the fringes of the bloomsbury set that type of thing and i know
09:58that she not only collected art but she did also do art so it's quite possible that she might even
10:04made this i'm guessing really i don't know an awful lot about it she didn't make it right it was made
10:09in china okay so it is chinese so look it's a jadeite pendant and jadeite was introduced to china
10:15from myanmar burma and it was really highly prized in the 18th century although this one i think is
10:21made later on into the 19th century as a material it's a very precious stone you can see why i mean
10:28this lovely kind of apple green color and you get it in kind of lavenders and yellows and all these
10:33sort of various inclusions i marvel at how well they've you know incorporated they knew that that
10:38was a slightly different color and they've just got the end of the stalk there so well done
10:42and just as good you know on the back as it is on the front and this is a type of chinese pendant
10:48they go back to the neolithic times you know this one's much much later than that it's not 18th
10:53century in fact this one i think is possibly quite late in the 19th century what i like about this one
10:58as well is you've got your little toad down here and i had a really good look at him and he has got
11:03little he's got the little warts on his back yeah i called him a frog i think you're right he's a toad he's
11:08definitely got uh it definitely got warts which make him a toad and then sitting on these lily pads
11:12there so look i mean it is a lovely thing and actually sort of jj light needs to be worn it
11:18brings it to life have you worn it i haven't worn it partly because of the state of the string but
11:22no it hangs in my bedroom and i look at it i admire it but i haven't yet worn it so if that came up at
11:27auction that would make eight to twelve hundred pounds fantastic there you go but you're right
11:31i'm keeping it i have to say that when you arrived at my table with this picture wrapped up
11:46i wasn't too sure what to expect and then when you eventually unwrapped it i have to say my eyes
11:51nearly popped out of my head it really is the most stunning embroidered sampler map
11:58how did it come into your life well the uh lady who um embroidered it uh anne hextel
12:05was my great great great grandmother what has surprises us about this is the date on it is 1794
12:13well in 1794 she was six years old so she did this as a small child
12:20and to our mind it's just stunning accurate as far as you can tell from that date
12:26it's certainly a virtuoso piece of embroidery isn't it yes and here we have the world the eastern
12:33hemisphere or the old world as it says here and then we have the western hemisphere or the new world
12:39and it just really is the most incredible piece of embroidery we have in the corners
12:44these vignettes little allegories the four continents of europe here we have africa
12:50america america and asia and right in the center this wonderfully rendered compass here
12:57and then right at the top a new map of the world anne hextel 1794
13:03this is taken from a pattern yes and other ones do actually are in existence of this very map so you
13:09would have the pattern and then you would start something like this as a way of learning your
13:14stitching and showing what you could do these were the female attributes female skills yes that you would
13:19need to learn in order to prepare for your adult life the thing that i really love about that is
13:24the the time it must have taken absolutely yes completely i just hope she enjoyed it
13:30i do hope for her sake it was a labor of love and not a chore so we take a closer look it just really
13:37is fascinating this is the late 18th century the dawn of modern expeditions just not long after captain
13:44cook and here we are with new holland before it was australia yes van diemen's land modern day
13:50tasmania and then moving across we've got america we've upper canada the united states and then
13:57louisiana yes separately yes before it became part of the united states of america it's all going on
14:04there it really is the most wonderful wonderful piece of embroidery and i think at auction i think this
14:11would do rather well and i could see it comfortably fetching auction between a thousand and fifteen
14:18hundred pounds wow that's amazing yes thank you with scotland known as the birthplace of golf it's no
14:29surprise the sport still reigns supreme there are around 50 courses in five alone and the world's
14:36oldest course at saint andrews is just up the road so when frederick sharp bought the hill of tarvit
14:41estate in 1904 keen golfer himself he built his very own course which today hosts a unique version
14:49of the game here they do things a little differently now i may not be dressed in traditional plus fours
14:55but i am ready to play a round of traditional golf at hill of tarvit they have a hickory golf course
15:01it's the only one of its kind remaining in the uk hickory wood was used to make early golf clubs
15:08because of its strength and flexibility dave allen runs the course here at hill of tarvit and he's also
15:14my caddy for the day dave what do i need to play a round of hickory golf you need a set of hickory
15:21golf clubs to start with and that's what we've got here in front of us today we give you out here five
15:26clubs in your bag you have a driver which is the obvious one and you have three irons you have your
15:32long iron your jigger your medium iron which is your mashie and your short iron which is your niblick
15:39which probably all means nothing to you i mean a mashie and a niblick what are they they're traditional
15:44words for golf clubs mashing means club and so it was just the makers way of in a way trying to sell it
15:52what makes them different is the shaft the shaft's the important part because the shaft is the part
15:58that's made of hickory and this is where it gets its name from the hickory shaft and these are original
16:05clubs these are original clubs these clubs date anything from the 1880s through to the 1930s
16:12and so that's what we use here nothing is replicated it's all original and so when people started to make
16:19golf clubs with with with steel as opposed to wood is that when we got into the sort of a five iron
16:25yes those kind of basically they both came around about the same time steel did come in roughly around
16:31about the first world war it was a new thing that wasn't popular so what they would do is disguise them
16:37they would disguise them either as hickory or bamboo now one of the clubs i brought you here today
16:43this one is actually designed to look like bamboo oh i see but it's but it's a steel shaft how extraordinary
16:53well i'd like to have a go at a mashy or a niblick or a mashy niblick can we of course we can
16:59all right mind yourself nice swing with the from the shoulders keep your head still and you'll be fine
17:12that is not too bad it's not bad at all actually give yourselves a couple of days and you'll be on the green
17:18hmm not so sure about that the entire course is managed in an environmentally friendly manner
17:28it's planted with sustainable wildflowers and grasses all without using modern fertilizers
17:34or artificial irrigation even the weeds at each hole are removed by hand what about the golf balls
17:41dave was there a sort of traditional type that you use for hickory golf there was a traditional because
17:45it was like the clubs at the time the balls were developing at the same time unfortunately nowadays
17:51we can't use these kind of balls they're far too expensive and they're also too rare so what we've
17:57managed to do is develop through a company in america this golf ball it's square dimpled it's a
18:03replica of a ball that was used in the 1920s so it's a ball we now use on the golf course what were the
18:08original golf balls like for hickory golf there was feathers in them they must have been so light
18:14they were and they went out of shape very quickly right i'm gonna have a bit of a go i've got the
18:19flag you're dropping this in the hole this is for the open all right nice swing i'm not getting my hopes up
18:26i think i'll quit while i'm ahead and get back to the mansion and garden where hillary kay has found some
18:52quirky looking costumes this is the best outfit i want it for every future roadshow this is my pot
19:01black look do you think it'll catch on oh absolutely but look we're surrounded by fabulous costumes
19:08we've got orange and lemons saint clemens we've got mrs washing powder we've got a fabulous clown piero
19:17outfit and we've got notes i mean there's also some photographs here so there has to be a story
19:22tell me where it starts our grandma made these costumes in the 1920s she must have been very
19:30different then to how we know her okay she was very very strict quite a disciplinarian when we were
19:37growing up but there was a previous rather frivolous life i think she was yes a flapper girl
19:43fabulous well let's just look at some of these images because first of all we've got that dress
19:49the notes dress and this is this is grandma that's crap wearing it and then what's even better is we've
19:56got a photograph of what is this kind of fancy dress party absolutely no idea i'm afraid no it was
20:04interesting as we were setting this up earlier somebody said to me you know that was the era of
20:10dressing up parties he said i remember my grandparents it wasn't just a sort of small
20:17thing it happened regularly and everybody did it you know we perhaps see too much of that sort of great
20:23gatsby style where everybody was you know super louche and super rich these were the people who were also
20:30having really good fun yeah homemade fun you know it wasn't cartier it wasn't you know chanel it was
20:37homemade and really good knees ups which you can see oh definitely i'm really pleased that she had
20:43that maybe each one on its own is not going to be a commercial yes but i think putting it all together
20:53and putting the story together makes it something much more interesting from a social history point
20:58of view yes i think that it would fetch between about four and six hundred pounds at auction wow really
21:04and it is a collection which shines a light onto everyday fun in the 1920s in london brilliant
21:13thanks so much for bringing it in thank you thank you
21:18it's a gorgeous day here in fife and i can't wait to kick back at the end of today with something nice
21:37to drink and i couldn't think of a better object for wine to come out in than this beautiful claret jug
21:44i'd love to hear a little bit about how you got it it was a gift from elderly neighbors who lived
21:52very close to us dr moscow died and his wife moved to glasgow i visited nancy quite regularly and nancy
22:04was becoming really quite free and she decided on one of my visits that was the day to to give me the
22:11claret jug which we were absolutely delighted about it's such a very much such a very precious and
22:19personal gift were you surprised very surprised yeah very super close friends but you know you don't
22:27expect to receive some things beautiful yeah absolutely what is beautiful um i personally love
22:35the decoration it's high victorian you have the fruiting vine on the finial repeated all the way
22:44down the neck in these gorgeous pierced and openwork silver mounts and all the way down the curved handle
22:53to where it meets the body of the jug and then in addition the crystal or glass body has been
23:02engraved with fruiting vines as well and i just think that that is a lovely continuity of decoration
23:11we're fortunate to know exactly the date it was made and the way we know that is from the hallmarks
23:17which are stamped here the date letter for 1852 and the crown here which is the town mark for sheffield
23:26so it's a beautiful object do you have any idea of what it might be worth not really not at all the
23:35value to us is it was a gift from various precious friends so at auction i could see this making anywhere
23:44between 1500 to 2000 pounds well yes that's a big surprise a very pleasant surprise but that's a big surprise
23:56oh yes sorry i'm getting a bit emotional i'm so pleased you brought it today thank you thank you
24:05very much indeed the valuation it took me totally by surprise um wasn't expecting anything like that at
24:15all i'm delighted that um it is of of that value but it means more that they thought well enough of us to
24:24to give us the gift
24:35a lancaster crew which one's your dad in the middle there uh then flying officer and finally retired as
24:41a squad leader ken coombs we have several log books here with 20 operational bombing missions as part of
24:47bomber command during world war ii world war ii as we know ends 8th of may 1945 ve day read in his log book
24:54may the 1st 1945 it's an operational flight but it's slightly different one yeah because this one is something
25:01called operation manor do you ever talk about this mission no never he sadly died very early 1990 so
25:07he's been gone for 30 something years so uh yeah yeah so luckily we have this one piece of paper
25:13because i think this is fantastic because it says operation manor 1st of may 45 target rotterdam race
25:18course which is what it says in the log book the government decided to assist the dutch people who were
25:24starving instead of bombs we took food in the bomb base the raid took place in daylight so we could
25:30go in as low as possible we soon noticed that workers in the field supervised by german soldiers
25:35did not look up when we were overhead others waved frantically we threw out packets of aircrew sweets
25:42and any packets of cigarettes we had we were enjoying this until we arrived at rotterdam
25:47nobody looked up military personnel at various points then we saw we thank you laid out in washing on a
25:54roof we dropped canisters containing food from the bomb bay at the race course we were annoyed by now
26:00as we realized the plight of these people this is a part of of world war ii that sometimes gets missed
26:07out at the very end of the war where instead of going out to kill people we're going out to help people
26:13and then we have on may the 8th itself ve day they're now going over and bringing home pow's
26:20so again it's another part of world war ii that we don't really think about how did we get all those
26:24pow's home and he does two flights here and i know it's only a copy but don't they look happy yeah they
26:31do they look great have you ever thought what this is worth no i haven't to be honest they'll never be
26:36sold my father's we have no family beyond and they they will they're bequeathed to the uh the bomber
26:41command memorial at uh at lincoln i know you've got his medals as well yes because you showed me
26:46those earlier it's always hard to put a price on these things especially log books they are really
26:51honestly such personal documents with the medals that you've got and the log book that you've got
26:56it's a thousand pounds worth of equipment but as you say the only place for it really is the bomber
27:01command museum where it deserves to be yeah thank you for bringing that in it's an incredible story
27:06from world war ii and thank you much appreciated
27:17so we tend to get quite a lot of rolexes on the antiques roadshow
27:21but the reason i've chosen this is because it's got something slightly unusual about it
27:25perhaps you could tell me a bit about how it came to you it was my dad's and um i have three sons and my
27:32mum wanted me to have it for my oldest boy whose name was ian and my dad's name was ian as well
27:39so it comes from your dad yes and what did your dad do for a living my dad was an engineer and did
27:44he wear it for that do you think i believe you've worn it all the time so in the 1950s just at the
27:52beginning of the 1950s rolex made what they went on to call the rolex explorer
27:57the rolex market became more and more for sporty watches and this was like the precursor to the
28:10sporty watch so this watch was made in 1953 1954 and this is the reference 6150 the later explorer
28:20started with the reference 6350 we know it's a 6150 because it says between the lugs 6150
28:27and the serial number on the other side between the lugs is exactly right for 1953 and it's an oyster
28:34watch therefore it's waterproof the 6150 was only made for about a year to 18 months and that makes
28:40it seriously rare the downside is the condition because the dial has suffered quite a bit now am i
28:48right in thinking you thought this was a fake yes and why did you think it was fake just because
28:54my dad wore it all the time and i just thought if it was worth anything then he wouldn't be wearing
29:01it all the time because of doing engineering work this all boils down to whether it's a fake or it's
29:07not a fake doesn't it is it a fake no if you put the watch on the market today it would fetch
29:16very easily between 15 and 20 000 parts wow it's great to have it on the show and thank you for
29:24bringing it in our experts always love to explore the history of chairs of all shapes and sizes brought
29:34in by our visitors but a futuristic design is puzzling mark hill you know i pride myself on knowing a little
29:43bit about mid-century modern and it's really true that in our job every day is a school day when i
29:49look at this chair i think i ought to know who designed it and who made it but i don't so educate
29:56me let me learn my thing of the day well that's the problem the problem is we don't know who designed
30:01it okay um i bought these about seven or eight years ago from a charity recycle furniture center
30:07i paid 40 pounds for the pair and i've posted a photograph online nobody seemed to know and then
30:12about two or three years ago this gentleman contacted me and he said he'd been identifying
30:17all the furniture out of doctor who and blake seven this i love instantly now this chair appears in a
30:24lot of early episodes of doctor who from about 1971 onwards so this is john pertwee's i believe
30:29so then it also appeared on the flight deck of the liberator of blake seven oh wow which is very
30:35cool you see yeah blake walks in and the chairs are all sat there on screen but i've got no provenance
30:42as where this appeared from now nobody seems to have seen another example of this chair was it
30:47made at elstree so i don't know okay i said much as mystery as it is to you let's just roll things
30:53back here so i don't recognize it you don't recognize it i asked a couple of colleagues if they
30:57recognized it and they didn't either okay now it's made out of fiberglass yeah so fiberglass of course
31:02has to be built up you have the the sort of mesh fabric that's applied with the resin yeah that implies
31:08you need a mold yes you need some form of body to put that on to create it what i don't understand
31:15is why you would go to the trouble of making a mold and making two i've seen maybe two or three on
31:21screen i have seen one in cream okay but again i've not seen we've nobody's ever seen one a physical
31:29object okay apart from the two that i have it could possibly be that it wasn't therefore a set designer
31:35it wasn't somebody who was just making something to sort of look good in the set it was actually
31:39perhaps you know let's think about maybe a design student or something yeah possible yeah um somebody
31:43who actually thought about the design in the whole rather than just making something look good for
31:47the telly yeah i just think there's an awful lot going on here really i mean there's more than meets
31:53the eye at first glance so there's this almost sort of floral feel to it so it almost feels like
31:59it's sort of blooming out and of course it's made out of this material that in the 60s and 70s was used
32:03for sculpture as well fiberglass very very popular i also just like little design features so you've
32:08got a little hollow bit here presumably you could tuck your feet inside it and also the hollow back
32:12there enables you to lift it up to lift it up and carry it yeah so i don't think it was just thought
32:17about as being a very cool very sort of period piece that summed up the style of the day i think it's
32:22important to find out the link with elstree yeah four to six hundred each cool cool yeah it's a cool
32:29fantastic yeah let's see whether we can complete the story absolutely be good there's one final test
32:37is it comfy i think it is i think it is too so do you realize i could pull it off doctor who villain
32:42absolutely
32:56thank you for bringing this artwork in today um can you tell me a little bit about how you came by it
33:01well this is the painting that my dad bought in a job lot he actually bought the painting because he
33:09liked the frame and when he got home he took the painting out the frame and put a painting that my
33:15brother had done at primary school in the frame and hung it on the wall in our family home and what
33:21happened to this painting this painting went behind the wardrobe and was forgotten about for about 20 odd
33:27years we took the frame and reunited it with the painting and then i thought that we would like to
33:36find out a wee bit more about the actual artists yeah so this is an artwork by uh jane younger now
33:43she is an obscure scottish artist but perhaps i think undeservedly obscure so this work was probably
33:49painted in the sort of late 1880s 1890s now jane was a student in the glasgow school of arts yeah and
33:56she was a member of what's become known as the glasgow girl so the glasgow boys are perhaps a bit more
34:01familiar to our viewers at home so not too much is known about jane she's not someone i've really come
34:07across often and there's a fantastic book called the glasgow girls that mentions her and we know
34:11that just like the boys she was going off to france which is where we think this is a view of there's
34:17this sort of almost breton like you know bonneted figure wearing the pails and going along to the
34:22village pump as the the painting is called the sort of red pan tiled roofs you might expect from that
34:27region as well it probably was actually sketched on the spot during her travels you know she might
34:31have been seated in the center of this village and just sketching day-to-day life little scenes that
34:36took her fancy she was very influenced by the french realist school and so that that's what we're
34:40seeing coming through here so it was you that really sort of spotted the quality of this piece
34:44wasn't it when it emerged from behind the wardrobe can you tell me what you like about it
34:48vividness of the colors i think that caught my eye and and looking at it i thought slightly naive but
34:55absolutely you know it's beautiful so can you tell me what came of your research once you guys had
35:00rediscovered and fall in love with this painting i found out that she had died in the village where
35:06we live we found out that she died in crawford in 1955 the house where she died you can see it
35:15straight through the window of our house at the top of the landing where we have hung
35:20her picture and we didn't know that when we hung it there well that's a fascinating twist if i were
35:27to put this into an auction slightly speculatively i would be putting around five to seven hundred
35:32pounds okay wow absolutely brilliant so not bad for a purchase from a job lot for the frame absolutely
35:39but she's not going anywhere she's good i can see it's very well loved yes absolutely
35:43valuation is fantastic i mean it's it's not important to value because of the the sentimental
35:52value of the actual painting itself but to get to the appreciation and interest of the um you know
35:59charlotte here today is fantastic to do jane younger on the map yeah
36:02three beautiful rings but one of them is not quite what it seems susan you brought these along
36:16tell us about them well today we're going to spot the fake two of the rings are set with natural
36:22precious colored gemstones one isn't but they're all surrounded by diamonds so the ring there the yellow
36:31one could that be a lab-grown yellow diamond surrounded by white precious diamonds or could it be a fancy
36:41natural yellow diamond right then the middle ring could this be a synthetic ruby with natural diamonds or
36:52again a lab-grown ruby okay okay and then here in front of me we have a greenstone and
37:01precious diamond ring could that be a beautiful colombian emerald or is it again a synthetic emerald
37:09how early were synthetic stones being created and used in jewellery we were finding them at the
37:14end of the 19th century other ways of imitating stones had been used before but it isn't necessarily
37:21a bad thing because even some of the bigger name jewelers like fabergé and cartier started to use
37:26synthetic stones when they had to find a large amount of smaller stones to put into bracelets
37:32and rings as little details and they couldn't get those cut it was expensive various wars had
37:37happened and so it was a perfectly acceptable alternative to use what are the values of the
37:43three rings okay so one at auction these are auction estimates is between 400 and 600 pounds
37:51one is worth around a thousand to fifteen hundred pounds and one is worth between three thousand and
37:57five thousand pounds right okay so diamond ruby emerald i mean that's what they all are but it's whether
38:06they're natural dug out of the earth or synthetic created in a lab that's right we did show you all
38:12the rings beforehand to give you at least a fighting chance you've got a marvelous hat on very appropriate
38:18for this weather i think it's the green one it just didn't look a natural source of green color the
38:23emerald yeah the emerald one i mean it is still an emerald it's just a synthetic one i don't know it's
38:28just not as emerald-y as other emeralds i've seen who have we got here another hat what do you think
38:36i'm not sure about the ruby it's probably probably really expensive but i didn't feel it had the strength
38:41of color that so it didn't attract me so that'd be my least favorite even if it's the most valuable
38:47i think the yellow diamond is the synthetic one just because yellow is a rare color for a diamond and
38:54might be desirable in a lab that's an interesting way of looking at it now lots of different answers
39:00i've got to be honest i have no idea i mean this has got more diamonds on it so might it therefore be
39:07the most valuable yellow diamonds we don't see them that often is that fair to say well maybe you
39:15do oh goodness i love the look of the emerald i love the look of this yellow diamond so on that basis
39:24alone given that i like this the least okay i'm going to go with this being the synthetic ruby the
39:31synthetic stone of the three okay well it was only a 33 chance which one did you like the best i like
39:44the emerald best that's the synthetic one i know it's amazing isn't it it really is and and it's
39:50fascinating because the mount around it is actually dated from the 1900s so it's an edwardian piece of
39:56jewelry into which they have placed a synthetic emerald if that was a natural emerald then we'd
40:02be looking at a ring that's worth quite a few thousand pounds in comparison to what we've got
40:07now so this one's 400 to 600 because of the mount and it's pretty but we saw the first synthetic emeralds
40:13back in the 19th century as we did with synthetic rubies but that is a very pretty ruby it's a nice
40:20stone ruby's quite often they're slightly pinkier or redder but this is sort of a mid a midway with the
40:27color so that one's worth a thousand to fifteen hundred pounds at auction and then the one on the
40:32right hand side is a fancy light yellow diamond there are loads of yellow diamonds around with huge
40:39quantities mined over the the last few years but unfortunately that has meant that the value of the
40:44value of the yellow diamonds has come down so that's worth between three thousand and five thousand
40:49but is a natural fancy light diamond and i think it goes rather nicely with my jacket well i think it
40:54does too lovely i'm warming to this one oh susan what were the chance i'd get that right well very slim
41:06thank you very much it's been great thank you fiona
41:29so here we have a ceramic figure of really impressive size and scale what's your connection
41:35with this piece it actually belongs to a family member he purchased at an auction five six years
41:40ago it's 80 to 100 pounds i think he paid and he's done some research on it and he believes well
41:46he says of an american actress called doris keen what attracted to him was the monkey on the front
41:51he thought you know when you look at a dotum it's just a bit different this one and yeah so as you
41:56say it's a ceramic figure and it is this american actress doris keen who became very very famous in her
42:03day and in this depiction she is playing a character called margarita cavallini who was a central
42:10character in a play by robert sheldon called romance and i think that this depiction is probably based
42:17on a studio portrait she models with her pet monkey this is made for royal dalton and it's modeled
42:25by a man called charles noak so we have the inscription on the base telling us that this is doris
42:32keen as cavallini in romance and we also have the signature c j noak and here again it's inscribed
42:40potted at dalton and co now charles noak really transformed the fortunes of royal dalton yes and with
42:48his modeling and designs for wonderful figures such as this so this is an earthenware ceramic figure
42:54made in stoke-on-trent with matte glaze on her black skirts and a sort of shiny white glaze applied in
43:01other areas her face is really beautifully enameled and she's portrayed here with a pink in her cheek
43:08and vivid blue eyes this particular model was in production from 1918 until about 1938 okay and it's
43:17quite a rare model if it came to auction today in a dedicated ceramic sale i can see it making in
43:24the region of 800 pounds oh fantastic it'll be delighted it was a really lovely surprise to to
43:30see such an unusual figure like this here today so thank you for bringing it on his behalf you're very
43:35welcome thank you we see all sorts of music memorabilia on the roadshow and avid fans are
43:44always on the hunt for rarities from instruments belonging to famous artists to limited edition
43:50recordings and singles today james broad has spotted some interesting looking cds by the manchester superband
43:58oasis so we've got all these oasis items who's the big oasis fan i think it's both of us
44:04really isn't it yeah you've got the haircuts yeah he's got the haircut where were these collected
44:10from well from my side they came from my dad's collection he had a shop in dundee called groucho's
44:16and he started that in 1976 wow and of course they've been part of my youth right the way through so
44:23that's probably where my interest comes from so i'm assuming this was the record bag from your dad's shop
44:29yeah the last incarnation yeah there's been a few i love it clean where did you all the races start
44:34well just basically since they started and then since then it's just been a kind of thing it's
44:38always been in the background and they've always consistently collected there's some really nice
44:43items here i mean some that you do see more often i mean these fairly valuable and they are absolutely
44:47iconic but this one here i have never seen one what's the story behind that one it's a cdr acetate that
44:55was used in abbey road and it was one of only two singles that was ever produced at abbey road
45:01um it's done by chris blair who was a tape operator on the original abbey road by the beatles
45:06and this wasn't released until the later box sets and the reissues 20 years later
45:13where did you get it uh i bought it in a job lot in a job lot yeah
45:18how much did you pay for that job lot uh 50 quarts in terms of value for this collection on
45:23the table here which i imagine is only part of your collection i would value around about a thousand
45:28pounds mainly for this particular one here because you're not going to get another so if you add that
45:33in a specialist auction it could fly it really could fly because it's a rare rare thing but obviously
45:38going nowhere keep it enjoy it yeah exactly and do your dad proud yes amazing
45:49you've brought this supreme piece of edged elegance how did you come across such an elegant piece
45:56well i first saw this sword not long after i met my present wife of 51 years and um it hung above the
46:04door in her aunt's and uncle's house yeah they were farmers we were there one christmas and we
46:11were leaving and she went can you get that down for me please it's yours david you're the one that's
46:17looked after it marveled at it keep it foolishly never asked where it came from right so you assume
46:24people are going to live forever sometimes i look at the blade and to actually make that blade by hand
46:29oh yeah it's something else small swords were not really sort of a gentleman's accoutrement in the
46:37mid-16 to late 1700s you'd wear your small sword they had a straight blade this if we look at this
46:44blade shape is really unusual it's got a name it's a colchimard blade this we look yeah that's always
46:53fascinating this is concave which makes it remarkably stiff in comparison to a rapier or a small
46:59sword this is much wider and this is called the forte of the blade and if you are duelling and you
47:07have somebody with a little thing that can you can catch his blade on the 40 it's much stronger you
47:14have one tiny piece of damage here that is bent yeah i've never touched that right the reason for
47:21it's being bent it should come there because when you handle one of these you do not handle it like that
47:26you handle it like that okay that is called the past dane ah and it enables you to
47:34these are slightly shorter than a rapier and a small sword which makes them infinitely faster
47:41this might be terribly elegant but it is a fighting duelling sword we can date this relatively accurately
47:481680s to about 1770s this was reputed to have been designed by a chap called conies mark who was a
47:56german duelist why did they stop making it because by about the 1770s dueling was still going on but
48:03they stopped stabbing each other they started shooting each other okay the sword duel just fell
48:11away probably english at a push might be french what's it worth i would think at auction 1500 pounds
48:20seriously it's lovely that's brilliant wow can't thank you enough no it's really wonderful
48:32this um which must be a concertina nothing ever comes in a box like that
48:36but isn't the concertina the story is that it was actually loaded on the titanic as a consignment of
48:41gifts for a family that immigrated to to america but they didn't have the right paperwork so it's
48:46offloaded no so it survived the time if only i had paperwork to prove that can you play it no no
48:54where is a concertina player when you need one there's never one in the right place in the right
48:59yes exactly um well look here we've got the the name of the the maker which is uh george case and
49:07retailed by boozy and son in london you're a very lucky concertina i'm sure it would have floated
49:14okay value i'd like to say perhaps four to six hundred lovely thing thanks very much indeed
49:20for bringing it along well thank you thank you pleasure
49:22cheers
49:26the thing i'm interested in is that where do you think this is from well my husband brought it
49:32back from america when he came back from a year's um university and when was that um 1962.
49:40he said he got it from a navajo um reservation so he thought it was made by the number yes he thought
49:46it wasn't it's made by the zuni people which are a neighboring tribe they're from i mean the zuni
49:53can be found in new mexico yes it's lapidary work yes this is these are cut stones and and elements
50:01minerals you know what's that about 100 years old 1925 oh goodness 1930 you know this is silver
50:08obviously so your husband bought this for you he gave me this in lieu of an engagement ring
50:15someone who specializes in zuni and there are one or two shops in england i think they would sell that
50:22for about 750 pounds really yes yes gosh one of her grand horses will get it eventually yes i love it right
50:32thank you
50:44well here we are in fife the home of golf st andrews just over the hill along the coast
50:49and you've brought this wonderful silver trophy with very local interest cooper golf club where about is
50:54that exactly well the golf club is just over this hill just on the north side of cooper the course
51:01is on a bit of land that was originally owned by frederick sharp the owner of this house he was a keen
51:05golfer and he ended up being the club president for a good number of years as well so 1855 was when the
51:11club was founded and originally we didn't have a course we played on farmer's field two days a week
51:18subsequently we moved away and played for a little while at one of the other local golf courses but
51:23still as cooper golf club before we found our home there in the early 1890s i see it's called the
51:30peripatetic cup so it was competed for each year and you would go to a different club to compete
51:36absolutely so this was in 1921 gleneagles and they must have decided to go there because gleneagles
51:42opened in 1919 the king's course designed by james braid yes he designed so many famous scottish golf
51:48courses and look at them they're really on a big day out yes resplendent wonderful attire the tweed
51:55suits shirt and tie bunnets or tweed hats it's got a wonderful feel to it the cup it's basically a
52:02victorian silver wine goblet okay and they've adapted it and i know that because the hallmarks have actually
52:08been covered over by one of the blobs right soldered on there okay but it just feels so nice and that's
52:14little knopped stem they call that so that would facilitate the grip okay when drinking wine originally
52:20it's dated 1873 on the cup so we know that's definitely stylistically that's that's bang on okay
52:26slightly heavy because of all these different winners medals on this it's interesting because
52:30from a silver point of view it's kind of been wrecked yeah but there's much more value attached with
52:35the provenance that you've just given and all that added history and i would have put a value on that
52:40of around about maybe two to three thousand pounds okay that kind of area right the club are very proud
52:46of it and uh you know it's been lovely to come along so excellent thank you thank you thank you
52:57well there are certain names within the firmament of art and design that will raise anyone's pulse
53:02and one of those has to be pablo picasso and before us we have a jug by pablo picasso so before we tell
53:11more about the piece i have to ask the question how do you come to own it well it uh belonged to my
53:18parents when my father died my brothers and i cleared the house and actually funnily enough this had been a
53:24jug that i was scarcely aware of as being in their house my mother was a keen art collector but it didn't
53:31have pride of place in the house at all and your mother never spoke of it or where no they may
53:36have acquired it no that's why i'm assuming that it might have been acquired under one of the trips
53:41to the south of france but i have absolutely no idea well you mentioned the south of france and
53:46where we have to head for is a place called valoris and within that area there were potters and workers
53:52but of particular note there was a firm called madura that was run by george and suzanne ramey
53:58let's take ourselves back to 1946 when picasso went to visit madura pottery and while he was there
54:07george and suzanne ramey allowed him to make three pieces and he was so transfixed by this medium
54:16that a formation of a new adventure began from 1947 until 1971 picasso created with the assistance
54:27of the rameys and their team of potters over 630 different designs now amongst them
54:36there are the unique pieces but then he would also create editions and all of these editions have
54:44different ranges in numbers the very small have a very short edition of only 50 pieces some go up to 500
54:51this jug itself is called shop visage and was created in 1959 to an edition of 300.
55:02it's wonderful now if we look underneath here we have a number of marks here we have
55:11madura edition picasso and then handwritten edition picasso one to one of 300 madura
55:21it's about that energy that economy of line isn't it the fact that in just yes a few very simple strokes
55:29you can turn a very ordinary pitcher a very ordinary jug into something that has been touched and kissed by
55:36picasso yes by this point in his career he was becoming internationally famous he realized his acclaim
55:45he realized that he was getting out the reach of other people but he thought that by doing ceramics
55:50he could make himself accessible to everybody in 1959 was accessible how accessible today
55:58no idea at all i'll tell you eight to twelve thousand pounds oh okay
56:14i like it because of the the very economy of line i'm fascinated by it with a few simple lines
56:21you get a face you know and it really looks good i very nearly didn't bring it this morning
56:29i have one or two other things to bring and it was just my husband at last minute said why don't you
56:34bring uh the jug so so i did and here we go and yes it's very surprising
56:51any idea what this is
56:55let me give you a clue look at these beautiful sweeping lawns mown of course by gardeners with
57:01lawnmowers but in the 19th century there was a contraption pulled by a horse that did all the
57:06hard work now of course horses whose would leave indentations in the newly mown grass but if they had
57:13these things these shoes leather shoes put on their hooves they wouldn't leave any marks at all
57:19because it was smooth underneath not sure how the horses felt about it from hill of tarbit here in
57:25fife until next time from all the team bye
57:39so
57:44so
57:46you
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