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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
02:23Durham and this was a present to him from his son who had obviously emigrated from the Bretagne territory in there.
02:33to adelaide right and it must have been sent over to him as a present for his appointment when edward
02:40peel died it never went back to him so it came to robert peel's sister she married my great
02:47grandfather and it just came down so what did you think when when you inherited it
02:54there were two things that came one was a solid silver soup dream and one was this
02:57yeah and i lost the toss and i got this you'd have preferred the soup to read i would maybe more
03:03functional anyway it's fine but of course a new parent has got a function although this one's
03:06highly decorative this 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 here vent w-e-n-d-t of
03:18adelaide we know the date so it's late 19th century australian silver from this period with a known maker
03:27and a known inscription gives it a bit more provenance and cachet i would say if this turned up in a
03:33sale here you're looking at three thousand to five thousand pounds
03:40we're looking at this pair of bookends the style and design of them sort of belies who actually
03:59made them especially when i say the name claris cliff but before we unpick the mystery of them
04:06a little bit got to ask how did they come to be yours they were my mom's so i can remember them
04:10when i was a child propping up books but in the guest bedroom so they weren't really on display for
04:15everybody to see so when 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 those whimsical
04:26landscapes all of those bold geometrics claris loved modeling and here it is in absolute full display
04:33at wilkinson's in 1922 she was formally indentured as a modeler before all of the other designs came
04:39about and all through 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 but it's this idea of this
04:51whimsical country you know bucolic lifestyle that she wanted to recreate but i'm even going to say to
04:58you that i know who painted these wow 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 the date you're
05:12looking around 1932 to 1934 and actually if we just turn them upside down we've got exactly the
05:20marks that you'd want to see bizarre which of course is the range by claris cliff to the collectors well
05:27some like collecting geometrics 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 somewhere between three
05:39and four hundred pounds that's good yeah not that i want to sell them because i quite like them they're
05:44very pretty well what a glorious sunny day blue skies above us blue beautiful necklace tell me how you
05:59got this necklace it came to me about 15 years ago from my mother and the lady who delivered my mother
06:08sadly none of her own baby survived that's all so that left granny martindale as she became known in the
06:15family without any of her own surviving children so when mum was 21 she'd managed to buy the sapphires for
06:24mum's birthday how 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 quite
06:36quite much older than i thought exactly so we've got this gorgeous row of sapphires and it would have
06:43probably been bought by somebody who traveled in india uh the stones are more likely to come from
06:50sri lanka salon and they would have been pieced together when they got back to britain into this
06:56row of beautiful stones mounted in this gold claw setting and also the lovely fine gold chain so when
07:05we're looking at the stones in order to get the value we need to look at the consistency of color not
07:10just of the stones as they sit on the necklace but also when you look into the stones to make sure that
07:15the color is the same from the top to the bottom and we also look inside the stones and on the surface
07:21for floors and inclusions the one thing that we can't tell for sure when we're out on location like
07:27here because 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
07:40and their clarity which has become to a point accepted within the jewelry industry sapphires are
07:46also the stone of devotion all right in the language of of jewelry world that would be very appropriate
07:54wouldn't it just now the colored stone market is also at the moment doing exceptionally well if the
08:00necklace comes back that all the stones are natural no heat treatment then you're looking at a necklace that
08:07is going to be well in excess of ten thousand pounds that's very nice and they could fly granny martindale
08:13would be amazed amazed well you've made my day thank you very much for bringing them in
08:19and uh cherish them i will thank you very much thank you thank you
08:28wow that is an extraordinary object what do you know about it it's come down through my
08:35husband's side of the family over several hundred years and um my husband now owns it it's a hairball
08:43which has come from a horse's stomach um and the horse would have worked in the dundee jute mill so
08:51it's all the fibers from the jute yeah and then when the horse died they discovered this in its stomach
08:56but what a size and it's such a weight and it's almost perfectly spherical i think it's a wonderful
09:06object and in a way it's sculptural isn't it and i honestly think that in a sale where they were
09:13selling 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 it's not for sale
09:36so 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 from
10:16myanmar burma and it was really highly prized in the 18th century although this one i think is made
10:21later on into the 19th century as a material it's a very precious stone you can see why i mean this
10:29lovely kind of apple green color and you get it in kind of lavenders and yellows and all these sort
10:33of various inclusions i marvel at how well they've you know incorporated they knew that that was a
10:38slightly different color and they've just got the end of the stalk there so well done and just as good
10:44you know on the back as it is on the front and this is a type of chinese pendant they go back to
10:48the neolithic times you know this one's much much later than that it's not 18th century in fact this
10:53one i think is possibly quite late in the 19th century what i like about this one as well is
10:58you've got your little toad down here and i had a really good look at him and he has got little
11:04he'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 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 like needs to be worn it brings
11:18it to life have you worn it i haven't worn it partly because of the state of the string but no
11:22it 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 i'm
11:31keeping it there you go do i have to give it back now i have to say that when you arrived at my table
11:44with this picture wrapped up i wasn't too sure what to expect and then when you eventually unwrapped
11:49it i have to say my eyes nearly popped out of my head it really is the most stunning embroidered
11:57sample of that how did it come into your life well the uh lady who um embroidered it anne hextel
12:05was my great great great grandmother what has surprises us about this is the date on it is 1794.
12:14well in 1794 she was six years old so she did this as a small child and to our mind it's just stunning
12:23accurate as far as you can tell from that date it's certainly a virtuoso piece of embroidery isn't
12:29it yes and here we have the world the eastern hemisphere or the old world as it says here and
12:36then we have the western hemisphere or the new world and it just really is the most incredible
12:42piece of embroidery we have in the corners these vignettes little allegories the four continents of
12:48europe here we have africa america and asia and right in the center this wonderfully rendered compass
12:56here and then right at the top a new map of the world anne hextel 1794 this is taken from a pattern
13:06yes and other ones do actually are in existence of this very map so you would have the pattern
13:10and then you would start something like this as a way of learning your stitching and showing what you
13:15could do these were the female attributes female skills that you would need to learn in order to
13:20prepare for your adult life the thing that i really love about that is the the time it must have taken
13:26absolutely patience yes completely i just hope she enjoyed it i do hope for her sake it was a labor
13:33of love and not a chore so we take a closer look it just really is fascinating this is the late 18th
13:40century the dawn of modern expeditions just not long after captain cook and here we are with new
13:46holland before it was australia yes van diemen's land modern day tasmania and then moving across we've
13:53got america we've upper canada the united states and then louisiana yes not separately yes before it
14:01became part of the united states of america it's all going on there it really is the most wonderful
14:07wonderful piece of embroidery and i think at auction i think this would do rather well and
14:13i could see it comfortably fetching auction between a thousand and fifteen hundred pounds wow that's
14:19amazing yes thank you
14:26with scotland known as the birthplace of golf it's no surprise the sport still reigns supreme
14:32there are around 50 courses in five alone and the world's oldest course at saint andrews is just up
14:38the road so when frederick sharp bought the hill of tarvit estate in 1904 keen golfer himself he built
14:45his very own course which today hosts a unique version of the game here they do things a little
14:52differently now i may not be dressed in traditional plus fours but i am ready to play a round of traditional
14:57golf at hill of tarvit they have a hickory golf course it's the only one of its kind remaining in
15:03the uk hickory wood was used to make early golf clubs because of its strength and flexibility
15:11dave allen runs the course here at hill of tarvit and he's also my caddy for the day dave what do i
15:17need to play a round of hickory golf you need a set of hickory golf clubs to start with and that's what
15:22we've got here in front of us today we give you out here five clubs in your bag you have a driver which
15:29is the obvious one and you have three irons you have your long iron your jigger your medium iron
15:36which is your mashie and your short iron which is your niblick which probably all means nothing to you
15:41i mean a mashie and a niblick what are they they're traditional words for golf clubs mashing means club
15:47and so it was just the makers way of in a way trying to sell it what makes them different is the shaft
15:55the shaft's the important part because the shaft is the part that's made of hickory and this is where
16:01it gets its name from the hickory shaft and these are original clubs these are original clubs these clubs
16:07date anything from the 1880s through to the 1930s and so that's what we use here nothing is replicated
16:15it's all original and so when people started to make golf clubs with with with steel as opposed to
16:22wood is that when we got into the sort of a five iron yes those kind of basically they both came around
16:27about the same time steel did come in roughly around about the first world war it was the new thing that
16:33wasn't popular so what they would do is disguise them they would disguise them either as hickory or bamboo
16:40now one of the clubs i brought you here today this one is actually designed to look like bamboo
16:49oh i see but but it's but it's a steel shaft how extraordinary well i'd like to have a go at a
16:54mashie or a niblick or a mashie niblick can we of course we can
16:59all right mind yourself nice swing with the from the shoulders keep your head still
17:08and 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
17:18green
17:18not so sure about that the entire course is managed in an environmentally friendly manner
17:28it's planted with sustainable wildflowers and grasses
17:32all without using modern fertilizers or artificial irrigation even the weeds at each hole are removed
17:39by hand what about the golf balls dave was there a sort of traditional type that they used for hickory
17:44golf there was a traditional because it was like the clubs at the time the balls were developing at
17:48the same time unfortunately nowadays we can't use these kind of balls they're far too expensive and
17:55they're also too rare so what we've managed to do is develop through a company in america this golf ball
18:01it's square dimpled it's a replica of a ball that was used in the 1920s so it's a ball we now use on
18:07the golf course what were the original golf balls like for hickory golf there was feathers in them
18:12they must have been so light they were and they went out of shape very quickly right i'm going
18:17to have a bit of a go i've got the flag you're dropping this in the hole this is for the open
18:23all right nice swing i'm not getting my hopes up
18:29this one's going in fiora oh
18:31oh my goodness told you that one was going in that was beginner's luck it doesn't matter it's in
18:45i think i'll quit while i'm ahead and get back to the mansion and garden
18:50where hillary kaye has found some quirky looking costumes
18:53this is the best outfit i want it for every future road show this is my pot black look
19:02do you think it'll catch on oh absolutely but look we're surrounded by fabulous costumes we've got
19:09orange and lemons st clemens we've got mrs washing powder we've got a fabulous clown piero outfit and we've
19:18got notes i mean there's also some photographs here so there has to be a story tell me where it
19:23starts our grandma made these costumes in the 1920s she must have been very different then to how we
19:32know her okay she was very very strict quite a disciplinarian when we were growing up but there
19:38was a previous rather frivolous life i think she was yes a flapper girl fabulous well let's just look
19:46at some of these images because first of all we've got that dress the notes dress and this is this
19:51is grandma wearing it and then what's even better is we've got a photograph of what is this kind of
20:00fancy dress party absolutely no idea i'm afraid no it was interesting as we were setting this up
20:06earlier somebody said to me you know that was the era of dressing up parties he said i remember my
20:13grandparents it wasn't just a sort of small thing it happened regularly and everybody did it you know
20:21we perhaps see too much of that sort of great gatsby style where everybody was you know super louche and
20:27super rich these were the people who were also having really good fun yeah homemade fun you know it
20:33wasn't cartier it wasn't you know chanel it was homemade and really good knees ups which you can see
20:41see oh definitely i'm really pleased that she had that maybe each one on its own is not going to be
20:48a commercial yes but i think putting it all together and putting the story together makes it something
20:56much more interesting from a social history point of view yes i think that it would fetch between about
21:01four and six hundred pounds at auction wow really and it is a collection which shines a light onto
21:09everyday fun in the 1920s in london brilliant thanks so much for bringing it in thank you
21:15thank you
21:29it's a gorgeous day here in fife and i can't wait to kick back at the end of today with something nice to
21:37drink 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 very
21:52close to us dr moscow died and his wife moved to glasgow i visited nancy quite regularly and nancy was
22:05becoming really quite frail 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
22:26expect to receive something's 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 open work silver mounts and all the way down the curved
22:52handle to where it meets the body of the jug and then in addition the crystal or glass body has been
23:03engraved 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 which
23:17are stamped here the date letter for 1852 and the crown here which is the town mark for sheffield
23:27so it's a beautiful object do you have any idea of what it might be worth not really no
23:34not at all the value to us is it was a gift from various precious friends
23:41so at auction i could see this making anywhere between 1500 to 2000 pounds well yes that's a big
23:51surprise a very pleasant surprise but that's a big surprise oh yes sorry i'm getting a bit emotional
24:02i'm so pleased you brought it today thank you thank you very much indeed
24:06the valuation it took me totally by surprise um wasn't expecting anything like that at all
24:16i'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
24:41as a squad leader ken coombs we have several log books here with 20 operational bombing missions as
24:47part of bomber command during world war ii world war ii as we know ends 8th of may 1945 ve day but in
24:53his log book may the 1st 1945 it's an operational flight but it's slightly different one yeah
25:00because this one is something called operation manor do you ever talk about this mission no never he
25:05sadly died very early 1990 so he's been gone for 30 something years so uh yeah yeah so luckily we have
25:11this one piece of paper because i think this is fantastic because it says operation manor first of may
25:1645 target rotterdam racecourse which is what it says in the log book the government decided to assist
25:23the dutch people who were starving instead of bombs we took food in the bomb base the raid took place
25:29in daylight so we could go in as low as possible we soon noticed that workers in the field supervised
25:34by german soldiers did not look up when we were overhead others waved frantically we threw out packets
25:40of aircrew sweets and 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
26:13people and 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
26:41bomber command memorial at uh at lincoln i know you've got his medals as well yes because you showed
26:46me those 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 perhaps you
27:25could tell me a bit about how it came to you it was my dad's and um i have three sons and my mum
27:32wanted 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 he
27:45wear it for that do you think i believe you've worn it all the time me so in the 1950s just at the
27:52beginning of the 1950s rolex made what they went on to call the rolex explorer this watch is technically
28:00not a rolex explorer it's called the rolex pre-explorer the rolex market became more and more for sporty
28:07watches and this was like the precursor to the sporty watch so this watch was made in 1953 1954
28:15and this is the reference 6150 the later explorer started with the reference 6350
28:22we know it's a 6150 because it says between the lugs 6150 and the serial number on the other side
28:30between the lugs is exactly right for 1953 and it's an oyster watch therefore it's waterproof the 6150
28:36was only made for about a year to 18 months and that makes it seriously rare
28:42the downside is the condition because the dial has suffered quite a bit now am i right in thinking
28:49you thought this was a fake yes and why did you think it was fake just because my dad wore it all
28:55the time and i just thought if it was worth anything then he wouldn't be wearing it all the time because
29:02of doing engineering work this all boils down to whether it's a fake or it's not a fake doesn't it
29:08is it a fake no if you put the watch on the market today it would fetch very easily between 15 and 20 000
29:18parts wow it's great to have it on the show and thank you for bringing it in
29:30our experts always love to explore the history of chairs of all shapes and sizes brought in by our
29:35visitors 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 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 period i believe
30:29so then it also appeared on the flight deck of the liberator out of blake seven oh wow which is very
30:35cool you see you like walking in yeah blake walks in and the chairs are all sat there in on screen
30:40but i've got no provenances where this appeared from now nobody seems to have seen another example of
30:46this chair was it made at elstree so i don't know okay i said much as mysterious to you let's just roll
30:53things back 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 screen
31:21ah 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
31:35designer it wasn't somebody who was just making something to sort of look good in the set
31:38it was actually perhaps you know let's think about maybe a design student or something yeah
31:42possible yeah um somebody who actually thought about the design in the whole rather than just making
31:46something look good for the telly yeah i just think there's an awful lot going on here really
31:52i mean there's more than meets the eye at first glance so there's this almost sort of floral feel
31:57to it so it almost feels like it's sort of blooming out and of course it's made out of this material that
32:02in the 60s and 70s was used for sculpture as well fiberglass very very popular i also just like little
32:06design features so you've got a little hollow bit here presumably you could tuck your feet inside it
32:11and also the hollow back there enables you to lift it up to lift it up and carry it yeah so i don't
32:16think it was just thought about as being a very cool very sort of period piece that summed up the
32:21style of the day i think it's important to find out the link with elstree yeah four to 600 each
32:26cool cool yeah it's a cool interesting yeah let's see whether we can complete the story
32:32absolutely be good there's one final test is it comfy i think it is i think it is too
32:40so do you really could pull it off doctor who villain absolutely
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 a 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
33:15my brother had done at primary school in the frame and hung it on the wall in our family home
33:21and what happened to this painting this painting went behind the wardrobe and was forgotten about
33:26for about 20 odd years we took the frame and reunited it with the painting and then i thought
33:35that we would like to find out a wee bit more about the the actual artist yes so this is an artwork by
33:41jane younger now she is an obscure scottish artist but perhaps i think undeservedly obscure so this work
33:49was probably painted in the sort of late 1880s 1890s now jane was a student in the glasgow school of
33:55arts yeah and she was a member of what's become known as the glasgow girls so the glasgow boys are
34:00perhaps a bit more familiar to our viewers at home so not too much is known about jane she's not
34:06someone i've really come across often and there's a fantastic book called the glasgow girls that
34:10mentions her and we know that just like the boys she was going off to france which is where we think
34:15this is a view of there's this sort of almost breton like you know bonneted figure wearing the pails and
34:21going along to the the village pump as the the painting is called the sort of red pan tiled
34:26roofs you might expect from that region as well it probably was actually sketched on the spot during
34:30her travels you know she might have been seated in the center of this village and just sketching
34:34day-to-day life little scenes that took her fancy she was very influenced by the french realist school
34:39and so that that's what we're seeing coming through here so it was you that really sort of spotted the
34:43quality of this piece wasn't it when it emerged from behind the wardrobe can you tell me what you like
34:47about it vividness of the colors i think that caught my eye and and looking at it i thought
34:53slightly naive but absolutely you know it's beautiful so can you tell me what came of your
34:59research once you guys had just rediscovered and fall in love with this painting i found out that she
35:03had died in the village where we live we found out that she died in crawford in 1955 the house where she
35:12died you can see it straight through the window of our house at the top of the landing where we have
35:20hung her picture and we didn't know that when we hung it there well that's a fascinating twist if i
35:27were to put this into an auction slightly speculatively i would be putting around five to seven hundred pounds
35:33okay 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
35:46valuation 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 the interest of the um you know
35:59charlotte here today is fantastic to put jane younger on the map yeah
36:09three 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
36:31yellow one could that be a lab-grown yellow diamond surrounded by white precious diamonds or could it be
36:40a fancy natural yellow diamond right then the middle ring could this be a synthetic ruby with natural
36:49diamonds or again a lab-grown ruby okay okay and then here in front of me we have a green stone 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 jewelry we were finding them at the
37:14the end 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 and rings as
37:32little details and they couldn't get those cut it was expensive various wars had happened and so it was a
37:38perfectly acceptable alternative to use what are the values of the three rings okay so one at auction
37:46these are auction estimates is between 400 and 600 pounds one is worth around a thousand to fifteen
37:53hundred pounds and one is worth between three thousand and five thousand pounds right okay so diamond ruby
38:03emerald i mean that's what they all are but it's whether they're natural dug out of the earth or
38:09synthetic created in a lab that's right we did show you all the rings beforehand to give you at least
38:14a fighting chance you've got a marvelous hat on very appropriate for this weather i think it's the green one
38:20it just didn't look a natural source of green color the emerald yeah the emerald one i mean it is still
38:25an emerald it's just a synthetic one just i don't know it's just not as emerald as other emeralds i've seen
38:31who've we got here another hat what do you think i'm not sure about the ruby it's probably probably
38:39really expensive but i didn't feel it had the strength of color that so it didn't attract me
38:44so that'd be my least favorite even if it's the most valuable i think the yellow diamond is the
38:50synthetic one just because yellow is a rare color for a diamond and might be desirable in a lab that's an
38:57interesting way of looking at it now lots of different answers i've got to be honest i have
39:01no idea i mean this has got more diamonds on it so might it therefore be the most valuable
39:08yellow diamonds we don't see them that often is that fair to say or maybe you do oh goodness
39:18i love the look of the emerald i love the look of this yellow diamond
39:23so on that basis alone given that i like this the least okay i'm going to go with this being
39:28the synthetic ruby the synthetic stone of the three okay
39:39well it was only a 33 chance which one did you like the best i like the emerald best that's the
39:45synthetic one i know it's amazing isn't it it really is and and it's fascinating because the
39:52mount around it is actually dated from the 1900s so it's an edwardian piece of jewelry
39:58into which they have placed a synthetic emerald if that was a natural emerald then we'd be looking
40:03at a ring that's worth quite a few thousand pounds in comparison to what we've got now so this one's 400
40:09to 600 because of the mount and it's pretty but we saw the first synthetic emeralds back in the 19th
40:14century as we did with synthetic rubies but that is a very pretty ruby it's a nice stone rubies
40:21quite often they're slightly pinkier or redder but this is sort of a mid a midway with the color
40:27so that one's worth a thousand to fifteen hundred pounds at auction and then the one on the right
40:32hand side is a fancy light yellow diamond there are loads of yellow diamonds around with huge quantities
40:39mined over the the last few years but unfortunately that has meant that the value of the yellow diamonds
40:45has come down so that's worth between three thousand and five thousand but is a natural fancy light
40:51diamond and i think it goes rather nicely with my jacket well i think it does too
40:58lovely i'm warming to this one oh susan what were the chance i'd get that right
41:05well very slim thank you very much it's been great thank you fiona
41:19so 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 done some research on it and he believes well he
41:46says 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 dolphin it's just a bit different this one and yeah so as
41:56you say 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 character
42:11in a play by robert sheldon called romance and i think that this depiction is probably based on a
42:17studio portrait she models with her pet monkey this is made for royal dalton and it's modeled by a man
42:25called charles noak so we have the inscription on the base telling us that this is doris keen
42:32as 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
42:53at made in stoke-on-trent with matte glaze on her black skirts and a sort of shiny white glaze applied
43:01in other 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 the
43:24region of 800 pounds oh fantastic it'll be delighted it was a really lovely surprise to to see such an
43:30unusual figure like this here today so thank you for bringing it on his behalf you're very welcome thank you
43:35we see all sorts of music memorabilia on the roadshow and avid fans are always on the hunt for rarities
43:46from instruments belonging to famous artists to limited edition recordings and singles
43:52today james broad has spotted some interesting looking cds by the manchester superband oasis
43:58so we've got all these oasis items who's the big oasis fan i think it's both of us really isn't it
44:05yeah you've got the haircut yeah he's got the haircut where were these collected from well from my side they
44:12came from my dad's collection he had a shop in dundee called groucho's and he started that in 1976
44:19wow and of course they've been part of my youth right the way through so that's probably where my interest
44:25comes from so i'm assuming this was the record bag from your dad's shop yeah the the last incarnation
44:31yeah there's been a few i love it then where did you all the races start well just basically since
44:35they started and then since then it's just been a kind of thing it's always been in the background
44:39and they've always consistently collected there's really nice items here i mean some that you do see
44:44more often i mean these fairly valuable and they are absolutely iconic but this one here i have never
44:50seen one what's the story behind that one it's a cdr acetate that was used in abbey road and it was
44:57one of only two singles it was ever produced at abbey road and it's done by chris blair who was a
45:04tape operator on the original abbey road by the beatles and this wasn't released until the later
45:09box sets and the reissues 20 years later where did you get it uh i bought it in a job lot in a job lot
45:17yeah how much did you pay for that job lot uh 50 quads 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 were
46:11leaving 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
47:25that you 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
47:56a german duelist why did they stop making it because by about the 1770s duelling was still going on but
48:03they stopped stabbing each other they started shooting each other okay the sword duel just fell away
48:11probably 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
48:25this um which must be a concertina nothing ever comes in a box like that but isn't a concertina the
48:38story is that it was actually loaded onto the titanic as a consignment of gifts for a family that
48:42immigrated to to america but they didn't have the right paperwork so it's offloaded no so it survived
48:49the time if only i had paperwork to prove that can you play it no no where is a concertina
48:55player when you need one there's never one in the right place in the right yes exactly um well look
49:01here we've got the the name of the the maker which is uh george case and retailed by boozy and son
49:08in london you're a very lucky concertina i'm sure it would have floated true okay value i'd like to say
49:16perhaps four to six hundred lovely thing thanks very much indeed for bringing it along well thank you
49:21thank you pleasure pleasure the thing i'm interested in is that where do you think this is from well my
49:32husband brought it back from america when he came back from a year's um university and when was that um
49:391962 he said he got it from a navajo um reservation so he thought it was made by the now yes so he thought
49:46what it was made it isn't it's made by the zuni people which are a neighboring tribe they're there
49:52for i mean the zuni can be found in new mexico yes it's lapidary work yes there's a cut stones and
50:00and elements minerals you know what's that about 100 years old 1925 oh goodness 1930 you know this is
50:07silver obviously 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 it is 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
50:54is that 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 suits
51:56shirt and tie bunnets or tweed hats it's got a wonderful feel to it the cup it's basically a victorian
52:03silver wine goblet okay and they've adapted it and i know that because the hallmarks have actually been
52:08covered 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 it it's interesting because from a
52:30silver point of view it's kind of been wrecked yeah but there's much more value attached with the
52:35provenance 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 have
53:36acquired it no that's why i'm assuming that it might have been acquired under one of the trips to the
53:41south of france but i have absolutely no idea well you mentioned the south of france and where we have
53:46to head for is a place called valoris and within that area there were potters and workers but a particular
53:54note there was a firm called madura that was run by george and suzanne ramay let's take ourselves back
54:00to 1946 when picasso went to visit madura pottery and while he was there george and suzanne ramay allowed
54:10him to make three pieces and he was so transfixed by this medium that a formation of a new adventure began
54:19from 1947 until 1971 picasso created with the assistance of the ramay's and their team of potters
54:30over 630 different designs now amongst them there are the unique pieces but then he would also
54:39create editions and all of these editions have different ranges in numbers the very small have
54:46a very short edition of only 50 pieces some go up to 500 this jug itself is called shop visage
54:55and was created in 1959 to an edition of 300
55:01it's wonderful okay now if we look underneath here we have a number of marks here we have madura
55:13edition picasso and then handwritten edition picasso one two one of 300 madura
55:21it's about that energy that economy of line isn't it the fact that in just
55:27yes a few very simple strokes you can turn a very ordinary pitcher a very ordinary jug
55:33into something that has been touched and kissed by picasso
55:38by this point in his career he was becoming internationally famous he realized his acclaim he
55:45realized that he was getting out the reach of other people but he thought that by doing ceramics he could
55:51make himself accessible to everybody in 1959 was accessible how accessible today no idea at all
56:01i'll tell you eight to twelve thousand pounds oh okay
56:07i like it because of the the very economy of line i'm fascinated by with this 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 had one or two other things to bring and it was just my husband that last minute said why don't
56:33you bring 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
57:01lawn mowers 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
57:12had these things these shoes leather shoes put on their hooves they wouldn't leave any marks at all
57:19because it was smooth underneath i'm not sure how the horses felt about it from hill of tarbit here in
57:25fife until next time from all the team bye
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