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Antiques Roadshow 2025 - Lister Park and Cartwright Hall 3
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00:00Today we're in Yorkshire in the city of Bradford and our venue is Lister Park and
00:08the art gallery Cartwright Hall. Grand buildings like Cartwright Hall were
00:14built on the wealth of the textile industries in the 19th and 20th centuries
00:18weaving materials like wool and silk but also later on fabrics like this
00:26Resilitex it's called and it had a crucial role in the Second World War it
00:33was used to make decoy equipment such as these inflatable tanks in order to fool
00:38the enemy and our experts will be hoping there are no fakes among the treasures
00:44on offer today exciting isn't it every girl loves a tiara one of the most
00:49bizarre things I've ever seen wow I don't think we'll be getting rid of them
00:56welcome to the Antiques Roadshow
01:26when I woke up this morning I did not think I'd be greeted by these two
01:32beautiful ventriloquist dummies aren't they fantastic tell me everything okay so
01:37that was a musical ventriloquist born in 1916 they made his first puppet when he
01:44was eight years old and over the years he's worked with so many famous names
01:48Mork and Wise non wisdom Tommy Cooper Ken Dodd Wow okay so is your dad just the creator or was
01:56he also a showman himself he was a showman he operated the puppets but he made them at home
02:01usually on our dining room table in front of mum driving her crazy and he'd formed them in clay he'd
02:08then put paper mache on them and baked them in the oven in your oven that you had your dinner out of
02:13absolutely amazing so did you have an old shed in the back garden that just had bits of pieces of
02:18Mekano sets coat hanger wire knicker elastic I think that was my mum's and one day I came home from school
02:27with a friend and there's this beautiful smell of baking and I said to my friend oh let's have a look in
02:31the oven see what mum's doing and we open the oven and there was a head in there amazing absolutely
02:37amazing that the mechanics inside of these and you think of modern-day robots humanoid robots that
02:43are being created now she is automated and she would walk across the stage stop turn lift a hanky
02:50to her eye to wipe a tear away and she'd end the act next to the old man with his arm around her
02:54to a song of old Dutch so and this was in the 40s and 50s he started just before the Second World
03:01War full-time into the 50s his first TV performance was 1952 and then he got a TV series with Roy
03:08Kinnear it was huge at that time in the mid-20th century ventriloquist dummies were huge weren't
03:13they absolutely but these your favorites out of the collection they are because you know the song
03:17my old Dutch is very romantic song about an old couple have been together for 40 years and it don't
03:21seem a day too long so I can still hear that to this day and that's no longer with us I'm afraid
03:26but so that song when I see these two is always on my mind amazing and what do you
03:31think of them though well it's certainly a different um edge to the family you can say
03:37that well I suppose I will have to put a value on a very difficult thing to value but I think they
03:42were to come on the open market I would expect three to five thousand I would say yep dad would
03:49be so so proud to be here today to see this from a public high amazing are you making me emotional
03:55well wonderful day here in Bradford in the park I used to come and play here when I was a child and
04:11go in the museum so it's really lovely to be here and to be looking at a beautiful diamond necklace in
04:17a box that says Fattorini's how have you come to get this my paternal grandmother was given it on the
04:24occasion of her 21st birthday mm-hmm I know nothing about it but I think that it was because she was
04:31the eldest of nine oh my goodness and she did a lot to help with her younger siblings yes well
04:38deserved by the sound really isn't it and who are the people in the photographs um well I've got this
04:44one here this is my grandmother uh-huh she had no daughters so it was given to my mother who wore it
04:52on her wedding day okay and I wore it on my wedding day and my daughter wore it on her wedding day oh how
04:58fabulous so has it been worn outside of weddings or is it just kept wedding days I bought the night away in it oh
05:04brilliant
05:06that's fabulous and that's the way it should be jewellery's to be worn so Fattorini's they were founded by
05:13Antonio Fattorini who came over from Italy and settled in Leeds they were fabulous
05:19jewellers and decided to open up in Harrogate which isn't that far away it was the fashionable town at the
05:24time that was in the 1830s in the 1850s they decided to open a shop in Kirkgate in Bradford which
05:31of course is how we get the connection with the box date wise we're looking at round about 1900 it's
05:39got these lovely scrolls and pretty little diamonds which are sparkling away all the way around and
05:47they're picking up on the delicate Edwardian style of jewellery which is sometimes referred to as the garland
05:53style of jewellery and a little bit of art nouveau movement to it as well which is really absolutely
06:01wonderful there are clips either side there are and I didn't know if that was so that you could make it
06:06into a tiara well you're absolutely spot-on oh right it's exciting isn't it every girl loves a tiara so
06:14yes we've got these little clips here just at the sides and it would have just sat nice and elegantly on
06:20the top of the head sparkled away as the sunshine shone through so really is lovely and of course this
06:27was the period for tiaras with lace-fronted dresses in the early part of the 1900 the elegance of the
06:33Edwardian period have you got the fitting for the tiara anywhere no no sadly no as a necklace at auction this
06:43period is doing very well at the moment and an auction estimate would be between two thousand and
06:49three thousand pounds if we had had the tiara fitting i probably would have been straight in
06:55there at five to seven thousand yeah it makes such a difference to have that i knew absolutely nothing
07:03about it it's a shame i don't have the tiara fitting but i love it anyway and i shall continue to enjoy
07:10wearing it
07:26so i was immediately drawn to this watercolor of boats because the artist has used such confident brush
07:33work to bring out the masts of the ships well the boats the little sailing boats in the background
07:39he's used watercolor on paper and i can see that it's signed george horton who spent a lot of his
07:44life in south shields now how did this come to be yours well george horton is a great great uncle of
07:51mine whom i never knew and i discovered him through doing family history quite a while ago and he turns
07:58out to be an artist so we looked him up and tried to find something i bought it and i didn't know where
08:05it was painted i didn't know much about him but a cousin of mine who lives in canada came to see me
08:10and he immediately recognized it as a dutch boat as though it's painted in holland i think actually
08:15george horton's quite inspiring because his family didn't really support him as an artist and as the
08:22story goes he taught himself how to paint by going to his local library and copying reproductions yes of the
08:30the old masters and it was only on his honeymoon which was to holland that he became completely
08:35inspired by the tradition of dutch landscape painting and therefore became inspired to paint
08:41boats such as these from a distance this looks like quite a rainy day he's used a palette of browns
08:48and greys to describe the background the water is a bit sludgy it's not sunny there's no beautiful
08:55reflection um but then to make it more dynamic he's bringing out the color and i think that could be
09:03some sails that are wrapped up it could be cargo but most importantly it really draws you in i love it
09:10and it's also quite bold for the time period that he was painting in i mean he was painting in the early
09:1420th century yes at a time where this kind of impressionistic style had only really quite
09:20recently come to britain yes what do you like about it oh well i love it first of all because
09:26i know he was a relative of mine which is brilliant and like you say it's just that color just pulls
09:30you into the center of it doesn't it it just lightens everything and is the rest of your family
09:35artistic um no not at all certainly not me so the horton jeans yes no they haven't come through to me
09:43sorry no no well it's the sort of thing that were it to come to auction today i would probably put
09:48an estimate in the region of four to six hundred pounds right yes that's that's the money plan isn't
09:54important it's just that i've got a painting that belonged to a relative of mine which is absolutely
09:59wonderful let's find the next horton in the family who might be a good artist sorry it won't be me
10:04well i think everybody knows who these four are it's a great great photograph of them and with all
10:17these lovely signatures below how did you come by it um so this came to me by my dad by his brother
10:25who got it via george harrison's dad oh really um in a pub drinking in skipton but my dad's brother
10:33didn't like the beatles but like cliff richard
10:39um but my dad's brother did say well look my brother absolutely adores the beatles so
10:44and then a few years ago my dad said you can have it now because you're the biggest beatles fan
10:49and when the children were younger they always used to ask who is it in the picture so we'd say
10:53some called john paul george and ringo in the picture i think you would say well we're good
11:00fantastic so well i think it's a great photograph and the story gives it providence as well but you
11:06have to remember that there are a lot of these photographs with facsimile you know signatures
11:13and they're out there everywhere you know but this particular one is a genuine one these are genuine
11:21signatures that means that this if it went into auction and i'm going to be very conservative
11:28this is worth between three and five thousand pounds wow wow that's amazing
11:51this is a very interesting cowhorn what do you think it was for well blowing making a tuna no it's for
12:03holding gum powder oh my god it's a powder we didn't know that did we where did you get it well it was my
12:11grandfather's and then when he passed away it went down to my father and now he passed away a few years ago
12:18i'm sorry so it's now mine so you've known it all your childhood i've i've i remember it at my
12:24grandparents house you do yes when i first saw it i thought it was um north american yes we wondered
12:32about it is that what you think it is then i got confused with the design here this is very geometric
12:38and not american at all yeah and it reminds me of the work of a designer called bugatti which it isn't
12:45i mean it almost makes me wonder where he got his ideas i mean he might have seen something like
12:49this yeah and then i looked at this more closely this is cow horn and these are cows or they're steer
12:56and then there's hate what look like haystacks on it well i look at it closely
13:00and the haystacks aren't haste haystacks around here no so they're zulu dwellings
13:12so this is south african design yes i lived in cape town for 20 years and came back five years ago
13:20so how bizarre that we've got something in the family that exactly we and that's what it is and
13:25and 19th century or is this the end of the 19th century i think the zulu were our herders by nature
13:33cows are their wealth but these are westerners herding the cattle yeah not not the indigenous
13:41people but it really is a real pictorial dream mum really loved it and she had a relative who was
13:50quite involved with antiques and he often said oh if you don't want it i'd like it i bet he would i would
13:57too but she wouldn't part with it obviously people collect them and i think they would pay something
14:04like between 800 and 1200 pounds for this wow that's what i think it's charming
14:13we are beginning to lose the soldiers and sailors and airmen and nurses who were actually there during
14:26the second world war so every time i come across a person who was there at the time the story always
14:33fascinates me so who was this man this is sergeant eric light he's my granddad and my auntie andrew's
14:41father father and he in 1940 was called up and joined the east yorkshire regiment and served for
14:48six years away from bradford in north africa and italy as a fireman returned on two home leaves the
14:55first one to see my dad being born and the second where he wrote in his diary that he was visiting
15:02cartwright hall and lister park where we are where we are today can you read that for us i can yeah
15:08so this is sunday the 11th of november 1945 he writes spent the afternoon at cartwright hall and lister park
15:16and the next day he left from bradford train station on the journey back to naples you know by his medals
15:22i can tell that what you're saying is is what he did we have a 1939 45 defense medal he has an africa star
15:31with the first army bar which means that he was part of the invasion of africa from the the western
15:37side going towards tunisia then he moves to italy as you say the 1939 45 star and the 1939 45 war medal
15:49did he talk about this stuff do you know he loved italy he loved the language he learned italian so he
15:55spoke about his time in italy he didn't particularly talk about the the events or the fires that he
16:01dealt with but it was a wordsmith he enjoyed telling stories he's a good artist as well isn't he he was
16:06an artist from the beginning and he documented quite a lot of his journeys but this is where he he was
16:12billeted for two years this is john dark in north africa a tent with his uniform there and his bed
16:19which we're still all all the family have artwork around the house that is done it is these archives
16:26which are so important to tell the story of just ordinary people just like me and you yeah yeah but
16:34they stood up when the time came yeah they went and did it yeah it's been a real honor to meet him
16:39today yeah i know you've got lots more stuff and for your for your whole collection you're looking at
16:44somewhere in around about 500 pounds okay thank you so much for bringing it along privilege for us to
16:49talk about him thank you in 2025 bradford is celebrating its status as city of culture with
17:04exhibitions and events across the city but over a century ago lister park was at the center of another
17:11cultural event the bradford great exhibition at the time the land was owned by samuel lister his family
17:20made their fortune from weaving wool and silk only some of the biggest mills of the day now he was a
17:26wealthy industrialist and he wanted to give something back so in 1898 he agreed to fund the building
17:32of a new museum an art gallery set in huge green parkland for the public to enjoy
17:43and a few years later in 1904 cartwright hall with its galleries filled with artwork from around the
17:50world opened its doors to the people of bradford
17:53as part of the opening a great exhibition was held as well spread all across lister park its aim was to
18:05celebrate cartwright hall but also to showcase bradford's trade and industry it had all sorts
18:11of different attractions aimed at drawing in visitors from all over the world musicians and exhibitors came from
18:18all over the country there were sports events a fairground even a huge water shoot as well as mock
18:27naval battles on the lake the exhibition here in bradford was a huge success between may and october 1904
18:36nearly two and a half million people came putting cartwright hall well and truly on the map
18:48well this bird has come and landed on our table um tell us what do you think it is honestly i've got
19:01no idea um inherited it off my life father my dad was a bit of a collector slash holder probably more than
19:08a holder he used to do carbide sales a lot and uh and that sort of thing so did you have a name for it
19:13at home i've called it um lydia lydia yeah because it's got a lid on it so it's just lydia lid it's
19:20just it clicked that way lydia bird yeah wonderful well it's an incense burner hence we have the lid on
19:28the top and also the wings you'll see are pierced and engraved so that's to allow the fragrance to to
19:35waft out now it comes from a north eastern area of modern day iran so persia called kurasan and it was
19:43a metal working area specializing and intricate work just like this so this decoration on the bird
19:50it's all hand engraved beautifully worked and birds occupy quite a pre-eminent position in islamic
19:58decoration it symbolizes the freedom of the spirit and they're also looked on as good luck or good
20:04fortune pieces so right hopefully that might be true today yeah yeah um this is copying a style for much
20:11earlier there are similar birds to your birds in the metropolitan museum in new york in the louvre in
20:18paris wow but they are much earlier ones they are from the 12th 13th century yeah your one i think dates
20:25from late 19th stroke early 20th century so it's more a kind of touristy piece yeah so what's it worth we
20:32don't know what was paid for it no idea it's hopefully brought you some good fortune yeah and
20:37if this turned up on the market today you'd be looking at between six hundred and a thousand
20:43pounds wow really you're joking no i'm watching
20:53i'm pleased to be honest i wasn't expecting it to be worth anything i just thought you know it's a big
20:58metal bird and you know it's quite pretty you know it won't be going anywhere it's going to stay with me
21:02and the family for a bit but um but yeah i don't think i don't think i'm certainly not ready to part
21:07with it anyway so
21:16so i'm looking at a small doll um under this dome but what interests me is this tray of wonderful objects
21:25that she's holding and showing to the viewer did you buy her no she was left to me by my great-aunt
21:32it was made by her grandmother that puts us back into the 19th century the 1890s i think so she's
21:39been a family companion really yes yes i've known her all all my life and presumably yes you you have
21:45too yes yes she's always been outside my bedroom and with my parents went out i would sneakily lift
21:52off the dome and touch sorry touch the scissors were my favorite
21:57so let's talk about peddler dolls generally i mean in the 18th and 19th centuries shops were a long
22:06way away and you would have traveling salesmen often ladies who had a big array
22:12of those things that made a lady's life at home yeah just a bit more enjoyable yeah and so when you
22:20look into this tray you've got pins and needles and buttons there's a tennis racket there are skittles
22:28there's a little doll there are scissors your favorite you said you may have borrowed them
22:32but you put them back again oh yes
22:36the older peddler dolls often their heads were made from apples dried apples and so you get this
22:44very kind of wizened looking face um but she is she's got a wax head it looks like and she looks
22:50as if she's got human hair on there not not mohair uh the doll market really has has had massive peaks
22:58and then a bit of a slide so i'm happy to put a valuation on it of between a thousand and twelve
23:05hundred pounds which i think is right for now yeah but who knows in the fullness of time we could see
23:10another another peak developing yeah but fabulous object great to hear that it's a family thing good
23:16yeah and thank you for going to my daughter and granddaughter lucky you may be great granddaughter
23:22one day no pressure
23:32our ceramics expert stephen moore has discovered an item linked to the black
23:36dyke band yorkshire's celebrated brass ensemble established in 1855 with an impressive 170-year
23:45legacy the band is playing a leading role in bradford's 2025 city of culture celebrations
23:52and it all started in the hills around the city
23:58if we were to head out of bradford towards halifax up the hill we would end up at queensbury
24:04wouldn't we yes and what would we find there queensbury and the blackdike mills and you worked
24:10at the blackdike mills i did from 1958 to 1993. what did the make of the mill mohair cloth for the
24:17japanese businessman okay four thousand pounder suit quite high-end stuff yeah and were you a member
24:23of the famous band i was from 58 to 73 hence the skeleton of blackdike mills memorabilia so just
24:29tell me how they came to your possession the gentleman uh phineas bauer there was the original
24:35owner of the jug right he then passed it on to his son fred who then passed it on to his daughter
24:41gladys bauer right but she'd no family and i was an apprentice at the mill at the time and the lady
24:47there she asked would somebody like the jug and the medal right and i said yes please i mean this joke
24:53records that between 1856 and 1882 that the band won 2011 pounds nine shillings and nothing yeah
25:04that's a lot of money then isn't it i mean that's it and then this is is the same this is a record
25:09history of of the band yes and the band won thousands i mean all all these on here oh yeah
25:14there's one they got seven guineas for being disqualified yeah that was a good gig wasn't it it's uh
25:19but i mean we have to put that in the context of the period i mean this joke dates to you know
25:25the 1880s that was a huge amount of money uh what happened to the band prize money it was divided
25:32amongst the band members you see it was worthwhile being in the band it was because i earned three
25:36pounds two and six a week and we did two concerts on saturday and sunday and the week after i got three
25:43pound in me and so like two weeks wages for about 30 weeks each year well there we are
25:49well i think this little collection a little booklet on the history of the band and the jug this is
25:55nine carat gold let's not deny that we're looking at between eight and twelve hundred pounds
26:02you didn't think it was that much the medal alone is 500 pound wow keep it safe
26:07the wonderful liberty table turn of the century and it's just superb and what's beautiful about this
26:23is all the hand carved detail on there is just wonderful super stylish and super usable as well
26:29was this table in the family it was my grandma's and i've got no idea where it came from
26:34uh i can't imagine that she could afford to go to liberties and buy it to be quite honest but
26:39she used to go to a lot of auctions i always loved it as a little child i'm growing up everything and
26:44then when we lost her that was the one thing that i wanted from her house good choice the lovely table
26:51very in vogue easily three to five hundred pounds it really is the lovely table
26:56here we have a little i think i know what that is a very beautiful little singing bird music box
27:15ah i can see that the lid needs a little bit of tweaking because it doesn't quite pop back down but
27:19that's something that can be remedied tell me what you know about it i know um the manufacturer is swiss i
27:25think because i looked them up on the bottom it says santa croix made in switzerland now they are a
27:31very old traditional music box maker this one was probably made in the 1960s okay it's made in exactly
27:39the same tradition as those early antique boxes right but it's faux tortoiseshell finish on it it's not a
27:45real tortoiseshell it's a nice thing do you really like this yeah i really like it watching it dance and
27:52like same yeah it's quite mesmerizing isn't it yeah yeah where did you buy it my antiques dealer
27:58right yeah because it was kind of we thought it was a bit interesting do you mind me asking what
28:01you paid for it i can't remember what what did you pay for it i think it was 1500 1500 pounds
28:05it's 1500 pounds i think that was kind of about the money to be honest with you yeah
28:22a nice ladies gold fob watch who did it belong to it belonged to my grandmother isabella okay
28:33and do you ever recall her wearing it well i was only four at the time when she died so no i'm afraid
28:39not okay okay well let's have a look it's one of these english watches that you just have a little
28:47nib there in the six o'clock position you push that in and then you withdraw the movement okay
28:53and there it is it's signed dent yeah watchmaker to the queen now of course that was queen victoria
28:59yes a good maker but you've got a full set of london hallmarks for 18 71. okay
29:11i'm delighted to see this long chain and of course it would have been worn on a long chain around her
29:18neck popped into a pocket somewhere hallmark nine carat
29:23so many of these were cut into small places to make bracelets or necklaces so to see an original
29:31long chain is really rather nice it would even better have been 18 carat gold of course but it's
29:36still very nice anybody worked anymore or not no uh sadly not it's been in a draw for for years
29:44so money yes the watch 18 carat gold by dent in pretty good condition eight nine hundred pounds
29:55for watch and the chain because it's original and because it's long and it hasn't been cut down at all
30:01a similar price on the chain as well because it's me don't leave it in the draw get somebody to wear it
30:06it don't you think i will you will my daughter perhaps she'll probably sell it she'll never know she better not
30:23this is a rather beautiful handworked textile which is not actually an altar frontal can you tell me
30:41about it so this was designed by louisa pestle who was a bradfordian woman born in 1870 and a bit of a
30:48pioneer she trained at the national art training school in london under lewis foreman day obviously
30:53very well known arts and crafts designer yeah and she then went to greece to be a designer at the royal
30:59hellenic school of needlework and lace she traveled all over egypt india she made notes of all the
31:06textile designs the motifs the patterns so she was one of those group of sort of pioneering victorian
31:12ladies that really was something there would have been very few women that were in a position to be
31:17able to have done that there's a great photo of her on the kyber pass on the back of a camel in
31:22full edwardian gear with a hat and everything and she just looks amazing we can only imagine what
31:27that would be like and it's corseted as well yeah when she came back to bradford and the first world
31:32war was on she did a lot of work with the abraham peel hospital which was a hospital for shell shock
31:38soldiers uh she worked with them as a form of occupational therapy really in doing embroidery work
31:45and and other things and they worked on this the shell shock soldiers to her design so this idea of
31:50you know occupational therapy the hand and the mind being occupied that it was really really good for
31:56them the repetitive nature of it is very kind of soothing really for people suffering from you know
32:01post-traumatic stress um it's very interesting is that she went to the royal hellenistic school of
32:06needlework in greece because i think we could see that influence here definitely in the stitch work
32:12and because we've got this sort of meandering design and then these sort of these little flower
32:16heads and this is all worked in cross stitch if you look at the stitches they look they don't really
32:21appear to have been done by different people so perhaps she was a very exacting sort of mistress
32:26i imagine she was because she was an expert in her field it's an absolute pleasure to see it
32:31we need to mention price um generally speaking you can buy all two frontals from this sort of period when
32:37they do come up at auction it would probably only be something like three to four hundred pounds
32:41but obviously its home is bradford and it's still in bradford and that's where it's going to remain
32:46i mean to us it's priceless so thank you very much exactly thank you
32:58you've brought me here a brooch and a ring i'm going to start with the brooch first
33:05and it's lovely to see the three leaf clover design here how did you find this it belonged
33:11to my grandmother my father gave it to me about 15 years ago because i kept wearing it he said rather
33:17than storing it all the time he gave it to me you were borrowing it you were allowed to wear it on
33:23yeah high days and holidays high days and holidays that's quite substantial jewel it is my granny was
33:29very very proud of it and was also worried about losing it so she carried it in her handbag every
33:35single day of her life really yes on the boss no when she went shopping everywhere oh my goodness yeah
33:46well this is dated about 1880 right and it is silver and gold but there's no maker's mark and and that's
33:55quite usual for um for jewels of this period but it looks english to me all set with cushion shaped
34:03diamonds and rose cut diamonds and then you also have this ring and tell me the story about this ring
34:12the family legend is that my great-grandfather accepted it in settlement of a gambling debt in
34:18monte carlo in monte carlo yes oh my gosh i wonder how much the debt was it'd be interesting wouldn't
34:26it it would it'd be lovely to know but unfortunately he spent the family fortune oh did he and by the time
34:34my grandfather came back from the first world war my great-grandfather passed away and there was no
34:40money left apart from the ring well it's 18 carat gold and these are cushion shaped diamonds again the
34:48diamonds were cut in about 1880 right and i think they're set in a slightly later mount so i mean
34:56at auction you'd be looking at about 3 000 pounds and for this one here you'd be looking in the region
35:04of about 1500 to 2000 pounds right thank you so what will happen to it now i'll continue to wear them
35:11and enjoy them oh that's wonderful
35:23at a previous roadshow in yorkshire in 2021 we revealed the bellevue studio archive a collection
35:30of 17 000 portraits taken by photographer tony walker between the 1950s and the 1970s
35:41and the 1970s and the 1980s and the 1950s and the 1980s to see who made the city their home after
35:49the second world war and now available online it's become a valuable resource for families to search
35:56for long lost images of their relatives
35:58I'm sitting here with people who found relatives in the Bellevue archive and Cynthia you're here
36:06with your mum or if you I hope you don't mind saying you're 103 grand old age and you were
36:13looking in the archive for pictures of yourself that's right I thought you know I have to look
36:18in the archives to see if they think of me as a baby and then found mum there she is what did
36:26you think when you saw that ah it took me back because I remember that jacket she was wearing
36:31it was an olive green jacket three quite long sleeves and it just took me back to being six
36:36to seven years old and what about you olive do you remember this picture being taken yes and you look
36:43beautiful in this picture what did you do when you were here when you first came over the first time
36:49I come here I used to work at a school to work at a school school yeah they were very nice were they
36:56people with me you know so I sit to them until I get to come back to Badford yeah what a wonderful
37:06thing to come across it so unexpectedly yeah so you've got this one picture whereas you Hamza yep
37:12so you found all sorts of members of your family yep from my mum's side as well as my dad's side who
37:20have we got here who's this one that's my father and that's his two brothers that's his brother-in-law
37:28and these are uncles and just general relatives family when you started looking Hamza did you have any
37:36idea you would find such a treasure trove no I only discovered that picture first of all of my uncle
37:43and and then the more I went into it I discovered two or three more pictures and then after a week or
37:52two I found another five pictures and and then before I knew it I'd have 50 plus pictures of my close
37:59relatives so the boys this is your grand granddad yeah I think it was very handsome don't you yeah
38:06yeah absolutely so what did you think when you saw your dad well I hadn't seen a picture of him
38:14like that yeah I was emotional yeah seeing him so young like that he came over in 1961 you were a
38:24second year medical student he didn't want to come but grandma said go on go see what it's like so he
38:30came over his mum gave him half a dozen boiled eggs to come over with and a fiver in his pocket
38:38and did he then pursue a medical career no no he didn't he worked in textile thing after that
38:44as so many did in this part of the world because the the Asian community came over to do the labor jobs
38:52what is fascinating to meet you and hear your stories and see these pictures and if you're
38:58watching at home and think I mean who knows maybe your family's in the Bellevue archive have a look
39:02there's clearly thousands of pictures to go through from what Hamza says but you never know what you'll find
39:06so on this beautiful sunny day at Lister Park when the gardens are in full bloom and the flowers are all
39:22out you've brought along this beautifully florally painted tea set are you a collector no not at all
39:28this was my mother's she was very poorly as a small child she was confined to bed for months she had
39:37yellow jaundice I think and her father my grandfather bought her this to cheer her up I can think of
39:43nothing that would cheer me up more if I was poorly than getting a cup of tea and my breakfast served to
39:49me from a service like this with toast from this little toast rack and even this wonderful warming
39:54dish so that your breakfast comes to the table warm and you just remove this stopper fill the base of
40:01the dish with hot water and it keeps the breakfast toasty and warm yep the service is by Clarice Cliff an
40:09iconic designer in Britain in the 1920s and the 30s and the shape of this teapot is known as the bonjour
40:16shape with this round design in the very distinctive round finial handle even on the little circular
40:22feet these pieces are a bit later in Clarice Cliff's design career her heyday was really the late 1920s to
40:30the mid 1930s I would think these are sort of late 1930s and date and you can see the slight change in
40:37style where she's used this more sort of floral feminine decoration rather than the bold iconic
40:44art deco designs with very strong colors I'm sure it's something you would never want to sell but of
40:49course it does have a value my thoughts are that being a slightly later Clarice Cliff design slightly
40:56removed from the more iconic art deco period I think it's worth in the region of two to three hundred pounds
41:02for this group well thank you very much that's absolutely lovely I won't be selling it and
41:07hopefully it can go on to generations you know still to come we've got Mae West's name spelt out in her
41:24own hair where on earth did this come from we're not 100% sure of its original provenance and it was
41:33a gift to the family on my dad's side and a wedding gift and it's just been sat in my dad's downstairs
41:39toilet for about 10 years and I think as a talking point for parties that sort of thing is that I mean
41:46she's one of the legends of film I mean in the 1930s she was the big box office drawer and obviously
41:55she's done an official opening we have the Rishi Salons for hair and beauty culture were officially
42:02owned by Mae West and I mean I don't know much about women's hair I'll be honest but it almost looks like
42:09they've got my little sort of extensions they're beautifully tied but underneath and I think this is
42:15the name of the hairdresser but we can't make it out most lovely beauty salon every success something
42:24something Mae West and that almost definitely is her signature brilliant yeah March the 11th 1948 she was
42:35ahead of her times you know she said what she thought yeah and some of the things were quite
42:40risque she's famous for the line is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me
42:49she said censorship I like censorship I've made a fortune from it um we've got to put a value on this
42:58yeah unique thing um I mean her signature alone is fairly sought after
43:03I think if it went in an auction it would do probably a thousand to fifteen hundred pounds
43:10I think it'll hang around in the family though do you know uh yeah it's so strange one of the most
43:16bizarre things I've ever seen
43:20don't forget you're not the simmers return
43:22oh I've been waiting for one of these to come in for a long time good okay so where did you get
43:34it from it's in my parents house for as long as I can remember okay it's a cinema ticket for a film
43:41called theirs is the glory yeah for the premiere yeah it was made in 1946 it premiered on the 17th of september
43:491946 yeah which is exactly two years after the first day that they dropped by parachute and glider
43:56into a place called Arnhem yeah now we would know it as a bridge too far but the original film
44:02was theirs is the glory yeah and these were the original cinema tickets for the premiere yeah and
44:07they're amazing because it says this souvenir ticket is made of metal from one of the crash gliders
44:14which carried the british first airborne division into battle at Arnhem on september the 17th 1944.
44:21that has to be the very best cinema ticket in the world do you know what it's worth i haven't got
44:28a clue it's 150 quid 150 quid with a bit of aluminium it's a very special piece of aluminium though
44:44this is a lovely silver and enamel case and it looks quite classy doesn't it it looks something
44:49quite special tell us about the dog when we bought it you couldn't see all the detail on it as in it
44:57was really tarnished you mean yeah it was black so mule spent cleaned it up and then it revealed what
45:04were on it it's a french bulldog that is gorgeous isn't it yeah it's a little cigarette case so that's
45:11what the elasticated band is for yeah now i know it doesn't look like you could fit cigarettes in there
45:15but that's what cigarettes were like when this was made which was about 1910. now did you notice also
45:22on the side here that is a sapphire push thumbpiece oh no i didn't know yeah so that is quality it's
45:31superb detail the way that that's all painted it's enamel painted all hand done it's either austrian or
45:36german probably right now you're gonna have to tell us what you paid for it it was four pound you've done
45:43very well that now is four to six hundred pounds beautiful thing
45:52i think this is the most wonderful enigmatic beautiful photographic image can you tell me a
46:11little bit about it please it's a snapshot that was taken by my grandfather in 1931 he entered a worldwide
46:18competition run by eastman kodak um to find the world's best snapshot using the first introduction
46:25of the velochrome film um this is my granny here they were engaged and went on holiday to brad ahead
46:32on the isle of man he entered it in the competition and it won the final was in geneva and eastman kodak
46:40was a really famous company that was a big company at the time founded by george eastman in 1888
46:46he made photography available to the masses these vest pocket in inverted commas folding bellows cameras
46:54made it affordable and they made it portable and your great-grandfather was obviously one of those
47:00people there he is takes your grandmother out indeed takes this wonderful photograph of her
47:06enters this competition and won it he won the amazing amount of four thousand four hundred pounds
47:12it equates to 235 000 pounds they got married and he bought his first house and their first house
47:19with that and the family were very very excited well it would have been huge excitement all over
47:23because he would have been pretty famous in fact because that would have been obviously published in
47:27you know the the eastman kodak magazine thing that's right which was a massive worldwide seller of a
47:33magazine as well on the table here we have this beautiful silver trophy which of course is
47:39representative of photography by the lens the lens in the top here that is stunningly beautiful um but
47:47i'm going to have to kind of try and put a value on this and it's a bit of an odd one really yeah i'm
47:51kind of minded to give it a global valuation but then individually looking at some of the pieces
47:56it's a kind of different thing in my head so to speak so this beautiful art deco trophy is wonderful
48:04and it's worth two or three thousand pounds okay yeah which is pretty amazing yeah the camera to be
48:09honest with you if that were completely disconnected from this story and were just a kodak pocket vest
48:15camera yeah it's worth 50 to 100 pounds right because they made so many of them yes yeah the image
48:21itself stunning image i really really love this but in reality it's worth a few hundred pounds
48:26we've got a couple of uh medallions that were awarded to him also we've got a bronze one here
48:33but this one did you see that i nipped off just before we started filming well i i nipped off to
48:39weigh this medal okay because i don't know whether you know but this is an 18 karat gold medal oh gosh
48:44right and its scrap value alone is seven thousand pounds that's amazing i see why he ran off i'm glad you
48:52came back i did come back with it so i think that what you have here one of my favorite stories of
48:59the day at 12 to 18 000 pounds that's very good isn't it yeah thank you so much for coming that's
49:05pleasure thank you thank you we've always been proud of him i think that people could look more at what
49:16what skills and talents they've got there's more there outside if they only would try things because
49:21he was just a normal guy working as a draftsman and he tapped into the talents that he had
49:38the sun is shining two beautiful jewels sparkling away how did you get them well these belong to my
49:44grandmother who was born in 1900 in donegal in very rural ireland and i always remembered this watch
49:53on my grandmother's wrist as a little child growing up i can never remember her with any other type of
49:58watch on her wrist she went to trinity college in dublin to study as a young woman at the age of 25
50:06in 1925 she traveled from ireland to new york gosh where she would have traveled on her own she would
50:13have sailed as a 25 year old woman and to know that she was such a confident lady it's no wonder
50:19that she chose some really pretty pieces of jewelry more than likely in new york because the style of
50:25both of the pieces is very american they have a a lovely way of producing what we could call this sort
50:31of filigree pierced metal work in in this bracelet in particular there's another mark that denotes that
50:39it's not a european piece because it's marked 10k which is for 10 carat white gold which again is
50:44something very typical of american jewelry at the time in the center here you've got a lovely little
50:51diamond sparkling away and either side the two green stones are actually synthetic emeralds they're
50:57they're not natural emeralds i bet she was drawn to the green for for emerald isle of course so no no
51:03doubt and it was very popular again to use synthetic stones at this stage because to cut stones this
51:09size and of that shape would have been very expensive but all in all a beautiful elegant
51:15piece of jewelry and she sounds as though she was a very elegant lady as well and particularly if she
51:20wore this watch all the time that that is a level of sophistication i have to say to be wearing a
51:26beautiful cocktail watch as we can see here she ended up also a pig farmer's wife so i'm guessing
51:31she didn't wear those slopping out the pigs now we have a watch which we would class as a costume watch
51:40because it's actually a metal that has been rhodium plated so it's not a precious metal strap
51:46and also the green stones here these are actually glass so that fits in again with this whole idea of
51:53costume dress jewelry which again was rising in popularity in the 1920s i mean even chanel would
52:00mix up her costume jewelry and her precious gem jewelry and try and trick her friends and say
52:06which do you think is real and which is fake and they often got it wrong but that was how good the
52:11quality was on both of them you know we're looking at a you know a reasonable value maybe 50 60 pounds
52:17and then with the bracelet because it is that 10 carat gold as opposed to 14 15 or 18 and that keeps
52:25the value down at auction i'd expect that to fetch between 500 and 700 pounds so collectively in the
52:31region of 600 pounds for the two pieces but as we have seen it is the story that counts in the elegance
52:38of your grandmother that's right thank you very much thank you two indian albums dated around the
52:54start of the 1800s so 1810 to 1820 are many of them how did these come into your possession my mother got
53:02them in a second hand market in dublin okay and do you remember how much you paid for them possibly
53:09maybe five pounds for the pair okay so we have two albums and the school of painting is called company
53:18school meaning east india company started in 1600 and went on well into the late 1800s let's face it
53:28they were there to extract money and resources from india there are some small mercies and human stories
53:37that come out of it so you have this beautiful new school of painting which is a mix of indian and
53:44european and you see some beautiful examples in these albums this one it shows indian life
53:53you see the tradesmen working away in the background maybe a subject matter that was avoided in traditional
54:00indian miniature painting or mughal miniature painting you see some real indian life which is what the
54:06europeans were interested in so this book was made for the europeans exactly exactly so interesting
54:15these are the polaroids of early india and the center of this picture is the abhorrent act of sati and
54:24sati is when the husband dies the woman put herself on the funeral pyre and commits suicide it was banned by
54:34the mughal emperors and later made illegal by the british in the mid-1800s so this painting here
54:43it's great that we've got such an early date 1780 and this album is just stuffed with wonderful
54:53examples of this mix of indian and european work a tipoy so a local soldier
55:03isn't that beautiful extraordinary it's very european it's like a biblical tale startling
55:10absolutely well they are very collectible each piece a slight variance in quality the sepoy for
55:19example on its own a thousand pounds oh wow wait each page each page that's just the sepoy that's
55:29extraordinary oh my god that's your starting point the sati burning six to eight thousand pounds for the
55:37the book haul each book for that page that's the sati burning six to eight thousand pounds so to try
55:46and put an overall figure on both albums minimum 22 000 pounds wow amazing if you ever decided to sell
55:56them i don't think we'll be getting rid of them though i think that's so beautiful you can't it's great to hear
56:07a lot more than we thought startling yeah really extraordinary really nice to know more information
56:15about it i have to do some more digging digging yeah
56:19before we go i just wanted to show you something unusual we see lots of dolls on the antiques
56:33roadshow but i've never seen one like this she dates from the 1860s she's a fortune telling doll
56:40and she would have been used as a kind of after dinner or parlor game if we passed around the guests
56:45and the reason is because look under her skirts are all these little fortunes written on
56:53pieces of paper and i've been allowed to open one which i should do very carefully look
57:00there you are and in it it says what you wish for you shall obtain
57:07is she amazing from the antics treasure here at cartwright hole bye-bye
57:24the antics treasure here at cartwright hole bye
57:45so
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