Antiques Roadshow Season 48 Episode 16

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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 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, Norm Wisdom, Tommy Cooper, Ken Dodd

01:53wow okay so is your dad just the creator or was he also a showman himself?

01:57he was a showman he operated the puppets but he made them at home usually on our

02:02dining room table in front of mum driving her crazy and he'd form them in clay he'd

02:08then put paper mache on them and baked them in the oven

02:11in your oven that you had your dinner out of absolutely amazing so did you have an old shed in the back

02:16garden that just had bits of pieces of coat hangers me caramel sets coat hanger wire

02:20nicker elastic I think that was my mum's and one day I came home from school with a

02:27friend and there's this beautiful smell of baking and I said to my friend oh let's

02:31have a look in the oven see what mum's doing and we opened the oven and there was a head in there

02:35amazing absolutely amazing the mechanics inside of these and you think of modern day robots

02:42humanoid robots that are being created now she is automated and she would walk across the stage

02:48stop turn lift a hanky to her eye to wipe a tear away and she'd end the act next to the old man

02:53with his arm around her to a song of old dutch so and this was in the 40s and 50s was it

03:00he started just before the second world war full-time into the 50s his first tv

03:04performance was 1952 and then he got a tv series with Roy Kinnear it was huge at that time in the

03:10mid-20th century ventriloquist dummies were huge weren't they absolutely are these your favorites out

03:14of the collection they are because you know the song male dutch is very romantic song about an old

03:19couple who've been together for 40 years and he don't seem a day too long so i can still hear that

03:24to this day and dad's no longer with us i'm afraid but um so that song when i see these two is

03:29always on my mind amazing and what do you think of them though well it's certainly a different um

03:34edge to the family yeah you can say that well i suppose i will have to put a value on a very

03:40difficult thing to value but i think they were to come on the open market i would expect three to

03:45five thousand i would say yep dad would be so so proud to be here today to see this from up on

03:53high amazing oh you're making me emotional that's lovely

04:06well 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 a

04:17box that says fatterini's how have you come to get this my paternal grandmother was given it on the

04:24occasion of her 21st birthday i know nothing about it but i think that it was because she was the

04:31eldest of nine oh my goodness and she did a lot to help with her younger siblings yes well deserved by

04:39the sounds of things it really is isn't it and who are the people in the photographs um well i've got

04:44this one here this is my grandmother uh-huh she had no daughters so it was given to my mother

04:52who wore it on her wedding day okay and i wore it on my wedding day and my daughter wore it on her

04:57wedding day oh how fabulous so has it been worn outside of weddings or is it just kept for wedding

05:02days i've bought the night away in it oh brilliant

05:07that's fabulous and that's the way it should be jewellery's to be worn so fatterini's they were

05:12founded by antonio fatterini 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

05:23town at the time that was in the 1830s in the 1850s they decided to open a shop in kirkgate

05:30in bradford which of course is how we get the connection with the box date wise we're looking

05:36at round about 1900 it's got these lovely scrolls and pretty little diamonds which are sparkling away

05:45all the way around and they're picking up on the delicate edwardian style of jewelry which is

05:51sometimes referred to as the garland style of jewelry and a little bit of art nouveau movement

05:58to it as well which is really absolutely wonderful there are clips either side there are and i didn't

06:04know if that was so that you could make it into a tiara well you're absolutely spot on oh right it's

06:10exciting isn't it every girl loves a tiara so yes we've got these little clips here just at the sides

06:17and it would have just sat nice and elegantly on the top of the head sparkled away as the sunshine

06:23shone through so really is lovely and of course this was the period for tiaras with lace-fronted

06:29dresses in the early part of the 1900 the elegance of the edwardian period have you got the fitting

06:35for the tiara anywhere no tiara fitting no sadly no as a necklace at auction this period is doing

06:44very well at the moment and an auction estimate would be between two thousand and three thousand pounds

06:51if we had had the tiara fitting i probably would have been straight in there at five to seven

06:57thousands wow yeah it makes such a difference to have that yes i knew absolutely nothing about it

07:04it's a shame i don't have the tiara fitting but i love it anyway and i shall continue to enjoy wearing it

07:19so i was immediately drawn to this watercolor of boats because the artist has used such confident

07:33brushwork to bring out the masts of the ships or 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's 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 was 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

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 reflection

08:57but then to make it more dynamic he's bringing out the color and i think that could be some sales that are

09:04wrapped up it could be cargo but most importantly it really draws you in i love it and it's also

09:10quite bold for the time period that he was painting in i mean he was painting in the early 20th century

09:14yes at a time where this kind of impressionistic style had only really quite recently come to

09:21britain yes what do you like about it oh well i love it first of all because i know he was a relative

09:26of mine which is brilliant and like you say it's just that color just pulls you into the center of

09:32it doesn't it it just lightens everything and is the rest of your family artistic um no not at all

09:38certainly not me so the horton jeans yes yes no no they haven't come through to me sorry no no well

09:44it's the sort of thing that were it to come to auction today i would probably put an estimate in

09:49the region of four to six hundred pounds right yes that's that's the money plan isn't important it's

09:54just that i've got a painting that belonged to a relative of mine which is absolutely wonderful let's

09:59find the next horton in the family who might be a good artist sorry it won't be me

10:12well 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 who

10:25got 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 yeah we 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 and

11:13they'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 gunpowder oh my gunpowder it's a powder we didn't know that did we where did you get it

12:10well it was my grandfather's and then when he passed away it went down to my father and now

12:16he passed away a few years ago i'm sorry so it's now mine so you've known it all your childhood i've

12:23i've i remember it at my grandparents house you do yes when i first saw it i thought it was um north

12:29american yes settlers yeah we we wondered about it is that what you think it is then i got confused

12:35with the design here this is very geometric and not american at all yeah and it reminds me of the work

12:41of a designer called bugatti which it isn't i mean it almost makes me wonder where he got his ideas i

12:47mean he might have seen something like this yeah and then i looked at this more closely this is cowhorn

12:53and these are cows or their steer and then there's hate what look like haystacks on it well i look at

12:59it closely and the haystacks aren't haste haystacks around here no so they're zulu dwellings

13:12so this is south african design yes yes i lived in cape town for 20 years and came back five years

13:20ago so how bizarre that we've got something in the family that exactly and that's what it is and and

13:2519th century or was this is the end of the 19th century i think the zulu were are 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

13:56i would too but she wouldn't part with it obviously people collect them and i think they would pay

14:03something like 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 uh 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

15:15and lister park and the next day he left from bradford train station on the journey back to naples

15:21you know by his medals i can tell that what you're saying is is what he did we have a 1939 45 defense

15:28medal he has an africa star with the first army bar which means that he was part of the invasion of

15:35africa from the the western side going towards tunisia then he moves to italy as you say

15:43the 1939 45 star and the 1939 45 war medal did he talk about this stuff do you know he loved italy he

15:52loved the language he learned italian so he spoke about his time in italy he didn't particularly

15:58talk about the the events or the fires that he dealt with but it was a wordsmith he enjoyed telling

16:03stories he's a good artist as well isn't he he was an artist from the beginning and he documented

16:09quite a lot of his journeys but this is where he he was billeted for two years this is jeanne d'arc in

16:15north africa a tent with his uniform there and his bed we're still all all the family have artwork

16:22around the house that is done it is these archives which are so important to tell the story of just

16:29ordinary people just like me and you yeah yeah but they stood up when the time came yeah they went and

16:37did it yeah it's been a real honor to meet him today yeah i know you've got lots more stuff and for

16:42your for your whole collection you're looking at somewhere in around about 500 pounds okay thank

16:47you so much for bringing it along privilege for us to talk about him thank you

17:00in 2025 bradford is celebrating its status as city of culture with exhibitions and events across the city

17:07but over a century ago lister park was at the center of another cultural event the bradford great

17:14exhibition at the time the land was owned by samuel lister his family made their fortune from weaving

17:22wool and silk only some of the biggest mills of the day now he was a wealthy industrialist and he

17:28wanted to give something back so in 1898 he agreed to fund the building of a new museum an art gallery set in

17:35huge green parkland for the public to enjoy and a few years later in 1904 cartwright hall with its

17:47galleries filled with artwork from around the world 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 of

18:11different 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 naval

18:28battles on the lake the exhibition here in bradford was a huge success between may and october 1904 nearly

18:36two and a half million people came putting cartwright hall well and truly on the map

18:54well 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 late father my dad was a bit of a collector slash holder probably more

19:08than a holder he used to do carbide sales a lot and uh and that sort of thing so did you have a name

19:13for it at home i've called it um lydia lydia yeah because it's got a lid on it so it's just lydia lid

19:20it's just it clicked that way lydia bird yeah wonderful well it's an incense burner hence we have

19:28the lid on the top and also the wings you'll see are pierced and engraved so that's to allow the

19:34fragrance to to waft out now it comes from a north eastern area of modern day iran so persia called

19:42kurasan and it was a metal working area specializing and intricate work just like this so this decoration

19:49on the bird it's all hand engraved beautifully worked and birds occupy quite a pre-eminent

19:57position in islamic decoration it symbolizes the freedom of the spirit and they're also looked

20:02on as good luck or good fortune pieces so right hopefully that might be true today yeah yeah um

20:09this is copying a style for much earlier there are similar birds to your birds in the metropolitan

20:14museum in new york in the louvre in paris wow but they are much earlier ones they are from the 12th 13th

20:23century yeah your one i think dates from late 19th stroke early 20th century so it's more a kind

20:29of touristy piece yeah so what's it worth we don't know what was paid for it no idea it's hopefully

20:35brought you some good fortune yeah and if this turned up on the market today you'd be looking at

20:41between 600 and a thousand pounds wow really you're joking no i'm watching a please but to be honest i

20:54wasn't expecting it to be worth anything i just thought you know it's a big metal bird and you know

20:59it's quite pretty you know it won't be going anywhere it's going to stay with me and the family for a bit

21:03but um but yeah i don't think i don't think i'm certainly not ready to part with 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

21:24objects that she's holding and showing to the viewer did you buy her no she was left to me by my great

21:31aunt it was made by her grandmother that puts us back into the 19th century the 1890s i think so

21:39she's been a family companion really yes yes i've known her all all my life and presumably yes you

21:45you have too yes yes she's always been outside my bedroom and with my parents went out i would

21:51sneakily lift off 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 of those things that

22:14made a lady's life at home yeah just a bit more enjoyable and so when you look into this tray you've

22:22got pins and needles and buttons there's a tennis racket there are skittles there's a little doll

22:28there are scissors your favorite you said you may have borrowed them but 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 very

22:44kind of wizened looking face um but she is she's got a wax head it looks like and she looks as if she's got

22:51human hair on there not not mohair the doll market really has has had massive peaks and then a bit of

22:59a slide so i'm happy to put a valuation on it of between a thousand and twelve hundred pounds which i think

23:06is right for now yeah but who knows in the fullness of time we could see another another peak developing yeah

23:12but fabulous object great to hear that it's a family thing good yeah and thank you for

23:17a little girl to my daughter and granddaughter lucky you maybe great granddaughter one day no pressure

23:32our ceramics expert stephen moore has discovered an item linked to the black

23:36dike 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 queensberry wouldn't we

24:05yes and what would we find there queensberry and the black dike mills and you worked at the black

24:10dike mills i did from 1958 to 1993. what did they make at the mill mohair cloth for the japanese

24:18businessman okay four thousand pounder suit quite high-end stuff yes and were you a member of the

24:24famous band i was from 58 to 73 hence the skeleton of black dike mills memorabilia so tell me how they

24:30came to your possession the gentleman uh phineas bauer there was the original owner of the jug right

24:36he then passed it on to his son fred who then passed it on to his daughter gladys bauer right

24:42but she had no family and i was an apprentice at the mill at the time and the lady there she asked

24:48would somebody like the jug and the medal right and i said yes please i mean this joke records that

24:54between 1856 and 1882 that the band won 2011 pounds nine shillings and nothing yeah that's a

25:04lot of money then isn't it i mean that's and then this is is the same this is a record history of of

25:10the band yes and the band won thousands i mean all all these on here oh yeah there's one they got seven

25:15guineas for being disqualified yeah that was a good gig wasn't it it's uh but i mean we have to put

25:21that in the context of the period i mean this joke dates to you know the 1880s that was a huge amount

25:28of money uh what happened to the band prize money it was divided amongst the band members you see it was

25:33worthwhile being in the band it was because i earned three pounds two and six a week and we did two

25:39concerts on saturday and sunday and the week after i got three pound in me and so like two weeks wages

25:46for about 30 weeks each year well there we are well i think this little collection a little booklet

25:53on the history of the band and the jug this is nine carat gold let's not deny that we're looking at

25:58between eight and twelve hundred pounds you didn't think it was that much the medal alone is 500 pounds

26:05wow even safe

26:15the wonderful liberty table turn of the century and it's just superb and what's beautiful about

26:22this is 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 beautiful singing bird music box

27:10i can see that the lid needs a little bit of tweaking because it doesn't quite pop back down but that's

27:20something that can be remedied tell me what you know about it i know um the manufacturer is swiss i think

27:25yes i looked them up on the bottom it says santa croix made in switzerland now they are a very old

27:31traditional music box maker this one was probably made in the 1960s okay it's made in exactly the

27:39same tradition as those early antique boxes all right but it's faux tortoiseshell finish on it it's

27:45not a real tortoiseshell it's a nice thing do you really like this yeah i really like it watching it

27:51dance and like sing yeah it's quite mesmerizing isn't it yeah yeah where did you buy it my antique

27:57steeler right yeah because it was kind of we thought it was a bit interesting do you mind me

28:01asking what you paid for it i can't remember what what did you pay for it i think it was 1500 1500

28:05pounds it's 1500 pounds i think that was kind of about the money to be honest with you

28:17a 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 i'm delighted to see

29:13this long chain and of course it would have been worn on a long chain around her neck popped into a

29:19pocket somewhere hallmark nine carat so many of these were cut into small places to make bracelets or

29:29necklaces so to see an original long chain is really rather nice they've been even better we've

29:34been 18 carat gold of course but it's still very nice anybody worked anymore or not no uh sadly not

29:41it's been in a draw for for years so money yes the watch 18 carat gold by dent in pretty good condition

29:53eight nine hundred pounds for watch and the chain because it's original and because it's long and

29:59it hasn't been cut down at all a similar price on the chain as well because don't leave it in the

30:05drawer get somebody to wear it don't you think i will i will my daughter perhaps she'll probably sell it

30:11you never know she better not

30:25this is a rather beautiful hand-worked textile which is not actually an altar frontal can you

30:41tell me about it so this was designed by louisa pestle who was a bradfordian woman born in 1870 and

30:48a bit of a pioneer she trained at the national art training school in london under lewis foreman day

30:53obviously very well known arts and crafts designer yeah and she then went to greece to be a designer at

30:59the royal hellenic school of needlework and lace she traveled all over egypt india she made notes of

31:06all the textile designs the motifs the patterns so she was one of those group of sort of pioneering

31:12victorian ladies that really was something there would have been very few women that were in a position

31:17to be able to have done that there's a great photo of her on the kyber pass on the back of a camel in full

31:23edwardian gear with a hat and everything and she just looks amazing we can only imagine what that

31:28would be like and it's corseted as well yeah when she came back to bradford and the first world war

31:32was on she did a lot of work with the abraham peele 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

31:44work and and other things and they worked on this the shell shock soldiers to her design

31:50so this idea of you know occupational therapy the hand and the mind being occupied that it was really

31:55really good for them the repetitive nature of it is very kind of soothing really for people suffering

32:01from you know post-traumatic stress um it's very interesting that she went to the royal hellenistic

32:06school of needlework in greece because i think we could see that influence here definitely in the

32:11stitch work and because we've got this sort of meandering design and then these sort of these little

32:16flower heads and this is all worked in cross stitch if you look at the stitches they look they don't

32:21really appear to have been done by different people so perhaps she was very exact instead of

32:25mistress i 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

32:37when they 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

33:04and it's lovely to see the three leaf clover design here how did you find this it belonged to

33:11my 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 bus no when she went shopping everywhere oh my goodness yeah well

33:46this is dated about 1880 right and it is silver and gold but there's no maker's mark and and that's quite

33:56usual for um for jewels of this period but it looks english to me all set with cushion shaped diamonds

34:04and rose cut diamonds and then you also have this ring and tell me the story about this ring the family

34:12legend is that my great-grandfather accepted it in settlement of a gambling debt in monte carlo in monte

34:20carlo yes oh my gosh i wonder how much the debt was it'd be interesting wouldn't it it would it'd be

34:27lovely to know but unfortunately he spent the family fortune oh did he and by the time my grandfather came

34:35back from the first world war my great-grandfather passed away and there was no money left apart from

34:42the ring well it's 18 carat gold and these are cushion shaped diamonds again the diamonds are cut

34:48in about 1880 right and i think they're set in a slightly late amount so i mean at auction you'd be

34:58looking at about three thousand pounds and for this one here you'd be looking in the region of about

35:04fifteen hundred to two thousand pounds all right thank you so what will happen to it now i'll continue

35:10to wear them and 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

35:42housed in bradford the archive is a fascinating record of the migrant communities who made the city

35:47their home after the second world war and now available online it's become a valuable resource

35:53for families to search for long lost images of their relatives

36:01i'm sitting here with people who found relatives in the bellevue archive now cynthia you're here with

36:06your mum olive who i hope you don't mind saying you're 103 grand old age and you were looking in the

36:13archive for pictures of yourself i think that's right i thought you know i'll have to look in the

36:18archives to see if they think of me as a baby and then found mum and there she is what did you think

36:26when you saw that uh it took me back because i remember that jacket she was wearing it was an olive

36:32green jacket three quarter long sleeves and it just took me back to being six or seven years old oh and

36:39what about you olive do you remember this picture being taken yes and you look beautiful in this picture

36:45what did you do when you were here when you first came over the first time i come here i used to

36:51work at the school to work at a school school yeah they were very nice were they people with me you

36:58know so i sit together until i get to come back to badford yeah what a wonderful thing to come across

37:06it so unexpectedly yeah so you've got this one picture whereas you hamza yep so you found all sorts

37:14of members of your family yeah from my mum's side as well as my dad's side who have we got here who's

37:21this one that's my father um and that's his two brothers that's his brother-in-law and these are uncles

37:30and just general relatives family when you started looking hamza did you have any idea you would find

37:37such a treasure trove no i only discovered that picture first of all of my uncle and and then

37:45the more i went into it i discovered two or three more pictures and then after a week or two i found

37:52another five pictures and and then before i knew it i'd have 50 plus pictures of my close relatives

38:00so boys this is your granddad granddad yeah i think he looks very handsome don't you yeah yeah

38:06yeah absolutely so what did you think when you saw your dad well i've 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

38:30so he came over um his mum gave him half a dozen boiled eggs to come over with and a fiver in his

38:38pocket and did he then pursue a medical career uh no no he didn't he worked in textiles then after that

38:44as so many did in this part of the world because the the asian community came over to do the labor

38:52jobs what is fascinating to meet you and hear your stories and see these pictures and if you're watching

38:58home and think i mean who knows maybe your family's in the bellevue archive have a look there's clearly

39:02thousands of pictures to go through for what hamster says but you never know what you'll find

39:16so 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

39:36had yellow jaundice i think and her father my grandfather bought her this to cheer her up i can

39:43think of nothing that would cheer me up more if i was poorly than getting a cup of tea and my breakfast

39:48served to me from a service like this with toast from this little toast rack and even this wonderful

39:54warming dish so that your breakfast comes to the table warm and you just remove this stopper fill

40:00the base of the dish with hot water and it keeps the breakfast toasty and warm yep the service is by

40:07claris cliff an iconic designer in britain in the 1920s and the 30s and the shape of this teapot is known as

40:15the bonjour shape with this round design and the very distinctive round finial handle even on the little

40:21circular feet these pieces are a bit later in claris cliff's design career her heyday was really the

40:28late 1920s to the mid 1930s i would think these are sort of late 1930s and date and you can see the

40:36slight change in style where she's used this more sort of floral feminine decoration rather than the bold

40:43iconic art deco designs with very strong colors i'm sure it's something you would never want to sell

40:49but of course it does have a value um my thoughts are that being a slightly later claris cliff design

40:56slightly removed from the more iconic art deco period um i think it's worth in the region of two

41:01to three hundred pounds for this group well thank you very much that's absolutely lovely i won't be

41:06selling it and hopefully it can go on to generations you know still to come

41:21we've got may west's name spelt out in her own hair where on earth did this come from

41:28uh we're not 100 sure of its original provenance um it was a gift to the family uh on my dad's side

41:35um a wedding gift and it's just been sat in my dad's downstairs toilet for about 10 years

41:42and i think as a talking point for parties that sort of thing it is that i mean she's one of the legends

41:48of film i mean in the 1930s she was the big box office drawer and obviously she's done an official

41:57opening yeah we have the rishi salons for hair and beauty culture were officially opened by

42:03may west and i mean i don't know much about women's hair i'll be honest but it almost looks

42:08like little sort of extensions they're beautifully tied but underneath and i think this is the name of

42:16the hairdresser but we can't make it out um most lovely beauty salon every success something something

42:25may west and that almost definitely is her signature brilliant yeah um march the 11th 1948 she was ahead

42:35of her times you know she said what she thought yeah and some of the things were quite risque she's famous

42:42for the line is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me she said censorship i

42:51like censorship i've made a fortune from it um we've got to put a value on this yeah yeah unique thing

43:00um i mean her signature alone is fairly sought after i think if it went in an auction it would do

43:07probably a thousand to fifteen hundred pounds i think it'll hang around in the family though

43:12do you know uh yeah it's so strange one of the most bizarre things i've ever seen

43:20don't forget i'm off the simmers me time

43:29oh i've been waiting for one of these to come in for a long time good okay so where did you get it from

43:34it's to 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

43:48of september 1946 yeah which is exactly two years after the first day that they dropped by parachute

43:55and glider into a place called arnhem yeah now we would know it as a bridge too far but the original

44:02film was theirs is the glory yeah and these were the original cinema tickets for the premiere yeah

44:07and they'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 a

44:28clue it's 150 quid 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

44:56as in it was really tarnished you mean yeah yeah it was black so mule spent cleaned it up and then

45:03it revealed what were on it it's a french bulldog that is gorgeous isn't it yeah it's a little cigarette

45:09case so that's what the elasticated band is for yeah now i know it doesn't look like you could fit

45:14cigarettes in there but that's what cigarettes were like when this was made which was about 1910.

45:21now did you notice also on the side here that is a sapphire push thumbpiece oh no i didn't know

45:29yeah so that is quality it's superb detail the way that that's all painted it's enamel painted

45:34all hand done it's either austrian or german probably right now you're gonna have to tell us

45:39what you paid for it it was five pound you've done very well that now is four to six hundred pounds

45:48lovely beautiful thing

45:52i think this is the most wonderful enigmatic beautiful photographic image

46:11can you tell me a little bit about it please it's a snapshot that was taken by my grandfather

46:16in 1931 he entered the worldwide competition um run by eastman kodak to find the world's best

46:23snapshot using the first introduction of the velochrome film um this is my granny here

46:29they were engaged and went on holiday to brad ahead on the isle of man

46:33he entered it in the competition and it won the final was in geneva and eastman kodak was a really

46:41famous 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

46:54cameras made it affordable and they made it portable and your great-grandfather was obviously one of

47:00those people 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 two hundred and thirty five thousand pounds they got married and he bought his first

47:17house and their first house with that and the family were very very excited well it would have been

47:21huge excitement all over because he would have been pretty famous in fact because that would have

47:26been obviously published in you know the the eastman kodak magazine thing that's right which was a

47:31massive worldwide seller of a magazine as well on the table here we have this beautiful silver trophy

47:38which of course is representative of photography by the lens in the top here that is stunningly

47:45beautiful um but i'm gonna have to kind of try and put a value on this and it's a bit of an odd one

47:50really yeah i'm kind of minded to give it a global valuation but then individually looking at some

47:55of the pieces it's a kind of different thing in my head so to speak so this beautiful art deco trophy

48:02is wonderful and it's worth two or three thousand pounds okay yeah which is pretty amazing yeah the

48:08camera to be honest with you if that were completely disconnected from this story and were just a kodak

48:14pocket vest camera 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

48:27we'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 weigh

48:39this medal okay because i don't know whether you know but this is an 18 karat gold medal oh gosh right

48:44and its scrap value alone is 7 000 pounds that's amazing i see why he ran off i'm glad you came back

48:52i did come back with it so i think that what you have here one of my favorite stories of the day

48:59at 12 to 18 000 pounds that's very good isn't it yeah thank you so much for coming that's a pleasure

49:05thank 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 um and i always remembered this

49:53watch on my grandmother's wrist as a little child growing up i can never remember her with any other

49:58type of watch on her wrist she went to trinity college in dublin to study as a young woman at the

50:05age of 25 in 1925 she traveled from ireland to new york gosh where she would have traveled on her

50:12own she would have sailed as a 25 year old woman and to know that she was such a confident lady it's

50:18no wonder that she chose some really pretty pieces of jewelry more than likely in new york because the

50:24style of both of the pieces is very american they have a a lovely way of producing what we could call

50:31this sort of filigree pierced metal work in in this bracelet in particular there's another mark that

50:38denotes that it's not a european piece because it's marked 10k which is for 10 carat white gold

50:44which again is something very typical of american jewelry at the time in the center here you've got

50:50a lovely little diamond sparkling away and either side the two green stones are actually synthetic

50:55emeralds they're they're not natural emeralds i bet she was drawn to the green for for emerald isle of

51:01course no no doubt and it was very popular again to use synthetic stones at this stage because to cut

51:08stones this size 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 and also

51:47the green stones here these are actually glass so that fits in again with this whole idea of costume

51:54dress jewelry which again was rising in popularity in the 1920s i mean even chanel would mix up her

52:01costume jewelry and her precious gem jewelry and try and trick her friends and say which do you think

52:07is real and which is fake and they often got it wrong but that was how good the quality was on both

52:12of them you know we're looking at a you know a reasonable value maybe 50 60 pounds and then with

52:19the bracelet because it is that 10 karat gold as opposed to 14 15 or 18 and that keeps the value

52:25down at auction i'd expect that to fetch between 500 and 700 pounds so collectively in the region of 600

52:32pounds for the two pieces but as we have seen it is the story that counts in the elegance of your

52:39grandmother that's right thank you very much thank you two indian albums dated around the start of the

52:541800s so 1810 to 1820 are many of them how did these come into your possession my mother got them

53:02in 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

53:17company school meaning east india company started in 1600 and went on well into the late 1800s

53:27let's face it they were there to extract money and resources from india there are some small mercies

53:35and human stories that come out of it so you have this beautiful new school of painting which is a mix

53:42of indian and european and you see some beautiful examples in these albums

53:48this one it shows indian life you see the tradesmen working away in the background maybe a subject matter

53:58that was avoided in traditional indian miniature painting or mughal miniature painting you see some

54:04real indian life which is what the europeans were interested in so this book was made for the europeans

54:11exactly exactly so interesting these are the polaroids of early india and the center of this picture is

54:21the abhorrent act of sati and sati is when the husband dies the woman put herself on the funeral pyre

54:31and commits suicide it was banned by the mughal emperors and later made illegal by the british in the

54:39mid-1800s so this painting here it's great that we've got such an early date 1780 and this album

54:50is just stuffed with wonderful examples of this mix of indian and european work a tipoy so a local soldier

55:01isn't that beautiful extraordinary it's very european it's like a biblical tale startling absolutely well

55:11they are very collectible each piece a slight variance in quality the sepoy for example

55:20on 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

55:37the book haul each book for that page that's the sati burning six to eight thousand pounds

55:45so to try and put an overall figure on both albums minimum 22 000 pounds wow amazing if you ever

55:55decided to sell them i don't think we'll be getting rid of them though i think that's so beautiful you

56:02can'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

56:28before we go i just wanted to show you something unusual

56:32we see lots of dolls on the antiques roadshow but i've never seen one like this she dates from the

56:371860s she's a fortune telling doll and she would have been used as a kind of after dinner or parlor game

56:44if we passed around the guests and the reason is because look under her skirts are all these little

56:52fortunes written on pieces of paper and i've been allowed to open one which i should do very carefully

56:58look there you are and in it it says what you wish for you shall obtain is she amazing from the antiques

57:12pleasure here at cartwright hall bye-bye

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