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00:00the crowds have arrived and the sunshine for now at least at our venue for the day the National
00:10Waterfront Museum on the south coast of Wales Swansea is known for its maritime and industrial
00:18heritage but you might not know about its association with porcelain and pottery this
00:23sweet little cup comes from the Swansea Museum collection and it was made by the Cambrian
00:28Pottery founded in 1764 and as you drink your tea this little horror this little frog emerges at
00:37the bottom I think if I saw that I'd drop my cup coming up this really is the sort of stuff
00:45of nightmares isn't it no there's a smudge here there is one of my friends kissed it see that's
00:55what I love about this job to hold a piece of history like that if you don't mind I'm definitely
01:00coming shopping with you next time welcome to the Antiques Roadshow
01:25this is an extraordinarily colorful brooch what intrigued you about it well it belonged to my
01:38grandmother and I always remember her wearing it as I'm sure you know it's enamel yes onto onto a
01:45surface which we call guilloche which is a French word for engine turning and it gives this this sort
01:51of silk effect to the background yeah I think probably it was made in Switzerland in about 1820
01:57it may have had a previous life as a box lid or something of that description I can't be sure of
02:02that but what I am absolutely sure of is the message what it is actually is an Arcadian altar of love
02:10um it is literally an altar and burning at the top are twinned hearts in flames really yes I haven't
02:17noticed those before no and it's hot stuff more hot than you can ever imagine oh because on either
02:23side are hymen's lamps the lamps of love and if that wasn't enough beneath them the doves the billing
02:32doves of Venus and they signal her presence visually and paintings and sculpture but on it goes because
02:39it the Arcadian altar of love is surrounded by roses they're also full-blown roses that's important too they
02:48are another one of Venus's attributes they're emblematic of the pleasure and pain of love well you might have
02:55imagined that there wasn't room for another rebus another metaphor but actually we both be wrong
03:01because hanging here laurels wreaths of laurels and they are emblematic of the triumph of love
03:08omnia vincita amor it comes from Virgil it's called a hemstitch it's a very abbreviated little poem and it's the
03:16triumph of love over all goodness it's gushing all over the place can you take any more I'm not sure why my
03:24grandmother wore it's really I've never seen such a full example of this in jewelry I think there
03:34are lots of collectors who would absolutely love it I think it's probably worth seven or eight hundred
03:40pounds oh my word I was thinking I might wear it and I'm not sure but anyway maybe maybe I will I hope
03:50you do yeah I think it's a beautiful thing it's been lovely to meet you over such um romantic
03:56circumstances thank you very much thank you
04:09I've been working on this program for four decades believe it or not I've got to say this is the very first cat to the best of my
04:16knowledge that I've ever talked about wow so is it is it a family cat or um have you some of the board
04:24it originally comes from through my nan my mum's mum someone died on her street when she was young and um
04:32they were quite a poor working-class family and in that time everyone on the street would sort of divvy up
04:39people's possessions um it's quite an old lady who died who'd had it yeah obviously in the ceramic world
04:45the first thing you want to know is who made it so you've got to turn it over um and there's a lovely
04:51mark it says Jill Ashworth Hanley uh in that lovely oval sort of cartouche Jill Ashworth good name
05:01uh but they made mainly tableware date wise uh the mark tells me this was made in around about 1870
05:10so Alice in Wonderland the Cheshire Cat came out in 1865 the thing is I've never seen one before
05:20no I can't find anything at all about him if we're into the Ashworth collection I haven't heard back
05:27it should be out there there should be another one of these but I'm struggling it is a form of of
05:36earthenware a very white earthenware and it's been covered in this lovely sort of cobalt blue glaze
05:45and it's accentuated by this yellow band and and and tie I'll be very happy to say it's at least two to
05:53three hundred pounds people love their cats and um that smile yes it is a smile it's not a grin it's
06:02a smile it's what you call a winning smile absolutely thank you
06:17thank you very much for bringing this in it's absolutely delightful and it's beautifully signed
06:22lower right Margaret W Tarrant how do you come to own it well my father bought it from the Medici
06:29gallery in Liverpool in the late 1950s early 60s maybe I was just a child now Margaret Tarrant is
06:37best known for her watercolors of fairies she was born in the 1880s and died in the late 1950s
06:43and she was really at her zenith during the 1920s and 30s which was a time of it was considered the
06:50golden age of children's illustrated books and she worked a lot with the Medici society
06:57and with them they printed a lot of her her watercolors now this has got a very intriguing
07:03label on the back do you want to turn it over sorry okay
07:10now when you're looking at something like this the first thing you think of is
07:13is it an original watercolor or is it one of the reproductions and it says here the Medici society
07:21limited now the Medici society was founded early 1900s and its premise really was to produce
07:27really high quality reproductions for the market from old masters all the way up to modern and
07:34Margaret Tarrant worked very very closely with the Medici society what we have got underneath is this
07:41absolutely glorious label which says original painting by Margaret Tarrant roseberries so from
07:49that we will have to assume that that this is the original watercolor what do you like about it
07:55it's not my personal style more of a modernist myself but i do love it very much and it's just
08:02beautifully drawn it's beautifully colored and of course it's reminiscent of my childhood
08:07it's reminiscent of so many people's childhoods mine as well now this is from a series of 16 from
08:14a book that was made called Joan in Flowerland and Joan in Flowerland was written by Margaret Tarrant
08:21and Lewis Dutton um and and she did the illustrations for it it's about Joan who believes in fairies
08:28and Joan asks the gardener where she can find fairies and the gardener says you'll find fairies amongst the wild
08:35flowers so Joan goes to the wild flowers and she meets an elf and they have lots of jolly japes
08:40and that's really the story do you hang it at home we do i mean it's it's a bit light sensitive so
08:48it's been up and it's been down and it's been put away and out again assuming it is the original
08:53watercolor i think it's probably worth about four to six thousand pounds oh really that's a little bit more
09:00than i thought it was oh good i'm delighted well thank you very much for bringing it in my pleasure
09:19well what a collection this is i mean i think these are one of the most recognized dolls around the world
09:26the barbie dolls yeah how did you get all this collection well i've had them since i was a very
09:31little girl um probably the late 60s they were bought in hamley's in london by my parents i really
09:39don't remember actually buying here because i was quite young um a couple of years later we purchased
09:47her which i do remember so that's how i arrived at the barbies did you play with them for years i played
09:55with them all the time particularly this one because this um older one her hair was set so she
10:03was very difficult to brush her hair but this one the newer one had beautiful hair which was very easy
10:08to brush and that's what i like doing most and changing all the outfits over and over again
10:13what i can't understand is that these come from the 1960s and they're such good condition yeah well
10:22i didn't have any um siblings that spoiled them so i took great care of them yeah you certainly have
10:29because i i also know this is only a part of the clothing collection isn't it there are literally hundreds
10:36about fits unbelievable the amount of outfits that you've got you must have played with it for hours yes
10:41i mean you know barbie's one of the most famous dolls in the world and of course it was created
10:48in 1959 by mattel and of course these are early ones so these yes you know these came out in the 60s
10:55so these are very early ones and i when i first saw them i i thought they might be replicas because
11:01they're in such good condition as far as their value with all the costumes you've got and you've got
11:06hundreds of costumes i have got a lot of outfits yes i think i would be very conservative and say
11:131500 to 2 000 pounds wow and that's without the boxes because you've got so much of the clothing yes
11:21and the dolls that you do have yes are in great condition and i don't think you're ever going to
11:25sell these i can tell look at your face you're looking at them when you're smiling well i bought my
11:30daughter today and no doubt they're going to be hers one day no doubt she will sell them i'm sure as
11:36soon as my back's turned thank you for bringing them in it's been a nap my pleasure real pleasure
11:42absolute pleasure thank you very much our military experts often hear stories of heroic feats carried
12:00out during world war ii by allied prisoners of war later immortalized in film such as the famous great
12:07escape from stalla glove 3 in 1944 but five months earlier in the same camp came an equally audacious
12:15attempt to tunnel out using a wooden bolting horse as a cover mark smith is thrilled to see an item that
12:22played a pivotal role in that escape a caterpillar and a violin i know what the caterpillar is
12:33is the violin i'm not so sure about but we'll come on to that so the caterpillar
12:38is the badge for those men whose lives were saved by a parachute correct and we also have a thing
12:44here called a personal card which is the german prisoner of war card with his photo on so now i'm
12:50i'm fairly sure that what i've got here is a prisoner of war who is this man it's my father tom wilson
12:56he was shot down in may 43 on special operations tracking german night fighter radar and a german
13:03night fighter got him ah okay what happened to him when he landed he was found by dutch farmers
13:10who were hiding people who were avoiding being sent to forced labor and dad thought well if the germans
13:16come looking for me they might find them and these people will be in trouble so he told them to hand
13:20him over and he ended up in stellar glove three so mostly we know that for one film which is the
13:27great escape but actually we know it for another film as well don't we which is the wooden horse
13:35was he part of that escape yes he was one of the vaulters over the wooden horse but also when they
13:41were hiding the sand and it's shown in the film as well they had a chap playing the violin and if he
13:46stopped playing that meant one of the german guards was coming close and they had to behave
13:50as if nothing was happening and he's the violin player he's the violin player there's this little
13:55book here i know that he wrote this didn't he and here it says every evening as i was tuning my violin
14:01i would see the wooden horse carried out with one digger hanging inside and i practiced while the
14:05vaulting was in progress outside the window at the end of the vaulting session 14 members would stagger
14:11back with their load meanwhile i was playing from memory my eyes fixed on sid the number
14:16one dispersing stooge if he was wearing his raf officer's cap i would give a nod to the vaulters
14:22and they would carefully tip the horse on end so that bill williams could emerge but immediately sid
14:28removed his cap i would give a warning and the horse would be stood in its accustomed place
14:33yeah wow and that's the violin that's the violin see that's that's what i love about this job to hold
14:38a piece of history like that what happened to him towards the end of the war in january 45 they were
14:45evacuated and force marched across germany in some vain hope of holding them hostage and he
14:51was carried the violin with him but the the case started to get soaked had another night march ahead
14:57of him and he thought i need to leave it somewhere and found a german family he actually saw them
15:02giving coffee to one of the guards and thought these are nice people asked if he could leave it with
15:06them and they looked after it for him how long did it stay with them for till 48 dad having found a
15:13love of german and russian went back on the first student exchange with germans in summer of 48 and
15:20went to retrieve the violin he retrieved something else as well he did he bet my mother that is an
15:25incredibly good story that is just fantastic i know you've got his log book um you've got these medals
15:34and the luff off a fork um he's only he's only tall i suppose kept it on the long march because that was
15:44all he had to eat with it's a very hard thing to put a price on the medals the log book and the attachment
15:53to to the the wooden horse story i think you're probably looking somewhere between
15:59one thousand and two thousand pounds for for the medals that i i would know about but to add the violin
16:04i don't know i really don't know i think if you put it into auction with that story
16:10four or five thousand pounds i think that's about right but i'm not really interested in the monetary
16:16value i'm always interested in the people these ordinary people who stood up and did such
16:21extraordinary things and to stand there and play that while someone is digging a tunnel
16:26what a great story you genuinely you made my day today so thank you so much for bringing that one in
16:30thank you
16:35to me it just means so much because it's not just his role in world war ii but also
16:40there's the story of how he met my grandmother and it just means so much to me
16:44and without it we wouldn't be here
16:58what have you got in the suitcase some old scouting memorabilia what's your connection
17:03with scouting well i've been the scouts all my life um and i've been trying to get my children
17:08interested but it looks like my granddaughter is going to get interested now this is a large
17:14number of trips and excursions isn't it and not all mine some of these badges date back to the 1930s
17:21and 40s i do like the title of that the scouts book of gadgets and dodges what do you like the look of
17:28in here oh these well that's got 60 indoor games to scouts how about that amazing collection thank you
17:47today we're being joined by a local hero
17:54sir gareth edwards
17:57a true legend of welsh rugby
18:01and one of the greatest players the game has ever seen
18:05sir gareth has brought along a few of his cherished items
18:08not just from his illustrious sporting career but a more personal keepsake too
18:16gareth edwards what a joy to have you on the program crystal as they say around here now you
18:21started out in sport obviously we know you for rugby of course in fact you played for swansea fc for
18:27the football club for the youth team down here yes i used to come down on a on a bus from the village
18:32get dropped off just around the corner and go to the veg field absolutely so what changed you from
18:38football to rugby in fact i went away to midfield school i think and the opportunity was there to
18:43play some some rugby uh and of a very high standard high quality and you realized that was for you well
18:51yes and of course i got picked for the uh for the well school boys and you've brought along some items
18:57for us to have a look at tell me about the rose bowl well in 1978 i became the most capped welsh
19:06international player of that time and england were also celebrating their uh centenary and had bought
19:15a number of these magnificent bowls to present to the different unions and because i'd reached 50 caps
19:23for wales they wanted to make a presentation on the evening which really i've cherished ever since
19:31and what about this cap the significance of this cap in particular ah very significant in so much that
19:38i was the first uh welsh person to have 50 caps uh for wales and they wanted to give me something
19:45special but this is a very special cap because it went on the space shuttle columbia in 1998
19:51all the way up to the moon and around many times and then back how did that happen um
19:59well there was a there was a gentleman from penarth who worked for nasa and uh he he had asked the
20:07the next the next person that was going to pilot uh the columbia was um was a welshman and so
20:15he wanted to take some some welsh mementos to uh up into space yeah up to space i couldn't believe it
20:23i thought there was somebody was pulling my leg i can well remember when i watched the news that evening
20:29the pilot had my cap out in space with a tassel sticking straight out because of the um because
20:35there was no gravity now this is something that takes us right back to your childhood but in fact
20:41you've only just found it again i have yes it was in the garage believe it or not and it's been there
20:46for a while my mother bought me that when i was about five years of age because i sort of catch trout
20:52about that big and catch eels as well and then you'd wrap them in an handkerchief or anything any
20:58plastic bag or what have you she wasn't satisfied with that so she thought i'll buy him a proper
21:03fishing basket brings back fond memories not just of my family but of catching small trout at the tower
21:12up in the upper valley in in ponta doorway and these are your parents here my parents there
21:18very proud parents no doubt and then this this is a 45 pound pike that you caught which must be the
21:28biggest fish you ever caught surely you know with fishing it's being in the right place at the right
21:33time i cast out and lo and behold that fish took it they ended up a british record at the time
21:4145 pounds six ounces so how big would that be i mean how long i don't have to lie
21:49can you help me massive massive it was a big fish yes well gareth thank you so much for sharing
21:59some of your past with us your illustrious past humble beginnings with a fishing basket and then
22:05your cap ending up in space who knew so lovely to meet you thank you so much coming on the program
22:10thank you
22:25it's lovely to see a picture with a piece of jewelry that's been brought along being worn as it is here
22:31on this beautiful lace front address which is probably slightly later in date to the actual amethyst and
22:37gold brooch that we're looking at how did this come into your family this lady is my great-grandmother
22:43helena from uh gilburn in uh mombusha when she was 16 she went with her parents to australia on a ship and
22:50met her husband eventually thomas williams i suspect then that thomas williams gave the brooch to helena at
22:58some stage in australia well the fact that she went out in 1879 the the brooch is dated from around
23:05that period as well so whether it was one that went out with them or it was bought in australia it's
23:10quite possible it's definitely of european make probably british made as well and it has all the
23:17characteristics of the classical etruscan revival style of jewelry with very detailed work around the
23:24edge of the mount here lovely beadwork and then of course dainty seed pearls around the edge as well
23:30and right in the center this absolutely gorgeous amethyst i mean it is such a beautiful strong color
23:36it really is fabulous and in the picture we can see how these brooches were worn
23:42it is definitely by a good maker but during this period people didn't need to hallmark the jewelry or even
23:48put a gold mark on it so it's going to be at least 15 carat if not 18 carat and made by a good good
23:55jewelers perhaps not one of the top ones but it certainly has been inspired by some really good
24:00designers and more than likely the amethyst at this period would have come from brazil does anybody in
24:06the family wear the brooch now i don't think they do um my wife has had it out of the box quite often
24:12yes i've never seen her wearing i think she might well do now knowing more about it she probably will do
24:16not well as i say i love jewelry being worn and it's such a shame that it is put away but that's
24:21nice that it is brought out to be looked at because they are works of art in their own right as well as
24:26jewels to be worn this style of jewelry is actually becoming more popular at the moment there's there's
24:33something about jewelry which not only represents a revival style but has got bold color to it and color
24:40is everything as far as collectors and fashion is concerned if it came up for auction we'd be looking
24:47at an estimate of between six to eight hundred pounds because of the beautiful amethyst it's just
24:53such sumptuous color lovely thank you thank you for bringing it in it's a pleasure thank you
25:11i've got some pictures here three pictures involving competitive motorcycle riding and i've got a trophy
25:18so what's it all about the picture nearest to you is my grandfather john dillwyn daniels and he rode
25:26motorcycles in the 40s and he was uh known as the flying welshman he went to the isle of man in 1948
25:36and won the clubman's tt trophy and then he went to the welsh tt races in munith eppent yes and won two
25:45silver dragons there unfortunately he was killed in gower on the swansea motorcycle race and what
25:54date was that that was in october october 48 yeah and when he died you were six and what happened there
26:04was a knock on the door and we lived in a flat in naplins my mother went down the policeman was there
26:11and she came up sobbing and crying and i said what's the mother mum your father's been killed
26:18and i don't know how i reacted i didn't cry i held the banister and i said dad i'll win the race
26:23that you wanted which was the senior man's grand prix and it took me 21 years 48 accents
26:32are over 50 mile an hour and not breaking a bone i think somebody was looking after me your dad was
26:37looking after you yes this photograph shows me finishing the manx grand prix and my mechanic who
26:44was a mathematician was there and as i was pushing the bike in i said who won he said you did by seven
26:52seconds and my knees collapsed and i went down on the floor and uh he caught the bike when i stood there
26:58with the rostrum i looked up and i said dad now can i live a normal life did you lead a normal life no
27:08i went sailing and uh ended up racing yachts in the caribbean so what we've got here in this photograph
27:17am i right in thinking that's you that is me 56 years ago and that's your dad that's dad and that's
27:24your brother brother chris and my mother and of course the center of it is the trophy yeah which
27:30you see here and of course in those days the winner took the trophy home for a year and i think was
27:37this the last year they did that that last year no they can't even ensure that solid silver yes but
27:43also what you did get to keep is a miniature isn't it yes every winner got a miniature so here we have
27:51it so that this is the tangible evidence of what you achieved we've gone through an extraordinary
27:56adventure sharing your adventure and fulfilling that childhood dream childhood promise but of course
28:03in value terms the item that is valuable is the replica i know you'll never sell it it's a key piece
28:09of family history but one of those would sell for about a thousand pounds it's been wonderful for me to
28:16share this extraordinary adventure thank you very much thank you thank you
28:32so we've got an iron gray sky brilliantly lit at the moment and she's got it as well i say she
28:39because it's valerie gans and she's caught it with this wonderful fluffy white paint over what is a very
28:46gritty grimy colliery scene it's 1978 it's a pit head where abitalary six bells colliery on the
28:56sort of eastern side of south wales and was she a local girl valerie gans sponsey girl yeah brought
29:03up here went to the college of art in swansea and graduated from there and stayed on as a teacher
29:10how did you get the picture um this has been in the family for about 40 years actually
29:19she's caught this scene extremely well i find it slightly odd that there are no people in it but
29:24then again by 1978 maybe the pit was even closed i'm not sure about that but certainly they were in
29:31decline and she's done rather well to catch the sort of rain slicked roofs and the uh and these
29:37these rusty gantries and there was a sense of stillness about it as if you know it's all gone
29:43it's all going it feels gloomy doesn't it not moody but gloomy and but the light is really good and
29:49it's quickly quickly done and i often think that uh with a with a picture that has no obvious drawing
29:55can only have been painted by somebody who knew how to draw well the value there's been a resurgence
30:03of interest in valerie gans's work and i think it's now worth two to three thousand pounds lovely lovely
30:09thank you
30:16so here we have a signed photograph by those four lads who shook the world
30:20a autograph book and a call sheet for the film help how did you come about them well i'm philippa
30:31and the story is that way back in 1965 um the beatles were filming help and at that time
30:41my grandmother um was doing some work for an actor called john bruthall who was actually filming
30:48with the beatles out in nassau in the bahamas filming help she asked john bluthall if he would
30:57get me the beatles autographs and did you know this no she did it as a big big surprise
31:04well there's a smudge here there is one of my friends kissed it
31:10well you can imagine i just wanted to show all the girls and a huge excitement and
31:14um what i didn't realize until it actually all arrived that she'd actually sent my own
31:26little autograph oh she'd sent that to the bahamas with john bluthall right and he'd taken it
31:32and he'd actually got the beatles autographs in my own autograph let's see them
31:38to fill up a love from george hadderson john lennon paul mccartney and ringo star
31:47with an extra love from paul mccartney he was like that yeah what also arrived was a call sheet
31:54call sheet number nine that's right and here's all the stars john lennon john john's playing john paul's
31:59playing paul yeah victor spinetti playing for us i love that name but what makes me laugh is we get
32:05round to the extra talent and it says 14 policemen 20 thug army four cali priests one visiting bishop
32:15and one channel swimmer this photograph in itself i think with your story would be something like
32:23in the region of four to four and a half thousand pounds oh my word but then you've got
32:30a double up tied up in your autograph book with this story and i think we're looking at about
32:39the same sort of price with that so i think you might be looking up around eight and nine thousand
32:45pounds my grandmother did me proud
32:59so there is a saying which is beauty is in the eye of the beholder um and this really is the sort of
33:05stuff of nightmares isn't it tell me where you got it what happened it was my great great grandfather
33:15who was a sea captain um and i believe he brought it back
33:20on his travels from overseas and it's just been in the family on top of a old bookcase
33:27ever since so it's been passed down and i'm the lucky beholder in terms of kind of character
33:35just amazement it's what it's it's it's one of the best things i've seen today i mean it really is
33:40it's just i it's the sort of thing i would love to own it's just so quirky do you like it it's so
33:46unusual and it spooks everybody out when they come for dinner we've been discussing it as a family since
33:54we brought it here this afternoon and we sort of thought that the guy here is in judgment um the
34:02devil is sitting on his shoulder and this poor guy is the victim of the judgment we thought and
34:09possibly we also thought that his hand is missing there so whether that could have some significance
34:17we don't know let's see if i can try and get the eyes to move
34:24so it's it's it's lacquer on on wood the closest i can get for you is uh in japan there were toys
34:33made kobe toys and uh they were made in the port of uh kobe for uh you know merchants uh you know
34:40sailors and such like coming over to the port and they would bring these things back as as gifts and
34:45souvenirs i wonder if that was a kobe toy shop display oh okay and that sat in the window to
34:53entice people in to come and look at these toys that people took back as as as gifts because of
35:00all the things we've just discussed with this you know it's so fantastic i can see that easily at
35:06auction bringing five to eight hundred pounds and actually you know i say this often i just wouldn't
35:12be surprised if it made a little bit more i really wouldn't i just think people will see that and
35:15see everything we've seen in it and everything we've discussed and you just get carried away and
35:19if you paid a little bit more would you be worried of course you wouldn't because nobody else is gonna
35:23have one are they absolutely our venue today on swansea's waterfront lies only a couple of miles away
35:34from the birthplace of dylan thomas one of the most important and best loved poets of the 20th century
35:43i'm getting a rare peek at some of his personal items in the company of swansea council's literature
35:49officer joe ferber joe let's start with dylan thomas the poet wales's most famous poet and he was
35:58so prolific so young wasn't he he was he was born in swansea in 1914 in a semi-detached house in the
36:04suburb of uplands he began writing as a child and was published in the school magazine he wrote his
36:09first collection that came out when he was just 20 years old and he wrote a significant output by the
36:15age of 23. and one of his most famous poems told it funerals and memorials the nation over do not go
36:21gentle into that good night i mean that's one of my fears i have to say could you read us a few lines
36:28of course yeah it's an incredibly powerful piece isn't it do not go gentle into that good night
36:34old age should burn and rave at close of day rage rage against the dying of the night i mean they are
36:43such powerful words we've got a whole lot of items here associated with him so tell me about this album
36:50because i mean i think of dylan thomas predominantly in wales in the united kingdom but this is part of
36:55his story in the united states isn't it yes absolutely he was very famous in the uk for
36:58his recording work and during the second world war he worked for the ministry of information writing
37:03film scripts and then he went to america he undertook four lecture tours of north america in the 1950s
37:09and this lp is a wonderful marker of that time signed here with his name and he was very popular in the
37:17states wasn't he he was he was almost like a rock and roll star signing lps signing books it's
37:22incredible the amount of work that he produced in such a such a young life really and what about
37:27these drawings tell me about these he did enjoy sketching and doodling throughout his life which
37:31is not something i knew until i saw these pictures he really enjoyed working with other other writers
37:36artists and musicians and here his fellow poet edith sitwell this has to be edith sitwell with this
37:42unmistakable profile you brought along a tweed jacket why well interestingly this isn't actually
37:52dylan thomas's jacket he was someone who was notorious for running out of clean clothes and just generally
37:57not being able to look after himself very well and on one of his reading tours of the us he was staying
38:02in the chelsea hotel that mecca for creative people and also staying there was a friend of his
38:08an artist called george fick dylan had characteristically run out of clean clothes he had a
38:12reading engagement and so george kindly lent him this jacket to wear for his reading and after dylan
38:18gave it back to george he wore it for the rest of his life and he carried on painting in it
38:22so there are even little bits of paint from george fix brush and following his death his family kindly
38:27donated it to us so it's it's on display at the dylan thomas center and dylan thomas died tragically young
38:33he was just 39. yes yeah it was two weeks after his 39th birthday he was on his fourth north american
38:38tour and he fell ill but he left an incredible body of work well he's a bit of a hearer of mine so
38:47thank you so much for telling me about him i've really enjoyed hearing about it oh thank you
38:52so when i saw you at the table earlier and you plonked this in front of me yes john i thought please
39:07let the contents be there because the amount of times i'll open a box like this there's always one
39:12missing there one missing or two missing but thankfully you got the full set when you think of
39:19anywhere like edward the 7th 1902 coronations they would produce a set of coins and this is the
39:26full set of coins from that year right produced by the royal mint and what's lovely about this is one
39:35the condition's very good and two you've got the full set because the gold and these are all nearly pure
39:43gold coins one all of them either been sold at some point or it's unusual to see a set like this
39:50right so tell me how you came by them well i came across until my late dad and he had this black box
39:59and i asked him a few times what's in it dad what's in it whatever you mind never you mind
40:03and i suddenly passed away so found the key open with the contents of the box there was his war medals
40:17and this case of coins wow and did he collect coins then no he didn't he was never a collector
40:24do you like them i do actually yeah yeah i do actually i i i've just come along today just for
40:29curiosity i'm going to keep them because they part of my dad and uh i'll pass them on to my niece you
40:34know when my days are gone value wise it's one of those areas which i think is still a good investment
40:42gold has proven just insanely good over the last few years and silver so people are still collecting
40:48these one because they're beautiful objects yeah and they're only in my view going to go up as long
40:53as they're in this condition you've got everything right which you have right so five to five and a
40:59half thousand goodness me wow i didn't think that much but no i'm keeping i'm keeping it's just like
41:08i say it's a family hand up it was handed down to him so i'll do the same but that i couldn't agree
41:14with you more because i would not be selling this lovely to see and thank you for bringing it thank
41:20you john our location today on the swansea waterfront is home to several museums full of objects that
41:30bring the past to life and lisa lloyd has spotted a ravishing georgian dress that would grace any collection
41:37so it's the most beautiful peach duchess satin who did it belong to it belonged to my three greats
41:47grandmother we believe francis mary master fielding who was married to joseph fielding who was a captain
41:55with the royal lancashire militia between 1814 and 1816 we believe that he may well have served in
42:01waterloo well his regiment didn't serve in waterloo however captains were allowed to enlist in the army
42:09that was sort of fighting napoleon in france at that time in the duke of wellington's army now there
42:14was a very famous ball yes that took place on the 15th of june 1815 in brussels held by the duchess of
42:23richmond and her husband the duke of richmond he was in charge of all the british troops in um in
42:28france and belgium basically trying to hold off napoleon and she had a very famous ball on this
42:34evening which became known as the ball of the century and that so you say you would always
42:39known this is yes we've always known it as the waterloo dress so you believe she was actually at
42:43that yes we do so this could well have been at a ball attended by the duke of wellington in 1815
42:51now this would have been made by a dressmaker specifically for your three times removed great
42:56grandmother uh because this is pre the days of sewing machines which weren't really invented until
43:00about the 1850s so it's been totally handmade and it would be would have been made for her
43:06by probably a local dressmaker and these trims these would have been sort of purchased separately
43:10which would have been enormously expensive so we've got this in this sort of metal silver
43:15colored metal almost like bullion we have these little fan shapes here going all the way down
43:20and around the terrain at the back these are before the days of sequins and these are called
43:25spangles and they're little tiny metal discs and i love these little sort of puff puff sleeves with
43:31the cutouts with a different color satin and if we look at this this is very modern at the time
43:3718 sort of 15 if we only look sort of 20 years prior to that everybody's wearing massive hoop skirts
43:44loads and loads of fabric that this was really slimline very elegant you know there was the fashion to
43:50be sort of very tall and very slim and these dresses often had trains on them i have a photograph of
43:56of my grandmother wearing this francis mary champneys um but obviously she was a vicar's daughter and it
44:03was very unseemly to show your bust so therefore a modesty vest was inserted in there i see it's got
44:09a panel at the front which is obviously when this has been cut away it's not in immaculate condition
44:16however it is 200 years old so i think we can probably forgive it that um but as a regency
44:21dress of that period it's probably has a value of something like one to one and a half thousand
44:26pounds right however you know if we had some documentary evidence to say that it was definitely
44:32at that ball then you know what what's the price of history you know we could easily double that and
44:36possibly more uh but um you know i was absolutely delighted to see it today so thank you for bringing
44:41it in very welcome this is a beautifully made little silver cabinet i suppose we call it but
45:00when i open the doors at the front it is an absolute gem of a jewel box
45:04how did you come by it so it's my granddad's and yeah he's just had it in his collection
45:12which has been i assume in dusty boxes in his house for years so he moved in with us last year
45:19with my mum and dad and we found it and it was all tarnished so we gave it a little polish and
45:25turned out like that and here's what you've got yeah were you excited when you got it out and opened the
45:30door well yeah once we opened it we were pretty shocked it's really cute inside so was i i gotta
45:35tell you it's nice it's absolutely beautiful it's inlaid with gold all over gold on steel right this
45:43was made in the late 19th century right possibly by the kome works which is a workshop in japan yeah
45:52that employed artisans that used to make samurai swords or used to decorate samurai swords but after
45:59the end of the samurai they were unemployed yeah but they had these incredible skills
46:05and they made things like this and all these little drawers open yeah and reveal i suppose it's a
46:12jewel box uh yeah that's what we're assuming yeah yeah i mean that's it you could put anything you like
46:17in it but it's for something quite special yeah definitely these handles on the drawers are formed as
46:23chrysanthemums yeah which is the badge of the emperor of japan wow okay so it has a sort of connection
46:29to imperial japan the imperial works that used to make objects like this it's of astonishing quality
46:35even on the outside of the case it's been inlaid with for example here on these leaves have been
46:41inlaid with gold and all around the box there are mixed metal inlays which are difficult to do and
46:49unnecessary really but that's very much in the japanese tradition of striving towards perfection
46:56so the quality of the thing in the round is fantastic too
47:02i hope that this will stay in your family for many many many years to come because
47:09i couldn't let it go if it were mine i just want to stare at it all the time quite right it's too pretty
47:14but i've got to tell you that if it came up for sale it would make somewhere around the two to two
47:20and a half thousand pounds really well that's we didn't think it was worth anything to be fair
47:26we just thought it was really pretty so that's really good and it's also rather valuable yeah
47:30but we wouldn't obviously wouldn't be selling it it's going to be staying with us in the family
47:34yeah sit on the sideboard and be stared at yeah that's what it's for yeah oh that's so nice
47:49now i'm looking at a wonderful thing called a rolling penguin that's right
47:54now why have you got this somebody gave it to me for my children a long time ago they used to have
47:59an antiques roadshow just for children a little boy asked at the end of that show what would be
48:05worth collecting or keeping from now to be valuable in the future he had one of these there and he said
48:13oh something like this well i knew i had one upstairs so i i run upstairs and i put it on top of the
48:18wardrobe so let's see what it does oh look it's great isn't it he's in brilliant condition
48:26i think this is one of the last things i'd have picked as the antique of the picture personally
48:35what's it worth i'm not expecting more than like 10 15 pound really well on a good day you might get
48:42that it could be a bit less you've put a battery in it make the most of the battery
48:49three pound with the battery was there anything in particular that got you into uh looking for and
49:07buying antique ceramics uh yes so um me and my granddad used to spend a lot of time uh watching
49:16antique roadshow yeah and he sadly passed away uh last year and i've just been kind of rummaging
49:25through charity shops i just find it quite therapeutic to just go treasure hunting and trying to find
49:30little yeah just weird and wonderful things and this is something i picked up there yeah i think it's
49:37beautifully modeled i mean we've got a lady sat on a chair seemingly looking after her her young child
49:45and it's a very compassionate piece very finely modeled but in a very kind of almost naive way
49:52and it was modeled by a dutch sculptor called henry de scheer de matos and he operated in the late 19th
50:00century into the early 20th century he modeled this somewhere between 1904 and 1907
50:07he died in 1908 so this could have been one of his very last pieces to be modeled and this was made at
50:15the haha pottery factory in pomerant which is just north of amsterdam now these subjects are very rare
50:25actually in dutch pottery it's beautifully glazed in these miolica enamels so these very soft tones on
50:33the creases and shades of yellows what i love about this is that henry has also signed it on the side
50:41here i think these are very rare the last one that came up was a good four or five years ago charity shop
50:51buy yep what sort of price was this i think it was about 60 which is obviously higher end for
50:58a charity shop but i thought just given the size of it as well the kind of it was quite an impressive
51:05piece good news if this were to come up at auction today this would easily fetch in the region of
51:171500 to 2000 pounds so yeah a pretty good return yes yeah definitely on your 60 pounds and if you
51:28don't mind i'm definitely coming shopping with you next time okay thank you so much for bringing this
51:34long today it's really made my day so thank you well i mean here we are in swansea in wales
51:51and you brought this amazing shirt this is one of the earliest welsh rugby shirts isn't it tell me
51:57about it it is indeed um it's a welsh international rugby jersey from 1893 wow that is early and who
52:06did it belong to this belonged to david die samuel who was a swansea player and he had two caps in
52:121891 and 1893 and he wore this jersey both times and what position did he play he was a forward which
52:19is surprising isn't it well it is surprising because the shirt is so small it did well he was a tall guy he
52:25was he was five foot nine and he was 12 and a half stone and worked in the kumbula tin plate works so
52:31he was certainly a very fit and healthy guy but you can see the shoulders are really quite narrow and
52:35this is a boy age 14 mannequin and you can see we still got to pad it with acid-free paper to get
52:41it to fit comfortably so yeah quite narrow shoulders but a very fit man and how did you come by it well we're
52:48the st helen's archive just down the road at st helen's rugby and cricket ground and i'm the head archivist
52:54there and so it got brought to us by the by the samuel family in fact um it's on it's on loan to us
53:01as long as we display it and and let people enjoy it which we love to do well it's very generous to
53:06the family because these are you know very very special things i i see that the three feathers they've
53:12changed as well over the years yes i mean if you think that uh the origin is is actually ostrich feathers
53:18and here they're trying to make them look like ostrich feathers it becomes more and more stylized as the
53:23decades go by this is a very very early version of and it's quite striking from 1893 to now i mean
53:30there's a few stains on it but this is in remarkable condition and what about these caps well the caps
53:37here the one on your left here is his swansea cap he played from 1889 to 1893 along with his brother
53:45jack and they won back-to-back welsh championships it was a golden period for swansea on the other side
53:51here is his glamorgan cap again its own story um the morgan county as an entity had just started up
53:59they played away in yorkshire the first game they played in wales the two brothers jack and die were
54:03capped together and so this is the glamorgan county cap so it's the very earliest performance of the
54:09county in wales and of course at the front we have his wales cap his first cap 91.
54:15you know my job is to put a price on this yeah i mean this shirt i hate to say it's almost priceless
54:23in wales but it it virtually is it being the only surviving triple crown and from the date and the
54:29story and everything i mean with the caps you know i would definitely be valuing this at somewhere
54:37between 20 to 25 000 pounds really so it's amazing to hear but so the value to us is really what we
54:46can do and what we can teach uh the local community about it that that's the real genuine value of it
54:51for us and to be here to be here in swansea and to have this lovely local history i can't thank you
54:57enough for bringing it in thank you so much fantastic the most valuable thing about the jersey is what
55:08it does for the community uh we want people to see it to enjoy it and that that's that's for us where
55:13the real value is but it's certainly pleasing and a little intimidating to hear how much it was worth
55:18it's the end of a busy day here in swansea and after all the sunshine and showers it's not surprising
55:32that some of us could do with a nice sit down hello ladies i know waiting in the queue sometimes at the
55:38road show can get a bit tiring people don't often bring along their own chairs ah yes but these aren't
55:42any any chairs they're actually uh bardic ice dead for chairs that were won by our great-grandfather
55:48william leishon griffiths uh in ice dead vods uh here in wales so of course the hugely important
55:55cultural festival here in wales and he was he was a a celebrated welsh poet from astragunlice in the
56:01swansea valley i'm the youngest of the great-grandchildren and inherited this chair from 1899 and i'm the
56:09eldest great-granddaughter and i inherited this one let's have a look oh yes let's have a quick look
56:13at it because each chair is a work of art in itself yes yes and what does this mean here well it says
56:19a draig gorg a very gachwen which means which means the red dragon will show the way what a treat to see
56:27these we thought we'd like to share a few words of his his poetry with you if we may it's about a
56:34blacksmith and uh how although he was he was bent over and and and short in stature he still had
56:41fire in his eye and steel in his arms
56:44gof bach dyn bach o gofforlaeth oedd william y go ychydig droid feddai mewn plyg ydoedd o ond er yn
56:55grymedig i'r byd dan ei faith roedd tan yn ei lagad a dir yn ei fraich it sounds wonderful absolutely
57:06wonderful i think i think it sounds more beautiful in the welsh language well it's the end of our day
57:11here in wael so i'm wondering if you could say on behalf of all of us we very much enjoyed our day in
57:17swansea goodbye from the antiques roadshow hoyle vowed or antiques roadshow couldn't put it better
57:24myself very good bye-bye thank you well how strictly change chris mccausland listen to emma barnett's
57:33new podcast ready to talk on bbc sounds now and if things weren't tough enough for kitty her big day
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