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00:00every year we travel the country giving you the chance to show our experts your cherished items
00:09but our summer roaches have proved so popular we haven't been able to pack in all the pieces
00:15you've brought along so tonight we're bringing you some of those unseen treasures from some of
00:20our most memorable venues coming up it's a to die for broach please don't die if it's worn by Michael
00:31Crawford it really elevates the value and I believe it's actually Victoria's yes I hope so cost me 20
00:39quid really I'll give you 25 I'll also be paying a visit to a place that's become synonymous with
00:49the craft of pottery stoke-on-trent in fact the industry was so important to the country that it
00:55was granted city status by King George V a century ago I'll get a private view of the archives of the
01:02famous firm of Wedgwood and a glimpse of some of the rarest ceramic treasures welcome to special edition
01:09of the antics Roadshow in 2025 we visited some stunning parts of the UK in July we traveled to
01:36Fyfe on the east coast of Scotland and to the hill of Tarvit mansion and garden this family home of
01:45Dundee businessman Frederick sharp has changed little since it was built in the early 1900s and out in the
01:52landscape gardens we saw everything from rare gems to star-studded memorabilia I'm blinded by a name on
02:00here right Ringo yes Ringo Starr of course of the Beatles okay so what we've got is a telegram here from
02:07Ringo Starr to Rab Noakes if we read it says message from Monaco dear Rab thank you for a fine album best wishes Ringo
02:16Rab Noakes he was a singer songwriter he was born in St Andrews but brought up in this area in Cooper so he went to London to make his fame and he did well and I think he worked with Jerry Raffa
02:30He was instrumental at the start of Steelers wheel but he left Steelers wheel before Baker Street what's Rab Noakes his connection to you
02:38Rab was my brother-in-law he died two years past and we were clearing out the house and this was amongst his things if you like
02:49I think there was sort of a strong connection very clearly between Ringo and your brother-in-law
02:56yeah well I wasn't aware that there's any connection at all until I came across this
03:00your telegram that you discovered in your brother-in-law's belongings three to five hundred pounds
03:05that's quite good yeah yeah I quite like that yes
03:08when you brought this to the table and I opened the box I had a little roadshow gasp because emeralds are
03:26my favorite gemstone and this one is absolutely gorgeous I would love to know how you came about
03:34and what made you decide to bring this here today my mother-in-law worked as a housekeeper for the
03:40owner of this for 30 40 years and when she died the jewelry the house car all went to my mother-in-law
03:48so my mother-in-law had it and she wore it and then when she died my daughter-in-law's got the rings
03:54what struck me immediately was the color of the emerald it's a lovely bluish green emerald
04:00so emeralds as we know are green but they can have sort of a over dark tone to them they can be
04:07kind of a blackish green sometimes they can be a kind of yellowish grassy green and this is not
04:12this is a lovely deep blue green which is just what collectors want at the moment the other thing
04:18that struck me was it's quite elongated the cut of the emerald and here you can see that it's cut so
04:25long that i can only imagine that the crystal was not very wide which is perfect for the art deco
04:33period which is when this ring was made in addition to the emerald you have step cut diamonds on either
04:41side and then you've got old cut brilliant stones on each of the four corners and that just gives a
04:48lovely life to it because the brilliant cut diamonds are cut to reflect light whereas the step cut diamonds
04:58on either side make use of the high luster of diamonds so you've got both aspects of those being drawn out
05:07by the designer when you look at the ring you can see that the emerald and diamonds are set in a white
05:13metal which is likely to platinum used to great effect by art deco jewelers but when you move the
05:20ring to the side you can see that the color of the metal changes and it becomes yellow gold and in fact
05:25it's stamped 18 karat inside so i think at some stage the band has been reformed okay probably because
05:33of resizing okay today if it was offered for auction i'd suggest an estimate of two and a half to
05:38three and a half thousand pounds oh thank you yes nice to go somewhere safe doesn't it
05:44i'm an ulster woman and this is a piece that was made in rural ulster so what's your connection to
05:56this piece the jug belongs to my mother who sadly couldn't be here today but she's always spoken about
06:04this jug for as long as i can remember and it's been on display in the house she seems to think
06:10it's unusual i know nothing about it and that's the reason i've brought it along today so this is a
06:16piece of porcelain that was made in balik balik is very well known for um this unglazed parian porcelain
06:23that it made but it made many different types of wares the balik factory was in rural ulster in county
06:30for manna and many miles from anywhere it was a bit of a backwater and a man called john caldwell
06:36bloomfield founded the factory the foundation stone was laid in 1858 and what he wanted to do
06:44was give local workers and tenant farmers a source of employment after the great famine and what they
06:50discovered was that the area was very rich in minerals such as kaolin and feldspar that were used
06:57in the production of this porcelain this is quite an unusual piece that not everyone would necessarily
07:02recognize as balik porcelain and you can see clearly here that the design influence is very
07:08much from the east and from japan it's decorated throughout with these curved panels in this sort
07:15of tapering form and there is molded decoration all around the picture with this beautiful prunus
07:23blossom and the thorns and the branches all picked out in this lovely vivid turquoise glaze is this a
07:30piece that your mom's very fond of it is i actually telephoned her a short time ago to try and find out
07:36a little more it turns out when she was born in the late 30s her mother took unwell and she was looked
07:43after by an individual unknown to myself and when that individual subsequently passed away they left
07:51this jug to my mother so it's something that's really quite precious to her well it's a super piece
07:57it's a lovely example of early balik and it's clearly marked with this first period mark stamped in black
08:05and the mark depicts the irish will found and the round tower the irish harp and the shamrock with a
08:11banner inscribed balik later balik marks also include fermanagh below the banner in terms of
08:18evaluation i think that this piece should be worth in the region of 300 pounds it's been a real pleasure
08:24to see a piece of porcelain from ulster here today well thank you very much
08:35well you brought me a very handsome book it's certainly a book that has been very handsome it's
08:38seen a little bit of life yes it's bound in lovely dark blue morocco goat skin with lots of nice gilt
08:44tooling nice gilt edges it dates i think from the beginning of the 19th century and if we open it up
08:50we can see exactly what it is it's the uh classical works of horace it's an edition in latin and it was
08:56published quite close to here in edinburgh in 1806. where did it come from so my grandmother i think bought
09:05it in the early 20th century she was a book binder and she was very interested in in old books and
09:12antiquarian books so i think that's where it came from so it's a nice book but on the face of it it's
09:18not a book which is going to set the world on fire in terms of commercial value it has a really niche
09:23interest um on the face of it but i think this is a book which has a slight twist to it isn't it yes
09:29so if we just twist the text block like this and push it open you can see a picture appear and this
09:36is called a fore-edge painting and it's something that book binders and artists have done for several
09:41hundred years and in fact they have done them since certainly since 1800 i think i'm coming
09:46round to thinking that perhaps this was added by an enthusiastic book binder or perhaps an enthusiastic
09:53bookseller perhaps in the early 20th century i don't think my grandmother made it but um
09:59she might have done she might have painted it herself i'm not sure possibly a chance she might
10:03have done or someone she knew did it as a project and this is the scene from trinity college in
10:08cambridge okay and i can see what the temptation might be to embellish a perfectly good but not
10:13terribly saleable book by adding a secret painting to it and people love these things it's very difficult
10:18to do now of course something like this does have a commercial value if this were an original 1806
10:24four-edge painting you'd be looking at a significant value i think you might be looking at two or three
10:28thousand pounds but i think i'm afraid i come down on the side that it's a later edition and i think
10:34you're looking at three or four hundred pounds okay oh well there's still quite a lot of money it's very
10:39nice to see it we don't see these things all the time and it's nice to get the opportunity to show one off
10:42our military experts occasionally see medals that document lifetimes of military service in this
10:54case encompassing world war one and the boa war that brutal conflict was fought out in present-day
11:01south africa pitting british forces against the boars the descendants of dutch and french settlers
11:08and a reminder of the siege of kimberley has caught the attention of mark smith what did you say to me
11:15when you walked up to me at my table today oh i told you in my little laundry box i had some medals but
11:23they were quite ordinary and not very interesting and i said to you lots of people say that to me now
11:29get them out onto the table and this is what you came up with correct it's a uncle and nephew that's
11:36correct okay so we'll start with these ones over here so this is uncle okay this is a queen south
11:42africa medal for the boar war and on it it says defense of kimberley he also has the kimberley star
11:49which was given by the mayor of kimberley to everyone who was in the defense then nephew we have a 1914-15
11:57star a british war medal and a victory medal the trio as they're known from the first world war but this
12:04man from the first world war didn't come home no because we can also see he has the memorial plaque
12:10made of bronze given to the family of every soldier sailor airman and nurse who was killed during the
12:16first world war and they produced one million three hundred and thirty three thousand of those things
12:21you also have the scroll everyone who was issued with the plaque was also issued with the memorial
12:27scroll but you also have the tube and the tube is usually thrown away because it turned up as a
12:33piece of post they took it out they threw it away why do you think this one lasted this was sent
12:39to this man's mother and from the postmark it says 1921 and she died in 1919 so she never got his
12:48medals so she never got them no now we did look up private robert smith he's of the canadian mounted
12:54rifles he was killed in action on the 2nd of june 1916 at a place called montsorrel yes and if you
13:02look in the war diary it says that nine tenths of the battalion were killed in the first 30 minutes
13:09into the german shell fire and he disappeared yeah there is no body for this man there is no grave
13:16he is one of those men remembered on the men in gate yes but he also receives this which was sent to
13:24his mum who again never received it which is probably why it's still in its little box and this thing is
13:29called the memorial cross and was given to all of the families of canadian soldiers sailors airmen and
13:35nurses who were killed during the first world war they're all individually named on the back with his
13:40name rank and number it is a very very poignant collection of a family at war uncle fights in a
13:52terrible battle in kimberley nephew goes on a great adventure and doesn't come home yes so the defense
13:58of kimberley and the kimberley starts on the wrong ribbon they were kept in a little metal box on a fire
14:05at the top of the fireplace and my mother as a child got to play with them so the ribbons and the
14:11medals weren't all together so these two here um that's a thousand pounds and these with the plaque
14:21as a canadian with his memorial cross he's probably 500. i know you said they were just nothing but
14:28actually do you know what they are really really special and important things thank you so much for
14:34bringing them in thank you from sunny fife to a slightly more autumnal stoke-on-trent which in
14:522025 is celebrating its centenary as a city and in honor of that milestone i'm delving into the city's
15:00rich history as a center of british ceramic production beginning in the 18th century
15:07it's almost impossible to overstate just how important ceramics was to this area the six
15:12pottery towns that made up stoke-on-trent employed 79 000 people now that is half the working age
15:19population at the time in the area names like spode moorcroft royal dalton ainslie burley they were all
15:28based here but the most famous of them all is wedgwood
15:35josiah wedgwood founded his pottery here in 1759
15:38the site houses the victoria and albert museum's vna wedgwood collection an archive of over 175 000
15:48artworks and ceramics which document the history of the company
15:53and i'm meeting archivist lucy led to find out more lucy tell me a bit about josiah woodward where did it
16:00all begin with him josiah wedgwood was born in burslem in 1730 to a family of potters he always had this
16:06interest in ceramics and pottery he became apprentice to his eldest brother at the age of 14. then how did
16:12he go from that to becoming so successful we don't quite know why he decided to leave the family business
16:19but i certainly think he had this sense even as a young boy of wanting to expand his horizons and he set
16:25up his business at the age of 29 on his own after being in partnership with other potters for a
16:30number of years and of course as we know now he became hugely successful what was it that set him
16:34apart i think it was his sort of constant desire to sort of innovate and experiment i think one thing
16:41we forget about desire wedgwood is what a talented scientist he was and he had a very curious mind
16:48wedgwood declared he wanted to become the vase maker general to the universe
16:52hugely ambitious he set about recording the thousands of experiments he undertook to perfect
16:58his pottery with scientific precision so here we have a selection of some of wedgwood's trial trays
17:06this is creamware so this is wedgwood trying to make a british alternative to the chinese porcelain
17:11all these just slightly different colors as he's trying to find the right one they're minute changes i
17:17mean he might just put a little bit more of a certain ingredient in and then he'd go away and
17:22test how that worked he'd even look at like the different firing locations in the kiln to see how
17:28that would impact the final product and all his hard work paid off when wedgwood presented a creamware set
17:35to queen charlotte she liked it so much she allowed him to rename it queenswear and the entrepreneurial
17:42wedgewood quickly marketed himself as potter to her majesty but despite its success in his day it's
17:50not what wedgwood is most famous for when most of us think about wedgwood it's it's jasperware it's
17:57the blue wedgwood that we think about isn't it of course and jasperware is actually marking it 250th
18:02anniversary this year and here we have one of wedgwood's trial trays where he's looking at playing
18:08around with color to get that perfect blue and i know wedgwood spent three or four years trying to
18:13perfect this it's just a small insight into quite how painstaking this whole process was why was it
18:20that jasperware capturing the imagination so much was so popular no one had ever seen anything like
18:26jasperware before the blue especially is sort of really tied into the sort of color schemes that were
18:32increasingly popular in the late 18th century so you have all these grand country houses everyone
18:37wanted their interiors decorated by adams and having vases as well sort of displayed in niches
18:42on the wall by wedgwood josiah wedgwood began his experiments from the age of 24 and continued to work
18:50on them for the rest of his life but his pride and joy was an eye-catching piece of black jasperware
18:59so this is the portland vase this is a copy of an ancient roman cameo glass vase made by ad 50 probably
19:07the most famous antiquity in england at the time and wedgwood spent around four years trying to perfect
19:14making it in his own jasper ceramic body four years it's a lot of work so not only he got to
19:22like develop the shape he had a team of modellers who were working sort of around the clock trying
19:27to sort of reproduce those figures on the glass vase and translate them into ceramics you've got the
19:33problems of like how do you fire a piece like this small teacups are easy but when you get to bigger
19:38pieces like this the chance of them warping or bubbling in the kiln become much higher and as far
19:44as wedgwood was concerned this was his magnum opus wasn't it oh absolutely we know that he refers to
19:50this as my great work is the portland vase and we know that he celebrated this he displayed his
19:55portland vase in his showrooms down in london it was admission by ticket only and there was queues
20:00down the street to come see it and we know that it was sent off on european tour to all the great
20:04courts around europe as well it was the rock star it was the potting world so interesting hearing
20:10britain thank you so much lucy
20:29in july we visited swansea and the national waterfront museum packed with a fascinating collection of
20:34artifacts it charts the industrial and maritime history of wales and out in the gardens ceramics
20:41expert stephen moore was touched to hear about a poignant family item what would you bring this
20:48little vase along to antiques roadshow today so um our mum passed away three years ago sadly and when
20:54she was unwell she told us that she had this pot that had been given to her as a gift and that she
20:59was always going to bring it to antiques roadshow one day so we thought we'd come along and and do it
21:04for her so today she's here with us in spirit she certainly is so beyond that do you know anything
21:09about where it's from no we found some photos so we can see it's in the background about 30 years ago
21:14so she certainly had it that long but aside from that we don't know anymore no nothing did she have
21:18any connections to the netherlands no okay this vase dates from 1932 it has a date code on the bottom
21:26and we also know who it's by because his monogram is on the bottom it's designed by somebody called
21:31jacobus wilhelmus giddings and he was a freelance designer who was brought in uh to design more
21:37modern pieces because of course we tend to think of dutch stealth pottery as very traditional very
21:41old-fashioned designs they've kept going for a long long time but in the 20s and 30s of course
21:46design changed and they wanted to bring in new life and new designs so these are these are very
21:52collectible this is something you like i think it's quite nice okay yeah i wouldn't have it on
21:56display because i'd be worried about knocking it off i suppose i'd tell you how much it's worth
22:01so i had a value in my mind and actually contacted one of my colleagues on the dutch version of antics
22:06roadshow and his valuation was a little bit better than mine so he said it would be worth between
22:11eight and twelve hundred pounds wow very good yeah that's good so two more questions is it going to go on
22:18display and who gets the money i don't think it's going on display do you no no possibly we'll do
22:26something as a family with the money if we decide to sell it well it's it's a lovely thing and it's
22:30very collectible thank you enjoy it and it's a mum's here in spirit absolutely she'll be really really
22:36proud of us to have done this yeah definitely oh look at this a piece of glass that's what i want to see
22:52it's a pop that my mum bought she bought it for her boots out probably about 25 years ago it is ah la leak
23:01and that's pretty good that instantly says you know desirable they used the letter r whilst he was
23:07alive and as soon as he died they dropped the r so ones are made after his death assigned la leak
23:14and the ones made while he was still alive assigned ah i love the way he's designed these chips into
23:20it so how much did mum pay for this in a boot fair 25 years ago okay wild woman
23:27so i think you know the turn of 50p into what 150 quid which is not bad for three chips is it
23:41what's it like having a husband who buys you jewelry like this well pretty special i think it is
23:57these are very rare species they're even rarer when they buy a brooch of this kind of distinction
24:03an emerald and diamond bow set in gold and mounted in platinum what do you feel like when you wear that
24:08well i must say i've had it about four years yes and i've only worn it maybe twice no but just
24:15looking at it in the boxes well it's pretty enough isn't it it is it's hugely pretty and um and a
24:21lovely sort of emblem what's useful to me is that we can tell its provenance its history a little bit
24:28from this fitted case okay and the calligraphy on the satin is telling me that this dates from around
24:35and about 1900 maybe 1920 and then of course the origin which rather conveniently says mess man
24:42and listing his various premises is in switzerland and the extraordinary thing is about jewelry of
24:48this period is that the craftsmanship is so meticulous these things are made by man at a bench
24:56and yet there doesn't seem to be any sign of human activity on the surface there's one tiny
25:00imperfection here which is a missing kite-shaped emerald close to the knot yes does it drive you
25:06mad i wouldn't say so because it's not really very noticeable is it no it isn't no it's wearable concise
25:15very beautiful so i think this thing is worth well easily two and a half to three thousand pounds
25:23really no but anyway what a joy lovely i must wear it more often i think i'm really pleased but it
25:31doesn't really matter too much the value you know i just because it's such a lovely piece you know that's
25:36what matters to me it's not often you see a victorian watercolor this one's about i don't know 1860
25:50um in such incredibly good condition and it makes me realize what they saw in them this really strong
25:56sky which is usually the first thing to go when the color fades and the construction of it it's just
26:01very satisfying where did you get it so actually i paid three pounds for it from a charity shop a
26:07couple of years back it was in like a bin full of paintings most of them were prints and this is the
26:12only one that appeared to be an actual watercolor painting i didn't realize it was by anyone in
26:17particular when i when i bought it but when i got home i noticed there was a signature john faulkner
26:22at the bottom so i understand he's an irish artist well he's not a big name but uh it's a very well
26:28constructed thing really one of the most difficult things to do technically speaking is to get that
26:33distance going back to be convincing and he's got the blue of the mountains and the hills in the back
26:38and then he's used the river as a device to wind through the landscape and you can completely read
26:42it going back aren't you and then your eye is pulled forward by the detail that he's put into
26:47the front and of course the sheet just animate the landscape it is generic yes but it is very good of
26:54its kind three pounds yes not bad because uh i think it's worth six to eight hundred pounds wow yeah
27:03really it's a really good watercolor we got a couple of porcelain figurines what can you tell me my
27:16grandfather bought them together he used to work in a china warehouse in neath so what year would that
27:23be it could have been the late 1940s early 1950s well they'd been around for um probably a good 20 years
27:31before then i think these probably date to around about 1930 35 and they were made
27:42in czechoslovakia they're opposites really aren't they have you noticed yes yes we've got one who's
27:49quite demure but it wouldn't melt and the cats around her feet just make it an interesting and a sort
27:57of an exciting composition and this lady is she's pure art deco isn't she yeah i think she's looking
28:04very spanish i think she's referred to as the spanish lady or the spanish girl do you like them i do
28:10i think what is special about them is that they've got little hints of gilding on them yes that in the
28:16detail shall we look at the base yes well there it is and we've got that little can you see that that
28:23salmon pink yes triangle for royal docks and i've got to say that's one of the first marks i ever
28:31learnt back in 1970 when i worked for an antique dealer this particular maker royal docks have been
28:40around for some time they did make some quite excellent figures during the art deco period you
28:46ever thought about value on these i've often wondered my grandmother used to tell me that my
28:50grandfather thought a lot of them but i never found out i think the deco one has may maybe it's got
28:56more appeal but the other figure has got cat appeal as well yes people love cats so i'm going to value
29:04them the same so i'm going to say 600 pounds each so we're talking 1200 pounds for the two of them
29:11they're a couple of starlets they really are aren't they
29:27our travels over the summer brought us in june to london and to stephen's house in finchley
29:33it's a 19th century mansion built by ink entrepreneur henry stephens who i discovered spent some of his
29:39his fortune on creating a garden that was both stunning and self-sufficient this is now a raised
29:45flower bed but in stephens's time it was a pond for fresh fish and in the beautiful grounds ronnie
29:53archer morgan discovered a fascinating item from the victorian era this is a very beautiful black silk
30:02satin and lace parasol a morning parasol and it's clearly 19th century in fact victorian
30:13and i believe it's actually victoria's yes i hope so i believe it's a parasol she owned and used
30:22prince albert her consort husband and soul mate died in 1861
30:30so this was made for her sometime after that the handle is like a mace with regal symbols on it
30:39and it's quite a beautiful thing and when we open it we know why it's victoria's because it's got
30:48her initials her monogram vr victoria regina all the way around it so you've got english rose
30:57scottish thistle irish shamrock and prince of wales feathers i mean where did you get it my father
31:04collected parasols in the 1960s he bought them in various markets in london it's actually been in a
31:10drawer for 60 years wow did your father know um that it might be queen victoria's well he always hoped that
31:18it might be but it didn't come with any provenance when he bought it it's perished a little bit in
31:23places you know you have to stretch the 150 year old material tight and and that just causes stress
31:33in in the weave of the satin but it's in remarkable condition and i love this which is a thong that
31:41keeps it closed it's a lovely little touch isn't it and it's still there i mean i've no doubt that this
31:47belonged to queen victoria there's no point in having this lace border if it isn't with her
31:52initials who would carry it and with the symbols of the of the united kingdom i would value this i'm
31:58going to stick my neck out a little bit three thousand pounds and rising good grief been a pleasure
32:05looking at it talking about it and thanks so much for bringing it in thank you
32:09well you've brought along this remarkable collection i heard someone when we're unpacking them saying
32:19are these chess pieces they obviously didn't know what they were they are of course judaica so they're
32:25jewish silver yes and they're spice towers they're used in the hebdala ceremony which literally means
32:32distinction between the holy sabbath and the working week and you put the spices inside and then you smell
32:38that as part of the hebdala ceremony which is performed both in the synagogue and at home
32:45what kind of spices would you be talking about just cloves we use so the cloves would go in the
32:49door in the door and then you shake it and you get the smell from it i was looking at the marks just as
32:56we were setting up there this is the earliest one this i think is from about 1820 it's dresden so
33:03this is eastern europe it's germany this we call filigree openwork so it's actually quite
33:08difficult to do that it's quite intricate these are all individual silver wires this one here is
33:14russian and these two maybe surprisingly are both london made one is 1892 i think i looked at the hallmark
33:22so we're looking at the very end of the 19th century which one did you get first this was the first
33:29one belonged to my late father-in-law when he left poland he brought it with him right and the
33:36collection started from that and so you were you were buying these to add to the collection as it
33:41were right yeah lovely yeah we have to come to the values of these and i do think that this is going to
33:47be the most desirable one it's the one that's caught my eye yes if this came on the market would be about
33:53two to two and a half thousand pounds right thereabouts the other ones probably in the region of a
34:01thousand pounds each some slightly less some slightly more yes so adding them all up there you've got a
34:08good six to eight thousand pounds worth right comfortably it's a thrill to see them today and
34:13thank you for enlightening us with the the whole ritual for which they're used
34:28will you brought me a copy of john steinbeck's grapes of wrath and it's not just any copy this is the first
34:34publication of john steinbeck's grapes of wrath in the usa in april 1939 i can see that it's in its
34:42original dust jacket in very good condition but not only that it's a signed copy which is rare you
34:48can see it's signed on the front end paper here with steinbeck's name john steinbeck neatly written
34:53how did this book come to you my late husband was very generous and he knew that it was my favorite
34:59book this is many years ago right and he bought it for me for my birthday right i mean it's a very hard
35:05read essentially tells the story of a displaced family from the dust bowl of oklahoma i think
35:11in the depression of the 1930s and they're displaced simply through economic need and they shift
35:17westward they travel west on highway 66 i remember when i read it i came out of it feeling really quite
35:23racked yes and i think i did as well and you know then i read a lot more of his right i didn't read them
35:29all but i read a lot more so of course it's got a value and if this came up for auction now i think
35:35you would have to put an estimate on it of eight to ten thousand pounds
35:41thank you very much it's a wonderful thing and a delightful gift and i'm so glad you brought it
35:47to me thank you very much indeed that's very nice of you thank you my pleasure
36:05i get asked quite often what type of jewelry do i like i tell you i love a brooch and when you showed
36:16me this my heart was pounding so i thought this is stunning can you tell me how you've acquired this
36:22well basically it was my grandmother's uh and when my mother married my stepfather my grandmother gave
36:31it to my mother as a wedding present when my mother passed it came into my possession
36:38and how often have you seen this brooch been worn worn twice my mother i believe wore it at one of my
36:45sons weddings and my wife's worn at once and other than that it doesn't see the light of day oh my
36:52goodness so what i love about it is the way that it moves i mean i'm always looking for movement in a
36:59jewel and if it doesn't actually move i want to see the suggestion of movement and this absolutely
37:05screams movement and this is sort of late 40s early 50s this this jewel right but the diamonds are cut
37:15earlier the diamonds are cushion shaped diamonds cut in about 1890 and then the center stone is on the
37:22cusp of about 1910 1915 so i think these the stones have been repurposed right which would be very
37:30typical of the 50s because after the war they didn't have that much material to play with and
37:37also they weren't allowed to use platinum because platinum was used for the war effort everything is
37:42in 18 carat yellow gold it's a to die for brooch please don't die no no no no but it's lovely it is
37:52absolutely gorgeous the quality is superb it's hallmarked i don't recognize the maker but it's hallmarked
37:58in london and with these beautiful rubies that it sort of just accentuates i like you like the rubies
38:06yes well i just think it's absolutely fabulous so at auction i would estimate it between five to seven
38:13thousand pounds wow very good yes but it's not going anywhere
38:28the thing that really fascinates me about something as as ancient as this is its provenance
38:37because it's lived a long life tell me how it's come to you i inherited this from my parents uh they
38:43bought it i think probably 50 or 60 years ago and i think they just liked it and and bought it probably
38:50in an antique shop somewhere in london it's saint paul the apostle generally portrayed with the sword in his
38:55right hand and the book in his left and it dates i should think to the mid 18th century and that
39:01judgment is based on the style of the drapery the treatment of the carving around the beard and the
39:06face the interesting thing for me is that it is of lindenwood which is typically middle european
39:13it's austro-german it would have been brightly painted or gilded or both when it was first made
39:19it's a lovely thing obviously we have to talk about its value there are pros and cons with it and
39:24clearly it is quite significantly wormed the left hand has broken off and been restored and the sword
39:30is a replacement its current auction value would be something like 400 to 600 pounds very good it's
39:36a lovely thing thank you yeah thank you undoubtedly this is a beautiful object i'm just going to ask
39:56simply what's your sort of connection with it well basically a friend gave it to me when she knew she
40:02was hadn't got long to live um and she was just trying to give people things that she thought
40:07they would really like and was she a collector or no not at all it was something that had been left
40:13to her by an old lady friend she gave it to me because i was interested in japan at that time
40:18so you know it's japanese i know it's that's a good start and do you know anything else about it
40:23my sister told me it was cloisonné and they thought it was made around the end of the 19th century
40:28yeah and that's all i know about it i think all of those things are absolutely correct so made yeah
40:35i mean the end of the 19th century are right into what they call the sort of magi period so 1868
40:40through to 1912 and you know they were producing incredible objects like this that were made for you
40:47know export made for the sort of western market you were absolutely right about it being cloisonné so each
40:54of these i mean incredibly ornate panels i mean i'm blown away by just how good the cloisonné is in
41:01these panels you've got these wonderful kind of confronting dragons fairly ferocious dragons on the
41:07top first time you see it you look down it you've got this dramatic top and you've gotten this lovely
41:12kind of floral chrysanthemum border on this really rich red ground i mean the whole thing works
41:19incredibly and then all framed really beautifully in this kind of sort of simulated bamboo silver or
41:27silvered metal case that's what these panels are sort of held together by in fact this is the door
41:33to what is called a kodansu so this kodansu is a little if one for a better word a small cabinet
41:39to hold your little trinkets in if you like i do know and you know that that the little hinges are a
41:45little bit kind of loose so in order to get the door off if i can just tip it forward one of the
41:51drawers is going to come out but what's really lovely about this are these lovely cast handles
41:56that you've got so we've got a little grasshopper on top as your handle i think that's a little bee
42:03and then down the bottom we've got the dragonfly let's pull out one of those drawers i mean that works
42:09as well today as it did you know when that was made back in the late 19th century i mean that is
42:14actually sort of silver plated you can see a bit of the base metal coming through there but that's
42:18sometimes common i mean they wouldn't necessarily have made those out of silver but some of these
42:22facings could well be silver so value-wise comfortably i could see that making eight to
42:30twelve thousand pounds wow that's a lot of money it's a lot of money wow it's a lot it is very
42:38beautiful it's so beautiful i know they're not going to get the opportunity but i think a lot of
42:42collectors would be lining up to buy that should that ever come onto the market amazing it's exquisite
42:59from leafy london we're returning now to the potteries and stoke-on-trent where asian art
43:05specialist alexandra aguilar has set up a ceramics-based game of spot the odd one out we have
43:12here three lovely balls all decorated with flowers uh in polychrome enamels and i thought i would test
43:17you uh two of these are actually chinese and one is english and was made about one hour south from here
43:24what should all of us be looking for so if i start with this one this is what is called family vet in
43:31french which means green family describe this kind of chinese decoration here with green enamels and
43:37this is really typical of what you would see on 18th century porcelain and if i pick it up the base
43:43underneath there is a mark here i'm not 100 sure what it is but maybe an incense burner so this may
43:49help you is it helping us so far so then if i move on to this one so it's the same as the first one
43:59it's decorated in family vet it has green enamels on it's really quite lovely it has at the front
44:05rock work it has this blue rock at the front which is something quite important in chinese art you see
44:11rock walk depicted in paintings and ceramics so it's a very chinese symbol and finally we have the third one
44:19this one is called familiar rose so pink family and that's because it has this bright pink enamels
44:26and um this is a technique that was imported into china by european jesuits that were in the chinese
44:32court so um what do you think i don't know is the honest answer i mean i know what i noticed about this
44:40one the family rose is that where the pink is a lot more smudgy is there anything we should read into that
44:49maybe right okay should i give you another clue yes you should look at the material because chinese
44:57porcelain is heart paste porcelain so it's made of kaolin which is a kind of white clay but um our english
45:05bowl here is actually made of um soapstone so the quality of the porcelain is very different yes okay
45:11okay you're looking very pensive very puzzled right that's not a good start no it isn't which you
45:19think is the english one i think possibly the one at the end just because of the design i think because
45:25of the design yeah rather than them it's a different design for the other two anyway yeah it's not ridged
45:30the same as the other two pieces all right obvious um probably the middle one oh you think the middle
45:35one why because of the ridges it looks a little bit different to the other one oh do you agree with
45:41that possibly the middle one only because the comments about the body type and that one looks
45:48just different maybe i don't know i'm not sure i'm i'm leaning towards the left hand one the larger
45:55one being english but then it looks like a noodle bowl or something right well i've got lots of different
46:02options all three options in fact i think on the basis purely of the quality of the porcelain alone
46:11when i hold this one up it feels gritty and it's got a little the outer lump in it which the others
46:17don't appear to have so that's my best shot and i'm going to go with this one being the english one
46:23oh i'm sorry to say you're wrong no but that was the clue it was a red herring
46:33you see you see what i have to deal with oh my um we have words afterwards so which is it so it's
46:40this one you were right you're good how come this one it's it was mass produced it is chinese porcelain
46:48but it's low quality whereas this one this is soft based porcelain it is english very nice quality
46:55so um it's it's it's an easy mistake this one then clearly is chinese i mean the thing that strikes me
47:00is the color of this porcelain is different to the color of that porcelain and i guess that's the most
47:05obvious pointer is this i think yes it is okay so let's talk about values then so this rather basic
47:12but nonetheless chinese porcelain what's this one worth it's probably about 200 pounds this chinese
47:18porcelain maybe about 800 pounds and the english porcelain 2000 right so the english one is the most
47:25valuable yes it is it's it's quite rare well she's full of surprises don't you think oh my goodness oh
47:32that's so interesting thank you so much thank you
47:41in early summer we took over the grounds of shuttleworth house in bedfordshire
47:46it was built in the 1870s by joseph shuttleworth whose successful engineering firm made what was then
47:53cutting-edge steam-powered farm machinery but when we visited clock and watch expert alastair chandler
48:00found a rare example of precision engineering of a different kind this is a fabulous amiga speedmaster
48:08made in switzerland it's a real classic watch however what really caught my attention was it's
48:16such an unusual dial configuration for an amiga speedmaster but you've been used to having it
48:22around and seeing yes you know whenever me dad would take it out for like special occasions
48:26i would say but i can remember him going to the shop saying that he wanted that one because it's
48:31classed as a moon watch back then do you remember how much he paid for it he paid about 59 pounds i
48:36think wow back in 1971 as soon as we mentioned the speedmaster we automatically think moon landing
48:42these watches were known as the moon watch because they were the first watch to go to the moon chosen
48:47by nasa but you'll notice on this watch there's nothing about the moon landing on it and that's because
48:53it was primary as a chronograph for racing the dial configuration is very different from the
49:02traditional speedmaster dial you've got these orange hands and these red markers and then the minute
49:10markers they're staggered inside and outside the bezel yeah if you're racing yeah and you're timing
49:17the idea behind that is you can see the time far more clearly if you're being shaken around in the car
49:23and it's far clearer design so this particular dial design is known as a racing dial oh right okay
49:31it's only fairly recently it's come to light that there are actually meant as a very very small run
49:36of watches to be released to the public all right the numbers are thought to be ranging from
49:45five to twenty watches known okay with this dial configuration and in this case style from the 1970s
49:55given the rarity of these watches they don't come up for sale very often so it's quite a difficult
50:00one to place okay however i can say in december 2024 a similar watch the same model sold for just over
50:0950 000 pounds at auction wow surprising very surprising yeah but i won't be selling it it's not
50:17an embedded investment on 50 pounds no no it's very very good actually very good dad chose wisely
50:26over the years we've seen memorabilia from much-loved television series not least that perennial
50:32favorite dad's army following the antics of world war ii's home guard in shuttleworth our experts mark
50:39smith and rupert mars were thrilled to discover a drawing of arthur lowe as captain mannering by
50:45fellow cast member clive dunn who played the hapless lance corporal jones it's one of those things that
50:53both of us were of similar age that this is what we watched in the 60s and the 70s with my mum and dad
50:58exactly captain mannering was just something you look forward to every week i can't get him out of
51:03my head he's one of those stock characters that you just never let go and this is such fun because
51:08it's by clive dunn portrait of captain mannering what makes him a comic hero for you well actually
51:15life was really quite like that in after the war because i remember in the 50s and 60s so it really
51:21was quite genuine and of course he did everything with a deadpan face people say he was arrogant i think
51:26he was just doing his best the thing that they did with that is that they turned that into one of
51:31the best comedies that we've ever seen but the people who actually were in the home guard would
51:37have died in the streets to defend this country there's no light without dark so uh what do you
51:43think it's worth i mean i'll start if you like i mean i think a thousand to fifteen hundred pounds but
51:48i think so but i think if there's a real dad's army fan out there it'll go for more
51:52you weren't expecting it cost me 20 quid really i'll give you 25. that's incredible there you go
52:10we see an awful lot of well cigarette boxes on the antiques roadshow and generally speaking
52:21the brutal truth is that they are not fashionable things to own any longer however
52:28this one doesn't fall into that category and part of the reason is the story that is attached to it now
52:36this gentleman here i gather is the original owner of this box exactly yes who is he to you he is my
52:44grandfather i never met him so he's my father's father um he died a long time ago um but he was one
52:51of the very early uh air chief marshals of the turkish air force and what was his name his name was muzafer
52:58gaksana it's a super box it's incredibly chic it's sharp and heavy and has a great reflective surface
53:05with this engine turned decoration over it it's marked in london by asprey and co in 1953 yes and
53:14how did he end up with this so he was the turkish ambassador to iraq based in baghdad he was only there
53:21for about three years and then he moved on but when he was leaving he was gifted this by the then
53:28king of iraq king uh faisal and the seal on the top is the royal seal of iraq wow generally speaking
53:38these boxes are a very thin skin of silver over a wooden carcass however this one being made by the
53:46prestigious firm of asprey is a substantial gauge of metal and would stand up and and work as a box
53:53without the wooden liner at all right so i might make as a suggestion that you remove all this wooden
54:00liner and replace it with velvet and that way it would be useful as a jewelry box i hadn't thought
54:07about it my dad initially gave it to me last time we were in new york he thought we could bring it to
54:13london take it to asprey have the leather bottom replaced yes uh in terms of valuation as it is
54:19it's worth about 300 pounds okay all right which is a fortune for a cigarette box oh wow really
54:28okay great thank you so much
54:36i love this thank you for bringing it in i don't think there's many people at home or in the audience
54:40who won't recognize what this is the phantom's mask from the phantom of the opera one of the most
54:45commercially successful and longest running stage shows of all time please tell us a little bit
54:50more about how you have this okay so my uh late husband was an original member of the cast in the
54:56west end in 1986 and this was michael crawford's phantom mask that he got after michael left the show
55:04and just kept it all these years yeah well when we look at something like this it's about the
55:09provenance and you brought in a few other artifacts with you today we've got the the crew jacket there
55:14also a lovely photo of your husband with michael and then also the scripts as well yeah so that all
55:20builds a bit of a picture about the provenance that comes with this piece what i love about this when
55:24we look at the inside of it is just the amount of wear that we have on here so we can see that this
55:30has been used lightly for many many shows there's sort of a build up of makeup perhaps makeup residue here
55:36so it looks like it's had great heavy use to go to the next level really what i want to do is
55:41research this in further depth and and see if we can find a photo behind the scenes photo or a stage
55:46show shot of michael wearing the mask because as we look at the mask there are a number of inherent
55:51details here and i'm just going to point to some of these there's some paint splashes the way that
55:55it's been painted just along under the eye here and then there's a little dent in the paint work just
55:59in here as well and so what's really important to establish here is if this was a mask worn by michael
56:06or by a stand-in and it really makes a difference in the value on one hand it's going to be an
56:11interesting thing it's iconic in its own right but if it's worn by michael crawford it really elevates
56:16the value but as it stands today i think it's a highly desirable and collectible artefact and i
56:22wouldn't hesitate to put an estimate of it of about five to ten thousand pounds so really really valuable
56:27if we can do that further research i think the likelihood is if we can match it up and that
56:31should be possible then you're going to double that i think ten to twenty thousand pounds wow
56:35truly beautiful thank you
56:40i recognize that it's obviously an amazing show and an iconic piece in its own right but it was
56:47real surprise knowing the value
57:02it's been a real treat to revisit our venues from the summer and before we go back in stoke-on-trent
57:08at the vna wedgewood collection there's just time to look at a high fashion piece of craftsmanship
57:14wedgwood shoe heels have you ever seen the like so these are jasper wear complete with cameos they
57:20were the height of fashion in the 50s these were first displayed at the national shoe fair in chicago
57:27in 1958 they were made by the british shoe firm rain who started out as theatrical costumiers but then
57:33diversified into shoes famous for making shoes for the late queen and the queen mother from the antiques
57:41roadshow here in stoke-on-trent bye-bye
57:48meet the dedicated forensic teams cracking the collision cases press red now for the crash
57:53detectives on bbc iplayer coming up nazanin finally sees the light but loose lips risk derailing her
57:59entire case prisoner 951 continues here next
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