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00:00we travel the country giving you the chance to show our experts your cherished items
00:05but our summer roadshares have proved so popular we haven't been able to pack in all the pieces
00:10you've brought along so tonight we're bringing you some of those unseen treasures from some of
00:15our most memorable venues coming up it's a to die for brooch please don't die no no no
00:23if it's worn by michael crawford it really elevates the value and i believe it's actually victoria's
00:31yes i hope so cost me 20 quid really i'll give you 25.
00:40i'll also be paying a visit to a place that's become synonymous with the craft of pottery
00:46stoke-on-trent in fact the industry was so important to the country that it was granted
00:51city status by king george v a century ago i'll get a private view of the archives of the famous
00:57firm of wedgwood and a glimpse of some of the rarest ceramic treasures welcome to special edition
01:04of the antics roadshow
01:21in 2025 we visited some stunning parts of the uk in july we traveled to fife on the east coast of scotland
01:33and to the hill of tarvit mansion and garden
01:39this family home of dundee businessman frederick sharp has changed little since it was built in the
01:44early 1900s and out in the landscape gardens we saw everything from rare gems to star-studded
01:52memorabilia i'm blinded by a name on here right ringo yes yeah ringo star of course of the beatles
02:00okay so what we've got is a telegram here from ringo star to rab noakes if we read it says message from
02:06monaco dear rab thank you for a fine album best wishes ringo rab noakes he was a singer songwriter
02:15he was born in st andrews but brought up in this area in cooper so he went to london to make his fame
02:21and he really did well and i think he worked with jerry rafferty he was instrumental at the start of
02:28steelers wheel but he left taylor's wheel before baker street what's rab noakes his connection to you
02:34rob was my brother-in-law he died two years past and we were clearing out the house and this was
02:41amongst his things if you like i think there was sort of a strong connection very clearly between
02:48ringo and your brother-in-law well i wasn't aware that there was any connection at all until i came
02:55across this your telegram that you discovered in your brother-in-law's belongings three to five hundred
03:00pounds that's quite good yeah yeah i quite like that yes when you brought this to the table and i
03:16opened the box i had a little road show gasp because emeralds are my favorite gemstone
03:23and this one is absolutely gorgeous i would love to know how you came about it and what made you
03:31decide to bring this here today my mother-in-law worked as a housekeeper for the owner of this for
03:3630 40 years and when she died the jewelry the house car all went to my mother-in-law so my mother-in-law
03:44had it and she wore it and then when she died my daughter-in-law's got the rings what struck me
03:50immediately was the color of the emerald it's a lovely bluish green emerald so emeralds as we know
03:57are green but they can have sort of a over dark tone to them they can be kind of a blackish green
04:03sometimes they can be a kind of yellowish grassy green and this is not this is a lovely deep blue
04:09green which is just what collectors want at the moment the other thing that struck me was it's quite
04:15elongated the cut of the emerald and here you can see that it's cut so long that i can only imagine
04:23that the crystal was not very wide which is perfect for the art deco period which is when this ring
04:31was made in addition to the emerald you have step cut diamonds on either side and then you've got
04:38old cut brilliant stones on each of the four corners and that just gives a lovely life to it
04:45because the brilliant cut diamonds are cut to reflect light whereas the step cut diamonds on either side
04:55make use of the high luster of diamonds so you've got both aspects of those being drawn out by the
05:02designer when you look at the ring you can see that the emerald and diamonds are set in a white metal
05:09which is likely to be platinum used to great effect by art deco jewelers but when you move the ring to
05:15the side you can see that the color of the metal changes and it becomes yellow gold and in fact it's
05:20stamped 18 karat inside so i think at some stage the band has been reformed okay probably because of
05:28resizing okay today if it was offered for auction i'd suggest an estimate of two and a half to three
05:33and a half thousand pounds oh thank you okay nice to go somewhere safe doesn't it
05:46i'm an ulster woman and this is a piece that was made in rural ulster so what's your connection to
05:51this piece the jug belongs to my mother who sadly couldn't be here today
05:57but she's always spoken about this jug for as long as i can remember and it's been on display in the
06:03house she seems to think it's unusual i know nothing about it and that's the reason i brought it along
06:09today so this is a piece of porcelain that was made in balik balik is very well known for um this
06:16unglazed parian porcelain that it made but it made many different types of wares the balik factory was in
06:23rural ulster in county fermanagh and many miles from anywhere it was a bit of a backwater and a
06:30man called john caldwell bloomfield founded the factory the foundation stone was laid in 1858
06:37and what he wanted to do was give local workers and tenant farmers a source of employment after the
06:44great famine and what they discovered was that the area was very rich in minerals such as kaolin and
06:50feldspar that were used in the production of this porcelain this is quite an unusual piece that not
06:56everyone would necessarily recognize as balik porcelain and you can see clearly here that the design
07:03influence is very much from the east and from japan it's decorated throughout with these curved panels
07:10in this sort of tapering form and there is molded decoration all around the picture
07:16with this beautiful prunus blossom and the thorns and the branches all picked out in this lovely
07:22out vivid turquoise glaze is this a piece that your mom's very fond of it is i actually telephoned
07:29her a short time ago to try and find out a little more it turns out when she was born in the late 30s
07:36her mother took unwell and she was looked after by an individual unknown to myself and when that
07:42individual subsequently passed away they left this jug to my mother so it's something that's really
07:50quite precious to her well it's a super piece it's a lovely example of early balik and it's clearly
07:56marked with this first period mark stamped in black and the mark depicts the irish will found and the
08:03round tower the irish harp and the shamrock with a banner inscribed balik later balik marks also include
08:11for mana below the banner in terms of evaluation i think that this piece should be worth in the
08:16region of 300 pounds it's been a real pleasure to see a piece of porcelain from ulster here today
08:22well thank you very much
08:30willie brought me a very handsome book it's certainly a book that has been very handsome it's seen a little
08:33bit of life yes it's bound in lovely dark blue morocco goat skin with lots of nice gilt tooling nice gilt
08:40edges it dates i think from the beginning of the 19th century and if we open it up we can see exactly
08:46what it is it's the uh classical works of horace it's an edition in latin and it was published
08:52quite close to here in edinburgh in 1806 where did it come from so my grandmother i think bought it in
09:00the early 20th century she was a book binder and she was very interested in in old books and antiquarian books
09:08so i think that's where it came from so it's a nice book but on the face of it it's not a book
09:14which is going to set the world on fire in terms of commercial value it has a really niche interest
09:19on the face of it but i think this is a book which has a slight twist to it isn't it yes so if we just
09:25twist the text block like this and push it open you can see a picture appear and this is called a
09:31four-edge painting and it's something that book binders and artists have done for several hundred years and in
09:37fact they have done them since certainly since 1800 i think i'm coming around to thinking that
09:43perhaps this was added by an enthusiastic book binder or perhaps an enthusiastic bookseller perhaps
09:49in the early 20th century i don't think my grandmother made it but um she might have done she
09:55might have painted it herself i'm not sure possibly a chance she might have or someone she knew did it as
10:00a project and this is the scene from trinity college in cambridge okay and i can see what the
10:04temptation might be to embellish a perfectly good but not terribly saleable book by adding a secret
10:10painting to it and people love these things it's very difficult to do now of course something like
10:15this does have a commercial value if this were an original 1806 four-edge painting you'd be looking
10:21at a significant value i think you might be looking at two or three thousand pounds but i think i'm
10:26afraid i come down on the side that it's a later edition and i think you're looking at three or four
10:30hundred pounds okay oh well you're still quite a lot of money it's very nice to see it we don't see
10:35these things all the time and it's nice to get the opportunity to show one off
10:43our military experts occasionally see medals that document lifetimes of military service in this case
10:49encompassing world war one and the boa war that brutal conflict was fought out in present-day south
10:56africa hitting british forces against the boers the descendants of dutch and french settlers
11:04and a reminder of the siege of kimberley has caught the attention of mark smith
11:09what did you say to me when you walked up to me at my table today oh i told you in my little laundry
11:16box i had some medals but they were quite ordinary and not very interesting and i said to you lots of
11:22people say that to me now get them out onto the table and this is what you came up with correct
11:28it's a uncle and nephew that's correct okay so we'll start with these ones over here so this is uncle
11:35okay this is a queen south africa medal for the boer war and on it it says defense of kimberley
11:42it also has the kimberley star which was given by the mayor of kimberley to everyone who was in the
11:48defense then nephew we have a 1914 15 star a british war medal and a victory medal the trio as they're
11:57known from the first world war but this man from the first world war didn't come home no because we
12:03can also see he has the memorial plaque made of bronze given to the family of every soldier sailor
12:09airman and nurse who was killed during the first world war and they produced one million three hundred and
12:14thirty three thousand of those things you also have the scroll everyone who was issued with the
12:19plaque was also issued with the memorial scroll but you also have the tube and the tube is usually
12:26thrown away because it turned up as a piece of post they took it out they threw it away why do you
12:31think this one lasted this was sent to this man's mother and from the postmark it says 1921
12:40and she died in 1919 so she never got his medals so she never got them no now we did look up private
12:47robert smith he's of the canadian mounted rifles he was killed in action on the 2nd of june 1916 at a
12:55place called mont sorrel yes and if you look in the war diary it says that nine tenths of the battalion
13:01were killed in the first 30 minutes in the german shell fire and he disappeared yeah there is no
13:09body for this man there is no grave he is one of those men remembered on the menning gate yes but
13:17he also receives this which was sent to his mum who again never received it which is probably why it's
13:22still in its little box and this thing is called the memorial cross and was given to all of the families
13:28of canadian soldiers sailors airmen and nurses who were killed during the first world war they're
13:33all individually named on the back with his name rank and number it is a very very poignant collection
13:42of a family at war uncle fights in a terrible battle in kimberley nephew goes on a great adventure and
13:51doesn't come home yes so the defense of kimberley and the kimberley star it's on the wrong ribbon
13:57they were kept in a little metal box on a fire on top of the fireplace and my mother as a child
14:04got to play with them so the ribbons and the medals weren't all together so these two here um that's a
14:11thousand pounds and these with the plaque as a canadian with his memorial cross is probably 500. i know you
14:21said they were just nothing but actually do you know what they are really really special and important
14:27things thank you so much for bringing them in thank you
14:43from sunny fife to a slightly more autumnal stoke-on-trent which in 2025 is celebrating its
14:49centenary as a city and in honor of that milestone i'm delving into the city's rich history as a center
14:56of british ceramic production beginning in the 18th century it's almost impossible to overstate just
15:04how important ceramics was this area the six pottery towns that made up stoke-on-trent employed 79 000
15:12people now that is half the working age population at the time in the area names like spode moorcroft royal
15:21dalton ainslie burley they were all based here but the most famous of them all is wedgwood
15:30josiah wedgwood founded his pottery here in 1759
15:35the site houses the victorian albert museum's vna wedgwood collection an archive of over 175 000
15:43artworks and ceramics which document the history of the company
15:46and i'm meeting archivist lucy led to find out more lucy tell me a bit about josiah wedgwood where
15:54did it all begin with him josiah wedgwood was born in burslem in 1730 to a family of potters
16:01he always had this interest in ceramics and pottery he became apprentice to his eldest brother at the age
16:05of 14. then how did he go from that to becoming so successful we don't quite know why he decided to
16:12leave the family business but i certainly think he had this sense even as a young boy of wanting to
16:17expand his horizons and he set up his business at the age of 29 on his own after being in partnership
16:24with other potters for a number of years and of course as we know now he became hugely successful
16:28what was it that set him apart i think it was his sort of constant desire to sort of innovate and
16:34experiment i think one thing we forget about josiah wedgwood is what a talented scientist he was and
16:40he had a very curious mind wedgwood declared he wanted to become the vase maker general to the
16:46universe hugely ambitious he set about recording the thousands of experiments he undertook to perfect
16:53his pottery with scientific precision so here we have a selection of some of wedgwood's trial trays
17:01this is creamware so this is wedgwood trying to make a british alternative to the chinese porcelain
17:06all these just slightly different colors as he's trying to find the right one they're minute changes
17:12i mean he might just put a little bit more of a certain ingredient in and then he'd go away and
17:17test how that worked he'd even look at like the different firing locations in the kiln
17:22to see how that would impact the final product and all his hard work paid off when wedgwood presented
17:29a creamware set to queen charlotte she liked it so much she allowed him to rename it queensware
17:36and the entrepreneurial wedgwood quickly marketed himself as potter to her majesty
17:43but despite its success in his day it's not what wedgwood is most famous for
17:49when most of us think about wedgwood it's it's jasper where it's the blue wedgwood that we think about
17:54isn't it of course and jasperware is actually marking its 250th anniversary this year and here
17:59we have one of wedgwood's trial trays where he's looking at playing around with color to get that
18:04perfect blue and i know wedgwood spent three or four years trying to perfect this it's just a small
18:10insight into quite how painstaking this whole process was why was it that jasperware captured the
18:17imagination so much was so popular no one had ever seen anything like jasperware before the blue
18:23especially as sort of really tied into the sort of color schemes that were increasingly popular in
18:28the late 18th century so you have all these grand country houses everyone wanted their interiors
18:33decorated by adams and having vases as well sort of displayed in niches on the wall by wedgwood
18:41jesire wedgwood began his experiments from the age of 24 and continued to work on them for the rest of
18:46his life but his pride and joy was an eye-catching piece of black jasperware
18:54so this is the portland vase this is a copy of an ancient roman cameo glass vase made by ad 50 probably
19:02the most famous antiquity in england at the time and wedgwood spent around four years trying to perfect
19:09making it in his own jasper ceramic body four years it's a lot of work so not only he got to
19:17sort of like develop the shape he had a team of modelers who were working sort of around the clock
19:22trying to sort of reproduce those figures on the glass vase and translate them into ceramics you've
19:28got the problems of like how do you fire a piece like this small teacups are easy but when you get
19:33to bigger pieces like this the chance of them warping or bubbling in the kiln become much higher
19:38and as far as wedgwood was concerned this was his magnum opus wasn't it oh absolutely we know that
19:44he refers to this as my great work is the portland vase and we know that he celebrated this he displayed
19:50his portland vase in his showrooms down in london it was admission by ticket only and there was queues
19:55down the street to come see it and we know that it was sent off on european tour to all the great
19:59courts around europe as well it was the rock star it was the potting world so interesting hearing
20:05burton thank you so much lucy
20:24in july we visited swansea and the national waterfront museum packed with a fascinating
20:29collection of artifacts it charts the industrial and maritime history of wales
20:35and out in the gardens ceramics expert stephen moore was touched to hear about a poignant family item
20:42what made you bring this little vase along to antiques roadshow today so um our mum passed away
20:47three years ago sadly and when she was unwell she told us that she had this pot that had been given
20:53to her as a gift and that she was always going to bring it to antiques roadshow one day so we thought
20:57we'd come along and and do it for her so today she's here with us in spirit she certainly is so beyond that
21:03do you know anything about where it's from or no we found some photos so we can see it's in the
21:07background about 30 years ago so she certainly had it that long but aside from that we don't know
21:12anymore no nothing did you have any connections to the netherlands no okay this vase dates from 1932
21:19it has a date code on the bottom and we also know who would spy because his monograms on the bottom
21:24it's designed by somebody called jacobus wilhelmus giddings and he was a freelance designer who was
21:30brought in uh to design more modern pieces because of course we tend to think of dutch stealth potry as
21:35very traditional very old-fashioned designs that've kept going for a long long time but in the 20s and
21:4030s of course design changed and they wanted to bring in new life and new designs so these are these
21:46are very collectible this is something you like i think it's quite nice okay yeah i wouldn't have it on
21:51display because i'd be worried about knocking it off i suppose i'd tell you how much it's worth
21:56so i had a value in my mind and actually contacted one of my colleagues on the dutch version of antics
22:01roadshow and his valuation was a little bit better than mine so he said it would be worth between eight
22:07and twelve hundred pounds wow very good yeah that's good so two more questions is it going to go on
22:13display and who gets the money i don't think it's going on display do you no no possibly we'll do
22:21something as a family with the money if we decide to sell it well it's it's a lovely thing and it's
22:25very collective thank you enjoy it and it's a mum's here in spirit absolutely she'll be really really
22:31proud us to have done this yeah definitely oh look at this a piece of glass that's what i want to see
22:47it's a pot that my mum bought she bought it for her boots out probably about 25 years ago it is
22:54ah la leak and that's pretty good that instantly says you know desirable they used the letter r
23:02whilst he was alive and as soon as he died they dropped the r so ones aren't made after his death
23:08assigned la leak and the ones made while he was still alive assigned r i love the way he's designed these
23:14chips into it so how much did mum pay for this in a boot fair 25 years ago 50p wild woman so i think you
23:24know the turn of 50p into what 150 quid which is not bad for three chips is it
23:45what's it like having a husband who buys you jewelry like this well pretty special i think it is
23:52these are very rare species they're even rarer when they buy a brooch of this kind of distinction
23:58an emerald and diamond bow set in gold and mounted in platinum what do you feel like when you wear that
24:03well i must say i've had it about four years yes and i've only worn it maybe twice no but just looking
24:10at it in the boxes well it's pretty enough isn't it it is it's hugely pretty and um and a lovely sort
24:16of emblem what's useful to me is that we can tell its provenance its history a little bit from this
24:23fitted case okay and the calligraphy on the satin is telling me that this dates from around and about
24:301900 maybe 1920 and then of course the origin which rather conveniently says mess man and listing
24:38his various premises is in switzerland and the extraordinary thing is about jewelry of this period is
24:44that the craftsmanship is so meticulous these things are made by man at a bench and yet there
24:52seem to be any sign of human activity on the surface there's one tiny imperfection here which
24:57is a missing kite shaped emerald close to the knot yes does it drive you mad i wouldn't say so
25:05it's not really very noticeable is it no it isn't no it's wearable concise very beautiful
25:12so i think this thing is worth well easily two and a half to three thousand pounds really
25:19no but anyway what a joy lovely i must wear it more often i think
25:24i'm really pleased but it doesn't really matter too much the value you know i just
25:29because it's such a lovely piece you know that's what matters to me
25:32it's not often you see a victorian watercolor this one's about i don't know 1860 um in such
25:46incredibly good condition and it makes me realize what they saw in them this really strong sky which
25:52is usually the first thing to go when the color fades and the construction of it's just very satisfying
25:57where did you get it so actually i paid three pounds for it from a charity shop a couple of years
26:03back it was in like a bin full of paintings most of them were prints and this is the only one that
26:08appeared to be an actual watercolor painting i didn't realize it was by anyone in particular when i
26:13when i bought it but when i got home i noticed there was with a signature john faulkner at the bottom
26:18i'm starting to understand he's an irish artist well he's not a big name but uh it's a very well
26:23constructed thing really one of the most difficult things to do technically speaking is to get that
26:28distance going back to be convincing and he's got the blue of the mountains and the hills in the back
26:33and then he's used the river as a device to wind through the landscape and you can completely read
26:37it going back can't you and then your eye is pulled forward by the detail that he's put into the
26:43front and of course the sheet just animate the landscape it is generic yes but it is very good
26:49of its kind three pounds yes not bad because uh i think it's worth six to eight hundred pounds wow
26:58yeah really it's a really good watercolor
27:07we got a couple of porcelain figurines what can you tell me my grandfather bought them together
27:13he used to work in a china warehouse in neith so what year would that be it could have been the late
27:201940s early 1950s well they'd been around for um probably a good 20 years before then i think these
27:30probably date to around about 1930 35 and they were made in czechoslovakia they're opposites really
27:40aren't they have you noticed yes yes we've got one who's quite demure but it wouldn't melt and the
27:47cats around her feet just make it an interesting and a sort of an exciting composition and this lady
27:56is is she's pure art deco isn't she yeah i think she's looking very spanish i think she's referred to
28:01as the spanish lady or the spanish girl do you like them i do i think what is special about them
28:06is that they've got little hints of gilding on them yes that in the detail shall we look at the
28:13base yes well there it is and we've got that little can you see that that salmon pink yes triangle for
28:21royal ducks and i've got to say that's one of the first marks i ever learned back in 1970 when i worked
28:30for an antique dealer this particular maker royal ducks had been around for some time they did make
28:37some quite excellent figures during the art deco period you ever thought about value on these i've
28:43often wondered my grandmother used to tell me that my grandfather thought a lot of them
28:47but i never found out i think the deco one has maybe it's got more appeal but the other figure has
28:54got cat appeal as well hasn't it yes people love cats so i'm going to value them the same so i'm going
29:00to say 600 pounds each so we're talking 1200 pounds for the two of them they're a couple of starlets they
29:08really are aren't they
29:22our travels over the summer brought us in june to london and to stephen's house in finchley
29:28it's a 19th century mansion built by ink entrepreneur henry stephens who i discovered spent some of his
29:34fortune on creating a garden that was both stunning and self-sufficient this is now a raised flower
29:41bed but in stephens's time it was a pond for fresh fish and in the beautiful grounds ronnie archer
29:48morgan discovered a fascinating item from the victorian era this is a very beautiful black silk satin
29:58and lace parasol a morning parasol and it's clearly 19th century in fact victorian and i believe
30:10it's actually victoria's yes i hope so i believe it's a parasol she owned and used
30:17prince albert her consort husband and soul mate died in 1861
30:25so this was made for her sometime after that the handle is like a mace with regal symbols on it
30:34and it's quite a beautiful thing and when we open it we know why it's victoria's because it's got
30:43her initials her monogram vr victoria regina all the way around it so you've got english rose
30:52scottish thistle irish shamrock and prince of wales feathers i mean where did you get it my father
30:59collected parasols in the 1960s he bought them in various markets in london it's actually been in a
31:05drawer for 60 years wow did your father know um that it might be queen victoria's well he always hoped that
31:13it might be but it didn't come with any provenance when he bought it it's perished a little bit in
31:18places you know you have to stretch the 150 year old material tight and and that just causes stress
31:28in in the weave of the satin but it's in remarkable condition and i love this which is a thong that
31:36keeps it closed it's a lovely little touch isn't it and it's still there i mean i've no doubt that
31:42this belonged to queen victoria there's no point in having this lace border if it isn't with her
31:47initials who would carry it and with the symbols of the of the united kingdom i would value this i'm
31:54going to stick my neck out a little bit three thousand pounds and rising good grief been a pleasure
32:01looking at it talking about it and thanks so much for bringing it in thank you
32:04well you've brought along this remarkable collection i heard someone when we're unpacking
32:14them saying are these chess pieces they obviously don't know what they were they are of course judaica
32:20so they're jewish silver yes and they're spice towers they're used in the hodala ceremony which
32:26literally means distinction between the holy sabbath and the working week and you put the spices inside
32:32and then you smell that as part of the half dollar ceremony which is performed both in the synagogue
32:38and at home what kind of spices would you be talking about just cloves we use so the cloves would go in
32:44the door in the door and you shake it and you get the smell from it i was looking at the marks just as
32:51we were setting up there this is the earliest one this i think is from about 1820 it's dresden so this is
32:58eastern europe it's germany this we call filigree openwork so it's actually quite difficult to do
33:04that it's quite intricate these are all individual silver wires this one here is russian and these
33:11two maybe surprisingly are both london made one is 1892 i think i looked at the hallmarks so we're
33:18looking at the very end of the 19th century which one did you get first this was the first one
33:24um belonged to my late father-in-law when he left poland he brought it with him right and the
33:31collection started from mad and so you were you were buying these to add to the collection as it
33:36were right yeah lovely yeah we have to come to the values of these and i i do think that this is going
33:42to be the most desirable one it's the one that's caught my eye yes if this came on the market would be
33:47about two to two and a half thousand pounds right thereabouts the other ones probably in the region
33:55of a thousand pounds each some slightly less some slightly more yes so adding them all up there you've
34:03got a good six to eight thousand pounds worth right comfortably it's a thrill to see them today
34:08and thank you for thank you enlightening us with the whole ritual for which they're used
34:24will you brought me a copy of john steinbeck's grapes of wrath and it's not just any copy this is the first
34:29publication of john steinbeck's grapes of wrath in the usa in april 1939 i can see that it's in its
34:37original dust jacket in very good condition but not only that it's a signed copy which is rare you
34:43can see it's signed on the front end paper here with steinbeck's name john steinbeck neatly written
34:49how did this book come to you my late husband was very generous and he knew that it was my favorite
34:54book this is many years ago right and he bought it for me for my birthday right i mean it's a very hard
35:00read essentially tells the story of a displaced family from the dust bowl of oklahoma i think
35:06in the depression of the 1930s and they're displaced simply through economic need and they shift
35:12westward they travel west on highway 66 i remember when i read it i came out of it feeling really quite
35:18racked 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
35:24all but i read a lot more so of course it's got a value and if this came up for auction now i think
35:30you would have to put an estimate on it of eight to ten thousand pounds thank you very much
35:39it's a wonderful thing and a delightful gift i'm so glad you brought it to me thank you very much
35:43indeed that's very nice of you thank you my pleasure
35:57i get asked quite often what type of jewelry do i like i tell you i love a brooch and when you showed
36:11me this my heart was pounding because i thought this is stunning can you tell me how you've acquired
36:17this well basically it was my grandmother's uh and when my mother married my stepfather
36:25my grandmother gave it to my mother as a wedding present when my mother passed it came into my
36:32possession and how often have you seen this brooch been worn worn twice my mother i believe
36:39wore it at one of my son's weddings and my wife's worn at once and other than that it doesn't see the
36:46light of day oh my goodness so what i love about it is the way that it moves i mean i'm always looking
36:53for movement in a jewel and if it doesn't actually move i want to see the suggestion of movement and
36:58this absolutely screams movement and this is sort of late 40s early 50s this this jewel right but the
37:08diamonds are cut earlier the diamonds are cushion shaped diamonds cut in about 1890 and then the center
37:16stone is on the cusp of about 1910 1915 so i think these the stones have been repurposed right which
37:25would be very typical of the 50s because after the war they didn't have that much material to play with
37:32and also they weren't allowed to use platinum because platinum was used for the war effort everything
37:37is in 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
37:47absolutely gorgeous the quality is superb it's hallmarked i don't recognize the maker but it's
37:53hallmarked in london and with these beautiful rubies that it sort of just accentuates i like you like the
38:00rubies yes well i just think it's absolutely fabulous so at auction i would estimate it between
38:07five to seven thousand pounds wow very good yes but it's not going anywhere
38:27the thing that really fascinates me about something as as ancient as this is its provenance because it's
38:33lived a long life tell me how it's come to you i inherited this from my parents uh they bought it
38:39i think probably 50 or 60 years ago and i think they just liked it and and bought it probably in
38:45an antique shop somewhere in london it's saint paul the apostle generally portrayed with the sword in
38:50his right hand and the book in his left and it dates i should think to the mid 18th century and that
38:56judgment is based on the style of the drapery the treatment of the carving around the beard and the face
39:02the interesting thing for me is that it is of lindenwood which is typically middle european
39:09it's austro-german it would have been brightly painted or gilded or both when it was first made
39:14it's a lovely thing obviously we have to talk about its value there are pros and cons with it and
39:19clearly it is quite significantly wormed the left hand has broken off and been restored and the sword is
39:25a replacement its current auction value would be something like 400 to 600 pounds very good it's
39:31a lovely thing thank you thank you
39:47undoubtedly this is a beautiful object i'm just going to ask simply what's your sort of connection
39:53with it well basically a friend gave it to me when she knew she was hadn't got long to live
39:59um and she was just trying to give people things that she thought they would really like
40:04and was she a collector or no not at all it was something that had been left to her by an old lady
40:09friend she gave it to me because i was interested in japan at that time okay so you know it's japanese
40:14i know it's that's a good start and do you know anything else about it my sister told me it was
40:19cloisonné and they thought it was made around the end of the 19th century yeah and that's all i know
40:25about it i think all of those things are absolutely correct so made yeah i mean the end of the 19th
40:32century are right into what they call the sort of magi period so 1868 through to 1912 and you know they
40:37were producing incredible objects like this that were made for you know export made for the sort of
40:44western market you were absolutely right about it being cloisonné so each of these i mean incredibly
40:51ornate panels i mean i'm blown away by just how good the cloisonné is in these panels you've got these
40:58wonderful kind of confronting dragons fairly ferocious dragons on the top first time you see it you look
41:04down at you've got this dramatic top and you've gotten this lovely kind of floral chrysanthemum
41:09border on this really rich red ground i mean the whole thing works incredibly and then all framed
41:16really beautifully in this kind of sort of simulated bamboo silver or silvered metal case that's what
41:24these panels are sort of held together by in fact this is the door to what is called a kodansu so
41:30this kodansu is a little if one for a better word a small cabinet to hold your little trinkets in if
41:36you like i do know and you know that that the little hinges are a little bit kind of loose so in
41:43order to get the door off if i can just tip it forward one of the drawers is going to come out but
41:48what's really lovely about this are these lovely cast handles that you've got so we've got a little
41:53grasshopper on top as your handle i think that's a little b and then down the bottom we've got the
42:00dragonfly let's pull out one of those drawers i mean that works as well today as it did you know
42:05when that was made back in the late 19th century i mean that is actually sort of silver plated you can
42:10see a bit of the base metal coming through there but that's sometimes common i mean they wouldn't
42:14necessarily have made those out of silver but some of these facings could well be silver so value-wise
42:21comfortably i could see that making eight to twelve thousand pounds wow that's a lot of money
42:30that's a lot of money wow it's a lot it is very beautiful it's so beautiful i know they're not
42:36going to get the opportunity but i think a lot of collectors would be lining up to buy that should
42:39that ever come onto the market amazing it's exquisite
42:51from leafy london we're returning now to the potteries and stoke-on-trent where asian art
43:00specialist alexandra aguilar has set up a ceramics based game of spot the odd one out
43:06we have here three lovely balls all decorated with flowers in polychrome enamels and i thought i would
43:12test you two of these are actually chinese and one is english and was made about one hour south from
43:18here what should all of us be looking for so if i start with this one this is what is called family
43:25vet in french which means green family describe this kind of chinese decoration here with green
43:31enamels and this is really typical of what you would see on 18th century porcelain and if i pick it up the
43:38base underneath there is a mark here i'm not 100 sure what it is but maybe an incense burner so this
43:44may help you is it helping us so far so then if i move on to this one so it's the same as the first
43:53one it's decorated in family vet it has green enamels on it's really quite lovely it has at the front
44:00rock work it has this blue rock at the front which is something quite important in chinese art you see
44:06rock work depicted in paintings and ceramics so it's a very chinese symbol and finally we have the
44:13third one this one is called famil rose so pink family and that's because it has these bright pink
44:20enamels and um this is a technique that was imported into china by a european jesuits that were in the
44:27chinese court so um what do you think i don't know is the honest answer i mean i know what i noted about
44:35this one the family rose is that where the pink is is a lot more smudgy is there anything we should
44:42read into that maybe right okay should i give you another clue yes you should look at the material
44:52because chinese porcelain is hard paste porcelain so it's made of kaolin which is a kind of white clay
44:59but um our english bowl here is actually made of um soapstone so the quality of the porcelain is very
45:05different yes okay you're looking very pensive i'm very puzzled right that's not a good start
45:13which do you think is the english one i think possibly the one at the end just because of the
45:19design i think because of the design yeah rather than them it's a different design for the other two
45:23anyway yeah it's not ridged the same as the other two pieces all right obvious um probably the middle
45:29one oh you think the middle one yeah why because of the ridges and it looks a little bit different
45:34to the other one oh do you agree with that possibly the middle one only because the comments about the
45:41body type and that one looks just different maybe well done i'm not sure i'm i'm leaning towards the
45:49left hand one the larger one being english but then it looks like a noodle bowl or something
45:56right well i've got lots of different options all three options in fact i think on the basis purely
46:03of the quality of the porcelain alone when i hold this one up it feels gritty and it's got a little
46:10the odd lump in it which the others don't appear to have so that's my best shot and i'm going to go
46:16with this one being the english one i'm sorry to say you're wrong no but that was the clue it was a
46:26red herring you see you see what i have to deal with oh my um we can have words afterwards so which
46:34is it so it's this one you were right you're good how come this one it's it was mass produced it is
46:42chinese porcelain but it's low quality whereas this one this is soft based porcelain it is english
46:49very nice quality so um it's it's an easy mistake this one then clearly is chinese i mean the thing
46:55that strikes is the color of this porcelain is different to the color of that porcelain and i
46:59guess that's the most obvious pointer is this i think yes it is okay so let's talk about values then
47:05so this rather basic but nonetheless chinese porcelain what's this one worth it's probably
47:11about 200 pounds this chinese porcelain maybe about 800 pounds and the english porcelain 2000
47:18right so the english one is the most valuable yes it is it's it's quite rare
47:23well she's full of surprises don't you think oh my goodness oh that's so interesting thank you so much
47:29thank you in early summer we took over the grounds of shuttleworth house in bedfordshire
47:41it was built in the 1870s by joseph shuttleworth whose successful engineering firm made what was then
47:48cutting-edge steam-powered farm machinery but when we visited clock and watch expert alastair chandler
47:55found a rare example of precision engineering of a different kind this is a fabulous amiga speedmaster
48:03made in switzerland it's a real classic watch however what really caught my attention was it's
48:11such an unusual dial configuration for an amiga speedmaster but you've been used to having it
48:17around and seeing yes you know whenever me dad would take it out for like special occasions
48:21i would say but i can remember him going to the shop saying that he wanted that one because it's
48:26classed as a moon watch back then do you remember how much he paid for it uh he paid about 59 pounds
48:30i think wow back in 1971 as soon as we mentioned the speedmaster we automatically think moon landing
48:37these watches were known as the moon watch because they were the first watch to go to the moon chosen by
48:43nasa but you'll notice on this watch there's nothing about the moon landing on it and that's because it
48:49was primary as a chronograph for racing yeah the dial configuration is very different from the
48:57traditional speedmaster dial yeah you've got these orange hands and these red markers and then the
49:05minute markers they're staggered inside and outside the bezel yeah if you're racing yeah and your timing
49:12the idea behind that is you can see the time far more clearly if you're being shaken around in the
49:17car and it's far clearer design so this particular dial design is known as a racing dial oh right okay
49:26it's only fairly recently it's come to light that there are actually meant as a very very small run
49:31of watches to be released to the public all right the numbers are thought to be ranging from
49:40five to twenty watches known okay with this dial configuration and in this case style from the 1970s
49:50given the rarity of these watches they don't come up for sale very often so it's quite a difficult one
49:55to place okay however i can say in december 2024 a similar watch the same model sold for just over 50 000
50:05pounds at auction well surprising very surprising yeah but i won't be selling it it's not an embedded
50:12investment on 50 pounds no no it's very very good actually very good dad chose wisely
50:21over the years we've seen memorabilia from much-loved television series not least that perennial favorite
50:28dad's army following the antics of world war ii's home guard it's shuttleworth our experts mark smith
50:35and rupert mars were thrilled to discover a drawing of arthur lowe as captain mannering
50:40by fellow cast member clive dunn who played the hapless lance corporal jones
50:47it's one of those things that both of us were of similar age that this is what we watched in the
50:5160s and the 70s with my mum dad exactly captain mannering was just something you look forward to
50:57every week i can't get him out of my head he's one of those stock characters that you just never let go
51:02and this is such fun because it's by clive dunn portrait of captain mannering what makes him a comic
51:08hero for you well actually life was really quite like that in after the war because i remember in the
51:1450s and 60s so it really was quite genuine and of course he did everything with a deadpan face people
51:20say he was arrogant i think he was just doing his best the thing that they did with that is that
51:25they turned that into one of the best comedies that we've ever seen but the people who actually
51:31were in the home guard would have died in the streets to defend this country there's no light without
51:36dark so uh what do you think it's worth i mean i'll start if you like i mean i think a thousand to
51:42fifteen hundred pounds but i think so but i think if there's a real dad's army fan out there it'll go
51:47for more you won't think it cost me 20 quid really i'll give you 25 that's incredible there you go
52:06we see an awful lot of well cigarette boxes on the antiques roadshow and generally speaking
52:16the brutal truth is that they are not fashionable things to own any longer however
52:23this one doesn't fall into that category and part of the reason is the story that is attached to it now
52:31this gentleman here i gather is the original owner of this box exactly yes who is he to you he is my
52:39grandfather i never met him so he's my father's father um he died a long time ago but he was one
52:46of the very early uh air chief marshals of the turkish air force and what was his name his name was muzafer
52:53gaksana it's a super box it's incredibly chic it's sharp and heavy and has a great reflective surface
53:00with this engine turned decoration over it it's marked in london by asprey and co in 1953 yes and
53:10how did he end up with this so he was the turkish ambassador to iraq based in baghdad he was only there
53:16for about three years and then he moved on but when he was leaving he was gifted this by the then
53:23king of iraq king uh faisal and the seal on the top is the royal seal of iraq wow generally speaking
53:33these boxes are a very thin skin of silver over a wooden carcass however this one being made by the
53:41prestigious firm of asprey is a substantial gauge of metal and would stand up and and work as a box
53:48without the wooden liner at all right so i might make as a suggestion that you remove all this
53:54wooden liner and replace it with velvet and that way it would be useful as a jewelry box i hadn't
54:02thought about it my dad initially gave it to me last time we were in new york he thought we could bring
54:07it to london take it to asprey have the leather bottom replaced yes uh in terms of valuation as it
54:14is it's worth about 300 pounds okay all right which is a fortune for a cigarette box oh wow really
54:23okay great thank you so much
54:31i love this thank you for bringing it in i don't think there's many people at home or in the audience
54:35who won't recognize what this is the phantom's mask from the phantom of the opera one of the most
54:40commercially successful and longest running stage shows of all time please tell us a little bit
54:45more about how you have this okay so my uh late husband was an original member of the cast in the
54:51west end in 1986 and this was michael crawford's phantom mask that he got after michael left the show
54:59and just kept it all these years yeah well when we look at something like this it's about the
55:04provenance and you brought in a few other artifacts with you today we've got the the crew jacket
55:08there also a lovely photo of your husband with michael and then also the scripts as well yeah so that
55:14all builds a bit of a picture about the provenance that comes with this piece what i love about this
55:19when we look at the inside of it is just the amount of wear that we have on here so we can see
55:24that this has been used lightly for many many shows there's sort of a build up of makeup perhaps
55:29makeup residue here so it looks like it's had great heavy use to go to the next level really what i
55:35want to do is research this in further depth and and see if we can find a photo behind the scenes photo
55:40or a stage show shot of michael wearing the mask because as we look at the mask there are a number
55:45of inherent details here and i'm just going to point to some of these there's some paint splashes the
55:50way that it's been painted just along under the eye here and then there's a little dent in the paintwork
55:54just in here as well and so what's really important to establish here is if this was a mask worn by
56:00michael or by a stand-in and it really makes a difference in the value on one hand it's going
56:05to be an interesting thing it's iconic in its own right but if it's worn by michael crawford it really
56:11elevates the value but as it stands today i think it's a highly desirable and collectible artefact
56:16and i wouldn't hesitate to put an estimate of it of about five to ten thousand pounds so really really
56:22valuable if we can do that further research i think the likelihood is if we can match it up and
56:26that should be possible then you're going to double that i think ten to twenty thousand pounds wow truly
56:31beautiful thank you i recognize that it's obviously an amazing show and an iconic piece in its own right
56:41but it was real surprise knowing the value
56:57it's been a real treat to revisit our venues from the summer and before we go back in stoke-on-trent
57:03at the vna wedgwood collection there's just time to look at a high fashion piece of craftsmanship
57:09wedgwood shoe heels have you ever seen the like so these are jasper wear complete with cameos they
57:16were the height of fashion in the 50s these were first displayed at the national shoe fair in chicago
57:22in 1958 they were made by the british shoe firm rain who started out as theatrical costumiers but
57:28then diversified into shoes famous for making shoes for the late queen and the queen mother from the
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