Antiques Roadshow Season 48 Episode 20

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00:00Every year we travel the country giving you the chance to show our experts your cherished items

00:07but our summer roadshows have proved so popular we haven't been able to pack in all the pieces

00:11you brought along so tonight we'll be showing some unseen moments from some of our most memorable

00:17venues coming up when i opened that i thought wow this is something i have never seen before

00:25well do you know what i wish i did know ada because i bet ada had a really cracking sense of humor

00:32it's not a bad birthday present not a bad birthday present so do you think your husband might like

00:37them more if i put a more punchy value no he's taught me not to bring them back go

00:45i'll also be paying a visit to trentum gardens on the outskirts of stoke-on-trent

00:50the city that's celebrating its centenary in 2025 and as i'll be finding out the history of the

00:56potteries is closely entwined with the story of these splendid gardens they were designed in the

01:0218th century by capability brown no less for the duke of sutherland and at the time they were considered

01:07the most impressive in the land we love a good garden on the antics road show and we've seen

01:14some very memorable ones this year welcome to the antics road show

01:37we visited some stunning historical buildings in 2025 and back on a sunny day in may we set up at

01:44shuttleworth house in bedfordshire where ceramics expert catherine wright found a piece that recalled

01:50the glory days of one of stoke's finest potters well my spirits really lifted today when i saw you

01:57produce this beautiful pair of vases from your bag what can you tell me about them i've had them seven

02:04years since my mother passed i really don't know an awful lot about them all i know is that they're

02:08moorcroft mum had had them for many many years i don't even know what style pattern they are so

02:14yeah and was your mom a keen moorcroft collector no no she was an antique collector so she collected

02:20everything everything yes yes lots and lots of things so these are vases in the hazel dean pattern

02:26designed by william moorcroft and what's particularly nice about these vases is that if we have a look

02:31underneath we see william moorcroft signature painted in green w moorcroft design so the hazel dean

02:40pattern it was a pattern that was specifically designed for the luxury retail shop liberty and co

02:45what age are they they're dated 1913 and that is when moorcroft founded his own pottery so these are

02:52lovely early examples of his work this pattern you can see it's very much influenced by the art nouveau

02:59what we have is this lovely pattern of elongated trees in a landscape setting and this was a time

03:06in which moorcroft was sort of expanding beyond floral designs and going into landscape designs in his

03:12pottery the technique here that he uses is the signature of moorcroft and it's this tube lining

03:19technique where he's picked out all of the organic details of the branches and the trunks in liquefied

03:26slip lovely colors this bluish green glaze with celadon tones in the landscape here and yellows coming

03:34through do you live with them now and do you have them displayed in your own home they are on a shelf

03:41and i don't really particularly like them oh my goodness so yeah sorry mum well i absolutely love

03:48these vases and because they're large yeah you've got a pair and the pattern is desirable yes i think

03:55these would comfortably be worth in the region of four to six thousand pounds at auction what

04:04oh well i'm glad that's such good news for you

04:07when i found out that the actual pattern is hazel dean it was quite nice because my mum's name is hazel so

04:21i can imagine that's the reason why she got them in the first place so yeah it was lovely really nice

04:27this is a wonderfully imposing image of a gentleman isn't it and i know this gentleman as william frederick

04:42cody but known to most people of course by the legendary title of buffalo bill i'm very interested

04:49in the history of buffalo bill's wild west show he was born in 1846 and he had a tough upbringing by the

04:57age of 11 he was working at 14 he was a pony express rider wow so i know there's a family story going on

05:05here to do with buffalo bill and we have this photograph can you tell me about this gentleman

05:09in the photograph yes it's a great uncle and he was my great grandmother's brother i can see he's in

05:17military uniform here can you tell me something about that yes he was in the first lifeguards

05:21what was his association with buffalo bill from what i was told buffalo bill came over to recruit

05:28horse riders and i suppose because he was in the horse guards and a good horseman that's a pretty

05:33incredible story in fact it's not a story that i've heard before the wild west show was a kind of

05:38fairy tale image really or fairy tale representation of what the wild west was like but of course we know

05:45that to be a very very different scenario so the period we're talking about basically is the kind of

05:511880s and cody toured the britain and europe on several occasions even queen victoria came to see

05:59the wild west show one thing that kind of ties him in as well are things like this so this is an

06:04official route buffalo bills wild west and it's an official date route of all the places that they were

06:11visiting it's an incredible itinerary i cannot tell you how many shows they were enacting and in fact

06:19i do believe that on some of these uh your relative's name is actually written on the back on one of them

06:25so that ties him in absolutely perfectly he was there he was doing this this in itself is a lithographed

06:34advertising sign oh so in fact this is actually on tin so if i tap it you can hear that this signature

06:43in the bottom says sincerely yours buffalo bill it's not a real signature oh value it would be worth a

06:52lot more if this was a real signature but i think as it stands at auction this would currently be worth

06:58around about four to six hundred pounds yeah but delightful thank you it's a lovely story isn't it

07:03it is yes thank you

07:10i'm kind of speechless because i have never seen such a bizarre collection of christmas carts where's the

07:18joviality the jolliness of christmas none there no it's all kind of bizarre from devils and sort of a

07:25man drunk in the street yes yes if you didn't mention christmas wouldn't know no christmas cards

07:30no how and why are you a collector of christmas cards no no i just came across the collection

07:35in my elderly cousin's house when after she died i mean they're signed from most of them by somebody

07:41called ada and i don't really know an ada in the family but well do you know what i wish i did know

07:46ada because i bet ada had a really cracking sense of humor you've got sort of slightly naughty they're

07:51almost like the sort of saucy seaside postcards aren't they there's this man about town there

07:56with his cane a true boulevardier and you open it up and like a true boulevardier he's having a load

08:03of fun and then here you've got this ta-da hee-haw of a donkey in a barn a lot of these are printed

08:11really really well and i think best wishes for the new century is obviously a pun on century century

08:16so i'm guessing that's what 1899 yeah so we're looking at sort of late victorian turn of the 20th

08:22century cards people do collect christmas cards valentine's is the big one but christmas card

08:27collectors are out there and they're very ardent and avid let's just say we've got 20 pounds on

08:32average 20 40 60 80 100 and 20 40 you've probably got over 200 pounds worth and maybe considerably

08:39more yes i really didn't think there was any value to them just curiosity and amazement

08:44good old ada right yes

09:01well the style and the design of this gorgeous polar bear just scream art deco but before we reveal

09:08a little bit of his story tell me how do you come to own him he was a wedding present to my parents

09:14they were married in 1944 i've known it all my life obviously and they gave it to me when i got

09:21married and you always remember it in their home oh always absolutely in fact i used to play with it

09:27you used to play with it wow so he's he survived he did and my children played with it actually

09:34well he's just the most gorgeous thing he's the most beautifully designed item and when we look at it

09:40you know it's all about this economy of line this simplicity that just pairs this wonderful polar

09:45bear down to you know the absolute bare minimum here he is sat on this sort of stepped ice block

09:51looking down into this wonderful three ripple pool and actually if we turn him over there's a lot of

09:58little gifts there for us because underneath we have the words polar bear modeled by doris linda and then

10:06next to it the royal worcester marks dated 1937 well doris linda was actually a very talented artist

10:16she was born at the end of the 19th century 1896 in south wales but went on to study art first training

10:22at saint martin's school looking at sculpture she then went on to the british academy in rome and

10:28then came back to london to the calderon's animal school where she learned to observe animals and

10:34just pair them down in that beautiful stylistic form in 1920 she actually exhibited a number of her works

10:42at heels of london and of course it was there that she was picked up and spotted by the management of

10:48royal worcester and in 1931 they launched a range which included works by her and of course over

10:55the period she created all kinds of studies of dogs horses but also she did her zoo babies and i think

11:02this is probably where he came from i've never had the pleasure of handling this model and i love him

11:10and i think if he were to come up for sale at auction today i think you'd comfortably be looking

11:16at somewhere in the region of five to eight hundred pounds for him i won't tell the kids

11:27this is by one of my favorite artists he became president of the royal academy we are not worthy

11:32sir frank dixie by the time he died in 1928 he was essentially in the modern world but he's a victorian

11:39painter and this is the sort of picture that he made his name with mythological grande mise-en-scene

11:45what an amazing burst of color that is i think it's a study for a much larger picture i'm pretty

11:50sure so frank dixie what is he to you he's my great great uncle on my mother's side of the family

11:58so these are direct from his studio effectively or his house pretty much yeah these would all have been

12:03in the in the family in one person's hand they've come down to me now uh it's oil on card and it's just

12:10beautifully and freely done he's just done it as a color sketch he hasn't bothered with the

12:15details of the faces because it's not about drawing it's about tying in all the shapes and

12:20the composition getting the colors in order this is the kind of picture that he made his name with

12:26imagine this really huge on the wall of the royal academy with a frame perhaps even larger than the

12:31picture itself what he also did was this kind of domestic scene underneath it i mean that's very

12:38victorian isn't it it's all very romantic isn't it this wonderful little oil painting of a girl

12:44reading a love letter by candlelight it is one of my favorites it's very intimate isn't it and the

12:50glow of light in a halo casting a shadow across her brown ringlets on the back of the chair so i suppose

12:56that's a bit earlier than this mythological scene of maybe about 1870 the clothes make me think so

13:03but frank dixie was of a large family of very good painters and none of these pictures are signed

13:10thinking about it this could well be by frank's father thomas francis dixie yes

13:15and then this delightful little sketch which shows how free he could be when he wasn't trying too hard

13:21for the royal academy who's that little girl well yeah the family story is that it is based on my

13:27grandmother she's so alert and the light on her face is so delightful and the hair completely

13:32uncoiffed and natural totally innocent with this lovely white light behind her i mean he's really

13:37caught her inquiring inquisitive inspiration hasn't he you know i love the speed at which it's done just

13:43a few strokes i can imagine he's good enough to do that in like 20 minutes i just wish yeah if only we

13:50could all do that yeah again it's possible that this is actually by another member of the dixie

13:55family that's frank's sister margaret who was also really good okay what are they all worth put them

14:02back looking at that i'd say four to six thousand pounds wow it's wonderful what about that i mean it's

14:11delightful i think that's six to eight thousand pounds of anyone's money and then lastly this delightful

14:16thing not so valuable and yet i'm going to put two to three thousand pounds on that that will add up

14:23to something like over 15 000 pounds um it's quite a lot uh when you finish up yeah surprising well

14:31they're brilliant things really lovely things stoke-on-trent is celebrating a hundred years as a city

14:52and at nearby trentham gardens we're making a welcome return visit a decade since the roadshow was here in

14:582015. back then it was being restored to its former glory having lain neglected for years

15:08and now look we've got the blossoms you can smell the perfume but i tell you back in the day you would

15:14not have wanted to take any deep breaths around here when capability brown designed the garden in the

15:2118th century with the lake as its ornamental showpiece part of the river trent was damned to allow it to supply the

15:28the water big mistake as the potteries grew and became more industrialized the towns expanded and the

15:35trent just by trentum became more and more polluted the river was described at the time as a foul slimy

15:44sewer brim full of the impurities of every dirty crowded town that hugs its banks for the duke and duchess of

15:52sutherland the owners of trentum hall well the place just stank so they decided to put the place

15:58up for sale but the stench was so bad they couldn't get a sniff from a buyer six years later abandoned and

16:07unloved the hall was pulled down and its sculptures windows and doors were sold off to raise funds

16:13there was no longer a grand house so it was the gardens that had further incarnations in the 30s

16:21and 40s they became the playground of the potteries with an outdoor swimming pool a bandstand miniature

16:27railway and then in the 60s a ballroom was built which hosted the big bands of the day the beatles led

16:34zeppelin but from the 1970s to the early 2000s the gardens were forgotten once more before a restoration

16:42project in 2004 brought them back to life look at it today visitors can come here and enjoy the gardens

16:49restored to their former glory and the lake looking just beautiful onto the island beavers have been

16:55reintroduced and then when i sniff the air clean and fresh the transformation is complete

17:17back on a baking hot day in june the roadshow visited lister park in bradford

17:23then celebrating its status as 2025 city of culture and among the crowds eagle-eyed miscellaneous expert

17:31ronnie archer morgan spied a miniature treasure i know it's tiny but it's perfectly formed

17:40and perfectly charming this little celluloid tape measure where did you get it um well i bought it

17:47in jumble sale when i was very young about six seven i loved it and i used to always go buying

17:53little things in jumble sales went to a lot of them when i was a child can you remember what you paid

17:57it would have been a penny or something so i only ever had a few pennies with me i used to get loads

18:01in jumble sales at that time when i first started collecting i collected piero's oh so that drew me to

18:09it right but i love the dog singing to his music yes the dog's there all molded into the celluloid

18:17and singing to his tune and piero's a very romantic and it's probably french oh great i would say this

18:27is early 1920s i would think it still functions yes it still pulls out it still pulls out i don't

18:34like it yeah i don't want to pull it all the way out because you know something like you have to

18:37ease it these them back in when i first saw i you know i said to you that it's made of celluloid

18:42and celluloid's an early plastic yeah and people collect things made of early plastics you know

18:48a collector would pay i think i'm going to stick my neck out certainly 100 pounds possibly up to 150

18:55pounds for that and the fact you bought it when you were six or seven yeah is heaven that's lovely

19:01thank you so much

19:07i was surprised i didn't realize it would be worth anything to be really fair but isn't about the

19:12money anyway i was more curious about what it what it was made from and you know where it might

19:17have come from really

19:25we get loads of bibles on the antiques roadshow as you can imagine and many of them don't have a

19:33date on them so you find yourself looking for clues there's a bit of a clue on the spine here uh 1561

19:40there's a bit of a clue on the title page here in roman numerals 1560. what do you know about the date

19:45of this bible we purely just assumed it was 1561 because that was what was on the spine of the book

19:51book well don't always judge a book by its cover because i've had to go away and do a little bit

19:57of research because i couldn't quite join up the dots i think it's actually published by this john

20:01kaywood in 1569. right um and it's really quite rare oh the first english bible complete was published by

20:11miles coverdale in uh 1535. so this is within about 30 years of the first complete english bible it's not in

20:19the best condition but it is really really quite rare and at auction i could see it making somewhere

20:25north of three thousand pounds that's excellent fantastic thank you so much for bringing thank you

20:35where do you hang these horns at home well they don't hang on the wall they sit on top of the

20:40wardrobe um they've sat on the wardrobe three different wardrobes for about 49 years is that because

20:46you don't like them no that's because my husband will probably divorce me if i attempted to put them

20:51on the wall he's not a fan let's put it that way where are they from give us some history well i inherited

20:58these um from my great grandmother her father my great great great grandfather uh had these hanging on

21:06the pub uh which he ran in easily wouldn't just be by any chance this gentleman here it is indeed yeah that's

21:13morton handley and uh he was a publican he owns two or three different pubs well believe it or not i

21:20would have thought these probably are 1860s wow they look like the work of a very famous scrimshaw engraver

21:30called gustav fontemsky he was a prussian yes and he was an adventurer artist ended up in new zealand as a

21:40soldier wow these are very similar to the sort of things he engraved the decoration was literally

21:48scratched out and you then once you'd scratched your design you would rub a soot based pigment

21:57into those lines that you'd engraved into a you know the soft cow horn and hey polish it up and look

22:05what you've got now what are they worth so do you think your husband might like them more if i put a

22:11more punchy value no absolutely not he's told me not to bring them back go well they're in very

22:17beautiful condition um i haven't ever seen better at auction probably around a thousand pounds

22:25and possibly a little more possibly a little less they're not everybody's thing but very unusual

22:35a fabulous signed souvenir program the rolling stones in the queen's hall in leeds from july 1964

22:46obviously not yours no far too young i'd like to know where they came from it was a birthday present

22:51for my 15th birthday from one of our neighbors who knew that i was in a band and liked my music

22:57how fantastic and did she get them signed herself she did yeah her husband i believe went to the gig either

23:02to review it for a local newspaper or a local magazine all right well here we go it's the 12th

23:09of july 1964 well it's all over now was number one and the stones had just come back from their first

23:16north american tour so they were cresting a wave i mean they were really at the start of their major

23:21career you just wonder what the atmosphere was like in the queen's hall in leeds it must have been

23:26unbelievable and then we've got another stones concert here it looks as if it's from their 1965 tour but it

23:32doesn't actually give the venue on it and then we have the four aces uh program from the beatles

23:38again it doesn't say where it is i believe they're both from the bradford gig okay yeah because we've

23:43got tickets for them oh yeah okay so oh heavens look at this so this is the beatles in 1964 october the

23:54the beatles had just come back from their second north american it was all kicking off then i think it was

23:59really kicking off um hard day's night the album was number one and look at this this is a3 in the

24:06store she must be right at the front on stage exactly do you think she heard anything of the

24:11screaming probably not but no so let's talk about the unsigned pieces first so the beatles four aces

24:19with the two tickets here for the performance we're probably talking about 300 pounds ish maybe 400

24:26pounds so that's very nice wow the 1965 rolling stones again with its tickets an unsigned piece

24:37doesn't have a the same sort of cachet so we're talking about 80 to 100 pounds yes very good yeah

24:42but of course this is the prize this is the treasure from such an important part at the start of their

24:50career i would see this fetching between 1500 and 1800 pounds at auction really

24:57it's not a bad birthday present not a bad birthday

25:00we've traveled far and wide this year and when we visited the hill of tarvit in fife on scotland's east

25:22coast i couldn't resist a quick round of golf on the estate's course the only one in the uk to still use

25:29hickory clubs nice swing with the from the shoulders keep your head still rude not to really in the

25:36home of golf that is not too bad it's not bad at all actually back at the mansion pictures specialist

25:45charlotte riordan came across an intriguing pair of portraits so we're standing here next to a beautiful

25:52young couple painted in the edwardian period can you tell me a little bit about the romantic back story

25:58here yes well this is norman 17 year old this was commissioned by his mother and father before he

26:04actually went to war and this is jeanette she was walking down the high street in perth and the artist

26:10seen her and said i'd like to paint you but she actually said hmm that can't happen i'll have to ask

26:16my mother and the mother said yes okay i can paint you but these are actually by the same artist charles

26:22cellar and actually these were painted we've actually before they met each other so they're

26:27married later on in life and the daughter actually of these couple left them to me when she passed away

26:33so lovely as you say they're both painted by the same artist this is charles cellar now portraiture in

26:38the edwardian period which is where these works pale from was a lucrative way for an artist to make a

26:43living he's a sort of sensitive study of character i think you know this is really beautifully observed and

26:49in watercolor with sort of chalk elements she's obviously an extreme beauty um beautiful elegant

26:55neck and and just a lovely sort of distant look in her eyes there and this i think is especially

27:00poignant he was just about to go off to war this might have been something his parents made to

27:04remember him by the worst were to happen as it did to so many young men it just captures that sort of

27:09on the cusp of manhood i think got the the little sort of shadow of a mustache his hat looks a wee bit

27:14big on his head really lovely little snapshot in time it's a piece of social history as well in that

27:19sense and luckily norman actually got through the war and he came back yeah and they got together

27:25it's just unusual that two paintings by the same artist end up together before they even met

27:31so they've obviously had a bit of tlc some lovely new frames here keeping them in good condition

27:35do you have them hanging at home yes they're hanging in the hall so every time we come downstairs in the

27:40morning say good morning norman good morning jeanette it's just nice pictures to look at

27:44value-wise i think at auction and you know sold individually although obviously you never want

27:50to separate them but sold individually you'd probably be looking at around sort of three

27:54to five hundred each at auction they belong together yeah they do yeah they go together thank you

28:07beautiful heart pendant which is the epitome of love and sentiment it's got an inscription

28:13around the edge what does that say it says henry barnard de la poor beresford pierce he's my adopted

28:21grandfather and how do you think he got hold of the pendant i think it was probably given to him

28:27on his christening because it was the year he was born in 1875 and i see that somebody is wearing the

28:35pendant in this rather special photograph here that is me on our wedding day in 1971 well it is

28:43absolutely stunning the heart is cabochon rock crystal which of course is just the epitome of love

28:49and sentiment and then of course we have the diamond set bow on the top and when you fall in love and the

28:55relationship is wonderful you can tie the bow and then of course sometimes relationships go wrong and

29:01it's recognized by you pull the ribbon and the bow comes undone but then you find true love again

29:07and you tie it again so it's all all will be fine at the end of the day date wise it's probably just a

29:13little bit earlier than when your grandfather was born and this style of jewelry was very popular

29:20for a very long time through that victorian time which was all about love and sentiment there aren't

29:27any hallmarks on it there aren't any makers marks on it either which is typical of the period but it's

29:32quite clear that it's of a good hand and is more than likely british made possibly by a good top london

29:40jeweler i'm sure you're intrigued to know about value i would like to know yes yeah well we are looking

29:47at a piece of jewelry that at auction would fetch somewhere between two and three thousand pounds

29:56it's absolutely lovely thank you very much for bringing it not at all thank you very much

30:09so this is a very striking vase that you've brought along what can you tell me about this piece only

30:14unfortunately that it belonged to my grandparents my grandmother did a short spell of service down

30:20in london we don't know whether it was a wedding gift or whether when she was down in service it was

30:26gifted to her down there but it's been in my house i'm the third generation in the house um and it's been

30:33in in my house um all these years it's a vase designed by a lady called charlotte reed yep and she

30:39was working in the potteries in the 1930s the vases of this ovoid ribbed form with a sort of speckled

30:46mottled glaze and then this band of bold aztec pattern decoration at the top and you can see here

30:53that it's clearly marked c reed with her signature on the base charlotte reed's work is probably the

31:00least celebrated of some of the very iconic female designers who were working in the potteries in the

31:061930s so the value at auction would be much more modest okay and it's probably in the region of 80

31:12to 120 pounds lovely thank you

31:27i've got to say look these really come to life and glisten in this like late afternoon sunshine

31:32that we're basking in today um they're almost sort of jewel-like aren't they what do you know about

31:36them they came from my mother's family her great-grandfather was involved with a china trade based in

31:43boston in the united states and i believe they went into japan in the early days when the westerners were

31:50first being allowed in because there are lovely japanese things like this scattered around the family

31:56so what they are well they're japanese and they are sort of knife hilts or kazuka as they're called

32:06in japan and the material that they're made from it's a mix of metals and they date from the 19th

32:13century well the first one we've got here is we've got this little priest's attendant i suppose and he

32:19looks like he's having a really fun time at a festival or something like that and if i turn that

32:26back that's signed by an artist here called kiosugu who was producing incredible fine work and i mean

32:33that's you know you can't argue with that so this one on the front uh shiroboshi so this is a type of

32:39japanese dancer or entertainer and that's the figure that is depicted there and again exceptional

32:45quality now this one is a little torn but it does say kozai so that is pronounced kozai on the back

32:53so that little bit of paper that somebody translated absolutely right and then this fellow on the front

32:59here is jorajin so he's a god and again look signed on the back here and they were absolutely right tomoyoshi

33:07and that is the signature on that one and does the turtle mean anything it's a minigami so yes so this

33:14minigami is a sort of a mythical figure uh in japan and it has a long tail which is in fact sort of

33:20seaweed so it's often sort of depicted so it's seaweed on the minigami so yeah you like them i do

33:25what do you like about them the skill the craft that went into making them and they tell you something

33:31about japan at that time yeah which is fascinating and presumably they were prestigious items i mean

33:38clearly because so much effort was put into them they are a really nice group they're a really

33:43nice set and i think if they came up at auction they probably make somewhere between eight to 1200

33:48pounds something like that goodness me yeah the detail is quite amazing we have learned about them

33:57and the fact that they were individual artists doing them is fascinating and they are really special

34:04and i love the story about the turtle on the back as well

34:17well i've seen many snuff boxes on the antiques roadshow over the years

34:20but i have to say the snuff box that you've brought in is one of the best i have ever seen

34:26it's 18 karat gold it's scottish and it has got this fabulous faceted citrine on top tell us how

34:33it's come into your family well it was passed down through the family on my husband's side

34:38and he inherited it from his grandmother okay so we'll just have a look at the base because that's

34:45got all the information i think that we need it says nicely engraved from andrew tennant to his friend

34:54alexander blackie and his heirs forever yeah 1815 it's a splendid inscription isn't it

35:03that's a specialist engraver who's done that part of the box but there's many other specialists who've

35:08been involved in the making of it the border is cast in 18 karat gold the sides are incurved

35:15and we have a special flush hinge on the back so it's a specialist hinge maker who has done that

35:20the stone itself will have been done by an edinburgh lapidary specialist who've cut the stones the

35:26color of that stone sometimes you'll see that catalogued as smoky quartz it's got that golden almost

35:32honey whiskey color to a deep deep color it's a fantastic stone in its own right i would need to

35:39do a bit more research to find out the exact maker yeah the maker's mark is clearly here ig edinburgh 1815

35:48the nice thing though i don't know if you've noticed between the date and the hallmark it has

35:53the actual maker of the box deary d-e-a-r-i-e didn't know that no it's quite faint but it's there

36:00so again we would need to do a bit further research just to find out what he fits in but that must have

36:05been one real special friend to have given a box like that yes we don't know why or or what the

36:12relationship was between uh his friend and alexander blackie who was the ancestor yeah but it would be

36:19very interesting to find out if that turned up on the market you would be looking at an estimate of

36:2510 to 15 000 pounds oh wow that's very nice to hear gosh thanks so much for bringing it today

36:35it's made my day well it's made my day unexpectedly yes wonderful thank you thank you

36:41from high summer in fife we return to early autumn sunshine in trentham gardens near stoke-on-trent

36:52where expert will farmer is challenging me to an appropriately pottery based game we're in the

36:58land of the potteries we're going to be talking about ceramics who better than will and we have

37:03to rank these in order of value with basic better best correct and they all look absolutely stunning

37:08this is really about luxurious lustres what i wanted to do is bring along three pieces that

37:15really epitomize that late 19th early 20th century surge and renaissance in the work of lusterware because

37:22lusterware is just this incredible medium in the world of ceramics you're looking at wares here that

37:28all use silver gold platinum reduction firings to remove oxygen to create these beautiful finishes so

37:36let's start nearest you this is a piece by the great william d morgan a beautiful double ruby

37:42lustre circa late 1880s pulling in all those hispanomoresque sort of ideas the florid motifs the

37:50dragons everything you'd want to see move on nearest me we've got a piece it's a little bit later 1912 1915

37:57this is richard joyce for pilkington's lancastrian who were really the masters i mean and this is

38:04incredible it's got the goddess of the sea being pulled by hippocampia i mean this is a show-stopping

38:10piece and then in the middle the latest of all three this is circa 1920 25 and this is daisy mccay

38:18jones at wedgwood with her fairyland lustre a large malfrey pot in a pattern called candle mass

38:25now the game is which and i hate to say it myself because they're all incredible yes which one is

38:33a basic let's let that feels a bit harsh which one is better and which one is best what are the values

38:39we're talking about so in terms of the values we're looking at one of these pieces is worth between four

38:45and six thousand one of these pieces is worth eight to nine thousand and one of these pieces is worth 12

38:54to 15 000 pounds right oh my goodness i'm hoping you've all got some ideas which do you think is the

39:04best the one in the middle one oh the red one yes and why do you choose that one i just like the color

39:12and the shape of the the handles on the pot and also it's it's older than the others isn't it yes

39:20yeah okay so you're going for that one i'm going for that one all right what about you i'm a particular

39:25fan of the one in the middle it's the most extraordinarily ornate one especially with

39:30the sun out and the colors that are reflecting off it whether that adds any value to it i don't know

39:34but it's definitely pleasing to the eye i don't know i'm erring towards the red one you know i just i

39:41like it more i mean i love the red one the best i have to anyone going for the blue one i'd go with

39:46the daisy the wedgewood you give the one in the middle as well yes so would you like some little

39:52clues of course in terms of de morgan double ruby lustre this is a thing he perfected he set the

40:00benchmark pilkington's quite a high volume turnout their productions are out there also when we look at

40:08something like fairyland lustre you've got to think about scale size and complexity and the amount

40:14of hours and work that have gone in to create something so these three show the story of how

40:21the industry has perfected the techniques and processes of lustreware right now what we have

40:27to bear in mind ladies and gents is that will is also probably trying to throw us off a bit with

40:31that oh as i've learnt with you i'm actually trying to help you here yeah yeah i promise you i promise

40:38you he says that as well well the thing is look this is the obvious suck you in the chops showstopper

40:45rockstar pot so you're locking that in no because because you always tell me go with what you like

40:53yeah and i would have thought this would be more to today's taste either this one or that one

41:02two out of three went for this yeah and that's good enough for me because it's my favorite okay if

41:06you turn around tell me i'm gonna be very cross but i'm gonna say basic they're obviously not very basic

41:12at all which is the pilkington yeah better yeah best locked in oh boy you're gonna be cross oh you

41:23should have gone with the hit around the chop showstopper oh no this is our basic although i

41:30hate to use that word because it is so beautiful but is the pilkington's lancastrian by richard joyce

41:36at four to six thousand the ruby lustre the double ruby lustre by de morgan at sort of eight to nine

41:42thousand pounds is our better that that is the absolute glory piece of daisy mckay jones for

41:50wedgwood fairyland lustre 12 to 15 000 pounds oh gosh well done you thanks very much you're welcome

42:06one of our busiest locations this year was stevens house in north london it was once home to henry

42:21stevens who made his fortune from indelible ink he then spent it creating a beautiful self-sufficient

42:28garden and in one of its tranquil corners francis christie found a striking sculpture by a forgotten

42:35artist so this is a wonderfully elegant bronze sculpture of what looks like a woman swimming and

42:49it's by an artist who back at the height of his career in the sort of 1970s and 80s he was one of

42:54the most popular artists at the royal academy now his name was sydney harpley and i'm wondering how

43:02this beautiful sculpture came to be yours well um my parents uh in 1985 went to the summer exhibition

43:10at the royal academy as they always did and they went into the sculpture room and the first thing

43:16my mum saw was this sculpture and she just completely fell in love with it uh but unfortunately it had the

43:22sold sticker on oh no so my dad without my mum knowing he contacted sculptor to find out that the

43:28nine he'd cast of them had all been sold roll on a couple of months later on my parents wedding

43:34anniversary there was a knock on the front door of the house and there was sydney harpley with his

43:39own copy to present to my mum wow from my father and that's how we've got it and about 10 years ago

43:48she decided it would be the right thing to do to pass it on to james oh lucky you james

43:52and did your parents ever say what sydney harpley was like he was apparently a very charming man

43:59but i don't know anything else about it at all what's so interesting about seeing this sculpture

44:04is he was really interested by the female form and the female form in all different poses

44:11really became his sort of signature subject i think the movement that he achieves

44:18it was amazingly elegant actually although bronze is such a hard material he's managed to capture

44:27this a very free-flowing movement you kind of feel that she's just about to carve into the water

44:32with the elegance of her hand movements it's also technically incredible he's managed to cantilever

44:39the weight of bronze coming down to this single point on her knee he would have modeled this potentially

44:47in terracotta or in wax beforehand and he would have really worked with the foundry the bronze

44:52foundry to make sure that you know he had the weight and the distribution properly she's literally

44:59floating in space he was formally trained um after second world war i mean he went to the hammers

45:06school of art he went to the royal college of art but actually a fact about him that i think is

45:11really important which is not so well known is that after second world war he actually worked in an

45:17artificial limb factory which meant that he spent his days modeling and casting artificial limbs and i

45:26think when you know that and therefore he must have had a really intricate knowledge of anatomy

45:34it's why his sculptures yeah are so good yeah because he knew exactly what a limb should look like

45:43so now that this sculpture is yours what do you like about it i love the way she sort of flows it's

45:50for a sculpture it's incredibly sort of lifelike and realistic and i just think it's just such an

45:56elegant piece to just sit and look at so heart please someone who's not as well known now i think as he was

46:02back when your parents bought it but he's increasingly people are looking at his work again

46:07which is great and i think were this to come to auction today we'd probably put an estimate in

46:11the region of three thousand to five thousand pounds oh wow i have no idea fantastic thank you

46:25a mystical mysterious looking bowl what can you tell me about it been in the family now for

46:31four generations belonged i understand originally to my great grandmother when she died it came to

46:37me i'm very happy to have it and what do you know about it other than the fact it's lelique and it's

46:43old lelique very little other than it always used to sit in the middle of my grandmother's dining table

46:49occasionally with some fruit in it but that's where it always was and there are more lelique in the

46:54family is it a collecting area yeah my sister has um one with shells on uh four shells on it uh which

47:03she got as a wedding present which is why when my grandmother died i was offered this one how wonderful

47:09well let's take a deep dive into this this shape is called coupe over so open cup we have six ladies or

47:18nymphs dancing in the water all around the edge and if you have looked carefully each one of these ladies

47:25is different in a different position different expression this pattern is called on dean and it

47:31was created by renee lelique in 1921 if we turn this over to the base we can see that it's impressed

47:40our lelique which means that this was created within his lifetime later on the r was removed it

47:47was just lelique and it also has here an etched signature lelique so if we sit it back down and take

47:54a look at the ladies they have this kind of vaseline look about them an opalescence which you can see

48:01really well on this dark background of the table that was achieved by adding colbert oxide to the glass

48:07whilst it was still hot now the thicker the glass was the slower the glass would cool down and that

48:15meant the deeper the opalescence why does that matter collectors of lelique want that opalescence to be

48:22really strong and the deeper the opalescence the more value they would ascribe to the piece

48:28so this shape was made in different designs and if you were starting to collect lelique you'd probably

48:33start with the pattern called coquille which sounds like what your sister has shells going around the

48:39outside that's right that's kind of the the starting points then next we have the poisson which has

48:46curling fish going around the outside a bit like the ladies here but the ladies the on dean is the next

48:53best one so your sister's bowl if it's about this size it's around 250 pounds poisson around 500 pounds

49:01but on dean wonderful opalescence lovely design it's what the collectors want if this were to come

49:11up at auction i'd expect it to fetch in the region of a thousand pounds that's very nice i did better

49:17than my sister you did thank you thank you what a lovely little card mascot which i assume is sort

49:32of stylized hair so how did you acquire it it was my dad's i understand he got it from a neighbor about

49:3930 years ago my dad's not with us anymore and he loved the antique photo and so i thought i'd bring it

49:46along and see what you had to say about it i don't know if you notice on the back here there's a mark

49:51right yeah and it's um it's copyright ael which is lejeune which although it sounds french i think

49:57it's english and it's 1920s oh it's right okay and i have a particular interest for it because um

50:03i'm pretty keen on on hairs myself right okay uh the reason is um it's looking inside my jacket

50:11there's everywhere anyway value he's lovely condition it's plated i would think at auction

50:18you're talking about between three and four hundred pounds okay yeah not bad at all yeah

50:22that's nice nice to know thank you

50:37well florence nightingale is the reason why we're here having this conversation florence

50:41nightingale obviously the really the founder of nursing modern nursing in britain and you've got two

50:46books related to her one is notes on nursing which is by florence nightingale the other is a book with

50:52a inscription in it which is in her hand and this is a book that she obviously owned at some point

50:57and she's written florence nightingale in it how did these two books come to you well for more years

51:04than i care to think of i had a dental practice and on the outside of the building there's an inscription

51:10that says florence nightingale left her hospital on this site to go to the crimea in october whatever

51:18it was yes and uh i had a walk-in cupboard in the basement where i kept my stock and after about 15

51:26years and cleared the rubbish at the back of the cupboard and i found these two books that's a very

51:32nice find isn't it well yeah in a way this is the main event this is this is notes on nursing by

51:37florence nightingale published in 1860 and this is actually a first edition of it which is a rare

51:42book um it doesn't have a date on the title page the printer's name is harrison of pall mall

51:46and this is really one of the key books in medical history this is a distillation of everything

51:52florence nightingale had learnt about nursing both in the crimean war which as you say she left to

51:58go to from your your premises in harley street but also back at home and she really puts on its feet

52:05the idea of nursing as a profession and particularly a profession for women there's a very i think

52:11very moving introduction to it in her preface every woman or at least almost every woman in england has

52:21at one time or another of her life charge of the personal health of somebody whether child or invalid

52:28in other words every woman is a nurse i think that's something that resonates with at least half

52:35of the population yeah and it's a very slim book very concise and it certainly changed the face of

52:40medical history in britain so that's an important book first edition of 1860 i'm not quite sure the

52:48background of this one this is a book that she obviously owned well um there was a letter in there

52:52right which says uh from her brother to thanking them for helping organize florence's funeral right

53:01and they might like this book which was in her library it was one of her books as a memento

53:09so florence nightingale i think she died in 1910 obviously there were major public memorials for her

53:14there was one in saint paul's cathedral and it sounds as though that was the occasion on which this was

53:18yes i think that's a gift they're two very nice things to have together i don't think they've

53:22always been together but it's a nice very nice provenance for this book right of course it has

53:26some value not in fantastic condition you know it's seen some life perhaps in practical circumstances

53:32but the first edition of this in this condition i'd say 800 to a thousand pounds oh wow oh that yeah

53:40like everybody i'm saying that surprises me and then it's just nice to have florence nightingale's

53:45signature here albeit in pencil but i think we'd prefer a signature in pen but there's a reason

53:50why she wrote it in pencil so it is as it is i think that adds another few hundred pounds to the

53:56table here so i think everything here we're looking at maybe 1200 to 1500 pounds i took true for it

54:01thank you my pleasure thank you very much thank you for your time

54:04i see an awful lot of jewelry and when i opened that i thought wow this is something i have never

54:17seen before the carving of the moonstone in their setting i just thought oh my gosh this is great

54:24craftsmanship what do you feel when you look at it well it was my mum's and my dad bought it for her

54:31it was always referred to as the moonstone she wore it i mean she was the kind of woman who

54:36thought wearing this was okay it's not for me so it reminds me of her the whole piece is about 1880

54:44it's english and this is sort of got a a romantic vision of a renaissance princess but what is so

54:51wonderful is you always look at the nose with hardstone cameos that's the easiest thing to get

54:58knocked off right and so if it gets worn a lot yes it can it can easily go so we always look at

55:04the nose or anything that's protruding and she certainly has her nose and she's got on these

55:10lovely natural pearls around the outside and sort of just highlighted with these rubies so of course

55:16you've got pearls which is for love you've got rubies for passion but where does a moonstone come from

55:23well it's part of the feld spa group you find it in brazil you can find it all over the world

55:28actually yeah but also what's lovely is that it's in its original fitted case and underneath there's

55:37the brooch fitting as well so it's here as a pendant yeah if i take off the back and there it is

55:43which is lovely so often that gets lost yes so what do you think your father was thinking when he bought

55:49this well i think he bought it for his good-looking lady who he adored and that's why he bought this

55:56for her oh that's absolutely lovely i would say in the right auction that could be as much as five

56:03thousand pounds okay i don't know what to say i know that it's quite usual to say well it's not going

56:12anywhere but i don't wear it i don't know what's happening to it maybe you should try to wear it yeah

56:19maybe i should i like it a lot more now that you've told me a lot more about it see thank you very much

56:26it's wonderful to look back on a summer packed with so many treasures

56:30but before we go it's just time to return to trentum gardens in staffordshire to try out a local treat

56:39at the end of the day on the anti-strocho i'm usually getting a bit peckish and what better than

56:43the local delicacy staffordshire oat cakes now these are a kind of heavy duty oat pancake and they were

56:50a staple of miners and potters in the 19th century made by local women i've got a slightly gourmet version

56:56cheese and bacon i've never had one before have you all eaten these before right come on

57:06delicious all right we're going to scoff these from all of us here at trentum gardens from the

57:13antics roadshow bye

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