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00:00Every year we travel the country giving you the chance to show our experts your cherished items
00:10but our summer roadshows have proved so popular we haven't been able to pack in all the pieces
00:16you brought along so tonight we'll be showing some unseen moments from some of our most memorable
00:21venues across the summer coming up is it a bird is it a plane it looks like a little Superman
00:28figure to me what do you feel like when you wear them like a million dollars they are very very
00:33special then my father was going to attack it with a polishing drill because he thought it was dirty
00:39you basically saved its life anyone who can peer beyond the shoulders of the shopkeeper for all
00:44the best things are it's where all the best things are I'll also be talking all things ceramics with
00:51one of our experts when we pay a visit to Trenton Gardens in Staffordshire with this stunning lake
00:57this was created by capability Brown in the 18th century all of it dug by hand can you imagine
01:04it's just a stone's throw from stoke-on-trent and we were here almost 10 years ago with the roadshow
01:10but that time I was in a rowing boat this time a motor's doing all the hard work I'm glad to say
01:15welcome to the antiques roadshow
01:18in June 2025 we spent a glorious day at Stephen's house in the leafy North London suburb of Finchley
01:44once owned by ink magnate and politician Henry Stevens the imposing Victorian mansion is set in
01:5110 acres of landscape gardens where a rare Chinese item has caught the eye of Lee Young
01:57when you brought this to my table I have to say I think I saw the cover first yeah and that got me
02:03excited but not nearly as excited as I was when I saw the whole thing it is simply beautiful it's
02:09lovely to hold now I need to know how you come to own such a thing my parents were very interested
02:15in Oriental art they traveled widely in Japan China when they came back to England they bought this I
02:23think in about the 50s 60s something like that and then my parents passed away been on my cabinet
02:30ever since and my daughter likes it too that sounds perfect it is Chinese close on a and it's a sensor
02:39which is an incense burn yes which is why we've got those holes in the top so close on a it's made up
02:45of these little sort of close on work so this is wire work that's placed onto the metal and then they
02:50put in enamels and fire those enamels and then file down those enamels until you get this wonderful
02:55decoration ah I see it's actually sort of dates from the 18th century and it dates from the Chenlong
03:01period and so that's between 1736 to 1795 yeah I've had a really good look over and this doesn't
03:08seem to be any kind of blemishes or damage or anything like that over this piece at all you
03:12know the gilding's all in perfect condition and you know we look at the front here and you've got this
03:16lovely kind of lotus flower and all these lovely sort of scrolling colorful tendrils and other you know
03:22flower head motifs and then they're all below this lovely band of Rui heads or Lingzhu fungus the one
03:29thing I should say is the stand is much later now if I take the lid off first of all we can talk about
03:34this wonderful where inside yes and then we can see we've got the label here Costellani who started
03:43out as a collector it says collection but he actually eventually became a dealer in his own right and had a
03:48shop in London and was actually retailing primarily kind of Asian art in London so they were buying I
03:55think they probably bought it from him bought it directly from him having that collector's label
04:00on there helps when things are being sold today at auction I can see this comfortably making between five
04:08two eight thousand pounds Wow thank you well what a spectacularly beautiful pair of enameled gold and
04:23diamond earrings tell us all about them well these were given to me by my grandmother who actually died
04:32aged 101 I was extremely close to her she bought these earrings for herself and she always believed
04:40that they were Fabergé but that the mark was lost when she had them changed to clips rather than pierced ears
04:47because that was how she needed them but they have a very special place in my heart because of the
04:53connection with her I bet well the first thing to say just for point of accuracy is that they are not by
05:00Fabergé there's something really rather earlier than that which is fun I suspect that they're
05:04actually French and they are about 1840 to 1860 in date which precludes Fabergé by about 30 years
05:12well had the fittings not been changed we might have got a little mark from Paris which would endorse
05:17what I said but I can tell you that sort of instinctively and nothing more than instinct that a
05:23firm called Malario in Paris was making jewelry of this description they're one of the oldest
05:29businesses in Europe and they exist even today and have the most spectacular heritage they are
05:35enameled gold and they're heightened with brilliant diamonds and what do you feel like when you wear
05:42them like a million dollars they are very very special aren't they marvelous yes they really are
05:48they're ivy leaves and diamonds and in the Victorian 19th century language of flowers which was in France too
05:54ivy was for sort of tenacity and faithfulness and diamonds well forever beautiful articulated
06:01things and they come apart here on what's called a rat's tail and it's called a rat's tail because you
06:07can bring this forward and take it off so that's your dress down Friday ivy leaves and diamonds not
06:15very dressed down I have to say but nonetheless and when you're going out for something a bit more
06:20special you can add this marvelous drop so versatile is also a keynote of really great jewelry particularly
06:26in the 19th century and so tiaras make into necklaces and bracelets turn into brooches so all of that makes
06:33them covetable and valuable and earrings are often disproportionately valuable in our world but I think
06:41because of all the things that I've said about them if they were for sale they would probably cost about
06:46eight thousand pounds today that's wonderful I absolutely love them thank you thank you very much
06:53indeed
06:55so this looks like a pretty unremarkable restaurant bill doesn't it it's from parks restaurant in beach and
07:10place in london and it's dated 1965 what's going on with it my parents uh had an anniversary very
07:17special anniversary dinner right okay and yeah some interesting people were in the restaurant and if
07:22we turn it over we can see who those people are can't we because they were obviously john lennon and
07:27george harrison my father said uh to the maitre d can i uh can i ask them for their signatures and the
07:35maitre d said we don't do that at this restaurant sir and he stuck it in front of them anyway all
07:40right and they were more than delighted to sign it right okay excellent so were john and george kind
07:47of regular customers there apparently they were it's one of their favorite restaurants we're going
07:50to talk about value i mean obviously it's a family thing it's got that great story behind it but it's
07:54actually quite a valuable little thing okay and i think first-hand kind of accounts that really put you
08:00on the spot and you know that they're really genuine these signatures mean that this is worth
08:05one to one and a half thousand at auction okay it's not going anywhere but everybody says that i'm
08:09going to say that it's great thank you for bringing it thank you so much
08:12so am i looking at part of a larger collection or what no they're just the three bottles in the
08:34family we don't have any more you said the family are we going back in time we are they were always
08:40around in my grandma's house and i remember them as a child many moons ago and they've been passed
08:48down through the generations we thought they might have come from germany or holland and from sort of
08:55research we thought they might be um sort of sick late 1600s right the right bits are the fact that
09:04these are probably german but they were made across you know into bohemia what is today the czech republic
09:11yeah um but we're not talking 1600s no we're talking 1700s all right right but what we're looking at is
09:21is a is a form of german folk art oh yes because these are clear bottles these are in like a soda
09:28glass so there's no lead in them at all and they are then enameled by hand oh it's in when they
09:36spirited designs in other words there is a glass paste that's laid on and then they then heated when
09:43the glass then solidifies and it anneals to the actual body so tell me your thoughts about them
09:49well i love the colors i like their simplicity the naivety of it and they've just been with us for
09:56so long that they're part of the family really yeah let's have a look at what we've got here first of
10:02all uh we have a white dog yes but what i love are the flowers the flowers are wonderful and even the
10:09corners have got these curly whirlies aren't they and so there's a lot going on even the shoulders
10:15have got beautiful decoration the little one in front there well that is all floral but what i love
10:22is the fact that the enamels are still there so often they get flaky and they disappear and let's
10:28go on to the big one now the big one's got everything going for it because the big one has got
10:34a little screw twist top the others you can see here should have had two screw twist tops so this
10:41is the premier example where you've got a milkmaid on one side and on the other side we've got
10:50what appears to be a raspberry or strawberry tree when it comes to the value i just wish they'd all got
10:57their tops their tops their screw twins drop but so let's just take them as three fabulous
11:03glass flasks and i would say that you would be looking in the region of around about 800 pounds
11:10to perhaps perhaps a thousand pounds good lord if they'd got their original tops i would have said a
11:17thousand to 1200 without hesitation right but what you've got is family's treasure really exactly exactly
11:24the thing i love about this is something that's so beautifully simple so exquisitely put together yet
11:37conveys such a wonderful message and it seems so wonderfully observed this fabulous ceramic sculpture
11:43of a monkey and her little baby here but before i reveal more of the story of it how does it come into
11:49your life in early 2000s my wife and i were away for a romantic weekend in budapest and we were in
11:55an antique shop and we were looking at various things and we love monkeys we'd spent time with this
12:00particular type of monkey in a sanctuary in france uh when we were talking to the owner uh there was a
12:07doorway behind him behind the counter and just through that i could see this up on a shelf slightly
12:12obscured we pleaded and begged and explained our passion and uh we agreed a price it was a couple
12:18of hundred pound and uh we brought it home with us i'm so pleased you've given me that link you've
12:23mentioned the fact that you're in budapest yeah and actually when we turn the monkey around on this
12:29side we've got and the name is actually written in reverse it's actually imre sime who is the hungarian
12:35aspect with this date of 1906 but also we have this mark here this quite intriguing little back stamp
12:43have you ever managed to find out who this is i know it's the vena ceramic mark brilliant well found
12:49this date of 1906 which is the year that this factory was opened by two great austrian sculptors
12:59michael who only and also berthold loftner right now when we look at this at the front we've got so
13:07many references the date itself actually belies the object because at first glance you look at this
13:15and you think this is art deco yes you think this is 1925 1930 this is 20 years before i felt it was
13:24sort of an art deco-y cubist look about it but as you say the date being so early didn't quite fit
13:31and i never really understood how that was and doesn't it show what a powerhouse and what was
13:37happening you know the change that was good this is a million miles away from victoriana from that
13:43late 19th century yes it's a mile away from art nouveau it's it's so far removed but shows the strength
13:49of movement that's really taking hold and going to come forward i i'm going to put a price on it
13:56my gut instinct is i feel that the market the appetite for this would be stronger in hungary
14:04i'm going to say an auction estimate of eight to 1200 pounds it was a lovely find i commend you for
14:10that thank you very much i commend you anyone who can peer beyond the shoulders of the shopkeeper
14:15it's where all the best things are it's where all the best things are
14:33back at trentum gardens i've got a chance to catch up with one of our longest serving experts john
14:38sanden his late father henry was with the roadshow almost from the start it's what we call slipware
14:45made in staffordshire somewhere around about 1700 and john himself joined in 1985 this has got to be
14:54one of the rarest pieces of english porcelain now after 40 years he's indisputably roadshow royalty
15:02so it's wonderful to be able to learn how his dad fired up his lifelong passion for pottery
15:08john i'm assuming that your illustrious father henry sanden had something to do with your interest
15:13well of course with a dad like that i mean how could i have done anything else he'd really got me
15:17started just as soon as i could walk in the garden picking up bits of broken pottery in that mug
15:23incredibly i helped dad join that together from broken bits when i was just five or maybe six he
15:29dug it up in the garden all little tiny bits i helped him wash them join them together and i was
15:35amazed that something 300 years old could come back to life from being broken so as well as digging up in the
15:41garden did you dig up further afield dad loved archaeology of all sorts but in worcester he used
15:47to go for walks around the city and took me with him and if ever he saw any workmen had been digging a
15:53hole he would lower me down into the trench and toss me down a trowel and a paper bag to pick up any
15:59bits of broken pottery then i'd take them home wash them in the sink and he would show me in the books
16:05what they were part of and so professionally how did it begin for you when i was 13 he sent me up to
16:13london and gave me 20 quid and said go and buy something rare and something unusual down portobello
16:19road and i bought this still pot i recognized this was from ancient peru it's a whistling pot it came
16:27from the time of inca gosh so what 1300 to 1500 about that that's right and so this would have
16:32been in a grave somewhere up in the andes and the spirits of the dead would have been released when
16:38the bird sings and i saw it on the store there and realized it still works oh let's hear as the air goes
16:45through the little chambers the bird sings away 18 pounds i paid and brought it back to my dad he wanted
16:53to give me a profit for it but i i wouldn't sell it to him i've kept it ever since quite right too
16:59and then from there you went into the business i was only 16 i was still at school doing my a levels
17:05when i was offered a job in a london auction house in bond street i learned and brought along
17:10the knowledge i've been gaining on old pottery and particularly about worcester porcelain and what
17:16about this piece how does this fit into your life well this goes back to my dad's love of worcester
17:22especially his work he was the curator of the porcelain works at worcester and one of the great
17:28craftsmen who'd been there all his life was harry davis who painted that vase i would have been
17:3310. dad took me on to a little room in the factory and introduced me to harry davis just sitting there
17:40calmly painting a whole pile of plates i was mesmerized and i admired him so much how he did this
17:46when he was a teenager oh it was made in 1903 and it was his first vase painted with a view of kemsie
17:54near worcester in winter i mean nowadays his vases fetch thousands of pounds but i grew up staring at
18:01that vase as dad did and loved it too now it's mine and of course porcelain doesn't get better than that
18:08who knows more about ceramics and posture than you pay i mean i i can't imagine of course your father
18:13sadly is no longer with us but such a stalwart of the show as you have been for so many years
18:18and a real treat actually john to hear about your life in ceramics thank you this means a lot to me too
18:23in early summer we visited shuttleworth house a striking victorian mansion set in four and a
18:35half thousand acres of bedfordshire countryside and while we were there we were treated to a fly
18:40pass by a spitfire and miscellaneous expert paul atterbury was fascinated to hear the story of one
18:49pilots all but forgotten contribution to the war effort now i'm looking at a group of obviously
18:56aviation things here there's a model of a a gloster meteor there's some medals there's an award and
19:04it's obviously an aviation story and here we've got a photograph of a an amazingly jolly group captain
19:10who's he this is our father group captain h.j wilson known by everyone as willie wilson and these
19:17things you live with them yeah if i'm a child they were in the flat although the medals were
19:21not on display my brother had those framed they were just hidden in a drawer so where does his life
19:26begin in the air force so he joined up before the war and actually left the raf before the war started
19:33and then as soon as the war started he was brought back in as a test pilot we don't often get the chance
19:39to talk about people who were equally brave who were never fighting the enemy directly and testing
19:45airplanes of course was the basis for everything his particular job at farnborough where he was based
19:51from 1941 was to test airplanes here we have a model of a gloster meteor this is the first
20:00jet war plane used by the allies it was developed from 1940 first flew in 1943
20:07and went into service in july 1944 with a 616 squadron you know the jet was a new concept
20:17and your father i think pioneered that and also most important he taught people how to fly it
20:24you'd flown a spitfire a hurricane you couldn't just step into this and fly it because the whole
20:29technology was completely different but this became the mainstay of the air force thousands were made it
20:35was used by air forces all over the place and he was very much involved in getting that plane
20:41to become the famous thing it was and that takes us on to really in a way back to the photograph
20:48what's going on here so that's eric greenwood that's my father eric greenwood was working for
20:53gloucester my father for the air force and the same day in herm bay in 1945 they both had a go at
20:58breaking the world's speed record at the end of it they awarded it to eric greenwood and my father
21:05and went off to lick his wounds uh it was only a few hours later they discovered they got the
21:10maths wrong and realized it was my father who had broken the world's speed record so yeah the numbers
21:15absolutely wonderful very very british yes oh great i think it's only three miles an hour between the
21:21two it wasn't very great wasn't it 606 that's right that he got the speed record we've got a case of
21:26medals here which we must end with normally we're looking at medals awarded in combat here is a group
21:31that has no combat association whatsoever these are the standard metals this is an air force cross
21:40with two bars which means he was given three air force crosses and this is a cbe
21:47this is truly exceptional for a truly exceptional man and in terms of value you're looking at a lot of
21:55money here are you aware of that i mean i have no idea to be honest well an air force cross with two
22:02bars well you can start at 10 000 pounds right and probably go up right okay you're supposed to say
22:10something now we have no plans to sell them yeah it's something we obviously get very proud of but
22:16yeah keeping it in the family i mean i think it's it's it's very exciting to see such a thing because
22:20i'll never see it again he must have been an extraordinary man extraordinary achievements
22:26in very many fields of war that we never really think about yes so thank you very much thank you
22:38something we just grew up with almost it was normal but it wasn't normal it was extraordinary
22:43what he did but now i'm incredibly proud of what he did and it's extremely appropriate that a spitfire
22:50should be flying over perhaps he's sort of come back to super supervise the event
23:04the wedgwood vase of huge scale tell me all about it with you well as much as i know it was my
23:15grandfather's and i'm not sure where he got it from and he kept it on the staircase in his house in
23:21annick when he passed away he then left it to my dad who then passed it to me when he passed away now
23:28this is a potpourri vase we know that because the lid is pierced so those lovely holes would allow the
23:34perfume to fill the room it's jasperware it was called jasperware because it was meant to mimic
23:41the mineral jasper the clay body which was a grayish white material would have been dipped into
23:47a dyed slip of blue dark blue in this case which is very much for the period of around 1840 1860 so that's
23:55when this piece was made gosh is it different with it being the dark blue as well is that yes the dark blue
24:02was more popular in the 19th century the lighter blues came in later yeah and it's beautifully styled
24:09with these classical figures on the outside each one molded separately and applied to the body of the
24:14vase in this white relief like a cameo effect so they they really feel like these figures are coming
24:20towards you it's just such a beautiful three-dimensional piece what is unusual is the
24:26pedestal base the vases are usually smaller maybe the lid's not pierced for the potpourri but this has
24:32got all of it this has got the pierced lid and it's got the base it just elevates it literally to
24:38something more special than just a vase and cover i think it's a wonderful thing it shows all all the
24:44masterful craftsmanship at the wedgwood factory of the time if this were to come up at auction
24:52it would make somewhere in the region of a thousand pounds to fifteen hundred pounds
24:57that's very nice but i wouldn't sell it you know it's heritage to me
25:00i'm an only child and so with my mum and dad so to me it's something that i'll treasure
25:05is it a bird is it a plane it looks like a little superman figure to me can you tell me a
25:17little bit more about it so it's a peg doll that my mum made when she was asked to do some work on
25:23the production of the original superman movie my mum was approached or the company she worked for
25:29was approached to see whether she could come up with a way of waterproofing the costume to be used
25:35in one of the scenes where superman goes into the water comes out of the water and the water just
25:40drips straight off him and he's looking as pristine as he went in so she said yeah i can come up with a
25:46chemical that can do that and eventually said yeah i think i've got something that will work and they
25:51said great do you want to come and see it being used in the film she said great they were pleased
25:57christopher reed was pleased he had lunch with mum bought her a bouquet of flowers say thank you for coming
26:03up with this solution and with the original swatches mum made a uniform and a cape for the peg doll
26:13so the actual construction of this suit was really quite a complex and involved process
26:19there was a lot of testing that went into it there were a lot of problems with it
26:23not just getting the form to fit christopher reeve perfectly but also consideration of sweat would you
26:28believe the suits were made by a company called bermans and nathans they were the costumiers for the film
26:34and the gentleman noel howard who run the floor for bermans and nathans at that time actually found a
26:38company in europe who produced this fabric with this very very special weave but they obviously still
26:43hadn't resolved coming out of water those sort of shots which your mother was so involved with i mean
26:49this was a big production for one of other studios and of course we've gone on and seen many
26:54iterations of superman since so this is a wonderful piece of memorabilia this peg doll but what we're
27:00really focused on here is actually the cloth components themselves because those are samples
27:05of the original costume that christopher reeve wore in the film superman which is amazing that it
27:10survived and i think this would have an auction estimate of somewhere in the region of about three
27:14to five hundred pounds but really it's more about the backstory and it's about the history of
27:19it that's more important perhaps than the financial absolutely is thank you
27:30you have brought me in an interesting sword it is a tool wire hilted shamshir this extravagantly curved
27:39blade shamshir means lion's claw so whose sword is it why have you got it it's a sword owned by
27:48a chap called lieutenant edward kelly of waterloo it's been in the family for a very long time
27:53the history is my great great great great something grandmother was his wife right so that has all
28:01stayed in our family ever since my father passed away last year my uncle passed away this year as we
28:07start to lose a lot of the knowledge around it it's i'm interested to know more about it really kelly
28:14was in one of the last charges at waterloo he took out a french colonel cut his epaulets off his
28:20uniform and nicked his horse he was the most amazing chap hence waterloo kelly he subsequently went out to
28:28india where i suspect yeah this sword came from he was out there with his son and i think they were at the
28:36siege of baratpur this shamshir with a tulmar hilt it's very nice this is gold kofgari work the scabbard
28:45itself is silver mounted i can see why the thing was taken i would think because of the story and we can
28:53tie it to waterloo kelly i could see that making a thousand pounds oh really but the sword itself
29:01of course brings waterloo kelly story to life and it's a fabulous thing which i very reluctantly will
29:10give back to you thank you very much thank you very much for bringing it in it will stay with the
29:13family splendid thank you
29:29from bedfordshire we headed north in july to the east coast of scotland and the hill of tarvit in fife
29:36an edwardian mansion built for mill owner frederick sharp containing all manner of mod cons
29:43including the most lavish of condiment trolleys this silver galleon or neth could be wheeled along the
29:51table
29:54like so to the delight of the assembled guests it was both a conversation piece and a very effective
30:01way of showing just how wealthy sharp was and out in the grounds lee young has spotted another
30:08fascinating curiosity
30:12so i would say normally this type of screen would be to sort of cover up something or you while you
30:19were you know getting redressed or undressed or i'm not actually sure this kind of miniature
30:25decorative version would cover much up actually it would not what do you know about it my great
30:32grandfather bought it he traveled to japan on a selling trip he had linen company and he bought
30:39it and then it belonged to my grandmother and my mother then my father and then my father was going
30:45to attack it with a polishing drill because he thought it was dirty and so i just managed to catch it in
30:51time and tickle off him and that's why i've got it now because it could have been disaster you've
30:57basically saved his life i saved his life yes first thing to say about this is it's just lovely quality
31:02you're absolutely right it's japanese yes i think it late dates from the sort of late you know part of
31:07the 1800s and it's a type of work called sort of damascene and that is a process of inlaying
31:13metals on top of one another to create a pattern but it's got a little sort of signature or a little
31:20seal down here so that actually says that it's a komai sebe who was a metal worker and set up a
31:27workshop in kyoto in 1841 and producing this type of decorative object yeah you've got that lovely kind
31:37of you know mount fuji in the background but just this sort of continuous landscape with the temple there
31:42and i think that's a sort of bit of a waterfall going on there and you know the attention to
31:46detail is so good it's just beautiful and the other thing i would say is that the condition is so good
31:51so where does it live just it's just on a kind of a dresser yeah it's kind of out of sunlight just
31:58there and just like ignore it and every now and again i i look at it yeah i know you like it do you
32:03like it oh i love it yeah it's the fine detail and it's typically japanese with all the sort of the
32:08the formal garden scenes and whatever but uh just the intricacy of the whole thing is phenomenal you
32:14know this is the sort of thing that would have been made for the western market now considering
32:18its size i think it would carry quite a decent estimate at auction i think if that came up it
32:22would probably make between eight to twelve hundred pounds okay that's lovely you know at a sale thank you
32:31it was a surprising bit i didn't realize it was maybe worth that much i knew that it was beautiful
32:36but beauty and um being worth anything is totally different
32:48we have two brooches two completely different styles and i'd love to start with this one here
32:54could you tell me what you think those are they're cameos and is it onyx absolutely so they're carved
33:01so most people do call them cameos however because they are incised they're actually called
33:08intaglios intaglios and they are usually carved from sardonyx onyx agates etc in this case we have mars
33:19the roman god of war and we have him twice the carving is incredibly detailed which is the main mark
33:27of quality when it comes to looking at cameos and intaglios they were typically made in italy but then
33:35also throughout europe in the 1860s 70s and 80s could you tell me a little bit about the history of
33:42it well all i know is that my great great great grandmother came on the grand tour yeah she was over
33:50here in the 1850s and maybe early 1860s and it wouldn't surprise me if some or all of this piece
33:59came from that period my hunch is that they brought those back and just the intaglios yes and had them
34:06set in this style of mount and the reason is because the jewelry that was being made in the mid 19th century
34:13didn't look anything like this yes of course the alternative is that she purchased the jewel in
34:20italy on her grand tour i'm gonna move to the crescent brooch now which is a completely different type of
34:27jewel and this is a form we see quite often but the reason that this caught my eye was because of the
34:35sapphires they are a beautiful vibrant hue sometimes sapphires can be over dark and a bit
34:44muddy looking but these are very vibrant very bright blue do you think that they came from the same
34:52person i have a feeling that they all came from the daughter of my great great great great grandmother
34:59and we always knew this lady as mama child so it wouldn't surprise me if this was something like
35:04this right in terms of value this one at auction today i could see in the region of 1500 to 2500
35:12pounds and this lovely crescent brooch at 700 to a thousand times oh god i think they're family heirlooms
35:21aren't they i can't be the one to break the chain i'm so glad you came and shared them with us today
35:26and really enjoyed chatting to you i enjoyed it very much and thank you very much indeed for your expertise
35:34so here we are the hill of tarvit beautiful landscape surrounding us and you've brought a painting
35:42by the great colorist artist george leslie hunter which is he's probably one of my favorite scottish
35:48colorists what's your history with it i acquired it back in 2007 i was very keen to get a fife
35:56painting i liked a fife painting uh it's about five miles from where i live and it's it's just a
36:02less than a mile from here so he's nicely signed it here l hunter so he was born on the isle of butte
36:08and then early on he moves with his family to california and then comes back to scotland in about 1906
36:15after being to paris and i think some of these later landscapes really are where he's settled and
36:20happier and you know this really was the time for scottish colorists actually what brings my eyes
36:27into this picture is actually that incredibly intense green right on the sort of top of the hill
36:33you can see where he's used his brush and pulled it right across big broad brush stroke and then he's
36:38turned it upside down and then incised the oils with his brush i think that's really lovely and i suppose
36:45these uh five landscapes are so characteristic because of the red rooftops and he really captures
36:51those in such well i mean it's it's a colorist painting but they're just such bold colors it's
36:56going to be painted probably around sort of circa 1920 we're talking about uh 18 or so years ago when
37:02you bought it what did you pay it was a london sale and yeah i pushed the board out and it was sort of
37:08high 20s you paid at the time a strong price for it but i still think in the current market people
37:14would chase this picture it's a good scale it's very bold in color and i'm going to evaluate 30 to
37:2050 000. gosh lovely that's nice thank you very much that's very nice it's a lovely painting though
37:25i mean as you see it's strong color look at the greens and the reds it's fantastic
37:29so let's get this right you've come on a backpacking holiday from australia yes and you brought some
37:46antiques with you yes because you knew the antiques roadshow was going on absolutely you've got some
37:51fantastic things early tree beautiful handmade wooden boxes which is your favorite one i've
37:57probably got two that's one right this is a burr wood and silver mounted snuff box and because of
38:04its size it's a table snuff box or a snuff mull right it's early 18th century it's going to be
38:11george ii or very early george ii 1725 17th that sort of time and that's the other one and then your
38:18other favorite is this sweet little it's rosewood isn't it yes my favorite is the firmware piece
38:26what a wonderful survival and and what amazing condition it's in and it's a souvenir wear piece
38:31because it has the isle of wight scene on the top value-wise are we looking at the best part of 700
38:40to a thousand pounds lovely yeah lovely when we think of crimean war nurses we we were taught at
38:57school about florence nightingale weren't we but actually this lady here was in the crimea involved
39:03in nursing who is she indeed she's eliza mackenzie she nursed at therapia and florence nightingale was
39:12at scutari and as far as we are aware they were actually quite good friends as well so they're
39:17literally over the other side of istanbul off the bosporus yes absolutely she was actually a lady
39:24superintendent and they weren't trained nurses they held almost an administrative leadership role so she
39:31would have been overseeing the nurses and the patient care she was out there i think in about
39:371855 wasn't she yeah the brooch that we're looking at was presented to her in 1856 this is this one here
39:44yes i'm going to read the back because it's a beautiful inscription it says presented by the sultan
39:52to mrs mackenzie in acknowledgement of her services in the hospitals of the british army in the east 1856
40:03so this is the sultan of the ottoman empire abdul majid who was so grateful to these nurses for their
40:14help in healing the wounded and the sick and it's a beautifully made brooch in 18 karat gold and this is
40:21enamel yeah the red of the flag of turkey i thought it was an animal yes and set with these beautiful
40:27rose cut diamonds really catching the light all right and it would have been a european made piece
40:33it's not a turkish mate how did you get the brooch well the brooch was given to me by my aunt
40:40she inherited it from well it obviously went down the line but eliza was my great great great aunt and
40:47you've brought along the watercolor of her yes so was this just before she went she's 23 in the picture
40:55so yes i would think it would have been just before she went yeah and it's by a great scottish artist
40:59kenneth mcleay so he was famous for painting queen victoria's children and he was renowned for
41:08creating amazing likenesses of his sitter so we can be pretty sure that's what she looked like this is what she looked like
41:16i think the brooch in itself because it has that connection to early nursing in the crimea
41:23it's got to be worth between three and five thousand pounds wow the watercolor it's got to be worth a
41:30thousand two thousand two thousand pounds as well really so lovely to have the two and and that family
41:35indeed has kept them together you you must be very proud of her indeed thank you so much for telling her story
41:49from the sweeping beauty of scotland's east coast we're returning to staffordshire and the tranquility
41:58of trenton gardens in an area famed for its craftsmanship our ceramics expert will farmer is
42:06putting my antiques knowledge to the test with three exquisite pieces we've got a little game here where we
42:14have to rank them according to their age tell me more well i'm sort of calling this my masters of design
42:23because fundamentally while we have three very different objects they all have their origins
42:29and their foundations of design in one key art movement which is cubism now cubism of course as you
42:36well know is one of the most influential art movements of the 20th century inspired and really
42:42pioneered by the likes of picasso and brack and it was about really disassembling everything and
42:47reconstructing it and transferring how you look at form and shape we have three things here this
42:54incredible vase with these forms sitting on top of each other yet with these sort of abstracted roses
43:00an incredible bit of design in the middle i mean wow he's a bit of a showstopper isn't it and this is an
43:07incredible piece of glass making this is done in a cameo process where layer upon layer of glass
43:14is cased one on top of the other and then cut back to give this amazing very dynamic geometric abstract
43:21design and then nearest you we have this sort of abstracted helmet head form i mean it's just been
43:28broken sliced and reconstructed it's got essence of people like brancusi to it in terms of their ages
43:34they're all 30 years apart so one of them dates from the 1930s one of them dates from the 1960s and
43:43one of them dates from the 1990s 90s so it's across that whole of the 20th century but the question is
43:50what is the correct order oh goodness i didn't think any of them would be as recent as the 1990s
43:58oh i don't know come on you've got to help me out here so 30s 60s and 90s for me i would say
44:06that the vase at the end is the 30s yeah me too the one in the middle will be the 60s and then that
44:13one will be the the 90s 90s yes i wondered about that you see there's a date on the back which will
44:21just put a pink sticker over on one of them which is not very not very helpful i'm almost the same
44:2830s yeah 60s 90s okay oh well i would have thought that was 30s okay a little vase looking at this
44:38and the the arrows on it and the shapes on it that felt earlier than the 60s to me
44:44i'd be amazed if you are talking yourself into it so don't talk yourself okay so 30s yeah 60s 90s
44:53locked in final answer yes you got it oh thank goodness well done oh my goodness i get so many
45:01of these wrong as you know at home so nearest me we have the most incredible piece by clarice cliff oh
45:10is it yeah is it i would not have put that as clarice cliff actually so this is the yo-yo vase
45:15one of the most daring forms that she ever ever created a piece that when it was revisited by
45:23wedgwood as a reproduction they struggled to work out how she created it back in the 30s and it took
45:29them a while to actually get there inspired by the work of maison desney dates from around 1930
45:35and today uh that vase is worth between three and four thousand pounds nearest you
45:43isn't it wonderful love this this is by troika ah but it's an incredibly rare piece of troika this
45:50is really as high up the scale as you'd ever want to see and absolutely pulling in all those elements of
45:57early cubism worth four to six thousand pounds and then in the middle which is so wonderful is a
46:06piece by a glass maker called anthony wassell he was actually a glass maker working in the 1990s
46:12in matlock in derbyshire and this is a range called delta but again all pulling in those lovely abstracted
46:20forms and worth probably about eight to twelve hundred pounds oh but three incredible pieces
46:27and you got it oh gotta get one occasionally what a treat though will especially this one
46:33isn't it lovely yes well done
46:52in the height of summer we set up shop at lister park in bradford
46:56it was created in 1870 when local textile entrepreneur samuel cunliffe lister sold the
47:03land to the city council at a bargain price on the condition that it was turned into a public park
47:09and in a quiet corner hillary kaye came across a fascinating collection of items
47:14that textile expert lister may well have recognized
47:20i've got a really great display here of bone lace bobbins used in the lace making business and
47:27i've got a photograph of a lady making lace now how is everything linked through to you well these
47:33bobbins were owned by my grandmother and she was born in only in bedfordshire which in the 19th century
47:41was one of the main areas of lace making at school they learned both lace making and reading writing and
47:48arithmetic if when they got to about 12 they were good enough they became lace makers but my grandmother
47:56didn't become a lace maker because she wasn't good enough so she went into service and eventually
48:03met my grandfather and raised a family and when my grandfather died she started to make lace again
48:11so these were hers or you acquired them these were hers so a lovely group here dating from the late 19th
48:19century and in really very good condition but you can feel that they've been handled which is which is
48:25great yes and these are bone bobbins they've been hand turned on a treadle lathe probably to make them
48:34and they're decorated in various different ways some of them have got wire wound around them others have
48:39got just colored decoration but to me the ones that are really great are the ones that have got
48:45little messages or names here we've got betty um here we've got mother but here oh you can imagine
48:54getting this and it says love give me a kiss now you'd have to marry her if you gave her that wouldn't
49:04you and she'd have to say yes i think so they also were used for memorials so there'd be a name of
49:11somebody who was no longer there or in actually the really valuable ones somebody who was a criminal
49:17who'd been hung yes so murderers people love to buy a murderer's name i think there's only about seven
49:24recorded ones that were from hangings or murderers and of course they're very scarce now so i don't know
49:31what you'd value no no those are almost priceless so as a group i would say the cumulative value would be
49:37something between four and five hundred pounds oh right i should just say that my grandmother could
49:42only make these three patterns shown in the photograph there but i'm sure she could do them absolutely
49:48brilliantly she could probably do them with her eye no no no oh well you're very honest thank you very
49:54much for bringing them into thank you it's a pleasure well i can see immediately that it is
50:06a early victorian watch what do you know about it very little to be honest um my brother and i inherited
50:14it off my uncle last year and we just found it whilst clearing his house out and and even my mother
50:21doesn't know who it would have originally belonged to let's turn it over and see immediately it's had
50:26a hard life it's very very rubbed there's a very nice london hallmark there 18 karat gold right for
50:33london 1842 let's open that up you put your thumb in there and that is actually a rather nice movement
50:43david morris fenchurch street london interesting balance with these weights but it's a lovely thing
50:51and this is the problem although the movement's lovely
50:57the watch is not worth a great deal as a watch okay sadly the entire value is in the gold case okay at the
51:08minute gold is over 57 pounds a gram for 18 karat this is a heavy watch
51:14there's gonna be about two and a half thousand pounds of milk gold in there right okay well it's
51:24what we call too heavy for its own good yeah and the girl's looking at it avidly gold yeah
51:29ice creams could you buy with that great thank you very much
51:45my great-great-grandmother brought it to america from italy yeah you've got some diamonds on the
51:51shoulders here you've got those two stones then they've got an orange one in the middle yeah and then
51:56the top that's a diamond in the center small diamonds around the side well i think it's a
52:01very beautiful ring and at auction you would be looking at around about 800 to a thousand pounds
52:07yeah and one day you might have it yeah yeah
52:20what we have here must be a very rare survivor as a program and souvenir of the large suffragette march
52:31which was held at hyde park and you can see it says here votes for women on the the 21st of june in
52:361908 how did you come to have it well to be honest i just found it in a little envelope folded
52:43up in a case that was my father's and it was years after he's died that we found it no idea where it
52:48no idea where it came from at all well it's printed on the flimsiest paper and so it you know it is a
52:55very rare survivor and of course this was when the women's political movement was actually sort of
53:00gaining momentum and there had been a march the previous week but this was by far the biggest political
53:06march that at that time had ever been held in britain and it is thought that around 30 000 women
53:13arrived and they all converged on hyde park where there was a huge meeting and as we can see here
53:19it says 20 platforms with 80 women speakers now we have sort of emily in pankhurst of course which is
53:26the name that we all know who's associated with the suffragette movement similar things do come up
53:31for sale at auction very very occasionally and the last one of these that i did actually see though it
53:37wasn't printed in quite the same manner as this actually sold for about 350 pounds gosh yeah it's
53:43a fair sum for something basically that was just such a throwaway item at exactly yes really so delighted
53:50to see it and thank you for bringing it in thank you they may not be the best paintings in the world
54:00but they're really interesting and fun and i think they're very honest they tell you so much about
54:05this man his wife and their two children who are they to you so this is my great great great grandfather
54:11nicholas coldwell and he was a drum major in the coldstream guards and this is his daughter and then
54:19this is his wife mary and their son henry henry's dressed very much as small boys were in the 1840s in
54:28this sort of rather feminine outfit with bloomers the works but he's very fierce look he's drawn his
54:32sword he's wearing an extraordinary hat which looks along with the rest of the costume of his mother
54:38rather spanish they're both oil on canvas and they survived very well so your family's looked after
54:44them awfully well i think they've been in our family since they were painted that would make sense
54:49the family believe they were painted about 1851 i would have said the costume was slightly earlier 1840s but
54:55family history is usually right and that huge canon behind what's that so this is called the cadiz
55:01memorial and it's in the corner of horse guards parade still in london and it is a memorial to the
55:08battle of cadiz and the battle of salamanca afterwards it's absolutely amazing they're informal
55:14poses but it is unusual to put the daughter with the father in a military context and the son with the
55:21mother in a rural context that's very studio done so what do you like about these pictures is it the
55:26blonde girl with her ringlets this fierce warrior here or i think this is probably my favorite yeah
55:33because he's my relative and actually my grandfather looked quite a lot like this so there is a family
55:39resemblance and i'm named after the little girl so i think that would have to be my favorite and uh and
55:45this is his um mace is it we believe so yes do you sort of throw it up in the air when the band's
55:50going and all that well we're not quite sure probably to let the rest of the band know what
55:54they're meant to be doing absolutely brilliant if that's the same scale as the one in the painting he
55:59wasn't a tall person was he no we've got some idea it's in army records that he was about five foot six
56:06oh okay okay that's about a foot shorter than me which is about right it's a magnificent thing he's
56:11wearing isn't it and he's full of pomp and circumstance i love the children they look so
56:15cheeky so i'm going to put i don't know six to eight thousand pounds on them i know i've gone overboard
56:22but they're but they are wonderful i think they're worth that thank you
56:30it's been lovely to revisit our venues from the summer but before we go back at trentum gardens
56:35there's just time to swoop in on one of stoke-on-trent's most famous pieces of pottery
56:42we couldn't come to stoke without visiting an old friend remember him aussie the owl of course he came
56:48along to the roadshow in 1990 he was spotted spotted by your dad john by much-loved henry sandin
56:55aussie is a 300 year old piece of staffershire slipware made in the local area and after the program
57:01aussie was sold to stoke city council and the potteries museum and they tell me that he is one of
57:05their favorite exhibits so it's very nice to be reunited with him and for the program to have
57:10played a small part in his story so from aussie and all of us here at trentum gardens bye
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