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00:00every year we travel the country giving you the chance to show our experts your cherished items
00:08but our summer roadshows have proved so popular we haven't been able to pack in all the pieces
00:13you brought along so tonight we'll be showing some unseen moments from some of our most memorable
00:18venues across the summer coming up is it a bird is it a plane it looks like a little Superman
00:25figure to me what do you feel like when you wear them like a million dollars they are very very
00:30special then my father was going to attack it with a polishing drill because he thought it was dirty
00:36you basically saved its life anyone who can peer beyond the shoulders of the shopkeeper for all
00:41the best things are it's where all the best things are I'll also be talking all things ceramics with
00:48one of our experts when we pay a visit to Trenton Gardens in Staffordshire with this stunning lake
00:54this was created by capability Brown in the 18th century all of it dug by hand can you imagine
01:01it's just a stone's throw from Stoke-on-Trent and we were here almost 10 years ago with a roadshow but
01:08that time I was in a rowing boat this time a motor's doing all the hard work I'm glad to say welcome to
01:14the Antiques Road Show in June 2025 we spent a glorious day at Stephen's house in the leafy North London
01:40suburb of Finchley once owned by ink magnate and politician Henry Stephens the imposing Victorian
01:47mansion is set in 10 acres of landscaped gardens where a rare Chinese item has caught the eye of Lee
01:54Young when you brought this to my table I have to say I think I saw the cover first yeah and that got me
02:01excited but not nearly as excited as I was when I saw the whole thing it is simply beautiful it's lovely
02:07to hold now I need to know how you come to own such a thing my parents were very interested in Oriental
02:13art they traveled widely in Japan China when they came back to England they bought this I think in
02:21about the 50s 60s something like that and then my parents passed away been on my cabinet ever since
02:28and my daughter likes it too that sounds perfect it is Chinese close on a and it's a sensor which is an
02:37incense burn yes which is why we've got those holes in the top so close on a it's made up of these little
02:42sort of close on so this is wire work that's placed onto the metal and then they put in enamels and fire
02:49those enamels and then file down those enamels until you get this wonderful decoration I see it's actually
02:54sort of dates from the 18th century and it dates from the Qianlong period and so that's between
03:001736 to 1795 yeah I've had a really good look over and this doesn't seem to be any kind of
03:06blemishes or damage or anything like that over this piece at all you know the gilding's all in perfect
03:11condition and you know we look at the front here and you've got this lovely kind of lotus flower and
03:15all these lovely sort of scrolling colorful tendrils and other you know flower head motifs and then
03:21they're all below this lovely band of Rui heads or Lingzhu fungus the one thing I should say is the
03:27stand is much later now if I take the lid off first of all we can talk about this wonderful
03:33wear inside yes and then we can see we've got the label here Costellini who started out as a collector
03:40it says collection but he actually eventually became a dealer in his own right and had a shop in London
03:46and was actually retailing primarily kind of Asian art in London so they were buying I think they
03:53probably bought it from here bought it directly from him having that collector's label on there
03:58helps when things are being sold today at auction I can see this comfortably making between five to
04:05eight thousand pounds Wow thank you well what a spectacularly beautiful pair of enameled gold and diamond
04:21earrings tell us all about them well these were given to me by my grandmother who actually died aged 101
04:30goodness that was extremely close to her hmm she bought these earrings for herself and she always
04:37believed that they were Fabergé but that the mark was lost when she had them changed to clips rather
04:43than pierced ears because that was how she needed them but they have a very special place in my heart
04:49because of the connection with her I bet well the first thing to say just a point of accuracy is that
04:56they are not by Fabergé there's something really rather earlier than that which is fun I suspect that
05:02they're actually French and they are about 1840 to 1860 in date which precludes Fabergé by about 30
05:09years I'll have the fittings not been changed we might have got a little mark from Paris which would
05:14endorse what I said but I can tell you a sort of instinctively and nothing more than instinct that a
05:20firm called malario in Paris was making jewelry of this description they're one of the oldest
05:26businesses in Europe and they exist even today and have the most spectacular heritage they are enameled
05:33gold and they're heightened with brilliant diamonds and what do you feel like when you wear them like a
05:40million dollars they are very very special aren't they marvelous yes they really are they're ivy leaves and
05:46diamonds and in the Victorian 19th century language of flowers which was in France too ivy was for sort
05:53of tenacity and faithfulness and diamonds well forever beautiful articulated things and they
05:59come apart here on what's called a rat's tail and it's called a rat's tail because you can bring this
06:05forward and take it off so that's your dress down Friday ivy leaves and diamonds not very dressed down I
06:13have to say but nonetheless and when you're going out for something a bit more special you can add this
06:18marvelous drop so versatile is also a keynote of really great jewelry particularly in the 19th century and so tiaras
06:26make into necklaces and bracelets turn into brooches so all of that makes them
06:30covetable and valuable and earrings are often disproportionately valuable in our world but I think because of all the things that I've
06:40said about them if they were for sale they would probably cost about eight thousand pounds today
06:45that's wonderful I absolutely love them thank you thank you very much indeed
06:51so this looks like a pretty unremarkable restaurant bill doesn't it it's from parks restaurant in
07:07beach and place in London and it's dated 1965 what's going on with it my parents uh had an anniversary
07:14very special anniversary dinner right okay and yeah some interesting people were in the restaurant and if we
07:20turn it over we can see who those people are can't we because they were obviously john lennon and george
07:25harrison my father said uh to the maitre d can i uh can i ask them for their signatures and the maitre d said
07:33we don't do that at this restaurant sir and he stuck it in front of them in any way all right and they were
07:39more than delighted to sign it right okay and off he went excellent so were john and george kind of regular
07:44customers there apparently they were it's one of their favorite restaurants we're going to talk about value i mean
07:49obviously it's a family thing it's got that great story behind it but it's actually quite a valuable
07:53little thing okay and i think firsthand kind of accounts that really put you on the spot and you
07:58know that they're really genuine these signatures mean that this is worth one to one and a half thousand
08:03at auction okay it's not going anywhere but everybody says that i'm going to say that
08:06it's great thank you for bringing it thank you so much
08:09so am i looking at part of a larger collection or what no they're just the three bottles in the
08:31family we don't have any more you said the family are we going back in time we are they were always
08:38around in my grandma's house and i remembered them as a child many moons ago and they've been
08:44passed down through the generations we thought they might have come from germany or holland and from
08:52sort of research we thought they might be um sort of sick late 1600s right the right bits are the fact that
09:01these are probably german but they were made across you know into bohemia what is today the czech republic
09:08yeah um but we're not talking 1600s no we're talking 1700s all right right but what we're looking at is
09:18is a form of german folk art oh yes exactly because these are clear bottles these are in like a soda
09:25glass so there's no lead in them at all and they are then enameled by hand oh it's in with these
09:33spirited designs in other words there is a glass paste that's laid on and then they're then heated
09:40when the glass then solidifies and it anneals to the actual body so tell me your thoughts about them
09:46well i love the colors i like their simplicity the naivety of it and they've just been with us
09:53for so long that they're part of the family really yeah let's have a look at what we've got here first
09:59of all uh we have a white dog yes but what i love are the flowers the flowers are wonderful and even the
10:06corners have got these curly whirlies aren't they and so there's a lot going on even the shoulders
10:12have got beautiful decoration the little one in front there well that is all floral but what
10:19i love is the fact that the enamels are still there so often they get flaky and they disappear
10:25and let's go on to the big one now the big one's got everything going for it because the big one
10:30has got a little screw twist top the others you can see here should have had two screw twist
10:37tops so this is the premier example where you've got a milkmaid on one side and on the other side
10:46we've got what appears to be a raspberry or strawberry tree when it comes to the value i just wish they'd
10:53all got their tops their tops their screw twins but so let's just take them as three fabulous
11:00bus flasks and i would say that you would be looking in the region of around about 800 pounds
11:08to perhaps perhaps a thousand pounds good lord if they'd got their original tops i would have said a
11:14thousand to 1200 without hesitation right but what you've got is family treasure really exactly exactly
11:21the thing i love about this is something that's so beautifully simple so exquisitely put together
11:34yet conveys such a wonderful message and it seems so wonderfully observed this fabulous ceramic sculpture
11:40of a monkey and and her little baby here but before i reveal more of the story of it how does it come
11:46into your life in early 2000s my wife and i were away for a romantic weekend in budapest and we were
11:52in an antique shop and we were looking at various things and we love monkeys we'd spent time with this
11:58particular type of monkey in a sanctuary in france uh when we were talking to the owner uh there was a
12:04doorway behind him behind the counter and just through that i could see this up on a shelf slightly obscured
12:10we pleaded and begged and explained our passion and uh we agreed a price it was a couple of hundred
12:15pound and uh we brought it home with us i'm so pleased you've given me that link you've mentioned
12:21the fact that you're in budapest yeah and actually when we turn the monkey around on this side we've got
12:27and the name is actually written in reverse it's actually imre sime who is the hungarian aspect with this
12:33date of 1906 but also we have this mark here this quite intriguing little back stamp
12:40have you ever managed to find out who this is i know it's the wiener keramik mark brilliant well
12:46found this date of 1906 which is the year that this factory was opened by two great austrian sculptors
12:56michael pawonly and also berthold lofner right now when we look at this at the front we've got so many
13:05references the date itself actually belies the object because at first glance you look at this
13:12and you think this is art deco yes you think this is 1925 1930 this is 20 years before i felt it was
13:21sort of an art deco cubist look about it but as you say the date being so early didn't quite fit and i
13:29never really understood how that was and doesn't it show what a powerhouse and what was happening
13:36you know the change that was good this is a million miles away from victoriana from that late 19th century
13:42yes it's a mile away from art nouveau it's it's so far removed but shows the strength of movement
13:48that's really taking hold and going to come forward i i'm going to put a price on it my gut instinct is i
13:55feel that the market the appetite for this would be stronger in hungary i'm going to say an auction
14:02estimate of eight to twelve hundred pounds it was a lovely find i commend you for that thank you very
14:08much i commend you anyone who can peer beyond the shoulders of the shopkeeper it's where all the best
14:13things are it's where all the best things are
14:30back at trentum gardens i've got a chance to catch up with one of our longest serving experts
14:35john sandon his late father henry was with the roadshow almost from the start it's what we call
14:41slipware made in staffordshire somewhere around about 1700 and john himself joined in 1985 this
14:51has got to be one of the rarest pieces of english porcelain now after 40 years he's indisputably
14:57roadshow royalty so it's wonderful to be able to learn how his dad fired up his lifelong passion for
15:03pottery john i'm assuming that your illustrious father henry sandon had something to do with your
15:09interest well of course with a dad like that i mean how could i have done anything else he'd really
15:14got me started just as soon as i could walk in the garden picking up bits of broken pottery in that mug
15:20incredibly i helped dad join that together from broken bits when i was just five or maybe six he dug
15:27it up in the garden all little tiny bits i helped him wash them join them together and i was amazed that
15:33something 300 years old could come back to life from being broken so as well as digging up in the
15:38garden did you dig up further afield dad loved archaeology of all sorts but in worcester he used
15:44to go for walks around the city and took me with him and if ever he saw any workmen had been digging a
15:50hole he would lower me down into the trench and toss me down a trowel and a paper bag to pick up any
15:56bits of broken pottery then i'd take them home wash them in the sink and he would show me in the books
16:03what they were part of and so professionally how did it begin for you when i was 13 he sent me up to
16:10london and gave me 20 quid and said go and buy something rare and something unusual down portobello
16:17road and i bought this little pot i recognized this was from ancient peru it's a whistling pot it came
16:24from the time of inca gosh so what 1300 to 1500 about that that's right and so this would have
16:30been in a grave somewhere up in the andes and the spirits of the dead would have been released when
16:35the bird sings and i saw it on the stall there and realized it still works oh let's hear as the air goes
16:42through the little chambers the bird sings away 18 pounds i paid and brought it back to my dad he wanted
16:50to give me a profit for it but i i wouldn't sell it to him i've kept it ever since quite right too
16:56and then from there you went into the business i was only 16 i was still at school doing my a levels
17:02when i was offered a job in a london auction house in bond street i learned and brought along the knowledge
17:08i've been gaining on old pottery and particularly about worcester porcelain and what about this piece
17:14how does this fit into your life well this goes back to my dad's love of worcester especially his
17:20work he was the curator of the porcelain works at worcester and one of the great craftsmen who'd been
17:26there all his life was harry davis who painted that vase i would have been 10. dad took me on to
17:33a little room in the factory and introduced me to harry davis just sitting there calmly painting a whole
17:38pile of plates i was mesmerized and i admired him so much how he did this when he was a teenager oh
17:45it was made in 1903 and it was his first vase painted with a view of kemsey near worcester in winter
17:52i mean nowadays his vases fetch thousands of pounds but i grew up staring at that vase as dad did
17:59and loved it too now it's mine and of course porcelain doesn't get better than that who knows more
18:06about ceramics and pottery than you pay i mean i i can't imagine of course your father sadly is no
18:11longer with us but such a stalwart of the show as you have been for so many years and a real treat
18:17actually john to hear about your life in ceramics thank you no it means a lot to me too
18:27in early summer we visited shuttleworth house a striking victorian mansion set in four and a half
18:33thousand acres of bedfordshire countryside while we were there we were treated to a fly pass by a
18:38spitfire a miscellaneous expert paul atterbury was fascinated to hear the story of one pilot's
18:47all but forgotten contribution to the war effort now i'm looking at a group of obviously aviation
18:54things here there's a model of a a gloster meteor there's some medals there's an award and it's
19:01obviously an aviation story and here we've got a photograph of a an amazingly jolly group captain
19:07who's he this is our father group captain h.j wilson known by everyone as willie wilson and these
19:14things you live with them yeah if i'm a child they were in the flat although the medals were not on
19:18display my brother had those framed they were just hidden in a drawer so where does his life begin
19:24in the air force so he joined up before the war and actually left the raf before the war started
19:31and then as soon as the war started he was brought back in as a test pilot we don't often get the
19:36chance to talk about people who were equally brave who were never fighting the enemy directly and
19:42testing airplanes of course was the basis for everything his particular job at farnborough where
19:47he was based from 1941 was to test airplanes here we have a model of a gloster meteor this is the first
19:57jet war plane used by the allies it was developed from 1940 first flew in 1943 and went to service in july 1944
20:10with a 616 squadron you know the jet was a new concept and your father i think pioneered that and
20:17also most important he taught people how to fly it you'd flown a spitfire hurricane you couldn't just
20:24step into this and fly it because the whole technology was completely different but this became the mainstay
20:30of the air force thousands were made it was used by air forces all over the place and he was very much
20:35involved in getting that plane to become the famous thing it was and that takes us on to really in
20:43a way back to the photograph what's going on here so that's eric greenwood that's my father eric greenwood
20:49was working for gloucester my father for the air force and the same day in herm bay in 1945 they both
20:55had a go at breaking the world speed record at the end of it they awarded it to eric greenwood and my
21:02father and went off to lick his wounds er it was only a few hours later they discovered they got
21:07the maths wrong and realized it was my father who had broken the world speed record so yeah numbers
21:13absolutely wonderful very very very british yes oh great i think it's only three miles an hour between
21:18the two it wasn't very great wasn't it 606 that's right that he got the speed record we've got a case
21:24of medals here which we must end with normally we're looking at medals awarded in combat here is a group that
21:29has no combat association whatsoever these are the standard medals this is an air force cross
21:37with two bars which means he was given three air force crosses and this is a cbe
21:44this is truly exceptional for a truly exceptional man and in terms of value you're looking at a lot of
21:52money here are you aware of that i mean i have no idea to be honest well an air force cross with two
21:59bars well you can start at 10 000 pounds right and probably go up right okay you're supposed to say
22:07something now we have no plans to sell them yeah it's something we obviously get very proud of but yeah
22:14keeping it in the family i mean i think it's it's it's very exciting to see such a thing because
22:18i'll never see it again he must have been an extraordinary man extraordinary achievements
22:23in very many fields of war that we never really think about yes so thank you very much thank you
22:35something you just grew up with and almost it was normal but it wasn't normal it was extraordinary
22:40what he did but now i'm incredibly proud of what he did and it's extremely appropriate that a spitfire
22:47should be flying over perhaps he's sort of come back to super supervise the event
23:02the wedgwood vase of huge scale tell me all about it with you well as much as i know it was my
23:12grandfather's and i'm not sure where he got it from and he kept it on the staircase in his house in
23:19annick when he passed away he then left it to my dad who then passed it to me when he passed away
23:24now this is a potpourri vase we know that because the lid is pierced so those lovely holes would
23:31allow the perfume to fill the room it's jasperware it was called jasperware because it was meant to
23:37mimic the mineral jasper the clay body which was a grayish white material would have been dipped into
23:44a dyed slip of blue dark blue in this case which is very much for the period of around 1840 1860
23:52so that's when this piece was made gosh is it different with it being the dark blue as well is that
23:58yes the dark blue was more popular in the 19th century the lighter blues came in later yeah and
24:05it's beautifully styled with these classical figures on the outside each one molded separately and applied
24:10to the body of the vase in this white relief like a cameo effect so they they really feel like these
24:17figures are coming towards you it's just such a beautiful three-dimensional piece what is unusual is
24:23the pedestal base the vases are usually smaller maybe the lid's not pierced for the potpourri but
24:29this has got all of it this has got the pierced lid and it's got the base it just elevates it literally
24:35to something more special than just a vase and cover i think it's a wonderful thing it shows all all the
24:41masterful craftsmanship at the wedgwood factory of the time if this were to come up at auction
24:48it would make somewhere in the region of a thousand pounds to fifteen hundred pounds
24:54that's very nice but i wouldn't sell it you know it's heritage to me i'm an only child and so
24:59with my mum and dad so to me it's something that i'll treasure
25:09is it a bird is it a plane it looks like a little superman figure to me can you tell me a little bit more
25:14about it so it's a peg doll that my mum made when she was asked to do some work on the production of
25:21the original superman movie my mum was approached or the company she worked for was approached to see
25:27whether she could come up with a way of waterproofing the costume to be used in one of the scenes where
25:33superman goes into the water comes out of the water and the water just drips straight off him and
25:39he's looking as pristine as he went in so she said yeah i can come up with a chemical that can do that
25:45and eventually said yeah i think i've got something that will work and they said great do you want to
25:50come and see it being used in the film she said great they were pleased christopher reeve was pleased
25:56he had lunch with mum bought her a bouquet of flowers say thank you for coming up with this solution
26:02and with the original swatches mum made a uniform and a cape for the peg doll so the actual construction
26:12of this suit was really quite a complex and involved process there was a lot of testing that went into
26:18it there were a lot of problems with it not just getting the form to fit christopher reeve perfectly but
26:23also consideration of sweat would you believe the suits were made by a company called bermans and nathans
26:29they were the costumers for the film and the gentleman noel howard who run the floor for
26:33bermans and nathans at that time actually found a company in europe who produced this fabric with
26:38this very very special weave but they obviously still hadn't resolved coming out of water those sort
26:43of shots which your mother was so involved with i mean this was a big production for one of the
26:49studios and of course we've gone on and seen many iterations of superman since so this is a wonderful
26:54piece of memorabilia this peg doll but what we're really focused on here is actually the cloth components
27:00themselves because those are samples of the original costume that christopher reeve wore in the film
27:06superman which is amazing that it survived and i think this would have an auction estimate of somewhere
27:10in the region of about three to five hundred pounds but really it's more about the backstory and
27:15it's about the history of it that's more important perhaps than the financial absolutely is thank you
27:28you have bought me in an interesting sword it is a tool wire hilted shamshir this extravagantly curved
27:36blade shamshir means lion's claw so whose sword is it why have you got it it's a sword owned by
27:45a chap called lieutenant edward kelly of waterloo it's been in the family for a very long time
27:51the history is my great great great great something grandmother was his wife right so that has all
27:58stayed in our family ever since my father passed away last year my uncle passed away this year as we start
28:05to lose a lot of the knowledge around it it's i'm interested to know more about it really kelly was in
28:12one of the last charges at waterloo he took out a french colonel cut his epaulets off his uniform
28:18and nicked his horse he was the most amazing chap hence waterloo kelly he subsequently went out to india
28:26where i suspect yeah this sword came from he was out there with his son and i think they were at the siege
28:33of baratpur this shamshir with a tulmar hilt it's very nice this is gold kuf gari work the scabbard
28:42itself is silver mounted i can see why the thing was taken i would think because of the story and we
28:50can tie it to waterloo kelly i could see that making a thousand pounds oh really but the sword itself
28:59of course brings waterloo kelly story to life and it's a fabulous thing which i very reluctantly
29:07will give back to you thank you very much thank you very much for bringing it in it will stay with
29:10the family splendid thank you
29:27from bedfordshire we headed north in july to the east coast of scotland and the hill of tarvit in fife
29:33an edwardian mansion built for mill owner frederick sharp containing all manner of mod cons
29:40including the most lavish of condiment trolleys this silver galleon or neff could be wheeled along the
29:48table like so to the delight of the assembled guests it was both a conversation piece and a
29:58very effective way of showing just how wealthy sharp was and out in the grounds lee young has spotted
30:05another fascinating curiosity so i would say normally this type of screen would be to sort of
30:14cover up something or you while you were you know getting redressed or undressed or i'm not actually
30:21sure this kind of miniature decorative version would cover much up actually it would not but what do you
30:27know about it my great grandfather bought it he traveled to japan on a selling trip he had linen
30:34company and um he bought it and then it belonged to my grandmother and my mother then my father and then
30:41my father was going to attack it with a polishing drill because he thought it was dirty and so i just
30:47managed to catch it in time and took it off him and that's why i've got it now because it could have
30:53been disaster you basically saved its life i saved its life yes first thing to say about this is it's
30:58just lovely quality you're absolutely right it's japanese yes i think it late dates from the sort of
31:03late you know part of the 1800s and it's a type of work called sort of damascene and that is a process
31:09of inlaying metals on top of one another to create a pattern but it's got a little sort of signature or
31:17a little seal down here so that actually says that it's a komai sebe who was a metal worker and set up a
31:24workshop in kyoto in 1841 and producing this type of decorative object yeah you've got that lovely kind
31:34of you know mount fuji in the background but just this sort of continuous landscape with the temple
31:39there and i think that's a sort of bit of a waterfall going on there and you know the attention
31:43to detail is so good it's just beautiful and the other thing i would say is that the condition
31:48is so good so where does it live just it's just on a kind of a um a dresser yeah it's kind of out of
31:54sunlight just there and just like ignore it and every now and again i i look at it yeah i know you like
32:00it do you like it oh i love it yeah it's the fine detail and it's typically japanese with all the sort
32:05of the the formal garden scenes and whatever but uh just the intricacy of the whole thing is phenomenal
32:11you know this is the sort of thing that would have been made for the western market now considering
32:15its size i think it would carry quite a decent estimate at auction i think if that came up it would
32:19probably make between eight to twelve hundred pounds okay that's lovely you know at a sale thank you
32:25it was a surprising bit i didn't realize it was maybe worth that much i knew that it was beautiful
32:33but beauty and um being worth anything is totally different
32:45we have two brooches two completely different styles and i'd love to start with this one here
32:51could you tell me what you think those are they're cameos and is it onyx absolutely so they're carved so
32:59most people do call them cameos however because they are incised they're actually called intaglio
33:06intaglio and they are usually carved from sardonyx onyx agates etc in this case we have mars the roman
33:17god of war and we have him twice the carving is incredibly detailed which is the main mark of
33:25quality when it comes to looking at cameos and intaglio's they were typically made in italy but then
33:32also throughout europe in the 1860s 70s and 80s could you tell me a little bit about the history of it
33:39well all i know is that my great great great grandmother came on the grand tour yeah she was
33:47over here in the 1850s and maybe early 1860s and it wouldn't surprise me if some or all of this
33:55piece came from that period my hunch is that they brought those back and just the intaglio yes and
34:03had them set in this style of mount and the reason is because the jewelry that was being made in
34:09the mid 19th century didn't look anything like this yes of course the alternative is that she purchased
34:17the jewel in italy on her grand tour i'm gonna move to the crescent brooch now which is a completely
34:23different type of jewel and this is a form we see quite often but the reason that this caught my eye
34:30was because of the sapphires they are a beautiful vibrant hue sometimes sapphires can be over dark
34:40and a bit muddy looking but these are very vibrant very bright blue do you think that they came from
34:48the same person i have a feeling that they all came from the daughter of my great great great great
34:56grandmother and we always knew this lady as mama child so it wouldn't surprise me if this
35:00was something like this right in terms of value this one at auction today i could see in the region
35:06of 1500 to 2500 pounds and this lovely crescent brooch at 700 to a thousand pounds oh god i think
35:17they're family heirlooms aren't they i can't be the one to break the chain i'm so glad you came and
35:22shared them with us today and really enjoyed chatting to you i enjoyed it very much and thank you very much
35:27indeed for your expertise so here we are the hill of tarvit beautiful landscape surrounding us and
35:38you've brought a painting by the great colorist artist george leslie hunter which is he's probably
35:44one of my favorite scottish colorists what's your history with it i acquired it back in 2007 i was very
35:51keen to get a fife painting i liked a fife painting uh it's about five miles from where i live and it's
35:59it's just a less than a mile from here so he's nicely signed it here l hunter so he was born on the isle
36:05butte and then early on he moves with his family to california and then comes back to scotland in about
36:111906 after being to paris and i think some of these later landscapes really are where he's settled and
36:18happier and you know this really was the time for scottish colorists actually what brings my eyes
36:24into this picture is actually that incredibly intense green right on the sort of top of the hill
36:30you can see where he's used his brush and pulled it right across big broad brush stroke and then he's
36:35turned it upside down and then incised the oils with his brush i think that's really lovely and i suppose
36:42these five landscapes are so characteristic because of the red rooftops and he really captures those
36:48in such well i mean it's it's a colorist painting but they're just such bold colors it's going to be
36:53painted probably around sort of circa 1920. we're talking about uh 18 or so years ago when you bought
37:00it what did you pay it was a london sale and yeah i pushed the board out and it was sort of high 20s
37:06you paid at the time a strong price for it but i still think in the current market people would chase
37:12this picture is a good scale it's very bold in color and i'm going to value it 30 to 50 000. gosh
37:18lovely that's nice thank you very much that's very nice it's a lovely painting though as you
37:23see it's strong color look at the greens and the red it's fantastic
37:26so let's get this right you've come on a backpacking holiday from australia yes and you brought some
37:43antiques with you yes because you knew the antiques roadshow was going on absolutely you've got some
37:48fantastic things early tree beautiful handmade wooden boxes which is your favorite one i've
37:54probably got two that's one right this is a burr wood and silver mounted snuff box and because of
38:01its size it's a table snuff box or a snuff mull right it's early 18th century it's going to be george
38:08the first or very early george the second 17 25 17 that sort of time and that's the other one and
38:15then your other favorite is this sweet little it's rosewood isn't it yes my favorite is the firmware
38:22piece what a wonderful survival and and what amazing condition it's in and it's a souvenir wear piece
38:28because it has the isle of white scene on the top value wise are we looking at the best part of 700
38:37to a thousand pounds lovely yeah lovely
38:50when we think of crimean war nurses we we were talking at school about florence nightingale weren't we
38:57but actually this lady here was in the crimea involved in nursing who is she indeed she's eliza
39:03mckenzie she nursed at therapia and florence nightingale was at scutari and as far as we
39:11are aware they were actually quite good friends as well so they're literally over the other side of
39:17istanbul off the bosporus yes absolutely she was actually a lady superintendent and they weren't trained
39:24nurses they held almost an administrative leadership role so she would have been overseeing the nurses
39:31and the patient care she was out there i think in about 1855 wasn't she the brooch that we're looking
39:38at was presented to her in 1856 this is this one here yes i'm going to read the back because it's a
39:44beautiful inscription it says presented by the sultan to mrs mckenzie in acknowledgement of her services
39:54in the hospitals of the british army in the east 1856. so this is the sultan of the ottoman empire
40:04abdul majid who was so grateful to these nurses for their help in healing the wounded and the sick and
40:14it's a beautifully made brooch in 18 karat gold and this is enamel yeah the red of the flag of turkey
40:21i thought it was enamel yes and set with these beautiful rose cut diamonds really catching the
40:27light and it would have been a european made piece it's not a turkish how did you get the brooch well
40:34the brooch was given to me by my aunt she inherited it from well it obviously went down the line but
40:41eliza was my great great great aunt and you've brought along the watercolour of her yes so was
40:48this just before she went she's 23 in the picture so yes i would think it would have been just before she
40:54went yeah and it's by great scottish artist kenneth mcclay so he was famous for painting queen victoria's
41:02children all right and he was renowned for creating amazing likenesses of his sitter so we can be
41:10pretty sure that's what you look this is what she looked like i think the brooch in itself because it
41:16has that connection to early nursing in the crimea it's got to be worth between three and five thousand
41:23pounds wow the watercolor it's got to be worth a thousand two thousand pounds as well really so
41:30lovely to have the two and and that family indeed has kept them together you you must be very proud
41:36of her indeed thank you so much for telling her story
41:50from the sweeping beauty of scotland's east coast we're returning to staffordshire and the tranquility
41:56of trenton gardens in an area famed for its craftsmanship our ceramics expert will farmer is
42:03putting my antiques knowledge to the test with three exquisite pieces we've got a little game here
42:11where we have to rank them according to their age tell me more well i'm sort of calling this my masters
42:19of design because fundamentally while we have three very different objects they all have their origins and
42:26their foundations of design in one key art movement which is cubism now cubism of course as you well
42:33know is one of the most influential art movements of the 20th century inspired and really pioneered by
42:40the likes of picasso and brack and it was about really disassembling everything and reconstructing it and
42:46transferring how you look at form and shape we have three things here this incredible vase with these forms
42:54sitting on top of each other yet with these sort of abstracted roses an incredible bit of design
43:00in the middle i mean wow he's a bit of a showstopper isn't it and this is an incredible piece of glass
43:06making this is done in a cameo process where layer upon layer of glass is cased one on top of the other
43:13and then cut back to give this amazing very dynamic geometric abstract design and then nearest you we
43:21have this sort of abstracted helmet head form i mean it's just been broken sliced and reconstructed
43:28it's got essence of people like brancusi to it in terms of their ages they're all 30 years apart
43:34so one of them dates from the 1930s one of them dates from the 1960s and one of them dates from the 1990s
43:43so it's across that whole of the 20th century but the question is what is the correct order
43:52oh goodness i didn't think any of them would be as recent as the 1990s
43:56oh i don't know come on you've got to help me out here so 30s 60s and 90s for me i would say
44:03that the vase at the end is the 30s yeah me too the one in the middle will be the 60s
44:10and then that one will be the the 90s yes i wondered about that you see there's a date on
44:17the back which will has put a pink sticker over on one which is not very not very helpful
44:22i'm almost the same 30s yeah 60s 90s okay oh well i would have thought that was 30s okay a little
44:34of ours looking at this and the the arrows on it and the shapes on it that felt earlier than the 60s
44:40to me i'd be amazed if you are talking yourself into it so don't talk yourself out of it okay so
44:4630s yeah 60s 90s locked in final answer yes you got it oh thank goodness
44:53well done oh my goodness i get so many of these wrong as you know at home so nearest me
45:02we have the most incredible piece by claris cliff oh is it yes i would not have put that as claris
45:09cliff actually so this is the yo-yo vase one of the most daring forms that she ever ever created
45:17a piece that when it was revisited by wedgwood as a reproduction they struggled to work out how she
45:24created it back in the 30s and it took them a while to actually get there inspired by the work of maison
45:30desney dates from around 1930 and today uh that vase is worth between three and four thousand pounds
45:39nearest you isn't it wonderful love this this is by troika ah but it's an incredibly rare piece of
45:46troika this is really as high up the scale as you'd ever want to see and absolutely pulling in all those
45:54elements of early cubism worth four to six thousand pounds and then in the middle which is so wonderful
46:02is a piece by a glass maker called anthony wassell he was actually a glass maker working in the 1990s
46:10in matlock in derbyshire and this is a range called delta but again all pulling in those lovely abstracted
46:17forms and worth probably about eight to twelve hundred pounds oh but three incredible pieces
46:25and you got it oh gotta get one occasionally what a treat though will especially this one
46:31i love this one yes well done
46:47in the height of summer we set up shop at lister park in bradford
46:54it was created in 1870 when local textile entrepreneur samuel cunliffe lister sold the
47:00land to the city council at a bargain price on the condition that it was turned into a public park
47:06and in a quiet corner hillary kaye came across a fascinating collection of items
47:11that textile expert lister may well have recognized
47:17i've got a really great display here of bone lace bobbins used in the lace making business
47:24and i've got a photograph of a lady making lace now how is everything linked through to you well these
47:31bobbins were owned by my grandmother and she was born in only in bedfordshire which in the 19th century
47:39was one of the main areas of lace making at school they learned both lace making and reading writing and
47:46arithmetic if when they got to about 12 they were good enough they became lace makers but my grandmother
47:53didn't become a lace maker because she wasn't good enough so she went into service and eventually met
48:00my grandfather and raised a family and when my grandfather died she started to make lace again
48:09so these were hers or you acquired them these were hers so a lovely group here dating from the late 19th
48:17century and in really very good condition but you can feel that they've been handled which is which is
48:22great yes and these are bone bobbins they've been hand turned on a treadle lathe probably to make them
48:31and they're decorated in various different ways some of them have got wire wound around them others
48:36have got just colored decoration but to me the ones that are really great are the ones that have got
48:42little messages or names here we've got betty um here we've got mother but here oh you can imagine
48:51getting this and it says love give me a kiss now you'd have to marry her if you gave her that wouldn't
49:01you and she'd have to say yes i think so they also were used for memorials so there'd be a name of
49:08somebody who was no longer there or in actually the really valuable ones somebody who was a criminal
49:14who'd been hung yes so murderers people love to buy a murderer's name i think there's only about seven
49:21recorded ones that were from hangings or murderers and of course they're very scarce now so i don't know
49:28what you'd value no no those are almost priceless so as a group i would say that the cumulative value
49:34would be something between four and five hundred pounds all right i should just say that my
49:39grandmother could only make these three patterns shown in the photograph there but i'm sure she
49:44could do them absolutely brilliantly she could probably do them with her eyes oh well you're very
49:50honest thank you very much for bringing them into it thank you it's a pleasure
50:00well i can see immediately that it is a early victorian watch what do you know about it very
50:08little to be honest um my brother and i inherited it off my uncle last year and we just found it whilst
50:16clearing his house out and and even my mother doesn't know who it would have originally belonged
50:20to let's turn it over and see immediately it's had a hard life it's very very rubbed there's a very
50:26nice london hallmark there 18 carat gold right for london 1842 let's open that up you put your thumb in
50:35there and that is actually a rather nice movement david morris fenchurch street london interesting balance
50:45with these weights but it's a lovely thing and this is the problem although the movement's lovely
50:55the watch is not worth a great deal as a watch okay sadly the entire value is in the gold case
51:04okay at the minute gold is over 57 pounds a gram for 18 carat this is a heavy watch
51:12there's going to be about two and a half thousand pounds of milk gold in there right okay well it's
51:21what we call too heavy for its own good yeah and the girls looking at it avidly oh yeah ice creams
51:27could you buy me great thank you very much
51:42my great-great-grandmother brought it to america from italy yeah you've got some diamonds on the
51:48shoulders here you've got those two stones then they've got an orange one in the middle yeah and
51:53then the top that's a diamond in the center small diamonds around the side well i think it's a very
51:59beautiful ring and at auction you would be looking at around about 800 to a thousand pounds yeah and one
52:06day you might have it yeah what we have here must be a very rare survivor as a program and souvenir
52:26of the large suffragette march which was held at hyde park and you see it says here votes for women
52:32on the the 21st of june in 1908 how did you come to have it well to be honest i just found it in a
52:38little envelope folded up in a case that was my father's and it was years after his died that we
52:44found it no idea where it no idea where it came from at all well it's printed on the flimsiest paper
52:51and so it you know it is a very rare survivor and of course this was when the women's political
52:56movement was actually sort of gaining momentum and there had been a march the previous week
53:01but this was by far the biggest political march that at that time had ever been held in britain
53:07and it is thought that around 30 000 women arrived and they all converged on hyde park whether there was a
53:14a huge meeting and as we can see here it says 20 platforms with 80 women speakers now we have sort of
53:21emily in pankhurst of course which is the name that we all know who's associated with the suffragette
53:26movement similar things do come up for sale at auction very very occasionally and the last one
53:33of these that i did actually see though it wasn't printed in quite the same manner as this actually
53:37sold for about 350 pounds gosh yeah to fair sum for something basically that was just such a throwaway
53:44item at exactly yes i'm really so delighted to see it and thank you for bringing it in thank you
53:54they may not be the best paintings in the world but they're really interesting and fun and i think
53:59they're very honest they tell you so much about this man his wife and their two children who are they
54:06to you so this is my great great great grandfather nicholas coldwell and he was a drum major in the cold
54:12stream guards and this is uh his daughter and then this is his wife mary and their son henry
54:21henry's dressed very much as small boys were in the 1840s in this sort of rather feminine outfit with
54:27bloomers the works but he's very fierce look he's drawn his sword he's wearing an extraordinary hat which
54:32looks along with the rest of the costume of his mother rather spanish they're both oil on canvas and
54:39they survived very well so your family's looked after them awfully well i think they've been in
54:43our family since they were painted that would make sense the family believe they were painted about
54:481851. i would have said the costume was slightly earlier 1840s but family history is usually right
54:54and that huge canon behind what's that so this is called the cadiz memorial and it's in the corner of
55:01horse guards parade still in london and it is a memorial to the battle of cadiz and the battle of
55:07salamanca afterwards it's absolutely amazing they're informal poses but it is unusual to put the
55:14daughter with the father in a military context and the son with the mother in a rural context it's very
55:20studio done so what do you like about these pictures is it the blonde girl with her ringlets this fierce
55:25warrior here or i think this is probably my favorite yeah because he's my relative and actually my
55:33grandfather looked quite a lot like this so there is a family resemblance and i'm named after the
55:39little girl so i think that would have to be my favorite and uh and this is his um mace is it we
55:44believe so yes do you sort of throw it up in the air when the band's going and all that well i'm not quite
55:49sure probably to let the rest of the band know what they're meant to be doing absolutely brilliant if
55:54that's the same scale as the one in the painting he wasn't a tall person was he no we've got some
55:59idea it's in army records that he was about five foot six oh okay okay that's about a foot shorter
56:05than me which is about right it's a magnificent thing he's wearing isn't it and he's full of
56:10pomp and circumstance i love the children they look so cheeky so i'm going to put i don't know six to
56:16eight thousand pounds on them i know i've gone overboard but they're okay how wonderful i think
56:22they're worth that thank you it's been lovely to revisit our venues from the summer but before we go
56:31back at trentum gardens there's just time to swoop in on one of stoke-on-trent's most famous pieces
56:37of pottery we couldn't come to stoke without visiting an old trend remember him aussie the owl of course he
56:45came along to the roadshow in 1990 he was spotted spotted by your dad john by much loved henry sandin
56:52aussie is a 300 year old piece of staffershire slipware made in the local area and after the
56:57program aussie was sold to stoke city council and the potteries museum and they tell me that he is
57:02one of their favorite exhibits so it's very nice to be reunited with him and for the program to have
57:07played a small part in his story so from aussie and all of us here at trentum gardens bye-bye
57:16festive family treasures getting magical makeovers press red for the repair shop at christmas on bbc
57:22iplayer new next year on bbc one an office party to die for it's the death in paradise christmas special
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