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00:00giving you the chance to show our experts your cherished items
00:04but our summer roadshows have proved so popular we haven't been able to pack in all the pieces
00:09you brought along so tonight we'll be showing some unseen moments from some of our most memorable
00:14venues across the summer coming up is it a bird is it a plane it looks like a little superman figure
00:21to me what do you feel like when you wear them like a million dollars they are very very special
00:26then my father was going to attack it with a polishing drill because he thought it was dirty
00:31you basically saved its life anyone who can peer beyond the shoulders of the shopkeeper
00:36it's for all the best things are it's where all the best things are i'll also be talking all things
00:42ceramics with one of our experts when we pay a visit to trentum gardens in staffordshire with
00:48this stunning lake this was created by capability brown in the 18th century all of it dug by hand
00:56can you imagine it's just a stone's throw from stoke-on-trent and we were here almost 10 years
01:02ago with the roadshow but that time i was in a rowing boat this time a motor's doing all the hard work
01:07i'm glad to say welcome to the antiques roadshow
01:23in june 2025 we spent a glorious day at stevens house in the leafy north london suburb of finchley
01:37once owned by ink magnate and politician henry stevens the imposing victorian mansion is set in 10
01:44acres of landscaped gardens where a rare chinese item has caught the eye of lee young
01:49when you brought this to my table i have to say i think i saw the cover first yeah and that got me
01:56excited but not nearly as excited as i was when i saw the whole thing it is simply beautiful it's
02:02lovely to hold now i need to know how you come to own such a thing my parents were very interested in
02:08oriental art they traveled widely in japan china when they came back to england they bought this i think in
02:16about the 50s 60s something like that and then my parents passed away been on my cabinet ever since
02:23and my daughter likes it too that sounds perfect it is chinese clazon a and it's a sensor which is an
02:32incense burner yes which is why we've got those of course holes in the top so clazon a it's made up
02:37of these little sort of clothes on so this is wire work that's placed onto the metal and then they put in
02:42enamels and fire those enamels and then file down those enamels until you get this wonderful
02:47decoration ah i see it actually sort of dates from the 18th century and it dates from the chenlong
02:54period and so that's between 1736 to 1795 yeah i've had a really good look over and this doesn't
03:00seem to be any kind of blemishes or damage or anything like that over this piece at all you know
03:04the gilding's all in perfect condition and you know we look at the front here and you've got this lovely
03:09kind of lotus flower and all these lovely sort of scrolling colorful tendrils and other you know
03:14flower head motifs and then they're all below this lovely band of ruey heads or lingju fungus the one
03:21thing i should say is the stand is much later now if i take the lid off first of all we can talk about
03:27this wonderful uh where inside yes and then we can see we've got the label here costellani who started
03:35out as a collector it says collection but he actually eventually became a dealer in his own
03:39right and had a shop in london and was actually retailing primarily kind of asian art in london
03:46so they were buying i think they probably bought it from him bought it directly from him having that
03:51collector's label on there helps when things are being sold today at auction i can see this
03:58comfortably making between five to eight thousand pounds wow thank you
04:11well what a spectacularly beautiful pair of enameled gold and diamond earrings
04:17tell us all about them well these were given to me by my grandmother who um
04:22actually died aged 101 goodness i was extremely close to her she bought these earrings for herself
04:31and she always believed that they were fabergé but that the mark was lost when she had them changed
04:37to clips rather than pierced ears because that was how she needed them but they have a very special
04:44place in my heart because of the connection with her i bet well the first thing to say just for a point of
04:49accuracy is that they they are not by fabergé there's something really rather earlier than that
04:54which is fun i suspect that they're actually french and they are about 1840 to 1860 in date which
05:02precludes fabergé by about 30 years well had the fittings not been changed we might have got a little
05:07mark from paris which would endorse what i said but i can tell you that sort of instinctively and nothing
05:14more than instinct that a firm called malario in paris was making jewelry of this description they're
05:20one of the oldest businesses in europe and they exist even today and have the most spectacular heritage
05:27they are enameled gold and they're heightened with brilliant diamonds and what do you feel like when
05:34you wear them like a million dollars they are very very special are they marvelous yes they really are
05:40they're ivy leaves and diamonds and in the victorian 19th century language of flowers which was in
05:46france too ivy was for sort of tenacity and faithfulness and diamonds well forever beautiful
05:52articulated things and they come apart here on what's called a rat's tail and it's called a rat's tail
05:58because you can bring this forward and take it off so that's your dress down friday ivy leaves and
06:06diamonds not very dressed down i have to say but nonetheless and when you're going out for something
06:11a bit more special you can add this marvelous drop so versatile is also a keynote of really great jewelry
06:18particularly in the 19th century and so tiaras make into necklaces and bracelets turn into brooches
06:24so all of that makes them covetable and valuable and earrings are often disproportionately valuable in our
06:32world but i think because of all the things that i've said about them if they were for sale they
06:37would probably cost about 8 000 pounds today that's wonderful i absolutely love them thank you thank you
06:45very much indeed
06:57so this looks like a pretty unremarkable restaurant bill doesn't it it's from parks restaurant in
07:02beach and place in london and it's dated 1965 what's going on with it my parents uh had an
07:08anniversary very special anniversary dinner right okay and yeah some interesting people were in the
07:14restaurant and if we turn it over we can see who those people are can't we because they were
07:18obviously john lennon and george harrison my father said uh to the maitre d can i uh can i ask them for
07:26their signatures and the maitre d said we don't do that at this restaurant so and he stuck it in front
07:32of them in anyway all right and they were more than delighted to sign it right okay excellent so were
07:38john and george kind of regular customers there apparently they were one of their favorite restaurants
07:42we're going to talk about value i mean obviously it's a family thing it's got that great story
07:46behind it but it's actually quite a valuable little thing okay and i think first-hand kind of accounts
07:51that really put you on the spot and you know that they're really genuine these signatures mean that
07:56this is worth one to one and a half thousand at auction okay it's not going anywhere but everybody
08:00says that i'm going 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
08:26family we don't have any more you said the family are we going back in time we are they were always
08:33around in my grandma's house and i remember them as a child many moons ago and they've been passed down
08:40through the generations we thought they might have come from germany or holland and from sort of
08:47research we thought they might be um sort of sick late 1600s right the right bits are the fact that
08:56these are probably german but they were made across you know into bohemia what is today the czech republic
09:03yeah um but we're not talking 1600s no we're talking 1700s all right right but what we're looking
09:13at is a is a form of german folk art oh yes because these are clear bottles these are in like a soda glass
09:21so there's no lead in them at all and they are then enameled by hand oh it's in with these spirited
09:30designs in other words there is a glass paste that's laid on and then they're then heated when
09:35the glass then solidifies and it anneals to the actual body so tell me of your thoughts about them
09:41well i love the colors i like their simplicity the naivety of it and they've just been with
09:48us for so long that they're part of the family really yeah let's have a look at what we've got
09:54here first of all uh we have a white dog yes but what i love are the flowers the flowers are wonderful
10:00and even the corners have got these curly whirlies aren't they and so there's a lot going on even the
10:06shoulders have got beautiful decoration the little one in front there well that is all floral but what
10:14i love is the fact that the enamels are still there so often they get flaky and they disappear
10:20and let's go on to the big one now the big one's got everything going for it because the big one
10:26has got a little screw twist top the others you can see here should have had two screw twist tops so this
10:34is the premier example where you've got a milkmaid on one side and on the other side we've got
10:42what appears to be a raspberry or strawberry tree when it comes to the value i just wish they'd all
10:49got their tops their tops their screw twins but so let's just take them as three fabulous
10:55burst flasks and i would say that you would be looking in the region of around about
11:01eight hundred pounds to perhaps perhaps a thousand pounds good lord if they'd got their original tops
11:09i would have said a thousand to twelve hundred without hesitation right but what you've got is
11:14family's treasure really exactly exactly
11:23the thing i love about this is something that's so beautifully simple so exquisitely put together yet
11:30conveys such a wonderful message and it seems so wonderfully observed this fabulous ceramic sculpture
11:35of a monkey and and her little baby here but before i reveal more of the story of it how does it come
11:41into your life in early 2000s my wife and i were away for a romantic weekend in budapest and we were in
11:47an antique shop and we were looking at various things and we love monkeys we'd spent time with this
11:53particular type of monkey in sanctuary in france uh when we were talking to the owner uh there was a
11:59doorway behind him behind the counter and just through that i could see this up on a shelf
12:04slightly obscured we pleaded and begged and explained our passion and uh we agreed a price
12:10it was a couple of hundred pound and uh we brought it home with us i'm so pleased you've given me that link
12:15you've mentioned the fact that you're in budapest yeah and actually when we turn the monkey around on
12:21this side we've got and the name is actually written in reverse it's actually imre sime who is the
12:27hungarian aspect with this date of 1906 but also we have this mark here this quite intriguing little
12:34back stamp have you ever managed to find out who this is i know it's the vena ceramic mark brilliant well
12:41found this date of 1906 which is the year that this factory was opened by two great austrian sculptors
12:51michael who only and also berthold loftner right now when we look at this at the front we've got so
12:59many references the date itself actually belies the object because at first glance you look at this and
13:07you think this is art deco yes you think this is 1925 1930 this is 20 years before i felt it was sort
13:17of an art deco-y cubist look about it but as you say the date being so early didn't quite fit and i
13:24never really understood how that was and doesn't it show what a powerhouse and what was happening
13:31you know the change that was good this is a million miles away from victoriana from that late 19th
13:36century yes it's a mile away from art nouveau it's it's so far removed but shows the strength of
13:42movement that's really taking hold and going to come forward i i'm going to put a price on it my gut
13:49instinct is i feel that the market the appetite for this would be stronger in hungary i'm going to say
13:56an auction estimate of eight to twelve hundred pounds it was a lovely find i commend you for that
14:03thank you very much i commend you anyone who can peer beyond the shoulders of the shopkeeper it's
14:07where all the best things are it's where all the best things are
14:11back at trentum gardens i've got a chance to catch up with one of our longest serving experts
14:30john sandon his late father henry was with the roadshow almost from the start it's what we call
14:36slipware made in staffordshire somewhere around about 1700 and john himself joined in 1985 this
14:46has got to be one of the rarest pieces of english porcelain now after 40 years he's indisputably
14:52roadshow royalty so it's wonderful to be able to learn how his dad fired up his lifelong passion for
14:58pottery john i'm assuming that your illustrious father henry sandon had something to do with your
15:04interest well of course with a dad like that i mean how could i have done anything else he'd really
15:09got me started just as soon as i could walk in the garden picking up bits of broken pottery in that mug
15:15incredibly i helped dad join that together from broken bits when i was just five or maybe six he
15:22dug it up in the garden all little tiny bits i helped him wash them join them together and i was
15:27amazed that something 300 years old could come back to life from being broken so as well as digging up in
15:33the garden did you dig up further afield dad loved archaeology of all sorts but in worcester he used to
15:40go for walks around the city and took me with him and if ever he saw any workmen had been digging a hole
15:46he would lower me down into a trench and toss me down a trowel and a paper bag to pick up any bits of
15:52broken pottery then i'd take them home wash them in the sink and he would show me in the books what they
15:58were part of and so professionally how did it begin for you when i was 13 he sent me up to london and
16:06gave me 20 quid and said go and buy something rare and something unusual down portobello road and i bought
16:13this little pot i recognized this was from ancient peru it's a whistling pot it came from the time of
16:20the inca gosh so what 1300 to 1500 about that that's right and so this would have been in a grave
16:26somewhere up in the andes and the spirits of the dead would have been released when the bird sings
16:32and i saw it on the store there and realized it still works oh let's hear as the air goes through
16:37the little chambers the bird sings away 18 pounds i paid and brought it back to my dad he wanted to give
16:45me a profit for it but i i wouldn't sell it to him i've kept it ever since quite right too and then
16:52from there you went into the business i was only 16 i was still at school doing my a levels when i was
16:58offered a job in a london auction house in bond street i learned and brought along the knowledge
17:03i'd been gaining on old pottery and particularly about worcester porcelain and what about this piece
17:09how does this fit into your life well this goes back to my dad's love of worcester especially his
17:15work he was the curator of the porcelain works at worcester and one of the great craftsmen who'd been
17:21there all his life was harry davis who painted that vase i would have been 10. dad took me onto a little
17:28room in the factory and introduced me to harry davis just sitting there calmly painting a whole pile of
17:34plates i was mesmerized and i admired him so much how he did this when he was a teenager oh was made
17:41in 1903 and it was his first vase painted with a view of kemsie near worcester in winter i mean
17:48nowadays his vases fetch thousands of pounds but i grew up staring at that vase as dad did and loved
17:55it too now it's mine and of course porcelain doesn't get better than that who knows more about
18:02ceramics and pottery than you pay i mean i i can't imagine of course your father sadly is no longer
18:06with us but such a stalwart of the show as you have been for so many years and a real treat actually
18:12john to hear about your life in ceramics thank you no this means a lot to me too
18:22in early summer we visited shuttleworth house a striking victorian mansion set in four and a half
18:28thousand acres of bedfordshire countryside while we were there we were treated to a fly pass by a spitfire
18:38a miscellaneous expert paul atterbury was fascinated to hear the story of one pilot's
18:42all but forgotten contribution to the war effort now i'm looking at a group of obviously aviation
18:49things here there's a model of a a glostometeor there's some medals there's an award and it's
18:56obviously an aviation story and here we've got a photograph of a an amazingly jolly group captain
19:02who's he this is our father group captain h.j wilson known by everyone as willie wilson and these
19:09things you live with them yeah if i'm a child they were in the flat although the medals were not on
19:13display my brother had those framed they were just hidden in a drawer so where does his life begin in
19:19the air force so he joined up before the war and actually left the raf before the war started and
19:26then as soon as the war started he was brought back in as a test pilot we don't often get the chance to
19:31talk about people who were equally brave who were never fighting the enemy directly and testing airplanes
19:38of course was the basis for everything his particular job at farnborough where he was based from 1941
19:44was to test airplanes here we have a model of a glostometeor this is the first jet um war plane used by
19:54the allies it was developed from 1940 first flew in 1943 and went into service in july 1944 with a
20:05616 squadron you know the jet was a new concept and your father i think pioneered that and also
20:13most important he taught people how to fly it you'd flown a spitfire hurricane you couldn't just step
20:19into this and fly it because the whole technology was completely different but this became the mainstay
20:25of the air force thousands were made it was used by air forces all over the place and he was very much
20:31involved in getting that plane to become the famous thing it was and that takes us on to really in a
20:38way back to the photograph what's going on here so that's eric greenwood that's my father eric greenwood
20:45was working for gloucester my father for the air force and the same day in herm bay in 1945 they both
20:50had a go at breaking the world speed record at the end of it they awarded it to eric greenwood and my
20:57father and went off to lick his wounds er it was only a few hours later they discovered they got the
21:02maths wrong and realized it was my father who had broken the world speed record so yeah the numbers
21:08absolutely wonderful very very british oh great i think it was only three miles an hour between the
21:13two it wasn't very great wasn't it 606 that's right that he got the speed record we've got a case of
21:19medals here which we must end with normally we're looking at medals awarded in combat here is a group that
21:24has no combat association whatsoever these are the standard medals this is an air force cross
21:32with two bars which means he was given three air force crosses and this is a cbe
21:39this is truly exceptional for a truly exceptional man and in terms of value you're looking at a lot of
21:47money here are you aware of that i mean i have no idea to be honest well an air force cross with two
21:54bars well you can start at 10 000 pounds right and probably go up right okay you're supposed to say
22:02something now we have no plans to sell them yeah it's something we obviously get very proud of but yeah
22:09keeping in the family i mean i think it's it's it's very exciting to see such a thing because
22:13i'll never see it again he must have been an extraordinary man extraordinary achievements
22:18in very many fields of war that we never really think about yes so thank you very much thank you
22:30something we just grew up with and almost it was normal but it wasn't normal it was extraordinary
22:35what he did but now i'm incredibly proud of what he did and it's extremely appropriate that a spitfire
22:42should be flying over perhaps he's sort of come back to super supervise the event
22:49the wedgwood vase of huge scale tell me all about it with you well as much as i know it was my
23:07grandfather's and i'm not sure where he got it from and he kept it on the staircase in his house in
23:14annick when he passed away he then left it to my dad who then passed it to me when he passed away now
23:20this is a potpourri vase we know that because the lid is pierced so those lovely holes would allow the
23:26perfume to fill the room it's jasperware it was called jasperware because it was meant to mimic
23:33the mineral jasper the clay body which was a grayish white material would have been dipped into
23:39a dyed slip of blue dark blue in this case which is very much for the period of around 1840 1860 so
23:47that's when this piece was made gosh is it different with it being the dark blue as well is that yes the
23:53darker blue was more popular in the 19th century the lighter blues came in later yeah and it's
24:00beautifully styled with these classical figures on the outside each one molded separately and applied
24:05to the body of the vase in this white relief like a cameo effect so they they really feel like these
24:12figures are coming towards you it's just such a beautiful three-dimensional piece what is unusual
24:18is the pedestal base the vases are usually smaller maybe the lid's not pierced for the potpourri but
24:24this has got all of it this has got the pierced lid and it's got the base it just elevates it literally
24:30to something more special than just a vase and cover yeah i think it's a wonderful thing it shows
24:36all all the masterful craftsmanship at the wedger factory of the time if this were to come up at
24:42auction it would make somewhere in the region of a thousand pounds to fifteen hundred pounds that's
24:50very nice but i wouldn't sell it you know it's heritage to me i'm an only child and so are my mum and dad
24:55so to me it's something that i will treasure
25:04is it a bird is it a plane it looks like a little superman figure to me can you tell me a little bit
25:09more about it so it's a peg doll that my mum made when she was asked to do some work on the production
25:16of the original superman movie my mum was approached or the company she worked for was approached to see
25:22whether she could come up with a way of waterproofing the costume to be used in one of the scenes where
25:28superman goes into the water comes out of the water and the water just drips straight off him
25:34and he's looking as pristine as he went in so she said yeah i can come up with a chemical that can do
25:40that and eventually said yeah i think i've got something that will work and they said great do you
25:45want to come and see it being used in the film she said great they were pleased christopher reed was
25:50pleased he had lunch with mum bought her a bouquet of flowers say thank you for coming up with this
25:56solution and with the original swatches mum made a uniform and a cape for the peg doll so the actual
26:06construction of this suit was really quite a complex and involved process there was a lot of testing that
26:12went into it there were a lot of problems with it not just getting the form to fit christopher reeve
26:17perfectly but also consideration of sweat would you believe the suits were made by a company called
26:23bermans and nathans they were the costumiers for the film and the gentleman noel howard who run the
26:28floor for bermans and nathans at that time actually found a company in europe who produced this fabric
26:33with this very very special weave but they obviously still hadn't resolved coming out of water those sort
26:38of shots which your mother was so involved with i mean this was a big production for one of other
26:44studios and of course we've gone on and seen many iterations of superman since so this is a wonderful
26:49piece of memorabilia this peg doll but what we're really focused on here is actually the cloth components
26:55themselves because those are samples of the original costume that christopher reeve wore in the film
27:01superman which is amazing that it survived and i think this would have an auction estimate of
27:05somewhere in the region of about three to five hundred pounds but really it's more about the
27:09backstory and it's about the history of it that's more important perhaps than the financial it
27:13absolutely is thank you
27:23you have brought me in an interesting sword it is a tulwa hilted shamshir this extravagantly curved blade
27:32shamshir means lion's claw so whose sword is it why do you got it it's a sword owned by
27:40a chap called lieutenant edward kelly of waterloo it's been in the family for a very long time
27:45uh the history is my great great great great something grandmother was his wife right so that
27:53has all stayed in our family ever since my father passed away last year my uncle passed away this year
27:59as we start to lose a lot of the knowledge around it it's i'm interested to know more about it really
28:06kelly was in one of the last charges at waterloo he took out a french colonel cut his epaulets off his
28:12uniform and nicked his horse he was the most amazing chap hence waterloo kelly he subsequently went out to
28:20india where i suspect yeah this sword came from he was out there with his son and i think they were
28:28at the siege of barrett pur this shamshir with a tulmar hilt it's very nice this is gold kafgari work
28:36the scabbard itself is silver mounted i can see why the thing was taken i would think because of the
28:44story and we can tie it to waterloo kelly i could see that making a thousand pounds really but the sword
28:53itself of course brings waterloo kelly story to life and it's a fabulous thing which i very
29:02reluctantly will give back to you thank you very much thank you very much for bringing it in it will
29:05stay with the family splendid thank you from bedfordshire we headed north in july to the east
29:24coast of scotland and the hill of tarvit in fife an edwardian mansion built for mill owner frederick
29:31sharp containing all manner of mod cons including the most lavish of condiment trolleys this silver
29:40galleon or neth could be wheeled along the table
29:47like so to the delight of the assembled guests it was both a conversation piece and a very effective
29:54way of showing just how wealthy sharp was and out in the grounds lee young has spotted another
30:00fascinating curiosity so i would say normally this type of screen would be to sort of cover up
30:10something or you while you were you know getting redressed or undressed or i'm not actually sure this
30:17kind of miniature decorative version would cover much up actually it would not but what do you know
30:22about it my great grandfather bought it he traveled to japan on a selling trip he had linen company
30:30and um he bought it and then it belonged to my grandmother and my mother then my father and then
30:37my father was going to attack it with a polishing drill because he thought it was dirty and so i just
30:42managed to catch it in time and tick it off him and that's why i've got it now because it could have
30:48been disaster you basically saved its life i think it's like yes first thing to say about this is
30:53it's just lovely quality you're absolutely right it's japanese yes i think it late dates from the
30:57sort of late you know part of the 1800s and it's a type of work called sort of damascene and that is
31:03a process of inlaying metals on top of one another to create a pattern but it's got a little sort of
31:11signature or a little seal down here so that actually says that it's a komai sebe who was a metal
31:17worker and set up a workshop in kyoto in 1841 and producing this type of decorative object yeah
31:28you've got that lovely kind of you know mount fuji in the background but just this sort of continuous
31:33landscape with the temple there and i think that's a sort of bit of a waterfall going on there and you
31:38know the attention to detail is so good it's just beautiful and the other thing i would say is that
31:42the condition is so good so where does it live just it's just on a kind of a um a dresser yeah
31:48it's kind of out of sunlight just there and just like ignore it and every now and again i i look at
31:54it yeah i know you like it do you like it oh i love it yeah it's the fine detail and it's typically
31:59japanese with all the sort of the the formal garden scenes and whatever but uh just the intricacy of the
32:05whole thing is phenomenal you know this is the sort of thing that would have been made for the western
32:09market now considering its size i think it would carry quite a decent estimate at auction i think
32:13if that came up it would probably make between eight to twelve hundred pounds okay that's lovely
32:18you know at a sale thank you
32:23it was a surprising bit i didn't realize it was maybe worth that much i knew that it was beautiful
32:28but beauty and um being worth anything is totally different
32:40we have two brooches two completely different styles and i'd love to start with this one here
32:46could you tell me what you think those are they're cameos and is it onyx absolutely so they're carved
32:53so most people do call them cameos however because they are incised they're actually called
33:00intaglios and they are usually carved from sardonyx onyx agates etc in this case we have mars the roman
33:12god of war and we have him twice the carving is incredibly detailed which is the main mark of quality
33:21when it comes to looking at cameos and intaglios they were typically made in italy but then also
33:28throughout europe in the 1860s 70s and 80s could you tell me a little bit about the history of it well
33:35all i know is that my great great great grandmother came on the grand tour yeah she was over here in
33:43the 1850s and maybe early 1860s and it wouldn't surprise me if some or all of this piece came
33:51from that period my hunch is that they brought those back and just the intaglios yes and had them set
34:00in this style of mount and the reason is because the jewelry that was being made in the mid 19th
34:05century didn't look anything like this yes of course the alternative is that she purchased the
34:12jewel in italy on her grand tour i'm gonna move to the crescent brooch now which is a completely
34:18different type of jewel and this is a form we see quite often but the reason that this caught my eye
34:26was because of the sapphires they are a beautiful vibrant hue sometimes sapphires can be over dark
34:35and a bit muddy looking but these are very vibrant very bright blue do you think that they came from
34:44the same person i have a feeling that they all came from the daughter of my great great great great
34:51grandmother and we always knew this lady as mama child so it wouldn't surprise me if this was
34:56something like this right in terms of value this one at auction today i could see in the region of 1500
35:03to 2500 pounds and this lovely crescent brooch at 700 to a thousand pounds oh god i think they're family
35:12heirlooms aren't they i can't be the one to break the chain i'm so glad you came and shared them with us
35:18today and really enjoyed chatting to you i enjoyed it very much and thank you very much indeed for
35:23your expertise so here we are the hill of tarvit beautiful landscape surrounding us and you've brought
35:34a painting by the great colorist artist george leslie hunter which is he's probably one of my favorite
35:40scottish colorists what's your history with it i acquired it back in 2007 i was very keen to get a
35:47fife painting i liked a fife painting uh it's about five miles from where i live and it's it's just a
35:54less than a mile from here so he's nicely signed it here l hunter so he's born on the isle of butte
36:00and then early on he moves with his family to california and then comes back to scotland in about 1906
36:07after being to paris and i think some of these later landscapes really are where he's settled and
36:13happier and you know this really was the time for scottish colorists actually what brings my eyes
36:19into this picture is actually that incredibly intense green right on the sort of top of the hill
36:25you can see where he's used his brush and pulled it right across big broad brush stroke and then he's
36:30turned it upside down and then incised the oils with his brush i think that's really lovely and i suppose
36:37these uh five landscapes are so characteristic because of the red rooftops and he really captures
36:43those in such well i mean it's it's a colorist painting but they're just such bold colors it's going
36:48to be painted probably around sort of circa 1920. we're talking about uh 18 or so years ago when you
36:55bought it what did you pay it was a london sale and yeah i pushed the board out and it was sort of high
37:01twenties you paid at the time a strong price for it but i still think in the current market people
37:06would chase this picture it's a good scale it's very bold in color and i'm going to evaluate 30 to
37:1250 000. gosh lovely that's nice thank you very much that's very nice it's a lovely painting though
37:17i mean as you say it's strong color look at the greens and the reds it's fantastic
37:30so let's get this right you've come on a backpacking holiday from australia yes and you brought some
37:38antiques with you yes because you knew the antiques roadshow was going on absolutely you've got some
37:43fantastic things early treen beautiful handmade wooden boxes which is your favorite one i've probably got
37:50two that's one right this is a burr wood and silver mounted snuff box and because of its size it's a
37:58table snuff box or a snuff mull right it's early 18th century it's going to be george ii or very early
38:05george ii 1725 17th that sort of time and that's the other one and then your other favorite is this
38:11sweet little it's rosewood isn't it yes my favorite is the firmware piece what a wonderful
38:19survival and and what amazing condition it's in and it's a souvenir wear piece because it has
38:24the isle of white scene on the top value-wise are we looking at the best part of 700 to a thousand pounds
38:33lovely yeah lovely
38:41when we think of crimean war nurses we we were taught at school about florence nightingale weren't
38:51we but actually this lady here was in the crimea involved in nursing who is she indeed she's eliza
38:58mackenzie she nursed at therapia and florence nightingale was at scutari and as far as we are
39:07aware they were actually quite good friends as well so they're literally over the other side
39:11of istanbul of the bosporus yes absolutely she was actually a lady superintendent and they weren't
39:18trained nurses they held almost an administrative leadership role so she would have been overseeing
39:25the nurses and the patient care she was out there i think in about 1855 wasn't she the brooch that
39:32we're looking at was presented to her in 1856 this is this one here yes i'm going to read the back
39:38because it's a beautiful inscription it says presented by the sultan to mrs mackenzie in
39:46acknowledgement of her services in the hospitals of the british army in the east 1856 so this is
39:57the sultan of the ottoman empire abdul majid who was so grateful to these nurses for their help in healing
40:08the wounded and the sick and it's a beautifully made brooch in 18 karat gold and this is enamel
40:14yeah the red of the flag of turkey thought it was an animal yes and set with these beautiful
40:20rose cut diamonds really catching the light and it would have been a european made piece
40:25it's not a turkish made how did you get the brooch well the brooch was given to me by my aunt
40:32she inherited it from well it obviously went down the line but eliza was my great great great aunt
40:39and you've brought along the watercolour of her yes so was this just before she went she's 23 in the
40:46picture so yes i would think it would have been just before she went yeah and it's by a great scottish
40:51artist kenneth mcclay so he was famous for painting queen victoria's children and he was renowned for
41:02creating amazing likenesses of his sitter so we can be pretty sure that's what you look this is what
41:07she looked like i think the brooch in itself because it has that connection to early nursing in the crimea
41:16it's got to be worth between three and five thousand pounds wow the watercolor it's got to be worth a
41:22thousand two thousand pounds as well really so lovely to have the two and and that family indeed has
41:28kept them together you you must be very proud of her indeed thank you so much for telling her story
41:44from the sweeping beauty of scotland's east coast we're returning to staffordshire and the tranquility
41:51of trenton gardens in an area famed for its craftsmanship our ceramics expert will farmer is
41:58putting my antiques knowledge to the test with three exquisite pieces we've got a little game here
42:06where we have to rank them according to their age tell me more well i'm sort of calling this my
42:14masters of design because fundamentally while we have three very different objects they all have
42:20their origins and their foundations of design in one key art movement which is cubism now cubism of course
42:28as you well know is one of the most influential art movements of the 20th century inspired and really
42:34pioneered by the likes of picasso and brack and it was about really disassembling everything and
42:39reconstructing it and transferring how you look at form and shape we have three things here this
42:47incredible vase with these forms sitting on top of each other yet with these sort of abstracted roses
42:53an incredible bit of design in the middle i mean wow he's a bit of a showstopper isn't it and this is an
42:59incredible piece of glass making this is done in a cameo process where layer upon layer of glass
43:06is cased one on top of the other and then cut back to give this amazing very dynamic geometric abstract
43:13design and then nearest you we have this sort of abstracted helmet head form i mean it's just been
43:20broken sliced and reconstructed it's got essence of people like brancusi to it in terms of their ages
43:27they're all 30 years apart so one of them dates from the 1930s one of them dates from the 1960s and
43:35one of them dates from the 1990s so it's across that whole of the 20th century but the question is
43:43what is the correct order oh goodness i didn't think any of them would be as recent as the 1990s
43:50oh i don't know come on you've got to help me out here so 30s 60s and 90s for me i would say
43:58that the vase at the end is the 30s yeah me too the one in the middle will be the 60s and then that
44:05one will be the the 90s the 90s yes i wondered about that you see there's a date on the back which
44:13will has put a pink sticker over on one foot which is not very not very helpful i'm almost the same
44:2030s yeah 60s 90s okay oh well i would have thought that was 30s okay a little vase looking at this
44:30and the the arrows on it and the shapes on it that felt earlier than the 60s to me
44:37i'd be amazed if you are talking yourself into it so don't talk yourself okay so 30s yeah 60s 90s
44:45locked in final answer yes you got it oh thank goodness well done oh my goodness i get so many
44:53of these wrong as you know at home so nearest me we have the most incredible piece by clarice cliff oh
45:02is it yes i would not have put that as clarice cliff actually so this is the yo-yo vase one of
45:08the most daring forms that she ever ever created a piece that when it was revisited by wedgwood as a
45:16reproduction they struggled to work out how she created it back in the 30s and it took them a while
45:22to actually get there inspired by the work of maison desny dates from around 1930 and today uh that vase is
45:30worth between three and four thousand pounds nearest you isn't it wonderful love this this is by troika
45:39but it's an incredibly rare piece of troika this is really as high up the scale as you'd ever want
45:46to see and absolutely pulling in all those elements of early cubism worth four to six thousand pounds
45:53and then in the middle which is so wonderful is a piece by a glass maker called anthony wassell he was
46:01actually a glass maker working in the 1990s in matlock in derbyshire and this is a range called delta but
46:09again all pulling in those lovely abstracted forms and worth probably about eight to twelve hundred pounds oh
46:16but three incredible pieces and you got it oh gotta get one occasionally what a treat though will
46:24especially this one i love this one yes well done
46:30in the height of summer we set up shop at lister park in bradford it was created in 1870
46:51when local textile entrepreneur samuel cunliffe lister sold the land to the city council at a bargain price
46:58on the condition that it was turned into a public park and in a quiet corner hillary kaye came across
47:04a fascinating collection of items that textile expert lister may well have recognized
47:12i've got a really great display here of bone lace bobbins used in the lace making business
47:19and i've got a photograph of a lady making lace now how is everything linked through to you well these
47:26bobbins were owned by my grandmother and she was born in only in bedfordshire which in the 19th century
47:34was one of the main areas of lace making at school they learned both lace making and reading writing and
47:41arithmetic if when they got to about 12 they were good enough they became lace makers but my grandmother
47:48didn't become a lace maker because she wasn't good enough so she went into service and eventually met
47:56my grandfather and raised a family and when my grandfather died she started to make lace again
48:04so these were hers or you acquired them these were hers so a lovely group here dating from the late 19th
48:12century and in really very good condition but you can feel that they've been handled which is which is
48:17great yes and these are uh bone bobbins they've been hand turned on a treadle lathe probably to make
48:25them and they're decorated in various different ways some of them have got wire wound around them
48:31others have got just colored decoration but to me the ones that are really great are the ones that have
48:37got little messages or names here we've got betty um here we've got mother but here oh you can imagine
48:46getting this and it says love give me a kiss now you'd have to marry her if you gave her that wouldn't
48:56you and she'd have to say yes i think so they also were used for memorials so there'd be a name of
49:03somebody who was no longer there or in actually the really valuable ones somebody who was a criminal
49:09who'd been hung yes so murderers people love to buy a murderer's name i think there's only about seven
49:16recorded ones that were from hangings or murderers and of course they're very scarce now so i don't know
49:23what you'd value no no those are almost priceless so as a group i would say the cumulative value would
49:29be something between four and five hundred pounds oh right i should just say that my grandmother could
49:35only make these three patterns shown in the photograph there but i'm sure she could do them absolutely
49:40brilliantly she could probably do them with her eyes oh well you're very honest thank you very much
49:47for bringing them into thank you well i can see immediately that it is a early victorian watch what
50:01do you know about it very little to be honest um my brother and i inherited it off my uncle last year
50:09and we just found it whilst clearing his house out and and even my mother doesn't know who it would
50:14have originally belonged to let's turn it over and see immediately it's had a hard life it's very very
50:20rubbed there's a very nice london hallmark there 18 carat gold right for london 1842 let's open that up
50:29you put your thumb in there and that is actually a rather nice movement david morris fenchurch street london
50:38interesting balance with these weights but it's a lovely thing and this is the problem although the movement's lovely
50:50the watch is not worth a great deal as a watch okay sadly the entire value is in the gold case okay at the
51:00minute gold is over 57 pounds a gram for 18 carat this is a heavy watch
51:09there's gonna be about two and a half thousand pounds of milk gold in there right okay well it's
51:16what we call too heavy for its own good yeah and the girl's looking at it avidly gold yeah ice creams could you buy with that
51:23great thank you very much
51:37my great-great-grandmother brought it to america from italy yeah you've got some diamonds on the
51:43shoulders here you've got those two stones then they've got an orange one in the middle yeah and
51:48then the top that's a diamond in the center small diamonds around the side well i think it's a very
51:54beautiful ring and at auction you would be looking at around about 800 to a thousand pounds yeah and one
52:01day you might have it yeah yeah
52:14what we have here must be a very rare survivor as a program and souvenir of the large suffragette march
52:23which was held at hyde park and you see it says here votes for women on the the 21st of june in 1908
52:30how did you come to have it well to be honest i just found it in a little envelope folded up in a
52:35case that was my father's and it was years after he's died that we found it no idea where it no idea
52:41where it came from at all well it's printed on the flimsiest paper and so you know it is a very
52:47rare survivor and of course this was when the women's political movement was actually sort of
52:52gaining momentum and there had been a march the previous week but this was by far the biggest
52:58political march that at that time had ever been held in britain and it is thought that around 30 000
53:04women arrived and they all converged on hyde park where there was a huge meeting and as we can see
53:11here it says 20 platforms with 80 women speakers now we have sort of emily and pankhurst of course which
53:18is the name that we all know who's associated with the suffragette movement similar things do come up
53:24for sale at auction very very occasionally and the last one of these that i did actually see though it
53:30wasn't printed in quite the same manner as this actually sold for about 350 pounds gosh yeah
53:36it's a fair sum for something basically that was just such a throwaway item at exactly yes
53:41i'm really so delighted to see it and thank you for bringing it in thank you
53:49they may not be the best paintings in the world but they're really interesting and fun and i think
53:54they're very honest they tell you so much about this man his wife and their two children who are
54:00they to you so this is my great great great grandfather nicholas coldwell and he was a drum
54:06major in the coldstream guards and this is uh his daughter and then this is his wife mary and their
54:14son henry henry's dressed very much as small boys were in the 1840s in this sort of rather
54:21feminine outfit with bloomers the works but he's very fierce look he's drawn his sword he's wearing
54:25extraordinary hat which looks along with the rest of the costume of his mother rather spanish
54:32they're both oil on canvas and they survived very well so your family's looked after them awfully
54:37well i think they've been in our family since they were painted that would make sense the family
54:42believe they were painted about 1851 i would have said the costume was slightly earlier 1840s but
54:48family history is usually right and that huge canon behind what's that so this is called the cadiz
54:53memorial and it's in the corner of horse guards parade still in london and it is a memorial to
55:00the battle of cadiz and the battle of salamanca afterwards it's absolutely amazing they're informal
55:06poses but it is unusual to put the daughter with the father in a military context and the son with
55:13the mother in a rural context that's very studio done so what do you like about these pictures is
55:18it the blonde girl with her ringlets this fierce warrior here or i think this is probably my favorite
55:25yeah because he's my relative and actually my grandfather looked quite a lot like this so there is a
55:31family resemblance and i'm named after the little girl so i think that would have to be my favorite
55:37and uh and this is his um mace is it we believe so yes do you sort of throw it up in the air when
55:42the band's going and all that we're not quite sure probably to let the rest of the band know what
55:46they're meant to be doing absolutely brilliant if that's the same scale as the one in the painting he
55:51wasn't a tall person was he no we've got some idea it's in army records that he was about five foot
55:57six oh okay okay that's about a foot shorter than me which is about right it's a magnificent thing he's
56:03wearing isn't it and he's full of pomp and circumstance i love the children they look so
56:08cheeky so i'm going to put i don't know six to eight thousand pounds on them i know i've gone overboard
56:15but they're okay oh wonderful i think they're worth that thank you
56:22it's been lovely to revisit our venues from the summer but before we go back at trentum gardens
56:28there's just time to swoop in on one of stoke-on-trent's most famous pieces of pottery
56:34we couldn't come to stoke without visiting an old friend remember him aussie the owl of course he came
56:40along to the roadshow in 1990 he was spotted spotted by your dad john by much-loved henry sandin
56:47aussie is a 300 year old piece of staffership slipware made in the local area and after the program
56:53aussie was sold to stoke city council and the potteries museum and they tell me that he is one
56:57of their favorite exhibits so it's very nice to be reunited with him and for the program to have
57:02played a small part in his story so from aussie and all of us here at trentum gardens bye-bye
57:11festive family treasures getting magical makeovers press red for the repair shop at christmas on bbc
57:17eye player new next year on bbc one an office party to die for hits the death in paradise christmas special
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