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We are being allowed a brief glimpse into the nerve centre of the Roadshow...

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the scanner. Inside this small vehicle, parked in a corner of

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the location, the directors are calling the shots on the items being recorded by the experts.

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DIRECTOR: Can we have a shot on camera three, please, and come in camera one next.

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With up to six people in there, I can tell you you'll find out

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who your friends are... it can get very cosy.

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It's a lovely move. Two, can I just have a look at close-ups of medallion, please, on the table?

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Well, while they get a sneak preview of the day's best finds,

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let me show you some unscreened gems from recent shows.

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Tonight we visit England, Scotland and Wales in our quest for prize pieces, a journey that begins

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in the time warp that is Beamish Open Air Museum in County Durham.

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Well, I don't know Newcastle particularly well but this seems quite familiar somehow.

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-Can you tell me where it is?

-Well, this is the Black Middens Rocks.

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-Notorious to seafarers in Victorian periods.

-Yes.

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It's the entrance of the Tyne, we're looking through the piers.

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Black Middens is here which the people are standing on,

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-er, you've got South Shields on the left here.

-Right.

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You've got North Shields with the two lighthouses, one at the bottom.

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Oh, yes, and has it changed a lot in 150 years or so?

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-I think it has, it has, yes.

-Are there houses in the Middens like this now?

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The Middens, you can still go there, I do believe...

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me wife and I have been there and we can still see this rock.

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-This rock?

-This rock is still...

-Has been weathered.

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Yes, a bit but it was a big rock and we believe it's still there.

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Marvellous, yes, so the artist has really got it right.

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He's captured the moment.

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Well, what I like about this picture is that it is a local scene,

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but you know, when you look on the front it's not signed and who's it by?

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We know vaguely, don't we, because if you look on the back, just round here

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there's this lovely old label

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which says "Matthew White Ridley",

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the painter, but Matthew White Ridley

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is not that well known. He was born in Newcastle on Tyne, and then I think he came to London

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to make his fame and fortune and he exhibited at the Royal Academy.

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-That's right.

-And this was exhibited in the Royal Academy, I think in 1863, something like that.

-Correct.

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And the title of the picture is...

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"Two strings to the bow".

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..To the bow, so he's got two friends...

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Perfect, perfect. I think it's got great charm and I think,

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actually, for me, the value is in the fact that it's a local scene.

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The best bit of the picture I think is the landscape in the background.

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-Yes.

-Although the figures are well done, they're not as good as perhaps

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this sort of area here. It's just so beautifully done...

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Have you ever had it valued?

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-Not really, no, I'm not particularly interested...

-In the value.

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In the value, I've always wanted a north-east oil painting

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and one that displayed that vista of the Tyne.

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-Yeah.

-And when I seen it, I was standing with me back to it,

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and me wife says, "Have you seen this picture?"

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-And I turned round and I couldn't believe it.

-Amazing.

-I fell in love with it.

-Yeah.

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That's the best reason for buying anything. When was this?

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It was about three or four year ago.

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-OK.

-It was in an auction.

-Tell us what you paid.

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I paid at the time, I believe...

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-A world record price(!)

-£3,000.

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Oh £3,000, oh, well I think that's good. I mean, I honestly, without knowing that,

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I was going to say £5,000 or £6,000 now because I just think that, you know, because of the local

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interest and because of the topography of this picture, you've got a wonderful work.

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So a musical jug...

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It plays Here's A Health Unto His Majesty.

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The words are round the back.

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The words... Oh, the words here. Yes, Here's A Health Unto...

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You can join in if you like. With a fa-la-la-la-la. Great, isn't it?

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Made to commemorate the coronation of King Edward VIII...

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How did you come by the jug then?

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It belonged to my great-grandmother and came down through the family to my mother.

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-And now it passed to you?

-It will do, yes.

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It will do to you. It's jolly nice,

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made by Fieldings of Crown Devon Pottery

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and of course 1937 but of course the...

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Although, "long may he reign"...!

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He hardly ever reigned at all, did he?

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I mean, he sort of abdicated and people think therefore that

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things that show the coronation of Edward VIII are very, very rare...

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Mostly they're very common.

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But the fascinating thing about this one is that it says here

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"abdicated December 10th 1936".

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That was when he went off with his love affair, didn't he, really?

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Mrs Simpson, wasn't it?

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-It was, yes.

-But it's wonderful to have that, that is terribly unusual.

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Well, I suppose if this was just a normal coronation jug in good condition, it would be worth

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something about £400 to £500,

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but this abdication detail puts it into a different league altogether

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and I suppose we're looking at £700 to £800 for it.

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-Really?

-So that's the important thing to know.

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-I thought about £20.

-Whoa...

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those days are past.

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-Now you called it a wine cabinet.

-Yes.

-Because if I open this door...

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It's interesting because we can see that it's actually fitted out

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for wine bottles and an interesting circle in the middle -

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which I suspect was for a soda siphon.

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That's right, that's what we normally have in.

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-Because I wouldn't call it a wine cabinet.

-What would you call it?

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Well, opening up the top here,

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I call that a cocktail cabinet.

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-Exactly, you've got your cocktail sticks.

-Absolutely.

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For me to call it a cocktail cabinet puts it into a different period,

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-it puts it between the wars, between the First and Second World Wars to me.

-Yes.

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That was the jazz age, that was the age of the bright young things...

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I'm not quite sure when Thoroughly Modern Millie was,

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but it kind of suggests that idea. Did it come with glasses?

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Just odd glasses. Not very...

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-Didn't have all its original glasses?

-No.

-But it... Was this inside it?

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-Yes, I bought these...

-Cocktail sticks.

-Yes, these were all with it.

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-Lemon squeezer and strainer - all essential for making cocktails.

-Yes.

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Something missing here. Was there ever anything there?

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No, and I've always wondered what it should be.

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Well, I'm not absolutely sure.

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I know that the essential bits of kit were a nutmeg grater, measuring cups,

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but also long-handled spoons, they would have been certainly around somewhere in this, in this piece.

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-Yes.

-But what's so fascinating in a way is that when you look at it

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-close up, you don't know it's a cocktail cabinet.

-No.

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It's only really when you open it up that everything

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becomes revealed and so it's not being absolutely modern

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in terms of its presentation on the outside,

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but on the inside it's saying "We're very much up to date, we know how to have a good time in a modern way".

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In 1930, the Savoy Cocktail Book came out

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and it was absolutely, you know, the height of modernity and jazziness to have that.

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Now do you enjoy this? Do you have... enjoy a little bit of a tipple?

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Not really, it's not used to its full potential, no.

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Well, I think it's a great thing, I have to say that it's a bit of a problem because there are people

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who collect cocktail cabinets but often they will want that to reflect the Deco period,

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that between-the-wars period, and this in a sense doesn't do that,

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this is more conventional, so it wouldn't necessarily fetch

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an enormous amount on the open market.

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We're perhaps looking at around £300 which is maybe a bit disappointing,

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but I think it's a great thing.

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I wasn't really interested in the value,

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just what it was all about really, that I wanted it to come on the show.

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So had your bananas in this bowl this morning?

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Yes, I did, I had to take them out to bring it down here.

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-And that's what you usually use it for?

-Oh, yes.

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And how do you come to own it?

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My mum bought it from a charity shop and one of her friends was wanting

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to buy it, to have it, and when I'd seen it, I said, "No, I like it",

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-so I won.

-And why do you like it?

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The colours, the green and the gold fleck's lovely and when you hold it

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up to the light you can see through it. And, and...

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-Can I, can I do that?

-Yes.

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Because it is a wonderful design,

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with the gold, which is actually not gold, it's filings, so with

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the light passing through, you can see this gold effect which you like and this imitates a natural stone

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called aventurine, and the gold flecks in aventurine normally are on a green ground rather like this.

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The effect is lovely, I think.

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And here you can see the pontil mark which shows that it's been handmade.

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The maker of this glass is a man called Augustine Ysart

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and he came to work for the Moncrieff family and they traded under Monart

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-for selling this type of Scottish glass before the war.

-Right.

-The Second World War.

-So it is old.

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It is old, it is old and they achieved all sorts of wonderful effects in this glass

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and it's very much collected.

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-If this went to auction, it would make between £150 and £250.

-Right.

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So are the bananas going back into it this evening?

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No!

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-So what do you keep in this?

-Nothing.

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-Nothing?

-Nothing.

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That's a waste of a box that, isn't it?

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I say a waste of a box, I suppose it's too grand to be called a box, wouldn't you agree?

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-I think it's grand.

-I don't.

-You don't care for it too much?

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-No.

-You don't? I'm dying to have a look inside.

-Oh, right.

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-OK, and it's not good news, is it? When you look in there.

-No.

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It's in a bit of a state, but at least it's the original lining

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with the original sort of pea green silk

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and I agree, that's not everybody's favourite colour.

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-No.

-So let's have a look at the construction of it.

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-It's a strange looking thing, isn't it?

-It is.

-In every respect

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because technically this is something that goes by the name of Jugendstill.

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Now Jugendstill is the German and Austrian approach to Art Nouveau.

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-This is their interpretation.

-Yes.

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So it makes use of lots of angularity

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and it also includes sort of very stylised features rather like these,

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these flower heads

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and then you've got this amazing frieze here which is totally...

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-The only bit I like about it.

-You like that?

-Yes.

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-The children's faces.

-Yes.

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Which is almost like a contradiction to the rest of it

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and then at the sides you've got these panels with very sort of stylised organic ornament.

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Now the people who almost certainly made this

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were the Wurttemberg metal workshops and they used to put a tiny mark -

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it's so tiny that often you miss it. And I've missed it...

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so I'm hoping that I've got it right.

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So, there are plenty of collectors out there

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-who would be happy to take that off your hands for £500.

-Ooh!

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It's nothing to you people from Beamish, I realise that, but you know, that is a desirable casket.

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-Is it?

-Yes, do you like it any more? For it being worth that bit more?

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I like the £500.

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We've got a lot of jewellery here, so is there a period of rest between

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buying pieces of jewellery or do you just...?

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I only rest as long as it takes me to save up enough cash to go out and buy the next thing, yes.

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-So when she falls in love with a piece she's just got to have it?

-Yes.

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Well, I think she asks me to be the little voice of reason, but I don't try very hard.

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But she asks when she's already bought them and then she shows me.

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And I just leave her to say yes. You have to have it.

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Now one thing about it all, she's got unfailingly good taste hasn't she?

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-Absolutely.

-She knows what she's going for so if I was to ask you

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which piece has got the greatest age, would you know?

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I think that.

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Well, it's a collection that spans something in the region of about 50 years.

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-Oh, really?

-That is, I would say, made in around about the 1880s with a cluster of diamonds

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in the centre on a typical gold narrow knife-edge back,

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made in this country, very much a late-Victorian piece,

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as incidentally is our swallow-in-flight brooch.

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Did the swallow have a significance in the Victorian period?

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Well, they were one of the most potently sentimental things.

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If you give a swallow... What do swallows do?

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-They always come back.

-Yeah.

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So if I give you a diamond swallow it means you're going to come back.

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-You hope.

-Um, this piece here, this is continental, made in around

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the 1890s. Now tell me about this piece here

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-because this is not the original necklace for this piece.

-No.

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That came on a sort of silver chain but I thought it looked

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particularly attractive worn on the pearls, I wear a lot of pearls.

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Yes, well this is a piece that we call, it goes by the

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style of the Garland look, belle epoch, as we call it.

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And it's that Art Nouveau period of around about 1910-1915.

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Typified by these swirly scrolly flowery pieces.

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Then you move through into the 20th century

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and this piece here is 1915, a straightforward, very standard

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-almost utilitarian looking diamond bar brooch.

-I think it's stylish though in its simplicity.

-Yes.

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I feel the passion you have for jewellery.

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-Oh, yes, I love it.

-You would wear that on the slant on your lapel.

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-Yeah.

-Then right straight forward into Deco, Art Deco which are these

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two pieces here, now this one at the front is a rigid diamond plaque,

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but this one has got the feature of so much of the Art Deco period,

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which means it's a double clip that you can split into two

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and wear one on each lapel of your jacket.

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Imagine that nipped-in jacket and on each lapel you've got a diamond clip and that is a very, very nice clip.

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Now if you've bought all this jewellery over the past

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10 or 15 years... I'm assuming you keep it all safely.

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Absolutely, it's kept in a safety deposit box in the bank.

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-Good, that's very important because that's the best place for it.

-Yes.

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So let's just talk a little bit about what you paid for them.

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-This is the first piece you bought?

-Yes.

-And you paid? Do you remember?

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£2,200 I think.

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OK, well, it's unlikely you might get quite as much as you paid for it, curiously enough.

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-What about the belle epoch diamond brooch here?

-I think that was £950.

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That would make £1,200 today. Now my personal favourite.

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I love that, I love the shape of the stones.

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We both share the same feeling about Art Deco diamond jewellery you see.

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-Oh, yes.

-So, what did you pay?

-£1,450.

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-£2,500.

-Oh, lovely.

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Now if we top that up, very, very approximately, I think therefore

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you're talking about the best level of around about...

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-£10,000 to £15,000.

-That's great.

-Well done.

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-What a pleasure to see someone who is so avid about jewellery.

-Oh, yes, I do.

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She gets so much joy out of it.

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-Well, we all enjoy it.

-I can see that, thank you ladies, thank you.

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-Thank you.

-Thank you.

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More absolute gems came to light in the sunshine that welcomed us

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recently to the University of Wales in Lampeter.

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It was handed down from my great grandfather and he died in 1900

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and it's been coming down through the family all the way down.

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There are lots and lots of different periods represented which in some senses perhaps relates to, you know,

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the way it's come through the family, but if you start at the bottom, it kind of goes right back

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to the later part of the 17th century, the shape of the legs,

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the turning here, these mushroom caps there,

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it's very sort of 17th century in character

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and then you come up to the stand, it's almost a sort of Gothic feature in the middle there

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which perhaps takes you into the 18th century.

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And then the chest with its cross banding is also very 18th century,

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-and then you have these curious handles.

-Yes.

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-Do you know anything about the handles?

-No, I don't, I'm sorry.

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That doesn't matter, but they're just very incongruous

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because they come from the late 19th century,

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they're slightly aesthetic movement in character, very angular,

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they don't stylistically go with the piece. When I first looked at it, I thought it was quite

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complicated and if you look at the top drawers here, you've got the little black sort of arrowhead

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into the scroll and then these little dots of inlay,

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and then I realised, hang on, those aren't part of the inlay originally,

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they're little plugs that have been put in, to show where handles have been changed.

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-Oh.

-We know these are not original handles.

-Yes.

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And actually you can see there are handles there,

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and the pairs there,

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and on another one you can see there was another handle in the middle somewhere.

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Here you can see that there were handles there, so I was thinking that this in a way,

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it's a bit like modern kitchens, the doors of the cabinets date terribly quickly, so in order

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to update your kitchen, you change the doors of the units.

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Here they've changed the handles fairly consistently through time,

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-to give it a slightly more, up-to-date look.

-Yes.

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Lovely colour, it's looked after and loved by the looks of it.

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Yes, my mother used to polish it regularly.

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Brilliant, yes, well, she obviously cherished it and I think that's paid off.

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In terms of valuation, well, I think because it's so decorative,

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£6,000... £7,000 at a sale.

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Fancy, my father was offered £100 for it in the 1940s.

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-It's a long time ago... £100 could buy a house actually.

-Yes.

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-So somebody appreciated it then, and I'm sure there are lots of people who would appreciate it now.

-Yes.

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"As there is no Elton John fan club and no future plans to officiate one,

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"I am writing on Elton's behalf to thank you for showing

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"such an interest in his music. I have enclosed an autographed photo. Yours sincerely, Helen Walters.

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"PS: Elton will be touring America until early July."

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-Now I kind of can't quite envisage Elton John not having a fan club really.

-No, that's right.

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-So this shows how early on we are in his career.

-Absolutely.

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It also shows obviously... That's why he looks the way he does, I suppose.

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Far less follicly challenged than he is today and also much slimmer,

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so I mean, had you always been an Elton John fan from the early days?

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I mean, what prompted you into writing off?

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-I actually met Elton John. I grew up in Portobello Road.

-Right.

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And I came home from work one day and it was raining and himself and Bernie Taupin were standing

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in my porchway I had at the time, sheltering from the rain and we got talking.

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-So you had to push past him to get into your house, did you?

-Almost yes, yes.

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-So what did you say, "Oh, Elton I'm a fan of yours".

-Well, I wasn't at the time.

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-Oh, I see.

-But he said to me they were into music, both of them.

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-So at that point you didn't actually realise who he was.

-No, he was virtually unheard of then.

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Oh, how amazing, so that was your kind of first encounter.

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-Mm, that's it.

-Have you met him again since?

-No.

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-Or was that the one and only meeting?

-The one and only.

-You've watched him progress through his career.

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My friend and I used to go to all the concerts. This is a Crystal Palace one in July '71...

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-that's the programme.

-Well, that's interesting because I actually

0:21:100:21:15

lived just next to Crystal Palace for many years and I see it's Crystal Palace Bowl Garden Party '71.

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-In fact the Crystal Palace Bowl is still there, um, but it wouldn't be hosting this kind of event.

-No, no.

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It's generally classical music now, but it's still there and it looks exactly the same as this.

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-Exactly the same.

-It's got the lake in front of it, fascinating.

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At the end of the day it's quite difficult pricing things like this

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but because it's early and it's at the beginning of his career,

0:21:400:21:44

I find that more interesting. I mean, the fact that he hasn't got a fan club here I think is, is fascinating.

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Well, that's one of the reasons I brought it to you.

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-Yeah, and I suspect... I mean this is actually really only a cheap reproduction.

-That's right.

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It's not even a well produced...

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-A proper copy.

-Copy glossy photograph.

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But it is actually signed by him. that's fine, there's no problem with that and I suspect that if

0:22:010:22:06

you were to sell this as a package, we'd be looking at maybe around about £100... £150 at auction.

0:22:060:22:11

-Right.

-Not enormously high value but interesting to a collector.

-They're value to me too.

0:22:110:22:16

-Absolutely.

-So I'm not so sure I'd sell them anyway.

0:22:160:22:17

-What's your favourite album, by the way?

-It's Tumbleweed Connection.

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Yeah, the early Elton John was my favourite, no doubt about that.

0:22:220:22:25

Good, good, well fascinating little item and nice to see Elton there.

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-Yes.

-Thanks for bringing it along. You're welcome.

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-You inherited these watercolours from your great aunts.

-Yes.

-And then looked into their lives.

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Yes, I had them for about 30 years and framed a few up that I liked.

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They were spinster artists who probably had a small income

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but basically painted for their living. One of them, Eta, the family history said she studied

0:22:480:22:55

at the Sorbonne. The other one, Bridget... I think probably, both, started off studying at Glasgow.

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We have a letter which shows that Eta Jardine who was the more conventional watercolourist

0:23:010:23:07

of the two, was commissioned by the North East London Railways, I think it was,

0:23:070:23:13

to provide pictures for their first-class carriages.

0:23:130:23:16

Well, I've never heard of the Jardine sisters,

0:23:160:23:19

but I'm absolutely delighted to have seen these works because

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they're really very, very good, and emerging are two unknown artists, well, relatively unknown,

0:23:230:23:30

spinster sisters living on their own who are producing exciting things.

0:23:300:23:34

Now I take it that this one is a bit of the railway aunt?

0:23:340:23:39

Well, I don't know exactly what they did provide, but I think

0:23:390:23:42

all Eta Jardine's work was of this character

0:23:420:23:45

of being watercolours of scenery,

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I don't think she went into figurative art or details.

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-So if we call Eta the railway sister then...

-Yes, perhaps we should.

0:23:510:23:55

You can imagine jolting along, can't you, long journeys, seeing this up

0:23:550:24:00

-in an old railway track, railway station.

-Yes.

0:24:000:24:03

But where life gets really interesting is with the sister

0:24:030:24:05

and I think we have a watercolour of the sister, or at least one of them.

0:24:050:24:09

It's... Well, we're guessing here.

0:24:090:24:12

So we think this one might be by Eta?

0:24:120:24:14

This one might be by Eta and it maybe of her sister Jez.

0:24:140:24:18

It would be interesting to know because I think she's beginning to emerge as a very significant artist.

0:24:180:24:23

-Yes.

-Because there's sides to her character which come out in her art.

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-This is a particularly good example of it here.

-Yes.

0:24:270:24:30

This is not a cosy old lady sitting at home doing watercolours of roses,

0:24:300:24:34

these are vicious gossips that she's decided to...

0:24:340:24:38

Yes, absolutely and they're all sepia, they're all in

0:24:380:24:41

these awful neutral colours, I think it's a very judgmental picture.

0:24:410:24:44

-It is, they look deeply malevolent.

-Yes.

0:24:440:24:47

And then you've got this one, also by Bridget -

0:24:470:24:50

a very subversive looking image of motherhood.

0:24:500:24:54

Indeed, entitled "Modern Ma"

0:24:540:24:56

and with the cigarette, not exactly drooping...

0:24:560:24:59

Even the cat has an extremely malign appearance

0:24:590:25:01

and might easily jump onto the baby.

0:25:010:25:04

But I think she occupied a world which was full of lateral thinking.

0:25:040:25:08

Some shades of Little Britain here, isn't it?

0:25:080:25:10

But where it all seems to come together really well is in the watercolours

0:25:100:25:15

that she produced simultaneously which is so arresting, so enticing.

0:25:150:25:21

Yes, but you either hate or love.

0:25:210:25:23

And do you love or hate?

0:25:230:25:25

Well, I rather like them but all the members of the family probably have at least a few goblins

0:25:250:25:30

and amongst my uncles and aunts they were equally divided between the loathers and the lovers.

0:25:300:25:36

In this work here, entitled rather appropriately, Full House,

0:25:360:25:42

you see I think real accomplishment, you're getting a combination here

0:25:420:25:46

of the softer illustrative side of her character

0:25:460:25:49

and also the subversive malevolent side that comes out in those satirical images that

0:25:490:25:55

we've just been talking about, but here it blends together beautifully.

0:25:550:25:58

These are wonderful watercolours and were you to exhibit them as a whole,

0:25:580:26:02

I think you would really put Bridget on the map.

0:26:020:26:05

-Right.

-I don't know about her sister at the moment, I think we need to know more about her.

-Yes.

0:26:050:26:09

These drawings that you've shown me are worth, probably, £500, £600, £700, £800 each - the goblins.

0:26:090:26:15

-Good heavens!

-If we could put the whole lot together and build her up.

0:26:150:26:19

-Yes.

-Because I think she deserves a voice, we could be talking up to £1,000 each.

-Really?

-Yes.

0:26:190:26:24

-I'm really delighted to have seen them, thank you.

-Thank you very much.

0:26:240:26:29

So what's all this blue sticky stuff up here?

0:26:290:26:32

I had a wooden plug made up for a lampshade to turn it into a light.

0:26:320:26:36

I didn't have the hole drilled in the bottom, to keep its value up.

0:26:360:26:41

Well, that's good thinking.

0:26:410:26:43

Drilling a hole in a good vase is a bad idea, but the other problem

0:26:430:26:46

with adhesives is that adhesives very often take off gilding, and that's what's happened on the rim.

0:26:460:26:53

-Right.

-So I mean you win some, you lose some.

0:26:530:26:57

Now what do you know about this piece? My father brought it back from the Far East during...

0:26:570:27:01

at the end of the war, he brought a big big box of stuff, that's just one bit I picked up.

0:27:010:27:06

Where from out there I've no idea.

0:27:060:27:09

-Right, and you haven't done any research on this since then?

-No.

0:27:090:27:12

-OK, well that's why we're here.

-Lovely, thank you.

0:27:120:27:15

First of all I'm going to look at the design. I decided to have a look at it

0:27:150:27:20

because I am fascinated by how a two-dimensional graphic design

0:27:200:27:26

gets put onto a vase.

0:27:260:27:28

-Right.

-And my judgement of what is a good design

0:27:280:27:32

is a design that makes you want to rotate the vase,

0:27:320:27:37

and the Japanese...

0:27:370:27:38

because this is Japanese... the Japanese are great masters

0:27:380:27:41

at doing this. The scene we've got here is a group

0:27:410:27:45

of elderly gentlemen, bewhiskered gentlemen all studying hard a text...

0:27:450:27:51

there it is, it's impossible to read it, it's written in a cursive script,

0:27:510:27:56

now then, we instantly, looking at that, we see

0:27:560:28:00

that there are two levels of design, there's underglazed blue -

0:28:000:28:04

the blue pigment, all of the blue pigment here was put onto the vase before they put a glaze on.

0:28:040:28:10

-Right.

-But it was fired, it came out as a blue and white vase.

0:28:100:28:13

It was then sent to the enamelling workshops and then the other colours were added on top of the glaze

0:28:130:28:19

and the result is that you have a depth of colour which your eye senses, you get a sense of depth

0:28:190:28:26

in the design and it's something you only expect to see

0:28:260:28:29

on the best factories when you see it of this quality.

0:28:290:28:33

So there they are, the sages, one, two, three, four sages

0:28:330:28:37

studying their scroll and behind them a wee laddie, an acolyte

0:28:370:28:40

bringing a dish of pomegranates or apples, some sort of fruit.

0:28:400:28:45

Another acolyte here is arriving with another group of, in this case,

0:28:450:28:50

three sages who are also studying a script.

0:28:500:28:55

And then another acolyte brings a musical instrument, this is a koto.

0:28:550:29:02

-A koto?

-Yes, so it's basically a scholars' party, they're enjoying scholarly scripts, they're going

0:29:020:29:07

to enjoy music and they all live in a bamboo grove.

0:29:070:29:14

These are the seven sages of the bamboo grove beautifully rendered

0:29:140:29:18

and then to add to all of that you've got the difference of the

0:29:180:29:22

glazed surface, this lovely glassy surface, with the ground colour,

0:29:220:29:27

which is matt. You've felt this?

0:29:270:29:29

-Oh, yes, it's beautiful. Very tactile.

-Isn't it, so you've got everything going for this.

0:29:290:29:33

This is a really good piece of design.

0:29:330:29:37

It makes you want to rotate it and it tells a story

0:29:370:29:42

and we're almost participants in the party,

0:29:420:29:48

-so the vase is just getting on for 100 years old. It may have been one of a pair.

-Right.

0:29:480:29:54

But it works in its own right.

0:29:540:29:55

-Yes.

-I would not want to see another one quite frankly, I think this works on its own and what's it worth?

0:29:550:30:02

I think that if you were to put it up for auction today, it would fetch somewhere in the region of

0:30:020:30:08

-£1,200 to £1,800.

-Would it? Ohh...

0:30:080:30:14

-You almost look surprised.

-I AM surprised actually.

0:30:140:30:17

It frightens me what I've done with it now, in the past.

0:30:170:30:22

This really is a pretty gorgeous looking album, isn't it?

0:30:220:30:25

It says everything about the Art Nouveau period with these swirls and what not.

0:30:250:30:30

How did it come into your possession?

0:30:300:30:32

My mum and dad decided to move into a house, back in 1973.

0:30:320:30:36

The house was built in 1897 and when they moved in, this was in the attic.

0:30:360:30:41

-So it came free with the house, did it?

-It did.

0:30:410:30:44

Well, the amazing thing about postcards as a collectable is

0:30:440:30:48

that they come in all forms, so you could, for example, like saucy ones, or you could like

0:30:480:30:54

ones with animals, or buildings, or you could do perhaps military

0:30:540:31:00

collections, or seaside collections,

0:31:000:31:03

collections of lovers, collections of flowers, babies, trains,

0:31:030:31:08

almost any subject is a collectable within the postcard genre,

0:31:080:31:13

which is what makes it really interesting.

0:31:130:31:16

Now in a mixed bag like this, some of these postcards are going to be worth

0:31:160:31:20

10p, 50p, £1, but for the more unusual ones, you really need to find something like this...

0:31:200:31:27

Here we've got a postcard in mint condition of the Lusitania.

0:31:270:31:32

Now this postcard dates from 1911

0:31:320:31:34

and the Lusitania was sunk during the First World War so it's when it was

0:31:340:31:39

-still sailing perfectly happily, but a collector would pay perhaps £15 or £20 for that card.

-Oh.

0:31:390:31:46

But what I particularly like about this series of cards is the story that it tells about one young girl,

0:31:460:31:53

and this particular postcard is what they call a suggestive card.

0:31:530:31:58

I mean it's very risky and daring

0:31:580:32:01

because before the First World War if you got a glimpse of a girl's ankle

0:32:010:32:04

you were very, very lucky and here we've got almost her entire lower leg

0:32:040:32:10

and the gentleman is enjoying it very much.

0:32:100:32:13

Anyway, it's sent to a Miss Evans of Buck Cottage in Liverpool

0:32:130:32:18

and the message on it says, "Dear Miss Evans. I have just received your postcard

0:32:180:32:23

"and pleased to hear you are well

0:32:230:32:25

"and will meet you this evening in Holt Road about six.

0:32:250:32:29

"I'm longing to see you and it seems ages since we met."

0:32:290:32:33

This earnest young man called J Pye

0:32:330:32:35

can't wait to get his hands on Miss Evans...

0:32:350:32:40

Here we've got another one, this is looking pretty dodgy too.

0:32:400:32:44

"Yours always". The relationship is progressing.

0:32:440:32:47

"Two heads with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one."

0:32:470:32:51

As they have a session underneath the silver birch down by the river side,

0:32:510:32:57

a particularly special card that she received is this one which in a jokey way says,

0:32:570:33:02

"a Welsh rarebit".

0:33:020:33:04

Quite appropriate as we're in Wales.

0:33:040:33:06

-Yes.

-And if I turn it over, here we go,

0:33:060:33:09

"Dear Em, I hope you will have one of these ready when I return, hoping you're well."

0:33:090:33:16

-And I presume what he's talking about is a bit of toasted cheese.

-Yes.

0:33:160:33:20

-Pretty naughty though, isn't it?

-It is!

0:33:200:33:24

From Welsh Rarebit to Scottish splendour now. Manderston, the ancestral home of

0:33:240:33:28

Lord Palmer, near Berwick on Tweed provided a stunning backdrop for some more great Roadshow finds.

0:33:280:33:36

A relatively plain box, but lovely opening inside,

0:33:360:33:40

look at that, splendid Royal Worcester coffee set.

0:33:400:33:44

Normally these were given as wedding presents. Do you know...?

0:33:440:33:47

Yes, this was a wedding gift to my mother in 1930, she was married.

0:33:470:33:53

That fits in. These were the popular gift at that time in the 1920s.

0:33:530:33:58

Royal Worcester specialised in beautifully painted sets.

0:33:580:34:03

When this was made, hand-painted here by Walter Sedgeley

0:34:030:34:06

all individual birds, a lot of work went into this and it would have been quite expensive and costly

0:34:060:34:13

and over the years people neglected them but now Royal Worcester collectors love these sets,

0:34:130:34:18

they're actually quite precious to collectors.

0:34:180:34:21

Having the whole set together makes it actually quite expensive,

0:34:210:34:24

so you've got one broken one there but apart from that, each cup and saucer today is worth £400 or £500.

0:34:240:34:32

-Oh, my goodness.

-So that adds up to a set worth £2,000...

0:34:320:34:38

-£2,500.

-It is very beautiful.

0:34:380:34:40

And nice that it's been used and enjoyed, thank you.

0:34:400:34:44

-I'm pretty certain this is a marine chronometer, am I right?

-You are indeed.

0:34:440:34:48

Indeed I am, look at that, Ellicot and Smith, Royal Exchange, London. But they were only working for about

0:34:480:34:54

ten years - 1830-ish to 1840-ish is absolutely it,

0:34:540:34:58

and I'm going to give you that key and then the easiest way

0:34:580:35:03

to get this out of its box is just to invert it like that, having of course clamped the gimbal up,

0:35:030:35:11

and there we can see that absolutely lovely movement and I'll just pop it there upside down,

0:35:110:35:18

again signed, numbered,

0:35:180:35:20

in good condition. Have you had this restored recently?

0:35:200:35:23

-About 20 years ago.

-Uh-huh.

0:35:230:35:26

Before that it had been in a vertical case.

0:35:260:35:28

-Because that brings me on the fact that in my humble opinion this is not the original box.

-No, it isn't.

0:35:280:35:34

Do you know what happened to the original box?

0:35:340:35:37

Well, it was taken to Australia in 1882

0:35:370:35:42

then brought back from there and then it was used in an observatory

0:35:420:35:46

-in Rousdon in Devon for 40 years or so.

-Why did it go to Australia?

0:35:460:35:50

Ah, well it went to observe the transit of Venus in 1882,

0:35:500:35:54

my great-grandfather went on it and they went round the Cape and to Sydney and up to Brisbane

0:35:540:36:00

and then up by train and then by dray and horse cart to a big house

0:36:000:36:06

on the Darling Downs in Queensland and they set up two observatories there to watch the transit.

0:36:060:36:12

Did they see it?

0:36:120:36:15

Well, unfortunately, they had beautiful weather until the morning

0:36:150:36:20

of the transit and then it poured with rain and it was cloudy and they didn't

0:36:200:36:25

see a thing and they'd gone all the way to Australia to see this.

0:36:250:36:28

So this photograph you have...

0:36:280:36:30

Oh, look at that, that looks like the whole thing's set up doesn't it?

0:36:300:36:34

That's in the grounds of the house at Jimbo in Australia.

0:36:340:36:38

Do you think that's the chronometer?

0:36:380:36:40

-I should think it is, yes.

-And I can see quite clearly that this has got proper drop handles

0:36:400:36:45

of the period and that is definitely the instrument.

0:36:450:36:48

Tell me what this other photograph is, here.

0:36:480:36:50

Well, when they came back from Australia, my great grandfather was given the job by this man here,

0:36:500:36:57

to be his private astronomer and so he was, if you like,

0:36:570:37:01

a sort of servant on the estate but he was the astronomer. He looked through the telescope

0:37:010:37:06

and measured the rainfall and the temperature and so forth, and this is him at a later age of course,

0:37:060:37:13

looking through the telescope at Rousdon and there is another, there is the chronometer.

0:37:130:37:19

-There is the chronometer without its box.

-That's right.

0:37:190:37:22

And there is a marked family resemblance if I might say so.

0:37:220:37:28

There really is. What a wonderful story, it really is.

0:37:280:37:33

There was a recent transit of Venus, did you observe that?

0:37:330:37:36

Well, I shared the experience with my great grandfather

0:37:360:37:40

because I also tried to watch the transit of Venus and it rained and it was cloudy

0:37:400:37:46

and I did not see a thing, but I could watch it on television and he couldn't.

0:37:460:37:50

Well, it's fascinating that this has been down to the Antipodes and back.

0:37:500:37:54

Of course your great grandfather used this on land...

0:37:540:37:58

When I called it a marine chronometer to start with...

0:37:580:38:02

its use was purely naval.

0:38:020:38:05

If I can just grab that key back off you,

0:38:050:38:07

which lives in there, we'll undo the gimbal lock and I can simulate

0:38:070:38:14

the motion of the ship, basically in a rough sea,

0:38:140:38:18

and the whole point of this gimbal is that this wonderfully

0:38:180:38:23

accurate timepiece always remains in the horizontal despite the motion of the ship.

0:38:230:38:29

The officer of the watch was able to open the top lid

0:38:290:38:35

to check the time for his star shots, sextant etc, etc

0:38:350:38:40

and normally the captain was the only key holder.

0:38:400:38:43

If it was in its original box that we saw in that first photograph with the lovely brass drop handles,

0:38:430:38:50

with that history, probably between £4,000 and £5,000,

0:38:500:38:54

but here we are in a later case with these recessed...

0:38:540:38:58

very nice, don't get me wrong, very nice box, but it is re-cased...

0:38:580:39:02

..so £2,000 to £2,500.

0:39:050:39:07

-Ooh, very good.

-Still good news, is it?

-Yes.

-Excellent.

0:39:070:39:10

You won't have seen many of these on the Antiques Roadshow in the past

0:39:100:39:14

and not because they're terribly rare

0:39:140:39:16

but because they're terribly common and a plate like that is worth £40.

0:39:160:39:23

Yeah.

0:39:230:39:25

It's Chinese, made in Jingdezhen,

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the main porcelain centre, brought down by pack mule and on people's

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backs and by river and by donkey and then it arrives in Canton

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and in Canton they put the decoration on.

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Of the 19th century, this is the most common pattern

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and we call it Canton porcelain, but...

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the point about this one is we've got that on the back.

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-Yes.

-As I'm sure you are well aware.

-Indeed, yes.

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This is a crest...

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now it was common practice from the 17th century onwards to order via

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somebody who went out with a ship, a service with your arms on.

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To find a crest on a second half of the 19th-century dated piece is very rare.

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Is this family?

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Er yes, and no.

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Oh, good.

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Um, the family connection is Mackintosh, my great grandfather

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was Mackintosh. He was a shipping agent, lived near Inverness.

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He had a very close friend who was a sea captain who captained a clipper that traded with the Far East.

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-Ah.

-And my great grandfather got married in 1868...

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his very good friend Captain Turner said "Right, next time I'm out

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"in the Far East, I'll bring you back a dinner service".

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-How amazing.

-So...

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unfortunately his next trip wasn't until 1869 which is why the date is 1869 rather than 1868.

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-How fascinating.

-And by the time he got there, Captain Turner

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couldn't remember exactly what the Mackintosh crest was.

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He knew it was something to do with a cat

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and he knew that the motto was roughly something about taking care,

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the actual motto is "touch not the cat but a glove".

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He didn't know much Latin either, did he? He's got a Y at the end...

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-That's right, yes, it's sort of in between everything, it's not French, it's not Latin.

-Exactly.

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-It's nothing.

-Well, it's actually difficult to put a price on it,

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to be quite honest because it's out of the normal run of business.

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I think a single plate would make probably £250 to £350.

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-A single plate.

-A single plate.

-Yes.

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The venison dish...

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I think you know that could easily make

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£800 to £1,200 maybe even a bit more.

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-Yes.

-And the two vegetable dishes...

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..I would think would make £1,000 to £3,000.

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Together?

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-The two together, yes, as a pair.

-We have a third one as well.

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Well, you would have, wouldn't you?

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-Um, that one would think of as a single and we'd probably put £800 to £1,200 on that.

-Right.

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It's a great thing to see and thank you so much for bringing it in.

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-Thank you very much indeed, I'm delighted to have brought it.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

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And that's all for today, we'll be back next week I hope with another

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stunning array of finds. Until then, happy antiquing and goodbye.

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