0:00:33 > 0:00:38As we approach the end of this series, the Roadshow gathers itself for another giant leap.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42A warm welcome to our second show from Down Under.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46After the delights of Sydney, we've come south to south west
0:00:46 > 0:00:49for about 500 miles to another great city of culture.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52Marvellous Melbourne.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56Apart from the splendour and the sophistication,
0:00:56 > 0:01:02there's another element to life here which is creating a frenzy of anticipation, and that's sport.
0:01:04 > 0:01:08Melbourne is about to host the Commonwealth Games -
0:01:08 > 0:01:12just a few finishing touches, and one of the world's most renowned sporting venues
0:01:12 > 0:01:17will be all set for 12 days of lung-bursting achievement.
0:01:17 > 0:01:23'At 4.32pm on November 22nd, a flame enters the stadium.'
0:01:23 > 0:01:27Melbournians are accustomed to mad dashes for gold.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29The 1956 Olympic Games saw several.
0:01:29 > 0:01:34And a century before that, there were some record-breaking sprints
0:01:34 > 0:01:38in the direction of the nearby gold fields.
0:01:40 > 0:01:44While most prospectors struck nothing but dirt, successful diggers
0:01:44 > 0:01:47drank champagne from buckets.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51Fortunes were made, empires were established.
0:01:51 > 0:01:56One enterprising family started by selling assorted buttons and other necessities to the prospectors,
0:01:56 > 0:02:01and now Myer is one of the largest retailers in Australia.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06Others did it their way -
0:02:06 > 0:02:10one young digger, name of Ned Kelly, gave up the shovel for the gun.
0:02:10 > 0:02:15Ned aimed to make his fortune robbing banks and bushwhacking trains,
0:02:15 > 0:02:19but he was caught and brought to Melbourne Gaol in 1880.
0:02:19 > 0:02:23No medal for guessing what happened then. These days fossicking for Nedophilia
0:02:23 > 0:02:27can be a bit of a goldmine in itself.
0:02:29 > 0:02:31Melbourne's Royal Exhibition Building
0:02:31 > 0:02:33has achieved its own gold standard,
0:02:33 > 0:02:37being the only building in Australia to be awarded World Heritage Status.
0:02:37 > 0:02:41It hosted great exhibitions in 1880 and '88.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44The prestige of the place was sealed
0:02:44 > 0:02:47when the first Australian Parliament met here in 1901.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50Today another historic occasion -
0:02:50 > 0:02:55the first Antiques Roadshow in the State of Victoria.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58We have a Commonwealth team of British and Australian experts
0:02:58 > 0:03:01straining at the leash, so on your marks.
0:03:12 > 0:03:19I'm looking at a tatty tin box which I can just about make out the words "Western Australia"
0:03:19 > 0:03:23at the top - where did this tatty box come from?
0:03:23 > 0:03:25It was rescued from a skip,
0:03:25 > 0:03:30after a deceased estate being cleaned out, it almost made it into the skip,
0:03:30 > 0:03:32fortunately it didn't, er,
0:03:32 > 0:03:37and it turned out to be full of glass slides.
0:03:37 > 0:03:42And that's the treasure revealed, because it really is a little treasure chest, and I have to say
0:03:42 > 0:03:48usually glass lantern slides don't get my heart pounding, but when
0:03:48 > 0:03:51I look at this first slide here,
0:03:51 > 0:03:54it's a nugget the size of...
0:03:54 > 0:03:57the size of a rugby ball.
0:03:57 > 0:04:02In fact, you've just got a smoker's pipe on the top I think to give you an idea of scale, haven't you?
0:04:02 > 0:04:07Yes, so it's quite a... quite a large lump
0:04:07 > 0:04:09of gold, for want of a better word.
0:04:09 > 0:04:15So this collection of magic lantern slides is all about the gold rush.
0:04:15 > 0:04:21What it actually is is a history of the Kalgoorlie Gold Fields,
0:04:21 > 0:04:25from about 1898 until about 1901.
0:04:25 > 0:04:29There are photos there that are exceptional in their detail and quality,
0:04:29 > 0:04:35and give a very good indication of the conditions people were living in, and working in, in that time.
0:04:35 > 0:04:39It was Paddy Hannan who first discovered gold
0:04:39 > 0:04:42in 1895 out in Kalgoorlie
0:04:42 > 0:04:46and there was, of course, a stampede and within months,
0:04:46 > 0:04:49the whole area was besieged by people
0:04:49 > 0:04:53with strikes, but in the beginning, of course,
0:04:53 > 0:04:58it was the Aboriginal people, they were the only people who had that land,
0:04:58 > 0:05:05there they were, and then the tents arrived and then subsequently some of these frame buildings arrived,
0:05:05 > 0:05:07until latterly,
0:05:07 > 0:05:13it turned Kalgoorlie into really quite a substantial Victorian town,
0:05:13 > 0:05:15didn't it?
0:05:15 > 0:05:20Quite a large town with quite a large population and still going ahead as much as any country town can and...
0:05:20 > 0:05:27Oh, this is nice, because you can actually see the people involved here.
0:05:27 > 0:05:32See the people and the conditions they were living and working in and...
0:05:32 > 0:05:34It's frightening, isn't it?
0:05:34 > 0:05:38And, um, the safety concerns today -
0:05:38 > 0:05:42- most of these places would be closed down immediately.- Absolutely.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44Gosh, it looks pretty precarious.
0:05:44 > 0:05:48This looks like an entrance to a tunnel going down.
0:05:48 > 0:05:53I'm trying to work out whether these images are amateur or professional.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56I would say they were done by a professional.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59They're too good, aren't they, really, to be snapshots.
0:05:59 > 0:06:03- They're very very good.- But I'm absolutely certain that some of these images will have appeared
0:06:03 > 0:06:10and will be known images within the resources of the museums in Australia,
0:06:10 > 0:06:14but I would have said we're talking about a general value of perhaps
0:06:14 > 0:06:1750 a slide, and we've got 100 here,
0:06:17 > 0:06:23so that means we're talking about 5,000 - 5,500 as a starting point,
0:06:23 > 0:06:25which is, let's say,
0:06:25 > 0:06:29around £2,000 - £2,500, so,
0:06:29 > 0:06:33what a museum or what an enthusiastic collector...
0:06:33 > 0:06:39- Will pay.- ..of mining memorabilia will pay in the end, the sky's possibly the limit.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42Right, you know, the last time I saw one of these was actually
0:06:42 > 0:06:46in a museum, and I think they must be incredibly rare -
0:06:46 > 0:06:52this one is obviously incredibly fragile, and I think it's what they call...is it a leaving pennant?
0:06:52 > 0:06:55- No, a paying-off pennant. - A paying-off pennant.
0:06:55 > 0:07:00And each foot of it is a year of his service in the navy, and it's flown on the very last voyage.
0:07:00 > 0:07:04- Isn't that absolutely splendid? - This was flown 1810 on the "Ville de Paris".
0:07:04 > 0:07:07His name was Captain Cas Calladay.
0:07:07 > 0:07:13- Right.- And he's my husband's great-great-grandfather only, just great-great.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17- Isn't that incredible? - Yes, it's amazing.- I mean that's certainly the longest one
0:07:17 > 0:07:21- I've ever seen, but you can imagine how wonderful that would look! - It would be flying.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24- And it was done by the sailors themselves, wasn't it?- Yes, yes, for the Captain or Master...
0:07:24 > 0:07:27- They did it, so they must have thought an awful lot of him.- Yes.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30- Now here's the man himself. - Right, yes.
0:07:30 > 0:07:34Here he is. It's not a terribly good miniature, but the thing that I like
0:07:34 > 0:07:38is this letter where he is trying
0:07:38 > 0:07:41to resign from the navy.
0:07:41 > 0:07:45"My Lord, with due respect I submit this letter to your Lordship's consideration
0:07:45 > 0:07:48"after serving as Master of The Orion
0:07:48 > 0:07:52"in the action of the 21st October".
0:07:52 > 0:07:57So this is a survivor of the Battle of Trafalgar. And what you also have,
0:07:57 > 0:08:02which you have very nicely and very neatly repaired, is this...
0:08:02 > 0:08:08- The log book.- The log book - well, my experience with log books is that they are terribly boring.
0:08:08 > 0:08:12Well, I've been very good, I've actually read it and I can approve of what you're saying.
0:08:12 > 0:08:17- Well, rather you than me! - There are snippets...- Because there are sort of floggings and, um...
0:08:17 > 0:08:19- Yes, yes.- Hangings and...
0:08:21 > 0:08:23Not so many in the Mediterranean
0:08:23 > 0:08:25- when they had very good food. - Yes.- The floggings came out in the Atlantic, which was interesting.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27No, that is interesting, absolutely and they obviously...
0:08:27 > 0:08:29- Falling off the masts and things. - Oh, and they didn't eat as well or anything.
0:08:29 > 0:08:34No, they had a lot of fresh fruit, a lot of wine. 180 gallons a night.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36- 180 gallons a night?- Yes, yes, I thought that was very impressive.
0:08:36 > 0:08:42Lots of biflavanoids...good, didn't have to have their limes.
0:08:42 > 0:08:46Well, quite frankly, how can you drive a ship on that amount of wine?
0:08:46 > 0:08:47- I don't know. - Well, I think the water was too bad.
0:08:47 > 0:08:51I think it's absolutely incredible, you've brought all this stuff,
0:08:51 > 0:08:53you've brought this fantastic pennant
0:08:53 > 0:08:58- from where? - We've come, flown in from Perth, it's about 2,000 miles from Melbourne.
0:08:58 > 0:09:02Well, greater love hath no woman! Anyway, back to the piece in point!
0:09:02 > 0:09:08- Yes.- It's impossible to put an accurate price on this, but I think it is so incredible,
0:09:08 > 0:09:11I would say
0:09:11 > 0:09:17no less than 120,000.
0:09:17 > 0:09:23£50,000. I think it's, I think it's cheap at the price, relic of Nelson!
0:09:23 > 0:09:27- Oh, my gosh.- And this wonderful pennant, of which so few survived.
0:09:27 > 0:09:30I-I don't want to carry it out of here!
0:09:33 > 0:09:37Well, you have really made my day bringing these along, because the one thing I wanted to see
0:09:37 > 0:09:43perhaps more than anything else here in Melbourne was a Royal Worcester coffee set with Australian flowers.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45What's the family history?
0:09:45 > 0:09:49Er, they were a present to my parents,
0:09:49 > 0:09:54and all we ever knew about them was that they sat in the china cabinet and we were told not to touch.
0:09:54 > 0:09:56Oh, right.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59And they said they were a duplicate
0:09:59 > 0:10:04of the set given to the Duke and Duchess of York when they came
0:10:04 > 0:10:07to open the Federal Parliament, which was 1927, I believe.
0:10:07 > 0:10:12Oh, right, well, that will fit in nicely with the date these were made,
0:10:12 > 0:10:15because we're looking here in the mid-1920s and they're the result of a remarkable,
0:10:15 > 0:10:19really, collaboration between Melbourne and Royal Worcester.
0:10:19 > 0:10:21Yes.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24- Because the Australian collectors here had always loved Worcester porcelain painted with flowers.- Yes.
0:10:24 > 0:10:28And I think they found a lot of the English flowers rather dull
0:10:28 > 0:10:30and asked for specimens that were closer to home.
0:10:30 > 0:10:34- Yes.- And so here you've got really native flowers through and through. - Waratah.
0:10:34 > 0:10:41That's rich and red, isn't it there, on the cup and a matching saucer for each one.
0:10:41 > 0:10:42And a matching saucer for each one.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46- What's that? That's Christmas Bells, isn't it?- Yes, yes.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49Really bright colours, and of course, I recognise there an exotic
0:10:49 > 0:10:53flowering gum, and how strange these flowers must have seemed
0:10:53 > 0:10:59to the painter at Royal Worcester! These are the work of Reginald Austin, a Worcester lad
0:10:59 > 0:11:04through and through and the flowers growing there in England are very different indeed to these flowers.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06Would he have come out here to paint them?
0:11:06 > 0:11:09Well, that's really the secret - Worcester were asked to make flowers
0:11:09 > 0:11:11of these but they hadn't got any specimens to copy from.
0:11:11 > 0:11:17- Yes, yes.- So instead they got in touch with dealers in Australia who commissioned an Australian artist,
0:11:17 > 0:11:22a Melbourne artist, Marian Ellis Rowan, to go and do a series of designs for Worcester porcelain.
0:11:22 > 0:11:27- Yes.- And then her designs were sent back to Worcester, where they were copied so carefully.
0:11:27 > 0:11:35At the time, I think, they were selling for something like about the equivalent of about £5 a set,
0:11:35 > 0:11:38or we're looking about sort of 12 a set when they were new.
0:11:38 > 0:11:42They've certainly gone up in value over the time -
0:11:42 > 0:11:45I mean nowadays ,the last set I know
0:11:45 > 0:11:50that were sold I think made 8,000 for a set, I think about £3,000
0:11:50 > 0:11:57and really, you've got a super thing here and makes me feel at home from Worcester to Melbourne.
0:11:57 > 0:11:58You can't take them back.
0:11:58 > 0:12:02- Please?- No.- All right, then.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Do you know, at first I thought these must be just stuffed editions
0:12:11 > 0:12:14of your dear pets, but they're papier mache, aren't they?
0:12:14 > 0:12:16- Yes, they are.- How old are they?
0:12:16 > 0:12:22I've got a book at home with some children's toys, and between 1860 and 1880, made in France.
0:12:22 > 0:12:26So they went in for these sort of grotesque growlers, didn't they?
0:12:26 > 0:12:29- Yes, they did. - What do they do? They stand there looking sort of menacing?
0:12:29 > 0:12:34No, they don't, they growl when you pull the chain.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37- Wow!- And they've got little wheels on, they were children's toys so...
0:12:37 > 0:12:42- And this one works the same, does it?- Yes.
0:12:42 > 0:12:44Ooh, more ladylike, this one, isn't it, than yours?
0:12:44 > 0:12:47Let's hear yours again. Wow, that's some bark.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52So here we are looking at a photograph
0:12:52 > 0:12:58of this very building in 1901 with an amazing ceremony happening.
0:12:58 > 0:13:04- Absolutely.- Here on this balcony, in this same building, underneath that very painting on the wall here.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07Tell me about what this occasion was.
0:13:07 > 0:13:09We're looking at the opening of Federal Parliament -
0:13:09 > 0:13:12the first sitting of Federal Parliament in 1901.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15The actual opening of Parliament happened during the day and then
0:13:15 > 0:13:19in the evening, 10,000 people, we're led to believe, came back
0:13:19 > 0:13:26and enjoyed an evening reception and concert, and this is the programme of events from that concert.
0:13:26 > 0:13:28It says "In celebration of the opening of the Parliament of the
0:13:28 > 0:13:33- Commonwealth of Australia, to meet their Royal Highnesses and Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York".- Yes.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35And how did this come to be in your family?
0:13:35 > 0:13:40Well, it was actually amongst the possessions of my, um, my husband's father,
0:13:40 > 0:13:45and we have no idea how he got hold of it, other than it was handed down through a couple of generations.
0:13:45 > 0:13:50I think you're going to have to do a bit more sort of family homework to try and find out who this!
0:13:50 > 0:13:54- I think you're right. - Let's just open up and have a look inside, because...
0:13:54 > 0:14:00here we are, we've got a complete list of what happened during the day.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02Do you know about any of the performers here?
0:14:02 > 0:14:04Basically, the people who appeared in this concert were
0:14:04 > 0:14:08the sort of great and the good of the Australian theatre world of the day.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11Ah, well, I'd love to know what Madame Slapovski did
0:14:11 > 0:14:14- and Herr Slapovski on the other side, over here.- Yes.
0:14:14 > 0:14:16I bet they were quite some double.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19This programme would not have been given to everybody that turned up,
0:14:19 > 0:14:26so there weren't 10,000 or so programmes done, this would have been only given
0:14:26 > 0:14:30to the most notable people, so someone in your family
0:14:30 > 0:14:34had quite an important role to play, I'm sure. So as far as value is concerned,
0:14:34 > 0:14:38I would think about 1,000 to 1,500 Australian dollars
0:14:38 > 0:14:42which is about £500 to £700, just as it is.
0:14:42 > 0:14:48If we can find out something more about who owned it within your family, that may increase the value.
0:14:48 > 0:14:52What I find amazing, actually, standing here in this fabulous building and looking at this
0:14:52 > 0:14:58photograph here is that just down there, you know, what is only, what,
0:14:58 > 0:15:01a hundred and something years ago...
0:15:01 > 0:15:06- Yeah.- ..the Duke and Duchess were starting the first Federal Government in Australia.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09- Yes, the birth of a new country. - Amazing.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12Well, I found it in Melbourne, um, at a garage sale -
0:15:12 > 0:15:15do you want me to wind it up for you?
0:15:15 > 0:15:18Oh, go ahead.
0:15:18 > 0:15:20He is quite unusual, actually.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26It's beautiful, isn't it?
0:15:26 > 0:15:27That is...!
0:15:30 > 0:15:34I won't let him walk off the table, I will turn him around a bit.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38That's wonderful.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45That's great fun,
0:15:45 > 0:15:47and do you know anything about it at all?
0:15:47 > 0:15:53Look, I have no idea, I believe he was from the days of the British Raj,
0:15:53 > 0:15:55so I would imagine he is from India.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58Well, the peacock dates from round about 1890-1900.
0:15:58 > 0:16:02- Right.- Um, it was made in Paris,
0:16:02 > 0:16:08but then could have been exported anywhere, but certainly it's a French automaton and they weren't
0:16:08 > 0:16:12made as toys so much for children, but they were toys for grown-ups,
0:16:12 > 0:16:15because the condition of this is remarkable.
0:16:15 > 0:16:19I've seen them before, but never so complete,
0:16:19 > 0:16:24so whoever owned it and used it, children weren't allowed to, to mess around.
0:16:24 > 0:16:28You say you paid quite a lot of money for it, so I'm slightly daunted about giving you a price,
0:16:28 > 0:16:34but I would have thought we're talking about 4,000 or 5,000
0:16:34 > 0:16:37which converts to about £1,800 to £2,500.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40- Do you remember what you paid for it?- Yes, 1,500.
0:16:40 > 0:16:46Well, you've got a fantastic eye, then. You'll make a fantastic antique dealer.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52Coming as I do from Britain, I think over there we have a view that
0:16:52 > 0:17:00we simply filled Australia up with transported violent criminals
0:17:00 > 0:17:03and I'm very keen to talk about this, as I think in a sense perhaps
0:17:03 > 0:17:05this is a chance to redress the balance.
0:17:05 > 0:17:09Now, first of all, here is a sign about transportation
0:17:09 > 0:17:12and how you got sent here -
0:17:12 > 0:17:15how did this get sent to you?
0:17:15 > 0:17:20We actually found it in a small country museum about an hour and a half out of Melbourne,
0:17:20 > 0:17:23- in a town called Ballarat...- Yes. - ..that was closing down and they
0:17:23 > 0:17:27were auctioning off everything in the museum to the public,
0:17:27 > 0:17:29we put in a bid and were successful.
0:17:29 > 0:17:34Good. What we've got to understand is that you could undertake a very minor offence in Britain
0:17:34 > 0:17:37and be sent to the colonies -
0:17:37 > 0:17:42you could steal a sheep, you could get into financial difficulties,
0:17:42 > 0:17:46very minor misdemeanours which today probably would hardly
0:17:46 > 0:17:52even get you a fine, and you would be sent out, so it wasn't just axe murderers and lunatics and maniacs
0:17:52 > 0:17:58who were sent out, it was people who had simply fallen foul of the law in a very minor way, because Australia
0:17:58 > 0:18:03was built by craftsmen, by artists, by people of all levels of society,
0:18:03 > 0:18:06who had simply made a mistake.
0:18:06 > 0:18:10This is obviously about 1830 - we've got George IV,
0:18:10 > 0:18:14so it's right at the end of his reign.
0:18:14 > 0:18:20I take "30" to be 1830. I think it was in the County of Middlesex which tells us it's a bridge
0:18:20 > 0:18:26probably across the Thames, and cast iron notices like this were put up frequently in Britain -
0:18:26 > 0:18:30very durable, it's nice the notice itself made its way to Australia
0:18:30 > 0:18:34as well as, you know, the crime it recorded.
0:18:34 > 0:18:38- Maybe it was stolen.- Maybe it was stolen, wonderful, I'm sure it was.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42You bought it in this funny, or private, auction, can you remember what you paid?
0:18:42 > 0:18:47- 150.- Well, I think that was a pretty good buy!
0:18:47 > 0:18:50I'd have bought it myself because I think it's great social history.
0:18:50 > 0:18:53I'm going to say today even with this damage, which of course was
0:18:53 > 0:18:57probably done when it was prised off the bridge,
0:18:58 > 0:19:02I would say this would now fetch 1,200 - £500.
0:19:04 > 0:19:11So because it's such a rarity to see, it's a great piece of history, and I wish I'd bought it.
0:19:11 > 0:19:15Even if I might have been transported for having it.
0:19:15 > 0:19:19Right, well, I'm a collector of vintage cars,
0:19:19 > 0:19:24so I've been picked out to come and talk about motorcycles
0:19:24 > 0:19:26but before I display my ignorance,
0:19:26 > 0:19:31tell me, what is a Waratah, because I've never heard of it.
0:19:31 > 0:19:35Waratah, it's a 1917 Waratah, Australian bike, made in Australia
0:19:35 > 0:19:41by Healey Brothers who made the pushbike, and it went
0:19:41 > 0:19:43to Williams & Company
0:19:43 > 0:19:47and they produced the Waratah until 1948.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49Right, so what year would this one be then?
0:19:49 > 0:19:52- 1917.- OK, single cylinder?
0:19:52 > 0:19:54Yes.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58- Do you ride it? - Yes, yes. It's rideable
0:19:58 > 0:20:00- and very comfortable. - Did you come here today in it?
0:20:00 > 0:20:02No, because it's too cold.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05Too cold today.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07Right, well, I'm sorry about my ignorance because I just,
0:20:07 > 0:20:11you know, haven't been to Australia before and I've certainly never come across one of those in England.
0:20:11 > 0:20:16This I have come across - the Bradbury, but I've never seen a twin cylinder.
0:20:16 > 0:20:21No, they're probably quite a number of single cylinder Bradburys around, there may be as many as a hundred
0:20:21 > 0:20:28or more, worldwide, but twins, as far as we are able to make out, there's only two left in the world.
0:20:28 > 0:20:29One's in the British Motorcycle Museum.
0:20:29 > 0:20:32They had a terrible fire.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34- Yeah, so we don't know if that one still exists.- Could be crispy bike.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36- It could be, it could very well be, yeah.- Hopefully not, yeah?
0:20:36 > 0:20:42- And this one.- This one here is made in 1915, 750cc and we still use it -
0:20:42 > 0:20:45we just use it as it is.
0:20:45 > 0:20:51The original owner had it locked away in a shed for 65 years, and he wasn't allowed to ride it,
0:20:51 > 0:20:55and so it was dug out about the early '80s and, er...
0:20:55 > 0:20:58- Just like this?- Yeah. - I mean it looks to me absolutely stunningly original.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01- It is.- We've got hand shift. Yes.
0:21:01 > 0:21:07- This is not a pressure tank, is that an oil...?- No, that's an oil pump,
0:21:07 > 0:21:11- and it's got a gear change on the side.- Right.- It's got a foot clutch or a hand clutch, carbide lights.
0:21:11 > 0:21:13Carbide lights, and I noticed actually when I was looking
0:21:13 > 0:21:16at it, it's not only got carbide lights on the bike, but also on the chair.
0:21:16 > 0:21:21- That's correct, yes. - With a transfer pipe running over. - This thing, yes.- That's brilliant.
0:21:21 > 0:21:26Well, coming to valuations, on my part, it's going to be a bit of a guess but that
0:21:26 > 0:21:31looks something like sort of 10,000, £4,000.
0:21:31 > 0:21:36- That's it, that's about it, yeah. - OK but this - if it is, well...
0:21:36 > 0:21:40if it's one of two, the other one's in a museum, then who knows?
0:21:40 > 0:21:4525,000, 50,000 - £10,000, £20,000?
0:21:45 > 0:21:49- That's right, we don't know, we don't know.- Wonderful, thank you very much, it's great.- Thank you.
0:22:06 > 0:22:11So here we are, standing in this completely magnificent building
0:22:11 > 0:22:15and here is a portrait of LL Smith,
0:22:15 > 0:22:22one of the men who made this building possible, by one of Australia's great painters,
0:22:22 > 0:22:25- Tom Roberts. It's a wonderful thing. - Yes, it is.- How did it come to be in your family?
0:22:25 > 0:22:30Actually, LL Smith was my husband's grandfather, so it's been in the family since it was painted.
0:22:30 > 0:22:37I see, now Tom Roberts himself was a fascinating artist, a man who interpreted the Australian landscape
0:22:37 > 0:22:41in a truly individual way, but of course, like many many artists,
0:22:41 > 0:22:47- he had to make his money selling the commissions for portraits.- Yes.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50And here you have a wealthy man, Dr LL Smith.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52- Yes.- How did he make his money?
0:22:52 > 0:22:57- He left England in 1852.- Right.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59As an impoverished doctor.
0:22:59 > 0:23:03He landed and went straight to the gold fields up at Castlemaine.
0:23:03 > 0:23:09- Did he find any gold?- Yes, he did - not enough to make a living off,
0:23:09 > 0:23:11but he kept a little sample in a medicine bottle.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14Look, completely wonderful, this is real gold?
0:23:14 > 0:23:18- It is real gold, yes. - Well, obviously he was rich enough not to have to spend it quite yet.
0:23:18 > 0:23:23I think he had so little that he thought he might as well keep it as a souvenir.
0:23:23 > 0:23:28- Right.- And he got dysentery - the conditions on the gold fields were absolutely terrible.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30- Oh, dear.- Where dysentery was rife,
0:23:30 > 0:23:34so he came back to Melbourne and he set up a medical practice.
0:23:34 > 0:23:38He advertised widely, and he...
0:23:38 > 0:23:41Is this what you've brought here? This advertising bell, is that for him? That's it?
0:23:41 > 0:23:44That's for a line of vegetable pills he produced.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Oh, right.
0:23:46 > 0:23:50This is hilarious, "Dr Lewis L Smith's vegetable anti-bilious
0:23:50 > 0:23:53"or cooling opening pills." Opening what?
0:23:53 > 0:23:55Well, opening one's bowels, I imagine.
0:23:55 > 0:24:01And at one stage he had, he set up travelling carts that took the pills
0:24:01 > 0:24:04- and his medical ointments out to the gold fields.- Oh, how brilliant.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Well, you can see how he made it.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09- Yes, he lost it a few times too. - Did he?
0:24:09 > 0:24:16He speculated in everything, he had racehorses, he produced champagne.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20- He was involved in a great number of things.- Yes.
0:24:20 > 0:24:24He was a parliamentarian for something like, um, 28 years.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27He was very interested in public entertainment.
0:24:27 > 0:24:32- Yes.- Because he had come from a theatrical background - his father had been in the theatre in London.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34- I think that this portrait really captures that, don't you? - Yes. It shows his...
0:24:34 > 0:24:39- Because it's got, it's got the light in his eyes.- Yes.- And he's obviously making a point here.
0:24:39 > 0:24:43- Yes.- And he's going to be very sure that his colleagues get it, but there's humour in his face as well.
0:24:43 > 0:24:47- Yes.- He's not lecturing them, he's making it a bit jokily, isn't he?
0:24:47 > 0:24:52We've always felt that, Tom Roberts must have quite liked him, because it's a very...
0:24:52 > 0:24:54- It's caught him well.- Yes.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57Psychologically, you feel you've met him, don't you?
0:24:57 > 0:24:59- There's a lot, yes. - Yes, it's very powerful.
0:24:59 > 0:25:04So there are quite a few portraits by Roberts around, perhaps not of such important figures,
0:25:04 > 0:25:09nor even so successfully done, because it really is very lively.
0:25:09 > 0:25:14There must be a few institutions that would like to have it, mostly in Melbourne,
0:25:14 > 0:25:17because it's to do with the gold rush, it's to do with a founding father of the city, it's a lot
0:25:17 > 0:25:21of history wrapped up in this picture and he's quite a character.
0:25:21 > 0:25:27- Yes.- I think, if I was putting a value on it for sale, which would have to be its insurance value,
0:25:27 > 0:25:32it would be something in the region of 80,000 Australian dollars,
0:25:32 > 0:25:35£35,000 - £40,000 back in England.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37My uncle collected beautiful things.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41This is a collection of a few bits and pieces that he had,
0:25:43 > 0:25:45which...he actually died about four years ago and left them to me.
0:25:45 > 0:25:49- Ah, well, your uncle had pretty good taste.- I love that. - You like that?- That's my favourite.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52I like it lots.
0:25:52 > 0:25:56- I like it, and if it could speak to you, it would say that it came from near "Doodley".- OK.
0:25:56 > 0:26:02I say Dudley, but people who live in Dudley call it "Doodley" which
0:26:02 > 0:26:09is basically in the West Midlands of England. Now let's have a...oh,
0:26:09 > 0:26:15it's a treasure. First of all, let's have a look at it end on because we've got, we've got an overlay
0:26:15 > 0:26:21in four different colours, so you've got white, clear, white again
0:26:21 > 0:26:24and then you've got this sort of primrose yellow, but you know,
0:26:24 > 0:26:27when you actually see the piece carved through,
0:26:27 > 0:26:30it's a very vibrant yellow,
0:26:30 > 0:26:34so this is a classic piece of English cameo glass,
0:26:34 > 0:26:37almost certainly from Thomas Webb.
0:26:37 > 0:26:42It doesn't get much better than this, because one layer of glass carved through to another,
0:26:42 > 0:26:47to another and on top of that, you've got, if you look here, you see this sort of feathering effect.
0:26:47 > 0:26:52- Yes.- Date-wise, probably around about 1885-1890.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55- Is it?- So this is pure Victoriana. - It's very old.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58You need serious money to buy this today.
0:26:58 > 0:27:01I think you wouldn't get away with paying less than £5,000 sterling,
0:27:01 > 0:27:07- that works out at 12,000 Australian dollars.- Ooh, OK.
0:27:07 > 0:27:12- OK, and let's put that on one side a moment, because the pulse is racing here.- That's just beautiful.
0:27:12 > 0:27:19And show me this woman! Let's take her out - slow, ooh, she's a weight!
0:27:19 > 0:27:24I deal in Art Deco and have done for 30 years, and from 100 paces
0:27:24 > 0:27:29it's quite obvious who this bronze and ivory figure is by.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31Because the name is here, it's Gerdago.
0:27:31 > 0:27:38- Yes.- Now date-wise, around about 1925-1930, I mean,
0:27:38 > 0:27:43this girl to me looks as though she could have had a walk-on part
0:27:43 > 0:27:47- as a Star Wars princess, don't you think so?- Yes, very much so.
0:27:47 > 0:27:53Because the thing about Gerdago is that he is such a dramatic
0:27:53 > 0:27:57sculptor, and he is very happy to include plenty of colour.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00- He's not big on ivory, if you look, just the face.- Yes.
0:28:00 > 0:28:04And just look at those lips, I mean they are kissing lips, are they not?
0:28:08 > 0:28:131925-style, and those fingers are so elegant, you know, they're beautifully, beautifully carved,
0:28:13 > 0:28:19and then as for the actual skirt itself, it's enamelled
0:28:19 > 0:28:22in wonderful bright colours
0:28:22 > 0:28:28and then set off on a base of polished green Brazilian onyx.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30If she was a car, she'd be a Rolls Royce.
0:28:30 > 0:28:37- Oh, good.- OK, the last selection of Gerdago bronze I remember turning up in London
0:28:37 > 0:28:43were sold as part and parcel of the Elton John collection.
0:28:43 > 0:28:47- Oh, OK.- So you're in good company actually when it comes to...
0:28:47 > 0:28:50- Oh, good.- ..collecting pedigree. They tend in the main to be
0:28:50 > 0:28:52desirable, consequently expensive,
0:28:52 > 0:28:57so I'll start with Australian dollars this time,
0:28:57 > 0:29:02and say you're looking nearer 48,000 Australian -
0:29:02 > 0:29:06we're talking about £20,000 sterling.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08Oh, my God,
0:29:08 > 0:29:11oh, my God! Yes, OK.
0:29:12 > 0:29:16- Are you a deep-sea diver? - No, I'm not at all.
0:29:16 > 0:29:18What about conchology, are you keen on that?
0:29:18 > 0:29:21No, I'm not into that either.
0:29:21 > 0:29:25Because this is an extremely nicely formed conch or conc shell,
0:29:25 > 0:29:30but it's a conc shell with a difference - here we go -
0:29:30 > 0:29:32wow, look at that!
0:29:32 > 0:29:34Quite disgusting, really, isn't it?
0:29:34 > 0:29:36Quite disgusting, you reckon?
0:29:36 > 0:29:42Well, anyway, you said it! Actually, I think it's absolutely the most kitsch thing I've ever seen.
0:29:42 > 0:29:46- It is, isn't it?- Yeah, and of course they filled it with natural coral
0:29:46 > 0:29:50but they've re-coloured the coral in this particularly kitsch way.
0:29:50 > 0:29:54Tacky colours, the bits actually rearrange, you can rearrange your bits anywhere you like them.
0:29:54 > 0:29:56Oh, I say!
0:29:56 > 0:30:00- And then you ram a light bulb underneath and then the whole thing is illuminated.- Yes.
0:30:00 > 0:30:02So, do you love this thing to bits?
0:30:02 > 0:30:06No. I was always told when I was young that it was very special and don't touch it, so when
0:30:06 > 0:30:11my grandmother went to a nursing home, I said to her "You know that lamp, would I be able to have it?"
0:30:11 > 0:30:14and she said "Oh, no you can't have it till I die",
0:30:14 > 0:30:17- and I thought "Ooh".- Where did she used to have it in her house? - Sitting on top of the television.
0:30:17 > 0:30:20Never had the television on without the conch shell on, is that right?
0:30:20 > 0:30:23- Basically that's that. - That's fantastic, isn't it? So you nicked it, really?
0:30:23 > 0:30:28Well, I did, I went around and thought well she's close enough to death anyway, so...
0:30:28 > 0:30:30- That's...- I might as well take it, and I thought it was so tacky.
0:30:30 > 0:30:35- That's a terrible thing to say. - I thought it would go to the Salvos, though.- Anyway, you took it home.
0:30:35 > 0:30:37- Yeah, I did.- And do you have it on every day at home now?
0:30:37 > 0:30:42No, I don't, I turn it on occasionally when friends come around as a bit of a joke really.
0:30:42 > 0:30:44- When you're feeling depressed? You put it on when you're depressed? - Could do, right.- Yeah, you could do,
0:30:44 > 0:30:47- couldn't you? Because it would jolly you up.- It would.
0:30:47 > 0:30:50And that's the whole point, it's a jolly little object.
0:30:50 > 0:30:57Frankly if the thing was in a sale in the UK I can see it bringing between 250 and 350, £100 to £150.
0:30:57 > 0:30:59- A lot more than I thought it would be worth, anyway.- Really?
0:30:59 > 0:31:02- But it's so amusing.- It is.
0:31:03 > 0:31:06Should your face look familiar to me?
0:31:06 > 0:31:10Well, maybe, you might remember my father, but it's going back a long, long time.
0:31:10 > 0:31:14- When?- Well, you and he were evacuated together during the, during the war, to Chard.
0:31:14 > 0:31:16- In Somerset?- Yes.
0:31:16 > 0:31:19That's right.
0:31:19 > 0:31:21Yes, so he was there for two years,
0:31:21 > 0:31:25I think you were there for four or something like that.
0:31:25 > 0:31:29- Yeah, nearly five, well, where was he from?- He was from Earlsfield. - Earlsfield! Where I was from.- Yes.
0:31:29 > 0:31:33- What's his name?- Peter, Peter Dodd. - Peter Dodd, Peter Dodd,
0:31:33 > 0:31:37little Doddy, clipped him round the ear once.
0:31:37 > 0:31:40Well, funny you should say that, because there's a story there!
0:31:40 > 0:31:48His sister Barbara was also evacuated with him, and she clearly recalls you punching him in the nose.
0:31:48 > 0:31:52And actually he wasn't small at all, because you're not a small chap, I must have been very brave then.
0:31:52 > 0:31:55- I think you must have been. - I wish it was true.
0:31:55 > 0:32:00Well, some people will go to absolutely enormous lengths to bring things to the Antiques Roadshow,
0:32:00 > 0:32:06but here we've got something a bit more, a bit more manageable in scale - an Aboriginal painting
0:32:06 > 0:32:11which reminds me of the colours of the desert - is that in fact where you collected this work?
0:32:11 > 0:32:15Yes, I did, this was in the late '70s,
0:32:15 > 0:32:18just out from Alice Springs, that's way out in the desert, and this guy
0:32:18 > 0:32:21who was obviously a painter, and he'd just finished this painting
0:32:21 > 0:32:26and I asked him would be interested in selling it, and he said yeah, so I bought it for 30.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28- 30?- Yeah.
0:32:28 > 0:32:33Wow, you've got a lovely work here. Um, natural ochres - if we have a look here,
0:32:33 > 0:32:37you've cleverly written on the back your notes which is fabulous.
0:32:37 > 0:32:40I wish more people would do that, it gives us indications
0:32:40 > 0:32:42of, about the story.
0:32:42 > 0:32:49But you see this Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri who is quite a well known Aboriginal artist,
0:32:49 > 0:32:52he was born in the 1930s and died in 1986.
0:32:52 > 0:33:00I'll just put this back now but this is really part of the early stages of the Aboriginal Art Movement.
0:33:00 > 0:33:04I don't know if you're aware, but traditionally Aboriginal art took the form of body painting,
0:33:04 > 0:33:10of ground paintings, that sort of thing, so it was something that was created for ceremony and then
0:33:10 > 0:33:15disappeared or destroyed, whereas in the early 1970s, a group of men,
0:33:15 > 0:33:19elders, began to transpose those traditional designs onto,
0:33:19 > 0:33:22um, hard materials for portable art,
0:33:22 > 0:33:26- and quite often, as you said, you were right up in the middle of the desert, weren't you?- Yes, yes.
0:33:26 > 0:33:30Canvases, you know, oil paints, those sort of things weren't available
0:33:30 > 0:33:34- and so they were painting out of necessity on this type of thing.- Yeah.
0:33:34 > 0:33:40The interesting about Aboriginal art, it's not really designed to be set up on an easel like this.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42No.
0:33:42 > 0:33:45Um, it's probably better to look at the painting in fact this way,
0:33:45 > 0:33:48because it would have been painted flat on the ground, the same
0:33:48 > 0:33:52as Aboriginal canvases are painted flat on the ground now.
0:33:52 > 0:33:56We're looking at the story of the lizard serpent
0:33:56 > 0:34:01moving through the landscape, and shaping the country as he moved,
0:34:01 > 0:34:05and apparently these little dots are the fruits that he ate
0:34:05 > 0:34:08along the way, so you can see it's a bit like
0:34:08 > 0:34:11a terrain map of his country, it's not a literal map
0:34:11 > 0:34:16of the country, but it shows how those creation stories
0:34:16 > 0:34:20tie in with the landscape in which he lived.
0:34:20 > 0:34:24But I understand there are other meanings behind that, that there
0:34:24 > 0:34:26are sort of sacred meanings as well as a kind of a map?
0:34:26 > 0:34:32There are certain stories and rituals which are only for men's business, and women's business.
0:34:32 > 0:34:37Certainly as a woman, it's not something that would be shared with me,
0:34:37 > 0:34:40and as an uninitiated man he would share a certain level of meaning
0:34:40 > 0:34:43- with you, but not the whole meaning.- Yeah, ah.
0:34:43 > 0:34:47So quite often with these sort of stories, we don't have access
0:34:47 > 0:34:50to the many levels of meaning in this.
0:34:50 > 0:34:54- Yes.- But it's quite a lovely work. Conservatively,
0:34:54 > 0:34:56on the current auction market,
0:34:56 > 0:35:01it would be worth between about 3,000 and 6,000 Australian dollars.
0:35:01 > 0:35:05- Wow.- Which is about £1,200 - £1,500,
0:35:05 > 0:35:11so, um, apart from having a wonderful experience to go behind
0:35:11 > 0:35:14this work, you've also made a good return on your original investment.
0:35:14 > 0:35:18- Fantastic, thank you.- Thank you.
0:35:20 > 0:35:23Now Norman Brooks is known as the father of Australian tennis.
0:35:23 > 0:35:26What relationship is he to you?
0:35:26 > 0:35:32He's my grandfather. In his tennis career, he won many, many events
0:35:32 > 0:35:35but he won Wimbledon 1907,
0:35:35 > 0:35:39being the first foreigner to win Wimbledon,
0:35:41 > 0:35:45which was considered a mammoth effort, because the British
0:35:45 > 0:35:49weren't going to let it go easily, and, and again he won it in 1914.
0:35:49 > 0:35:51- Right.- We believe this trophy,
0:35:51 > 0:35:53and the 1914,
0:35:53 > 0:35:58are the only full-size replicas in existence.
0:35:58 > 0:36:05Other than that, everyone else has only got miniatures and I think that was borne out due to the fact that
0:36:05 > 0:36:10they never expected to lose in '07, so they just made another one,
0:36:10 > 0:36:15you know, as it were, and, er, and then from there to '14,
0:36:15 > 0:36:18there was no-one outside Britain that won it, in fact even Tony Wilding,
0:36:18 > 0:36:20who was a New Zealander, he lived in Britain.
0:36:20 > 0:36:24- Right.- So he got, he got a miniature, but grandfather,
0:36:24 > 0:36:28you know, got, we believe, the only two full-sized replicas.
0:36:28 > 0:36:32And even when we enquired at Wimbledon, they didn't even know.
0:36:32 > 0:36:36Which makes it exceptional, because I mean I have to say when I initially saw it,
0:36:36 > 0:36:40I just thought, "Well, somebody's stolen it", you know, and brought it over here.
0:36:40 > 0:36:45- Exceptionally rare.- Yes.- Didn't he also in 1907 win the Doubles too?
0:36:45 > 0:36:50Yes, he won the Doubles in, er , '07 which was the maiden year,
0:36:50 > 0:36:53as they say, from the point of view
0:36:53 > 0:36:57that the he was the first man to win it, but he won the Singles and the Doubles
0:36:57 > 0:37:01which was, which was quite staggering really.
0:37:01 > 0:37:06Purely in financial terms, I would have thought the Doubles jug is going to be worth,
0:37:06 > 0:37:09to a collector, let's put it that way,
0:37:09 > 0:37:14well in excess of 20,000 or £8,000.
0:37:14 > 0:37:18The racket - did he use that to win one of the Championships?
0:37:18 > 0:37:25I'm not sure, I really don't know, but I know that that was a racket that he used,
0:37:25 > 0:37:27but whether it was in that period, I don't know.
0:37:27 > 0:37:33But certainly used by him, it's probably 5,000 or £2,000.
0:37:33 > 0:37:36But what's this worth? I mean,
0:37:36 > 0:37:39only one other replica known, which you also own.
0:37:39 > 0:37:42- Yes.- And obviously the original which is at Wimbledon.
0:37:42 > 0:37:45So a massively important trophy to tennis enthusiasts.
0:37:45 > 0:37:49It's difficult to come up with a price, but I would think
0:37:49 > 0:37:53at auction you're talking about a figure well in excess of 75,000,
0:37:53 > 0:37:56or £30,000, so a fantastic piece.
0:37:56 > 0:38:03I believe, and I believed grandfather believed, these belong to Australia, not an individual.
0:38:03 > 0:38:05Be great to go into one of the sporting museums.
0:38:05 > 0:38:08- Yes, it really would, and it's that's what we'd like to, you know, we'd like to do.- Good.
0:38:08 > 0:38:13I also have a personal interest in this because, I don't know if you noticed, but, if I can pick it up
0:38:13 > 0:38:16here, on the side there is 1893.
0:38:16 > 0:38:20- Yes.- W Baddeley, Wilfred Baddeley.
0:38:22 > 0:38:25Well, my name's John Baddeley, and he's a distant relation of mine.
0:38:25 > 0:38:30- How wonderful!- So I hope you don't mind if I give it a quick kiss.
0:38:30 > 0:38:31The classic.
0:38:37 > 0:38:40- Thank you very much. - That's wonderful, John.
0:38:40 > 0:38:43I'll take it with me, now!
0:38:47 > 0:38:48Picture yourself in 1912.
0:38:48 > 0:38:52There's been this terrible disaster, the Titanic has been sunk,
0:38:52 > 0:38:55hit by an iceberg.
0:38:55 > 0:39:00And I don't know whether one can say that the Steiff factory in Germany
0:39:00 > 0:39:05were very sensitive or were very switched on to a marketing opportunity,
0:39:05 > 0:39:11but the Steiff factory produced a whole series of bears in black,
0:39:11 > 0:39:16mourning bears they said, to mourn the loss of life on the Titanic,
0:39:16 > 0:39:19and this is what you're holding.
0:39:19 > 0:39:22Now tell me about, tell me about him, is he a family piece?
0:39:22 > 0:39:29No, I had sent one of my bears to South Australia to get repaired and when she sent him back,
0:39:29 > 0:39:33she sent a photograph of my bear, plus this one in the photograph.
0:39:33 > 0:39:38- What, it was just lurking in the background?- Yes, oh, they were sitting side by side, and about
0:39:38 > 0:39:40a year later we got a phone call
0:39:40 > 0:39:45saying that it was for sale and was I interested, and I said yes, I was,
0:39:45 > 0:39:50so we met the lady in the city and I bought the bear from her. It's just wonderful.
0:39:50 > 0:39:54"Just wonderful" is about all one can say about this bear!
0:39:54 > 0:40:01Just look at him! He's got this great luxuriant mohair plush,
0:40:01 > 0:40:05but the thing that I'm surprised at, really, is how good the condition is.
0:40:08 > 0:40:13When you look at things like his felt pads on his feet and on his hands here,
0:40:13 > 0:40:17they are always when we see them in Britain, they've always been got at by moths,
0:40:17 > 0:40:22they've been nibbled away, but this one's in incredibly good condition.
0:40:22 > 0:40:28There's one particular aspect of this bear which I think is very sweet,
0:40:28 > 0:40:33and very touching and that is that around these lovely black eyes here
0:40:33 > 0:40:37we have red.
0:40:37 > 0:40:42A red background which shows the eye up very clearly, but also
0:40:42 > 0:40:45it's what your eyes do when they cry, you know, this bear
0:40:45 > 0:40:47- has got red eyes from crying. - Yeah, I wondered about that.
0:40:47 > 0:40:53And there we have the Steiff button which is absolutely right for that date,
0:40:53 > 0:40:58that particular button came in in 1905 and was used for many years after that,
0:40:58 > 0:41:00so everything about it is right.
0:41:02 > 0:41:05So I've got to ask that question, how much did you pay for him?
0:41:05 > 0:41:09Er, 40,000 Australian dollars.
0:41:09 > 0:41:16I mean that's a lot of money - 40,000, I mean that's £17,000 - £18,000.
0:41:18 > 0:41:21But I have to say
0:41:21 > 0:41:24that a Titanic bear just like this, five years ago
0:41:24 > 0:41:29at auction, fetched just over 200,000.
0:41:29 > 0:41:32200,000?!
0:41:34 > 0:41:36So who knows?
0:41:36 > 0:41:38Maybe that was a lucky day,
0:41:38 > 0:41:42maybe yours wouldn't fetch 200,000,
0:41:42 > 0:41:45which is about £90,000,
0:41:45 > 0:41:47but even if it fetched half that,
0:41:47 > 0:41:51- you're still getting a pretty good return on your 40,000. - He's not for sale!
0:41:51 > 0:41:59- He is a bear that is so rare, we've never seen a Titanic bear on all the British Antiques Roadshows.- Really?
0:41:59 > 0:42:02And to find him down here, in Melbourne,
0:42:02 > 0:42:06well, it's a real eye-opener, and thanks so much for bringing him.
0:42:06 > 0:42:08Thank you, thank you, thank you so much!
0:42:08 > 0:42:13Well, it may be Australian winter time, but we've received a very warm welcome everywhere we've been
0:42:13 > 0:42:17on this trip, and you always know you've got friends when people tell you how far
0:42:17 > 0:42:22they've come to join the Roadshow, and here are two ladies who've come how far?
0:42:22 > 0:42:26From Perth - almost from London to Moscow.
0:42:26 > 0:42:29Wow, so that's 2,000 miles!
0:42:29 > 0:42:33- You must be real fans.- Very much so. Yes, yes, ten o'clock every night,
0:42:33 > 0:42:37- we both watch.- And did you get the full support of your family on this trip?
0:42:37 > 0:42:41No. They thought we were mad, but we thought we were clever.
0:42:41 > 0:42:44- And were you?- Yes. Wonderful shopping spree in Melbourne.
0:42:44 > 0:42:48And how about the show itself, did you have a good result?
0:42:48 > 0:42:54- Oh, very exciting, wonderful. Result, yes, 120,000.- For what?
0:42:54 > 0:42:58It's the log book of just after Trafalgar -
0:42:58 > 0:43:03- the paying-off pennant which is about 28 feet long.- So a very long trip, but very worthwhile.
0:43:03 > 0:43:06Yes, wonderful, thank you.
0:43:06 > 0:43:09- We really enjoyed it.- You're the lifeblood of the show -
0:43:09 > 0:43:12now you've got to go all the way back again!
0:43:12 > 0:43:15- All the way back.- And so do we, so from Melbourne, thank you
0:43:15 > 0:43:19very much indeed for having us, until the next time, goodbye.
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