0:00:38 > 0:00:40This week, the Antiques Roadshow is racing through Devon,
0:00:40 > 0:00:45our destination - the historic town of Tavistock on the edge of Dartmoor.
0:00:45 > 0:00:49Wonderful country and a breeding place for myth and legend.
0:00:56 > 0:01:02At nearly 1,000 square kilometres - make that 368 square miles - Dartmoor is the largest
0:01:02 > 0:01:06and the wildest area of open country in the south of England.
0:01:06 > 0:01:13Distinctive granite tors, abandoned tin mines and Bronze Age settlements are scattered all over the place.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16You can see how it would appeal to writers.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19Arthur Conan Doyle did his bit to immortalise Dartmoor
0:01:19 > 0:01:24with his terrifying tale of The Hound Of The Baskervilles Versus Sherlock Holmes,
0:01:24 > 0:01:30and HERE is the very swamp where the half-starved beast lay in wait for its victims.
0:01:30 > 0:01:32The dog was around here somewhere, too.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35HOWLING
0:01:43 > 0:01:45The great moor land was also said to be the lair of witches
0:01:45 > 0:01:47who infested the granite tors,
0:01:47 > 0:01:52luring young men into the swamps and watching them sink to their deaths.
0:01:52 > 0:01:56Even now, when a mist descends, the imagination can run wild.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Right, that's enough myth and legend, here's an ancient fact.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10There's gold in them there moors.
0:02:13 > 0:02:15Well, tin, actually.
0:02:15 > 0:02:19The miners who dug the stuff up needed somewhere to have their tin evaluated,
0:02:19 > 0:02:24and 700 years ago a royal charter to do just that was granted to a town by the name of...
0:02:24 > 0:02:28Tavistock, and this is it.
0:02:29 > 0:02:35Tavistock already had a thriving weekly market which Henry I had agreed to back in 1105.
0:02:35 > 0:02:38The first traders set up their stalls here in Market Street
0:02:38 > 0:02:43exactly 900 years ago, and they're still doing it.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47An unknown poet has written,
0:02:47 > 0:02:51- IN A WEST COUNTRY ACCENT:- "I love to go to Tavistock on market day when people flock by train and bus
0:02:51 > 0:02:57"and trap and car, from every village near and far they bring their butter, cream and cheese,
0:02:57 > 0:03:05"their chickens and their ducks to please the many folk who find their way to Tavistock on market day."
0:03:05 > 0:03:09The only chickens and ducks we see today will be made of porcelain, I think.
0:03:09 > 0:03:14The most recent market to open here is one for antiques.
0:03:14 > 0:03:19And in a comradely way, the traders of Tavistock's Pannier Market have offered up their pitches
0:03:19 > 0:03:22to our experts for what we hope will be an historic roadshow.
0:03:33 > 0:03:37You know, some people love gnomes and some people loathe gnomes.
0:03:37 > 0:03:41- What are you?- I think they're hideous, but then that's only my personal opinion.
0:03:41 > 0:03:46They're my wife's, actually, and she likes them and her family like them so...
0:03:46 > 0:03:52- So descended to your wife, have they? - Yes, indeed, they belonged to her grandparents many years ago,
0:03:52 > 0:03:58and they owned hotels down in Cornwall, in Weybridge, and they seem to remember these,
0:03:58 > 0:04:03er...chappies were in the hotels and in the foyer, you know, welcoming people as they went in.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06They're welcoming creatures, aren't they? Lovely happy faces.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08Oh, they have, and you can tell they're Cornish.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10This chap's collecting money from people,
0:04:10 > 0:04:13and this chap's obviously taking the tourists' photographs.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15You'd better not go to Cornwall after this!
0:04:15 > 0:04:20Now, a lot of people think they're English creations, but of course they
0:04:20 > 0:04:22don't come from England originally, they come from Germany.
0:04:22 > 0:04:26And these are German gnomes in terracotta,
0:04:26 > 0:04:32painted terracotta, um, somewhere in date about 1900, incredibly early.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35They're about the earliest gnomes you're likely to come across.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38There are a few earlier ones,
0:04:38 > 0:04:43they became very popular in Europe and then came over to England
0:04:43 > 0:04:47somewhere about the 1880s, 1890s, and I suppose they derive really
0:04:47 > 0:04:53from, um, you know, the Ring of the Nibelung, you know, they're little miners and getting money and...
0:04:53 > 0:04:56But the camera is fantastic, isn't it?
0:04:56 > 0:04:58A little box Brownie, yeah.
0:04:58 > 0:05:02An early box camera, yes, and in date quite right for about 1900,
0:05:02 > 0:05:07so they're both very, very early gnomes and as such are very collectable.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10They just stand around looking handsome, I suppose.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14- So they're not Cornish piskies after all.- They're not, no!
0:05:14 > 0:05:18But I think they're great, though you obviously don't like them.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21I'm only joking, really, we can give them house room.
0:05:21 > 0:05:26Give them house room now, because they are reasonably valuable.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28I suppose a good pair like this,
0:05:28 > 0:05:31in very, very good condition,
0:05:31 > 0:05:35I suppose they're going to be at auction something like about £2,000.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38- Well, you do surprise me. - So look after them.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40- Will do.- And cheer them up.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44- Well, they'll keep smiling, don't worry.- Keep smiling!
0:05:44 > 0:05:47This is probably the most uncomfortable suit of clothes
0:05:47 > 0:05:49I think, I've ever seen.
0:05:49 > 0:05:53It's made of, er...sacking or canvas.
0:05:53 > 0:05:58- Yes.- With this incredibly coarse stitching. Where did you get it from?
0:05:58 > 0:06:02Um, well, I actually work for a museum, local, Dartmoor Prison,
0:06:02 > 0:06:05and they obtained it last year.
0:06:05 > 0:06:09It was from Exeter Prison, it's either originated from Dartmoor or Exeter.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11They weren't sure themselves but other than that...
0:06:11 > 0:06:15Well, certainly, as far as dating is concerned,
0:06:15 > 0:06:20the National Penitentiary Service, which was formed in 1850, I think,
0:06:20 > 0:06:25the prisoners of that service wore the broad arrow outfit, the uniform.
0:06:25 > 0:06:30- Right, yes.- And so we're certain... We know that it can't be before 1850.
0:06:30 > 0:06:35- Oh, right.- And I think the National Penitentiary Service was abolished in about 1920 or thereabouts,
0:06:35 > 0:06:39- so it wouldn't be after 1920. - No, no.
0:06:39 > 0:06:43So it has to be in that sort of actually fairly broad corridor.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46- Yes.- It's certainly a really uncomfortable uniform.
0:06:46 > 0:06:51Can you imagine wearing this on a really cold icy winter's morning with probably no underwear?
0:06:51 > 0:06:54It must have been incredibly uncomfortable to use.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57What about the broad arrow? What do you know about that?
0:06:57 > 0:06:59We believe it meant that...
0:06:59 > 0:07:02it's a government symbol, something like that.
0:07:02 > 0:07:09Absolutely right, it was quite common at the time for guns and anything really belonging to the government
0:07:09 > 0:07:13to be marked with this broad arrow, so I guess what they were saying here
0:07:13 > 0:07:17that the prisoner was - for the time that he was in prison - property of the government.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21I can't imagine there are very many of these around in the country.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23It must be almost unique, I would think.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26- Yes.- But you've brought in something else...- Yes.
0:07:26 > 0:07:30- ..That I find fascinating and actually quite gruesome at the same time.- It is really.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33- This is a real, genuine cat o' nine tails.- Yeah.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36And has this come from the same place?
0:07:36 > 0:07:41It did, yes, we don't know any background to that at all, that's the thing.
0:07:41 > 0:07:46OK, well, um, it's a pretty gruesome object, and of course the origin,
0:07:46 > 0:07:52really, in common use came from the Navy in the 17th and 18th century.
0:07:52 > 0:07:58And it brought about such common phrases, for example, as, "Don't let the cat out of the bag"
0:07:58 > 0:08:00and, "Not enough room to swing a cat."
0:08:00 > 0:08:04- On board ship, of course, room was very, very tight.- Yeah.
0:08:04 > 0:08:09But this is extraordinary, because this has never, ever been used, thank goodness, I think I should say.
0:08:09 > 0:08:14It looks almost new. I mean, if you'd said to me this was made last year, I'd have believed you.
0:08:14 > 0:08:17But I think it has to have some age to it, it's a genuine...
0:08:17 > 0:08:20Oh, that's interesting, we've got a wax seal on the end
0:08:20 > 0:08:24that says, "Prison Commission, Home Office".
0:08:24 > 0:08:29- That's interesting. I think probably that means it's 20th century.- Right.
0:08:29 > 0:08:36And you've got to remember that corporal punishment, of course, continued until the...what?
0:08:36 > 0:08:381950s, even '60s, I think...
0:08:38 > 0:08:43- I wasn't sure.- ..With birching and beating with the cat o' nine tails, in prisons in particular.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45Now, what about value? Have you thought about that?
0:08:45 > 0:08:49- We haven't got a clue.- How do you put a value on something like this?
0:08:49 > 0:08:53We really haven't got a clue with these, no. We really don't know.
0:08:53 > 0:08:57It's very, very hard to put a value on objects such as these.
0:08:57 > 0:09:01There are collectors of police and prison memorabilia, of course.
0:09:01 > 0:09:06I guess that if something like this came up on the open market today,
0:09:06 > 0:09:11it's such a rare object, such an unusual object, that I think it could sell for
0:09:11 > 0:09:17- several thousand pounds, probably two, maybe even £3,000, because it's so rare.- Yes, thank you.
0:09:17 > 0:09:21And as far as the cat o' nine tails is concerned, not quite that much,
0:09:21 > 0:09:24but it is a very collectable object...
0:09:24 > 0:09:28- Thank you.- ..I'm afraid to say, and my guess is, again if it came up
0:09:28 > 0:09:33on the open market, that it would sell for £500-600.
0:09:33 > 0:09:35- Amazing.- Quite extraordinary.
0:09:35 > 0:09:39- Tell me about her. - Well, she was my mother's,
0:09:39 > 0:09:43and so I did see her from time to time. I mean, she was brought out.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46- Were you allowed to play with her? - I didn't, but I know my mother did.
0:09:46 > 0:09:50My mother was born in 1905, and she played with her a lot, I think.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52- Can I hold her?- Yes.- Um...
0:09:52 > 0:09:57Now you said your mother was born in 1905.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00- Yes, she was.- So this doll actually was born a bit later, as it were,
0:10:00 > 0:10:02she was registered in 1909.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05- Oh, right.- In fact, she could have even been registered
0:10:05 > 0:10:10in 1911, even a bit later than that, so your mother would have been what?
0:10:10 > 0:10:13- Six or something. - Perhaps, could it have been...
0:10:13 > 0:10:16I don't think she'd have been given a bisque doll, which is what it is -
0:10:16 > 0:10:18- it's, unglazed porcelain...- Yes.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20..If she was really a baby,
0:10:20 > 0:10:22so if she was sort of six, it would have been perfect.
0:10:22 > 0:10:26- I see.- She's kept it very well, although the stringing's
0:10:26 > 0:10:29a little bit loose, but that's what happens with a bit of elastic.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33It sort of starts going a bit loose, you know, like all of us when we get later on in life.
0:10:33 > 0:10:38Now, behind, I mean, I immediately knew what she was
0:10:38 > 0:10:40because of the mould of her face,
0:10:40 > 0:10:43because of the charming little smiling mouth.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46- She's got a lovely, lovely expression.- She is a darling.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49And do you know what she's known as?
0:10:49 > 0:10:52She's German, and they call her, "Mein Liebling", my darling.
0:10:52 > 0:10:59- Oh, really?- Yes, and behind...there is, underneath the wig,
0:10:59 > 0:11:05"K*R...Simon & Halbig...117."
0:11:06 > 0:11:11Now, the K*R is Kammer - or Kammer with an umlaut over the "a" -
0:11:11 > 0:11:14and Reinhardt, together with Simon and Halbig.
0:11:14 > 0:11:18Now, Kammer and Reinhardt designed it but made the body,
0:11:18 > 0:11:22and Simon and Halbig made the head according to the design,
0:11:22 > 0:11:27and 117 is what we call the hundred mould of Kammer and Reinhardt.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29- Yes.- Have you any idea of her value?
0:11:29 > 0:11:31None, no.
0:11:31 > 0:11:32- No? None whatsoever?- Not at all, no.
0:11:32 > 0:11:38So if I said she was worth 300, what would you think?
0:11:38 > 0:11:42Well, she could be, I don't...I honestly don't know.
0:11:42 > 0:11:47Well, if you add a nought and say between £3,000 and £4,000, would that make you feel a bit better?
0:11:49 > 0:11:53I am...I am astonished, and my mother would have been astonished, too.
0:11:53 > 0:11:58- She's a real little darling, isn't she?- Good gracious, yes.
0:11:58 > 0:12:01And I nearly didn't bring them!
0:12:01 > 0:12:03The box says, "Clock".
0:12:03 > 0:12:05Yes, there is a clock.
0:12:05 > 0:12:12Yes, this is one of those relatively inexpensive American clocks that were made to simulate marble.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14They were sent over to this country in quite large numbers to...
0:12:14 > 0:12:20to combat, as it were, the influx of marble clocks from the Continent,
0:12:20 > 0:12:23made for very much...let's say the cottage market.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27- So I can see the clock's dismantled, this must have been a restoration project.- Yes.- Who did it belong to?
0:12:27 > 0:12:30- My husband.- And he enjoyed mucking about with clocks?- Oh, yes.
0:12:30 > 0:12:35This is obviously the movement in here, I can see the bell poking out.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37But while I was glancing earlier,
0:12:37 > 0:12:41I can see a telltale sign of a problem that these, as I say,
0:12:41 > 0:12:44inexpensive clocks often have, and yes, look,
0:12:44 > 0:12:49there is further evidence of what I think I'm going to find.
0:12:54 > 0:12:55Oh, dear, yes,
0:12:55 > 0:12:59- this has got the best example of this problem that I have ever seen.- Yes.
0:12:59 > 0:13:04- The only thing holding it together is the lacquer on the outside.- Yes.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07The woodworm have really gone to town.
0:13:07 > 0:13:13There's nothing you can do, and this clock really boils down to a set of spare parts.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16Now come on, David, nationality.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18We've got to try and get this right.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21I've been looking at these things for 30 years,
0:13:21 > 0:13:25and I sway backwards between China and Japan,
0:13:25 > 0:13:29and I've never really formed a definite opinion.
0:13:29 > 0:13:33- Well, they're export, I presume?- Oh, yeah, and they're characteristically
0:13:33 > 0:13:37Chinese in style, but that doesn't mean to say they can't be Japanese.
0:13:37 > 0:13:43- Cos the Japanese were copying the Chinese styles.- Yeah.- So let's go for it, then, what is it?
0:13:43 > 0:13:45- Japanese.- Chinese.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48So you think Chinese? OK, well, we'll give it some more thought.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50Yeah, OK.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54So what do you think this extraordinary object could possibly have been used for?
0:13:54 > 0:13:59Well, it was sold to me as a warmer, but how it works or what...
0:13:59 > 0:14:02- A warmer? - Yes.- A warmer of what, do you...?
0:14:02 > 0:14:06- I'm not sure. - It is a food warmer, um...
0:14:06 > 0:14:10and to understand the principle behind it, you have to...
0:14:10 > 0:14:13we have to cast our minds back into the 18th century
0:14:13 > 0:14:18and imagine how people lived, and you might imagine a rather dark, cold, inhospitable room
0:14:18 > 0:14:21which might have been somebody's bedroom,
0:14:21 > 0:14:26and they might have decided they wanted a warm snack in the middle of the night.
0:14:26 > 0:14:30The kitchen was miles away,
0:14:30 > 0:14:32your staff had all gone to bed.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34How do you get your food warm?
0:14:34 > 0:14:39- You might have a bit of soup, something like that, and that's what these were for.- Oh, right.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42Can you speculate how you warm food in that?
0:14:42 > 0:14:47It's difficult, isn't it? I guess a candle or something went in there.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49Yeah, yeah.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53- There must be something missing out of the top here.- Absolutely right.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55I have seen... You say you haven't seen one before,
0:14:55 > 0:14:57I have seen one before illustrated in a book.
0:14:57 > 0:15:01And your piece is, in fact, missing...
0:15:01 > 0:15:08a little bowl that rests in the centre here, and this was the lid that went on the top to keep it warm,
0:15:08 > 0:15:14and to combine a knop or a handle with a little taper stick, so you would have had a little
0:15:14 > 0:15:20taper in the top with a flame alight that you could have used to light the burner underneath.
0:15:20 > 0:15:27It's English Delft, and it dates from about 1760-1770.
0:15:27 > 0:15:31They were made in London. We think they were probably made in Lambeth.
0:15:31 > 0:15:36A very, very reassuring thing to see is, when we turn the piece over,
0:15:36 > 0:15:39we've got a numeral painted on the base,
0:15:39 > 0:15:44the same numeral there on the lid, so we know that these two pieces
0:15:44 > 0:15:49have been together since 1760-70 when they were made.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52Um... But really a very, very rare object.
0:15:52 > 0:15:56The design is terribly interesting, too, these wonderful scroll handles
0:15:56 > 0:16:02and human masks, human masks applied to either side.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05And that typical symptom of Delft,
0:16:05 > 0:16:10it's an earthenware body covered in a white tin glaze, and the glaze chips
0:16:10 > 0:16:14off very easily to give you these...little imperfections, I suppose you'd call them.
0:16:14 > 0:16:18On Delft, minor chipping isn't really an issue.
0:16:18 > 0:16:22What probably is more of an issue with this is the lack of the bowl.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25Can you tell me where you got it?
0:16:25 > 0:16:33I bought it from an antique show last summer, and I paid 700 for it.
0:16:33 > 0:16:37- 700, and they knew what it was? - They knew what it was, yeah.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40Yeah, well, I think you did tremendously well, because...
0:16:40 > 0:16:43if we start at the top and say...
0:16:43 > 0:16:46if you had the liner, the bowl,
0:16:46 > 0:16:51and if the cover wasn't in rather cracked condition,
0:16:51 > 0:16:53- I'd be saying 4,000 or 5,000 on this.- Really?
0:16:53 > 0:16:55It is extremely rare.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58I think without the bowl
0:16:58 > 0:17:02you're still going to be 1,500, probably £2,000.
0:17:02 > 0:17:06- That's fantastic.- So that's what I call good investment,
0:17:06 > 0:17:10buying last year for £700, and doubling your money in 12 months.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12- Fantastic, thank you very much. - Good, wonderful.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15We were having a look at this earlier
0:17:15 > 0:17:20and trying to decide whether it was Japanese or Chinese,
0:17:20 > 0:17:24and I've always kind of thought they were Japanese
0:17:24 > 0:17:27because I've got a catalogue, a 1920s catalogue,
0:17:27 > 0:17:35by a company called Yamanaka, and they were a Japanese company which imported goods into Europe,
0:17:35 > 0:17:38and these are illustrated in it.
0:17:38 > 0:17:43So I kind of, without really thinking about it, assumed they were Japanese,
0:17:43 > 0:17:45but...the more one looks at it,
0:17:45 > 0:17:51the more one suspects that actually it's not Japanese, it's Chinese.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54It's red lacquer over carved wood.
0:17:54 > 0:18:01The dragon here is pursuing the Buddhistic pearl of wisdom
0:18:01 > 0:18:04which it's managed to catch in here.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07Actually, I see it's got my moustache on it, which is...
0:18:07 > 0:18:14But the thing that clinched it for me as China, not Japan, is this panel.
0:18:16 > 0:18:20I was in the Forbidden City in Peking earlier in the year,
0:18:20 > 0:18:24and there are panels almost identical to that
0:18:24 > 0:18:27over some of the doorways,
0:18:27 > 0:18:32and I think this is definitely Chinese, not Japanese.
0:18:32 > 0:18:38I think the date is 1920s, um...
0:18:38 > 0:18:41but the interesting thing is that the form
0:18:41 > 0:18:45is rather like a George III English chair.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47- Yes.- Mahogany chair.
0:18:47 > 0:18:51- Do you sit in it? - Yes, now and then.- You do?- Yes.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53Well done, where did it come from?
0:18:53 > 0:18:58- Um, I bought it when I was 12 years old.- When you were 12?!
0:18:58 > 0:19:02Yes, yeah, from a house clearance.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05Very precocious, if I might say so.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08Well, I went there with my father,
0:19:08 > 0:19:13and he was doing something there, I don't know what he was doing exactly,
0:19:13 > 0:19:18but, um...I liked the look of it, and I bought it for £12.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20- Really?- Yes.- And when was that?
0:19:20 > 0:19:24That'd be 1939. I'm 78 now, so...
0:19:24 > 0:19:28What on earth was a 12-year-old doing buying a chair?
0:19:28 > 0:19:30You could have bought a bicycle!
0:19:30 > 0:19:33Ah, I already had a bicycle.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Very good! What attracted you to it?
0:19:36 > 0:19:40- Well, I just liked the intricate carving on it.- Yes.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42Have you bought more antiques since?
0:19:42 > 0:19:46- No, no.- How extraordinary!
0:19:46 > 0:19:48A flash in the pan, well done, you.
0:19:48 > 0:19:54I remember these selling in salerooms in London in the 1970s for quite a lot of money,
0:19:54 > 0:20:00and it's the sort of thing which moves in cycles, in and out of fashion.
0:20:00 > 0:20:03But I have to be quite honest, the market at the moment is...
0:20:03 > 0:20:10I mean, the market really is flat, not just for this, but for a whole raft of things,
0:20:10 > 0:20:17and I think if you put this into an auction today, I suspect it would probably make in the region of
0:20:17 > 0:20:22£400, £500, something like that, so it's not a bad investment.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24Not a bad investment, no.
0:20:24 > 0:20:26- Can I... Can I do something?- Yes.
0:20:26 > 0:20:27I want to sit in it.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33- It's very comfortable, actually. - It's good, isn't it?- Yes, it is.
0:20:33 > 0:20:37- I can see why you bought it. Thank you very much.- Thank you.
0:20:41 > 0:20:45Everyone here at the Roadshow has personal items that they cherish,
0:20:45 > 0:20:48but there is one symbol of a momentous day in people's lives
0:20:48 > 0:20:52that often gets thrown away or forgotten about, and that's the wedding dress,
0:20:52 > 0:20:56but not in Barbara Churchill's case. You've not only got your own dress,
0:20:56 > 0:20:59- but you've got how many others? 140?- That's right.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02Why do you collect wedding dresses?
0:21:02 > 0:21:05They...are worn on a very happy occasion
0:21:05 > 0:21:08and then invariably put in a box.
0:21:08 > 0:21:12I thought, you know, it's a shame that such happiness is packed away.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15Even if marriages go wrong in the end,
0:21:15 > 0:21:18that day is a special day.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21So when did wedding dresses come in?
0:21:21 > 0:21:26White wedding dresses came in in the Victorian times when Queen Victoria
0:21:26 > 0:21:32had a white dress, so everybody wanted to follow fashion, basically.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34White, I suppose, symbolising purity.
0:21:34 > 0:21:39Purity, that's right, and a green dress
0:21:39 > 0:21:43had the sort of hint that maybe...
0:21:43 > 0:21:49you know, there'd been a bit of frolicking in the grass, so they seemed to die out.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51So there's a stigma attached to a coloured dress.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Very often, very often.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57Well, you've got a selection of your huge mass of dresses.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Are these as old as they appear, these pretty ones?
0:21:59 > 0:22:03These are from the 1940s.
0:22:03 > 0:22:08This pink one here is not actually mine, but it's on permanent loan,
0:22:08 > 0:22:11because I show them occasionally for charity,
0:22:11 > 0:22:17and the lady who wore this dress had really gone to the shop to buy
0:22:17 > 0:22:22some white fabric, but when she got there, she didn't have enough...
0:22:22 > 0:22:25coupons, so she had to have pink.
0:22:25 > 0:22:29You mean white was more expensive than any other colour?
0:22:29 > 0:22:32- Absolutely, absolutely. - This is very pretty, too.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35This one is a friend...was a friend of mine,
0:22:35 > 0:22:40and she was getting married six weeks after her mother had died,
0:22:40 > 0:22:46and so her father was a little bit perturbed about her wearing white,
0:22:46 > 0:22:51so out of respect for Mum and Dad, she went and purchased a grey dress.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54Right, because a dress doesn't necessarily look...
0:22:54 > 0:22:58or rather it can look older than it is because people choose different styles, don't they?
0:22:58 > 0:23:00Absolutely, absolutely, yes.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03I mean, that looks terribly old there, and it probably is, is it?
0:23:03 > 0:23:11This one is from 1887, and they came very often in two pieces, rather than in the single piece.
0:23:11 > 0:23:14- That's a two-piece? - That's a two-piece, yes, it is,
0:23:14 > 0:23:17and the belt covers up the join.
0:23:17 > 0:23:22Actually, when it was made, it had lace all around the collar
0:23:22 > 0:23:25and all draping over the sleeve.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28This is a photograph of the lady.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31- Oh, that's the very dress. - That's the very dress.- There it is.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35Good Lord, women have all the fun, don't they?
0:23:35 > 0:23:39Here he is, looking very staid, and she looks ravishing.
0:23:39 > 0:23:44And this is your own wedding dress. Is it as it was on the great day?
0:23:44 > 0:23:46No, nothing like it.
0:23:46 > 0:23:53- This dress has been worn about 20 odd times since I actually wore it on my wedding day.- By you?
0:23:53 > 0:23:57No, once when I was 21 I had it cut off so I could
0:23:57 > 0:24:02wear it without tripping over, and then after that it was reduced
0:24:02 > 0:24:06again to be worn in many pantomimes by the fairy,
0:24:06 > 0:24:10and I think it's been in about 20 pantomimes since then.
0:24:10 > 0:24:13It's paid for itself, that's what I was looking for.
0:24:16 > 0:24:20- You've got the ultimate dust trap here, tell me.- I'm afraid I have!
0:24:20 > 0:24:21I love it, but my wife hates it.
0:24:21 > 0:24:25I have to clean it.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28And how long have you had this?
0:24:28 > 0:24:34Well, my mother bought this in Kingsbridge market in 1954 for £4.
0:24:34 > 0:24:39She then took it on to Saltash and painted it white,
0:24:39 > 0:24:43and she painted all the leaves green and all the flowers red and yellow and blue.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46She did a beautiful job of it.
0:24:46 > 0:24:50Then years later... My mother incidentally died in 1999, aged 102,
0:24:50 > 0:24:57and years later the central heating took over, and the whole thing disintegrated.
0:24:57 > 0:25:02I had some friends round for tea one night, Andrew Sharrick and his mother from Tedburn St Mary,
0:25:02 > 0:25:10and I told them about this, so he asked to see it, and he said, "Cor, I'd love to restore it!"
0:25:10 > 0:25:14I said, "Andrew, help yourself," and what you see today
0:25:14 > 0:25:17is the result of Andrew's handiwork.
0:25:17 > 0:25:19What a wonderful, wonderful story.
0:25:19 > 0:25:23I believe this is made out of solid ebony.
0:25:23 > 0:25:28- Right. - And it would have been one hand who would have made it and executed it.
0:25:28 > 0:25:34- It would have been made for the European market in Ceylon, it's Ceylonese.- Right, right.
0:25:34 > 0:25:38It's quite crude, I mean it... the whole is beautifully executed,
0:25:38 > 0:25:41- but when you get into it, it's quite crude.- Right.
0:25:41 > 0:25:47If we look closely at the baskets, when we look at the detail there, it's not as sharp as it could be.
0:25:47 > 0:25:52- Right.- When we come down onto the base, you can see again, if you look
0:25:52 > 0:25:56at the lion paw foot, instead of being a nice, big, generous paw,
0:25:56 > 0:25:59it's a little bit on the mean side.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02- Naive I think would be the word, would it?- Yes, naive or crude.
0:26:02 > 0:26:06So originally it was designed for holding a plant,
0:26:06 > 0:26:09an aspidistra or something like that.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12Really, I suppose you want to know what it's worth in today's market.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14Yeah, yeah, I would.
0:26:14 > 0:26:19- I would place a value in today's market at about £1,500.- Really? Oh.
0:26:19 > 0:26:22It's not hugely valuable, but it's interesting.
0:26:22 > 0:26:24For four quid, that's not bad, is it?
0:26:24 > 0:26:28Absolutely, she's done well, the girl did well.
0:26:28 > 0:26:32£1,500?! My gosh!
0:26:32 > 0:26:34There, do you like it any better now, dear?
0:26:34 > 0:26:36Well, yeah.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38How did you get this here?
0:26:38 > 0:26:41- With some very strong men. - How many very strong men?
0:26:41 > 0:26:43Only two, very strong.
0:26:43 > 0:26:47I haven't lifted it up, but I'm intrigued to know two things.
0:26:47 > 0:26:51I want to open it as soon as possible, and I want to know if there's anything inside it.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54- Ah, mmm...- I mean, you obviously know what it is.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57- Yes.- Is it...?
0:26:57 > 0:26:59- It's locked.- It is locked.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01This will be bogus.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03Yes. How that ever fooled anybody,
0:27:03 > 0:27:06hopefully there's a keyhole in the top here.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09- Yes, would you like the key?- Ah!
0:27:09 > 0:27:12- Can I open it?- You can try.
0:27:12 > 0:27:15I think that...
0:27:15 > 0:27:18Oh, have I got it right? I have.
0:27:18 > 0:27:23I'm really excited. Drop those off...
0:27:23 > 0:27:26- How many turns?- Just the one.
0:27:26 > 0:27:27Oh, look at that!
0:27:30 > 0:27:33Isn't that fantastic? There's nothing in it!
0:27:33 > 0:27:34- No.- That's wonderful,
0:27:34 > 0:27:36I think the condition of it is amazing.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38- It's called an armada chest.- Yes.
0:27:38 > 0:27:45I'm sure you know that, armada chest after the armada, 1588.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48One would like to believe that perhaps.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51There's absolutely no reason, looking at this,
0:27:51 > 0:27:56with the exception perhaps here, one or two 20th-century nuts.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59- Have you put those on?- Not me, no.
0:27:59 > 0:28:03- I can't see anything about this that isn't original.- No.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06And it could well be 16th-century.
0:28:06 > 0:28:10- What is so amazing, our surname is Drake.- It isn't?!- Yes.
0:28:11 > 0:28:15- Are you a direct descendant?- Oh, no. - Perhaps this came from him!
0:28:15 > 0:28:19If you're going to take provenance, it's going up in value considerably.
0:28:19 > 0:28:26- How did you get it?- My father bought it from a junk shop on the south coast somewhere, I think.- Really?
0:28:26 > 0:28:29I've no idea, before I was born.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31- Right, and you've inherited it. - I've inherited it.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34I think it's tremendous. Do you think it's worth something?
0:28:34 > 0:28:39- How much did your father pay for it? - I have no idea, absolutely no idea.
0:28:39 > 0:28:41Is it worth anything?
0:28:41 > 0:28:43Of course it's worth something,
0:28:43 > 0:28:48- because it's in such good condition, it is such a fantastic bit of history.- Yes.
0:28:48 > 0:28:52I would say it's worth round about £1,000.
0:28:52 > 0:28:55800-1,200 would be a sensible saleroom estimate.
0:28:57 > 0:29:03Now, here is a woman, obviously a high-ranking Naval officer,
0:29:03 > 0:29:07and she looks to me stern but somehow kind.
0:29:07 > 0:29:11- Did you know her?- She was my great aunt, and she was also my godmother.
0:29:11 > 0:29:15She was superintendent of the Wrens in Portsmouth during the war.
0:29:15 > 0:29:17Oh, I see, right.
0:29:17 > 0:29:20But that was only a part of quite a glorious career.
0:29:20 > 0:29:24She's mentioned in quite a number...a lot of literature,
0:29:24 > 0:29:27in Portsmouth, and then after the war,
0:29:27 > 0:29:31she became the director of the Land Army until 1950 when it was disbanded.
0:29:31 > 0:29:36- I see.- And so she was part of disbanding the Land Army.
0:29:36 > 0:29:41- Well, altogether an extremely capable woman, then.- Yes.- Extremely capable.
0:29:41 > 0:29:46Yes, and the antithesis of the great career was that she went back
0:29:46 > 0:29:52to the west of Ireland, lived the rest of her life and started a raspberry farm
0:29:52 > 0:29:57and was well known as quite a character with the locals in the west of Ireland.
0:29:57 > 0:30:00- I bet.- Yes.- Well, would you agree that she's stern but kind?
0:30:00 > 0:30:04Cos I think this portraitist, whose name is Middleton Todd, Arthur Middleton Todd,
0:30:04 > 0:30:09is well known to an entire generation, a younger generation of artists whom he taught,
0:30:09 > 0:30:13and was involved in setting an example to. Apparently a very modest man himself.
0:30:13 > 0:30:17I often like to think of the chemistry between a sitter and an artist,
0:30:17 > 0:30:21and it seems to me that this stern but kind woman
0:30:21 > 0:30:26rather got on with this artist, because she looks as though she's about to laugh, don't you think?
0:30:26 > 0:30:31- Yes.- Now, anyway, I think it's a very successful painting, you know it's quite dirty, don't you?
0:30:31 > 0:30:33- Perhaps you don't.- Yes, probably. - Well, it is quite dirty,
0:30:33 > 0:30:36and it would clean, and I think that she would come alive.
0:30:36 > 0:30:38I think she'd look great.
0:30:38 > 0:30:41- Yes.- Even more characterful. Have you ever thought of value?
0:30:41 > 0:30:44Probably not, cos she's a family member.
0:30:44 > 0:30:48No, I'd like to give the whole collection with her medals, her CBE...
0:30:48 > 0:30:53- You've got the medals, her medals here.- These are her medals,
0:30:53 > 0:30:57her CBE, and I'd really rather they went to a museum in Portsmouth.
0:30:57 > 0:31:02- They should be returned to Portsmouth.- Whoever owns it needs to have some identity
0:31:02 > 0:31:06with the sitter, otherwise it doesn't really, you know, have much relevance.
0:31:06 > 0:31:09- No, no.- And in that sense, in the open market, um...
0:31:09 > 0:31:14a portrait of just somebody isn't really going to be worth that much.
0:31:14 > 0:31:20- No, no.- Unless it's a very beautiful girl or an extremely handsome or terribly important man, you know.
0:31:20 > 0:31:23- Yes.- And so really in the open market you couldn't put more than...
0:31:23 > 0:31:26- I don't know, er, £1,000 or £2,000 on this.- As much as that?
0:31:26 > 0:31:32Well, as much as that perhaps, you know, but incalculable value to yourself, the family,
0:31:32 > 0:31:36- and perhaps to the Naval museum. - Yes, I think the Wrens perhaps.
0:31:36 > 0:31:42Anyway, it's a really interesting life and a good portrait of her, I think.
0:31:42 > 0:31:46- Yes, thank you, thank you very much indeed.- Right.- Thank you.
0:31:46 > 0:31:48- How old are you?- I'm 13.
0:31:48 > 0:31:51- And what's a 13-year-old doing with a snuff box?- Well, um...
0:31:51 > 0:31:53And medals and all sorts of objects?
0:31:53 > 0:31:58Well, I was the only grandchild interested in all this, and my grandad wanted to give it to me
0:31:58 > 0:32:02because he didn't want to give it to anyone else because he thought I'd look after it.
0:32:02 > 0:32:05- And it's really maintaining the family history.- Yeah.
0:32:05 > 0:32:09- So you're the family historian.- Yeah. - Well, you've got to keep these very, very carefully.
0:32:09 > 0:32:14I'm quite interested in the engraving on the cover here. What's his name there?
0:32:14 > 0:32:17- John Brockington. - John Brockington, is that your name?
0:32:17 > 0:32:21- Yeah, I'm Sam Brockington. - You're still Brockington, wonderful.
0:32:21 > 0:32:25But this is extraordinary, because we've got a skull and crossbones here,
0:32:25 > 0:32:31which is quite an unpleasant symbol, if you like, and here you've got the clasped hands of friendship,
0:32:31 > 0:32:34so it makes me wonder why we've got the two opposing symbols, really,
0:32:34 > 0:32:38in juxtaposition, quite strange, but it's a wonderful object,
0:32:38 > 0:32:41and it's something that obviously he would have used every day.
0:32:41 > 0:32:45It's really...really history of your grandfather, your great-grandfather,
0:32:45 > 0:32:48- your great-great-grandfather. - Yeah.- And you need to start writing
0:32:48 > 0:32:51it down, because it's great to be a family historian.
0:32:51 > 0:32:53- Long may you continue. - All right, thank you.
0:32:53 > 0:32:55A bulging bag, what have we got?
0:32:55 > 0:32:57All kinds of rubbish in there, I'm afraid.
0:32:57 > 0:32:59Anything you like.
0:33:01 > 0:33:04- Right, there it is. - Oh, that's a good start.
0:33:04 > 0:33:07- What do you reckon? - Do you know what it is?
0:33:07 > 0:33:09- It's a piece of Bow, isn't it?- Yeah.
0:33:09 > 0:33:12- Yeah.- Is it an eggcup? It's jolly large for a hen's egg, isn't it?
0:33:12 > 0:33:15- One wonders whether it's not actually a drinking cup.- Right, yeah.
0:33:15 > 0:33:23After a Chinese Blanc de Chine original, about 1755, 1760, so a nice and early one and rare but...
0:33:23 > 0:33:26- Slightly damaged. - Where did it come from?
0:33:26 > 0:33:28Well, it came originally from a boot sale, a friend bought it,
0:33:28 > 0:33:33- and I bought it off him, because I liked it.- Are you a frequenter of boot sales?- 'Fraid so, yeah.
0:33:33 > 0:33:39- Have you ever been to the market here?- Yes, many times.- Bought?- Oh, yes. It's always a good market here.
0:33:39 > 0:33:42- What did that one cost you?- Well, I had to pay a few quid for it.
0:33:42 > 0:33:45He knew it was good, but we didn't quite know what it was.
0:33:45 > 0:33:47I think probably in that state about £30-40.
0:33:47 > 0:33:52Yeah, that's good, that's fine, that's good. Well, it's not worth a lot. Right, er...
0:33:54 > 0:33:56A piece of... A piece of glass.
0:34:00 > 0:34:02Do you know what that is?
0:34:02 > 0:34:05I've got a vague idea. It's an oil lamp, isn't it?
0:34:05 > 0:34:07It's a lace-maker's lamp.
0:34:07 > 0:34:10Lace-maker's.
0:34:10 > 0:34:14It should be...mid-18th century.
0:34:14 > 0:34:16Oh, right.
0:34:16 > 0:34:20- What do you think? - You know that wonderful review of...
0:34:20 > 0:34:25in a newspaper of a play called I Am A Camera?
0:34:25 > 0:34:30Somebody wrote a review of this play, which said, "Me no Leica,"
0:34:30 > 0:34:34which I think is rather wonderful. And it applies to this object.
0:34:34 > 0:34:37I don't trust that an inch.
0:34:37 > 0:34:40- That is a reproduction worth very little money.- Good heavens.
0:34:40 > 0:34:42- There you go.- Bad one, I'm afraid.
0:34:42 > 0:34:43Win a few, lose a few.
0:34:48 > 0:34:51Oh.
0:34:51 > 0:34:54- Oh.- You like that one?
0:34:54 > 0:34:57- Do you like it?- I like it, yeah.
0:34:57 > 0:35:02That's really very nice and rare, with this pie-crust rim.
0:35:02 > 0:35:07- This is a piece of English Delft, probably Bristol.- Right.
0:35:07 > 0:35:09I'm not good on the English Delft factories,
0:35:09 > 0:35:13and I have this slight fear that most other people aren't either.
0:35:13 > 0:35:18- We seem to change our opinion of where a piece of Delft was made every other week.- Oh, right.
0:35:18 > 0:35:23Somebody digs up a shard in Wincanton, and they find
0:35:23 > 0:35:27another one in Liverpool, and is it halfway between?
0:35:27 > 0:35:30That's sort of 1760.
0:35:30 > 0:35:33A rare thing. How much was this?
0:35:33 > 0:35:39- I didn't pay very much for it, I bought it at a boot sale again. - How much is not very much?
0:35:39 > 0:35:41£1.
0:35:41 > 0:35:43Will you take two?
0:35:43 > 0:35:45No, no, no, I'll be more clever than that.
0:35:45 > 0:35:50Well, you'd be mad to. I think we're pushing the upper hundreds here.
0:35:50 > 0:35:54- Really?!- Yeah, I think 600, 800, no problem at all.
0:35:54 > 0:35:57- Oh, right. Oh, big money, then? - You did well there.
0:35:59 > 0:36:05Right, so this telegram reads, "Thank you all so much for the lovely carnations
0:36:05 > 0:36:09"and for your thoughts of us both, Winston and Clementine Churchill."
0:36:09 > 0:36:14And then you have a note which says, "With all good wishes, Winston S Churchill."
0:36:14 > 0:36:18And then you have a pennant. What's the story?
0:36:18 > 0:36:24- Well, my grandpa was Churchill's bodyguard from 1950 to 1965.- Really?
0:36:24 > 0:36:28And as far as I know, they were given to him when Churchill died.
0:36:28 > 0:36:33- It must've been a very interesting job, did he tell you stories... No, he wouldn't have.- Not particularly,
0:36:33 > 0:36:38but the impression I got was he spent a lot of time painting, oils of Churchill obviously,
0:36:38 > 0:36:42- and travelling to the South of France. - Have you got any of the paintings?
0:36:42 > 0:36:47- Unfortunately not, I think they're worth quite a lot of money nowadays. - They're worth an incredible amount.
0:36:47 > 0:36:50- Now, there's good news here and there's bad news here.- OK.
0:36:50 > 0:36:54- Right, what do you want first? - Er, whichever, I have to have them both sometime.
0:36:54 > 0:36:56Brave lad, brave lad, right, here we go.
0:36:56 > 0:36:59This note here is a facsimile.
0:36:59 > 0:37:01- It's not a real note.- Oh, really?
0:37:01 > 0:37:06Yes, so instead of being worth loads if Churchill had actually signed it,
0:37:06 > 0:37:08it's worth virtually nothing,
0:37:08 > 0:37:11but it's a curio and it goes with the rest of the stuff.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14There's little enough value in the telegram.
0:37:14 > 0:37:18But the pennant I think is fantastic, and it's a wonderful relic
0:37:18 > 0:37:22- and with the provenance that your family can give it...- Yes.
0:37:22 > 0:37:24..I'm going to say £1,000.
0:37:24 > 0:37:26Oh, really? That's fantastic.
0:37:26 > 0:37:29Thanks. Any more in the bag?
0:37:33 > 0:37:34Ooh!
0:37:38 > 0:37:40Where did this come from?
0:37:40 > 0:37:43Same sort of place, I'm afraid, boot sale.
0:37:44 > 0:37:47What do you do as a job?
0:37:47 > 0:37:50Building is my job, is what I do, but...
0:37:50 > 0:37:53- Really?- ..But at the weekends I go to boot sales.
0:37:53 > 0:37:55You have an amazing eye, you know.
0:37:55 > 0:37:57- No, you do!- Really?
0:37:57 > 0:37:59Yeah, you do, I mean OK, you get it wrong occasionally.
0:37:59 > 0:38:02- Oh, yeah, I did there, didn't I? - But that doesn't matter.
0:38:02 > 0:38:06I mean, basically you're honing in on the real thing, um...
0:38:06 > 0:38:10And of course you're going to make mistakes, we all make mistakes,
0:38:10 > 0:38:16but this is a really very nice South Staffordshire box.
0:38:16 > 0:38:20There's a transfer print under here and then hand colouring on top.
0:38:20 > 0:38:24Date - about 1770,
0:38:24 > 0:38:27and I tell you the extraordinary thing about this one
0:38:27 > 0:38:29is that it's in perfect condition.
0:38:29 > 0:38:31These enamel boxes...
0:38:31 > 0:38:34This is a layer of enamel on copper.
0:38:34 > 0:38:38- Right.- And they're always bust, they're always chipped or cracked, and this one isn't.
0:38:38 > 0:38:40Yeah.
0:38:40 > 0:38:42Go on, how much?
0:38:42 > 0:38:48Er, that one, I think I paid 50 pence for that one.
0:38:48 > 0:38:49Sorry about this.
0:38:51 > 0:38:55What's the housing market like down here?
0:38:58 > 0:39:01I think you wouldn't have any trouble getting...
0:39:02 > 0:39:03..700.
0:39:03 > 0:39:05How much?!
0:39:05 > 0:39:10- You wouldn't have any trouble getting £700 for that.- Good grief!
0:39:10 > 0:39:11- That shocks me. - Give up the building.
0:39:11 > 0:39:17That shocks me, I'm probably better at this by the sound of it. I'm amazed, so how old is it?
0:39:17 > 0:39:201760-1770.
0:39:20 > 0:39:22- Good grief.- Any more?
0:39:22 > 0:39:26So you were at D-Day, and this was with you, was it, as a mascot or what?
0:39:26 > 0:39:32No, no, no, I didn't even know I was going to have to sound this horn at all.
0:39:32 > 0:39:36I was with the Army Commandos, and we came in
0:39:36 > 0:39:40on the beaches near to Quistreham, and there was a bit of
0:39:40 > 0:39:48a thing went on about whether or not the radio sets we had would work well in a built-up area.
0:39:48 > 0:39:53They were perfectly all right for open country, and so I understand that
0:39:53 > 0:39:55the French commander,
0:39:55 > 0:39:59Commandant Philippe Keifer,
0:39:59 > 0:40:04produced a horn and, er...and said, "Well, look, find somebody to sound this."
0:40:04 > 0:40:11And the adjutant came and pointed at me and said, "You can sound a hunting horn, you sound it."
0:40:11 > 0:40:14And when I tried it, I found that it was a little
0:40:14 > 0:40:17different from a straightforward English hunting horn.
0:40:17 > 0:40:21You've got to give it a little more puff with this.
0:40:21 > 0:40:27And when we...when we finally came and bashed our way through and came to the German gun battery, we were
0:40:27 > 0:40:31ready to go, I found the radios were working quite well,
0:40:31 > 0:40:35so I thought, "Well, I won't have to sound it."
0:40:35 > 0:40:36And what happened?
0:40:36 > 0:40:39Well, my commanding officer,
0:40:39 > 0:40:41Colonel Dawson,
0:40:41 > 0:40:46he said "OK, sound the bloody thing just for the hell of it!" And...
0:40:46 > 0:40:51And so I sounded the tally-ho twice, just for the hell of it.
0:40:53 > 0:40:57Well, just for the hell of it, could I ask you to give us a blast now?
0:40:57 > 0:41:03Well, I can't reach the high notes, I don't think I can make the tally-ho, but, um...I'll have a go.
0:41:09 > 0:41:11- Any more?- Er...
0:41:15 > 0:41:17Yeah, a nice old dish.
0:41:23 > 0:41:27Well, it would have been nice to go out on something good, wouldn't it?
0:41:27 > 0:41:28Oh.
0:41:28 > 0:41:30- We did.- Oh!
0:41:32 > 0:41:33Oh, right.
0:41:33 > 0:41:35That's a corker, isn't it?
0:41:35 > 0:41:37You like it?
0:41:37 > 0:41:39And this was local again?
0:41:39 > 0:41:41I bought it in here, in this building.
0:41:41 > 0:41:44- They have things at the weekend and...- How long ago?
0:41:44 > 0:41:47Oh, that was a few years ago, about six years ago, I think.
0:41:47 > 0:41:49That's not very long, is it?
0:41:49 > 0:41:51- No, no, but...- And how much?
0:41:51 > 0:41:54It was on a stall with a pile of junk,
0:41:54 > 0:41:55and I gave the guy £35 for it.
0:41:58 > 0:42:02It makes me weep. I think it's a lovely, lovely dish.
0:42:02 > 0:42:05- Right. - Wonderful bird in the middle here.
0:42:05 > 0:42:09- Right.- Um... Stylised flowers round here,
0:42:09 > 0:42:11terrific palette.
0:42:11 > 0:42:14Again, I think probably Bristol.
0:42:14 > 0:42:15A few nibbles round the rim.
0:42:15 > 0:42:22- Yeah.- An odd, curious firing thing here, which is not a problem.
0:42:22 > 0:42:25- Not? I thought it was damaged. - Yes, I did too, but it isn't, no.
0:42:25 > 0:42:28- The back stop. - Little crosses and ticks on the back,
0:42:28 > 0:42:32exactly what you expect, beautiful clean back there to it.
0:42:32 > 0:42:34Yes.
0:42:34 > 0:42:38Well, your 30 quid has turned into £1,000.
0:42:38 > 0:42:401,000?!
0:42:40 > 0:42:42Good grief! Really?
0:42:42 > 0:42:45- I'd no idea!- Give up the day job.
0:42:45 > 0:42:49Thank you very much indeed, that's absolutely fantastic.
0:42:49 > 0:42:52- You've made my day in Tavistock, I have to say.- Good.
0:42:52 > 0:42:56It's a fantastic group of things, you've got a great eye.
0:42:56 > 0:43:00- You're very kind, thanks very much indeed.- Thank you very much indeed.
0:43:00 > 0:43:06Well, time's up, we've had a couple of cases of deja vu today, some of the items that were brought in were
0:43:06 > 0:43:12purchased here at the Pannier Market originally, so in a way they've come home, and now we're going home,
0:43:12 > 0:43:18but we're coming back, so until Tavistock 2, from Devon, goodbye.