0:00:51 > 0:00:55Welcome back to the Floral Hall in Southport, Lancashire.
0:00:55 > 0:00:59People used to flock here for big bathing Sundays
0:00:59 > 0:01:01and sometimes they came for the cure as well,
0:01:01 > 0:01:04which consisted of drinking three pints of sea water mixed
0:01:04 > 0:01:05with nourishing items
0:01:05 > 0:01:07such as cuttlefish bones and woodlice.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11Ah, the good old days(!) They're a hardy lot here.
0:01:11 > 0:01:12Let's join them again.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18Now I'm intrigued to know how long you've been
0:01:18 > 0:01:23having a sort of relationship with this, this Egyptian dancing girl.
0:01:23 > 0:01:27Oh, I know, I know, goes back a long way, about 77 years.
0:01:27 > 0:01:32- 77 years?- Yes, it belonged to my aunt who spoiled me,
0:01:32 > 0:01:35and I would go there regularly for weekends and when
0:01:35 > 0:01:37I went to bed, and she put me to bed,
0:01:37 > 0:01:41she would take the stopper and put it in my hand and tell me stories
0:01:41 > 0:01:49about this place called Egypt with camels and pyramids and pretty women.
0:01:49 > 0:01:51You've brought along a pretty girl today.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54- Indeed we have, indeed we have. - Because that is, you know,
0:01:54 > 0:01:57- one cracker of a perfume bottle. - Yes, it is.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59- Shall we have a look at her? - Please do, yes.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02- OK, I mean, the emphasis is all in that stopper.- It is.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06Because you've got this beautiful moulded figure of an Egyptian...
0:02:06 > 0:02:08I think she must be a princess.
0:02:08 > 0:02:11- I think so too. - And then the actual bottle itself.
0:02:11 > 0:02:16- Yes.- Has been made in such a way that you've got these wonderful
0:02:16 > 0:02:19spear shapes, or almost lotus leaves, so it's almost as though
0:02:19 > 0:02:22she's actually on top of a large stylised flower head.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25Now there's no maker's mark on there, is there?
0:02:25 > 0:02:30- No.- I mean although she may well have the appearance of an Egyptian,
0:02:30 > 0:02:34if she was going to talk to you, she would do so with a French accent,
0:02:34 > 0:02:35because she was made in France.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37I think it must have dawned upon me.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39What I'm intrigued to know is...
0:02:39 > 0:02:42you see, this should have come with a box.
0:02:42 > 0:02:44- It did, yes.- It did?- It did.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46- You remember the box?- Yes.
0:02:46 > 0:02:47- A triangular box.- Yes.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49- I broke it. I broke it.- You broke it?
0:02:49 > 0:02:53- When you say triangular, sort of like pyramidal?- Pyramid, yes.
0:02:53 > 0:02:57- Like a pyramid.- The two front pieces folded round.- Yes.
0:02:57 > 0:02:58- Like a pyramid.- Yes, yes.
0:02:58 > 0:03:03It was made for a perfumer called Dubarry
0:03:03 > 0:03:07and the perfume that would have gone in there was called Blue Lagoon.
0:03:07 > 0:03:09- Ah, right.- OK,
0:03:09 > 0:03:14and the actual bottle was made by a bottle manufacturer called Depinoix,
0:03:14 > 0:03:18but what is important is the designer.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22This bottle was designed originally in 1919,
0:03:22 > 0:03:24OK, and all the remarkable because
0:03:24 > 0:03:27they hadn't discovered Tutankhamun by that time,
0:03:27 > 0:03:29that's later in the 1920s.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32That's when you get this, this great rush of everything Egyptian.
0:03:32 > 0:03:36But this is designed by something of an unsung hero,
0:03:36 > 0:03:40a man called Julien Viard.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42As far as perfume bottle collectors are concerned,
0:03:42 > 0:03:43that's a magical name,
0:03:43 > 0:03:49so on that basis alone there's good news and there's bad news.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51There always is, life is like that.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54OK, now there are plenty of perfume bottle collectors out there
0:03:54 > 0:03:57that would very much like to take this girl home and put them
0:03:57 > 0:03:59in their collection.
0:03:59 > 0:04:03They would be more than happy to pay you the best part of between £2,000
0:04:03 > 0:04:07and £2,500 just for the privilege.
0:04:07 > 0:04:09- Never! For that?! - Right, now that's the good news.
0:04:09 > 0:04:15- Yes.- The bad news is that if you'd have retained the box...
0:04:15 > 0:04:17- Yes.- ..then that would have doubled the value.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20- Oh!- You would have been talking nearer £5,000.
0:04:20 > 0:04:24- Oh, my goodness, my goodness.- So it was worth as much as the bottle.
0:04:24 > 0:04:26Yes, remarkable.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28- You're sure it's not at home? - Oh, no.- It's long gone?
0:04:28 > 0:04:30Sorry, it's long gone.
0:04:30 > 0:04:33But at least you're left with an Egyptian maiden
0:04:33 > 0:04:37and there can't be many of those to the square mile in Southport.
0:04:39 > 0:04:43Fascinating collection of boxes, but what started you off?
0:04:43 > 0:04:47I had a collection of stamps which I'd collected over a number of years
0:04:47 > 0:04:49and I gave them to my son,
0:04:49 > 0:04:52and I was always fascinating collecting something
0:04:52 > 0:04:55so I just thought I'd like to collect some snuff boxes.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57Now, which are your favourites?
0:04:57 > 0:05:02Well, this one, this one, and that for an intriguing reason, really.
0:05:02 > 0:05:04So, the intriguing reason on this one?
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Well, it's a good trick one
0:05:07 > 0:05:10because you ask people to open it and they can't open it.
0:05:10 > 0:05:12Cos of course you've got to squeeze it.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14- Squeeze it.- And up it comes.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17- But, actually, this is not a snuff box.- Oh, right.
0:05:17 > 0:05:18- This is a tobacco box.- Right.
0:05:18 > 0:05:23These were made round the turn of the 19-20th century,
0:05:23 > 0:05:27very fashionable at that period.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29Now, the other favourites.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32This one, now this one's actually quite intriguing
0:05:32 > 0:05:36because of course we open there to reveal what doesn't seem
0:05:36 > 0:05:42to be quite the right sort of space and then open again there,
0:05:42 > 0:05:44you get this wonderful sort of concertina action.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47Well, I was told, I don't know whether it's true,
0:05:47 > 0:05:50that when the gentleman opened it in the first case,
0:05:50 > 0:05:52- he offered you the snuff from there. - Right.
0:05:52 > 0:05:56Which was poor quality and he kept the best for himself.
0:05:56 > 0:05:57The best for himself in there.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01- I don't know whether that's true or not.- It's a lovely idea.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04Now, let's just have a look and see what this one's all about.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07Yes, this is a Birmingham-made box, in fact,
0:06:07 > 0:06:09by a chap called John Shaw of Birmingham
0:06:09 > 0:06:11in the reign of George III,
0:06:11 > 0:06:15absolutely super one. It's beautiful the way it all closes back.
0:06:15 > 0:06:20But this one, which was another of your favourites...
0:06:20 > 0:06:21Yes, I just like it for the work on it.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24Yes, and the castle top.
0:06:24 > 0:06:29- Right.- Now, castle tops are amongst the most desirable.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32- I see.- Now the maker here... Do you know who it is?
0:06:32 > 0:06:35- Nathaniel Mills, I do know that one. - Yes, Nathaniel Mills,
0:06:35 > 0:06:39great Birmingham box maker, the very best of the Birminghams.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42Do you remember how much you paid for that one?
0:06:42 > 0:06:45Um, I don't really, it was a few hundred pounds.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Yup, I mean that doesn't surprise me. How long ago?
0:06:48 > 0:06:51About four years ago or five years ago.
0:06:51 > 0:06:53They have been going up nicely since then.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55- Have they?- Oh, yes.
0:06:55 > 0:06:58You'd be hard pushed to find a Mills box
0:06:58 > 0:07:01of this quality under £1,000 today.
0:07:01 > 0:07:06- Oh, gosh, that is interesting. That's very nice!- So you're doing very...
0:07:06 > 0:07:09- You're doing well on that one. - Right.
0:07:09 > 0:07:11This one,
0:07:11 > 0:07:14I should think we're probably looking at a good £600-£700
0:07:14 > 0:07:16- on that one.- Very nice, yes.
0:07:16 > 0:07:17- Good, yes.- Which is nice.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20And tobacco boxes like this...
0:07:20 > 0:07:23- not snuff boxes.- Tobacco box, yes.
0:07:23 > 0:07:26- I mean, that is not going to be enormously valuable.- No.
0:07:26 > 0:07:30- Um, perhaps around the £200 mark. - I see, very nice.
0:07:30 > 0:07:35So I would not be surprised if there wasn't sort of £3,000-£4,000
0:07:35 > 0:07:39quite easily sitting on that table, possibly slightly more.
0:07:39 > 0:07:40That's very nice, thank you.
0:07:40 > 0:07:43- So keep up your collecting.- I will, thank you very much indeed.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48I'm very glad to see this piece because in current circumstances,
0:07:48 > 0:07:51it's very important for us to remember how long
0:07:51 > 0:07:55the British love affair with the Middle East has been.
0:07:55 > 0:07:59You know, here is a fantastic piece of Islamic-style furniture.
0:07:59 > 0:08:00Now, do you love it?
0:08:00 > 0:08:03I absolutely adore it, yes, I do.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05And where has it come from?
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Well, my husband bought it, he bought it in Preston
0:08:08 > 0:08:10only about three years ago
0:08:10 > 0:08:14and he came home and he said, "I've seen the most wonderful sideboard,"
0:08:14 > 0:08:18not telling me how big it was, "the most wonderful sideboard.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21"I'm going to get it. I've decided I'm going to get it."
0:08:21 > 0:08:25but there was a little sacrifice attached to it.
0:08:25 > 0:08:29- Oh, what's that? - And we got it and...
0:08:29 > 0:08:32Just before Christmas about three years ago,
0:08:32 > 0:08:35we'd been planning a holiday and of course because
0:08:35 > 0:08:37he'd made this purchase,
0:08:37 > 0:08:40we didn't have a holiday that year.
0:08:40 > 0:08:42- So this is your holiday?- Yes.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44There are so many typical elements about this.
0:08:44 > 0:08:48Just to go back in time, from about the 1870s,
0:08:48 > 0:08:51every department store was selling
0:08:51 > 0:08:55what they called Anglo-Moorish furniture.
0:08:55 > 0:08:59- Yes.- And this is a classic, classic example of that.- Yes.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02This is not based on anything Middle Eastern at all.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04Middle Eastern furniture doesn't look remotely like this.
0:09:04 > 0:09:08It doesn't matter. This was what we THOUGHT it looked like
0:09:08 > 0:09:14and that's why they brought in the familiar pierced panels
0:09:14 > 0:09:20and they were used in interior screens in Islamic houses.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24You've got these lovely Islamic style arches,
0:09:24 > 0:09:26you've got even the Islamic patterning
0:09:26 > 0:09:28taken from tiles on the stained glass.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31Everything is a mass of Islamic design,
0:09:31 > 0:09:34all from books, design books of the time and put together
0:09:34 > 0:09:35by some manufacturer.
0:09:35 > 0:09:38I'll tell you straightaway I've no idea who made it,
0:09:38 > 0:09:41but it would have been probably one of the big Manchester-based
0:09:41 > 0:09:45manufacturers whose wares were being sold in the department stores
0:09:45 > 0:09:48that were the contemporary taste.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Now I have to ask you...
0:09:50 > 0:09:51what's all that?
0:09:51 > 0:09:55Well...my husband put those there,
0:09:55 > 0:09:58the reason being that on top of there, there are holes which
0:09:58 > 0:10:00would have had something in,
0:10:00 > 0:10:04maybe finials and he felt that he had to put them there.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06- So off he went to the DIY shop. - And made them, yes.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09And he bought some curtain poles and some banisters.
0:10:09 > 0:10:13- He did.- They're great because they're completely, wonderfully wrong.- Yeah.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15But at the same time they've turned it into a sort of mosque,
0:10:15 > 0:10:19- they're like the... - That was his idea, actually, yes.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22You ought to have it wired up so that the call to prayer
0:10:22 > 0:10:24comes out in the morning.
0:10:24 > 0:10:27So, it was bought instead of a holiday.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30I think it'll last longer than a holiday.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32I'm sure, yeah, I love it.
0:10:32 > 0:10:36I think this is such a classic in that sort of Anglo-Moresque taste,
0:10:36 > 0:10:41if you wanted to find one, go and find a better one and I bet you
0:10:41 > 0:10:43can't, you know, this has it all.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46- Yes.- And I'm therefore going to say I think about £3,000
0:10:46 > 0:10:50so you could nearly have had a cruise.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52A short cruise.
0:10:52 > 0:10:54It would be a short one, yes.
0:10:56 > 0:11:00It's a fascinating group. Where did it come from?
0:11:00 > 0:11:03They've been in the family now for 50 years at least
0:11:03 > 0:11:07because my father-in-law was an avid collector.
0:11:07 > 0:11:12He loved things like this and he actually died when he was 45
0:11:12 > 0:11:15and it's 50 years next year since he died,
0:11:15 > 0:11:17so they've been in the family all that time,
0:11:17 > 0:11:20so none of us know what he paid for them or anything at all.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Right, do you have a favourite one?
0:11:22 > 0:11:27Well, really, I suppose I've got one or two but I do like that one.
0:11:27 > 0:11:31Right, this one's a charming little group of...
0:11:31 > 0:11:33father, he's supposed to be, entertaining his son,
0:11:33 > 0:11:39the son has got a fish on wheels, which is a typical Japanese toy,
0:11:39 > 0:11:43- and, in actual fact, it's not of the best quality.- No.
0:11:43 > 0:11:48Um, nevertheless, that's going to be worth around £400-£500.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52- This...- That's my favourite.
0:11:52 > 0:11:53Is it?
0:11:53 > 0:11:55- Well done you!- It's beautiful.
0:11:55 > 0:11:59Yeah, it's a fantastic carving.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02What's happened is, this boy has...
0:12:02 > 0:12:07..walking along with a bucket on his back,
0:12:07 > 0:12:11and he's tripped over a snake,
0:12:11 > 0:12:15but look at that bottom. I mean, that is staggering,
0:12:15 > 0:12:19- you know, the snake and the ropes. - The detail.- Carved out, yeah.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22All carved from one piece, it's an amazing bit of work.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24Superb carving.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27Now, what about these, do you like these?
0:12:27 > 0:12:31Oh, I do. They were the main things that I was bringing, really.
0:12:31 > 0:12:35- Do you know what they are?- I don't know anything about them at all.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39I honestly don't and I haven't seen anything quite like them before,
0:12:39 > 0:12:41the pretty colours and...
0:12:41 > 0:12:43They are amazing, aren't they?
0:12:43 > 0:12:47- They are.- Um, it's a technique called Shibayama.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50We've got a silver - and this is silver - plate,
0:12:50 > 0:12:55which has been inlaid with ivory panels and that...
0:12:55 > 0:12:57They have then been inlaid
0:12:57 > 0:13:02with mother of pearl, stained ivory, coral, coconut shell,
0:13:02 > 0:13:06all sorts of things, and in the centre, the same technique,
0:13:06 > 0:13:08but into lacquer.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10This is the Takarabune,
0:13:10 > 0:13:12which is the treasure ship.
0:13:12 > 0:13:17- Oh, I see.- And these are the seven gods of good fortune.- Oh!
0:13:17 > 0:13:21And...here they are again.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23- Is that the ones? - Yeah, here they are again.
0:13:23 > 0:13:28They're around a vat of wine which they're slurping from.
0:13:28 > 0:13:33It's a wonderful, wonderful group.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35Let's do a few values.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39£700 to £900,
0:13:40 > 0:13:44£800 to £900,
0:13:44 > 0:13:46£1,000 to £1,500.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50I did a bit of a...a tot-up earlier
0:13:51 > 0:13:56- and I came to over £10,000 on this table.- Oh!
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Bloomin' heck, Mum!
0:13:59 > 0:14:02This is a very interesting teapot
0:14:02 > 0:14:05A theme has begun to develop today.
0:14:05 > 0:14:09I'm beginning to see more and more paintings by this singular painter,
0:14:09 > 0:14:10James Isherwood
0:14:10 > 0:14:13and we've now got one, two, three here with two owners.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16- You, sir, I gather, own this one here on the right.- Yes.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18And you, madam, that one on the left.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21- That's correct.- And I'm beginning to get the impression
0:14:21 > 0:14:26that he left a very big dent indeed in the history of Southport,
0:14:26 > 0:14:30but also in Wigan nearby, so I think we need to sort of go back a bit
0:14:30 > 0:14:33and first work out where you found these pictures.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35So where did you come across these?
0:14:35 > 0:14:40- Well, this one I found in, I think they called the shop Haggerty's.- Yes.
0:14:40 > 0:14:45And it was closing down and it was a shop that did framing
0:14:45 > 0:14:48and this was just stood in the corner.
0:14:48 > 0:14:52- Did it cost you much?- No.- How much?
0:14:52 > 0:14:55£10. £10. Oh, not bad, not bad at all,
0:14:55 > 0:14:57And then this one beneath, you ended up...
0:14:57 > 0:15:00Well, because I'd got this one...
0:15:00 > 0:15:03- Yes.- ..I felt as though I would like another one
0:15:03 > 0:15:07on the other side of the fireplace, so this one...
0:15:07 > 0:15:10there was an exhibition in...
0:15:10 > 0:15:16I think it was The Royal at Southport and I took this one.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19A very striking picture it is.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22And then, for something not completely different,
0:15:22 > 0:15:23but by the same artist.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25How did you end up with this?
0:15:25 > 0:15:29Oh, well, basically I was working for a local antique shop in Southport
0:15:29 > 0:15:33and I'd seen it on display for some weeks
0:15:33 > 0:15:35and nobody had shown an interest in it
0:15:35 > 0:15:38and after about a month, I was back again,
0:15:38 > 0:15:40doing some more work for the chap,
0:15:40 > 0:15:43and it was still there and it just sort of begged me to buy it
0:15:43 > 0:15:47and I just loved the Coronation Street theme as well.
0:15:47 > 0:15:51Well, we're going to return to that in a sec,
0:15:51 > 0:15:54but we are dealing with a really extraordinary artist.
0:15:54 > 0:15:58At least one other picture I've seen today was by him
0:15:58 > 0:16:01and I gather there were some drawings earlier on.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04Clearly he is someone who is embraced by this place,
0:16:04 > 0:16:06but he was also a highly controversial figure as well,
0:16:06 > 0:16:08wasn't he?
0:16:08 > 0:16:10- He was an eccentric, he was difficult.- He was, yes.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13He was confrontational and it comes out in his art
0:16:13 > 0:16:15because what he wanted to do, I think, was shock.
0:16:15 > 0:16:19He wanted to find ways, different ways of shocking people
0:16:19 > 0:16:22by plundering 20th-century art, by looking at all the techniques
0:16:22 > 0:16:26around to express emotion by colour
0:16:26 > 0:16:31and by shape and by slightly unformed figures,
0:16:31 > 0:16:35he was able to animate this landscape up here
0:16:35 > 0:16:39and add quite a lot to the one beneath in a sort of...
0:16:39 > 0:16:42not quite impressionistic or post-impressionistic way,
0:16:42 > 0:16:45not quite a modernist way, but a sort of mishmash, really,
0:16:45 > 0:16:50and then the same theme carries on into this view of Coronation Street.
0:16:50 > 0:16:54I mean, what an unusual, what an unorthodox approach to art!
0:16:54 > 0:16:58"I'm going to do a painting of Coronation Street on telly."
0:16:58 > 0:17:00I mean, bizarre, isn't it?
0:17:00 > 0:17:02I think the same character,
0:17:02 > 0:17:05the same character who slaps you in the face, is doing it here as well.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08What is interesting about this artist is he's beginning
0:17:08 > 0:17:10to enjoy an ascension.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12He died, I think, was it ten years ago?
0:17:12 > 0:17:15- '89, I think.- Was it?
0:17:15 > 0:17:17- Something like that.- Yes.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19And of course many artists need to be dead for at least ten years
0:17:19 > 0:17:21before they enjoy that
0:17:21 > 0:17:24so I think you're very fortunate, both of you,
0:17:24 > 0:17:26owning pictures by this artist
0:17:26 > 0:17:29and I think the work at the top there, which you bought for £10,
0:17:29 > 0:17:32is probably worth £600 or £700 now.
0:17:32 > 0:17:36- Yes.- I think the one below is worth probably £1,000 to £1,500
0:17:36 > 0:17:40and that I think is probably worth £1,500 on its own.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42You don't want to swap, do you?
0:17:42 > 0:17:45No, I bought them as a pair!
0:17:45 > 0:17:48I'm being controversial, a bit like him.
0:17:50 > 0:17:55So, two carriage clocks,
0:17:55 > 0:17:57ooh, both, if I might say so...
0:17:57 > 0:18:01certainly that one and this one probably as well, oh, yes...
0:18:01 > 0:18:05very dusty, very dusty indeed, rather unloved.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07Tell me why that is.
0:18:07 > 0:18:08They belonged to my great aunt
0:18:08 > 0:18:11and, um, my mother inherited them and they've been passed to me
0:18:11 > 0:18:13to go to my sons.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15How old are the sons?
0:18:15 > 0:18:18They are 22 and 24.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21So you've got a problem really there and I'll explain why.
0:18:21 > 0:18:26This little one is early 20th century.
0:18:26 > 0:18:29A Bath retailer there, I see, but then the giveaway
0:18:29 > 0:18:31is "Made in Paris".
0:18:31 > 0:18:35You've got a comparatively boring lever platform on the top.
0:18:35 > 0:18:42- Right.- And you've got the whole thing encased in brass rather than glass,
0:18:42 > 0:18:44so although it's a carriage timepiece,
0:18:44 > 0:18:47it's not particularly attractive in its sort of squat,
0:18:47 > 0:18:49rather un-commercial case.
0:18:49 > 0:18:53Which of these do you prefer, by the way?
0:18:53 > 0:18:56This one I think, but I haven't seen them very much.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58They've been in the case for such a long time
0:18:58 > 0:19:00and it's nice to see them again.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04OK, well, let's see whether you're sort of on the right decision time.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07This is a corniche case carriage clock.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10- Do you know what the little button does?- I don't.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12- Well, it's a repeater.- Right.
0:19:12 > 0:19:20- And the intriguing thing about this is that it has two hammers.- Right.
0:19:20 > 0:19:25And what I'm going to do is to press that button and you'll hear it now.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29CHIMING
0:19:29 > 0:19:31It's currently striking the hours.
0:19:31 > 0:19:35- Right.- And on a different gong, it's striking some more.
0:19:35 > 0:19:36Yes.
0:19:36 > 0:19:40And it should be striking ten.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43It has, it's done ten
0:19:43 > 0:19:48and what it's actually done, it's said it's five
0:19:48 > 0:19:52and then ten other bits, so it's a five-minute repeater.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54- Right.- It is striking
0:19:54 > 0:19:59to the preceding five minutes, so if it was almost six o'clock,
0:19:59 > 0:20:04it would say five and then 11 of the five minute periods, do you see?
0:20:04 > 0:20:07- I see, yes.- Rather a nice thing.
0:20:07 > 0:20:12So the reason I say you've got a problem is because your two boys
0:20:12 > 0:20:16are going to have to decide who has which clock.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19Now, was there a favourite of this great aunt or not?
0:20:19 > 0:20:23Well, one of the children had more to do with her than the other one,
0:20:23 > 0:20:25yes, and did odd jobs and things.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27Will you give him first choice?
0:20:27 > 0:20:30I think he'll have to, unless they arm wrestle for them.
0:20:30 > 0:20:36If he chooses this one, that has an auction price today
0:20:36 > 0:20:40of not much more than £60.
0:20:40 > 0:20:41Right.
0:20:41 > 0:20:46So, if he doesn't choose this, are you going to dare tell him
0:20:46 > 0:20:49that this is actually about £1,400?
0:20:49 > 0:20:52Right. Fantastic.
0:20:52 > 0:20:56OK. Now THAT'S the problem, isn't it?
0:20:58 > 0:21:02At first sight, a lovely chest. Tell me about it.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06Well, just after the war, my mother wanted a blanket box
0:21:06 > 0:21:10and she saw one advertised in the York Press at a place called Malton
0:21:10 > 0:21:14so she went along to this ordinary house and there was this chest
0:21:14 > 0:21:17and she said to the woman, "You're selling it for £10?"
0:21:17 > 0:21:20and she said "Well, I want just to get rid of it."
0:21:20 > 0:21:23And so, not unnaturally, my mother said, "Deal done."
0:21:23 > 0:21:26Really? How fascinating.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29What I want to do first of all is actually to stroke it
0:21:29 > 0:21:33- because it feel... This is a real Arthur Negus moment for me.- Yes.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35Arthur Negus used to really stroke furniture,
0:21:35 > 0:21:38and this is so satin-like in quality.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40- Yes.- Do you know what it's made of?
0:21:40 > 0:21:43- No, I don't, no.- It's cedar wood.
0:21:43 > 0:21:48- Cedar wood? Oh, right.- It's quite good wood to use for clothes chests
0:21:48 > 0:21:51because it's supposed to keep the insects away.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54- Yes.- First of all, you can just about see there are figures here
0:21:54 > 0:21:59and there seems to be lovemaking scenes, young men and women,
0:21:59 > 0:22:02musical instruments, troubadours, whatever.
0:22:02 > 0:22:07- Yeah.- And I can see that on the top, on this lovely silky wood,
0:22:07 > 0:22:10there is evidence that there was decoration here as well,
0:22:10 > 0:22:12which has got worn away.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15This sort of thing isn't really a blanket chest.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17- No.- It's a cassone.- A what?
0:22:17 > 0:22:19It's Italian and it was...
0:22:19 > 0:22:22a cassone, which was a dower chest
0:22:22 > 0:22:25- and they were often supplied in pairs.- Yes.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28So these were in a sense designed to take textiles,
0:22:28 > 0:22:30but the dowry, the bride's clothes.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32- Yes.- The outside is interesting,
0:22:32 > 0:22:35but let's have a look what happens inside.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38Oh, wow, look at that!
0:22:38 > 0:22:42Now, this is what it would have looked like outside originally
0:22:42 > 0:22:44and you can see now on the inside
0:22:44 > 0:22:49two panels with lovemaking in a pastoral scene
0:22:49 > 0:22:53and you can see, I think, more or less what the sort of date is.
0:22:53 > 0:22:58- Can you see the costumes? - Yes, yes. 16th century?
0:22:58 > 0:23:03I think so, late 16th, maybe even early 17th century perhaps
0:23:03 > 0:23:05with britches, doublet and hose, in other words,
0:23:05 > 0:23:08and in the centre of course, a cartouche, within, in this case,
0:23:08 > 0:23:10a blank shield
0:23:10 > 0:23:12on which you would have had the coat of arms
0:23:12 > 0:23:14or could have had the coat of arms
0:23:14 > 0:23:17and that's what these cassone were about in many ways.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19It was the two families coming together.
0:23:19 > 0:23:21I think it's so romantic, isn't it?
0:23:21 > 0:23:27It is wonderful, and I think now £10 turned into £3,000.
0:23:27 > 0:23:29Oh, wow!
0:23:29 > 0:23:32- Good investment, then. - It's a wonderful thing.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37To me, this shows most beautifully the properties of silver,
0:23:37 > 0:23:40its light-reflective properties.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42Absolutely stunning!
0:23:42 > 0:23:45But the jug itself, where did you get it from?
0:23:45 > 0:23:47Well, it came to us from my mother-in-law.
0:23:47 > 0:23:51She used it either as a coffee pot or a hot water jug,
0:23:51 > 0:23:53but apart from that, we know nothing about it.
0:23:53 > 0:23:55Right then, very sensible.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58I always think these are so much more useful than coffee pots
0:23:58 > 0:24:00because you can use them for whatever,
0:24:00 > 0:24:04whereas much else other than coffee out of a coffee pot
0:24:04 > 0:24:05looks a bit ridiculous.
0:24:05 > 0:24:08But have you ever actually thought about the date of it?
0:24:08 > 0:24:11No, we don't know anything about it.
0:24:11 > 0:24:15It's George III and in fact it's early George III.
0:24:15 > 0:24:20- Look under here, we've got the London hallmarks...- Yes.
0:24:20 > 0:24:27..For 1768 and we've also got, rather interestingly,
0:24:27 > 0:24:29the maker's mark there,
0:24:29 > 0:24:33- a chap called Emick Romer. - Emick Romer, right.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35- Now, he was actually Norwegian.- Oh.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38He was one of the immigrant craftsmen working in
0:24:38 > 0:24:40London in the mid-18th century
0:24:40 > 0:24:43and this wonderful flair that he brings to the whole thing.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46Some of them... I mean, look at that wonderful detail there,
0:24:46 > 0:24:49- the rococo scroll at the bottom. - It's beautiful.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52It really is, it's quite something
0:24:52 > 0:24:56and has survived in remarkably good condition.
0:24:56 > 0:25:00I mean, there's a little bit of a bruise there,
0:25:00 > 0:25:03another one there, but that could be attended to
0:25:03 > 0:25:04without too much difficulty.
0:25:04 > 0:25:09So, sort of value...
0:25:09 > 0:25:11have you thought about this?
0:25:11 > 0:25:14- We're ignorant. - Interestingly enough, actually,
0:25:14 > 0:25:18I think these were often amongst the best buys in 18th-century silver.
0:25:18 > 0:25:19Were they? Ooh.
0:25:19 > 0:25:25In the sense that, ridiculously, although they are far more useful,
0:25:25 > 0:25:29they're significantly less in value than coffee pots.
0:25:29 > 0:25:34Some of these jugs you can actually buy for sort of £600-£800.
0:25:34 > 0:25:39This one, because of its wonderful condition, design
0:25:39 > 0:25:42and the quality of the weight of it,
0:25:42 > 0:25:48- I think we're looking more towards the £1,000 to £1,200 mark.- Ooh!
0:25:48 > 0:25:49Ooh, golly!
0:25:49 > 0:25:54It is a lovely jug and I would certainly love to own it myself.
0:25:54 > 0:25:55Thank you very much.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02- That brings back memories, you've no idea.- Really?
0:26:02 > 0:26:05I was at a boarding school and we had one of these.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08- With folding doors? - Yeah, and that's how we phoned home.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11So apart from my own personal memories,
0:26:11 > 0:26:14this obviously takes us into the whole history of the telephone box.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16It certainly does.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18The first mobile telephone in the world in fact.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21- This is a mobile phone? - It's on wheels at the moment.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23It's got a bit smaller.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27- But, um, this is actually where it starts, isn't it?- It is, yes.
0:26:27 > 0:26:32Um, I mean going back in time, Graham Bell is 1876, I think.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34- Something like that, yes. - And so by the 1880s,
0:26:34 > 0:26:37- the telephone is becoming quite common.- It is, yes.- And there
0:26:37 > 0:26:39is a need to use them in public,
0:26:39 > 0:26:43- particularly railway stations. - Railway stations, hotels, etc.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46Yeah, but do you know the date of this one?
0:26:46 > 0:26:49Well, I definitely know it's prior to 1902
0:26:49 > 0:26:54so it possibly could be 1890 or thereabouts.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57- So it's a Victorian phone box. - It's a Victorian phone box.
0:26:57 > 0:27:01- Fantastic.- These silence cabinets were produced by one manufacturer.
0:27:01 > 0:27:04- What are they called? - Silence cabinets.
0:27:04 > 0:27:07- Right.- The idea was that they came in a flat-pack,
0:27:07 > 0:27:10three sides, the doors, the bottom and the top.
0:27:10 > 0:27:13- Flat-packed?- Flat-packed, they could be then shipped
0:27:13 > 0:27:14around the country
0:27:14 > 0:27:19and they could go out to the colonies where the railways were expanding.
0:27:19 > 0:27:20- Yes.- So we have records of India,
0:27:20 > 0:27:24we have records of South Africa and Rhodesia as well.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27But when you look at this, the design is so well done.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29- Yes.- The machinery, the whole concept,
0:27:29 > 0:27:32- you'll see there's a hole in the roof as well.- Yeah.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35Now actually when you go inside and close the doors,
0:27:35 > 0:27:37it actually creates an air movement
0:27:37 > 0:27:41and this is to expel the previous occupant's pipe smoke or cigars.
0:27:41 > 0:27:45- Or perfume.- I don't think the ladies were allowed to use the telephone.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48- Really?- It was only the gentlemen that used it, yeah.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51So obviously that is later.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54This came from a Chinese restaurant in Southport.
0:27:54 > 0:27:55But I mean anybody...
0:27:55 > 0:28:00I think you'd have to be 45 or 50 to remember the press-button box.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02- You would do, yes. - Press A, it goes through.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05- Press B, you get your money back.- That's right, yes.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07- Now do you use it at home? - We used to,
0:28:07 > 0:28:12but we've got so many other ICT gadgets, we prefer those now.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15I think it's great, it brings back fantastic memories,
0:28:15 > 0:28:18but it's also, as you say, a seriously rare object.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21- It is, yeah.- I haven't seen one since those days.
0:28:21 > 0:28:23- You won't have done. - And I won't have done.- No.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26So...which brings us onto the obvious Roadshow point,
0:28:26 > 0:28:30you got it for £5, as an unwanted, abandoned object.
0:28:30 > 0:28:34- Plus VAT.- Oh, plus VAT. Um, what's it worth?
0:28:34 > 0:28:37- You're the telephone specialist. - I've no idea.
0:28:37 > 0:28:41The Gilbert Scott ones were sold off for £300, £500, £700 and it
0:28:41 > 0:28:44cost you that much to have it moved.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47Um, if you're a real telephone fanatic, where are you going
0:28:47 > 0:28:48to get another of these?
0:28:48 > 0:28:50- You're not.- You're not.
0:28:50 > 0:28:53- No.- So I'd have thought we must be talking £1,000
0:28:53 > 0:28:56for sheer rarity, don't you?
0:28:56 > 0:28:58- Yeah...- And that's disregarding...
0:28:58 > 0:28:59TELEPHONE RINGS
0:28:59 > 0:29:02- Expecting a call? - It must be for you.
0:29:04 > 0:29:05Hello?
0:29:05 > 0:29:08Not now, darling, we're working.
0:29:08 > 0:29:09It was for me.
0:29:09 > 0:29:12Right, good, good.
0:29:12 > 0:29:15This picture, tell me a little bit about it.
0:29:15 > 0:29:19This picture was drawn by a war artist of
0:29:19 > 0:29:22the London Illustrated News.
0:29:22 > 0:29:25The action took place in Villers-Bocage
0:29:25 > 0:29:29and my father's regiment had recently taken quite a beating.
0:29:29 > 0:29:33He was sent into the town, saw a number of German tanks,
0:29:33 > 0:29:36decided that if he cut them off at either end of this road -
0:29:36 > 0:29:38there were six or seven -
0:29:38 > 0:29:39he would have them trapped.
0:29:39 > 0:29:42And then, when they were well and truly trapped,
0:29:42 > 0:29:45this one at the front here started to try and escape,
0:29:45 > 0:29:48it started trying to blast the side of the house down,
0:29:48 > 0:29:52from where he hoped to deliver a lethal blow
0:29:52 > 0:29:54to the Firefly tank there
0:29:54 > 0:29:58which was commanded by Sergeant Bobby Brammell.
0:29:58 > 0:30:01- So this is your father's... - This is one of his tanks.
0:30:01 > 0:30:04- I see, right.- At this time, my father was probably on foot
0:30:04 > 0:30:07because he'd realised that it would be much better
0:30:07 > 0:30:11if he tried to direct the operation on foot rather than in his tank,
0:30:11 > 0:30:15and at the same time, it's worth mentioning, it was pouring with rain.
0:30:15 > 0:30:18- Really?- And he was very lucky to have an umbrella
0:30:18 > 0:30:21and people often thought it rather funny that he was
0:30:21 > 0:30:23directing some of this operation
0:30:23 > 0:30:24underneath an umbrella,
0:30:24 > 0:30:27and according to my father's diary
0:30:27 > 0:30:29that he'd hastily written up that night,
0:30:29 > 0:30:33his troop were lucky enough to manage to knock out, he thought,
0:30:33 > 0:30:35seven German Tigers,
0:30:35 > 0:30:37but that's all he says.
0:30:37 > 0:30:39He just says, "We had a good day that afternoon.
0:30:39 > 0:30:43"I think we got seven Tigers." He said no more than that.
0:30:43 > 0:30:48Right, now we've got some treasured photographs of him here.
0:30:48 > 0:30:54- Where's your father there?- My father is there.- Oh, the first one, here.
0:30:54 > 0:30:56What was his rank and name?
0:30:56 > 0:30:59When that picture was taken, he was a lieutenant,
0:30:59 > 0:31:02his name was Leslie Cotton, but he was known as most people
0:31:02 > 0:31:04by the name of Bill,
0:31:04 > 0:31:07so to everybody he was Bill Cotton.
0:31:07 > 0:31:12I notice he's wearing an Iron Cross 1st Class and I don't think he...
0:31:12 > 0:31:15He must have picked that up on the way somewhere.
0:31:15 > 0:31:18I don't think Hitler awarded that one.
0:31:18 > 0:31:22No, but of course your father certainly was well decorated,
0:31:22 > 0:31:24wasn't he?
0:31:24 > 0:31:29Well, yes, he was, he won the MM when he was in the Western Desert
0:31:29 > 0:31:33and as a result of this action, he won the MC.
0:31:33 > 0:31:36Here we have this lovely group,
0:31:36 > 0:31:39MC, MM,
0:31:39 > 0:31:4539-45, Africa Star, bar, Italy,
0:31:45 > 0:31:48France and Germany, Defence and War medal,
0:31:48 > 0:31:51I mean, he was well used, wasn't he?
0:31:51 > 0:31:53Yes, he was well used.
0:31:53 > 0:31:58He actually joined the regiment a week before war broke out,
0:31:58 > 0:32:01having answered an advertisement in the Daily Telegraph
0:32:01 > 0:32:05asking gentlemen to attend a particular address in London
0:32:05 > 0:32:08if they were interested in joining the regiment so he did that
0:32:08 > 0:32:11and subsequently found himself in.
0:32:11 > 0:32:14Now, this is quite an unusual combination.
0:32:14 > 0:32:19If this was a Military Medal group,
0:32:19 > 0:32:23we're looking at something in excess of £1,000 quite easily.
0:32:23 > 0:32:28If it was a Military Cross group, without the MM, we're looking at
0:32:28 > 0:32:30something like perhaps £1,500...
0:32:30 > 0:32:34£2,000 perhaps.
0:32:34 > 0:32:40But the combination of two and cavalry...well, and tanks,
0:32:40 > 0:32:45- this group has a value of something like £5,000 or more.- Really?
0:32:45 > 0:32:50- Yeah, yeah.- Because the magic is on the tanks, I feel.- Yes, yeah, yeah.
0:32:50 > 0:32:54And it doesn't demeanour any other's actions,
0:32:54 > 0:32:56but, you know, its tank actions
0:32:56 > 0:33:00are well regarded from the collecting fraternity.
0:33:00 > 0:33:05So, you know, you've got a lovely group there.
0:33:05 > 0:33:09My name is Mike Ormerod and that was taken in my days
0:33:09 > 0:33:12with the Mecca ballroom circuit and that's taken at the
0:33:12 > 0:33:14Locarno Ballroom in Burnley
0:33:14 > 0:33:18where I worked as a disc jockey in the 1960s.
0:33:18 > 0:33:22Right, there can't be many albums that run from Mrs Mills
0:33:22 > 0:33:23right through to Jimi Hendrix.
0:33:23 > 0:33:28Well, that's right and being a local DJ did give you an opportunity
0:33:28 > 0:33:33to meet contacts who would get you backstage to see these artists.
0:33:33 > 0:33:34So let's see what we've got here.
0:33:34 > 0:33:37We've got the Rolling Stones.
0:33:38 > 0:33:41You've got all five of the Rolling Stones at that period.
0:33:41 > 0:33:43Yeah, I worked at Blackburn Locarno
0:33:43 > 0:33:46and that autograph was signed when the Rolling Stones
0:33:46 > 0:33:52- played at Blackburn Odeon Cinema on a tour in 1964.- Really, '64?
0:33:52 > 0:33:56- 1964.- And in fact, actually, what year is this one?
0:33:56 > 0:33:59- That was 1966, that's two years later...- Right.
0:33:59 > 0:34:03..When I saw the Stones again at Chester ABC when they were on tour.
0:34:03 > 0:34:06And you got Brian Jones to sign it again.
0:34:06 > 0:34:09All five of them again, you know.
0:34:09 > 0:34:11So you were a bit of a Stones fan? Or just anybody?
0:34:11 > 0:34:14I liked everybody, but I did like the Stones
0:34:14 > 0:34:15but I was brought up on rock 'n' roll.
0:34:15 > 0:34:18- Right.- I enjoyed the early rock 'n' roll guys, Little Richard
0:34:18 > 0:34:21- and Fats Domino and Jerry Lee Lewis.- They're all in here too.- Yes.
0:34:21 > 0:34:23And I love this.
0:34:23 > 0:34:26You obviously got a bit carried away here with the Rolling Stones
0:34:26 > 0:34:30because you've got on each page the Stones and you know, here,
0:34:30 > 0:34:32here we've got Keith,
0:34:32 > 0:34:34looks slightly better there than he does now.
0:34:34 > 0:34:37- He's not worn well, has he?- He's...
0:34:37 > 0:34:39It's not a good advertisement for the rock 'n' roll lifestyle.
0:34:39 > 0:34:42- No, no.- It must have been exciting.
0:34:42 > 0:34:47- It was.- Jimi Hendrix, I mean... - Nelson Imperial Ballroom.- Was it?
0:34:47 > 0:34:50Jimi Hendrix had a dressing room at the back of the stage
0:34:50 > 0:34:53which consisted of a three-sided partition with no roof on
0:34:53 > 0:34:57and just a little door into the thing,
0:34:57 > 0:35:00slatted benches round three sides
0:35:00 > 0:35:04and he was just sat there and I sat down next to him, got all those done.
0:35:04 > 0:35:06Was he wearing his trademark jacket like that?
0:35:06 > 0:35:08- Can you remember? - He didn't have that on,
0:35:08 > 0:35:11- because he hadn't got ready to go on stage at that point.- Really?
0:35:11 > 0:35:16- No, it was...- But he had the time to write "Be groovy, Jimi Hendrix".
0:35:16 > 0:35:18Oh, yeah, it was just after he released Purple Haze
0:35:18 > 0:35:20as a single and he came on stage,
0:35:20 > 0:35:23everything went dark and they put the purple spotlight on him
0:35:23 > 0:35:26and he just struck up the initial chords and all the hairs
0:35:26 > 0:35:28on the back of me neck...
0:35:28 > 0:35:31I mean, there is so much but I must have a...
0:35:31 > 0:35:34In here, there is a couple more than I must have a look at.
0:35:34 > 0:35:37You've got... What have we got here?
0:35:37 > 0:35:39- Well, The Beatles, you know.- Yeah.
0:35:39 > 0:35:43All four Beatles on a publicity shot,
0:35:43 > 0:35:46but how did you get this particular one?
0:35:46 > 0:35:48Backstage, King George's Hall, Blackburn.
0:35:48 > 0:35:51Right, it's a great photo, that one.
0:35:51 > 0:35:55- And of course a BBC producer today, Paul Jones.- Paul Jones.
0:35:55 > 0:36:00Does the blues programme on Thursday evenings or whatever it is.
0:36:00 > 0:36:02- Yeah, I've met Paul about five times. - Really?
0:36:02 > 0:36:05And had some nice chats to Paul.
0:36:05 > 0:36:07Well, now, you've got...
0:36:07 > 0:36:09The ship's sinking
0:36:09 > 0:36:13and you've got to choose which page
0:36:13 > 0:36:15- you're going to keep out of all of this.- Right, right.
0:36:15 > 0:36:18Which one would you keep?
0:36:18 > 0:36:20Well, there's two pages further on in that book
0:36:20 > 0:36:21that's got Jerry Lee Lewis,
0:36:21 > 0:36:24Little Richard, Fats Domino and Chuck Berry in,
0:36:24 > 0:36:26but that one there...
0:36:26 > 0:36:28I know I've got The Beatles and I know I've got the Stones,
0:36:28 > 0:36:32but with Jimi dedicating that, it's just got a special meaning.
0:36:32 > 0:36:35I must say, if I could choose any of the pages,
0:36:35 > 0:36:38- I would probably choose the Hendrix page as well.- Yeah.
0:36:38 > 0:36:43Now, the real challenge is what on earth is all this worth?
0:36:43 > 0:36:48It's very difficult to say because of course in this particular album
0:36:48 > 0:36:51you've got them all pasted in, but it is a...
0:36:51 > 0:36:56It is a complete record of the bands of the day.
0:36:56 > 0:36:59Coupled with that, you've got this, which is, they're all loose
0:36:59 > 0:37:01but there are some great ones in there, too.
0:37:01 > 0:37:03I've got loose ones of those as well.
0:37:03 > 0:37:06- Of all these as well?- Yeah. - I haven't even seen those.
0:37:06 > 0:37:09Imagine what we've got here is all you've got.
0:37:09 > 0:37:10Right.
0:37:10 > 0:37:15With a Hendrix, one like this is probably worth £2,000.
0:37:15 > 0:37:21You've got The Rolling Stones album signed by all the five Stones,
0:37:21 > 0:37:23let's say £1,500 to £2,000.
0:37:23 > 0:37:25You've got The Beatles here,
0:37:25 > 0:37:31all four Beatles on a really nice photo there,
0:37:31 > 0:37:34that's going to be £1,500 plus.
0:37:34 > 0:37:39Um, and so on and so on and so on, and you know, just at a glance,
0:37:39 > 0:37:43you must have somewhere between £20,000 and £30,000 worth
0:37:43 > 0:37:45just here on the table.
0:37:45 > 0:37:48I need a bank vault, then, don't I?
0:37:48 > 0:37:52Yeah, you do because it's just...wonderful.
0:37:55 > 0:37:58We're always looking for interesting things in interesting places,
0:37:58 > 0:38:00and interesting people.
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