0:00:41 > 0:00:45We've been drawn back to the bonnie banks of the Clyde
0:00:45 > 0:00:49for a second visit to Glasgow's Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58Glaswegians are very fond of Kelvingrove.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00For one thing, it's free!
0:01:00 > 0:01:03It also seems to have a special attraction for courting couples,
0:01:03 > 0:01:07who come here and exchange childhood memories of the place.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09Later on, they bring their own children
0:01:09 > 0:01:12and then later on they bring theirs, and so it goes.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14And everyone seems to have their own favourite exhibit.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17Sir Roger the elephant has been a star of the place
0:01:17 > 0:01:21since the doors first opened in 1901.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25There are plenty of reminders of Glasgow's great names.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28This gallery celebrates architect and designer
0:01:28 > 0:01:30Charles Rennie Mackintosh,
0:01:30 > 0:01:34who created what became known the world over as the Glasgow Style.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37He not only produced some fine homes for his home town
0:01:37 > 0:01:39but he also designed what went in them.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44This display features a group of young tearaways
0:01:44 > 0:01:46known as the Glasgow Boys,
0:01:46 > 0:01:49who rocked the art world back in the late 19th century
0:01:49 > 0:01:51by turning their back on classical themes.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53They worked in the big outdoors
0:01:53 > 0:01:56and brought a natural realism to British painting.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02Kelvingrove recently reopened after three years of renovation
0:02:02 > 0:02:06costing £30m. There are some bold new exhibits,
0:02:06 > 0:02:09including this airborne display of faces made of fibreglass.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12And, back again after 13 years in exile,
0:02:12 > 0:02:15Salvador Dali's Christ of St John of the Cross,
0:02:15 > 0:02:18voted Scotland's favourite painting.
0:02:20 > 0:02:21No wonder this is just about
0:02:21 > 0:02:24the most popular cultural attraction in Britain,
0:02:24 > 0:02:27not counting the Antiques Roadshow, of course.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33A Scotchman with very nice knobbly knees...
0:02:33 > 0:02:34Frenchman...
0:02:34 > 0:02:35Englishman...
0:02:35 > 0:02:41And all kinds of other nationalities in presumably their national costume.
0:02:41 > 0:02:45Tyrolese, Persian, Arabian...
0:02:45 > 0:02:49And starting off here with a Sandwich Islander
0:02:49 > 0:02:51and that sort of gives us a clue,
0:02:51 > 0:02:55because the Sandwich Islands is actually what we know as Hawaii.
0:02:55 > 0:02:59- Ah.- So this was before Hawaii was called Hawaii.
0:02:59 > 0:03:05But what goes with this is something else, which is a little tiny globe.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07That's the box that it comes out of.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11And on the globe are all the various countries,
0:03:11 > 0:03:15presumably, that these figures relate to.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18So what was your association with it?
0:03:18 > 0:03:20I inherited it from my aunt.
0:03:20 > 0:03:25She gave me a corner cupboard and that was in the corner cupboard
0:03:25 > 0:03:28and we always wondered how old it was.
0:03:28 > 0:03:32The first thing I do is to turn to Australia and see whether
0:03:32 > 0:03:36it's actually drawn in full, because on some early globes
0:03:36 > 0:03:38it's before they found out what was happening
0:03:38 > 0:03:41on the other side of Australia, and you only get half of it.
0:03:41 > 0:03:47Here it's been circumnavigated, so we know that it's after Cook's journeys.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51- But it's still called New Holland... - Yes.- ..so that limits the date to,
0:03:51 > 0:03:53I would have thought,
0:03:53 > 0:03:57sort of 1810-1820, and if one looks -
0:03:57 > 0:03:59I'm just going to pop that back in its little box -
0:03:59 > 0:04:02if we look at the way that the Englishman was dressed here,
0:04:02 > 0:04:06- you can see he looks like a sort of Regency buck, doesn't he?- Yes.
0:04:06 > 0:04:10- There's something of the Mr D'Arcy about him.- Absolutely!
0:04:10 > 0:04:13So, you know, Jane Austen... Roughly the same period.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Is it something that you've enjoyed looking at?
0:04:16 > 0:04:18Yes, it's something you bring out and show to friends
0:04:18 > 0:04:20and they say, "Where did you get it?"
0:04:20 > 0:04:23You say, "Well, it was in the corner cupboard!"
0:04:23 > 0:04:25- Anything else in that corner cupboard?- Erm, yes.
0:04:25 > 0:04:27Oh, I can see you're going to wait
0:04:27 > 0:04:31until we come back to Glasgow again to show us what else is in there.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33I'll warn you before you come.
0:04:33 > 0:04:36Well, it's a valuable little thing.
0:04:36 > 0:04:40I mean, it's actually a game called The Earth And Its Inhabitants.
0:04:40 > 0:04:44And these little hand-coloured illustrations
0:04:44 > 0:04:48were intended, really, to help children to learn.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51I mean this was a time when children, for the first time,
0:04:51 > 0:04:53it was realised they could learn through play,
0:04:53 > 0:04:59and instead of learning by rote, they learnt through amusement.
0:04:59 > 0:05:03But it isn't just an amusement, because it's valuable too,
0:05:03 > 0:05:05and even though this is a tiny little globe
0:05:05 > 0:05:08and it's not in brilliant condition,
0:05:08 > 0:05:12I still think we're talking about between £500 and £800.
0:05:12 > 0:05:13I beg your pardon?!
0:05:16 > 0:05:18Oh, I...
0:05:19 > 0:05:21I'm speechless!
0:05:24 > 0:05:27I think this little jug bears quite close inspection.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29Do you know why?
0:05:29 > 0:05:33I think possibly something to do with the date on the handle.
0:05:33 > 0:05:35- There is a date on the handle. - Yes, it's fairly old.
0:05:35 > 0:05:38Moulded in relief on the handle.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40And what does that date say?
0:05:40 > 0:05:44- 1591.- Well, I think...
0:05:44 > 0:05:48Yes, I'm not... It's whether it's '91 or '71...
0:05:48 > 0:05:52I mean you can't possibly believe that this jug was made in 1571?
0:05:52 > 0:05:54I know. I find it difficult to believe.
0:05:54 > 0:05:58Cos that would make it 435 years old.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00- Wow!- That would be quite something!
0:06:00 > 0:06:03It would indeed, yeah. Because of the workmanship in it too.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05- It's amazing.- It's wonderful.
0:06:05 > 0:06:09- Mm.- You've got this sort of bellied form, I suppose, a globular form,
0:06:09 > 0:06:14which is I think moulded with flutes that have then been cut at angles.
0:06:14 > 0:06:15Cut out each one.
0:06:15 > 0:06:19- It's almost like sort of diamond-cut glass. It's fantastic.- Uh-huh.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22It's a stoneware body, so it's a really hard, white body.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24That's wonderful as well, isn't it?
0:06:24 > 0:06:28- Yes.- It's got a silver mount on it. It's got rather tarnished.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30But you've had it for some time?
0:06:30 > 0:06:33Yeah, it came into the family through a great-aunt...
0:06:33 > 0:06:34- Right.- ..of my husband's.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36- Right. - And it's been there ever since.
0:06:36 > 0:06:41Well, I'm very, very pleased to tell you that 1571, it really is.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44- Gosh, that's wonderful. - It's 435 years old.- Wow!
0:06:44 > 0:06:46Isn't that lovely?
0:06:46 > 0:06:50- It is.- I mean, just a great thing to find at the Roadshow.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53- Lovely.- And these stoneware jugs were made in Germany.- Mm.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56And there were three major potting centres.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59There is an example recorded with initials IM on it,
0:06:59 > 0:07:02which may stand for a man called Johann Mennicken,
0:07:02 > 0:07:04and Mennicken worked at Raeren.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08- Right.- So it's likely, since the jug is very similar to this,
0:07:08 > 0:07:09that it's Raeren.
0:07:09 > 0:07:15- I think that's just a magnificent, important object.- Thank you!
0:07:15 > 0:07:20And valuation is really, erm, a lesson in the art of comparison
0:07:20 > 0:07:23and there's not really an awful lot that's been sold
0:07:23 > 0:07:26- in the recent past...- No.- ..that I can compare this directly with.
0:07:26 > 0:07:30If I was feeling mean, I'd say it was worth
0:07:30 > 0:07:32- between £4,000 and £5,000.- Mm!
0:07:32 > 0:07:35If I was feeling a bit more optimistic and knowing,
0:07:35 > 0:07:38you know, that sort of auction price,
0:07:38 > 0:07:41something as rare and unusual as this could go on.
0:07:41 > 0:07:45- Two people want it, it might even make twice that.- Mm, we don't know.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48Somewhere in that region. So just a wonderful find.
0:07:48 > 0:07:49Thank you.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52One of the loveliest things I've seen on the Roadshow.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54- It's gorgeous.- Thank you very much.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56'Good, thank you.'
0:07:56 > 0:07:59Now I don't want to be patronising to all you Scots here today,
0:07:59 > 0:08:02but I really look forward to coming to this part of the world,
0:08:02 > 0:08:06Glasgow in particular, because I've got a fascination
0:08:06 > 0:08:09with the decorative arts that were happening here,
0:08:09 > 0:08:11you know, in the 1890s, 1900.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14And of course the big name, goes without saying,
0:08:14 > 0:08:16is Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
0:08:16 > 0:08:20And let's not forget his wife, Margaret Macdonald.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22But you've brought along a few objects today
0:08:22 > 0:08:26which sort of help redress the picture a little bit,
0:08:26 > 0:08:30because there's more to the Glasgow Style than Mackintosh.
0:08:32 > 0:08:36A case in point... One very interesting chair, two planters.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Are you a Glasgow School collector?
0:08:38 > 0:08:42No, but my wife was very keen on the Glasgow Style.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45Her name interestingly was Margaret Mackintosh.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47- She was originally Sinclair. - Oh, was she?
0:08:47 > 0:08:53But this was left to my wife and we were told that possibly
0:08:53 > 0:08:56it had come... It certainly had come from her Great-Aunt Net,
0:08:56 > 0:08:59who was the sort of matriarch of the family,
0:08:59 > 0:09:01and died at 97 about 20 years ago.
0:09:01 > 0:09:04Oh, right. What's interesting is,
0:09:04 > 0:09:07I was looking at a very similar chair less than a year ago
0:09:07 > 0:09:11and so it didn't come as a surprise when you brought it through the door.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13- Ah.- It's a wonderful shape.
0:09:13 > 0:09:17It goes by the name of a caqueteuse, which is a French term
0:09:17 > 0:09:20which goes back 17th century and beyond.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22The focal point is the panel,
0:09:22 > 0:09:26and you've got this Art Nouveau maiden,
0:09:26 > 0:09:28I mean, I think it's a commercial design.
0:09:28 > 0:09:33She's got her gown open and it's filled with flowers,
0:09:33 > 0:09:36her hair en chignon, to use a term.
0:09:36 > 0:09:38The outfit she's wearing
0:09:38 > 0:09:40you could probably have bought from Liberty's,
0:09:40 > 0:09:43or its equivalent in this part of the world.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46But just the shape of it, it's got a sense of movement,
0:09:46 > 0:09:48it's got this nice little leaf motif there.
0:09:48 > 0:09:53- Yes, it's lovely.- And exactly who made it, I can't tell you,
0:09:53 > 0:09:57but one thing I do know is that it's a nice, attractive-looking
0:09:57 > 0:10:01piece of furniture that a lot of people would want to own.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04The one that I saw turned up at auction
0:10:04 > 0:10:08and if memory serves, it made in the region of £900.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11- OK.- If one could have put a name to it, you know,
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Mackintosh, or dare I say, Walton...
0:10:14 > 0:10:16- and I don't think it's George Walton...- Right.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18..erm, then obviously up goes the value.
0:10:18 > 0:10:22It's all in a name and that's true with your two planters,
0:10:22 > 0:10:25erm, because this one, if we can go down -
0:10:25 > 0:10:27let's get down on bended knee -
0:10:27 > 0:10:30is quite typical Glasgow Style.
0:10:30 > 0:10:36It's got a rose that might be seen as a typical Glasgow rose -
0:10:36 > 0:10:41I won't call it a Mackintosh rose, let's call it Glasgow -
0:10:41 > 0:10:43but no signature as such.
0:10:43 > 0:10:46But this one is a bit more special.
0:10:46 > 0:10:50I love this design, with this tree and this rising...
0:10:50 > 0:10:52- And these little song birds.- Yes.
0:10:52 > 0:10:56- I think what we've got here, I think we've got the dawn chorus.- Oh, right.
0:10:56 > 0:11:00OK? Whereas we turn it on its side, we've got the sun going down,
0:11:00 > 0:11:03or it may be the other way round, I'm not sure.
0:11:03 > 0:11:07But what is special is this lovely maiden with long flowing tresses,
0:11:07 > 0:11:13erm... Very stylish, and this is what's quite special.
0:11:13 > 0:11:17MG... Margaret Gilmour.
0:11:17 > 0:11:23And the Gilmour sisters, you know, relatively unsung heroes
0:11:23 > 0:11:26outside this fair city of Glasgow.
0:11:26 > 0:11:30They were operating from 1893 to about the 1940s
0:11:30 > 0:11:33and making this type of brassware.
0:11:33 > 0:11:38Value wise, unsigned, probably in the region of...
0:11:38 > 0:11:41£400 to £500,
0:11:41 > 0:11:44but because this one is signed, I think probably nearer to
0:11:44 > 0:11:49£600, maybe £700 or thereabouts.
0:11:51 > 0:11:53But it's all in a name.
0:11:53 > 0:11:54Thank you very much.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59There's a special trick to this.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01You might think you could just pull that open,
0:12:01 > 0:12:03but you have to slide this...
0:12:04 > 0:12:06- ..and up it comes.- Very ingenious.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09And you have a magnificent key and a lot of effort
0:12:09 > 0:12:12and once you open it you've got all these...
0:12:12 > 0:12:15Whoa! Look at that!
0:12:15 > 0:12:16So what does it say here?
0:12:16 > 0:12:19The date we have is 1731 and what this says,
0:12:19 > 0:12:22basically, is, "May God protect the old and bring them wealth."
0:12:22 > 0:12:24- And it's in German?- In German.
0:12:24 > 0:12:28The history of these is they were called Armada chests
0:12:28 > 0:12:31and literally from sort of 16C onwards,
0:12:31 > 0:12:33and they were used to carry your wealth around
0:12:33 > 0:12:35and usually they're big -
0:12:35 > 0:12:39I mean, they're sort of 4ft, 5ft long - hugely heavy.
0:12:39 > 0:12:43- Right.- But quite often with the same sort of elaborate lock
0:12:43 > 0:12:45but of course the thing on the front here
0:12:45 > 0:12:47is the fake.
0:12:47 > 0:12:50And that's absolutely standard to have the hole at the front,
0:12:50 > 0:12:52where you think it's going to be,
0:12:52 > 0:12:55and have the real lock plate actually disguised.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57I'm going to be honest,
0:12:57 > 0:12:59- I think it's a little bit too good to be true.- Uh-huh.
0:12:59 > 0:13:04Because all the other ones of these that I've seen,
0:13:04 > 0:13:08this iron lock plate has usually been pierced,
0:13:08 > 0:13:12but more importantly, the date, 1731,
0:13:12 > 0:13:16- is NOT the period in which they were making these.- Right.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20Also, this little coat of arms here, with the little stars,
0:13:20 > 0:13:23that is entirely specious.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26It's like someone's idea of what a coat of arms would look like.
0:13:26 > 0:13:31- What a pity! - So it is fantastic quality,
0:13:31 > 0:13:34all made in wrought iron, all of this blueing or annealing,
0:13:34 > 0:13:37an awful lot of effort has gone into this,
0:13:37 > 0:13:39with all of these individual lock plates.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43The other thing is, looking at the key...
0:13:45 > 0:13:48..on the real ones of these, the key is incredibly elaborate.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51Y'know, this has basically got to tumble
0:13:51 > 0:13:55the number of locking devices inside, so it had to be very elaborate.
0:13:55 > 0:14:00That is very, very simple, so what I think this is,
0:14:00 > 0:14:03is I think it's a 19th century copy.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05If I was going to say "fake"
0:14:05 > 0:14:07that would actually be being a little bit cruel,
0:14:07 > 0:14:10but it sort of is, because the date on it is not right.
0:14:10 > 0:14:15And I think it was probably made in the 1880s in Germany.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18But in a way, for me, it's actually more interesting
0:14:18 > 0:14:19because it's not right.
0:14:19 > 0:14:21For me as well, from what you're saying.
0:14:21 > 0:14:26It still does have not inconsiderable value. What do you think?
0:14:26 > 0:14:28£400 or so?
0:14:28 > 0:14:31I think we could fill it up with a bit more money than that.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34- Oh, good, good.- No, I could see someone certainly giving...
0:14:34 > 0:14:36- £1,000, £1,500.- Really?
0:14:36 > 0:14:40And I think for insurance, you'd actually probably want to insure that
0:14:40 > 0:14:43for probably £2,500 because I haven't seen one before.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45You're not going to find another one.
0:14:47 > 0:14:52I LOVE watching historical dramas on TV and one of my favourite series
0:14:52 > 0:14:54was an incredibly popular one called Sharpe.
0:14:54 > 0:14:56Very popular television series
0:14:56 > 0:15:00of the swashbuckling Captain Richard Sharpe who fought
0:15:00 > 0:15:03during the Peninsular Wars, the Napoleonic period, and in India,
0:15:03 > 0:15:09and the rifle that he carried, famously, was the Baker rifle,
0:15:09 > 0:15:12- and you've got one.- That's right, yeah.- Tell me where you got it from.
0:15:12 > 0:15:16I bought it from a dealer in Pennsylvania.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20I'd been looking for a good ordnance issue Baker
0:15:20 > 0:15:24for some years and eventually I settled on this one.
0:15:24 > 0:15:25And why this one in particular?
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Because it's... It was issued...
0:15:27 > 0:15:31It's the version that was issued to the British Army.
0:15:31 > 0:15:32That's an 1805 pattern.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34- The very early... Yes. - Very early one.
0:15:34 > 0:15:41Well, Ezekiel Baker was invited along with a number of other gun makers
0:15:41 > 0:15:48to produce the first rifled longarm that was used by the British services
0:15:48 > 0:15:52and he was successful in the outcome of the trials,
0:15:52 > 0:15:59so it's a very, very important object in the development of firearms
0:15:59 > 0:16:01because it is a rifled gun.
0:16:01 > 0:16:05And before this, of course, we were using a smoothbore gun,
0:16:05 > 0:16:10a long arm, and that would be very quick to load, very easy to load,
0:16:10 > 0:16:12but wouldn't be terribly accurate.
0:16:12 > 0:16:17This, of course, is rifled, and that rifling puts a spin on the bullet...
0:16:17 > 0:16:21- Yes.- ..which makes it much more accurate at longer distances.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23Now, one of the important things with any antique,
0:16:23 > 0:16:27is the condition, of course, not only, with this type of object,
0:16:27 > 0:16:31the external condition, but the inside of the barrel as well,
0:16:31 > 0:16:32what's called the bore.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34And I have - I always carry it -
0:16:34 > 0:16:39a bore light, which is a little light small enough to slip down the barrel.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42Now I've checked this earlier to make sure it's unloaded.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44I wouldn't do this if it was, obviously.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47- No, of course not.- So we'll pop this bore light down the barrel
0:16:47 > 0:16:50and it's quite safe now to look inside the barrel,
0:16:50 > 0:16:55to have a look at the condition, and it is absolutely superb.
0:16:55 > 0:16:59You can see the twist of the rifling, and it's marvellous. Want a look?
0:16:59 > 0:17:01I've never seen the internal, so...
0:17:01 > 0:17:03It's very reassuring to see there's no corrosion.
0:17:03 > 0:17:04- You've never seen it?- No.
0:17:04 > 0:17:08- You bought this without looking? - I'm afraid so!
0:17:08 > 0:17:11Externally it's fine, but it's reassuring to know that.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13It really is good, and it's fascinating to see
0:17:13 > 0:17:17the twist of that rifling, because you don't often see that.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21- It's not a view you regularly get. - No, it's not terribly pronounced.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24It's not as severe as some people might imagine it would be.
0:17:24 > 0:17:28Mm. The Baker rifle is a rare rifle.
0:17:28 > 0:17:33I've got a volunteer version of this and I paid,
0:17:33 > 0:17:36what, three... Some years ago,
0:17:36 > 0:17:39I paid £5,500 for mine and it's not in as good condition.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41This is in really super condition,
0:17:41 > 0:17:44and long may you continue to collect, but only -
0:17:44 > 0:17:48- if you can afford to - items in good condition.- Yes, yes. That's the key.
0:17:49 > 0:17:53I feel like Goldilocks here, with the three bears.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56We've got Daddy bear, Mummy bear, Baby bear.
0:17:56 > 0:17:57That's correct, yes.
0:17:57 > 0:18:02And all looking very surprised with their mouths open in astonishment.
0:18:02 > 0:18:05Wonderful expressions on them.
0:18:05 > 0:18:07When was your first memory of them?
0:18:07 > 0:18:10When I was about three-and-a-half, to four,
0:18:10 > 0:18:13I was given them as a present by my father.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16I'd been very ill and this was sort of a get-well present.
0:18:16 > 0:18:17You were given all three of them?
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Yes... Well actually,
0:18:19 > 0:18:22I got the big one first and then the other two
0:18:22 > 0:18:25came as a surprise afterwards, so we had the family.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27- But there actually was a fourth. - Which is?
0:18:27 > 0:18:29But we only have three today.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32- Where's the fourth? - The fourth one was eaten by my dog!
0:18:34 > 0:18:36- I hope it got indigestion! - Sorry! Sorry!
0:18:36 > 0:18:42- Erm, they're in nice condition, the ones that survived the dog.- Yes.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45And I do love this long shaggy pile,
0:18:45 > 0:18:51and they were actually only invented by Steiff in the very early '50s,
0:18:51 > 0:18:55about 1951, and they were called Zottys,
0:18:55 > 0:18:58which is a shortening of the German word "zottig", which means shaggy.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01- Yes, right.- So, they were called shaggy bears in German.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03I didn't know that... Lovely!
0:19:03 > 0:19:07And it was the first time really that these open-mouthed,
0:19:07 > 0:19:11- rather astonished looking bears, were made commercially.- Yes, they are.
0:19:11 > 0:19:14And they were an instant hit, because of course
0:19:14 > 0:19:16they look very different to all the other bears...
0:19:16 > 0:19:19- Yes, to all the ordinary bears. - ..around at the time.
0:19:19 > 0:19:25- Um, so what are three little bears worth? Well, obviously...- No idea.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28..they range in value depending on the size.
0:19:28 > 0:19:35I suppose the largest one is going to be in the region of £500 at auction.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37- Really? - And then, going down, I suppose...
0:19:37 > 0:19:41£300, £200... You've got the best part of £1,000 here.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43I'm surprised actually, because I really didn't think
0:19:43 > 0:19:47they'd be that valuable because I didn't think they were old enough,
0:19:47 > 0:19:49to be honest with you. That's a nice surprise.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59Well, this is a familiar scene and an impressive photograph
0:19:59 > 0:20:01- but a poignant story.- It is.
0:20:01 > 0:20:05This photograph was taken on the steps of this art gallery
0:20:05 > 0:20:09and it's the boys and leaders of the first Glasgow Scout Troop in 1914,
0:20:09 > 0:20:13before the outbreak of the First World War.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15They were all commissioned as officers.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18The military were very keen on having scouts enlisted
0:20:18 > 0:20:20because they had good leadership skills,
0:20:20 > 0:20:23but sadly of the 32 who enlisted, only three returned.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27So many of these young fellows in this photograph would have perished?
0:20:27 > 0:20:30Perished in the First World War, yes.
0:20:30 > 0:20:33And I'm now very proud to be the Scout Leader of this troop.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35So the quality of young people involved now,
0:20:35 > 0:20:37is the same as we see here in 1914?
0:20:37 > 0:20:41The enthusiasm is always high for Scouts and Cubs.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44The story of that is about ten years ago,
0:20:44 > 0:20:47my wife was out on a Sunday on Clydeside
0:20:47 > 0:20:51and she went into a store that was there and she actually found it.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54- Just like that?- Just like that, yes. - For not very much money, I'm sure.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56- Actually, 12p.- 12p, wow.
0:20:56 > 0:20:57Yeah, 12p, indeed.
0:20:57 > 0:21:01Obviously it's a tea caddy spoon, you know, for serving the tea.
0:21:01 > 0:21:04- OK.- The important thing on it is the name.
0:21:04 > 0:21:06Here we've got Stuart Cranston.
0:21:06 > 0:21:09- OK.- It was Miss Cranston who set up the tea rooms
0:21:09 > 0:21:12- that Rennie Mackintosh designed. - Right.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14So in a sense it was Miss Cranston
0:21:14 > 0:21:18- who launched Rennie Mackintosh on his global career...- Oh, right.
0:21:18 > 0:21:22..as, you know, one of the great men of the 20th century in terms of design.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25In those days, we're talking 1900, 1910,
0:21:25 > 0:21:29where could ladies go out and meet their friends and chat?
0:21:29 > 0:21:32Tea shops were completely safe, so Glasgow was the centre
0:21:32 > 0:21:36of the tea shop trade, where ladies could go and meet their friends.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39And the success of Mackintosh was that Miss Cranston wanted
0:21:39 > 0:21:41- to set up this chain of tea shops. - Right.
0:21:41 > 0:21:45Now Stuart Cranston, who we have here, he was her brother,
0:21:45 > 0:21:48who, in a sense, was a rival, and he also had tea shops.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50He was a tea importer.
0:21:50 > 0:21:53- Right.- He didn't employ Mackintosh.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56So although Mackintosh did have teaspoons in his tea shops
0:21:56 > 0:21:58- which he designed sometimes... - Yes, right.
0:21:58 > 0:22:00..they were not the same as this.
0:22:00 > 0:22:03- OK.- They've got the Cranston name, but the other side of the family.
0:22:03 > 0:22:04- Right, OK.- Do you use it?
0:22:04 > 0:22:06- No, erm...- Not in the tea caddy?
0:22:06 > 0:22:09Not in the tea caddy, no. It's just been sitting there.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12- I think you should. This is Glasgow history.- OK.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14Every time you tip the tea out,
0:22:14 > 0:22:18- think of the Cranstons. They made Glasgow what it was.- Fantastic.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21How much would you say for it, you know?
0:22:21 > 0:22:23Well, 12p was a reasonable price.
0:22:23 > 0:22:26I think, because of the Cranston name,
0:22:26 > 0:22:28- it's more likely to be £20 or £30. - £30.
0:22:28 > 0:22:30- OK, fantastic.- So jolly good buy.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32Thanks, I appreciate it. Thank you.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37This is an amazing gold box.
0:22:37 > 0:22:41I love it for three particular reasons but the first is,
0:22:41 > 0:22:45the remarkable quality of the engineering work here.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47You bought it... Why did you buy it?
0:22:47 > 0:22:50I... My wife saw it and we both loved it
0:22:50 > 0:22:53and it combines a number of my interests
0:22:53 > 0:22:56in clocks, watches, musical boxes...
0:22:56 > 0:22:58And I just thought it was a treasure.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00Well, certainly a treasure.
0:23:00 > 0:23:04First, it's gold, high quality gold.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06Secondly, when you first look at it,
0:23:06 > 0:23:07it looks like a miniature book.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10You wouldn't think it was anything more than just
0:23:10 > 0:23:12maybe a little snuff box or something like that.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15Then you look very carefully at it and you notice
0:23:15 > 0:23:17that it's heightened with blue enamel,
0:23:17 > 0:23:21but exquisitely done. I mean, to do enamelling like that
0:23:21 > 0:23:25takes a huge amount of technical skills,
0:23:25 > 0:23:28so it speaks quality, that's why I first of all like it.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30And then you think, "Oh, well, it's just a snuff box."
0:23:30 > 0:23:31But it's not, is it?
0:23:31 > 0:23:34You open it up and what have you got inside?
0:23:34 > 0:23:37Well, obviously you've got a mechanism for telling the time,
0:23:37 > 0:23:40again quite unusual for any snuff box like this,
0:23:40 > 0:23:44but the giveaway is this musical notation.
0:23:44 > 0:23:48I've never seen that. And then under here
0:23:48 > 0:23:51is a remarkably early musical movement.
0:23:51 > 0:23:54Now you'll see it has some marks on the side here
0:23:54 > 0:23:55which are the gold marks,
0:23:55 > 0:24:00and from that's from a Geneva maker around about 1812, 1815.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03This is probably one of the smallest, certainly,
0:24:03 > 0:24:07and one of the earliest boxes we've ever seen on the Roadshow.
0:24:07 > 0:24:09The market is very, very strong.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12There are lots of international collectors
0:24:12 > 0:24:13for such early and rare pieces.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16You're probably talking about a value of
0:24:16 > 0:24:18between £10,000 and £12,000 today.
0:24:18 > 0:24:23Really? Wow. My wife's taste is spot on.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26- So it's all down to her?- Yes.
0:24:26 > 0:24:30MUSICAL BOX PLAYS DELICATE TUNE
0:24:30 > 0:24:34DEEP TONE VIBRATES
0:24:39 > 0:24:42It's a most extraordinary sound.
0:24:42 > 0:24:43Sort of...
0:24:43 > 0:24:46almost tenor.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50It's supposed to call people to the temple to pray.
0:24:52 > 0:24:53And where was that one made?
0:24:53 > 0:24:57This particular one was made in Japan,
0:24:57 > 0:25:00we think around about the 1930s
0:25:00 > 0:25:03because all the inscriptions on the baton...
0:25:03 > 0:25:06This will go for about three minutes.
0:25:06 > 0:25:10But the baton inscription and underneath says it's from the 1930s.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13So what made you collect singing bowls?
0:25:14 > 0:25:17I read a newspaper article about 40 years ago
0:25:17 > 0:25:21about singing bowls and I wondered what they were,
0:25:21 > 0:25:24and I eventually found one to practise with
0:25:24 > 0:25:28and started to collect them for about 40 years now,
0:25:28 > 0:25:30and just built up a collection of all kinds,
0:25:30 > 0:25:33mainly Himalayan bowls, Tibetan bowls...
0:25:33 > 0:25:39- Yes.- ..but these are Japanese bowls and they are quite rare to find
0:25:39 > 0:25:45and a much more full sound than even the Himalayan ones.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48This one I think is probably much earlier than this,
0:25:48 > 0:25:50and I think probably mid 19th century.
0:25:50 > 0:25:52I rather like the striped decoration.
0:25:52 > 0:25:54It's all been beaten out by hand.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05BOWL HUMS There she blows!
0:26:07 > 0:26:09Used for meditation...
0:26:10 > 0:26:13- You won't fall asleep doing that, will you?- No!
0:26:17 > 0:26:19That is extraordinary, isn't it?
0:26:19 > 0:26:23Now, the most intriguing, I think, is probably this one.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26In 40 years I've never seen anything like it,
0:26:26 > 0:26:30because it's a very big one to start but the quality of the sound
0:26:30 > 0:26:33is really second to none. Even if we just hit it...
0:26:35 > 0:26:39..and it starts to rise and fall with the actual sound.
0:26:39 > 0:26:43That is amazing. Now there's an inscription round here.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46The inscription, which is in old kanji...
0:26:46 > 0:26:47Dear, oh, dear!
0:26:47 > 0:26:49A little bit of an electric shock.
0:26:49 > 0:26:53I wasn't expecting that, but the inscription round the edge...
0:26:53 > 0:26:56Yes, the inscription, which of course would be read
0:26:56 > 0:27:00from right to left, it does translate as,
0:27:00 > 0:27:04"Presented by Tokugawa Ieyasu
0:27:04 > 0:27:08"to the Horyuji Temple in the year 1600."
0:27:08 > 0:27:14And the Horyuji Temple is the oldest of wooden structures in the world,
0:27:14 > 0:27:17- dating back to about, approximately about- 1300. Gosh.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20How did it come out of Japan?
0:27:20 > 0:27:23Well, that worries me! I don't know.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26Because at one level I've never heard anything like this
0:27:26 > 0:27:28and it has a wonderful sound.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34It takes a little while to build...
0:27:37 > 0:27:38It's coming.
0:27:38 > 0:27:42DEEP BASS TONE RESONATES
0:27:42 > 0:27:43That is amazing!
0:27:44 > 0:27:48I've just never come across this.
0:27:48 > 0:27:49That deep, deep tone.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Yeah, it's very special.
0:27:52 > 0:27:57Horyuji Temple has a wonderful collection of Buddhist antiques
0:27:57 > 0:28:00and I would have liked to have found out
0:28:00 > 0:28:03whether in fact it was part of that collection.
0:28:03 > 0:28:05- Well, it's a very religious noise, isn't it?- Yes.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08They've all got lovely religious noises.
0:28:08 > 0:28:11Now, tell me how much you've paid for these, cos I have no idea.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14Well, I went into auction recently and paid £300 for this.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17The point was, the people who were bidding against me
0:28:17 > 0:28:19just liked the sound and just wanted...
0:28:19 > 0:28:21But they didn't know what it was,
0:28:21 > 0:28:24and it was put down as being Chinese lettering.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26And what d'you pay for these little ones?
0:28:26 > 0:28:30Erm, well this one here I bought about 35 years ago, so it wasn't...
0:28:30 > 0:28:33- I think I paid £16 for it.- Yes.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36This one here, conversely, was £750,
0:28:36 > 0:28:40and I bought that from a Japanese dealer in New York.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42Well, this is a new one for me.
0:28:42 > 0:28:45I thoroughly enjoy ethnographic arts and craft
0:28:45 > 0:28:49and all those sort of things, but this is absolutely intriguing.
0:28:49 > 0:28:51- Can you play us out?- Of course.
0:28:57 > 0:29:00BOWL HUMS
0:29:09 > 0:29:11What a tankard!
0:29:11 > 0:29:15Now that is...quite something.
0:29:15 > 0:29:16What can you tell me about it?
0:29:16 > 0:29:22Well, the armorial bearings are the bearings of the Fleming family
0:29:22 > 0:29:26- of Killiechassie, which is a house on the Tay in Perthshire.- Right.
0:29:26 > 0:29:32And when Killiechassie went out with the Prince in 1745,
0:29:32 > 0:29:36he buried his silver and he survived the campaign
0:29:36 > 0:29:38but was taken prisoner after Culloden
0:29:38 > 0:29:43and he was corralled with a lot of other Highlanders
0:29:43 > 0:29:47and the dragoon in charge of them said in the middle of the afternoon,
0:29:47 > 0:29:49"Does anyone know what the time is?"
0:29:49 > 0:29:54and he took, not thinking, out from under his plaid, his gold watch.
0:29:54 > 0:29:56Ah... A mistake!
0:29:56 > 0:29:59The dragoon said, "You aren't who you're pretending to be
0:29:59 > 0:30:02"but I'm a sporting man, I'll give you an hour to make your escape."
0:30:02 > 0:30:07Which he successfully did and he went to the continent,
0:30:07 > 0:30:11where I imagine he earned his living as a mercenary soldier,
0:30:11 > 0:30:13till about 1780, when he was pardoned
0:30:13 > 0:30:17and the estates restored to him, and he came back and amazingly,
0:30:17 > 0:30:19there was the silver where he'd buried it!
0:30:19 > 0:30:22Right, now it's interesting, his return at that time,
0:30:22 > 0:30:27- because the armorial there...- Yes. - ..is not as early as the tankard.
0:30:27 > 0:30:31- Right.- And actually would date to somewhere around 1790 or so.
0:30:31 > 0:30:36- Oh, right.- So perhaps on his return he had it engraved.- Yes, yes.
0:30:36 > 0:30:41- Now, what we've actually got here are Edinburgh hallmarks.- Yes.
0:30:41 > 0:30:45- The maker's mark, which we can see there, TK...- Yes.
0:30:45 > 0:30:48..that's a chap called Thomas Kerr.
0:30:48 > 0:30:51- Yes. - Now, he started work in the 1690s.
0:30:51 > 0:30:54- Right.- And just over there, there is a date letter.
0:30:54 > 0:30:58There's enough there to know what it is, and it's 1703.
0:30:58 > 0:31:01- Right.- But these Edinburgh tankards,
0:31:01 > 0:31:05these Scottish tankards of this period, are absolutely stunning.
0:31:05 > 0:31:09- That lid... That's what's known as cut-card work.- Yes.
0:31:09 > 0:31:14- Very distinctly Scottish as well. A finial on a tankard...- Right.
0:31:14 > 0:31:16- ..you rarely see in England.- Right.
0:31:16 > 0:31:18- And it's very common in Scotland. - Yes.
0:31:18 > 0:31:22And there's another thing, that even without looking at a hallmark,
0:31:22 > 0:31:24you would know that this would be Scottish,
0:31:24 > 0:31:27- and that's the way the thumb piece has been done.- Oh, right.
0:31:27 > 0:31:33- Now, if this were an English one, that would just stand up.- Ah, right.
0:31:33 > 0:31:37- But this has... Can you see that second little piece there?- Yes, yes.
0:31:37 > 0:31:41- The two things together scream Scotland at you.- Right.
0:31:41 > 0:31:43And look just next to the handle...
0:31:43 > 0:31:46I mean, just that little, almost like a flame...
0:31:46 > 0:31:50Oh, it really is quite something.
0:31:50 > 0:31:54And actually this is fascinating in here as well.
0:31:57 > 0:31:59- "The Fleming tankard"?- Yes.
0:31:59 > 0:32:01I love the bit at the end of this, actually...
0:32:01 > 0:32:06"This piece is probably pretty valuable."
0:32:06 > 0:32:10I think that's gorgeous! I think that's absolutely super!
0:32:10 > 0:32:13So...a rare - and it is rare -
0:32:13 > 0:32:16there are only a few of these in existence.
0:32:16 > 0:32:21I think what we've got to be looking at here is...
0:32:21 > 0:32:24in excess of £25,000.
0:32:24 > 0:32:26Right. It's insured for 15.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28- That is not enough. - Not enough, right.
0:32:28 > 0:32:35- I think you should insure it for about £35,000, possibly £40,000.- Yes.
0:32:35 > 0:32:39- Gosh!- It would be an extraordinarily difficult piece to replace.
0:32:39 > 0:32:42Yes, yes.
0:32:43 > 0:32:47We had some work done on the roof some years ago
0:32:47 > 0:32:49and the joiner came down and said,
0:32:49 > 0:32:52- GLASWEGIAN ACCENT: - "Your attic's in a terrible state.
0:32:52 > 0:32:55"There's a lot of rubbish pressing on your beams
0:32:55 > 0:32:58"and they're gonnae go if you don't get something done."
0:32:58 > 0:33:01- Right.- So I went up and there was bags of soot and lead and all that,
0:33:01 > 0:33:04and among the things were this embroidery
0:33:04 > 0:33:07and, in a sort of cardboard scroll, there was this drawing.
0:33:07 > 0:33:10OK, let me just move in on this,
0:33:10 > 0:33:17because it is part of this Glasgow story, and when thinking about,
0:33:17 > 0:33:20you know, the Glasgow School of Art and the activities there,
0:33:20 > 0:33:24needlework was one of the foremost disciplines.
0:33:24 > 0:33:28And there you had the likes of Jessie Newbery
0:33:28 > 0:33:32and you'd also got Ann Macbeth...
0:33:32 > 0:33:36these are big names as far as the Glasgow Girls are concerned.
0:33:36 > 0:33:40- Everybody talks about the Glasgow Boys...- I've heard of them, but...
0:33:40 > 0:33:42Well, the Glasgow Girls... Listen,
0:33:42 > 0:33:45we're here to try and make sure that we put them on the map.
0:33:45 > 0:33:47I mean, they're already on the map...
0:33:47 > 0:33:50But when you come across something like this...
0:33:50 > 0:33:53I am not 100% certain who actually was responsible.
0:33:53 > 0:33:56What I DO know is that they were gifted.
0:33:56 > 0:33:59I suppose when it comes to date,
0:33:59 > 0:34:04we're looking somewhere let's say around about 1900, 1905,
0:34:04 > 0:34:06it could be as late as 1910.
0:34:06 > 0:34:07And what I do know...
0:34:07 > 0:34:10This is the most wonderful composition,
0:34:10 > 0:34:12because you've got these lovely daisy flowers here.
0:34:12 > 0:34:18There's a symmetry there and yet there's a movement there.
0:34:18 > 0:34:20So you've got these flowers and then
0:34:20 > 0:34:24these lovely sort of spear shaped leaves
0:34:24 > 0:34:29on these lovely, long slender stems, and then this wonderful sort of bowl,
0:34:29 > 0:34:33if you will, of swirling flowers.
0:34:33 > 0:34:38If you can just home in on, let's just say, one leaf here...
0:34:38 > 0:34:41The amount of work that's gone into making that is quite incredible.
0:34:41 > 0:34:46I am not certain as to what it's worth, quite frankly,
0:34:46 > 0:34:48but when I look at something like that, I think,
0:34:48 > 0:34:52if I saw that and I could buy it for £500, I'd snap it up.
0:34:52 > 0:34:56If it was £1,000... Well, I'd have to ask me wife... Are you with me?
0:34:56 > 0:35:01OK, and then you find this, in the same, obviously, in your loft.
0:35:01 > 0:35:04Yes, you see it was rolled up in a scroll, you can see.
0:35:04 > 0:35:06I wondered whether I should iron it.
0:35:06 > 0:35:09- No!- But I decided not to. - No, don't iron it! OK, well...
0:35:09 > 0:35:15OK! So...it's all in the initials, isn't it? CRM.
0:35:15 > 0:35:19- Oh, yes.- Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
0:35:19 > 0:35:23- Well, that wouldn't be by him though, would it?- Well, why not?
0:35:23 > 0:35:25Why not?
0:35:25 > 0:35:27- There's every reason and I'll tell you why.- Really?
0:35:27 > 0:35:35The date...1891. Now, in 1890 Mackintosh won an exhibition
0:35:35 > 0:35:41for, erm... a drawing for a public building
0:35:41 > 0:35:43and...he was given £60
0:35:43 > 0:35:49as a prize towards a sketching trip which he decided to take in Italy.
0:35:49 > 0:35:54So he set off at the end of March, in 1891,
0:35:54 > 0:35:57and he returned three months later.
0:35:57 > 0:36:02We have a date, 1891, and I see that he's actually titled it,
0:36:02 > 0:36:04"The Latern, Rome".
0:36:04 > 0:36:10Around about 10 or 12 years ago, about a hundred of these sketches
0:36:10 > 0:36:14turned up on the market and so we do have something of a precedent,
0:36:14 > 0:36:19but what is exciting for me is that I'm, you know, I'm just...
0:36:19 > 0:36:23this distance away from this great man.
0:36:23 > 0:36:27I've been looking at Mackintosh's work for the best part of 30 years.
0:36:27 > 0:36:30He's still an enigma to me but here he is in his early days.
0:36:30 > 0:36:33He's still a draughtsman-designer,
0:36:33 > 0:36:36he's working for Honeyman and Keppie here in the city.
0:36:36 > 0:36:41It's before his glory days, but he did have such a careful eye
0:36:41 > 0:36:45and it's this attention to detail and balanced design
0:36:45 > 0:36:50that just made him, you know, one of the great master architects
0:36:50 > 0:36:52of the late 19th and early 20th century.
0:36:53 > 0:36:57So it's in the loft, it's here today, it's right as rain.
0:36:57 > 0:37:00I mean if I want, if I go into a gallery to buy this today,
0:37:00 > 0:37:05it's somewhere, let's say, between perhaps £2,000 and £3,000.
0:37:07 > 0:37:10And you think it is Charles Rennie Mackintosh?
0:37:10 > 0:37:11I do.
0:37:11 > 0:37:12I do.
0:37:12 > 0:37:17And you know, I always hesitate before I stick my neck out
0:37:17 > 0:37:21but I've got no reason to doubt it whatsoever.
0:37:21 > 0:37:24It just begs the question at the moment,
0:37:24 > 0:37:27"What else is lurking in your attic?"
0:37:27 > 0:37:32I'm afraid it's all been cleared out and it's all on the skip.
0:37:32 > 0:37:34It's mostly bags of soot, though.
0:37:34 > 0:37:37It's all right, Eric! I'm sure there wasn't anything else.
0:37:37 > 0:37:40It's just the idea of that skip!
0:37:40 > 0:37:47Anyway...it's a great textile and could I have asked for more
0:37:47 > 0:37:51than an original Mackintosh sketch?
0:37:51 > 0:37:55Bring on a few Argyle Street room chairs and maybe, you know,
0:37:55 > 0:37:58I'll be dreaming, but you've made me a very happy man in Glasgow.
0:37:58 > 0:38:00Excellent.
0:38:01 > 0:38:04The idea behind the European City of Culture Award
0:38:04 > 0:38:07is to bring all the peoples of Europe together
0:38:07 > 0:38:09and I think most of them have come together here
0:38:09 > 0:38:12at Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery.
0:38:12 > 0:38:15It's been a great pleasure spending time in this wonderful place.
0:38:15 > 0:38:19Until the next time, from Glasgow, goodbye.