0:00:34 > 0:00:39This year, it's a new look for the Roadshow, or at least a different one.
0:00:39 > 0:00:43The cute little Citroen 2CV that used to adorn our opening titles
0:00:43 > 0:00:49has gone into retirement and is replaced by a British icon - the noble Morris Minor.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01Morris and his metallic mascot will be turning heads
0:01:01 > 0:01:04all over the country if everything goes according to plan,
0:01:04 > 0:01:06and if we keep oiling the joints.
0:01:06 > 0:01:09In fact, there are a lot of miles ahead for all of us.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18And there are some mouth-watering destinations.
0:01:20 > 0:01:25From Prideaux Place in Cornwall to Aberdeen's Music Hall, to fine country houses,
0:01:25 > 0:01:30such as Holkham Hall in Norfolk, and Kedleston in Derbyshire.
0:01:30 > 0:01:33The awesome castles of Arundel and Auckland
0:01:33 > 0:01:37form the backdrops for our swoops on Sussex and County Durham.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41We're even hot on the heels of a mobile steam fair in London.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44Who knows who we'll meet along the way?
0:01:51 > 0:01:53But we open our 29th series
0:01:53 > 0:01:57at the magnificent medieval cathedral of Gloucester.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08History buffs will know that Henry III
0:02:08 > 0:02:12became one of England's youngest monarchs when he was crowned here at the age of nine.
0:02:15 > 0:02:22What else? Well, amongst other things, it boasts a window roughly the size of a tennis court.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31Not only that, but a chap called John Stafford Smith,
0:02:31 > 0:02:35who wrote a tune that became the American National Anthem,
0:02:35 > 0:02:38used to tickle the ivories here at the cathedral's great organ.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53Now it's up to our specialists to pull out all the stops
0:02:53 > 0:02:56for the latest rendition of the Antiques Roadshow.
0:03:01 > 0:03:05- Well, it's a beautiful day, and you've brought...- Jemmy Wood.
0:03:05 > 0:03:09Jemmy Wood, the miser of Gloucester. Can you tell me all about him?
0:03:09 > 0:03:15This particular one is my family one and it's handed down by two generations, I know.
0:03:15 > 0:03:19- And he was a local man.- A local.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22- Do you know what he did? - I know a little bit.
0:03:22 > 0:03:28He was the biggest man that used to lend money, a money lender then.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31- Ah.- A money lender.- Well, that probably accounts for it.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34One of the lovely things about Staffordshire figures is
0:03:34 > 0:03:38that they tell social history, particularly through the 19th century.
0:03:38 > 0:03:43So why would they have been making Staffordshire figures of Jemmy Wood?
0:03:43 > 0:03:48When he died - I think he died in the 1830s, about 1836-7 -
0:03:48 > 0:03:52he left a huge amount of money in his will which nobody knew about.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55He left over £700,000 then.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58I don't know what that would be today. Multi-millions.
0:03:58 > 0:04:03I seem to remember it was divided by four people.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07- Oh.- They contested the will and it went up to the House of Lords.
0:04:07 > 0:04:13And the House of Lords case was still going on about five or six years after his death.
0:04:13 > 0:04:18I seem to think the city of Gloucester was supposed to be left £200,000 of it.
0:04:18 > 0:04:20Yes, they were, I believe, yes.
0:04:20 > 0:04:22And they never got it.
0:04:22 > 0:04:26- He was suddenly a Gloucester celebrity.- Yes.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29So, hey, Staffordshire factories, they produced portrait figures
0:04:29 > 0:04:33of many, many people and so it would have been in the early 1840s.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35And that's when these ones date from.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38I think it's just terrific to see these.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41- This one was inherited. - Yes.- This one was bought for...
0:04:41 > 0:04:46From an antiques shop that was closing down and we happened to be passing.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48- Because we recognised the face. - On holiday, we were.
0:04:48 > 0:04:53They're not terrifically valuable. You probably know. How much was this one?
0:04:53 > 0:04:55Just over £100, I believe.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57£100. That's actually quite a good buy.
0:04:57 > 0:05:01- At retail, I would expect you to have to pay a couple of hundred.- Yes.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05This one's bigger and better and I would think probably £300 or £400.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08- Thank you.- But super things. Very, very nice to see.
0:05:08 > 0:05:12- Thank you very much.- It's interesting you brought this along as well.
0:05:12 > 0:05:17- Yeah. That comes from my mother and my father always...- As a child.
0:05:17 > 0:05:21..as a child, always joked that he won that.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25- Cos we have a Gloucester cheese roll.- We have a cheese roll.- Ah.
0:05:25 > 0:05:30And he always joked that the cheese he won, he used to keep in there - a joke.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32- It is a cheese dome. - A cheese...- Cheese dome?
0:05:32 > 0:05:37Yeah. You probably know what the material is. It's English majolica.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40- We see quite a lot of majolica on the Roadshow here.- Yeah.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44It comes up for auction fairly frequently.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47This one - I had a look at it - it's made by a factory
0:05:47 > 0:05:50called George Jones and Son, who were in Staffordshire.
0:05:50 > 0:05:55They're one of the better makers. Um... It's worth about £2,000.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59- 2,000?- Huh?!- Yep, 2,000.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02Wow! That's a lot more money than I thought.
0:06:02 > 0:06:04- Wow!- Thanks very much. - I'm really pleased.
0:06:04 > 0:06:06- Thank you.- That's really brilliant.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10- Thank you.- You've made my day. That's great.
0:06:11 > 0:06:15Start at the beginning. Do you know who this represents?
0:06:15 > 0:06:18- This is my granddad. - This is your granddad?
0:06:18 > 0:06:21Yeah. I think he was about seven or eight when it was made.
0:06:21 > 0:06:27- When was he born?- 1906. I'm not quite sure. - Did you ever know your grandfather?
0:06:27 > 0:06:30No, he died when I was one, so I never really got to meet him.
0:06:30 > 0:06:34- Right, so this in effect is a record of him.- Yeah.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36- Do you like it? - Yeah, I quite like it.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39It's kind of a nice texture to it and it's...
0:06:39 > 0:06:46It brings the child to life in a very, very delicate but at the same time very intimate way, to me.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49The key thing is who did it, which, of course, you know.
0:06:49 > 0:06:52It's on the side quite clearly - K Scott.
0:06:52 > 0:06:56And that was Lady Scott who was the widow of Scott of the Antarctic.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59- Yes.- Who, in her own right, was a very famous sculptor.
0:06:59 > 0:07:04- Yeah.- But what is the connection between Scott and your family?
0:07:04 > 0:07:07Well, Scott used to be a childhood friend to my grandfather.
0:07:07 > 0:07:12- Hang on a minute, so Peter Scott... - Yeah, Peter Scott. - Son of Lady Scott?- Yeah.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15And, as far as I know, Kathleen Mavis sculpted that.
0:07:15 > 0:07:19- So the child sat for her? - Yeah.- She did a lot of children sculpture.- Yeah.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22Sculpture of children one thing that she was very good at.
0:07:22 > 0:07:27And I think it's partly because her own son, Peter Scott, was constantly modelled by her.
0:07:27 > 0:07:31- I don't know how much you know about her. - I know she did Peter Pan sculpture.
0:07:31 > 0:07:33Yes, she did Peter Pan. Exactly.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37This could be that Peter Pan figure almost, couldn't it?
0:07:37 > 0:07:40It's got that almost naive Victorian feel about it.
0:07:40 > 0:07:44At the same time, it has reality, which you like. That intimacy.
0:07:44 > 0:07:47It's as though it's actually been modelled as though it were clay.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50And it feels really loose still and it has lots of texture to it.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52Which I think is why people like this.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54Of course, all this begins with Rodin.
0:07:54 > 0:07:58Rodin was the key figure who made sculpture realistic.
0:07:58 > 0:08:01Suddenly, the human body looked like the human body.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07So I think it's a lovely thing. I think it's also worth quite a bit.
0:08:07 > 0:08:12She's a good name and I think with, all that story,
0:08:12 > 0:08:16you're looking at £1,500 to £2,000.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19- Really?- So, if I was you, I'd put your name on it.
0:08:19 > 0:08:22- I may try and claim it. - I think you should.
0:08:23 > 0:08:26Here we are, it's written from Merton College.
0:08:26 > 0:08:30Merton College Oxford dated December 11th 1954.
0:08:30 > 0:08:33"Dear Mr McMahon, thank you for your letter.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35"You will forgive me, perhaps, if I say that
0:08:35 > 0:08:39"it was not possible to avoid a certain pleasure in your distress."
0:08:39 > 0:08:41Well, what was your distress?
0:08:41 > 0:08:48My distress was that I had, in 1954, had bought the first volume of the Lord of the Rings.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51I was interested in it, because I'd read the Hobbit as a boy.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53And it had just come out.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56And I didn't realise it was only a third of the book.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59So when I got to the end of it, I was left in the lurch.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02So I was very cross and I wrote to Tolkien and complained.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05And this is just typical Tolkien handwriting.
0:09:05 > 0:09:09I mean, just this elfin, runic handwriting that he went in for.
0:09:09 > 0:09:11You know, he goes on.
0:09:11 > 0:09:16And he's written to you, what, one, two, three...
0:09:16 > 0:09:18- four pages.- Yes.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21And signing himself at the bottom there, "Tolkien".
0:09:21 > 0:09:25It's absolutely a tremendous thing. And you did buy the others, did you?
0:09:25 > 0:09:30- I certainly did, I was thrilled about them. Absolutely thrilled. - And did you enjoy the film?
0:09:30 > 0:09:33- I didn't see the film.- No? - No.- Weren't you curious?
0:09:33 > 0:09:37Well, I don't know. I don't believe in special effects.
0:09:37 > 0:09:42Well, Ian McKellen's Gandalf, it was extraordinary.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45- I liked him in the book, but I don't really...- Oh, well.
0:09:45 > 0:09:49I think that's rather sweet. Right, you're not remotely interested in how much it's worth?
0:09:49 > 0:09:52Well, remotely perhaps.
0:09:52 > 0:09:57Well, a Tolkien collector I would think would pay quite a lot of money for this.
0:09:57 > 0:10:02- I think somewhere between £2,000 and £3,000.- As much as that?
0:10:02 > 0:10:04- Yes, very desirable.- Yes.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07Well, firstly, I must ask you if you know what it is.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Well, I think it's a card holder.
0:10:09 > 0:10:14Absolutely correct. If we open the top like that, you can see there, the cards would slip in there.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17They were very thin in the 19th century, cards.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20It would be for visiting cards rather than business cards.
0:10:20 > 0:10:24Because if you went and called on someone and they weren't there, you always left your card.
0:10:24 > 0:10:28- Do you know what this depicts? - No, not really.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30OK. Well, it's Westminster Abbey.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32- Oh, right. - Fairly distinctive building.
0:10:32 > 0:10:36It was built in the time of Henry I.
0:10:36 > 0:10:40So we're looking at the 13th century, although these towers are later.
0:10:40 > 0:10:44And they were designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, the very famous 18th-century architect.
0:10:44 > 0:10:48- Oh, right.- And it's what's called a castle top card case.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52Because they normally depict cathedrals or castles or abbeys.
0:10:52 > 0:10:56Whether there's one of Gloucester Cathedral or not, I don't know. If there is, it'd be pretty rare.
0:10:56 > 0:11:02And then if we turn it over on the other side, you've got the wonderful foliate scrolling decoration.
0:11:02 > 0:11:06Very much in the Victorian style.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10In the centre here is a little cartouche which you could have put your initials in, if you wanted.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12But it's been left blank in this case.
0:11:12 > 0:11:17And the maker has stamped it and hallmarked it there.
0:11:17 > 0:11:21And it was made by Nathaniel Mills who is one of the great,
0:11:21 > 0:11:25probably the greatest, 19th-century silversmith working in Birmingham.
0:11:25 > 0:11:29So it's by a very good maker and it dates to 1855.
0:11:29 > 0:11:34So we know it's the middle of the 19th century, castle top card case by Nathaniel Mills.
0:11:34 > 0:11:37So, what's its history?
0:11:37 > 0:11:42- Well, it's not actually mine. The person who it belongs to couldn't make it today.- Right.
0:11:42 > 0:11:44- That's a friend of yours, is it? - Yes.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47How did he...?
0:11:47 > 0:11:49Well, apparently he bought it
0:11:49 > 0:11:54about 20 years ago in an antique shop for about £90, he told me. And that's all I know about it.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56£90 20 years ago?
0:11:56 > 0:12:01- Well, you can tell your friend that it would show a pretty good appreciation in 20 years.- Oh?
0:12:01 > 0:12:02They are much sought after.
0:12:02 > 0:12:06And I would think if he was in an antique shop today
0:12:06 > 0:12:12and he wanted to buy it, it would probably cost him the best part of £3,000.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15Oh, my goodness! He'll be thrilled to bits.
0:12:19 > 0:12:27How did you get a film script for Dr Who in 1965 and Not Only But Also, the same sort of period?
0:12:27 > 0:12:29You're far too young to have something this good.
0:12:29 > 0:12:34Well, a friend of my father, he was buying a filing cabinet in an auction.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37- What, just as a piece of office furniture?- Yes.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40And inside were these two scripts among other items.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43And he said, "Would you like to have them?" to my dad.
0:12:43 > 0:12:48And he thought there might be some value attached to them but he insisted that we had them.
0:12:48 > 0:12:49So a bonus for us.
0:12:49 > 0:12:53So just serendipity, you know, just, just the way it happened.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56What's great about this Dr Who script is of course it's got
0:12:56 > 0:13:00the original Dr Who, William Hartnell, in there.
0:13:01 > 0:13:06And these scripts just don't escape often. So that's on one side.
0:13:06 > 0:13:13The other one is we've got Not Only But Also featuring, of course, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16But also John Lennon. I mean, it doesn't get much better than this.
0:13:16 > 0:13:23And if I just flick to that page, here we've got what John is going to say. It's John's script.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26"I was bored on the 9th October, 1940.
0:13:26 > 0:13:31"When, I believe, the nasties were still booming up, led by Madolf Heartlump..."
0:13:31 > 0:13:34I mean, it's just wonderful John gobbledegook.
0:13:36 > 0:13:40It's valuable. How valuable?
0:13:40 > 0:13:42That's the thing. How many escaped?
0:13:42 > 0:13:45I would have thought that the Dr Who,
0:13:45 > 0:13:49knowing that there are so many Dr Who fans out there, mad keen Dr Who fans,
0:13:49 > 0:13:54that must be worth £300, £400.
0:13:54 > 0:13:59Maybe 400. This, with the John Lennon piece in it, I think more.
0:13:59 > 0:14:01Probably more like £400 to £500.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03I think this is really, really special.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06And I'm very jealous.
0:14:06 > 0:14:10And I think that your dad did well not to turn these down.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12Keep them safe.
0:14:12 > 0:14:17So here we are in Gloucester Cathedral, but we're looking at a picture of Worcester Cathedral.
0:14:17 > 0:14:23- Yes.- So it's a strange combination of paintings and a strange gas fire.
0:14:23 > 0:14:27But then it all comes into a context together, doesn't it?
0:14:27 > 0:14:31- Because these are by your... - My uncle.- Your uncle.- Yes.
0:14:31 > 0:14:32Who was?
0:14:32 > 0:14:38- Charlie Twilton.- Charlie Twilton. Charlie Twilton was one of the great painters at Worcester factory.
0:14:38 > 0:14:43I never knew him, he died before I got there, but he was a great painter of the 1920s.
0:14:43 > 0:14:47- Yes.- A marvellous painter. I mean, see the quality of these paintings on here.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50- These are watercolours by him.- Yes.
0:14:50 > 0:14:54He mainly did china painting of fruit and flowers.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58- Have you got any examples of those? - No. I haven't sadly, no.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01But here is Worcester Cathedral from the River Severn
0:15:01 > 0:15:04and here is the Cathedral, up from the River Severn
0:15:04 > 0:15:06- looking from the weir. - That's right.
0:15:06 > 0:15:10- And of course the water flowing down to Gloucester. - To Gloucester, yes.
0:15:10 > 0:15:16And here, one of my favourite scenes in Worcester is Friar Street where my wife used to live.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19My wife had her original home in Friar Street.
0:15:19 > 0:15:22Lovely old street. And there it is.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25And paintings by Charlie Twilton.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28- Yes.- Charlie was a very fine painter, I've always admired his work.
0:15:28 > 0:15:34But I've never seen watercolours like this by him before. So it's great to see them.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37He was originally one of the members of the terrible seven.
0:15:37 > 0:15:42They were seven young apprentices who tore the factory to shreds. They were dreadful.
0:15:42 > 0:15:48They used to play cricket down the painting room, using as the wicket a big vase.
0:15:48 > 0:15:52It taught them to hit the ball well, so I was told.
0:15:52 > 0:15:57And then Charlie lost his job at the factory and what did he do next?
0:15:57 > 0:16:03Well, I don't know whether he went straight there, but he did go to the car factory and was spraying cars.
0:16:03 > 0:16:08- Spraying cars.- Yes. - It's an awful shame to think that a painter as talented as that
0:16:08 > 0:16:11- should have ended up his life spraying cars.- Yes.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13Not that spraying cars isn't important,
0:16:13 > 0:16:17but not as important as painting like that.
0:16:17 > 0:16:21- But this is a sprayed job, is it? - Yes.- How did this come to you?
0:16:21 > 0:16:24He made it for my mum for her fifth birthday.
0:16:24 > 0:16:30- This is made by Charlie? - Yes, yes.- For your mother?- Yes.
0:16:30 > 0:16:34- And does it work?- It used to. It's quite old wiring system now and there's a battery.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38- It's supposed to be run by battery on the back. - So it's completely workable?- Yes.
0:16:38 > 0:16:44You can light the flames up and it used to have flames coming out that lit up red when you lit it.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47- And he would have sprayed the whole thing?- Yeah.- And inside it works?
0:16:47 > 0:16:50- There's even a little Sunday afternoon chop!- Absolutely.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Is that made by him as well?
0:16:52 > 0:16:56Oh, I say. And there's a picture of him there, is it?
0:16:56 > 0:16:58- Yes.- This is Charlie?- Yeah.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01He's a handsome chap, wasn't he, really?
0:17:01 > 0:17:04Nowadays, of course, his work is collectable.
0:17:04 > 0:17:08I suppose that lovely scene of Friar Street, that one over there, is absolutely beautiful.
0:17:08 > 0:17:12- Is that your favourite? - Yes. Some of the buildings are still there.
0:17:12 > 0:17:18Some of the buildings still there. I'd value that at something like around about £600 to £800.
0:17:18 > 0:17:22And similarly for these super paintings of Worcester. I think they're great.
0:17:22 > 0:17:26I think the one with the cathedral in the background is absolutely marvellous.
0:17:26 > 0:17:30But there is Charlie. A great, great painter.
0:17:30 > 0:17:34- You must be very admiring of him. - Yes, yes.- A lovely man.
0:17:36 > 0:17:40Well, this is an object of unbelievable luxury, isn't it?
0:17:40 > 0:17:44- When did you first see it?- As a child, my mother showed it to me.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47And to me it was rather like a fairy compact.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50- I just thought it was exquisite. - Well, it is absolutely exquisite
0:17:50 > 0:17:53and I must say the gold is completely inimitable.
0:17:53 > 0:17:56I mean, the texturing of it, the return of light.
0:17:56 > 0:18:00And it's set all over with these wonderful cabochon rubies, isn't it?
0:18:00 > 0:18:04- It is.- And it opens here, I think, doesn't it?
0:18:04 > 0:18:07Look at that. Smooth as a Rolls Royce door actually, isn't it?
0:18:07 > 0:18:11Amazing. And of course, it comes from a period of luxury,
0:18:11 > 0:18:14really almost the last gasp of luxury at this level.
0:18:14 > 0:18:18When ladies used powder compacts, which they don't these days.
0:18:18 > 0:18:24No. And they took them out to dances and wore the very finest clothes that they possibly could.
0:18:24 > 0:18:28Because a lot of other entertainments simply weren't available to them.
0:18:28 > 0:18:33And there wasn't this sort of compulsion to stay indoors, you had to go out and look marvellous.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35So who carried this? It was your grandmother's?
0:18:35 > 0:18:38- That was my grandmother's. - And was it bought new?
0:18:38 > 0:18:41I don't know, actually. I have to say, I don't know.
0:18:41 > 0:18:45- It was always kept in a very special place.- I bet.
0:18:45 > 0:18:48And it was always known as a very special object.
0:18:48 > 0:18:55Absolutely. I think there's a... Earlier, I spotted the signature of Boucheron here somewhere.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57That's right.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00The designer, one of the main designers of Boucheron is there.
0:19:00 > 0:19:04Here it is. And it's an engraved signature just above the mirror.
0:19:04 > 0:19:09It is, yes. And Boucheron is one of the most famous names in jewellery,
0:19:09 > 0:19:12running completely parallel with Cartier in Paris.
0:19:12 > 0:19:17And I suppose this may have been bought in Paris, or in London for that matter.
0:19:17 > 0:19:21But whoever bought it, or received it, must have been staggered.
0:19:21 > 0:19:26- It's beautiful.- It's a tiny distillation of the decorative arts of the period.
0:19:26 > 0:19:27It can belong to no other period.
0:19:27 > 0:19:31In my view it comes from the 1940s, actually.
0:19:31 > 0:19:36- Really?- And, as I say, it is the last gasp of luxury at that level.
0:19:36 > 0:19:40It's antecedents are the gold boxes of the 18th century.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42- Right.- None of them worked quite so perfectly.
0:19:42 > 0:19:47And I think that, with luck, we can make this open in a rather special way.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51And there it is. And it's the most extraordinary mechanism, isn't it?
0:19:51 > 0:19:54Because it closes as smooth as can be.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57- Almost like a secret opening. - It is a secret opening.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59And I think... There it is.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03It's just a little pull backwards and then it would reveal it.
0:20:03 > 0:20:09I think it's also terribly important to say that this compact was only just one part of her arrangements.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11Because her dress would be at the same pitch, wouldn't it?
0:20:11 > 0:20:14And do you have any long-term plans for it?
0:20:14 > 0:20:17Well, I'd be reluctant to sell it.
0:20:17 > 0:20:21But I'm doing a BSc degree at the moment and I've got another year to go.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24So if it went to a good home, I suppose I might consider it.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27Well, I think it jolly well would go to a good home.
0:20:27 > 0:20:32It's a very, very valuable object indeed and a thrilling one to see.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34And I suppose, really, if one wanted to sell it,
0:20:34 > 0:20:37- one could expect something like £8,000 or £9,000.- Really?
0:20:37 > 0:20:41- And that should take you a long way towards your BSc. - Certainly would.
0:20:41 > 0:20:45- What is the subject of your degree? - Complimentary therapies.- Goodness.
0:20:45 > 0:20:49- Yes, so if you'd like a massage... - I absolutely would, actually!
0:20:49 > 0:20:53- I think that would be an absolutely fabulous idea. Thank you.- Thank you.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02Here at the Roadshow, many people bring us in old black-and-white photographs
0:21:02 > 0:21:06of sportsmen sitting there very proudly, wearing caps.
0:21:06 > 0:21:10But here, we've got the actual caps themselves. Who do they belong to?
0:21:10 > 0:21:13They belonged to our grandfather, Henry Berry.
0:21:13 > 0:21:20He was killed in 1915 in France, in the First World War.
0:21:20 > 0:21:24- He belonged to the Gloucestershire Regiment.- Right.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28But more importantly, he was a great rugby player.
0:21:28 > 0:21:32He played not only for the regiment, but he played for the south west,
0:21:32 > 0:21:36he played for the county of Gloucester and he played for England, four times.
0:21:36 > 0:21:41He played all the matches in 1910 and this is when Twickenham was a brand-new stadium.
0:21:41 > 0:21:46- And he played on the first international matches at Twickenham. - Fantastic.- And we are very proud.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49They only got one cap for the entire season, if you like.
0:21:49 > 0:21:54And here it is. These caps haven't seen the light of day in decades.
0:21:54 > 0:21:58Ever since I and Michael have been born, they have been in a cabinet.
0:21:58 > 0:22:03So it's time people saw these beautiful trophies and the wonderful quality of the, of the tassel.
0:22:03 > 0:22:05Looks like a solid silver tassel.
0:22:05 > 0:22:08They are just wonderful things, they really are.
0:22:08 > 0:22:12We also have the rose that was on his football shirt.
0:22:12 > 0:22:15Fantastic. Obviously, you're not gonna sell -
0:22:15 > 0:22:20they are family heirlooms. However, we've got to think about price.
0:22:20 > 0:22:23Irreplaceable, but if they did get damaged by fire or loss,
0:22:23 > 0:22:27- we've got to think of a figure maybe as much as £1,500 to £2,000.- Wow.
0:22:27 > 0:22:31Sporting memorabilia is very, very popular now.
0:22:31 > 0:22:35And with the story behind them, you've got something of great importance.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38- That's great, thank you. - Thank you.- My pleasure.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40Do you know, at this time of the day,
0:22:40 > 0:22:43it's nice to have a chocolate and I see you've brought your own.
0:22:43 > 0:22:47- Oh, yes. Well, I don't think you'll be wanting to eat this one.- Really?
0:22:47 > 0:22:50- Yeah, look.- Oh, hang on.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54It's real choc. You can smell it slightly.
0:22:54 > 0:22:57The foil's still there, but I think that's shredded paper.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Well, I'm not surprised.
0:22:59 > 0:23:03Dated 1900, it's got a reason to be slightly manky.
0:23:03 > 0:23:08- Yeah, just a bit, but it'd give you a bad tummy. - But it's all there.- Yeah.
0:23:08 > 0:23:15- From Queen Victoria to her subjects, soldiers in South Africa fighting the Boer War.- Yeah.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17I wonder why they didn't eat it.
0:23:17 > 0:23:19I don't know, I would've.
0:23:19 > 0:23:21Let's have a niff.
0:23:21 > 0:23:25Well, it is 106 years old after all.
0:23:25 > 0:23:30- If I smell as good as that after 106 years, I shall be very surprised. - GIGGLING
0:23:30 > 0:23:33Well, reading this, I'm a little bit confused.
0:23:33 > 0:23:36- I mean, "My seven-year-old son John." Is that you?- Yes, yes.
0:23:36 > 0:23:39Right. So it's made of bone china, part of a set
0:23:39 > 0:23:43used by Queen Victoria's household when the court was in mourning for William IV.
0:23:43 > 0:23:48- What's going on? - Well, I'm not altogether sure.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51My mother went into care in August
0:23:51 > 0:23:56and we were clearing out the house and we found this and the other plate that goes with it.
0:23:56 > 0:24:00So we took it all back to the house and there were some boxes.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02I found this newspaper in the boxes.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05I didn't know very much about the plates until then.
0:24:05 > 0:24:07She did say there were some mourning plates.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10- But the piece of paper supposedly tells us.- Yes.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12A set of six in the kitchen at Windsor Castle.
0:24:12 > 0:24:17Distributed around the staff. Um...
0:24:17 > 0:24:21Normally on the Antiques Roadshow, we're used to giving people good news stories.
0:24:21 > 0:24:27- And I'm afraid here... it's going to be some bad news.- I see.
0:24:27 > 0:24:32But you may not be too disappointed by that, I don't know. It says bone china.
0:24:32 > 0:24:36- It's obviously not.- It's not. It's boody, as we say in Newcastle.
0:24:36 > 0:24:40- Right.- And I don't think it's anything to do with Queen Victoria.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43- Right.- If we look at the mark, it's Ashworths Real Ironstone China.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46Ashworths were a firm who took over Mason's Ironstone.
0:24:46 > 0:24:50- Right.- This piece dates to about 1900-1910.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53And they've decorated the plate, they've painted on the black,
0:24:53 > 0:24:58and then, you see here, it's gone a bit in the kiln, so it's a reject.
0:24:58 > 0:25:02- Right.- And somehow it's come into your family, it's black.
0:25:02 > 0:25:07- Yeah.- They've associated the black and very severe decoration with the death of William IV.
0:25:07 > 0:25:12- And here's the proof in the paper. But I'm afraid none of it's true.- No, right.
0:25:12 > 0:25:19So we started off with one of six plates maybe taken from Windsor Castle, to commemorate William IV.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21And we've ended up with a rather ordinary
0:25:21 > 0:25:27- early-20th-century bit of boody worth practically nothing.- OK.
0:25:27 > 0:25:32- It's worth a few pounds. - Saves me the insurance.- Exactly. But you're mentioned on there.
0:25:32 > 0:25:36- It's a little bit of your family history. You can have a good giggle. - Absolutely.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38- Thanks very much indeed. - It's a pleasure.
0:25:38 > 0:25:42- I don't think it takes a genius to know who designed these pieces.- No.
0:25:42 > 0:25:48Because his name is written very loud and clear on the base of this lamp.
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Rene Lalique -
0:25:50 > 0:25:54Frenchman, the most famous glassmaker probably in history.
0:25:54 > 0:26:00But it's interesting that Lalique was no revolutionary glass maker.
0:26:00 > 0:26:04- He relied on pressed glass techniques that were at least 100 years old.- Yeah.
0:26:04 > 0:26:12But where his talent lay were in his design to create these fabulously attractive motifs.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16The iridescence, which was kind of him. He pioneered that.
0:26:16 > 0:26:21But really the application of his name onto his work was really revolutionary.
0:26:21 > 0:26:26Today, we're kind of entirely familiar with this sort of brand marketing.
0:26:26 > 0:26:31But by applying his name onto all his work, all Lalique work is signed Lalique,
0:26:31 > 0:26:33there's no doubt about that.
0:26:33 > 0:26:41And so he pioneered this idea that, by branding the products, you could sell them for more.
0:26:41 > 0:26:46- Right.- So in a way, Lalique made pressed glass posh.- Yes.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49And this stuff was extremely expensive in its day.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52- So tell me, you found it under a gooseberry bush?- No.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55It belonged to my grandmother, who's now passed away.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57And it now belongs to my father.
0:26:57 > 0:27:03And I've just always loved it and granny, this was her bedside lamp ever since I was tiny.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06And still was up until the day she died and it's just beautiful.
0:27:06 > 0:27:09- Tell me about Gran.- We've tried to work out where she got it.
0:27:09 > 0:27:16And she was born in 1907 and she apparently went to Paris to a kind of a finishing school.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19Which would have been around late 1920s, we suspect.
0:27:19 > 0:27:24And she was very much interested in art. She was a hobby artist herself.
0:27:24 > 0:27:28And we don't know whether this was bought for her or she bought it for herself because she liked it.
0:27:28 > 0:27:30But she'd always had it.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33- So your granny was hanging out in Paris in the late '20s.- Yes.
0:27:33 > 0:27:34- Groovy Gran!- Absolutely.
0:27:34 > 0:27:40One of the interesting things that one doesn't generally see with this, is the original shade.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43I mean, it's amazing to have the shade.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45It's in sad condition.
0:27:45 > 0:27:50- I know, I know.- And to be honest, it doesn't make a great deal of difference to its value.
0:27:50 > 0:27:54- Does it not?- Because it's a curiosity more than anything else.- Right.
0:27:54 > 0:28:00- I mean, it's great to see it and I think she's worn it well.- Yes.
0:28:00 > 0:28:05One of the other interesting thing about the lamp is that it's got the socket beneath.
0:28:05 > 0:28:11- I never knew that. I never had known until you pointed that out. - Two of these are really famous.
0:28:11 > 0:28:15- This is Ceylon... - Oh, right, OK, yeah.
0:28:15 > 0:28:21- Auction, £2,500...- Right. - ..resale £3,500 to £4,000.
0:28:21 > 0:28:23- That's the replacement value.- Right.
0:28:23 > 0:28:26This is called Avalon, this vase here.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29- Again, of course, it bears the signature.- Yeah.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31It's just here.
0:28:31 > 0:28:37And the obvious thing about this vase is that it's been hit by a nuclear missile.
0:28:37 > 0:28:42Could that be repaired? It's very yellow and it's obviously been glued back.
0:28:42 > 0:28:45This could be seriously improved. They would detach it,
0:28:45 > 0:28:48remove this oxidised glue from around the crack
0:28:48 > 0:28:53and make it less obvious. You can't make it perfect any more.
0:28:53 > 0:28:59- No.- Intact, Avalon - £1,500 to £2,000.- Right.
0:28:59 > 0:29:04Obviously, with the damage, it sort of turns it into a curiosity and a family piece.
0:29:04 > 0:29:10In that it's an attractive design, you turn it the right way, you can't see it. A few hundred pounds.
0:29:10 > 0:29:15This powder pot is interesting in that I've never seen this pattern before.
0:29:15 > 0:29:19Haven't you? I can't find it on any web sites or anything.
0:29:19 > 0:29:21- I haven't seen that pattern. - That doesn't surprise me.
0:29:21 > 0:29:25The common factor to them all is this opalescence, which is distinctly Lalique.
0:29:25 > 0:29:28And I think that we'd agree that these are dandelion heads.
0:29:28 > 0:29:32- I think so, yes.- I think we have... - Dandelion clocks, yeah.
0:29:32 > 0:29:36Dandelion clock. As it stands, so what are we going to say?
0:29:36 > 0:29:40- On a piece I've never seen before, £800 auction?- Right, OK.
0:29:40 > 0:29:42- £1,200 replacement from a shop. - Yeah.
0:29:42 > 0:29:47- So altogether, I think that Grandma did OK.- Did all right.
0:29:47 > 0:29:49- Thank you.- Thanks a lot, great.
0:29:53 > 0:29:58This must have belonged to a very, very superior and wealthy child.
0:29:58 > 0:30:01As of course it's a Christening set.
0:30:01 > 0:30:05And it's really quite a spectacular one. But how do you come to have it?
0:30:05 > 0:30:09My husband liked the antiques.
0:30:09 > 0:30:12He always go round everywhere to look around, you know?
0:30:12 > 0:30:15He said, "Quite unusual, that thing."
0:30:15 > 0:30:19So he saves all the money and just one lump put in there.
0:30:19 > 0:30:24- And get this one. - Well, he certainly showed good taste when he bought this.
0:30:24 > 0:30:29Because it's really one of the nicest ones I've seen. This is the most wonderful quality.
0:30:29 > 0:30:31And I love this...
0:30:31 > 0:30:34wonderful vine leaves going all the way up and this twisted stem.
0:30:34 > 0:30:36And more vine leaves there.
0:30:36 > 0:30:40- Yes.- Then, when you turn it round, it's exactly the same on the other side.
0:30:40 > 0:30:42- Fantastic gilding.- Yes.
0:30:42 > 0:30:44- And then on the back, the hallmarks.- Yes.
0:30:44 > 0:30:48AH, that's the maker's mark of Aaron Hadfield.
0:30:48 > 0:30:52And a date letter of 1840.
0:30:52 > 0:30:54- 1840?- Exactly 1840.
0:30:54 > 0:30:56- 1840.- Aaron Hadfield.
0:30:56 > 0:31:00Hadfield, Sheffield. In Sheffield.
0:31:00 > 0:31:03So where was he when he bought this, your husband?
0:31:03 > 0:31:06Was he at an antique fair?
0:31:06 > 0:31:11- No, I think he bought it from in Cheltenham.- Cheltenham, at a shop?
0:31:11 > 0:31:14Cheltenham in a posh antique shop.
0:31:14 > 0:31:17Round the corner. You know, Cavendish House opposite, that one.
0:31:17 > 0:31:21- He maybe bought from there. - Did he pay lots of money for it?
0:31:21 > 0:31:25- He pay a lot of money.- How much? - A few hundred pounds we thought.
0:31:25 > 0:31:28- But I don't know how much exactly. - As much as that?
0:31:28 > 0:31:33Because he forgot. So long time.
0:31:33 > 0:31:39Well, I'm absolutely fascinated by a Chinese chap
0:31:39 > 0:31:44going into a shop and buying this very typically English item
0:31:44 > 0:31:49- that he didn't know anything about, just because he liked it.- Yes, he just liked it and just get it.
0:31:49 > 0:31:51All his wages on it.
0:31:51 > 0:31:53Just one lump. All gone.
0:31:53 > 0:31:57I think he did very well, because if he had to go and buy it today
0:31:57 > 0:32:01- I think he'd probably have to pay £1,000 for it.- Ooh. £1,000?
0:32:01 > 0:32:04Not a hundred, so I think he did brilliantly.
0:32:04 > 0:32:08I see. So if this, want to sell it, where to go? Where to go?
0:32:08 > 0:32:10- Oh, you mustn't sell it.- Eh?
0:32:10 > 0:32:13- You mustn't sell it. - Because we want money!
0:32:13 > 0:32:16- No, no, you don't. No, no, no.- Yes.
0:32:18 > 0:32:20Pick him up. Oh, I can't.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22- Heavy.- He is heavy.
0:32:22 > 0:32:25- But he's a marvellous piece of theatre, isn't he?- He is.
0:32:25 > 0:32:29- He's super.- Absolutely fantastic. He's like an Oriental atlas.
0:32:29 > 0:32:33Standing there, holding this above his head for ever and ever. But what do you know about him?
0:32:33 > 0:32:36Well, I just know that he came from my great uncle Herbert.
0:32:36 > 0:32:40The grandchildren play with him when it's supper time, to gong the gong.
0:32:40 > 0:32:46- And that's all I know about it, really.- Great. Well, he's a marvellous looking thing.
0:32:46 > 0:32:49He's Japanese and very typically Japanese, really.
0:32:49 > 0:32:52- The Japanese had a terrific industry of making bronzes.- Yes.
0:32:52 > 0:32:56He dates from the Magi period, which was 1868 to 1912.
0:32:56 > 0:33:01- The second half of the 19th century. - Yes.- And the metal industry really flourished in Japan.
0:33:01 > 0:33:06Looking at him a bit more closely, the quality of the face,
0:33:06 > 0:33:12the quality down here in the toes, is terrific work.
0:33:12 > 0:33:17The gong is a bit more crudely made.
0:33:17 > 0:33:20It's hammered metal. And we've got this gilt inlay.
0:33:20 > 0:33:22The scroll is called a karakusa scroll.
0:33:22 > 0:33:25It's a type of a Japanese scroll which runs round the border.
0:33:25 > 0:33:31- We've got sort of cracks here. Who on earth did that?- It's a shame. I don't know how that happened.
0:33:31 > 0:33:35- This really has been bashed about a lot.- Right.- And do you bash him?
0:33:35 > 0:33:38Oh, yes. The grandchildren do, when it's supper time if they want to.
0:33:38 > 0:33:40- They think that's good fun. - Makes a good noise?- Yes.
0:33:42 > 0:33:44BONG!
0:33:44 > 0:33:48We are going to be in unbelievable trouble for that.
0:33:49 > 0:33:51- I enjoyed it. - That's a very good noise.
0:33:51 > 0:33:54Yes.
0:33:54 > 0:33:56When it comes to the price, in this condition,
0:33:56 > 0:34:00- he'll be somewhere between £1,000 and £1,500 at auction. - Right, lovely.
0:34:00 > 0:34:02OK, thank you very much indeed. Delighted.
0:34:05 > 0:34:09Well, my hobby's scuba diving. And I collected this
0:34:09 > 0:34:12on the wreck site of HMS Association on the Scillies.
0:34:12 > 0:34:18- Right.- And the Association was one of five ships that sank.
0:34:18 > 0:34:21- Sir Cloudesley Shovel. - That's it, yeah.- 1707.- Yes, yes.
0:34:21 > 0:34:22And I think I get the point.
0:34:22 > 0:34:26Effectively, as I'm sure you know, the sinking of that
0:34:26 > 0:34:29was such a disaster than it brought about the concern of the King,
0:34:29 > 0:34:35the concern of parliament and effectively started the serious search for trying to find longitude.
0:34:35 > 0:34:41Because it was as a result of miscalculation from its longitude, its position, that the fleet sank.
0:34:41 > 0:34:45- Yes.- And so many people were killed. You've picked a variety of items.
0:34:45 > 0:34:48The first one is a celestial globe.
0:34:48 > 0:34:52And this, as you well know, is an instrument that you can set it up,
0:34:52 > 0:34:56you can use your latitude, your longitude, you can position it
0:34:56 > 0:34:59in such a way that it can tell you where you should be looking.
0:34:59 > 0:35:02It's made by a maker called Carey.
0:35:04 > 0:35:07It is the same firm, but it's not the famous period
0:35:07 > 0:35:10when they made those wonderful big globes
0:35:10 > 0:35:14which you see in country houses and libraries, which go back to the 1800s.
0:35:14 > 0:35:16This is much later in the 19th century.
0:35:16 > 0:35:20And a fascinating thing, but not desperately valuable,
0:35:20 > 0:35:23it's a little bit sort of boring in its box, you know?
0:35:23 > 0:35:27In fact, the box really doesn't do justice to the instrument.
0:35:27 > 0:35:31That's that. This however is,
0:35:31 > 0:35:34I think, rather more attractive. It's a marine chronometer.
0:35:34 > 0:35:39This instrument dates from probably I would say early 1820s.
0:35:39 > 0:35:42Have you been able to do any research on it?
0:35:42 > 0:35:47It's 1837 and I've contacted the..
0:35:47 > 0:35:49National Maritime?
0:35:49 > 0:35:53At Greenwich. And they've been able to supply me with some dates and some ships that it was on.
0:35:53 > 0:35:56Well, it was obviously in military service.
0:35:56 > 0:36:00- We have the War Department mark. - The arrow.- The arrow, yes.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03So we've got a star globe, a marine chronometer,
0:36:03 > 0:36:07and this final incarnation, which is totally up to date,
0:36:07 > 0:36:10this is the sort of wrist watch that today,
0:36:10 > 0:36:14- even young ladies wear a wrist watch of this size.- Yes.
0:36:14 > 0:36:20Now, it's made by Panerai, which was an Italian-based company.
0:36:21 > 0:36:26And this particular model was specifically designed
0:36:26 > 0:36:30- for use under water, at sea.- Yes.
0:36:30 > 0:36:38And they were carried and worn by those extremely brave men who drove those underwater chariots.
0:36:38 > 0:36:41Two men, which is effectively an explosive torpedo.
0:36:41 > 0:36:43Yes.
0:36:43 > 0:36:49And obviously with such a large dial and being luminous, you could actually read it under sea.
0:36:49 > 0:36:53I purchased this from a friend of mine, whose father
0:36:53 > 0:36:57was responsible for getting it in the Second World War.
0:36:57 > 0:37:01And his father and his uncles, or the father and the brother,
0:37:01 > 0:37:06were stationed on the bridge at Nijmegen at the battle of Arnhem.
0:37:06 > 0:37:09And they spotted something under the water near the bridge.
0:37:09 > 0:37:14And they obviously shot and killed two German divers,
0:37:14 > 0:37:19who were on one of these torpedoes, chariots.
0:37:19 > 0:37:23They came to the surface and the story is that they were buried,
0:37:23 > 0:37:27but of course, the soldiers recovered the war booty from them.
0:37:27 > 0:37:29And the watch comes from that.
0:37:29 > 0:37:32So we've got an interesting group here.
0:37:32 > 0:37:34I haven't got a clue what that's worth.
0:37:34 > 0:37:38I'm sure there was probably more than one historical...
0:37:38 > 0:37:42And a great start. These are not as valuable as they might look.
0:37:42 > 0:37:46They're £200, £300, perhaps £400.
0:37:46 > 0:37:50However, your chronometer's a really nice one.
0:37:50 > 0:37:54And I would say that that's now, in today's market,
0:37:54 > 0:37:59worth £3,000, £4,000 perhaps, something like that.
0:37:59 > 0:38:04Getting on that way. It's a good one. This is an interesting one though.
0:38:04 > 0:38:08- Proving the story about where it came from is going to be difficult.- Yes.
0:38:08 > 0:38:12But it may be possible to find out if such... whether such things happened,
0:38:12 > 0:38:16which would add some substance. Getting in touch with Panerai
0:38:16 > 0:38:20to see if there's any records as to who it was sold to would help.
0:38:20 > 0:38:24But I'm going to make a punt on it, give you a figure.
0:38:24 > 0:38:27And I think...
0:38:27 > 0:38:30it's worth about £20,000.
0:38:30 > 0:38:32Blimey.
0:38:32 > 0:38:33- I know.- A watch.
0:38:33 > 0:38:36A watch, yeah. I reckon it's worth...
0:38:36 > 0:38:40- the fat end of £20,000. - Blimey. Incredible.
0:38:43 > 0:38:46It came from an elderly friend who left it to me, with other things.
0:38:46 > 0:38:49Had you admired it beforehand, or...?
0:38:49 > 0:38:54Yes, I had. I had noticed she'd got you know one or two pretty vases.
0:38:54 > 0:38:57But this was, you know, special.
0:38:57 > 0:38:59Do you know anything about it?
0:38:59 > 0:39:02I know very little about it.
0:39:02 > 0:39:04I think it's a Japanese vase.
0:39:04 > 0:39:07- You're right, it is Japanese. - Yes.
0:39:07 > 0:39:11It's a type which is generically known as Satsuma.
0:39:11 > 0:39:16Which is a creamy-coloured body.
0:39:17 > 0:39:21It was made in many places in Japan.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23This one is actually made in Kyoto.
0:39:25 > 0:39:32It was made around 1885-1900
0:39:32 > 0:39:35and it's unusual.
0:39:35 > 0:39:40It's got panels on here of a
0:39:40 > 0:39:44beautiful maiden, a bijin,
0:39:44 > 0:39:51a festival cart and there are figures playing instruments on here.
0:39:51 > 0:39:57- There's a tiger painted on the side, which is a wonderful detail. - Yes, I hadn't noticed that.
0:39:57 > 0:40:00Ah, well, there you are, you see.
0:40:00 > 0:40:05We've got a warrior priest wearing an eboshi hat
0:40:05 > 0:40:09and his attendant is carrying his sword for him.
0:40:11 > 0:40:15A basket of flowers here hung with wisteria.
0:40:15 > 0:40:23- Down here this utterly charming Pekinese dog, which is probably a shih-tzu in Japan.- Yes.
0:40:23 > 0:40:26We've a very, very unusual
0:40:26 > 0:40:30black, almost black, laquer-like ground.
0:40:30 > 0:40:33Which is very, very uncommon.
0:40:33 > 0:40:37As is this...
0:40:37 > 0:40:42colour on here, sort of grey-green.
0:40:42 > 0:40:48The painting, I mean gilding, is beautifully done.
0:40:48 > 0:40:52These are tiny little dots of gold.
0:40:52 > 0:40:54Each painted like that.
0:40:54 > 0:41:01And we know that some of these, more major pieces admittedly, took a year to paint.
0:41:02 > 0:41:06Now, have you read the bottom?
0:41:06 > 0:41:10Well, I have. But I can't read it.
0:41:10 > 0:41:13Well, it says what one would love it to say.
0:41:13 > 0:41:17Which is Kinkozan seiso.
0:41:17 > 0:41:26Kinkozan, Sobei Kinkozan, was one of the three great potters of the turn of the 19th, 20th century.
0:41:26 > 0:41:31And seiso means, "made this". So he's simply saying, "I made this."
0:41:31 > 0:41:32Yes.
0:41:32 > 0:41:37It's in perfect condition apart from this tiny chip on here.
0:41:37 > 0:41:41But I don't think that's going to affect the value enormously.
0:41:41 > 0:41:43OK.
0:41:45 > 0:41:47- Have you insured it?- No.
0:41:47 > 0:41:49No, definitely not.
0:41:49 > 0:41:51I think you should.
0:41:51 > 0:41:57I think, even with that chip, and given the fact that the Satsuma market is a little bit
0:41:57 > 0:42:05sticky at the moment, I can still see that making £6,000 to £10,000.
0:42:05 > 0:42:06No!
0:42:06 > 0:42:10- No?- Yep.
0:42:10 > 0:42:12Nice pressie.
0:42:12 > 0:42:15Wow! I can't believe it!
0:42:18 > 0:42:22We've had some rich pickings here today, so many thanks to the people of Gloucester
0:42:22 > 0:42:26for turning out in their thousands here at the cathedral.
0:42:28 > 0:42:35Legend has it that from the crypt beneath Gloucester cathedral runs an ancient network of tunnels
0:42:35 > 0:42:39leading to various public houses in the area. Why, I can't imagine.
0:42:39 > 0:42:43But I feel that, in the interests of research, I should investigate.
0:42:43 > 0:42:47Oh, by the way, we shall be making a return visit to this lovely place.
0:42:47 > 0:42:50What you might call a Double Gloucester.
0:42:50 > 0:42:52Speaking of doubles...