0:00:43 > 0:00:50# Coming in on a wing and a prayer
0:00:50 > 0:00:56# Coming in on a wing and a prayer... #
0:00:56 > 0:00:58Welcome aboard.
0:00:58 > 0:01:03We're back for a second visit to the former Lancaster Bomber Base at East Kirkby in Lincolnshire.
0:01:03 > 0:01:08Many good men and women served here, and the last time we came, we were inundated by visitors.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11We're hoping for the same, of course. Over and out.
0:01:15 > 0:01:19I must be one of the most vehement anti-smokers there is around,
0:01:19 > 0:01:21I really don't like cigarette smoking at all,
0:01:21 > 0:01:25but when it comes to some of the objects associated with it, historical objects, in effect,
0:01:25 > 0:01:28this must be one of THE classic items.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31This is a superb smoking compendium.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33Where did you get it from?
0:01:33 > 0:01:36It belonged to my father and it was handed down to me.
0:01:36 > 0:01:42Did he have any association with the aircraft industry? Was he interested in anything to do with aircraft?
0:01:42 > 0:01:44He did fly in a Lancaster.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46Ah right, OK.
0:01:46 > 0:01:51Of course, the Lancaster Association is particularly pertinent today, but how can I say,
0:01:51 > 0:01:57this lot would have been arch rivals because this is German, basically.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59This is a German manufacturer.
0:01:59 > 0:02:04There are certain places at which it is marked DRGM Germany.
0:02:04 > 0:02:08It's very interesting, the way it all fits together.
0:02:08 > 0:02:12Let's open the back compartment, where you would have stored tobacco.
0:02:12 > 0:02:18The whole thing is chromium plated on brass, but you've got a silvered interior
0:02:18 > 0:02:22which would stop the metal from deteriorating with the tobacco in it.
0:02:22 > 0:02:28The cigarettes or little cigars would have been housed in the wings,
0:02:28 > 0:02:30which are very neat.
0:02:30 > 0:02:37They both come to pieces like this and open up, which is rather clever.
0:02:37 > 0:02:41If you were smoking a small cigar or a cheroot,
0:02:41 > 0:02:44then you would have cut the tip with the propeller,
0:02:44 > 0:02:48there's a superb little cutter concealed in the propeller.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51Put it in there, spin the prop and cut the tip off.
0:02:51 > 0:02:56Then we've got a nice set of little ashtrays which could be spread out.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59There they are, nesting ashtrays.
0:02:59 > 0:03:05And, of course, most importantly, we have the match striker on the top
0:03:05 > 0:03:08and a collection of matches inside.
0:03:08 > 0:03:13Now what's superb about this example is that it's so complete.
0:03:13 > 0:03:18Often they're damaged or you find part of the ashtray's missing or whatever.
0:03:18 > 0:03:22- How has it survived so well? - I'm not sure.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25Have any of you ever smoked, or did you father smoke at all?
0:03:25 > 0:03:28Yes, my father and mother smoked.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31Did they use it as a smoking compendium or was it an ornament?
0:03:31 > 0:03:34- I think they did, you know, occasionally, yes.- Right, OK.- Yes.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36And what would you say on date?
0:03:36 > 0:03:38Would you have any idea of the date?
0:03:38 > 0:03:41Um, well sort of 1930s.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44That's about right, about 1925-1930.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47It says much about the period, attitudes of the time.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51People smoked like troopers in that period,
0:03:51 > 0:03:57so, of course, it wasn't regarded in the same way, so putting it in context like that. Value...
0:03:57 > 0:03:59value is a difficult one.
0:03:59 > 0:04:04I've seen damaged ones of these make considerable sums of money
0:04:04 > 0:04:09and I think this is worth in excess of £2,000 at auction.
0:04:09 > 0:04:13Which is a staggering amount of money for a smoker's compendium.
0:04:13 > 0:04:17So, I have to say, it's one of the best examples I've seen for many years
0:04:17 > 0:04:20and it's been a pleasure talking about it.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26These are great. Do you know where they come from?
0:04:26 > 0:04:33The only idea I do have, apparently, many, many years ago, they stood at an entrance to a circus.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35And how long have you had them?
0:04:35 > 0:04:38I've had one, this one, for about 12 months.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41- Yes.- And that one for roughly about ten months.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43And did they not come together?
0:04:43 > 0:04:46No, they didn't, no. We bought this one first.
0:04:46 > 0:04:50I found him in a garage because this person was advertising tools
0:04:50 > 0:04:56and with my husband being a woodworker, he was looking at the tools
0:04:56 > 0:04:59and this chap was at the corner, covered in mould,
0:04:59 > 0:05:03so I spoke to the chap and, er
0:05:03 > 0:05:05I managed to buy him off him.
0:05:05 > 0:05:09- Oh, well done.- Then he informed me that he was one of a pair.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11- And the pair came back together.- Yes.
0:05:11 > 0:05:17Actually, this circus connection is not so far off from the truth, actually,
0:05:17 > 0:05:22because I think these things were probably used in a showground,
0:05:22 > 0:05:27they were on a carousel that went around a Noah's Ark, and originally
0:05:27 > 0:05:31there would have been a vertical bar of metal
0:05:31 > 0:05:34that ran from the floor of the carousel
0:05:34 > 0:05:38up to the ceiling of the fairground carousel
0:05:38 > 0:05:44and that bar would have been attached to the rearing beast, Noah's Ark style,
0:05:44 > 0:05:46on the side of the neck here,
0:05:46 > 0:05:50and you can see on the other horse, there's also another vertical bar.
0:05:50 > 0:05:57So I guess originally there may have been 30 or 40 of these prancers, all mounted up
0:05:57 > 0:06:02- in an enormous carousel, which would have been a sight, wouldn't it? - It certainly would have been.
0:06:02 > 0:06:07But the really oddball thing about these is, that instead of being made of soft wood,
0:06:07 > 0:06:13which is what you'd expect a European bit of fairground art, these carved figures, to be made of,
0:06:13 > 0:06:16these are made of a form of Oriental hardwood
0:06:16 > 0:06:22and I've a funny feeling that this came off, perhaps, a fairground in Singapore
0:06:22 > 0:06:28or in Hong Kong, so there's been a European twist with this, because these are Oriental-looking horses
0:06:28 > 0:06:34and there's also some age to them, because if we go down here to this haunch, you can see there's a large
0:06:34 > 0:06:44patch that's been crudely repaired where some child would have mounted the fairground horse like this.
0:06:44 > 0:06:50The bar is sitting here and he would have charged around the outside, probably given it a kick
0:06:50 > 0:06:56and a lump would have fallen off, and some person has simply nailed on that haunch piece.
0:06:56 > 0:06:57I think they're absolutely brilliant.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01Now, you bought one and then you bought the other one,
0:07:01 > 0:07:05do you mind me asking you how much you paid under a year ago, for each of these?
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Um, £300 each.
0:07:07 > 0:07:10£600.
0:07:10 > 0:07:11£600 for the pair, yes.
0:07:11 > 0:07:17Well, that I think is extraordinarily cheap, because they're very decorative,
0:07:17 > 0:07:25they have got this showground, this fairground connection, which is very popular with collectors,
0:07:25 > 0:07:31and I wouldn't be surprised, in the right sale, if you didn't get say between £1,500 and £2,000...
0:07:31 > 0:07:35maybe £2,000 to £3,000.
0:07:35 > 0:07:36Very nice.
0:07:38 > 0:07:41Well, I've got two questions for you.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44Do you know what these objects are called? And what are used for?
0:07:44 > 0:07:50Unfortunately, I've absolutely no idea what they're used for and I've no idea what they're called.
0:07:50 > 0:07:53Right, well they're known as dummy boards and they are
0:07:53 > 0:07:58a visual joke, they're sort of pieces of interior decoration that
0:07:58 > 0:08:01started round about the 1650s
0:08:01 > 0:08:05and really finished by the end of the 18th century.
0:08:05 > 0:08:10A lot of people have ideas that they might be fire screens, but if you put
0:08:10 > 0:08:14something made out of wood in front of a hot fire, the result is pretty self evident.
0:08:14 > 0:08:18They're really designed to fill space in buildings
0:08:18 > 0:08:21and on that basis, do you know where they've come from?
0:08:21 > 0:08:26Um, in 1835 a local club bought some furniture from Birmingham
0:08:26 > 0:08:29and it was transported from Boston
0:08:29 > 0:08:32and these just happened to be in the packaging with the furniture
0:08:32 > 0:08:34and to date, no-one's come to claim them.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37Really? There's quite a good story about these.
0:08:37 > 0:08:42During the time of the American War of Independence in the late 18th century,
0:08:42 > 0:08:48there was a diary entry of a lady who recorded that one of her friends had gone into a house
0:08:48 > 0:08:52and had seen one of these figures sitting in the hallway
0:08:52 > 0:08:56and had been so frightened she thought the British had arrived.
0:08:56 > 0:09:00Perhaps we might have done better in America if we'd had a whole load of cut-outs.
0:09:00 > 0:09:02- Where are they now? - They're in a store room.
0:09:02 > 0:09:05So they're not actually in situ in a great house somewhere.
0:09:05 > 0:09:08No, they're just in an open room.
0:09:08 > 0:09:12That's the sort of thing that you would find them in the hallway of a big house
0:09:12 > 0:09:18and perhaps in a house of somebody who was a senior officer and perhaps there was a great big sort of
0:09:18 > 0:09:24trophy of arms over there and these two figures were flanking it, to get that sort of military air about them.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28What excites me about them is that they are pretty early, they're about 1730
0:09:28 > 0:09:33and I can be pretty certain about that from the style of the uniforms
0:09:33 > 0:09:40and there is a well-known drill book written by a chap called Bernard Lens, who also illustrated it,
0:09:40 > 0:09:43and the original, I think, is in the National Army Museum,
0:09:43 > 0:09:46and the uniform of these soldiers is almost identical.
0:09:46 > 0:09:50You can see all the detail of this man's costume and his equipment,
0:09:50 > 0:09:54even down to the big bag where he carried his
0:09:54 > 0:09:59ammunition and his hand grenades, the bayonet for his musket, even the sort of pose of them, because
0:09:59 > 0:10:04this book was designed for people who were the army's elite troops of the day, they're called Grenadiers,
0:10:04 > 0:10:10they threw hand grenades which are dangerous, like a sort of spy bomb, you light it...
0:10:10 > 0:10:14and they were the elite troops, the storm troops of their day.
0:10:14 > 0:10:20Well, they're not in the best of condition but there is a lot of good original paint left under there and
0:10:20 > 0:10:27I think that they are sufficiently important for somebody to have them conserved and cleaned.
0:10:27 > 0:10:34I think that, cleaned, they would be absolutely magnificent, they would show all their original colours
0:10:34 > 0:10:36and I can see those, if they were sold,
0:10:36 > 0:10:39making between £5,000 to £10,000.
0:10:39 > 0:10:45- Wow!- You just don't see them, they're so rare.
0:10:45 > 0:10:46Better not use white spirit on them.
0:10:46 > 0:10:49Please!
0:10:49 > 0:10:53If you're going to get them cleaned, they need to be done by somebody who
0:10:53 > 0:10:55is a proper picture conservator
0:10:55 > 0:11:00who will be able to remove all the dirt and the grot and the tobacco smoke off them
0:11:00 > 0:11:05- and then they'll suddenly step out bright, as if they were painted yesterday.- Fantastic.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07They are indeed. Thank you.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Now I don't think I've ever seen an object like this.
0:11:13 > 0:11:18When I first saw it, I thought "is it a postcard album, is it a photograph album, what on earth is it?"
0:11:18 > 0:11:22you know with this wonderful piece of carpet on the outside
0:11:22 > 0:11:27and it's only when you open it, you realise it is actually about carpets,
0:11:27 > 0:11:31it's a whole sort of book about the making and selling of carpets
0:11:31 > 0:11:34and it's German but it's in English.
0:11:34 > 0:11:41It shows all the aspects of carpet making, we see the showrooms, we see the manufacturing processes,
0:11:41 > 0:11:47we see the selection of the dyes, all the types of carpets being made, very high-quality carpets.
0:11:47 > 0:11:53We even see the Scottish sheep from which they were made, and when we come to the end,
0:11:53 > 0:11:59which I think is fun, we actually see them in sort of what you might call a domestic context.
0:11:59 > 0:12:04- They're saying in the 1930s, "you in your smart villa, you need our carpets".- Correct.
0:12:04 > 0:12:09And there is what is a really major enterprise, in Germany,
0:12:09 > 0:12:13you know, Axminster, Wilton, they'd all fit into there with ease.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16What I don't understand is where you come in.
0:12:16 > 0:12:21Well, my great aunt was a barmaid in Nottingham
0:12:21 > 0:12:26and the German businessman who owned the factory used to visit England
0:12:26 > 0:12:29to buy the wool to make the carpets
0:12:29 > 0:12:32and he met my great aunt in this hotel in Nottingham
0:12:32 > 0:12:36and eventually she went back over to Germany with him,
0:12:36 > 0:12:39and married the owner of the factory.
0:12:39 > 0:12:44So from behind the bar, she became, in a sense, a carpet empress.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46- That's correct.- Do we know anything about her?
0:12:46 > 0:12:51- What did she look like?- There are photographs in the album
0:12:51 > 0:12:56because the house in which they lived was also a show home for the carpets.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59And there are some photographs here of their silver wedding anniversary.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03And she's sat actually next to her husband here,
0:13:03 > 0:13:07and this is Leo Koch, the owner of the factory.
0:13:07 > 0:13:13- And this is silver, 25 years.- That's right.- Well, if we're in the '30s and they've been married 25 years
0:13:13 > 0:13:18- this must have happened quite early on, that they met. - I think in the, early 1900s.
0:13:18 > 0:13:24- Yes.- And she moved over there around about oh, 1910 I believe,
0:13:24 > 0:13:31but eventually had to come back before the Second World War because of the Nazi regime.
0:13:31 > 0:13:35- So she was never a naturalised German?- Um, probably not, no.
0:13:35 > 0:13:40He stayed in Germany during the war and died during the war, so they never met again.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42So this is, in a sense, the end of the story.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45It is indeed, yes, and unfortunately they didn't have any children.
0:13:45 > 0:13:49- So that was the end of the line? - It was indeed. - It's an astonishing story.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51It is, it's quite fascinating, it's part of the family history.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54How do you descend from them? They had no children.
0:13:54 > 0:14:00My grandfather lived in Doncaster and my great aunt was his sister,
0:14:00 > 0:14:04so the family history's on my grandfather's side.
0:14:04 > 0:14:08- Right.- In actual fact they sent quite a lot of gifts at Christmas time,
0:14:08 > 0:14:11over to this country, including this gold bracelet.
0:14:11 > 0:14:15- So this was sent from Germany for the family, in effect.- Yes.
0:14:15 > 0:14:18Well, that's an expensive gift, you're looking at several hundred pounds.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21I believe so, it has been valued today at £300 to £400.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24So you've talked to somebody who knows about jewellery.
0:14:24 > 0:14:26It just looks a jolly good thing.
0:14:26 > 0:14:31- So they were sending, casually, several hundred pounds' worth of gifts at Christmas.- They were.
0:14:31 > 0:14:36It was a grand family, and this, if I've understood, this is their house.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39This is the house in which they lived.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41Well, we can do the comparison.
0:14:41 > 0:14:49And so all through here their house shows the carpets, it also shows the incredible style...
0:14:49 > 0:14:52- Indeed, yes.- ..in which they lived. How big was the house?
0:14:52 > 0:14:54- It's, er... right at the beginning there.- Oh, yes.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58- It is quite a sizeable house. - It's quite substantial, isn't it? - Indeed, yes.
0:14:58 > 0:15:03- I think this alone is a wonderful document about the carpet industry in Germany.- Yes.
0:15:03 > 0:15:07But when you've put that sort of personal detail onto it, I find it so exciting.
0:15:07 > 0:15:13Suddenly, this wonderful but rather impersonal document comes to life, you know, she lived here.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17- That's correct.- She sat at that dining table.- She did.
0:15:17 > 0:15:22This is a great document. If I saw that in a shop for...
0:15:22 > 0:15:28£200 or £300, I'd be tempted to buy it, because it's such a wonderful vision of that industry at that time.
0:15:28 > 0:15:31- In a sense, this doesn't matter. - It's family history.
0:15:31 > 0:15:33The way all this ties together,
0:15:33 > 0:15:39and it tells us a story about incredible enterprise and also how she rose from nowhere.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42- Absolutely.- What a woman!
0:15:55 > 0:16:01- Good Lord, a whole squadron of Morris Minors seems to have landed!- It has.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03- How lovely to see you.- Welcome, Tim.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05So what is your role with this crew?
0:16:05 > 0:16:08I'm with the Lincolnshire branch of the Morris Minor Owners Club and we thought we'd
0:16:08 > 0:16:13- come along today to welcome Antiques Roadshow to East Kirkby. - Well, that's brilliant.
0:16:13 > 0:16:18And is it a thrill now to see the Morris Minor on the pre-title for each Antiques Roadshow?
0:16:18 > 0:16:22Absolutely, it's displacing that make we won't mention.
0:16:22 > 0:16:24- The foreign rubbish, you mean? - That's the one.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27Quintessential British car for a quintessential British programme.
0:16:27 > 0:16:32Quite right too. And how many years have they been making the Morris Minor?
0:16:32 > 0:16:39The very first one began in October 1948 and was at the Motor Show of that year
0:16:39 > 0:16:42- and it went right up until 1971.- Did it?
0:16:42 > 0:16:47- Mm.- So there's going to be quite a celebration coming up in 2008 then?
0:16:47 > 0:16:49Oh, there will be, the 60th anniversary celebrations,
0:16:49 > 0:16:55- we're hoping to have a rally with up to 2,000 Minors at Stanford Hall in the Midlands.- Brilliant.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58So that should be another day to look forward to.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01And how many of these motor cars do you think have survived in this country?
0:17:01 > 0:17:05I would think probably in regular use, probably 25,000,
0:17:05 > 0:17:08could be more, could be double that number, sitting waiting to
0:17:08 > 0:17:13- be restored, brought back to life again.- Lurking in a barn. - Lurking in a barn, a garage.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16What about the international aspect? It went all over the world, didn't it?
0:17:16 > 0:17:20It did, because up to 90-95% was exported in the early years
0:17:20 > 0:17:23and they went all over the old Empire and dominions,
0:17:23 > 0:17:26Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa,
0:17:26 > 0:17:29the African territories and even into Europe.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31So where are you off to with the squadron now?
0:17:31 > 0:17:37We're going to go off to a little pub not very far away and have a meal and a wind down
0:17:37 > 0:17:40and enjoy the reminiscences of a great day.
0:17:40 > 0:17:44- Good for you, it's been extremely nice to meet you and safe driving. - We will do, thank you.
0:17:47 > 0:17:53Well, I can think of nothing more appropriate, here we are in the shadow of this great Lancaster bomber
0:17:53 > 0:17:57and you bring me in a picture of a Lancaster bomber, so tell me about it.
0:17:57 > 0:18:02The picture is of a Lancaster bomber of 617 Squadron, the famous Dam Busters.
0:18:02 > 0:18:03The Dam Busters, yes.
0:18:03 > 0:18:08And back in 1980 I attended a function which was attended by many...
0:18:08 > 0:18:12the surviving members of 617 Squadron who carried out the raid,
0:18:12 > 0:18:16and I was lucky enough to get these guys to sign the picture for me, so it's got
0:18:16 > 0:18:21Mickey Martin, Geoff Rice, Les Munro and, of course, Bob Knight.
0:18:21 > 0:18:27Yes. So this was issued as a print, some, what I don't know, 30 years after the event.
0:18:27 > 0:18:29- Indeed, yes.- Really.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32Now you must have done a lot of research. Whose is that?
0:18:32 > 0:18:35The aircraft was actually the aircraft flown by Bob Knight
0:18:35 > 0:18:39and his crew and which is why he's signed it at the top, Thumper,
0:18:39 > 0:18:41which was their nickname for the aircraft.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43Thumper Mark II. I think that's great fun.
0:18:43 > 0:18:47Well, you've crushed it, you've rolled it and crushed it
0:18:47 > 0:18:51and that's why there are all these white marks, you've actually
0:18:51 > 0:18:56broken the surface of it, but I don't think that really matters, it's all part of its history.
0:18:56 > 0:19:03The most extraordinary thing is that you've got this collection of Dam Busters here,
0:19:03 > 0:19:06probably the last time they all met up together, what do you think?
0:19:06 > 0:19:10- Almost certainly.- Because quite a few are dead now, aren't they?
0:19:10 > 0:19:15Exactly. The event was organised by the 617 Squadron Association
0:19:15 > 0:19:19and I think that that probably was their last full meeting.
0:19:19 > 0:19:25And during it they flew up to the Derwent reservoir in Derbyshire and dropped a commemorative wreath
0:19:25 > 0:19:27in memory of their fellow squadron members.
0:19:27 > 0:19:36Yes, yes, and you have another print here of Spitfires, and this one is in good condition and is signed by
0:19:36 > 0:19:38- Douglas Bader.- Douglas Bader and Group Captain Johnnie Johnson.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40- Both of them aces...- Indeed.
0:19:40 > 0:19:44..in the Second World War, absolutely fantastic.
0:19:44 > 0:19:50Well, the one I obviously like most, the one I'm keenest on, I have to say, is this one.
0:19:50 > 0:19:56- If we have to put a value on it, and I suppose we must, that must be a very rare set of signatures.- Yes.
0:19:56 > 0:19:59All together, the print is not worth very much at all,
0:19:59 > 0:20:04but that collection of signatures I think is probably going to be worth
0:20:04 > 0:20:11somewhere in the region of £300 or £400, possibly more, but it is a very fine collection.
0:20:11 > 0:20:13The other one,
0:20:13 > 0:20:22with the signatures of Bader and Johnnie Johnson I would put that in at about £100, £150.
0:20:22 > 0:20:28- Thank you very much indeed. - Great to see them, and great to be under this enormous bomber.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30It's wonderful, isn't it? Thank you very much.
0:20:30 > 0:20:34Do you live in a really seriously grand house?
0:20:34 > 0:20:36- No.- No?- Only a small bungalow. - A small bungalow?
0:20:36 > 0:20:39They don't, yeah, they don't belong to me, they belong to me grandma.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42- And does she live in a seriously grand house?- No.
0:20:42 > 0:20:48Because these are the kind of objects I'd expect to find in a seriously grand house.
0:20:48 > 0:20:51Do you know where your grandmother got them?
0:20:51 > 0:20:55A neighbour of hers decided he wanted to sell them and
0:20:55 > 0:20:58he knew she was interested in antiques and things.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02So he went to see her and she purchased them, but she can't remember how much she paid for them.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06Right. I mean, do you know what they are?
0:21:06 > 0:21:09Um, cornucopias.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12Yeah, do you know who made them?
0:21:12 > 0:21:17I think they're probably Sevres. She thinks they're probably Dresden.
0:21:17 > 0:21:21Right. And you know the Sevres mark, the interlaced Ls mark?
0:21:21 > 0:21:24Only because of the S underneath, that's what I was going on.
0:21:24 > 0:21:33Ah, so if we have a look at the base of them to see exactly what there is, yeah, there we go. S48.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35Well, I'm pleased to tell you they are Sevres.
0:21:35 > 0:21:38They're quite late, S48...
0:21:38 > 0:21:4348 refers to 1848. Do you know much about the Sevres factory?
0:21:43 > 0:21:45Not really, I've heard of it, that's all.
0:21:45 > 0:21:51Well, it is the most important French factory, arguably the most important porcelain factory in Europe
0:21:51 > 0:21:58established under French patronage, making very, very best quality wares for the very best and richest people.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01- So these are not rubbish.- No. - These are fantastic.
0:22:01 > 0:22:06The quality of the decoration is truly stunning, there's this wonderful
0:22:06 > 0:22:11painting of flowers around the inside of the lips, and an unusual
0:22:11 > 0:22:15combination of biscuit porcelain here and glazed porcelain here and here.
0:22:15 > 0:22:19And wonderful, rich gilding.
0:22:19 > 0:22:20They're truly magnificent.
0:22:20 > 0:22:24But I have to say, the market for this kind of Sevres,
0:22:24 > 0:22:27this mid-19th century period is doing quite well at the moment.
0:22:27 > 0:22:31I happen to know that one, just one,
0:22:31 > 0:22:34sold in the last year
0:22:34 > 0:22:37for £5,000.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39Oh, dear.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42- It was a slightly earlier one.- Yeah.
0:22:42 > 0:22:43But it was white and gold,
0:22:43 > 0:22:47it didn't have this wonderful colouring, this wonderful painting.
0:22:47 > 0:22:52So it's a question of balancing the fact that they're slightly later, there's a pair of them
0:22:52 > 0:22:57- and they're just glorious. - Yeah, yeah.- They really are glorious and, I think
0:22:57 > 0:23:03we could say as an auction estimate probably £8,000 to £10,000 for them.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05Oh, dear.
0:23:05 > 0:23:10She does know I like them and I've got my eye on them.
0:23:10 > 0:23:15They're truly fabulous objects, the very best of 19th century Sevres porcelain.
0:23:19 > 0:23:23During World War Two, Lincolnshire was known as "bomber county"
0:23:23 > 0:23:28because it had more airfields and squadrons and aircraft than any other part of the United Kingdom.
0:23:28 > 0:23:34As well as local people, several members of our team have close family connections with the area.
0:23:34 > 0:23:36Bill Harriman, your dad was stationed around here.
0:23:36 > 0:23:41He was an engineering officer and in 1941 he was at 58 Maintenance Unit
0:23:41 > 0:23:46at Newark and I can remember him telling me that he spent his life
0:23:46 > 0:23:51driving around Lincolnshire picking up bent aircraft.
0:23:51 > 0:23:55- There would have been a lot of bent aircraft.- Yes, yes,
0:23:55 > 0:23:58he was an engineering specialist and they were looking
0:23:58 > 0:24:04also, not for just the remedial work of mending bent aircraft, but improving their performance.
0:24:04 > 0:24:09This is my father, Flight Lieutenant Joseph Fletcher Harriman, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
0:24:09 > 0:24:13and this, I guess, was taken at the end of the war when he'd be in his
0:24:13 > 0:24:17- sort of early mid-20s.- So he collected a few medals on his way.
0:24:17 > 0:24:21Yes, these are the ones that so many people bring to Roadshows
0:24:21 > 0:24:26and these are my dad's and the advice I give to people is that they should put them on a bar,
0:24:26 > 0:24:29as you would hang it on your suit in civilian dress
0:24:29 > 0:24:33and if you have a photograph, get them all framed, and any other documents
0:24:33 > 0:24:36- and then they make a lovely piece of family history.- Do you want me to value them for you?
0:24:36 > 0:24:41Oh, it would be very kind of you, and I might even just follow my own advice before I'm much older.
0:24:41 > 0:24:45- Priceless. - Well, they are to me, because I never knew about these when my father was
0:24:45 > 0:24:50alive, and it was only after he died, when I was rummaging through his effects, that I came across these.
0:24:50 > 0:24:54He never spoke about them, but that, I'm particularly
0:24:54 > 0:25:01proud of that because that's an MBE which he was given for his work on working on engines for the...
0:25:01 > 0:25:04I think it was the Second Air Force, that was sort of over and above.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06Well, he certainly made his mark.
0:25:06 > 0:25:10How did the young Bill Harriman get involved in militaria?
0:25:10 > 0:25:13Well, one of the things that my father was very keen
0:25:13 > 0:25:16that I should not have any involvement with was firearms.
0:25:16 > 0:25:22I think he was actually quite keen on them and he had an old air rifle and I was occasionally allowed
0:25:22 > 0:25:28to use that under supervision, but what he did have, and which I absolutely adored was an old revolver
0:25:28 > 0:25:34which his father, who is this Lance Harriman, entertainer and humorist, he had his own cinema but during the
0:25:34 > 0:25:40silent films when the cowboys were coming on, there'd be bang, bang, bang around the back with it...
0:25:40 > 0:25:45they had a great big sheet of tin to do the thunder, Grandma used to play the piano for incidental music
0:25:45 > 0:25:50and my father had these pistols and I remember discovering them in a box in the garage.
0:25:50 > 0:25:53I was in absolute heaven and I've never looked back.
0:25:53 > 0:25:58- He must have had a few casualties amongst the audience.- Well, one hopes he used blanks.
0:25:58 > 0:26:02So coming here today for you is quite an emotional experience.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05Well, it is, because I heard what my father said
0:26:05 > 0:26:10about his experiences and it's very much a sort of sentimental journey.
0:26:12 > 0:26:16I'd love you to tell me about this brooch. How long have you had it?
0:26:16 > 0:26:21It was my mother's. I think Dad bought it for her.
0:26:21 > 0:26:25- And you have been given it... - As a 50th birthday present.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29- Fantastic! And have you worn it? - I have.- Brilliant.
0:26:29 > 0:26:36Well, I tell you, it is just such a wonderful piece of jewellery, I have never seen anything quite like this.
0:26:36 > 0:26:40- Really?- Yeah, I mean, for me, jewellery is all about movement
0:26:40 > 0:26:44- and this has everything going for it, so your mum was quite a mover.- Yes.
0:26:44 > 0:26:48- Was she quite a mover? - I think so, in her day.
0:26:48 > 0:26:53Brilliant. Well, you see here why I talk about the movement is...
0:26:53 > 0:26:58you will see the sinuous lines of the leaves and of the fuchsias
0:26:58 > 0:27:02and this is the fantastic bit here,
0:27:02 > 0:27:10the baguette-cut diamonds that are dangling from each of the fuchsia stamens.
0:27:10 > 0:27:15- This is also giving me an indication of the date of the piece.- Oh, really?
0:27:15 > 0:27:20So I would date this at around about 1925-1930.
0:27:20 > 0:27:25- Oh, right.- It's probably set in platinum, though there are no marks
0:27:25 > 0:27:31and the rubies are these wonderful natural Burma rubies
0:27:31 > 0:27:35- and to have this with the set with the earrings... - Would have looked lovely.
0:27:35 > 0:27:40Stunning, absolutely stunning, because this is jewellery
0:27:40 > 0:27:43which is to be worn to be shown off.
0:27:43 > 0:27:48Because it is so unique in terms of the fuchsias being used and the way that they've used the rubies
0:27:48 > 0:27:50to compliment the colour and...
0:27:50 > 0:27:56it's just fantastic, so I would say that in auction you'd be looking at around about £4,000.
0:27:56 > 0:27:59Really? Gosh.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03What a highly decorated box.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06Where does it come from?
0:28:06 > 0:28:09We rather think it might have come from my mother's family.
0:28:09 > 0:28:13Her father was a printer in Northampton and after
0:28:13 > 0:28:17World War One, when things were pretty tight, he took many of his
0:28:17 > 0:28:23commissions in kind rather than cash and we think that's probably how it came into the family.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25You don't remember seeing it as you were growing up?
0:28:25 > 0:28:29No, because she didn't like it, so it was put away into a wardrobe and we didn't find it
0:28:29 > 0:28:33until we packed my father's house up just before he died.
0:28:33 > 0:28:37Gosh, how extraordinary, so your mother didn't like it, what do you make of it?
0:28:37 > 0:28:40Well, we love it and my wife in particular loves it.
0:28:40 > 0:28:46Well, I think the nice thing about it is that it incorporates such good quality materials.
0:28:46 > 0:28:53The veneers that have been used are one of the nicest cuts of burr walnut I think that I've seen for ages
0:28:53 > 0:29:00and then these very decorative high Victorian ecclesiastical-style hinges and rope twist borders
0:29:00 > 0:29:05and then to top it all off, these lovely little plaques. Do you know what they're made of?
0:29:05 > 0:29:08Well, we think it's probably Wedgwood, is it?
0:29:08 > 0:29:12It probably isn't actually made by the Wedgwood company but you're right
0:29:12 > 0:29:18that Wedgwood introduced this jasper ware, it was made in all sorts of urns and vases, but it was
0:29:18 > 0:29:23also used quite a lot to decorate furniture and boxes of this kind.
0:29:23 > 0:29:25I'm dying to open it up.
0:29:27 > 0:29:31What a stunning tea caddy.
0:29:31 > 0:29:37It just looks so fresh and so new and yet you can see that none of it's been restored, it's just the fact
0:29:37 > 0:29:41that it's hardly ever been opened and I'm not at all surprised to see
0:29:41 > 0:29:45a really good retailer's name in it.
0:29:45 > 0:29:49"Howell & James & Co, Regent Street, London".
0:29:49 > 0:29:53And they had a fantastic reputation as being jewellery retailers
0:29:53 > 0:29:58and selling really high-quality objects exactly like this.
0:29:58 > 0:30:03So we know that it's a tea caddy, because, helpfully, on the plaques here is written "black" and "green"
0:30:03 > 0:30:05for the two kinds of tea
0:30:05 > 0:30:10and normally you get small caddies like this, that just lift out,
0:30:10 > 0:30:12but these buttons...Oh!
0:30:13 > 0:30:17That is... That is absolutely remarkable.
0:30:17 > 0:30:21I don't think I've ever seen that on a tea caddy.
0:30:21 > 0:30:24- No.- Did you get an awful surprise when you first opened it?
0:30:24 > 0:30:26Yes, yes, thought it was a jack-in-the-box.
0:30:26 > 0:30:30Let's have a look at the other one.
0:30:30 > 0:30:35It must have been a patented sort of mechanism. Look at that.
0:30:35 > 0:30:40This really is the element that puts it in a league of its own,
0:30:40 > 0:30:43although the whole thing sort of oozes quality.
0:30:43 > 0:30:45It has to be worth £1,000.
0:30:45 > 0:30:50Really? Goodness me! Never thought it was worth that much.
0:30:50 > 0:30:55Well, I never thought I'd be saying that a Victorian burr walnut tea caddy was worth £1,000
0:30:55 > 0:31:00- but, you know, I just can't see it fetching any less than that.- It's not going anywhere.
0:31:00 > 0:31:06Well, it's obviously found a good home and I'm glad it's found somebody who appreciates it and enjoys it.
0:31:09 > 0:31:12Well, this is a somewhat insignificant-looking little object
0:31:12 > 0:31:15but it does have a great deal of charm.
0:31:15 > 0:31:18- How did you come by it? - Um, it belonged to my mother-in-law.
0:31:18 > 0:31:26And some years ago she asked us what we'd like when she departed,
0:31:26 > 0:31:30- and that's what I chose, and I really liked it. - You chose this.- Yes, yes.
0:31:30 > 0:31:34It's what's known as either a pitcher cream jug,
0:31:34 > 0:31:37or some people call them bird's mouth cream jugs
0:31:37 > 0:31:42because that's a little bit like a bird's mouth and it's quite interesting to think that the
0:31:42 > 0:31:48period this was made, it was actually made in 1730, that
0:31:48 > 0:31:51tea drinking was quite at a premium.
0:31:51 > 0:31:55It didn't start to come over from China until the end of the 17th century
0:31:55 > 0:32:02and it was incredibly expensive, so much so, the servants used to dry the leaves and re-sell them
0:32:02 > 0:32:08and used to keep the tea in caddies locked up because it was something like £1 a pound in those days.
0:32:08 > 0:32:14But, of course, the Chinese did not have milk with their tea and so this was a purely British invention.
0:32:14 > 0:32:19What intrigues me about this particularly is the way it's hallmarked.
0:32:19 > 0:32:23Underneath it has the maker's mark, SL,
0:32:23 > 0:32:29which is a chap called Samuel Laundry and the lion, which is silver,
0:32:29 > 0:32:32and normally you get all four marks on the bottom but they must have been
0:32:32 > 0:32:37rather anxious to avoid any forgery because they've put the leopard's head here,
0:32:37 > 0:32:41which is the London mark and they've put the date letter there, the P,
0:32:41 > 0:32:46which is the 1730 period mark. And where does it live at home?
0:32:46 > 0:32:51For the last couple of years it's been wrapped in a piece of kitchen roll in a drawer.
0:32:51 > 0:32:53Oh, that's a bit sad.
0:32:53 > 0:32:54But well,
0:32:54 > 0:32:58it's very special, it's special to me
0:32:58 > 0:33:02and I just didn't really know where to put it or what to do with it.
0:33:02 > 0:33:07Well, I think that if this were to come up for sale today, it would probably fetch somewhere between
0:33:07 > 0:33:11£500 and £600 and should be insured for something like £1,000.
0:33:11 > 0:33:14Gosh! Oh, lovely.
0:33:16 > 0:33:20Well, behind us we've got the full-size Lancaster bomber,
0:33:20 > 0:33:22but you've brought us something smaller.
0:33:22 > 0:33:28Yes, I've brought a replica of the bomber behind, although the bomber behind
0:33:28 > 0:33:32is slightly different to that one, because that bomber is Guy Gibson's.
0:33:32 > 0:33:36- The very famous Dam Busters. - The very famous Dam Buster one.
0:33:36 > 0:33:38I notice it has the bouncing bomb underneath.
0:33:38 > 0:33:43Oh, yes, yes, the bouncing bomb, and the wheels retract
0:33:43 > 0:33:48- and it flies, or it did, but I have to ground it because it's too valuable now.- You made it yourself?
0:33:48 > 0:33:50Yes, oh, yes, yes.
0:33:50 > 0:33:53How long did it take you to finish?
0:33:53 > 0:33:56Two years, four months.
0:33:56 > 0:33:582,900 hours.
0:33:58 > 0:34:03- Amazing.- Yes.- And why do you like Lancasters, what's your background?
0:34:03 > 0:34:08Oh, well, I worked for AV Roe in the war.
0:34:08 > 0:34:13- So you were actually an engineer? - Absolutely, yes.- So you were actually making these aircraft.
0:34:13 > 0:34:15- The real ones.- The real ones.
0:34:15 > 0:34:19I kept the manual for the Lancaster and I copied it and, of course...
0:34:19 > 0:34:23- Did the plans.- Did the plans, reduced them.- And you made all this by hand?
0:34:23 > 0:34:27Oh, yes, yes, it's the only one in the world,
0:34:27 > 0:34:33but the only reason why I made it was because, with me being retired, I was bored,
0:34:33 > 0:34:38but I did promise myself that one day I'd built a Lancaster, a proper one,
0:34:38 > 0:34:42- so this is the result.- And you also brought us along some flying gear.
0:34:42 > 0:34:46Oh, yes, now this flying jacket is different,
0:34:46 > 0:34:49it's not like the Irvine one, the British one.
0:34:49 > 0:34:53This is American. But this is British, isn't it, the goggles?
0:34:53 > 0:34:56Oh, yes, yes, well they did the full trip over Germany,
0:34:56 > 0:34:59they did 30 trips over Germany.
0:34:59 > 0:35:01- So you know the history behind who owned it?- Oh, yeah,...
0:35:01 > 0:35:06By brother-in-law was a pilot, with 44 Squadron in a Wellington.
0:35:06 > 0:35:10Let's talk about values. The goggles and the head gear...
0:35:10 > 0:35:13they turn up quite regularly at auction.
0:35:13 > 0:35:15- They do...- And therefore...
0:35:15 > 0:35:22They do but the helmet's usually anything from £100 to £170 just the helmet without the goggles.
0:35:22 > 0:35:29Now with the helmet and the goggles and the original mask, this is from 1940,
0:35:29 > 0:35:33- we're talking about £280. - You know my job.
0:35:33 > 0:35:38And what's the value, do you think, on the American jacket?
0:35:38 > 0:35:40Between £500 and £700.
0:35:40 > 0:35:42- You're pretty close. You know your values.- Yes.
0:35:42 > 0:35:47Because it's incredibly difficult to get them in this condition, and being American.
0:35:47 > 0:35:52Now the model, it took you 2,900 hours, did you say?
0:35:52 > 0:35:57And if you tried to commission somebody to make one of those today
0:35:57 > 0:35:59it would cost tens of thousands of pounds.
0:35:59 > 0:36:03It is a one-off, it is a unique model.
0:36:03 > 0:36:07- Yes.- All the gearing works, the navigational lamps work.- Yes, yes.
0:36:07 > 0:36:11It is the one that everybody remembers, the Dam Busters Lancaster.
0:36:11 > 0:36:15At auction, if it came up, I could see it easily making
0:36:15 > 0:36:20£10,000, £15,000, £20,000 but it's a unique piece. So, who knows?
0:36:20 > 0:36:25- Hopefully one day it'll end up in a museum, because that's exactly where it should be.- Oh, it will do.
0:36:25 > 0:36:30- Thank you so much, it's been a privilege to meet you, sir. - Yes, thank you, bye-bye.
0:36:36 > 0:36:42Well, two quite different pots, two different owners.
0:36:42 > 0:36:46I've decided to bring you together for this, because
0:36:46 > 0:36:50these pots, in a way, tell the same story because they have something very, very
0:36:50 > 0:36:53fundamental in common and, of course,
0:36:53 > 0:36:59that is they're both for funeral purposes, they're funerary jars.
0:36:59 > 0:37:01Yours is this one, tell me a bit of background.
0:37:01 > 0:37:04It's been in the family for quite a long time, it was in
0:37:04 > 0:37:07my husband's mother's side and her grandfather found it near Newark.
0:37:07 > 0:37:12- When you said "found it"... In the ground?- No idea.
0:37:12 > 0:37:17Right. How do you feel about owning someone's funerary urn? You're not spooked by it?
0:37:17 > 0:37:19I'm not spooked by it, no, no.
0:37:19 > 0:37:21- Some people would be.- No.
0:37:21 > 0:37:25I like old things and heritage and things like that
0:37:25 > 0:37:28and, you know, you feel proud to own something like that.
0:37:28 > 0:37:30And yours? This one here.
0:37:30 > 0:37:32Well, it was dug up in 1956 in Peru.
0:37:32 > 0:37:35Do you have any Peruvian personages?
0:37:35 > 0:37:38No, no, I'm into archaeology so...
0:37:38 > 0:37:42So we've got quite a stretch between these two pieces,
0:37:42 > 0:37:46some 6,000-7,000 miles between Lincolnshire and Peru.
0:37:46 > 0:37:52The thing they have in common is that they both contained human remains and I'm going to start with this, because
0:37:52 > 0:37:56here I think you have what is not merely decoration, but I think this
0:37:56 > 0:38:02is almost certainly a portrait of the person who went inside the pot.
0:38:02 > 0:38:06- Really?- It's pretty typical of Peruvian works of the Chimu Tribe
0:38:06 > 0:38:12and that would date it to sometime around the 14th-15th century, thereabouts,
0:38:12 > 0:38:16just at the time when Spain was making contact with the so-called
0:38:16 > 0:38:22New World, which was immensely old anyway, and I love the little
0:38:22 > 0:38:26hands sort of stretched up and the anatomical details on the pot.
0:38:26 > 0:38:29Well, let's put him back - or is it a him?
0:38:29 > 0:38:31- What do you think?- I don't know.
0:38:31 > 0:38:36I think, you know, looking at the details on the pot and looking at
0:38:36 > 0:38:42- these objects which were found in the pot, I think, I think it's almost certainly a female burial.- Mm.
0:38:42 > 0:38:47You've got two objects which, I have to admit, I don't know what they're for.
0:38:47 > 0:38:50Well, some sort of spinning.
0:38:50 > 0:38:54It looks as though it has something to do with spinning or thread.
0:38:54 > 0:38:58You've got two little pottery falls at the centre of each,
0:38:58 > 0:39:01but they are beautifully made, these tapered sticks.
0:39:01 > 0:39:04- Yes.- And in the dry atmosphere of Peru they have survived for
0:39:04 > 0:39:07what, 500 years without any mal effects.
0:39:09 > 0:39:13But this is older than the Peruvian pot, this is Anglo-Saxon,
0:39:13 > 0:39:19so we're now going back to somewhere around what, 500, 600, 700AD, thereabouts.
0:39:19 > 0:39:27I love this because I have seen people in New Guinea to this day, making pots like this.
0:39:27 > 0:39:30This pot has been made by using a coiling method.
0:39:30 > 0:39:34You take sausages of clay and you add them onto a disc
0:39:34 > 0:39:38and as you grow the disc, the disc grows in your hand
0:39:38 > 0:39:42and, using your thumb and forefinger, you squeeze the sausages
0:39:42 > 0:39:45and gradually these sausages work themselves into
0:39:45 > 0:39:53a very tight wall, the wall builds up and eventually it almost automatically encloses on itself.
0:39:53 > 0:39:57This object, the shape that it is, has been determined by the human hand
0:39:57 > 0:40:03and it's something that has been going on for thousands and thousands of years.
0:40:03 > 0:40:09Well, to the uninterested eye, those are just two rather rough-and-ready little pots,
0:40:09 > 0:40:15but these were of immense significance to the societies that produced them, and without ceramics,
0:40:15 > 0:40:20we would know very little about the huge area of humanity.
0:40:20 > 0:40:25We know so much about our pre-history because of ceramics,
0:40:25 > 0:40:28- so you can't put a value on them.- No.
0:40:28 > 0:40:30But I'm going to.
0:40:30 > 0:40:36- I think that the value of these is somewhere in the region of £1,000 each.- Really?
0:40:40 > 0:40:43Well, this is a tiny little ring. Where did you find it?
0:40:43 > 0:40:49I was digging in the back garden trying to remove a root of a cherry tree that had died,
0:40:49 > 0:40:56- and I dug down and I noticed this yellow thing, thought "ha it's not rusted, it's gold".- Yes, very good.
0:40:56 > 0:41:01And I dug it up, cleaned it up under the tap and I noticed
0:41:01 > 0:41:05that there was an inscription on the inside which said "keep promise"
0:41:05 > 0:41:09but keep promise not as we would write but "kepe"
0:41:09 > 0:41:15so I looked for the spelling, in that spelling on the internet to see whether it was a family motto.
0:41:15 > 0:41:18Mm, that's a good one, that's very good.
0:41:18 > 0:41:24Looked on the internet and it only came up in that term in some 16th century solider in Holland
0:41:24 > 0:41:27writing back to somebody in England and uses the term "kepe promise".
0:41:27 > 0:41:31- So I thought, oh, is it 16th century, ah, you know.- Mm.
0:41:31 > 0:41:33But beyond that, that's as far as I went.
0:41:33 > 0:41:37Well, I think you're on the right track, to be perfectly honest.
0:41:37 > 0:41:43This is a posy ring, and posy is a corruption of "poetry" and they're very short, almost poems.
0:41:43 > 0:41:46This is only two words and they vary enormously in their intensity,
0:41:46 > 0:41:50some are very full-on messages of love and some are more formal.
0:41:50 > 0:41:53This is actually a little bit more formal, it says "kepe promise"
0:41:53 > 0:41:57and I think 'kepe promise' is a sort of vow in marriage.
0:41:57 > 0:42:03I'm pretty confident that this is a wedding ring for a very tiny little girl, frankly,
0:42:03 > 0:42:06I mean a tiny little woman.
0:42:06 > 0:42:10She seems to have got the tiniest circumference to her finger
0:42:10 > 0:42:15but, of course, our ancestors were a great deal smaller than us, their diet was really rather poor
0:42:15 > 0:42:20and they simply didn't grow in the way that we grow today and so it sort of fitted her.
0:42:20 > 0:42:26Quite a high-status gold ring decorated with enamel, black and white enamel,
0:42:26 > 0:42:31and black and white decoration is very very much a part of Elizabethan and Jacobean decoration.
0:42:31 > 0:42:36This thing is actually exactly contemporary with William Shakespeare, it's a marvellous thing
0:42:36 > 0:42:41- and I'm very enviable, I might add, because actually digging out gold from the roots of trees...- Yes.
0:42:41 > 0:42:46..is almost something too marvellous to happen in one's lifetime
0:42:46 > 0:42:48and it's sort of transporting for everybody.
0:42:48 > 0:42:52And these things are very widely collected, so how to value it?
0:42:52 > 0:42:58I think it's very cheap at £1,250.
0:43:08 > 0:43:10Things like that happen to other people.
0:43:10 > 0:43:13No, they don't, they happen to you, mate, and not to me!
0:43:13 > 0:43:15I'm very envious, I dream of finding things like that.
0:43:15 > 0:43:22- This is pulse-makingly exciting stuff and I love it, and thank you for bringing it.- Thank you.
0:43:22 > 0:43:24Thank you.
0:43:24 > 0:43:27Got you all emotional now, hasn't it?
0:43:30 > 0:43:33Well, another successful mission for the Roadshow.
0:43:33 > 0:43:38Many thanks to the crew who run East Kirkby airfield for their help and enthusiasm
0:43:38 > 0:43:40and to everyone who joined us for the day.
0:43:40 > 0:43:43And now from the big skies of Lincolnshire, goodbye.