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0:00:03 > 0:00:07For the last six months, our trusty truck has scoured the country,

0:00:07 > 0:00:11from the Highlands of Scotland to the south coast of Devon.

0:00:11 > 0:00:15And now we've reached journey's end for this series, and frankly,

0:00:15 > 0:00:17it's time for a well-earned rest.

0:00:17 > 0:00:21But not before we take stock of what's been another memorable year

0:00:21 > 0:00:23for the Antiques Roadshow.

0:00:27 > 0:00:29CHIRPING

0:01:08 > 0:01:10Our team of experts have been busy this season.

0:01:10 > 0:01:12Over the last six months, they've

0:01:12 > 0:01:16met over 30,000 visitors, all eager to share their treasures with us.

0:01:16 > 0:01:20When an object, a treasured antique, is valued on the programme,

0:01:20 > 0:01:22we're often asked, what happened next?

0:01:22 > 0:01:26When the cameras have stopped rolling, did the owner keep it,

0:01:26 > 0:01:28did they sell it? Where did it end up?

0:01:28 > 0:01:31Oh, my gosh. Oh!

0:01:31 > 0:01:33Are you joking?!

0:01:33 > 0:01:36Tonight is your chance to see the most talked-about finds screened

0:01:36 > 0:01:38across this series, and to discover

0:01:38 > 0:01:40what happened after their starring role.

0:01:40 > 0:01:44And here we have possibly the most exciting dolls

0:01:44 > 0:01:46which have ever come on to the Roadshow.

0:01:46 > 0:01:52And what about those rare and precious antiques that our experts most wanted to find?

0:01:52 > 0:01:56Well, a lady has come along today who thinks she might just have found one.

0:01:58 > 0:02:01We begin this special look back in Devon.

0:02:01 > 0:02:07Our visit to the Britannia Naval College started with a lucky find for ceramics specialist John Axford.

0:02:07 > 0:02:09It was an even luckier moment for David, who'd brought

0:02:09 > 0:02:13this delicate vase in, as he'd dropped it just before meeting John!

0:02:13 > 0:02:17It's a nice little glass vase - where did you get it?

0:02:17 > 0:02:18It belongs to a friend of mine.

0:02:18 > 0:02:20Ah. Why didn't he come?

0:02:20 > 0:02:22I'm down here on holiday.

0:02:22 > 0:02:24So, you go on holiday with your friends' vases?

0:02:24 > 0:02:26Yes, see whether I can get rid of them!

0:02:27 > 0:02:31He knows I like the show so he said, "Why don't you take something down?" I said, "I've got nothing."

0:02:31 > 0:02:34He said, "Take this down."

0:02:34 > 0:02:35Fabulous, it's very pretty.

0:02:35 > 0:02:38It's glass, overlaid glass - a white base and red glass on top of it.

0:02:38 > 0:02:42It's got all sorts of things on it - a little bat here,

0:02:42 > 0:02:46we've got a little twin fish symbol here,

0:02:46 > 0:02:50rockwork, pine trees, prunus, it's got it all going on.

0:02:50 > 0:02:53On the base, we've got a little mark on the bottom,

0:02:53 > 0:03:00a four-character mark, it's a Chinese mark, the mark of one of the Chinese emperors. Oh, is it?

0:03:00 > 0:03:02He thought it was Japanese. No, it's a Chinese vase.

0:03:02 > 0:03:06It says Qianlong, and he reigned for most of the 18th century,

0:03:06 > 0:03:11from 1736-1795. The problem is, you can have a perfectly good

0:03:11 > 0:03:1518th-century vase and an unscrupulous person will mark it.

0:03:15 > 0:03:17Right. It's lovely quality.

0:03:17 > 0:03:22The base is like jasper. And the mark is done really well.

0:03:22 > 0:03:26I have no reason to believe this is not a perfectly genuine

0:03:26 > 0:03:2918th-century Chinese glass vase, a really nice thing. Lovely.

0:03:29 > 0:03:32It's worth a fair bit.

0:03:32 > 0:03:34Is it? ?3,000 or ?4,000.

0:03:35 > 0:03:37Is it?!

0:03:37 > 0:03:40It's a damn good thing. Don't say it.

0:03:40 > 0:03:43It's a damn good thing it didn't break when you dropped it earlier!

0:03:43 > 0:03:44I know.

0:03:44 > 0:03:46GASPING

0:03:46 > 0:03:47That's why I gave up cricket.

0:03:53 > 0:03:57John, that was a great way to kick off our day at Dartmouth, and then it had an even happier ending.

0:03:57 > 0:04:01Yes, they took the vase, very pretty vase, up to auction

0:04:01 > 0:04:04and they put it under the hammer. And it went for...?

0:04:04 > 0:04:07It went for ?30,000, so I expect they were pleased.

0:04:07 > 0:04:12And you valued it at ?3,000 or ?4,000?! Yes. So, what happened?

0:04:12 > 0:04:16Well, the Chinese market for imperial goods has rocketed. It's sizzling hot.

0:04:16 > 0:04:19Things have gone up 50-fold in five years,

0:04:19 > 0:04:23and no-one can keep pace on where things are going to go.

0:04:23 > 0:04:43Two weeks ago in New York, a vase made 22,000 times its estimate.

0:04:43 > 0:04:51we'll tell you after this special look back at the year.

0:04:51 > 0:04:58It was in the small Yorkshire village of Saltaire

0:04:58 > 0:05:09After 33 years on the Roadshow, his patience finally paid off with this almost 1,000-year-old bronze.

0:05:09 > 0:05:11for all the hard work I'd done over the years.

0:05:11 > 0:05:16Brilliant. So he gave me this, the one thing I admired.

0:05:16 > 0:05:19He got it from an auction house in Bradford,

0:05:19 > 0:05:21and it was being used as a doorstop.

0:05:21 > 0:05:24At the end of the auction, he'd seen the vase,

0:05:24 > 0:05:26and I don't know what he gave for it,

0:05:26 > 0:05:28but he made a bid and came home with it.

0:05:28 > 0:05:32How fascinating, that's wonderful. Do you like it?

0:05:32 > 0:05:34I love it, it's my favourite piece.

0:05:34 > 0:05:36Where do you think it comes from?

0:05:36 > 0:05:41Myself, I would say Chinese, but I'm not 100%.

0:05:41 > 0:05:45My grandad did mention Chinese, he had tried to look it up.

0:05:45 > 0:05:46It is Chinese.

0:05:46 > 0:05:48What age do you think it might be?

0:05:48 > 0:05:51I don't know, 200 years old, would it?

0:05:51 > 0:05:54It is undoubtedly

0:05:54 > 0:06:00the oldest bronze we've ever had on the Roadshow. Seriously? Yes.

0:06:00 > 0:06:04The question is exactly when this dates from.

0:06:06 > 0:06:10I think with these cords on here,

0:06:10 > 0:06:15we're beginning to look as if it might be Yuan Dynasty,

0:06:15 > 0:06:17which followed the Song,

0:06:17 > 0:06:23and that ran from 1279 to 1368.

0:06:24 > 0:06:26I think that's when it dates from. Right, yeah.

0:06:26 > 0:06:32We've got here cast in these squiggles,

0:06:32 > 0:06:37which are actually based on chilong, which are sea dragons.

0:06:37 > 0:06:41Right. And then that's been infilled

0:06:41 > 0:06:43with key fret.

0:06:44 > 0:06:47And it's beautifully done.

0:06:47 > 0:06:52And then, on the side, you've got these

0:06:52 > 0:06:53dragon handles.

0:06:56 > 0:06:57It's got

0:06:57 > 0:06:59condition problems.

0:06:59 > 0:07:01It was at some time buried.

0:07:01 > 0:07:05Right, yeah. I think this verdigris on here, which some

0:07:05 > 0:07:08naughty person has had a go at cleaning, I notice.

0:07:08 > 0:07:09No more, thank you.

0:07:09 > 0:07:13No, no, I've never cleaned it. I don't know if my grandad ever did.

0:07:13 > 0:07:16Right. I think this fairly definitely indicates that

0:07:16 > 0:07:18this was a burial gourd.

0:07:18 > 0:07:22One of the handles looks as if it might come off at any minute.

0:07:22 > 0:07:24Yes, it's a bit...

0:07:24 > 0:07:27The foot has come off and been put back.

0:07:27 > 0:07:30But we're looking at something which is

0:07:30 > 0:07:33pushing 1,000 years old, you know.

0:07:33 > 0:07:38If this were in a smart dealer's catalogue in London...

0:07:38 > 0:07:40Yeah.

0:07:40 > 0:07:45..I could see it having a price tag of somewhere between

0:07:45 > 0:07:47?10,000 and ?15,000.

0:07:47 > 0:07:50Seriously? Seriously?

0:07:50 > 0:07:53Yay!

0:07:53 > 0:07:56That's really unbelievable, to be honest. Thank you, Grandpa!

0:07:56 > 0:07:58Thank you very much, yeah!

0:07:58 > 0:08:01Owner Matthew tells us he's still coming to terms

0:08:01 > 0:08:04with that valuation, but has recently decided

0:08:04 > 0:08:07to sell the bronze and have a big family holiday.

0:08:09 > 0:08:13It was another record-breaking day at Swindon's Steam Rail Museum.

0:08:13 > 0:08:19There, Fergus Gambon, a doll enthusiast from childhood days, made this remarkable find.

0:08:19 > 0:08:21I brought Aunt Mary Ann to visit you.

0:08:21 > 0:08:24You brought Aunt Mary Ann to visit me?

0:08:25 > 0:08:29Rather alarmingly, I see some loose limbs here. Yes.

0:08:29 > 0:08:33They're here, but they're separate. Let's get the whole thing out...

0:08:33 > 0:08:34Those are the legs.

0:08:34 > 0:08:36..and see what we've actually got.

0:08:38 > 0:08:43The more I look, actually, the more astounded I'm becoming.

0:08:43 > 0:08:46That's great, let's lie her down.

0:08:46 > 0:08:48Did you play with this as a child?

0:08:48 > 0:08:50No, no, no. No?

0:08:50 > 0:08:55She was handed on to me about eight years ago by my 98-year-old aunt,

0:08:55 > 0:08:59who's known her all her life.

0:08:59 > 0:09:02It was my granny's and my great-granny's before that.

0:09:02 > 0:09:05So she's lodged with the family for many generations.

0:09:05 > 0:09:09For a long time, yes. I've always had an interest in dolls of this type.

0:09:09 > 0:09:11She's very elegant. She's very elegant.

0:09:11 > 0:09:14She's carved from a single piece of wood.

0:09:14 > 0:09:18And her torso is shaped to show off the fashion that she's wearing.

0:09:18 > 0:09:22Do you know anything about 18th-century English fashion?

0:09:22 > 0:09:24This is a sack, isn't it?

0:09:24 > 0:09:27Oh, clever, yes, indeed, exactly.

0:09:27 > 0:09:30A sack-back dress. When we turn her round...

0:09:30 > 0:09:34You can actually see the colour, because she's been lying on that.

0:09:34 > 0:09:37Look at the brilliance of that colour.

0:09:37 > 0:09:40While we've got her his way, we can see how her hair was made -

0:09:40 > 0:09:45real hair woven onto little ribbons and tied around.

0:09:45 > 0:09:48These are all seriously early features...

0:09:48 > 0:09:53Oh, right. ..and get doll people very excited indeed.

0:09:53 > 0:09:55And for me, the incredibly exciting

0:09:55 > 0:09:58and wonderful thing about this doll...

0:10:00 > 0:10:06..is that using her dress, her costume, as an aid to dating,

0:10:06 > 0:10:08and looking at the way she's made... Right.

0:10:08 > 0:10:12..I think she dates from about 1740.

0:10:12 > 0:10:151740?! 1740.

0:10:15 > 0:10:16Crumbs!

0:10:16 > 0:10:21She is a seriously early English doll. And as such,

0:10:21 > 0:10:24she's quite a major discovery.

0:10:25 > 0:10:27You can imagine on the Roadshow,

0:10:27 > 0:10:30dolls are coming in here in vast numbers.

0:10:30 > 0:10:35And here, we have possibly the most exciting doll that's ever come on

0:10:35 > 0:10:40to the Roadshow. A real, real significant find.

0:10:40 > 0:10:43I don't think the condition is an issue, as regards the value.

0:10:43 > 0:10:47Right. There have been a number of dolls of this importance on

0:10:47 > 0:10:52the markets in the last few years, both in London and

0:10:52 > 0:10:54one, in fact, in Las Vegas.

0:10:54 > 0:11:00And based on the price of those dolls, I have a fairly accurate idea

0:11:00 > 0:11:04of what I think she would make in a saleroom. Right...

0:11:04 > 0:11:07And that figure is...

0:11:07 > 0:11:09?20,000.

0:11:11 > 0:11:13Oh, no!

0:11:13 > 0:11:15I don't want that responsibility!

0:11:20 > 0:11:22Sue is definitely not selling her doll,

0:11:22 > 0:11:25and Aunt Mary Ann went straight to specialist

0:11:25 > 0:11:28conservationists after her trip to the Roadshow, and is looking

0:11:28 > 0:11:33resplendent today, complete with a new nose and restored clothing.

0:11:34 > 0:11:38Not bad for a toy first played with in the reign of George II!

0:11:38 > 0:11:41I reckoned she was special. I didn't know she was that special.

0:11:41 > 0:11:43She is a real Roadshow discovery.

0:11:43 > 0:11:45Oh, fantastic.

0:11:45 > 0:11:48Over the years, our experts have seen lots of buried treasures,

0:11:48 > 0:11:51objects literally dug up out of the ground.

0:11:51 > 0:11:55This year, we managed to unearth our oldest piece of treasure trove.

0:11:55 > 0:11:58It fell to veteran expert Henry Sandon at Chatsworth.

0:11:58 > 0:12:01It's incredible to come here to Chatsworth

0:12:01 > 0:12:06and find the earliest piece we've had on the programme

0:12:06 > 0:12:08here on this table before us -

0:12:08 > 0:12:11an Ancient Egyptian head.

0:12:11 > 0:12:15I suppose it's about Middle Kingdom, which is...

0:12:15 > 0:12:18Yes, 1700 to 1750 BC.

0:12:18 > 0:12:20Over 3,700 years old.

0:12:20 > 0:12:223,700 years old!

0:12:22 > 0:12:24That's older than me!

0:12:24 > 0:12:27It's not looking in such bad condition, all things considered.

0:12:27 > 0:12:29How did you come by it?

0:12:29 > 0:12:33I dug it up out of a back garden in Derby.

0:12:33 > 0:12:36In your own back garden? Yes, doing some gardening,

0:12:36 > 0:12:38and I hit it with a spade.

0:12:38 > 0:12:41Hopefully I didn't do too much damage to it, but I hit it with a spade.

0:12:41 > 0:12:45So presumably, someone had used it as a garden ornament

0:12:45 > 0:12:47or rockery or something like that?

0:12:47 > 0:12:49Yes, something along those lines, in the past.

0:12:49 > 0:12:53But it's incredible to discover it!

0:12:53 > 0:12:57I suppose, I mean, you ought to have this investigated in

0:12:57 > 0:13:00perhaps the British Museum or something like that.

0:13:00 > 0:13:03I did take it down to them 12, 18 months back,

0:13:03 > 0:13:05for them to take a look at.

0:13:05 > 0:13:09Initially, when I sent them the e-mails and the pictures, they

0:13:09 > 0:13:13arranged for me to go down, but they said, in all honesty, we're expecting

0:13:13 > 0:13:18it to be a fake. Possibly an early fake, Roman, but a fake nonetheless.

0:13:18 > 0:13:20I opened it up there and I think the guy's jaw dropped,

0:13:20 > 0:13:24and before I knew it, I had the whole department arranged around the table

0:13:24 > 0:13:25having a look at it.

0:13:25 > 0:13:28They were like, "Yes, actually, it's genuine."

0:13:28 > 0:13:34Incredible. 4,000 years ancient and found in Derby!

0:13:34 > 0:13:37It goes back before the city of Derby started!

0:13:37 > 0:13:40It does. Isn't that incredible?

0:13:40 > 0:13:43I suppose one's got to think of a value.

0:13:43 > 0:13:46?10,000 upwards or something like that?

0:13:46 > 0:13:51I mean, it's a major thing, it really is a fantastic object.

0:13:53 > 0:13:55I think I'm speechless.

0:13:55 > 0:13:57For the first time ever!

0:14:00 > 0:14:01Now he's able to talk again,

0:14:01 > 0:14:04Andrew tells us he's definitely keeping his Egyptian head -

0:14:04 > 0:14:08as he told us, it's a one-off, so why sell it?

0:14:13 > 0:14:15More buried gems came our way

0:14:15 > 0:14:19when jewellery specialist Geoffrey Munn found not one but two

0:14:19 > 0:14:22medieval rings this past series. The first came

0:14:22 > 0:14:26as a complete revelation to its owner at Beverley Minster.

0:14:26 > 0:14:30Why on earth did you bring me this ring to the Antiques Roadshow?

0:14:30 > 0:14:32Curiosity, basically.

0:14:32 > 0:14:36And what sparked that curiosity? Was there anything about it?

0:14:36 > 0:14:38Well, the setting, for one thing.

0:14:38 > 0:14:39The size of the ring -

0:14:39 > 0:14:43because my mother had large fingers and it didn't fit.

0:14:43 > 0:14:46I've never seen the ring on her hands, ever.

0:14:46 > 0:14:50I've never found any marks on it, so I'm curious.

0:14:50 > 0:14:54It was in a pioneer matchbox, wrapped up with cotton wool, so,

0:14:54 > 0:14:57is it there for sentimental reasons?

0:14:57 > 0:14:58If so, why?

0:14:58 > 0:15:00I'm baffled.

0:15:00 > 0:15:03Well, I'm a bit baffled too,

0:15:03 > 0:15:07I'm terribly grateful in a way that she didn't wear it, because,

0:15:07 > 0:15:09would it surprise you to know that this ring

0:15:09 > 0:15:12was exactly the same age as Beverley Minster?

0:15:12 > 0:15:15It is at least 600 years old.

0:15:15 > 0:15:17Good grief.

0:15:17 > 0:15:22And what we can tell about it is that some stage or another,

0:15:22 > 0:15:26I've looked at it enormously carefully with my lens,

0:15:26 > 0:15:29and there are tiny, tiny traces of earth

0:15:29 > 0:15:31under the setting and beyond it.

0:15:31 > 0:15:33So it is an excavated object, without any doubt at all.

0:15:33 > 0:15:36I'm farming stock, my grandparents were farming stock,

0:15:36 > 0:15:41so, one of them has maybe picked it up. Found it in a field. Yep.

0:15:41 > 0:15:42It is the most marvellous object.

0:15:42 > 0:15:47It hums with all the magic of medieval England.

0:15:47 > 0:15:52It's a 15th-century ring, at very least, and it's very charming too,

0:15:52 > 0:15:55because it's an illusion that it's made of two bands.

0:15:55 > 0:15:58One is matt and the other faintly polished.

0:15:58 > 0:16:01Those are undoubtedly emblematic of two lives drawn together,

0:16:01 > 0:16:03if you like, by the stone in the middle.

0:16:03 > 0:16:07And this is a love ring, and it's rather touching, really.

0:16:07 > 0:16:12We can say with every confidence that it was lost at some stage or another.

0:16:12 > 0:16:16What we know about it is that it was a reasonably high-status owner,

0:16:16 > 0:16:18because it's made of pure gold.

0:16:18 > 0:16:20Most people didn't have access to pure gold.

0:16:20 > 0:16:23And fewer people would have access to a sapphire,

0:16:23 > 0:16:26which is rather crudely cut, in a way. It's not quite a cabochon,

0:16:26 > 0:16:29but it's simply lapped in a simple way.

0:16:29 > 0:16:32This is not only an enormously interesting object,

0:16:32 > 0:16:34but an intensely valuable one.

0:16:37 > 0:16:41There was a ring sold at an auction room in London which was almost

0:16:41 > 0:16:44identical in design, set with a tiny diamond,

0:16:44 > 0:16:48and it fetched ?20,000.

0:16:52 > 0:16:54Are you joking?!

0:17:00 > 0:17:02What the heck do I do with it now?

0:17:02 > 0:17:04No idea. I'd keep it if it were mine.

0:17:04 > 0:17:07Owner Paul is doing just that,

0:17:07 > 0:17:09this time not in a matchbox, but in a safe.

0:17:12 > 0:17:15But the second ring Geoffrey saw had a different destiny.

0:17:15 > 0:17:20This time it came to light at Swindon after our next guest had unearthed it on nearby farmland.

0:17:22 > 0:17:26Well, I was out detecting with three friends in a field one evening.

0:17:26 > 0:17:30It was just getting to dusk, and we said, "Come on, time to go home,"

0:17:30 > 0:17:32so they switched off their metal detectors,

0:17:32 > 0:17:33popped them on their shoulders.

0:17:33 > 0:17:36I just carried on walking to the car, got a bleep

0:17:36 > 0:17:40with the metal detector, dug it up, and it was quite dark by that time,

0:17:40 > 0:17:43and one of them said, "It looks like a bit of gold paper."

0:17:43 > 0:17:45I pulled it out and said, "Blimey."

0:17:45 > 0:17:49We didn't quite realise how old it was until we got it under the light.

0:17:49 > 0:17:53And then the pulse was quickening - how long was it before you realised

0:17:53 > 0:17:54that it was something really ancient?

0:17:54 > 0:17:58I looked through a few books and realised that it's probably medieval.

0:17:58 > 0:18:02The next stage then is to hand it in under the Treasure Act.

0:18:02 > 0:18:06Under the Treasure Act, when something's made of precious metal and it's over 300 years old,

0:18:06 > 0:18:09you have to submit it to your finds officer at the museum, don't you?

0:18:09 > 0:18:13Yes. And I should think the finds officer was pretty overwhelmed, wasn't he or she?

0:18:13 > 0:18:15Oh, yeah, absolutely, she'd never seen a ring like that.

0:18:15 > 0:18:18Neither have I, and my pulse has quickened,

0:18:18 > 0:18:20and I wasn't even there on that dark, dusky night.

0:18:20 > 0:18:22It's set with a natural diamond crystal, isn't it?

0:18:22 > 0:18:27It is, yes. It's a cubic diamond, cubic crystal of diamond,

0:18:27 > 0:18:29it's not actually been cut.

0:18:29 > 0:18:31In a way, that's a pointer to its age,

0:18:31 > 0:18:33because diamond cutting

0:18:33 > 0:18:36is a later sophistication than you would expect in a ring like this,

0:18:36 > 0:18:40which is mid to late 15th century, isn't it? Yep.

0:18:40 > 0:18:42It's a love ring. Around the shank is an inscription

0:18:42 > 0:18:45once inlaid with black enamel.

0:18:45 > 0:18:47You've almost memorised that, haven't you?

0:18:47 > 0:18:49Amour mi tien.

0:18:49 > 0:18:52It means "love hold me".

0:18:52 > 0:18:53Love keep me.

0:18:53 > 0:18:56And at the back is a true lovers' knot.

0:18:56 > 0:18:59The more it's pulled, the tighter it becomes.

0:18:59 > 0:19:03So this is a fantastic emblem of a medieval love affair

0:19:03 > 0:19:05that we can only guess at.

0:19:05 > 0:19:08I'm sick with envy, I wish a moment like that had happened to me.

0:19:08 > 0:19:12Without a shadow of doubt, if this was sold

0:19:12 > 0:19:14under the right circumstances,

0:19:14 > 0:19:16that it could come near to, well,

0:19:16 > 0:19:18?40,000.

0:19:19 > 0:19:20Oh! Blimey!

0:19:22 > 0:19:25Can't believe that. 40,000?!

0:19:25 > 0:19:29And true to Geoffrey's word, that ring went on to sell recently

0:19:29 > 0:19:34for ?42,000, and the proceeds were split with the owner of the land.

0:19:34 > 0:19:37Jonathan, who brought it into the Roadshow, tells us he's using

0:19:37 > 0:19:40his share to pay for a new bathroom and much-needed car repairs.

0:19:41 > 0:19:44But how does that saying go?

0:19:44 > 0:19:46All that glisters is not gold?

0:19:47 > 0:19:51So, what have you brought me? My pot of gold. Your pot of gold. Yes.

0:19:51 > 0:19:52Wow! Tell me,

0:19:52 > 0:19:54what is this pot of gold, where did you get it from?

0:19:54 > 0:19:56It was my grandfather's,

0:19:56 > 0:19:58and he died in 1924,

0:19:58 > 0:20:03and he had a carousel all his life, you know...

0:20:03 > 0:20:05The funfair? The funfair one, yes.

0:20:05 > 0:20:10And this is what he used to paint the horses with and

0:20:10 > 0:20:13things like that. Fantastic.

0:20:13 > 0:20:15It's pure gold, 24-carat gold.

0:20:15 > 0:20:16Is it? Yes.

0:20:16 > 0:20:19Can I open the top and have a little look inside?

0:20:19 > 0:20:23Yes, certainly. I've never had a pot of gold before.

0:20:23 > 0:20:26No rainbow today. No, we need a rainbow, we do!

0:20:26 > 0:20:30Wow, look at that, that's unbelievable. And it's powder.

0:20:30 > 0:20:32It's like gold dust, yes.

0:20:32 > 0:20:34Exactly.

0:20:34 > 0:20:36That is incredible.

0:20:36 > 0:20:39I don't think I've ever seen anything like it.

0:20:39 > 0:20:41It has a smell about it, doesn't it?

0:20:41 > 0:20:43Money does, doesn't it?! Always!

0:20:46 > 0:20:50Well, we would have to test it to make sure,

0:20:50 > 0:20:56but yes, you are talking about 22-carat, up to 24-carat gold.

0:20:56 > 0:20:59I would say this is going to be roughly around about

0:20:59 > 0:21:01?7,000 to ?9,000.

0:21:04 > 0:21:08That is a fantastic find at the end of your rainbow.

0:21:08 > 0:21:11My goodness. I shall go on holiday!

0:21:14 > 0:21:16Sadly, when they came to test the pot,

0:21:16 > 0:21:18it turned out to be flaked paint.

0:21:19 > 0:21:20Sorry, Agnes.

0:21:20 > 0:21:22Looks like your holiday is on hold.

0:21:24 > 0:21:28And another visitor to the Roadshow didn't get the happiest of outcomes either.

0:21:28 > 0:21:32It was bought off the internet about six to eight weeks ago

0:21:32 > 0:21:35by my brother, who is on holiday at the moment,

0:21:35 > 0:21:39and I offered to bring it along for a valuation.

0:21:39 > 0:21:40And what did he pay?

0:21:40 > 0:21:43I think he paid ?700 for the owl.

0:21:43 > 0:21:46And what was it described as when he went to bid for it?

0:21:46 > 0:21:50It was described as a Martinware tobacco jar.

0:21:50 > 0:21:54Well, the Martin brothers are really quite a serious name in

0:21:54 > 0:21:57the decorative arts market, especially nowadays.

0:21:57 > 0:22:01They're a trio of brothers that came to some great prominence at the end

0:22:01 > 0:22:05of the 19th century, predominantly through the manufacture

0:22:05 > 0:22:07of grotesque wares, grotesque birds.

0:22:07 > 0:22:12In fact, their most popular range, the things most people see them for,

0:22:12 > 0:22:14and deemed to be most iconic for,

0:22:14 > 0:22:17are what we call the Wally Birds. They produced them in great

0:22:17 > 0:22:23quantities from the 1880s through to the end of the century.

0:22:23 > 0:22:26As a result, they are incredibly sought-after.

0:22:26 > 0:22:31A bird of this size would probably realise somewhere in the region

0:22:31 > 0:22:36of ?20,000 to ?25,000. Really?

0:22:36 > 0:22:37If it were right.

0:22:37 > 0:22:39Right...

0:22:39 > 0:22:43And that is unfortunately where I've got to be the bearer of bad tidings.

0:22:43 > 0:22:46OK. He is good.

0:22:46 > 0:22:50He is in fact incredibly good, and that is the problem at the moment.

0:22:50 > 0:22:56The market has become so strong, and so boisterous, that there are some

0:22:56 > 0:23:00very, very clever people out there doing some very, very clever work.

0:23:00 > 0:23:04And I have to say that unfortunately, he is -

0:23:04 > 0:23:07we've got to use the right word - he's a fake. He's a fake.

0:23:08 > 0:23:10But all's well that ends well,

0:23:10 > 0:23:13as David revealed when he came back recently.

0:23:15 > 0:23:18So, once you'd found out from Will Farmer

0:23:18 > 0:23:20that it was a fake, what did you do?

0:23:20 > 0:23:23I was advised by Will

0:23:23 > 0:23:26that he would verify it for me, that I should look to try

0:23:26 > 0:23:29and get my money back. Because the Roadshow said they would

0:23:29 > 0:23:32verify it for me, I sent them a nice little e-mail,

0:23:32 > 0:23:35mentioning the fact that it had been on the Roadshow,

0:23:35 > 0:23:40and they, without hesitation, really, gave me a full refund.

0:23:40 > 0:23:42And how much did you buy it for?

0:23:42 > 0:23:44Initially, ?700.

0:23:44 > 0:23:46So it was worth getting the refund!

0:23:46 > 0:23:48Certainly was, definitely.

0:23:48 > 0:23:51I'm very pleased with the outcome, and it was thanks to the Roadshow

0:23:51 > 0:23:54and Will Farmer as well, his intervention,

0:23:54 > 0:23:57that I was able to get the refund quite quickly.

0:23:57 > 0:24:00I was disappointed on the day, because I was hoping

0:24:00 > 0:24:03that it was the real thing. Just unfortunate that I bought a fake.

0:24:03 > 0:24:05I'm glad you got your money back. Yeah, so am I.

0:24:13 > 0:24:16Our look back on this year's most talked-about finds takes us

0:24:16 > 0:24:18back to the splendid backdrop of Beverley Minster.

0:24:18 > 0:24:21This memorable encounter for expert Graham Lay

0:24:21 > 0:24:25didn't begin too promisingly.

0:24:25 > 0:24:31This looks like two members of the Women's Land Army. Is that true? No.

0:24:31 > 0:24:34No. Oh, have I offended you somehow?

0:24:34 > 0:24:37Yes. Why is that? They look like Women's Land Army.

0:24:38 > 0:24:40We aren't Women's Land Army.

0:24:40 > 0:24:44Well, what were you, then? The Women's Timber Corps.

0:24:44 > 0:24:47Women's Timber Corps? Yes. So this is you, is it?

0:24:47 > 0:24:50Yes, it is. That's me.

0:24:50 > 0:24:54Now, I know a little bit about that, but many people

0:24:54 > 0:24:56will never have heard of the Women's Timber Corps.

0:24:56 > 0:24:59So, you were a member of the Women's Timber Corps when?

0:24:59 > 0:25:011942.

0:25:01 > 0:25:04At 17 and a half.

0:25:05 > 0:25:08We finished in 1945.

0:25:08 > 0:25:10And what did you have to do?

0:25:10 > 0:25:12What was the purpose of the Women's Timber Corps?

0:25:12 > 0:25:18The purpose of the Women's Timber Corps was first of all to get the men

0:25:18 > 0:25:21from felling the trees into the forces.

0:25:21 > 0:25:23So, we had to learn how to fell a tree.

0:25:23 > 0:25:27Then, we were taught how to measure

0:25:27 > 0:25:29for pit props and telegraph poles.

0:25:29 > 0:25:32That's what you were cutting the trees down for? Yes.

0:25:32 > 0:25:39That's a very valuable service, making pit props in particular for the mining of coal during the war.

0:25:39 > 0:25:42So, you were a lumberjack, were you? No.

0:25:42 > 0:25:45Lumber Jill. Lumber Jill!

0:25:45 > 0:25:46Is that what you were called?!

0:25:46 > 0:25:49Yes. How bizarre, that's quite strange, isn't it?

0:25:56 > 0:26:01Wonderful time. Wonderful time, really, wonderful friends.

0:26:02 > 0:26:04And then we lost...

0:26:08 > 0:26:11We lost our families, you know, brothers...

0:26:12 > 0:26:14..in the war.

0:26:14 > 0:26:16Dreadful, really.

0:26:16 > 0:26:21But we were, we were all good friends and we worked very hard.

0:26:22 > 0:26:26I wouldn't have missed it for the world, but I didn't know what I was going to do.

0:26:26 > 0:26:28You did your bit.

0:26:28 > 0:26:32Oh, most definitely. You did your bit, and I'm very proud of you.

0:26:32 > 0:26:34Thank you very much. Thank you.

0:26:39 > 0:26:42Perhaps the most moving story this series was told to

0:26:42 > 0:26:46jewellery specialist Joe Hardy at Tatton Park in Cheshire.

0:26:48 > 0:26:53This is my aunt, my late father's sister and her eldest daughter.

0:26:53 > 0:26:55And this is where? This is in Venice,

0:26:55 > 0:27:00taken in about 1935, I think. And this is

0:27:00 > 0:27:03one of the daughters again with her sister,

0:27:03 > 0:27:06taken in Brussels, where they lived, where they were being educated.

0:27:06 > 0:27:08And this is their son Freddie.

0:27:08 > 0:27:15Oh, lovely, lovely photo.

0:27:15 > 0:27:18And in 1939,

0:27:18 > 0:27:20my father was afraid for their safety,

0:27:20 > 0:27:22and they came back to Manchester.

0:27:22 > 0:27:26But when Chamberlain said "peace for our time", they went back,

0:27:26 > 0:27:29because of the elder daughter's exams, and

0:27:29 > 0:27:32sadly, it was a terrible decision, because they ended up in Auschwitz.

0:27:32 > 0:27:34Oh, my goodness me.

0:27:34 > 0:27:36They were taken to the camps, yes.

0:27:36 > 0:27:39These cards here that you have, what are these?

0:27:39 > 0:27:44These are letters that my aunt wrote to my father and his brother

0:27:44 > 0:27:52during the time they were in France.

0:27:52 > 0:27:54and the Germans crossed the Channel,

0:27:54 > 0:27:56that then they would come directly to our house

0:27:56 > 0:27:58and take our family, because we were Jewish.

0:27:58 > 0:28:02Then he didn't hear anything from her at all for the next few years.

0:28:02 > 0:28:04For the next few years? He waited?

0:28:04 > 0:28:06He waited, only until the end of the war,

0:28:06 > 0:28:09when the Red Cross got in touch, 1945, and they found out

0:28:09 > 0:28:14what had happened, that they had been taken to Auschwitz and gassed,

0:28:14 > 0:28:16burnt in the crematorium.

0:28:16 > 0:28:22With the children? With the three children as well.

0:28:22 > 0:28:34Oh, my goodness. They were all taken. So, erm,

0:28:34 > 0:28:37My aunt must have left her phone number.

0:28:37 > 0:28:40And she brought all the jewels that had belonged to my aunt.

0:28:40 > 0:28:43Sadly, my father was so distraught at the time,

0:28:43 > 0:28:45he never kept a record of who she was.

0:28:45 > 0:28:53And actually now, my brother and I are going to La Baule

0:28:53 > 0:29:00or her descendants, because somebody will know the story.

0:29:00 > 0:29:03And this watch here was one of the collection

0:29:03 > 0:29:07which was then given back to your father by this neighbour, this lady?

0:29:07 > 0:29:10That's my very precious remnant of the story.

0:29:10 > 0:29:13It is such an elegant watch, which goes with the elegance

0:29:13 > 0:29:16of your aunt in the photograph that you showed us.

0:29:16 > 0:29:20She was a Manchester girl - you don't expect a Manchester girl

0:29:20 > 0:29:22to have died in the Holocaust, particularly.

0:29:22 > 0:29:24No, of course not. So, that's a very sad story, and my

0:29:24 > 0:29:28father could never talk about it, he was just heartbroken.

0:29:28 > 0:29:32And so it's left to our generation to keep the memory of it alive.

0:29:32 > 0:29:36And since then, Jackie has been to France for an emotional meeting

0:29:36 > 0:29:38with the family who helped her aunt.

0:29:38 > 0:29:40They presented her with pieces they kept for her aunt,

0:29:40 > 0:29:43which they've held on to for 60 years.

0:29:59 > 0:30:01that they most want to find,

0:30:01 > 0:30:04that they dream of turning up to a Roadshow.

0:30:04 > 0:30:06It remains to seen quite how many we unearth,

0:30:06 > 0:30:09as we welcome a whole new set of visitors

0:30:09 > 0:30:11to our new series later this year. But Jill here...

0:30:11 > 0:30:15Jill, you're the first one to come out of the woodwork.

0:30:15 > 0:30:18And you think you might have found one of these valuable antiques.

0:30:18 > 0:30:24You screamed when you saw it on the television. I did, I was absolutely amazed.

0:30:24 > 0:30:27Let's just remind ourselves. Shall we have a quick look? Yes.

0:30:27 > 0:30:34Well, what we see the least of are almost

0:30:34 > 0:30:38is the jewellery designed by the neo-gothic architect William Burges,

0:30:38 > 0:30:40who is really the greatest genius

0:30:40 > 0:30:45of 19th-century design and architecture. But he also dabbled

0:30:45 > 0:30:46in jewellery specifically,

0:30:46 > 0:30:50and he made designs for his intimate circle.

0:30:50 > 0:30:54We know about them because the designs remain at the Victoria Albert Museum.

0:30:54 > 0:30:57Is that what these are here, then? Yes, most definitely they are.

0:30:57 > 0:31:00And very tantalisingly, it says on the top of here,

0:31:00 > 0:31:05six of these in silver and three of these in gold.

0:31:05 > 0:31:07So we've nine chances of the Antiques Roadshow flushing

0:31:07 > 0:31:09these out of the United Kingdom somewhere.

0:31:09 > 0:31:11So these are designs for brooches, are they?

0:31:11 > 0:31:14Yes, and they're almost certainly bridesmaids' brooches.

0:31:14 > 0:31:17So, Jill, what did you think when you saw Geoffrey there?

0:31:17 > 0:31:20I was speechless for a second or two.

0:31:20 > 0:31:24I just thought, it can't possibly be my brooch.

0:31:24 > 0:31:28He was looking at the first two brooches, but my brooch was underneath.

0:31:28 > 0:31:31And I thought, no, it can't possibly be my brooch.

0:31:31 > 0:31:35So I rushed upstairs and rushed back down again and I thought, "It is!"

0:31:35 > 0:31:39Were you there holding it up against the television trying to check?

0:31:39 > 0:31:44Two days before the programme came on the television, I'd actually been going to sell it

0:31:44 > 0:31:48and I'd put it out on top to sell, to take to the local market

0:31:48 > 0:31:52because I thought it might be worth a few pounds. Oh, gosh!

0:31:52 > 0:31:59So it was really incredible because it's been stuck at the bottom of my jewellery case for 20-odd years.

0:31:59 > 0:32:02And which one of these do you think it is? I think it's that one.

0:32:02 > 0:32:03I think it's that one.

0:32:03 > 0:32:07Well, get it out. Let's have a quick look. I think it is that one.

0:32:07 > 0:32:09It's broken, I'm afraid.

0:32:09 > 0:32:10It's that one.

0:32:10 > 0:32:12Right.

0:32:12 > 0:32:17You're the very first person who's come forward, so it's very exciting.

0:32:17 > 0:32:20I've no idea. You don't know either, do you?

0:32:20 > 0:32:23I can't wait. Well, Geoffrey Munn, he's going to be very excited,

0:32:23 > 0:32:26is going to have a look, and then we'll find out.

0:32:26 > 0:32:27Wonderful!

0:32:31 > 0:32:34Our best bargain buy screened this series

0:32:34 > 0:32:40has to be a pretty cup and saucer found by John Sandon in Brighton.

0:32:40 > 0:32:43A tea bowl and saucer for drinking tea

0:32:43 > 0:32:44in the Chinese style.

0:32:44 > 0:32:49But on the bottom, the famous crossed swords mark of Meissen.

0:32:49 > 0:32:53Meissen, one of the great European factories, the oldest porcelain factory,

0:32:53 > 0:32:56and perhaps the most famous, and therefore, the most imitated of all

0:32:56 > 0:32:59and the most commonly faked mark is the crossed swords.

0:32:59 > 0:33:02So what's important is the provenance and the history.

0:33:02 > 0:33:06Yes, well, I've only had it for about six months.

0:33:06 > 0:33:08I was moving into a new house

0:33:08 > 0:33:11and I didn't have any crockery cos I'd been in a shared house,

0:33:11 > 0:33:16so I was going to lots of car-boot sales and just buying loads and loads of plates and saucers,

0:33:16 > 0:33:20things like that and I just liked mismatched different coloured things

0:33:20 > 0:33:23and I saw this and I bought that as well.

0:33:23 > 0:33:27So what do you think you bought? Well, I thought it was old.

0:33:27 > 0:33:31I got it home and I looked and I kind of recognised

0:33:31 > 0:33:34the little signature thing on the bottom, but I didn't know what it was.

0:33:34 > 0:33:39Yes, they're the swords of Saxony where the Meissen factory was established

0:33:39 > 0:33:44and of course, the mark was introduced as a form of protection in the 1720s.

0:33:44 > 0:33:47Everyone was imitating Meissen back then,

0:33:47 > 0:33:50so they put the mark on in order to protect the real thing.

0:33:50 > 0:33:54But of course, as soon as they put a mark on, they gave a sign for everyone else to copy.

0:33:54 > 0:33:57From that time onwards, everybody put the crossed swords on.

0:33:57 > 0:34:00But what they didn't do was really match the quality

0:34:00 > 0:34:04so it's really the detail we look at to see if it's really Meissen or not.

0:34:04 > 0:34:05In this case, I think, really...

0:34:05 > 0:34:08How close do you have to look to see this is quality?

0:34:08 > 0:34:11Yeah, the little flowers, absolutely miniature.

0:34:11 > 0:34:13It's pretending to be Chinese,

0:34:13 > 0:34:15because that's what the great porcelain was at the time.

0:34:15 > 0:34:17A very distinctive style.

0:34:17 > 0:34:24And this style of Chinoiserie painting was developed at Meissen around the 1720s.

0:34:24 > 0:34:27We're looking at a design that was in fashion in the early 1730s.

0:34:27 > 0:34:291730s? That old?

0:34:29 > 0:34:32Well, it is. It really is that age.

0:34:32 > 0:34:33It looks new.

0:34:33 > 0:34:37Yeah. I didn't think it was that old, cos it was in such good condition.

0:34:37 > 0:34:41And at the car-boot sale, they probably thought it was new. Yeah, probably.

0:34:41 > 0:34:42My, oh my.

0:34:42 > 0:34:45It was a set made for a king, made for a prince,

0:34:45 > 0:34:47it was the most expensive porcelain of its day... Wow.

0:34:47 > 0:34:50..and it's pretty expensive now.

0:34:50 > 0:34:54So, go on, tell me, how much was it at the car-boot sale?

0:34:54 > 0:34:56Well, I think it was about ?2.50.

0:34:56 > 0:34:58I never spent any more than ?3.50 for anything.

0:34:58 > 0:35:02Well, you haven't half done well. This is something else.

0:35:02 > 0:35:06Because it's in wonderful condition, it's top quality

0:35:06 > 0:35:08and in mint condition.

0:35:08 > 0:35:12So what's it worth? Um, single cup and saucer...

0:35:12 > 0:35:13how about ?5,000?

0:35:13 > 0:35:16GASPING AND LAUGHTER

0:35:17 > 0:35:18Seriously?

0:35:20 > 0:35:21Oh, my...

0:35:25 > 0:35:28Owner Poppy still loves her boot sale buy

0:35:28 > 0:35:32and says she's holding on to them for a future investment. Wow.

0:35:37 > 0:35:40Perhaps the best reaction to a Roadshow revelation

0:35:40 > 0:35:43happened at the end of our day in Saltaire,

0:35:43 > 0:35:47and it was another antique from China that prompted the interest.

0:35:49 > 0:35:53I don't think it's ever been dusted in a long time.

0:35:53 > 0:35:56It's my mum's and it just sits on a shelf in the dining room.

0:35:57 > 0:35:59And how did your mum get it?

0:35:59 > 0:36:01She said it was from her mum and dad

0:36:01 > 0:36:05when she was a little girl, they all went to Torquay on holiday

0:36:05 > 0:36:09and they went into a sort of junky antique-y type shop

0:36:09 > 0:36:13and her dad spotted it and at the time she said

0:36:13 > 0:36:14it was all black and grimy

0:36:14 > 0:36:17and he spent the holiday with a little toothbrush

0:36:17 > 0:36:18shining it up.

0:36:18 > 0:36:19Cleaning it up?

0:36:19 > 0:36:22We have what is a hollow vessel in the middle

0:36:22 > 0:36:26and it seems to be surrounded by branches,

0:36:26 > 0:36:30pine tree, growing round its own trunk.

0:36:30 > 0:36:33And there's a lovely detail here, when we get into this side,

0:36:33 > 0:36:35how the outer branches

0:36:35 > 0:36:38undercut themselves, and you get

0:36:38 > 0:36:43a really quite complicated in-and-out of the branches.

0:36:43 > 0:36:44Do you know where it's from?

0:36:44 > 0:36:46Um, China?

0:36:46 > 0:36:48It's from China.

0:36:48 > 0:36:51Pine trees are very important in China.

0:36:51 > 0:36:54They are symbols of longevity and permanence.

0:36:54 > 0:36:58If you go into a scholar's studio and you look at the table

0:36:58 > 0:37:01and you look at the things that he's laid out, his writing equipment,

0:37:01 > 0:37:03you'll find an ink stone and you'll find

0:37:03 > 0:37:07a little pot of water into which he will dip his brush

0:37:07 > 0:37:10to get the ink and then write on the paper.

0:37:11 > 0:37:16And I believe that this is likely to be a brush washer,

0:37:16 > 0:37:17so you put water in it,

0:37:17 > 0:37:20but although it's actually of a pine tree,

0:37:20 > 0:37:23it's not carved in pine. This is actually carved

0:37:23 > 0:37:27in bamboo. OK. How old do you reckon it might have been?

0:37:27 > 0:37:28I've no idea.

0:37:28 > 0:37:31Do you want to have a guess? Go on. Um...

0:37:31 > 0:37:32120-ish?

0:37:32 > 0:37:34120 years.

0:37:34 > 0:37:37Well let us go back another...

0:37:37 > 0:37:39300.

0:37:39 > 0:37:41Really?

0:37:41 > 0:37:43Yes. Maybe 400.

0:37:43 > 0:37:47This was being carved

0:37:47 > 0:37:48around 500 years ago.

0:37:48 > 0:37:50Oh, my gosh.

0:37:50 > 0:37:52So it's a rare survivor.

0:37:52 > 0:37:53Oh, my gosh.

0:37:53 > 0:37:56It's survived your cleaning techniques.

0:37:56 > 0:37:58I'm just going to say one more thing about the shape.

0:37:58 > 0:38:02It alludes to rhinoceros horn.

0:38:02 > 0:38:07Rhino horn was another very favoured material for the Chinese scholar,

0:38:07 > 0:38:10but I'm glad to say this is not rhino horn, from one point of view,

0:38:10 > 0:38:12from the point of view of the rhino.

0:38:12 > 0:38:17But from the point of view of value, a rhino horn of the 1500s

0:38:17 > 0:38:21would have been a very, very expensive object.

0:38:22 > 0:38:26Being bamboo, I'm afraid, it's not in the same league. Yeah.

0:38:29 > 0:38:33So, this little scholar's object is probably only worth

0:38:33 > 0:38:36somewhere in the region of, let's say, between ?6,000 and ?9,000.

0:38:36 > 0:38:37Oh, my gosh!

0:38:39 > 0:38:41Are you joking?!

0:38:42 > 0:38:44My mum's in Florence, I'll have to ring her up!

0:38:46 > 0:38:50It's a wonderful, wonderful object.

0:38:51 > 0:38:53I can't believe it!

0:38:53 > 0:38:56We've seen some fantastic responses to this series'

0:38:56 > 0:38:58treasure trove on the Antiques Roadshow.

0:38:58 > 0:39:01Our thanks to all who waited so patiently

0:39:01 > 0:39:03to see our team of experts.

0:39:03 > 0:39:05Let's hope there may be a surprise in store for you

0:39:05 > 0:39:06if you visit us this year.

0:39:08 > 0:39:12But before we go, one last mystery to unravel.

0:39:12 > 0:39:14I've been looking forward to this -

0:39:14 > 0:39:18the moment has come to put Jill out of her misery.

0:39:18 > 0:39:21Very nice to see you! I sense a plot! Yes!

0:39:21 > 0:39:23And you're central to it!

0:39:23 > 0:39:36Jill thinks she may have found one of the brooches by William Burges,

0:39:36 > 0:39:39You appealed for it on a programme, Jill was watching it

0:39:39 > 0:39:42and thinks she may have found it.

0:39:42 > 0:39:44Before you look, what would it mean

0:39:44 > 0:39:45if it is indeed one of William Burges' brooches?

0:39:45 > 0:39:48It would mean the absolute world to me.

0:39:48 > 0:39:51I found these designs in the Victoria Albert Museum,

0:39:51 > 0:39:54and I published them in a book I wrote with Charlotte Gere,

0:39:54 > 0:40:01my co-author, and we were terribly excited by them,

0:40:01 > 0:40:03pivotal architect in the 19th century.

0:40:03 > 0:40:07And it raised our subject up into an entirely new category,

0:40:07 > 0:40:10in a way,

0:40:10 > 0:40:13and they are artistic in every sense of the word.

0:40:13 > 0:40:17But I can hardly talk, I'm so excited! Come on, then!

0:40:17 > 0:40:20It's too much! Jill, let's get it out and have a look.

0:40:20 > 0:40:24Oh, my goodness me. I think it might be that one.

0:40:24 > 0:40:26I don't think there's any shadow of doubt,

0:40:26 > 0:40:30and I think that is absolutely...

0:40:30 > 0:40:35I honestly can hardly articulate it. I think it's absolutely marvellous.

0:40:35 > 0:40:38And it's completely different manufacture

0:40:38 > 0:40:41to what one might have expected.

0:40:41 > 0:40:44It's slightly heavier and massier than I thought the design would be.

0:40:44 > 0:40:48But in every sense of the word, it is it... Is it?!

0:40:48 > 0:40:50It's pulse-making!

0:40:50 > 0:40:54Honestly, it is a Tutankhamen experience on the Antiques Roadshow!

0:40:54 > 0:40:57I have to say that only television can do this -

0:40:57 > 0:41:01there is no other medium that could have flushed this out,

0:41:01 > 0:41:03from not only the United Kingdom,

0:41:03 > 0:41:05but potentially from the entire world.

0:41:05 > 0:41:08Can I tell you something? Yes.

0:41:08 > 0:41:11Jill was going to sell it down the local market

0:41:11 > 0:41:13and thought she might get a few quid for it!

0:41:13 > 0:41:15Two days before. Two days before?

0:41:15 > 0:41:18Gosh, I'm going to stalk you for the rest of my life,

0:41:18 > 0:41:20I think it's absolutely marvellous, isn't it?

0:41:20 > 0:41:23Geoffrey, how rare is this?

0:41:23 > 0:41:26It's beyond rare. I never hoped to see it.

0:41:26 > 0:41:28Jewellery designed by artists

0:41:28 > 0:41:32and architects of this calibre are hardly measurable.

0:41:32 > 0:41:35The Cecil Higgins Art Museum has just bought

0:41:35 > 0:41:38a settle by William Burges, a piece of furniture,

0:41:38 > 0:41:40and without putting too fine a point on it,

0:41:40 > 0:41:47they've just paid just shy of ?1 million for that piece of furniture.

0:41:47 > 0:41:51?850,000, they paid for it, very recently.

0:41:51 > 0:41:54Money isn't the greatest fascination

0:41:54 > 0:41:56What we're sharing together is IT.

0:41:56 > 0:41:59I'm interested to know about you, the moment of recognition.

0:41:59 > 0:42:00What happened when you saw that?

0:42:00 > 0:42:08I did a little scream and ran upstairs to find it!

0:42:08 > 0:42:16What do you think now that Geoffrey's told you that it is...?

0:42:16 > 0:42:18Well, I think, measured against the settle,

0:42:18 > 0:42:22it is an extraordinarily valuable object.

0:42:22 > 0:42:25Somebody lucky enough to buy that from you at said boot sale

0:42:25 > 0:42:29would have walked away with something close to ?10,000.

0:42:29 > 0:42:33Oh, my God!

0:42:33 > 0:42:38So, that was quite a... You like it a bit more now!

0:42:38 > 0:42:42With two days from selling it. I just forgot to take it down to the market.

0:42:42 > 0:42:46Jill also confessed to me that she didn't like it very much!

0:42:46 > 0:42:48I didn't like it! I'm assuming you're liking it a little more now?!

0:42:48 > 0:42:53I love it! Oh, my goodness! I always loved it,

0:42:53 > 0:42:56and I never, ever dreamt

0:42:56 > 0:42:59that I would ever lay hands on it or see it.

0:42:59 > 0:43:02Isn't that wonderful? It's very, very moving stuff for me.

0:43:02 > 0:43:05The tables of the Antiques Roadshow are turned, because usually

0:43:05 > 0:43:09it's the owner of the object that is given this jolt of surprise -

0:43:09 > 0:43:12this time round, it's the specialist who's got it big time,

0:43:12 > 0:43:13and I'm frankly trembling with it!

0:43:13 > 0:43:17Thank you very much! I think we're going to have to take Geoffrey away

0:43:17 > 0:43:20and wipe him down with a damp flannel! He's in such a lather!

0:43:20 > 0:43:22What an amazing find.

0:43:22 > 0:43:26We appeal for all sorts of wonderful antiques in this series,

0:43:26 > 0:43:30so if you think, like Jill here, that you might have one,

0:43:30 > 0:43:33please bring it along to our next series of programmes.

0:43:33 > 0:43:36All the details of when our recordings are going to be

0:43:36 > 0:43:39are on our website -

0:43:39 > 0:43:42And also, there are clips on our website which show the items

0:43:42 > 0:43:45we've appealed about throughout the series.

0:43:45 > 0:43:50Who knows, it could be you, and we would be thrilled to see it.

0:44:21 > 0:44:22MUSIC: Boombastic by Shaggy

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