0:00:03 > 0:00:06At eight storeys,
0:00:06 > 0:00:10this is Tudor England's equivalent of a skyscraper.
0:00:12 > 0:00:15And it's worth the climb.
0:00:15 > 0:00:19I'm told this is one of the best views in Essex. Look at that!
0:00:19 > 0:00:23What a vista. Welcome back to the Roadshow from Layer Marney.
0:01:04 > 0:01:09At the very top of Layer Marney Tower, I can get right up close
0:01:09 > 0:01:12to these amazing terracotta battlements.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14They weren't for fending off invaders
0:01:14 > 0:01:18cos there weren't many of those in the 16th century,
0:01:18 > 0:01:22but these playful little dolphins here hint at a nautical theme.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27We're only a few miles from the coast and from here,
0:01:27 > 0:01:36you can see across the Blackwater Estuary and round to Mersea Island, and that, there, is oyster country.
0:01:37 > 0:01:42The area to the south of Colchester, with its salt flats and little muddy inlets,
0:01:42 > 0:01:46has been home to oyster fishermen for 2,000 years.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49Oyster farming was a thriving industry by the time
0:01:49 > 0:01:52Layer Marney was built and by the 17th century,
0:01:52 > 0:01:56they were so popular they'd become the pub snack of choice
0:01:56 > 0:02:00and you'd share them, like you might share a bag of crisps.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04So highly regarded were the oysters from this area that in 1667, Sir Samuel Tuke -
0:02:04 > 0:02:07whose family once owned this house -
0:02:07 > 0:02:11wrote the first ever scientific paper on oysters for the Royal Society in London.
0:02:14 > 0:02:19This is still a big oyster fishing area today. We think of them as being a luxury,
0:02:19 > 0:02:25but in the 19th century, so many oysters were being caught, they became the poor man's food -
0:02:25 > 0:02:28the sort of thing you cooked up to bulk out a meat pie.
0:02:30 > 0:02:35There's no way I'm going to be cooking these, far too delicious as they are.
0:02:35 > 0:02:37This is the native oyster,
0:02:37 > 0:02:40which used to be known as the Colchester green oyster
0:02:40 > 0:02:43and these days the little native is grown alongside
0:02:43 > 0:02:47the more familiar rock oyster, which was only introduced in the 20th century.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50I can't resist it, I'm going to try one.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56Mm! Well, there isn't one in that oyster,
0:02:56 > 0:03:01but let's hope our experts find a few pearls at the Roadshow today.
0:03:06 > 0:03:11We're looking at a lump of rock, really. What made you buy it?
0:03:11 > 0:03:14I never bought it. I found it.
0:03:14 > 0:03:17I was digging the pond out on my father's farm
0:03:17 > 0:03:20and I just managed to pull that out
0:03:20 > 0:03:23with the digger arm, and as I tipped it out onto the dirt,
0:03:23 > 0:03:26there it was, presented in front of me.
0:03:26 > 0:03:30- It just sort of went clunk? - An odd shape... Just this odd-shaped figure of stone.
0:03:30 > 0:03:36- Right.- And the more I scrubbed away at it, the more I was convinced it was worth a lot of money!
0:03:36 > 0:03:40- Which I am.- Oh, the folly of youth!
0:03:40 > 0:03:43So, what do you think it is?
0:03:43 > 0:03:44A plaque...
0:03:44 > 0:03:48representing a family in the Essex area.
0:03:48 > 0:03:50It is carved stone,
0:03:50 > 0:03:54you've got a lion on this side, and in fact you would almost certainly
0:03:54 > 0:03:58have had another lion on this side. You can just see his paws, in fact,
0:03:58 > 0:04:04- sitting on top of the shield, so it would have been replicated.- Right.
0:04:04 > 0:04:09What I don't know and what's impossible to find out on the day...
0:04:09 > 0:04:14- Right.- ..is exactly which family this relates to.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18Now, getting in touch with the College of Arms in London,
0:04:18 > 0:04:23- that would be identified, so that's the next step for you to do.- OK.
0:04:23 > 0:04:29But I think that this is either 15th or maybe 16th century,
0:04:29 > 0:04:35but my feeling is that it's on the cusp there, so it's old.
0:04:36 > 0:04:40It's incomplete, it's very badly worn.
0:04:40 > 0:04:43The value is limited, I don't want you to get over-excited now -
0:04:43 > 0:04:46I can see you're hyperventilating!
0:04:46 > 0:04:51- But my feeling is it's going to be between £500 and £800.- Right.
0:04:51 > 0:04:56- As it is.- OK.- I mean, if by any chance you are able to marry up the other piece...
0:04:56 > 0:05:01- Yes.- ..Then it would certainly double the value, if not a bit more.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04My suggestion is that you get back on your digger and go back
0:05:04 > 0:05:09- to the pond and see if you can find the other lion.- Well, I did.
0:05:09 > 0:05:10I continued for the next five hours
0:05:10 > 0:05:13and extracted about another 100 tonnes,
0:05:13 > 0:05:17but then my parents said, "For God's sake, Ryan, you've got to come in for your dinner", so I...
0:05:17 > 0:05:20- And they didn't want a pond that big! - No, no - they didn't, no.
0:05:20 > 0:05:23It was beginning to take over the whole farm, was it?
0:05:23 > 0:05:26Being a bit of an Indiana Jones, I weren't prepared to stop, either.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Are you in the butchery trade?
0:05:34 > 0:05:36No, I'm not, but years ago my family were,
0:05:36 > 0:05:40- back to my great, great, great grandfather.- Really?- Yes.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42And his name wasn't Osborn, was it?
0:05:42 > 0:05:45- Funnily enough, yes.- Good Lord, and there's the name,
0:05:45 > 0:05:49emblazoned on what is an absolutely delightful butcher's shop display.
0:05:49 > 0:05:54It dates to the middle of the 19th century, so hopefully that ties in.
0:05:54 > 0:05:58- Yes, yeah.- And whereabouts was the family butcher's premises?
0:05:58 > 0:06:03It looks like this was in Walkers Court in Berwick Street in London.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07- Gosh, so it's a known property. - Yes, the butcher lived there many years ago, yeah.
0:06:07 > 0:06:12Oh, that's absolutely marvellous and it looks like they lived upstairs, because upstairs we have obviously
0:06:12 > 0:06:18netted curtains and even the actual chandelier is bang-on 1850s,
0:06:18 > 0:06:20it was hand-made using a lamp.
0:06:20 > 0:06:26- Right.- And this is why we can tie this piece to exactly the mid-19th century and it's totally original.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29- Yes.- The butcher himself.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31Do you think it's based on a real man?
0:06:31 > 0:06:32Yeah. Can't you see the likeness?
0:06:32 > 0:06:37Yeah, look at those sideburns! He looks the job and you wouldn't mess with him, would you?
0:06:37 > 0:06:42- Butcher's block, knife at the ready and all these are hand-carved wood and hand-painted.- Right.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45So of course when the shop was shut, this would be in the window,
0:06:45 > 0:06:49so people had an idea of what they could come back for the next day.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53- Yeah.- I think that's probably part of the appeal of them.
0:06:53 > 0:06:57And how long have you personally owned it, as part of the family dynasty?
0:06:57 > 0:07:01- I've had it for about the last three or four years, but before that... - Is that all?
0:07:01 > 0:07:05Yeah, before that my father had it and he just kept it in a wardrobe
0:07:05 > 0:07:10and then before that my grandfather, so it's been eldest son, eldest son, all through the generations, yeah.
0:07:10 > 0:07:14Well, I mean I'm not going to mess about with value. It's such a good one.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16If I put this in an auction next week,
0:07:16 > 0:07:20- I'd put an estimate of £7,000 to £10,000 on it.- Wow!
0:07:20 > 0:07:25- It's a classic bit of folk art, an incredible survivor.- Really?
0:07:25 > 0:07:29Do you know, I think it's 28 years since I've seen...
0:07:29 > 0:07:31or at least TOUCHED one
0:07:31 > 0:07:34as big as this. I mean, a teddy bear, that is.
0:07:34 > 0:07:39Sorry, sorry, I'm going to start that again, I'm VERY sorry!
0:07:43 > 0:07:46- Tell me what his name is. - He's just called Bear.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49- Oh, no.- He's just... He's just known as Bear.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52He belongs to a very dear family friend
0:07:52 > 0:07:56- and Frank is now 82 years old.- Yes.
0:07:56 > 0:08:00That bear was purchased as a present for his mother, by his father,
0:08:00 > 0:08:04so that he knows of, it's 85 years old.
0:08:04 > 0:08:05And I loved him as a child,
0:08:05 > 0:08:09- he was bigger than I was, when I first met him.- Yes, I'm sure.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13I used to be taken upstairs and he'd be made to growl so that I could hear him, and I loved it.
0:08:13 > 0:08:18Oh. He is by the firm of Steiff, in Giengen, which is Southern Germany.
0:08:18 > 0:08:23If he had his little button in the ear,
0:08:23 > 0:08:26he would also tell me more - definitely his date.
0:08:26 > 0:08:30And I've found a little hole where it's been torn out by...
0:08:30 > 0:08:33probably the mother of your friend Frank, because they
0:08:33 > 0:08:36are so difficult to get out, so to pull it out you always make a hole.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Yes.
0:08:38 > 0:08:43The reason he's sort of so stooped forward is that someone has loved him so much...
0:08:43 > 0:08:48- Probably holding him here, because he's very difficult to hold for a child.- Yes.
0:08:48 > 0:08:54- And because he is filled with thin strips of lime wood.- Oh, right.
0:08:54 > 0:08:58After a while it becomes sawdust, so he hasn't actually lost any stuffing, it's just become sawdust.
0:08:58 > 0:09:03- Yes, he does leave a bit of a trail of dust behind him. - Oh, right, right.
0:09:03 > 0:09:09Well, I only date him definitely to 1907 because the growlers didn't come in until then.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12I mean, I'd love to try and make him growl... Maybe you can?
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Yes, I'll try, yes.
0:09:15 > 0:09:16Come on, Bear.
0:09:20 > 0:09:22BEAR GROWLS
0:09:22 > 0:09:25Ah, he is heaven.
0:09:25 > 0:09:31Well, I can tell you that if your friend Frank tried to sell him,
0:09:31 > 0:09:35he would probably get somewhere in the region of £10,000 to £15,000.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41Right. Oh.
0:09:41 > 0:09:42Um... Bear?
0:09:44 > 0:09:47You know what I think he should be called? Colossus.
0:09:57 > 0:10:01Well, I'm quite partial to a cheeky red now and again
0:10:01 > 0:10:05and I can't think of a better vessel to decant my bottle into.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08But tell me a little bit more about this wonderful claret jug of yours.
0:10:08 > 0:10:13Right, Well, it was bequeathed to my husband from his grandparents.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15- We've used it once.- How was that?
0:10:15 > 0:10:18It was lovely, it was quite tentative.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21We used it at a Christmas, but I must admit because we usually
0:10:21 > 0:10:25have children round, we put it to one side up in the bedroom.
0:10:25 > 0:10:26Well, what an ornament
0:10:26 > 0:10:27for your bedroom!
0:10:27 > 0:10:30Because what we're looking at really
0:10:30 > 0:10:34is the marriage of two of the finest sort of exponents
0:10:34 > 0:10:37of this kind of item of the 19th century.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39First and foremost we've got to look at the silverware,
0:10:39 > 0:10:41by a chap called Alexander Crichton.
0:10:41 > 0:10:47- Right.- And Alexander Crichton in 1881 launched an owl
0:10:47 > 0:10:52which was to be the first of a series of what we call zoomorphic claret jugs.
0:10:52 > 0:10:57He followed on with a duck, a drake, an otter, a penguin...
0:10:57 > 0:10:59they just kept rolling out.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02- Wow.- And actually amongst them was the cockatoo.
0:11:02 > 0:11:03- So it's a cockatoo.- It's a cockatoo.
0:11:03 > 0:11:08- Right, OK.- Now the bodies were actually made up in Stourbridge,
0:11:08 > 0:11:10the heart of British glass.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12- Right.- And they're down to two makers, actually.
0:11:12 > 0:11:17John Northwood is down as making them, but also Thomas Webb and Sons.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20- Really two great exponents of glass manufacture.- Yeah.
0:11:20 > 0:11:25But the marriage of these beautiful materials, brings forward something
0:11:25 > 0:11:30that is not only humorous, it's practical and it just shouts quality.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33- And I bet when it's filled it must look...- It does look lovely, yes.
0:11:33 > 0:11:39Sensational. They're always popular and when they are so popular and so
0:11:39 > 0:11:45sought after, they often tend to end up in very smart West End retailers.
0:11:45 > 0:11:49And if you wanted to go and replace your cockatoo claret jug
0:11:49 > 0:11:52in one of those smart West End retailers,
0:11:52 > 0:11:54you're going to have to open up your wallet
0:11:54 > 0:11:57with at least £6,000 to £7,000 in it.
0:11:59 > 0:12:03Wow, I was thinking perhaps six to seven hundred!
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Maybe it deserves a good bottle of claret in it, tonight, when you get home!
0:12:06 > 0:12:09- Tell you what... - There's always an excuse for that!
0:12:09 > 0:12:12- I'll be round by ten, if that's any good!- Thank you.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14He is a joy.
0:12:14 > 0:12:15'Is it...'
0:12:15 > 0:12:17the only one you have, or...?
0:12:17 > 0:12:21No, there's a set. There's a set of two carvers and six singles.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23Are they at home, do you use them?
0:12:23 > 0:12:26They're at my mother's, in her dining room.
0:12:26 > 0:12:27OK. And how did she come by them?
0:12:27 > 0:12:30My late father bought them in 1988.
0:12:30 > 0:12:36Right. Well, I imagine when your father bought them, he would have bought them very excitedly.
0:12:36 > 0:12:41Good quality mahogany, wonderful carving in a Chippendale style, and I have to say, when I first saw them
0:12:41 > 0:12:43at a distance and I saw the chair coming in,
0:12:43 > 0:12:47I thought, "there is a mid-18th-century wonderfully carved chair".
0:12:47 > 0:12:49- Right.- And then you get a bit closer
0:12:49 > 0:12:53and the quality of the timber is as you'd expect, here and here.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56Then you start looking and the carving isn't...
0:12:56 > 0:12:59it's ALMOST of the style in the 18th century, but it's not quite.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02There are elements that start telling me that it's 19th century.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04So, I was looking at this piece here, the rosettes here,
0:13:04 > 0:13:08exactly what you'd expect to see on an 18th-century chair, but this isn't.
0:13:08 > 0:13:12This is very much a 19th-century type of quite shallow carving,
0:13:12 > 0:13:15and you just wouldn't see that on an 18th-century chair.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20What did you father... Do you know what he paid for them?
0:13:20 > 0:13:22I do. I found out recently.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24£11,000.
0:13:24 > 0:13:27- OK.- It's not going to be one of them bad stories, is it?
0:13:27 > 0:13:30Um, no, it's not a bad story.
0:13:30 > 0:13:35It's difficult. I would say in today's market, if your father
0:13:35 > 0:13:41was to go and buy another set to match up with these, I'd expect him to probably pay about £4,000.
0:13:41 > 0:13:44Christ! Well, lucky he's not here!
0:13:44 > 0:13:46LAUGHTER
0:13:47 > 0:13:51But if your mother enjoys them, they sit round the family dining table...
0:13:51 > 0:13:55We do have Christmas with them, but it won't be the same now!
0:13:57 > 0:14:02Hundreds of people have turned up to the Roadshow already and it can get
0:14:02 > 0:14:04a bit boring standing in the queue,
0:14:04 > 0:14:07but occasionally some people come along to provide entertainment.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09Not this, usually, though.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12- Wayne... It's Wayne, isn't it?- Yes.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15Now, these are very sweet,
0:14:15 > 0:14:17what's the story with the lambs?
0:14:17 > 0:14:20These are all orphans from their parents
0:14:20 > 0:14:22where their mums have had triplets or quads and that,
0:14:22 > 0:14:24and we bottle-feed them to bring them on.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27- And they're here on the estate at Layer Marney?- Yes.
0:14:27 > 0:14:32We do it every year, from Easter onwards until they're ready to feed out by theirselves.
0:14:32 > 0:14:34I've seen them wandering around. Can I feed one?
0:14:34 > 0:14:37- Course you can.- Fantastic, oh, they've wandered off, hang on.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39- Come on.- Come on, come on.
0:14:41 > 0:14:46Ooh! Ooh, my word. Come on, mate, come on.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50How long have you been collecting?
0:14:52 > 0:14:54Oh, 45 years.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58Well, I've just selected these three particular pieces
0:14:58 > 0:15:00and I'd like to know, how much do you like this?
0:15:00 > 0:15:04- How much did you pay for it?- Er, not very much, not very much for that.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06And what do you think you bought?
0:15:06 > 0:15:10Something that had been designed
0:15:10 > 0:15:13from a very old piece of Chinese porcelain.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17- You're choosing your words carefully. - I am, yes, yes.
0:15:17 > 0:15:21- Because I couldn't afford the real thing.- Ah.- You see.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25- This is actually modern.- It is. - It is modern. What about this?
0:15:25 > 0:15:30That, when I first bought it,
0:15:30 > 0:15:35it was told to me that it was a piece that had been presented to somebody
0:15:35 > 0:15:40high up in the court for the good deed that they'd been doing.
0:15:40 > 0:15:44Well, the subject matter on this is a dragon and the story you've told
0:15:44 > 0:15:50sort of fits with that, because a dragon is often used when someone has succeeded in an examination.
0:15:50 > 0:15:56They are compared to a dragon - the aspiring dragon pursuing knowledge.
0:15:56 > 0:16:00And the dragon itself - there he is - clutching the pearl of wisdom.
0:16:00 > 0:16:04Now, I'd love to say that this was an 18th-century example,
0:16:04 > 0:16:08but I'm going to have to say it's a 19th-century example.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10But tell me about this piece.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13Well, that piece, it was on the floor
0:16:13 > 0:16:16in a car boot sale, under a table,
0:16:16 > 0:16:19and I watched a lady pick it up,
0:16:19 > 0:16:24and as soon as I saw it, I thought, "I hope she puts it back down."
0:16:24 > 0:16:29She moved along and I picked it straight back up and she says, "Oh, I'm still looking at that."
0:16:29 > 0:16:33- I said, "No, it's in my hand." - You're ruthless!
0:16:33 > 0:16:34Yes. So he said...
0:16:34 > 0:16:37I said to the lady, "How much do you want for it?"
0:16:37 > 0:16:41So she said, "£3." I said, "I'll have it" and that was it.
0:16:41 > 0:16:44Fine. Now, when it was put back carefully,
0:16:44 > 0:16:47how carefully was it put back? Because I see that we've got a...
0:16:47 > 0:16:49I did that yesterday afternoon.
0:16:49 > 0:16:53- Preparing to come here? - Yeah. So I'm blaming you.
0:16:54 > 0:16:55Thank you!
0:16:57 > 0:17:02Three auspicious animals, two of them Chinese, one Japanese.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10I'm going to have a look at this, because there's something about this
0:17:10 > 0:17:12that isn't the case usually on Cloisonne.
0:17:12 > 0:17:16When you actually run your hand across it, you can actually feel the texture of the fish.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18- You can.- You can feel their scales,
0:17:18 > 0:17:24and you can even feel the water eddies as they rise to the surface.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26- That's very, very difficult.- It is.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29That is a particularly beautiful technique.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31Date, about 1900.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34You bought it for £3. OK, let's just think about it.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37There was a plant growing in it when I bought it.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40- Did you keep the plant? - No, I threw it out.
0:17:40 > 0:17:46Well, your copy of the Schrander dish is worth not more than £20.
0:17:46 > 0:17:49No, Well, it was about 25, 30.
0:17:49 > 0:17:53OK. Your 19th-century dragon dish
0:17:53 > 0:17:58I would think is probably worth in the region of...
0:17:58 > 0:18:01- £50 to £80.- Mm-hm.
0:18:01 > 0:18:04You paid £3 for this...
0:18:04 > 0:18:08We could say that this, today, is worth somewhere in the region of,
0:18:08 > 0:18:09let's say...
0:18:09 > 0:18:11Hmmm...
0:18:11 > 0:18:14Maybe £2,000.
0:18:14 > 0:18:16That's good!
0:18:17 > 0:18:21The bad news is that, before the chip...
0:18:21 > 0:18:23Oh, dear.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25..it would have been worth
0:18:25 > 0:18:27- twice as much.- Oh!
0:18:27 > 0:18:33- That is probably the most expensive chip we have ever shown on the Antiques Roadshow.- Oh, dear.
0:18:33 > 0:18:37Well, at least I've got something to be proud of!
0:18:39 > 0:18:41Now, about ten years ago on the Roadshow,
0:18:41 > 0:18:44I remember with great clarity, I filmed the sledge flag
0:18:44 > 0:18:47belonging to Sir James Wordie
0:18:47 > 0:18:51who was on the legendary Shackleton expedition of 1914-16
0:18:51 > 0:18:55to the Antarctic and it was a wonderful moment,
0:18:55 > 0:18:57and you've brought in some further pieces.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00Yes, that's right. Sir James Wordie
0:19:00 > 0:19:04was the father of the lady you met, who's my mother in law,
0:19:04 > 0:19:08who brought in those wonderful chattels including the sledging flag
0:19:08 > 0:19:12and I've brought in some more Shackleton treasures,
0:19:12 > 0:19:16which include his first aid box.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19Now, tell me about this. This went on the Endurance expedition.
0:19:19 > 0:19:25This went on the Endurance expedition of 1914, the Trans-Antarctic Imperial Expedition.
0:19:25 > 0:19:34Put together by what was then called Burroughs, Wellcome & Co and it was de rigueur for all those expeditions
0:19:34 > 0:19:38of the heroic age, to have this particular first-aid kit,
0:19:38 > 0:19:45although of course they put their own specific ingredients in, which included anything from heroin,
0:19:45 > 0:19:48I suspect, to bandaging.
0:19:48 > 0:19:52Let's just open the tin box and see what's inside. Take this out.
0:19:54 > 0:19:59And there inside we can see, you have all the compartments for the various phials and things like that.
0:19:59 > 0:20:00Yes, yes.
0:20:00 > 0:20:06Well, I think a lot of people will know about the expedition, how the ship got crushed in the ice
0:20:06 > 0:20:11and how the men were stranded on Elephant Island, and eventually Shackleton left with I think six men,
0:20:11 > 0:20:17to try and make South Georgia to get rescue and he tried twice, I think, to come back,
0:20:17 > 0:20:20and failed and the third time, they eventually came back
0:20:20 > 0:20:23- to Elephant Island after four and a half months, I think.- Yes.
0:20:23 > 0:20:28- And Shackleton said, "not a life would be lost" and that was the case. - And that was the case, yes.
0:20:28 > 0:20:30Gosh. Now, is it a coincidence,
0:20:30 > 0:20:35or more than a coincidence, that you yourself are a polar explorer?
0:20:35 > 0:20:39I don't think my husband married me because I was a polar explorer!
0:20:39 > 0:20:43In fact I actually became a polar adventurer after I married,
0:20:43 > 0:20:48and I remember being very moved when I went to the Royal Geographical Society
0:20:48 > 0:20:55and listened to a reading of Shackleton's diaries and since which I've been -
0:20:55 > 0:20:59yes - to Antarctica and the Arctic and on my own.
0:20:59 > 0:21:06And I am very aware of how heavy some of these pieces of equipment are, that they actually took.
0:21:06 > 0:21:10And these would have contained things like chloroform, presumably.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14Yes, indeed it would. Something I wish I'd had myself on my last expedition!
0:21:14 > 0:21:17- You've used chloroform, have you? - No, I didn't.
0:21:17 > 0:21:22The chloroform was used in this medical kit for Blackborow when
0:21:22 > 0:21:25he was on Elephant Island, because he had to have his toes amputated.
0:21:25 > 0:21:32- Right.- And I too got frostbite and gangrene in several of my toes and I had to amputate them myself,
0:21:32 > 0:21:35because I was on my own and I didn't have any chloroform, not even a tot of rum!
0:21:35 > 0:21:37So you cut your own toes off?
0:21:37 > 0:21:41- Yes, yes. Needs must. - I stand in awe.- I still stand.
0:21:43 > 0:21:47Tell me what this is. This must be related to a sledge.
0:21:47 > 0:21:52This was part of the sledging harness that Sir James Wordie wore
0:21:52 > 0:21:54on this expedition.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57It's actually not that dissimilar to my own sledging harness.
0:21:57 > 0:22:01This is made of a sort of hardened leather
0:22:01 > 0:22:04and I think that the sledging trace which would be attached
0:22:04 > 0:22:07to the sledge would be attached from here.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10On the face of it, if you look at these items,
0:22:10 > 0:22:15you've got a tin box, which is an empty medicine chest and a typed list of food.
0:22:15 > 0:22:18In themselves not very interesting, but when you tie them in
0:22:18 > 0:22:23to one of the greatest polar explorations in history,
0:22:23 > 0:22:29they become very important and I think if these pieces came up, as a group, they would probably fetch
0:22:29 > 0:22:35maybe £5,000 to £7,000, because just because of what they are, and what they represent.
0:22:35 > 0:22:40I think Ernest Shackleton would have been very appreciative of that to put towards his sponsorship funds!
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Now tell me about your great trip planned for next year.
0:22:42 > 0:22:46Well, it's Arctic, North Pole,
0:22:46 > 0:22:50- on my own. So no other woman has achieved that yet.- So,
0:22:50 > 0:22:54- if you succeed, you'll be the first woman to go solo to the North Pole. - In the world.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56In the world, that's remarkable.
0:22:56 > 0:23:00And I shall take a very clever medicine cabinet with me.
0:23:00 > 0:23:04Very sensible, and I'm sure everybody here, and everybody watching,
0:23:04 > 0:23:06wishes you every success and good luck.
0:23:06 > 0:23:08Yes. For Great Britain.
0:23:08 > 0:23:11Thank you very much.
0:23:22 > 0:23:27- Well, it's always intriguing to find a piece of jewellery with a monogram on it.- Right.
0:23:27 > 0:23:30And it's got a lovely, interlocking...
0:23:30 > 0:23:34- I think it's an "A"... Two "A"s going across each other.- Oh.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37- And it's mimicked on the case as well.- Right.
0:23:37 > 0:23:40And I wonder what the "A" stands for.
0:23:40 > 0:23:45You've got a royal crown on the top of the box there, embossed in gold,
0:23:45 > 0:23:49and on the top of the brooch you've got another crown on the top there. So what does that tell us?
0:23:49 > 0:23:52It's something to do with royalty?
0:23:52 > 0:23:54- I think you're right.- Is it?
0:23:54 > 0:23:58- I think it is, yes, I think it is something to do with royalty.- Yes.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01Beginning with "A", I think it might be Princess Alexandra,
0:24:01 > 0:24:05Princess consort to who later became Edward VII.
0:24:05 > 0:24:11OK. The "A" on the piece of jewellery here is in enamel,
0:24:11 > 0:24:16in white enamel and then amethyst which is inset in there.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19I'd never have known that.
0:24:19 > 0:24:24This piece is probably early 20th century, around 1905, something like that.
0:24:24 > 0:24:25Right, OK.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28You've told me a lot I didn't know about it.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30- Oh.- For one thing, amethyst is my birth stone.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32Is it? Oh, that's even more lovely.
0:24:32 > 0:24:38But then my father had it for my mother about, I think about 40-odd years ago.
0:24:38 > 0:24:42Well, it's a lovely jewel. I mean the royal connection really helps.
0:24:42 > 0:24:46- Mm.- An awful lot. I've looked at it carefully and there are a few
0:24:46 > 0:24:48little bits of damage on the enamel,
0:24:48 > 0:24:51- the white enamel on the interlocked "A"s.- Right.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54But despite that, if it were to come up at auction,
0:24:54 > 0:24:57simply because of its royal provenance,
0:24:57 > 0:25:01I think it would fetch around £1,500 to £2,000.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03- Oh, right.- So it's quite...
0:25:03 > 0:25:08- Quite a lot, isn't it? Yes, for a little thing like that.- Yes.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11Goodmor'n, as they say in Danish.
0:25:11 > 0:25:15- I'm sorry, I'm not Danish.- What? - It's my husband who's Danish.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18Your husband's Danish and hence he has this wonderful Danish picture.
0:25:18 > 0:25:22- Yes.- By, I think, a wonderful artist called Peder Monsted.
0:25:22 > 0:25:26- Yes.- 1918. Did he inherit it, or did he buy it?
0:25:26 > 0:25:33No, he inherited it. His grandfather was an art collector.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36Oh, yes, and would it surprise you
0:25:36 > 0:25:41that such a great artist is not represented in any Danish museum?
0:25:41 > 0:25:46- Yes.- And the reason why I think that Monsted is considered to be
0:25:46 > 0:25:50a little bit too commercial for his own good,
0:25:50 > 0:25:55- is that apparently in his studio, he used to have ten canvases going at the same time.- Oh, yes.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58- So he'd do a little figure here and then he'd go on to the next one, do a figure there.- Right.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01- So he was very prolific.- Yes.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04- And it is said he painted over 60,000 pictures.- Oh, wow!
0:26:04 > 0:26:09- But, nonetheless, look at the skill, look how brilliant he is.- Yes.
0:26:09 > 0:26:13- The snow is superb, the light coming through.- The light in it, yes.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17And the scale would look fantastic in anybody's house,
0:26:17 > 0:26:20as long as, of course, it was big enough!
0:26:20 > 0:26:24- Right, well we had to build the room where it's in now.- No.- Yes.
0:26:24 > 0:26:29Scandinavian pictures are very much in demand.
0:26:29 > 0:26:36People love the stillness and the quietness, and would it surprise you that I think that if it came up
0:26:36 > 0:26:39for auction, it would be worth between £30,000 and £50,000?
0:26:39 > 0:26:43Yeah, that is more than I thought, yes.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45Well, good on Monsted
0:26:45 > 0:26:49and shame on the museums for not having any works by him, because he's a wonderful artist.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51Thank you very much.
0:26:58 > 0:27:00We're taking a moment in this series to look back at some of
0:27:00 > 0:27:04the most memorable finds of the Antiques Roadshow over the last 33 years.
0:27:04 > 0:27:09And I reckon if you asked most people, one thing they would remember is a collection of silver
0:27:09 > 0:27:12that came into the Roadshow in 1993
0:27:12 > 0:27:18at Crawley and left our expert Ian Pickford just reeling.
0:27:18 > 0:27:23- My father collected them extensively through most of his life.- Right.
0:27:23 > 0:27:28He passed them on to Mum, now that he's gone and we are still
0:27:28 > 0:27:31- learning about what they are and where they're from, really.- Right.
0:27:31 > 0:27:33Have you any ideas as to values?
0:27:33 > 0:27:35- I wouldn't even be able to hazard a guess.- Right.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37Somewhere around...
0:27:37 > 0:27:40£2,000 to £3,000.
0:27:40 > 0:27:43- For a little thing like that? - For a little thing like that.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45£10,000.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47What else have you got in there?!
0:27:47 > 0:27:48Another little box, yeah.
0:27:48 > 0:27:52Gosh, that is a very rare box.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54£3,000.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56£5,000.
0:27:56 > 0:28:00At least £12,000 to £15,000.
0:28:00 > 0:28:04£15,000 to £20,000.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07Ooh, somewhere around...
0:28:07 > 0:28:11£30,000 to £40,000.
0:28:12 > 0:28:16Oooh! Now, THAT is exceptionally rare,
0:28:16 > 0:28:18there are about one or two
0:28:18 > 0:28:20known to exist.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22There's three, now.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24Right!
0:28:24 > 0:28:28I remember sitting at home with my parents watching that, and our jaws hit the floor.
0:28:28 > 0:28:32Certainly Ian Pickford's did, as well. What did the owners think?
0:28:32 > 0:28:35Well, Richard, you were there, you've brought along your sister Carolyn.
0:28:35 > 0:28:39- What was going through your mind? - Where did he find it all?
0:28:39 > 0:28:41Yeah, well, Dad - you've done it now!
0:28:41 > 0:28:45- And you had no idea. - No, no, not at all, until literally,
0:28:45 > 0:28:48until we found it under the bed, we had no idea.
0:28:48 > 0:28:51- I mean this is the stuff of dreams, really.- Yeah.
0:28:51 > 0:28:53And what happened to it all afterwards?
0:28:53 > 0:28:58The majority of it got spread in the family
0:28:58 > 0:29:02and some other pieces got sold to look after Mum in her old age.
0:29:02 > 0:29:07Now you've brought along a couple of pieces today, so did Ian see these back then?
0:29:07 > 0:29:09Ian saw this piece back then,
0:29:09 > 0:29:13but this piece was undiscovered, we've found this since.
0:29:13 > 0:29:17- So where, where was it hiding? - In a piece of newspaper, in a bag.
0:29:17 > 0:29:19- So these things are still coming to light?- Yes.
0:29:19 > 0:29:22Goodness me, and do you know anything about the value of this?
0:29:22 > 0:29:25- No, we know nothing about it. - Well, you know you've come to the right place, don't you?- Yes!
0:29:25 > 0:29:28How exciting.
0:29:28 > 0:29:30Well, I'm excited, Ian's going to be beside himself.
0:29:36 > 0:29:39Well, I don't know about you, but I grew up with Noddy
0:29:39 > 0:29:42and sort of part of my psyche I think
0:29:42 > 0:29:47was involved with the stories of Noddy and Big Ears
0:29:47 > 0:29:49and all their friends in Toyland,
0:29:49 > 0:29:54and here they are, the original drawings from some of the books.
0:29:54 > 0:29:57Now, what's your relationship with these? Did you go out and buy them?
0:29:57 > 0:30:03No, I've always loved Noddy as a little girl, and my three daughters also love Noddy.
0:30:03 > 0:30:06So where did they come from? Did you buy them?
0:30:06 > 0:30:12Well, my husband bought them for me for a present from an auction in about 1997.
0:30:12 > 0:30:15Right. I mean let's talk a bit about Noddy, because he was first drawn
0:30:15 > 0:30:22in 1949 and he's still going strong at the age of what...63?
0:30:22 > 0:30:26Enid Blyton, who is one of those children's authors
0:30:26 > 0:30:30who some people love, and some people revile,
0:30:30 > 0:30:38her publisher got her together with an artist which really saw her vision,
0:30:38 > 0:30:40and created the characters,
0:30:40 > 0:30:43and that was somebody called Harmsen Van der Beek.
0:30:43 > 0:30:48Now Van der Beek is the best known of the artists.
0:30:48 > 0:30:52He couldn't keep up with the demand of Enid Blyton writing
0:30:52 > 0:30:57all these Noddy books, so he had his little helpers, just as Noddy did.
0:30:57 > 0:31:02And so although Van der Beek died in 1953, even by then, there were
0:31:02 > 0:31:08a lot of other artists involved in producing the Noddy illustrations.
0:31:08 > 0:31:11And two names that I know of -
0:31:11 > 0:31:15Robert Tyndall, Mary Brooks and there were lots of others -
0:31:15 > 0:31:22really copied slavishly the style that Van der Beek had created
0:31:22 > 0:31:29and I would love to say that what we're looking at is a group of Van der Beek drawings.
0:31:31 > 0:31:32I don't think we are.
0:31:32 > 0:31:37I think that we're looking at very good drawings produced by
0:31:37 > 0:31:40- other people within the Noddy stable, if you like.- Right.
0:31:40 > 0:31:43They are beautifully drawn.
0:31:43 > 0:31:46They are watercolours heightened with body colour.
0:31:46 > 0:31:53- I would have thought that what we're looking at here is in the sort of £300 to £500 category.- Right.
0:31:53 > 0:31:57- But in a way, it's not about the money.- No. It isn't. Not at all.
0:31:57 > 0:32:00It's about walking past these pictures in your house and being
0:32:00 > 0:32:04- taken back to when you were five or six and first discovered them. - Exactly.
0:32:04 > 0:32:08So how many years is it, since the great event?
0:32:08 > 0:32:10It's got to be 20 plus years.
0:32:10 > 0:32:16- Yeah? But what have you done to your hair? It was dreadlocks then. - Well, times change.- Things move on.
0:32:16 > 0:32:18So, tell me about this one.
0:32:18 > 0:32:22- Where has that come from?- We found it wrapped in a bag in some newspaper.
0:32:22 > 0:32:25Gosh, what a beaker, though!
0:32:25 > 0:32:27Because what we've got here...
0:32:27 > 0:32:33These are all the battles fought by Wellington in the Peninsula War.
0:32:33 > 0:32:35- Right.- And then...
0:32:35 > 0:32:38Now THAT - that is fascinating.
0:32:38 > 0:32:40Dover Castle.
0:32:40 > 0:32:44Wellington of course was made Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
0:32:44 > 0:32:51- Right.- And in 1839, about ten years after he'd been appointed,
0:32:51 > 0:32:55they had a huge banquet for him, to celebrate his appointment.
0:32:55 > 0:32:58It was about ten years too late, but it was...
0:32:58 > 0:33:01And they put up this massive marquee
0:33:01 > 0:33:03and they had about 2,000 guests
0:33:03 > 0:33:06- and there of course is Wellington. - Is himself.
0:33:06 > 0:33:09So what a piece to find.
0:33:09 > 0:33:12I've never seen that before. I've heard about it.
0:33:12 > 0:33:15Does that mean it's the only one?
0:33:15 > 0:33:19The medal would have been specially struck and it is, I think, quite a rare medal.
0:33:19 > 0:33:25- How many were actually issued, I don't know.- OK.
0:33:25 > 0:33:29Bit of research should reveal that. Actually the medallist,
0:33:29 > 0:33:33I've just noticed there, his name, is just under his head, Wyon.
0:33:33 > 0:33:38- Right.- And boy, he was the great medallist of the 19th century.
0:33:38 > 0:33:41So whether every guest got one, or whether it was literally just
0:33:41 > 0:33:45a question of whoever wanted to pay for one, but mounted in the beaker,
0:33:45 > 0:33:47what on earth is that worth?
0:33:47 > 0:33:51And would that be ivory or bone?
0:33:51 > 0:33:53That should be horn.
0:33:53 > 0:33:56- Horn, OK.- I'll go for that being horn, the shape and the colour.
0:33:56 > 0:33:59So we've got to add to the total, haven't we?
0:33:59 > 0:34:02- Mm.- Unfortunately!- Yes.
0:34:02 > 0:34:04Oh... At auction,
0:34:04 > 0:34:10I reckon we're looking at between £2,000 and £3,000.
0:34:10 > 0:34:13- Right, gosh.- Blimey. Goodness me.
0:34:13 > 0:34:16- Now you're sure you've actually found everything?- Yes, yes.
0:34:16 > 0:34:17He was quite a fellow, your father.
0:34:17 > 0:34:20- He certainly was. - What a collector.- Certainly was.
0:34:22 > 0:34:26So you, I believe, have a connection to Layer Marney,
0:34:26 > 0:34:29this wonderful corner of England that we're visiting today.
0:34:29 > 0:34:34Our family owned Layer Marney for a mere 160 years.
0:34:34 > 0:34:36So it's more than just a connection!
0:34:36 > 0:34:40- Yes.- So your family... You're Mr Corsellis.- Correct.
0:34:40 > 0:34:43But what you've brought me today is certainly not from that period,
0:34:43 > 0:34:47this is something much more recent. This is from the 20th century.
0:34:47 > 0:34:50Still has the name Corsellis on it.
0:34:50 > 0:34:53My elder brother - he was two years older than me.
0:34:53 > 0:34:57- So this case is your brother's, not yours.- Yes.
0:34:57 > 0:35:01Well, inside it is what looks to be an RAF scarf
0:35:01 > 0:35:05as well as a collection of notebooks.
0:35:05 > 0:35:12He left behind about 230 poems which he'd written during his life,
0:35:12 > 0:35:16but only 15 had been published in his lifetime,
0:35:16 > 0:35:19but this is his full collection.
0:35:19 > 0:35:21And he was writing when?
0:35:21 > 0:35:25Couple of years before the war and the first two years of the war.
0:35:25 > 0:35:33- And he wrote about the war.- Yes, very much so, because he was training to become a pilot in the RAF.
0:35:33 > 0:35:35I assume he was a young man when he was writing.
0:35:35 > 0:35:38- Yes, he certainly was, he was 20 when he died.- He died in the war?
0:35:38 > 0:35:44That's it, yes. Flying fairly low and the plane stalled
0:35:44 > 0:35:50and he was not able to regain control over the plane, so it crashed.
0:35:50 > 0:35:52And so he died at a very young age.
0:35:52 > 0:35:56Yes, but many of the war poets died young.
0:35:56 > 0:36:00So, some of these poems talk about his flying experience.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03- They do, yes.- But a couple of these I stumbled across
0:36:03 > 0:36:06- are talking about his experiences in London.- Yes.
0:36:06 > 0:36:11- Where he was obviously helping out on the ground rather than as a flyer. - Well, yes,
0:36:11 > 0:36:18he was working for Wandsworth Borough Council as a very young air raid warden.
0:36:18 > 0:36:21And it looks as though every few days, or at least every week,
0:36:21 > 0:36:23- he was writing down his experiences in his book.- Correct.
0:36:23 > 0:36:26This one caught my eye - "Dawn after the Raid".
0:36:26 > 0:36:28Yes.
0:36:28 > 0:36:33"Under this pile of fallen masonry Under those spillikins of beams
0:36:33 > 0:36:37"Where number thirty-two lies shattered, there may be a body.
0:36:37 > 0:36:41"Dig For there may be a body. "
0:36:41 > 0:36:47I think it's incredibly powerful and really takes us to the heart of the Blitz
0:36:47 > 0:36:50- in the early 1940s.- I do agree.
0:36:50 > 0:36:55Wonderful image of spillikins of beams - of a house being smashed apart like a children's game.
0:36:55 > 0:36:57It's tremendous.
0:36:57 > 0:37:03Now the value of a collection of artefacts like this, clearly doesn't rest in money.
0:37:03 > 0:37:07It's far more important that this kind of material is published and known about,
0:37:07 > 0:37:10but of course people will be interested to know what it's worth.
0:37:10 > 0:37:17I suppose if this were sold at auction, today or tomorrow, it might make
0:37:17 > 0:37:20£8,000, possibly as much as £10,000,
0:37:20 > 0:37:23but I suppose it will be very much more valuable in the future.
0:37:23 > 0:37:25I'm not surprised.
0:37:30 > 0:37:34I couldn't help but see you struggling along with this thing.
0:37:34 > 0:37:36What on earth is it?
0:37:36 > 0:37:39OK, it's a Victorian vacuum cleaner.
0:37:39 > 0:37:42- Is it?- Yes, there's a badge round here which tells you all about it.
0:37:42 > 0:37:47The Wizard, Standard Number Two.
0:37:47 > 0:37:50And so just talk me through how this works, then.
0:37:50 > 0:37:53Probably needs about two maids to work it,
0:37:53 > 0:37:55one holding this
0:37:55 > 0:37:59- and the other one turning the handle.- Oh, I see the bellows here.
0:37:59 > 0:38:02You can turn it, the bellows work.
0:38:02 > 0:38:07There is one of these in the Science Museum, by the way, but I don't know that there are any others.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10Right. Can we give you a hand? Where are you going with it now?
0:38:10 > 0:38:13Well, I'm attempting to get down the steps to the bottom field.
0:38:14 > 0:38:16- Right. I'll give it a go.- Wow.
0:38:18 > 0:38:19Thank you.
0:38:33 > 0:38:36There is a word that the Antiques Roadshow valuers
0:38:36 > 0:38:38keenly long to hear.
0:38:38 > 0:38:41It's a word that causes the very hairs on our necks
0:38:41 > 0:38:45to rise up, and that word is "Titanic"
0:38:45 > 0:38:50and you are the lucky owner of a piece of Titanic memorabilia.
0:38:50 > 0:38:54Yes, I certainly am. My grandfather
0:38:54 > 0:38:57was a master joiner and worked on The Titanic.
0:38:57 > 0:39:00Worked in Harland and Wolff in Belfast.
0:39:00 > 0:39:03- Master craftsman. - This presumably is his portrait.
0:39:03 > 0:39:05- This is my grandfather here. - In photograph album.
0:39:05 > 0:39:10Alexander, and he actually sailed on her, on the sea trials
0:39:10 > 0:39:14and then sailed to Southampton on the ship.
0:39:14 > 0:39:18Right, as a master craftsman no doubt for sort of four or five years,
0:39:18 > 0:39:23that enormous task of producing those fabulous first-class passenger cabins
0:39:23 > 0:39:25with all the wonderful woodwork...
0:39:25 > 0:39:26Exactly.
0:39:26 > 0:39:30And of course the other very exciting thing is that 2012
0:39:30 > 0:39:34is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the ship.
0:39:34 > 0:39:36It is.
0:39:36 > 0:39:37So what exactly have you got?
0:39:37 > 0:39:42Cos I'm looking at an envelope with a black edge to it.
0:39:42 > 0:39:45When my grandfather was in Southampton,
0:39:45 > 0:39:47before he left the ship -
0:39:47 > 0:39:50- because he left the ship to go back to Belfast...- Right.
0:39:50 > 0:39:54..one of the crew actually gave him a memento,
0:39:54 > 0:39:58- which I have here today.- I'm just beside myself with excitement,
0:39:58 > 0:40:01come on, open it! Open it, what is it?
0:40:01 > 0:40:03Let's have a look.
0:40:05 > 0:40:10It's actually a hat band from a member of the crew of The Titanic.
0:40:11 > 0:40:13Good gracious.
0:40:13 > 0:40:17That's obviously made of black silk.
0:40:17 > 0:40:20- Which obviously went round a hat... - Yeah.
0:40:20 > 0:40:23..of a member of the crew.
0:40:23 > 0:40:26I shall immediately contradict you
0:40:26 > 0:40:31- and tell you that this is actually a souvenir gala night ribbon.- Really?
0:40:31 > 0:40:35And these were actually available on the ship and at the quayside
0:40:35 > 0:40:38- as a souvenir to anyone who wanted to actually buy one.- OK.
0:40:38 > 0:40:40Your granddad was probably given one.
0:40:40 > 0:40:44- Right.- I mean if you look, they're actually far too long to go round a hat.- To go round.
0:40:44 > 0:40:50And these are actually used for display on board the ship, for example, when you were
0:40:50 > 0:40:54fine dining, you may have a silver centre-piece in the middle of
0:40:54 > 0:40:58the table and you could obviously take the ribbon
0:40:58 > 0:41:00and wrap it right round.
0:41:00 > 0:41:06And quite frankly, White Star Line ribbons are fairly common.
0:41:06 > 0:41:11- Right.- From sister ships to the Titanic, and in fact those can be bought for a few hundred pounds.
0:41:11 > 0:41:14- Right. - But this, look... Let's face it,
0:41:14 > 0:41:16this is RMS Titanic,
0:41:16 > 0:41:23- and there's actually only 20 of these actually known to exist.- 20?- Yeah.
0:41:23 > 0:41:25Now when it comes to value,
0:41:25 > 0:41:30it is such a difficult market to predict, it's a very volatile market
0:41:30 > 0:41:35and values can run away with emotions, but we would put this
0:41:35 > 0:41:39in a sale with an estimate around £8,000 to £12,000.
0:41:39 > 0:41:42That's just for a little fine ribbon.
0:41:42 > 0:41:44Well, there's so few known.
0:41:44 > 0:41:48- Right, it's always been said it's been a hat band.- Yeah.
0:41:48 > 0:41:51So it's lovely to share it with you today.
0:41:51 > 0:41:54100 years after it sank, it seems even the smallest item of
0:41:54 > 0:41:58Titanic memorabilia can cause a stir among the specialists.
0:42:00 > 0:42:03This is a marvellous contraption.
0:42:03 > 0:42:06Now, Neil - this is yours. What is it?
0:42:06 > 0:42:09Well, it is a pedal roller and it was made for rolling
0:42:09 > 0:42:12a cricket crease or a gentleman's lawn, or something like that.
0:42:12 > 0:42:14You do it with your feet, obviously.
0:42:14 > 0:42:18Yes, but it's such hard work, that it didn't really go into production,
0:42:18 > 0:42:20and this model is actually unique.
0:42:20 > 0:42:22And how have you come by it?
0:42:22 > 0:42:24My grandfather had it and...
0:42:24 > 0:42:27- Did he use it?- No, no!
0:42:27 > 0:42:30And it was stuck behind the farmhouse in some nettles
0:42:30 > 0:42:33and I was always interested in it, and they gave it to me.
0:42:33 > 0:42:36Look at this photograph, isn't this amazing? Is this your mother?
0:42:36 > 0:42:39- Yes, it is indeed. - In the 1950s.- Look at that.
0:42:39 > 0:42:41Riding this, this garden roller.
0:42:41 > 0:42:45Fiona, how do you fancy kind of re-enacting this photograph?
0:42:45 > 0:42:47You can be my Mum.
0:42:47 > 0:42:50- I'll give it a go.- All right, go on then, go on, let's see.
0:42:50 > 0:42:52- Shall I?- Yeah, go on, go.
0:42:53 > 0:42:57Oh, my word! Is it going to just sort of career off?
0:42:57 > 0:43:01- Has it got brakes?- Yeah, there is a brake on the back here.- OK.
0:43:01 > 0:43:02If you go too fast, I'll sort it.
0:43:02 > 0:43:05- Right, OK, right here we go - are you ready?- Yeah.
0:43:05 > 0:43:07Ooh! From Layer Marney...
0:43:07 > 0:43:09CHEERING
0:43:09 > 0:43:14..and the team at the Antiques Roadshow, until next time, bye-bye.