0:00:02 > 0:00:04Mary Queen of Scots is well known for her turbulent life,
0:00:04 > 0:00:06but what you may not know is that she was also
0:00:06 > 0:00:09one of the first women to regularly play golf.
0:00:09 > 0:00:12It's said that when she arrived in St Andrews in the 1560s,
0:00:12 > 0:00:15she brought along her own set of golf clubs -
0:00:15 > 0:00:16in fact, she brought them from France,
0:00:16 > 0:00:18where she'd learned as a child.
0:00:18 > 0:00:20Now, I've not played golf before,
0:00:20 > 0:00:23but I'm on the world's most famous golf course,
0:00:23 > 0:00:25so I'm going to give it a go.
0:00:29 > 0:00:30Oh.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Well, I think Tiger Woods can rest easy.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37Welcome to a second round of the Antiques Roadshow
0:00:37 > 0:00:41from St Andrews in Scotland, the home of golf.
0:00:41 > 0:00:42BELL RINGS
0:01:23 > 0:01:25When Mary Queen of Scots lived in France
0:01:25 > 0:01:26as a member of the Royal Family,
0:01:26 > 0:01:30she had military cadets to carry her golf clubs for her,
0:01:30 > 0:01:32and it's thought that when she came to Scotland,
0:01:32 > 0:01:34she brought the practice with her,
0:01:34 > 0:01:38and the term "cadet" evolved into the word "caddy".
0:01:44 > 0:01:46But Mary Queen of Scots' love of golf
0:01:46 > 0:01:49also placed her at the heart of a scandal.
0:01:49 > 0:01:52In 1567, Mary's husband -
0:01:52 > 0:01:54Lord Darnley - was murdered.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56Now there was much speculation at the time
0:01:56 > 0:01:57that she was involved in his murder,
0:01:57 > 0:02:01not helped by the fact that she was apparently seen playing golf
0:02:01 > 0:02:02just a few days later.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07So, not too bothered by what had happened to him, then.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14This is the oldest of seven golf courses here.
0:02:14 > 0:02:16I wonder if they're dusting down the trophies
0:02:16 > 0:02:18ready for the Antiques Roadshow, which we're holding
0:02:18 > 0:02:21in St Salvator's quad in St Andrews University.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25Do you know what this is?
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Not really. I think it's Japanese.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30It was given to me by my mother about 20 years ago.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32She likes going to charity shops -
0:02:32 > 0:02:36still does - and anything with an animal on it she would give me,
0:02:36 > 0:02:38usually wooden elephants and china ducks,
0:02:38 > 0:02:41and she gave me this, and I thought it was different,
0:02:41 > 0:02:44but it was all broken, the piece of string was broken.
0:02:44 > 0:02:45It was 50 pence, so...
0:02:45 > 0:02:47- 50 pence?- Yes.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49I think it is just the most magical object.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51- Really?- Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
0:02:51 > 0:02:53- Good.- This is an inro.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55- Right.- Japanese - you were right -
0:02:55 > 0:03:01and the Japanese used to carry small objects around in there -
0:03:01 > 0:03:04seals, medicines...
0:03:04 > 0:03:06- Oh, right. - ..spices, that sort of thing.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09- Right.- You then come through the cord,
0:03:09 > 0:03:11which you've got more or less right there,
0:03:11 > 0:03:13to the ojime,
0:03:13 > 0:03:15which actually tensions that.
0:03:15 > 0:03:16- Right.- Now, it won't on yours,
0:03:16 > 0:03:18because the cord's too thin.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20Right.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23You need a thicker cord. And then up to the netsuke.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26And the whole thing is worn like that.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Oh, right, so you actually walked about with it.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Now, I strongly suspect -
0:03:31 > 0:03:36I mean, we're dealing with a time in Japan in the 19th century...
0:03:36 > 0:03:37Right.
0:03:39 > 0:03:41..when the Samurai have been stopped
0:03:41 > 0:03:42from fighting one another.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44So you had 200 years of peace.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Right.
0:03:46 > 0:03:47The economy's quite strong,
0:03:47 > 0:03:49there are not an awful lot of people,
0:03:49 > 0:03:53so they turned to making show-off objects...
0:03:53 > 0:03:57- Oh, I see.- ..which the Samurai can wear about his person,
0:03:57 > 0:03:59and inro were one of those.
0:03:59 > 0:04:00Right.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02It's basically lacquer.
0:04:02 > 0:04:06Oh, I thought it was plastic, actually, so...lacquer, right.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08Well, in a sense you're right,
0:04:08 > 0:04:12because lacquer could be considered a form of plastic.
0:04:13 > 0:04:19It isn't. It's actually the sap of the rhus tree.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Right.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24And it comes out of the tree as deadly poisonous,
0:04:24 > 0:04:28and all the people who work with it, at that stage, die an early death.
0:04:28 > 0:04:29Goodness me.
0:04:29 > 0:04:34It's then processed, and they paint it onto food dishes,
0:04:34 > 0:04:38wine holders, cups,
0:04:38 > 0:04:41bowls, and at that stage it's inert,
0:04:41 > 0:04:46and it lent itself to artistic use.
0:04:46 > 0:04:53Now, here the maker has made
0:04:53 > 0:04:59a netsuke in the form of a house, or hut,
0:04:59 > 0:05:05inlaid with a soapstone plaque and an inscription.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08I've never seen that before.
0:05:08 > 0:05:09Right.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Very, very unusual.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13But the real joy is the inro itself
0:05:13 > 0:05:15and this fantastic
0:05:15 > 0:05:16lobster, crayfish.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18It's beautiful, isn't it?
0:05:18 > 0:05:22Yeah, and only the Japanese would have thought to do something
0:05:22 > 0:05:25literally eccentric - off centre.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28- In Europe, oh, no, we'd have to balance it with another one.- Yeah.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32It's an absolutely staggering object.
0:05:33 > 0:05:37It's possibly by one of the greatest lacquer artists
0:05:37 > 0:05:39- of the late 19th century... - Good grief.
0:05:39 > 0:05:42..Shibata Zeshin, but I don't know whether it is.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45I'd have to go and do a bit of work on it.
0:05:45 > 0:05:50Even if it's not, it's worth £3,000 to £5,000.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Oh, my God!
0:05:52 > 0:05:56- And if it's Zeshin, I don't think I dare tell you.- Right.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59It's a really fantastic thing.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01I'm really glad I brought it. Thank you.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04Well, this artist occasionally went in for stained glass windows
0:06:04 > 0:06:07and, do you know, looking at this, you can really see that.
0:06:07 > 0:06:08What colours!
0:06:08 > 0:06:12I mean, that rainbow is extraordinarily vivid
0:06:12 > 0:06:14and in terrific condition.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17It looks as though it's hardly seen the light of day. Has it?
0:06:17 > 0:06:20- No, it's not seen the light of day for quite a while.- Ah.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24It was found behind a wardrobe in my late father's house.
0:06:24 > 0:06:25- Really?- Yeah.
0:06:25 > 0:06:28It's quite a thing, isn't it? Now what's going on in it?
0:06:28 > 0:06:31I mean, she's quite gloomy, but wonderfully romantic.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34There's an angel presenting a baby,
0:06:34 > 0:06:36holding what seem to be little posies of flowers
0:06:36 > 0:06:38and she's at the bottom of a chasm
0:06:38 > 0:06:43with some dark water and some trees, very symbolic strange trees,
0:06:43 > 0:06:45and weird figures here.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47And some kind of sort of citadel,
0:06:47 > 0:06:49almost, at the top of the gorge there,
0:06:49 > 0:06:53- and a signature - which is useful to me, always.- Right.
0:06:53 > 0:06:58Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, England, around 1900.
0:06:58 > 0:06:59Now, she uses body colour,
0:06:59 > 0:07:02which, incidentally, is when you mix watercolour
0:07:02 > 0:07:05with Chinese white, and it's a thickening agent -
0:07:05 > 0:07:08- it's a bit like putting flour in gravy, you know?- Right.
0:07:08 > 0:07:12And what it does, also, is it enables the watercolour
0:07:12 > 0:07:16to become opaque instead of transparent,
0:07:16 > 0:07:18because normally when you just put watercolour on,
0:07:18 > 0:07:19it's completely like a wash.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21If you put quite a lot of Chinese white in it,
0:07:21 > 0:07:23you get this thickening here,
0:07:23 > 0:07:25- and you see how bright it is, as a result...- Yes.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28..in the posies, and I think she's used
0:07:28 > 0:07:29a little bit of it in the rainbow,
0:07:29 > 0:07:31- just to pick it out and bring it away.- Yeah.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34And there's quite a lot of white here to suggest
0:07:34 > 0:07:36the mistiness that this angel -
0:07:36 > 0:07:39- the vision - seems to be coming out of.- Yes.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41She also designed her own frames.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44The original frame for this would have looked quite extraordinary,
0:07:44 > 0:07:46lots of swirly gold, quite thick,
0:07:46 > 0:07:48and often they get taken off the pictures, to put mirrors in
0:07:48 > 0:07:52in the days when people thought this sort of thing was rubbish.
0:07:52 > 0:07:53- Not so long ago, really.- Right.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55- Do you like it?- I do.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57I think it's fascinating, yeah.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59Mysterious, and there is a family connection.
0:07:59 > 0:08:05The lady in the painting is very much like a young version of my mother.
0:08:05 > 0:08:09- Really?- Which is perhaps why my father hid it after my mother died.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12It's amazing what an emotional charge pictures can acquire
0:08:12 > 0:08:13over the years, isn't it?
0:08:13 > 0:08:16Well, of course, at the time this was done, you know,
0:08:16 > 0:08:19there were all sorts of strange ideas about mediums
0:08:19 > 0:08:22and reaching the other side, and there were...
0:08:22 > 0:08:25the theosophists were going and well, you know,
0:08:25 > 0:08:29there's a lot of belief in spiritualism and mediums.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32And this comes through in her work particularly.
0:08:32 > 0:08:35There's always this very strong symbolism in them,
0:08:35 > 0:08:39and not always easy to disentangle now and understand ourselves.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42- Right.- But all we can see is this very beautiful thing.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45I don't mind that it's melancholic and rather sad,
0:08:45 > 0:08:48because it's absolutely vivid like a jewel.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Right, yeah.
0:08:50 > 0:08:54Brilliantly done, superb condition. I absolutely love it.
0:08:54 > 0:08:57Pity it's lost its frame. That would have helped.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00But actually, even just in this modern frame,
0:09:00 > 0:09:02it's still worth £2,000 to £3,000.
0:09:02 > 0:09:04Right, really?
0:09:05 > 0:09:06Extraordinary.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09It was given to me about 30 years ago
0:09:09 > 0:09:11by a friend who was emigrating to Australia.
0:09:11 > 0:09:16Too big to take with him and I'd known it -
0:09:16 > 0:09:21he told me it was a guava bowl, belonged to his grandfather.
0:09:21 > 0:09:25His grandfather was a colonial agricultural advisor
0:09:25 > 0:09:28and he'd brought it back from somewhere.
0:09:28 > 0:09:31- Fantastic.- So this friend -
0:09:31 > 0:09:34he's the same age as I am, about 65, so if you work back,
0:09:34 > 0:09:37must be about the '20s or '30s when he brought it home
0:09:37 > 0:09:42- from wherever he was an agricultural advisor in some colony.- Gosh.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44Well, I'm so glad you brought it,
0:09:44 > 0:09:46and what a story, and what a gift to get.
0:09:46 > 0:09:51- Yes.- I'll put matters to rest. This is for kava drinking.
0:09:51 > 0:09:56Kava, and kava was a drink taken throughout the South Pacific,
0:09:56 > 0:10:01particularly, obviously, the numerous Polynesian islands
0:10:01 > 0:10:03such as Samoa, Fiji,
0:10:03 > 0:10:06and a big bowl like this is big enough
0:10:06 > 0:10:09to be used by, basically, the whole community.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12But the drink's fascinating, it's actually -
0:10:12 > 0:10:16it's derived from the root of the kava bush,
0:10:16 > 0:10:19known as a Piper methisticum.
0:10:19 > 0:10:22And they harvested the root.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25Traditionally young men would chew the roots
0:10:25 > 0:10:29and it would give a mildly sort of sedative,
0:10:29 > 0:10:31state of euphoric sort of feeling.
0:10:31 > 0:10:35The roots were then put in a bowl like this, mixed with water,
0:10:35 > 0:10:39to create a drink that the whole community could enjoy.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Sounds a bit of fun, doesn't it?
0:10:41 > 0:10:44It does. Was it fermented, was it potent, was it alcoholic?
0:10:44 > 0:10:47- I believe so. I've never brewed it myself!- Right.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49I'd love to try it. But it obviously had a bit of a punch,
0:10:49 > 0:10:54and I think this would be really a very important central item
0:10:54 > 0:10:58to that ritual, and what's lovely about this piece is,
0:10:58 > 0:11:02it's made of hard wood, but from one big chunk of wood.
0:11:02 > 0:11:04By the shape of the bowl, the shape of the angles,
0:11:04 > 0:11:07and also particularly the addition of the sea shells,
0:11:07 > 0:11:10I think this is from the island of Fiji.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Yes, that does ring a bell, now,
0:11:13 > 0:11:15as soon as you mentioned Fiji.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18I believe he did say Fiji.
0:11:18 > 0:11:23So it's a kava bowl. In Fiji it's called a yaqona.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25Communal drinking.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27What's it worth?
0:11:27 > 0:11:32I think because of the provenance you've given it, in a sale,
0:11:32 > 0:11:35a specialist sale of this kind of material,
0:11:35 > 0:11:37you could anticipate an auction estimate
0:11:37 > 0:11:38- of £2,000 to £3,000.- What?!
0:11:40 > 0:11:42That's amazing.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45My father served in the Second World War
0:11:45 > 0:11:47and one of the nights that they were bivouacking,
0:11:47 > 0:11:50they were bivouacking in a small village
0:11:50 > 0:11:53and it was maybe a toy shop - I'm not certain which -
0:11:53 > 0:11:56very close to where he parked, and he was looking in the window
0:11:56 > 0:11:58and they wondered what he was up to,
0:11:58 > 0:12:01making sure he wasn't going to rob them or something,
0:12:01 > 0:12:04and they had all these toys and he bartered with them,
0:12:04 > 0:12:05and came away with these.
0:12:05 > 0:12:08And he boxed them up and somehow
0:12:08 > 0:12:10the army got it shipped back to me
0:12:10 > 0:12:12and I got them when I was five years old,
0:12:12 > 0:12:16and you can look at them and see that I've played with them readily.
0:12:16 > 0:12:17Exactly.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21They were meant to be played with and they were played with.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24So which part of Europe was your father in?
0:12:24 > 0:12:28Well, he was in Germany and then in Czechoslovakia and Austria.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31- Right.- But I have no idea which country he was in
0:12:31 > 0:12:32when he acquired these.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35OK, well the bulk of the toys that you have here
0:12:35 > 0:12:37is made by a company called Hauser,
0:12:37 > 0:12:39and they started in business
0:12:39 > 0:12:41right back in about 1910,
0:12:41 > 0:12:45and what that company is perhaps best known for,
0:12:45 > 0:12:50apart from these toys showing the military power of Germany
0:12:50 > 0:12:52leading up to the Second World War,
0:12:52 > 0:12:55is that they invented a type of material
0:12:55 > 0:12:59for making toy soldiers, and that material,
0:12:59 > 0:13:02they trademarked the name, and it's Elastolin.
0:13:02 > 0:13:07And it was a mixture of paste on a wire armature,
0:13:07 > 0:13:10so inside here there is wire -
0:13:10 > 0:13:14and occasionally, on badly damaged soldiers,
0:13:14 > 0:13:17you can see that peeping through - and the scale was important.
0:13:17 > 0:13:20They created soldiers that were 7 or 7.5 centimetres,
0:13:20 > 0:13:23so that was really quite a breakthrough.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27And the use of this natural material
0:13:27 > 0:13:30got away from the use of lead or tin
0:13:30 > 0:13:33which is, of course, what soldiers were made of beforehand,
0:13:33 > 0:13:36so that's perhaps what Hauser is best known for.
0:13:36 > 0:13:39The figures themselves,
0:13:39 > 0:13:43because of the ease with which this paste could be moulded,
0:13:43 > 0:13:45it meant that, in fact,
0:13:45 > 0:13:50particular individuals could be made out of Elastolin,
0:13:50 > 0:13:53and in fact, if we look round, we've got the figure of Hitler,
0:13:53 > 0:13:58and it was quite normal of what a young German boy
0:13:58 > 0:14:00in 1934, '35, '36, '37,
0:14:00 > 0:14:03leading up to the war, would have wanted.
0:14:03 > 0:14:04And in that hobby shop,
0:14:04 > 0:14:07in one of the countries that your father was in,
0:14:07 > 0:14:09that's where they were sitting and waiting.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11I wonder what he bartered with.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13What did he give them - cigarettes, or...?
0:14:13 > 0:14:16Well, my dad said that it was cigarettes and chocolate
0:14:16 > 0:14:18and other paraphernalia.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21Now, I don't know what the other paraphernalia was,
0:14:21 > 0:14:24but at any rate, he parted with some of that stuff,
0:14:24 > 0:14:27and I was very fortunate in getting this.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30I mentioned that most of these are made by a company called Hauser.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33The exception, in fact, is this aeroplane here
0:14:33 > 0:14:36which is made by a company called Tipp and Company,
0:14:36 > 0:14:38and you can see it's got the initials TC on there,
0:14:38 > 0:14:40which is a good clue.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42This, I have to say, is a complete stranger.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45This is a much more contemporary model.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47It doesn't date from the same period.
0:14:47 > 0:14:53But looking at all this, did it in any way inspire your future?
0:14:53 > 0:14:57Well, the answer to that is yes, because what I did is
0:14:57 > 0:15:02I joined the Navy when I was 17 years old.
0:15:02 > 0:15:05I was very fortunate and I came up through the ranks
0:15:05 > 0:15:06and eventually became an officer
0:15:06 > 0:15:08and then I became a fighter pilot.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10I served in Vietnam,
0:15:10 > 0:15:12and my father served in the Second World War,
0:15:12 > 0:15:15and my uncle served in the Korean War.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18Our daughter is a Daughter of the Revolution,
0:15:18 > 0:15:20and so it just goes on and on.
0:15:20 > 0:15:21We're kind of warriors.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23I did 221 combat missions
0:15:23 > 0:15:25in North Vietnam.
0:15:25 > 0:15:30I was engaged in a dog fight with two Vietnamese Migs,
0:15:30 > 0:15:33and I'm happy to say I'm here today.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35It's Tom Cruise!
0:15:35 > 0:15:38THEY LAUGH Because, because...
0:15:38 > 0:15:41well, they did model him after me!
0:15:41 > 0:15:42Yeah, exactly, I can see that!
0:15:42 > 0:15:47And from there, I went on, and it was the aviation career,
0:15:47 > 0:15:50and I can trace it back to all these things.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53That it just kept spawning my interest,
0:15:53 > 0:15:54and I became a test pilot
0:15:54 > 0:15:56after a while as well,
0:15:56 > 0:15:59and so I did that for eight or nine years.
0:15:59 > 0:16:00Brilliant!
0:16:00 > 0:16:04And met my child-like bride and we settled in St Andrews.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06And here you are! Well, it just goes to show,
0:16:06 > 0:16:08you have to be careful the toys you give to your kids!
0:16:08 > 0:16:10Yes! CROWD LAUGHS
0:16:10 > 0:16:13As far as value's concerned, I mean,
0:16:13 > 0:16:14the first thing to say
0:16:14 > 0:16:17is that with toys, they kind of can only give once.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20- Yeah.- You know, you either enjoy them for the toy value,
0:16:20 > 0:16:22and you get that pleasure from them,
0:16:22 > 0:16:24or you keep them in their original boxes
0:16:24 > 0:16:26and you get the pleasure later.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28You kind of got the pleasure early on,
0:16:28 > 0:16:30but I'm sure that we're talking about
0:16:30 > 0:16:33a couple of thousand pounds.
0:16:33 > 0:16:34It's a good collection,
0:16:34 > 0:16:36not in great condition.
0:16:36 > 0:16:40- No. That's OK.- But the fact that it led you onto that career...
0:16:40 > 0:16:42it's brilliant. Thanks very much indeed.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44Thanking you.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46St Andrews is always considered as the home of golf,
0:16:46 > 0:16:49and I think it dates back to...I think 1754-55,
0:16:49 > 0:16:51that sort of period.
0:16:51 > 0:16:54But soon after, the Crail Club,
0:16:54 > 0:16:56which you are a member and the secretary of, was founded.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58What actual date was that?
0:16:58 > 0:17:001786.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02They were playing golf in Crail
0:17:02 > 0:17:05for a good bit before that, but no records exist.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08So the first minute book dates from 1786.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10So probably one of the first six or seven
0:17:10 > 0:17:12oldest golf clubs in the world?
0:17:12 > 0:17:14Oh, yes, indeed.
0:17:14 > 0:17:17You know, and before 1830, there were only a handful of clubs
0:17:17 > 0:17:18existed in the world.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21As you say, about a dozen, maybe, and we're the seventh oldest.
0:17:21 > 0:17:27And so it was formed in 1786 by 11 gentlemen of Crail.
0:17:27 > 0:17:31They were all landlords and gentlemen farmers in Crail and the East Neuk,
0:17:31 > 0:17:36and by the time of 1831,
0:17:36 > 0:17:41one of the local landowners, who became Lord Lindsay of Wormiston,
0:17:41 > 0:17:43thought it was inappropriate,
0:17:43 > 0:17:46as it says in the minutes, inappropriate
0:17:46 > 0:17:47that a society of such standing
0:17:47 > 0:17:51did not have a medal to play for.
0:17:51 > 0:17:55So he donated the Lindsay medal.
0:17:55 > 0:17:56So way back in those days,
0:17:56 > 0:17:58it wasn't anybody who could join the society.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01You had to be a gentleman.
0:18:01 > 0:18:02Yes, they were quite selective
0:18:02 > 0:18:06because it was quite an expensive sport.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09And not only was the equipment expensive,
0:18:09 > 0:18:11in terms of the golf clubs and the golf balls,
0:18:11 > 0:18:14but you would be fined if you didn't attend the dinners
0:18:14 > 0:18:19and you could not...in one of the minutes it says
0:18:19 > 0:18:21you could not absent yourself from the drinking
0:18:21 > 0:18:24under the pretence of taking tea.
0:18:24 > 0:18:28HE LAUGHS So it was very much a social game.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31So what's the earliest one you have here?
0:18:31 > 0:18:35So the earliest one is the Lindsay medal, as I say, 1831.
0:18:35 > 0:18:39And there are only a handful of golf medals
0:18:39 > 0:18:41that are older than this.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43And, indeed, all these medals
0:18:43 > 0:18:44would have been worn with a ribbon
0:18:44 > 0:18:48on their uniforms at the dinners.
0:18:48 > 0:18:52Now, what makes the Lindsay medal very unusual
0:18:52 > 0:18:54is it was won by Allan Robertson,
0:18:54 > 0:18:57the world's first golf professional, in 1855.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01Now, when the medal was donated,
0:19:01 > 0:19:05it was specifically stated that it would be an open competition.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07It would be open to all gentlemen,
0:19:07 > 0:19:10and Allan Robertson, being a golf professional,
0:19:10 > 0:19:12- of course, fancies his chances. - Yep.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14Travelled down from St Andrews to Crail
0:19:14 > 0:19:16and duly won it, in 1855.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18It was only two years later that he died,
0:19:18 > 0:19:23so I believe his name won't be on many trophies at all, if any.
0:19:23 > 0:19:25So there's some fabulous names
0:19:25 > 0:19:30engraved either on the trophies, or on the plates afterwards,
0:19:30 > 0:19:35like Captain Bruce, the Governor of Jamaica, and so on.
0:19:35 > 0:19:37Good. Well, they obviously belong to the club.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40- They're never going to sell them. - Oh, absolutely not, no!
0:19:40 > 0:19:42We have to think about insurance,
0:19:42 > 0:19:46because these things obviously need to be insured.
0:19:46 > 0:19:49Without a doubt, the most important one is the earlier one.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53And if we just turn it over, we can see that...
0:19:53 > 0:19:57I think you can just see there, it's the date, 1855,
0:19:57 > 0:20:00and the name of the professional, Allan Robertson, there,
0:20:00 > 0:20:03so it's definitely won by him,
0:20:03 > 0:20:06and something like that would command a substantial price
0:20:06 > 0:20:08if it should ever go to auction.
0:20:08 > 0:20:09But for insurance purposes,
0:20:09 > 0:20:11I think we'll talk about
0:20:11 > 0:20:14somewhere in the region of about
0:20:14 > 0:20:18£15,000 to £18,000 for this one here.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21And for the two smaller ones and slightly later ones,
0:20:21 > 0:20:24probably around about £7,500 to £8,000.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27So we're probably talking about £25,000-£30,000
0:20:27 > 0:20:29as an insurance figure for the collection.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Well, I'm relieved that they're kept in the bank, then!
0:20:31 > 0:20:33CROWD LAUGHS
0:20:35 > 0:20:37This is a lovely, lovely portrait,
0:20:37 > 0:20:38this girl with the dog.
0:20:38 > 0:20:43I mean, it just, it ticks every box as being a very commercial picture.
0:20:43 > 0:20:44I see down here
0:20:44 > 0:20:46that it's signed Cyrus Johnson,
0:20:46 > 0:20:49and I think it's indistinctly dated 1887.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Cyrus was my great-great-uncle.
0:20:51 > 0:20:55OK, and you've brought along a photograph.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58- I've brought the photograph of my grandparents' wedding.- Yes.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01Because my understanding is that the picture
0:21:01 > 0:21:03was a wedding present to my grandparents,
0:21:03 > 0:21:06who were actually married in 1898,
0:21:06 > 0:21:07so it was painted before that.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10- I don't know what happened to it before that.- OK.
0:21:10 > 0:21:12And Cyrus himself is here.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15Looking very, very happy at the wedding.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17- Yes, looking very much at his nephew. - Well, you wonder,
0:21:17 > 0:21:19as he gave it as a present,
0:21:19 > 0:21:22that it might be a member of the family in the distant past.
0:21:22 > 0:21:23What I know about Cyrus Johnson
0:21:23 > 0:21:26is that later on he went to do miniatures, didn't he?
0:21:26 > 0:21:28He did a lot of miniature paintings
0:21:28 > 0:21:30and he exhibited those at the Royal Academy.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32- And was he born in Cambridge? - Yes, yes.
0:21:32 > 0:21:33And he worked in London
0:21:33 > 0:21:35and exhibited at the Royal Academy.
0:21:35 > 0:21:41And here we've got a really lovely 1880s portrait
0:21:41 > 0:21:45of a young girl holding what looks like a pug.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47- Yes.- Or a pooch,
0:21:47 > 0:21:50and when you get to the commercial side of this,
0:21:50 > 0:21:53dogs sell pictures, they really do.
0:21:53 > 0:21:57People love them, and especially that type of dog, pooch dogs.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59- Right.- And I think it's lovely.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01And the way it's been painted,
0:22:01 > 0:22:04when you look at her face glancing sideways and the looseness,
0:22:04 > 0:22:06this is very indicative of the period it's been painted in.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08The looseness, almost Impressionistic,
0:22:08 > 0:22:10the way the background has been done,
0:22:10 > 0:22:11and he's concentrated on the face.
0:22:11 > 0:22:15And on panel and in a very original condition.
0:22:15 > 0:22:17You've got the original frame,
0:22:17 > 0:22:20and considering it's been in your family for a long time,
0:22:20 > 0:22:22I suppose that's the reason it's in such good condition.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25We come to put a value on this.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27I think that it's so commercial...
0:22:27 > 0:22:29I mean, he's not an artist that always makes a lot of money,
0:22:29 > 0:22:31but I think this one, because of the dog,
0:22:31 > 0:22:33would be worth somewhere in the region
0:22:33 > 0:22:35of £6,000 to £8,000.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38Mmm. Mmm, lovely.
0:22:39 > 0:22:44This is a really pretty box. It is in fact a tea caddy.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47Where did you get it from?
0:22:47 > 0:22:50My aunt bought it, about 1950, I think.
0:22:52 > 0:22:53And handed down to you?
0:22:53 > 0:22:55- Yes.- I see.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57Well, there's something
0:22:57 > 0:22:59a little bit surprising about this,
0:22:59 > 0:23:03because at first sight you might think it was made in London,
0:23:03 > 0:23:08or even in France, because it's got Edwardian-style decoration,
0:23:08 > 0:23:13these swags on the front and the sides in the Neo-Classical style,
0:23:13 > 0:23:16very typical of the late 19th century, early 20th century.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19And if we open it up,
0:23:19 > 0:23:21we can see it's silver-gilt inside...
0:23:23 > 0:23:29..and the tea was kept extra fresh by that inner liner.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32But the surprising thing about this is,
0:23:32 > 0:23:35is if we turn it upside down...
0:23:37 > 0:23:40..it's got some very good marks here.
0:23:40 > 0:23:44- Has it?- And there's one particularly important mark.
0:23:44 > 0:23:46Have you any idea what it is?
0:23:46 > 0:23:53Well, I thought that the characters looked Russian, but I'm not sure.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57Well, it is Russian, and it's got the most famous maker's mark
0:23:57 > 0:24:00that you're ever likely to find in Russia,
0:24:00 > 0:24:01that of Carl Faberge.
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Oh, my goodness!
0:24:03 > 0:24:06And this was made in the 1890s in Moscow,
0:24:06 > 0:24:09and because it's Faberge,
0:24:09 > 0:24:11it makes it far more interesting
0:24:11 > 0:24:14than any other bit of Russian silver.
0:24:15 > 0:24:19Now, there is good news and bad news about Faberge.
0:24:19 > 0:24:23His mark has been faked more than any other mark.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26- Oh.- And it's been faked for decades.
0:24:26 > 0:24:27Oh.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30There's also some good news.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32- This is absolutely genuine. - Oh, it is! Oh.
0:24:32 > 0:24:34Oh.
0:24:34 > 0:24:35It's a little beauty.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Wow.
0:24:37 > 0:24:41And a lovely piece of Faberge like this
0:24:41 > 0:24:44is going to be sought after in many, many countries.
0:24:44 > 0:24:48- Mm-hm.- So we have to now put a figure on it.
0:24:48 > 0:24:53If I said £8,000 to £10,000, would that make you happy?
0:24:53 > 0:24:54You're darned right!
0:24:55 > 0:24:59Oh, that's amazing. Yeah, absolutely amazing.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01My aunt had a good eye, obviously.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03She had two good eyes!
0:25:06 > 0:25:10Last time we visited this area, back in 2009 in nearby Dundee,
0:25:10 > 0:25:13a visitor brought along a remarkable letter
0:25:13 > 0:25:15from the First World War.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Remember this?
0:25:17 > 0:25:19These refer to my grandmother's brother.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21His name was Bernard Douglas Taylor.
0:25:21 > 0:25:22This is him?
0:25:22 > 0:25:24That's him, yes.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Was he a Friend, was he a Quaker?
0:25:26 > 0:25:28He was a Quaker. The whole family
0:25:28 > 0:25:30turned Quaker before the First World War.
0:25:30 > 0:25:31And once the war had started,
0:25:31 > 0:25:35he helped out with other conscientious objectors and so on.
0:25:35 > 0:25:40When the time came for his drafting, he appeared before a panel
0:25:40 > 0:25:44and pleaded his case for not having to join the military.
0:25:44 > 0:25:45What's this dated?
0:25:45 > 0:25:491916 it looks like, from the postmark.
0:25:49 > 0:25:50Oh, it's a letter to him.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53Oh, oh my...
0:25:53 > 0:25:54Oh, goodness me.
0:25:55 > 0:25:56It's a white feather.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00It's a white feather. As in the Four Feathers film.
0:26:00 > 0:26:04It says, "Noble sir, if you are too proud or frightened" -
0:26:04 > 0:26:09underlined - "to fight, wear this".
0:26:09 > 0:26:12- He obviously was a man of great deep beliefs.- Absolutely.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15But how must he have felt when he received this?
0:26:15 > 0:26:19I think from what I've read of his background that he would have
0:26:19 > 0:26:24accepted it as an example of how human beings can
0:26:24 > 0:26:27look upon each other, and feel sad and sorry, perhaps,
0:26:27 > 0:26:29for the person who wrote it.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32Well, that's an interesting perspective, isn't it, I suppose?
0:26:32 > 0:26:35And I have to say that I've never seen another
0:26:35 > 0:26:37- white feather letter, ever.- Yes.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39Because I doubt whether anybody kept them.
0:26:39 > 0:26:40I would have thought that...
0:26:40 > 0:26:42I think most people would have been very anxious
0:26:42 > 0:26:45- to get rid of them completely, very quickly.- Exactly.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48I actually feel quite privileged to be able to see it -
0:26:48 > 0:26:50it's quite incredible.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52Now Martin, who brought in that letter,
0:26:52 > 0:26:53has returned to the programme,
0:26:53 > 0:26:56- so Martin, lovely to see you again. - Nice to see you.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59We had quite a response to that item on the programme.
0:26:59 > 0:27:03I just wanted to share some of the letters and the e-mails we got.
0:27:03 > 0:27:06Very different, and we had a chap who'd been in the RAF
0:27:06 > 0:27:09who felt that we shouldn't really have been -
0:27:09 > 0:27:12he felt we were celebrating the feather and the letter -
0:27:12 > 0:27:15and said it was shameful then, it was an act of cowardice then,
0:27:15 > 0:27:16and it's just as cowardly now.
0:27:16 > 0:27:20Then, on the other hand, we had other letters who felt
0:27:20 > 0:27:23quite the reverse, actually - a lot of sympathy for your great-uncle,
0:27:23 > 0:27:25and there was one person who wrote in and said,
0:27:25 > 0:27:27"It was particularly significant to me,
0:27:27 > 0:27:30"as my grandmother's youngest brother was a strapping
0:27:30 > 0:27:32"thirteen and a half-year-old, but he looked much older
0:27:32 > 0:27:35"than his years, and he kept being given white feathers,
0:27:35 > 0:27:37"which upset him so greatly, in fact,
0:27:37 > 0:27:39"he enlisted and lied about his age."
0:27:39 > 0:27:42So he went in and served in the war far younger
0:27:42 > 0:27:45- than he should have done. - I think many did, in fact, yes.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47So we had very different responses.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49- I don't know - what do you think about that?- I don't know.
0:27:49 > 0:27:52My grandmother's brother, he was a Quaker, a pacifist,
0:27:52 > 0:27:58and very, very sincere in his beliefs but, as in the programme,
0:27:58 > 0:28:02I said that he went to France later to try and do even more
0:28:02 > 0:28:05for the Quakers War Victims Relief Association.
0:28:05 > 0:28:09What have you done with the letter? What's happened to it subsequently?
0:28:09 > 0:28:11I thought others should be able to see it and learn more
0:28:11 > 0:28:14about the background of my grandmother's brother,
0:28:14 > 0:28:17and so I donated it to the Imperial War Museum in London.
0:28:17 > 0:28:20Well I understand that the Imperial War Museum,
0:28:20 > 0:28:23which is planning its centenary
0:28:23 > 0:28:26for the start of the First World War very soon,
0:28:26 > 0:28:29is planning to put your uncle's letter in their exhibition
0:28:29 > 0:28:32- for other people to see. - I was unaware of that.
0:28:32 > 0:28:35Yes, they did say at the time that any exhibition which included
0:28:35 > 0:28:37the letter, they would let me know. So far they haven't, but...
0:28:37 > 0:28:40Well, that's the idea and it will be there for everyone to see.
0:28:40 > 0:28:41That's great.
0:28:41 > 0:28:43And your uncle's story will be told all over again.
0:28:43 > 0:28:45I'm very glad of that. Thanks for letting me know.
0:28:45 > 0:28:47- That's wonderful.- Thanks, Martin.
0:28:47 > 0:28:51Well, we've got a bit of a dark and overcast day here today
0:28:51 > 0:28:54in St Andrews, but this would brighten anybody's day,
0:28:54 > 0:28:57so how did it come to be in your collection?
0:28:57 > 0:29:01Well, it was given to me by my mother round about 1986,
0:29:01 > 0:29:06and it came to her from an aunt round about 1944.
0:29:06 > 0:29:09- It was always known as Aunt Kate's brooch.- Right.
0:29:09 > 0:29:11Yes. Aunt Kate's brooch.
0:29:11 > 0:29:13And did you used to go and look in the jewellery box
0:29:13 > 0:29:14and take it out and admire it?
0:29:14 > 0:29:18- I think it was in the bank.- Oh! - I'm pretty sure it was in the bank.
0:29:18 > 0:29:21Yes, safely under lock of key,
0:29:21 > 0:29:24which of course with a piece like this is probably essential.
0:29:24 > 0:29:27Yes. But my grandfather actually was the only boy in the family
0:29:27 > 0:29:31and he had about eight sisters and I think they all wanted it,
0:29:31 > 0:29:35so it caused a bit of trouble in the past.
0:29:35 > 0:29:38- Oh no, oh no.- Yes, they all wanted it.- Oh, that's a shame.
0:29:38 > 0:29:42Sometimes jewellery can do that - it can cause so much love,
0:29:42 > 0:29:43but also jealousy as well.
0:29:43 > 0:29:47- And do you actually wear it? - I've worn it once to a wedding.
0:29:47 > 0:29:49I'm terrified of losing it.
0:29:50 > 0:29:54Well, it is important that we do wear our jewellery
0:29:54 > 0:29:56and, of course, look after it as well,
0:29:56 > 0:30:00but it's... The family history that you've given fits in perfectly,
0:30:00 > 0:30:05because it actually originally dates from round about 1870-1880.
0:30:05 > 0:30:09And it's set with what we call old brilliant-cut diamonds,
0:30:09 > 0:30:14which are a cut which has got a nice softness to it,
0:30:14 > 0:30:18they look a little bit cushion-like and they give off this beautiful
0:30:18 > 0:30:23bright shininess to the stones, they're really absolutely adorable.
0:30:23 > 0:30:25Set in a flower head setting,
0:30:25 > 0:30:28as we have here, which again was very traditional of jewellery
0:30:28 > 0:30:30produced in the Victorian period.
0:30:30 > 0:30:34It was a very romantic time as far as jewellery's concerned
0:30:34 > 0:30:38and flowers were a way of expressing true love.
0:30:38 > 0:30:41The diamonds have been set in what we call collet mounts
0:30:41 > 0:30:44so it's rather like a little collar which is securing
0:30:44 > 0:30:47the rather large centre stone that we have there.
0:30:47 > 0:30:52One of the ways that we value diamonds is by looking at what
0:30:52 > 0:30:58we know as the four Cs, and it's the colour, the cut, the clarity
0:30:58 > 0:31:01and, of course, the carat size, which is very important
0:31:01 > 0:31:03when it comes to valuing diamonds.
0:31:03 > 0:31:06Now, here we're looking at something that is somewhere between 4.5
0:31:06 > 0:31:09and 5 carats in size,
0:31:09 > 0:31:13and on the outer sides we've got individual stones
0:31:13 > 0:31:18which are about 50 to 60 points, so just over half a carat.
0:31:18 > 0:31:23So in total, we've got somewhere between eight and nine carats' worth
0:31:23 > 0:31:27- of diamonds, which is really quite fantastic, isn't it?- It's amazing.
0:31:28 > 0:31:30Fabulous.
0:31:30 > 0:31:31Looking at the colour of them,
0:31:31 > 0:31:33they've got a lovely whiteness to them,
0:31:33 > 0:31:36there's not too much yellow coming off the stones,
0:31:36 > 0:31:38so they're good quality colour diamonds as well.
0:31:38 > 0:31:42And the clarity, which is the internal condition of the stone -
0:31:42 > 0:31:46they are very good, so all in all, it's really quite a stunning brooch.
0:31:48 > 0:31:52Now, of course, something like this is just amazing
0:31:52 > 0:31:54and highly collectible as well.
0:31:54 > 0:31:57Not just because of the fact that it's a very well made
0:31:57 > 0:32:01and interesting piece of Victorian jewellery, which sums up that
0:32:01 > 0:32:04very sentimental side of jewellery during the period,
0:32:04 > 0:32:07but of course because of the carat weight of diamonds.
0:32:07 > 0:32:10And if this came up for auction,
0:32:10 > 0:32:13it is easily going to get
0:32:13 > 0:32:16somewhere between £10,000 and £15,000.
0:32:16 > 0:32:18Really?
0:32:18 > 0:32:21Oh! That's just amazing.
0:32:21 > 0:32:24A fabulous bit of jewellery, I think, I absolutely treasure it.
0:32:24 > 0:32:28This is a really pretty Chinese bowl.
0:32:28 > 0:32:31What brings it up to St Andrews?
0:32:31 > 0:32:33My mother had it
0:32:33 > 0:32:35when she lived in Jersey -
0:32:35 > 0:32:37I have no idea how she got it.
0:32:39 > 0:32:41Well, it is a very interesting bowl.
0:32:41 > 0:32:43It's, as I said, it's Chinese,
0:32:43 > 0:32:45but it's really quite old.
0:32:45 > 0:32:48This dates to the middle of the 17th century.
0:32:50 > 0:32:52What was going on then?
0:32:52 > 0:32:53Thank God I kept it carefully!
0:32:53 > 0:32:56Cromwell. But in China, more importantly,
0:32:56 > 0:33:00the Ming dynasty fell in 1644 and was replaced -
0:33:00 > 0:33:03the Manchurians - the Manchu dynasty came in, known as the Qing dynasty
0:33:03 > 0:33:05and they established themselves
0:33:05 > 0:33:08- and they moved into the Imperial Palaces.- Yes.
0:33:08 > 0:33:12This type of bowl is usually referred to as an Immortals bowl.
0:33:12 > 0:33:16We've got a little character here, this is Shu-lau, you can tell this,
0:33:16 > 0:33:19he's got a great big forehead, he's holding a sceptre.
0:33:19 > 0:33:20He certainly has.
0:33:20 > 0:33:22And he's usually accompanied by a crane or a deer,
0:33:22 > 0:33:25so if we look on this bowl, there'll be a crane and a deer.
0:33:25 > 0:33:27You might see them before I do. There.
0:33:27 > 0:33:31- There's the deer.- There's the deer, these are attributes of Shu-lau
0:33:31 > 0:33:33so we've got the eight Taoist immortals and Shu-lau.
0:33:33 > 0:33:35Mm-hm.
0:33:35 > 0:33:39What makes this bowl special, though, is what's on the bottom.
0:33:39 > 0:33:42It's a very unusual mark,
0:33:42 > 0:33:46it was made for a specific place in one of the Imperial Palaces.
0:33:46 > 0:33:47It says,
0:33:47 > 0:33:54"made in the antique style for the Pavilion of Moral Obligations".
0:33:55 > 0:33:56Oh, dear!
0:33:58 > 0:34:00The Pavilion of Moral Obligations.
0:34:00 > 0:34:04Well, I do sometimes do some of my moral obligations.
0:34:06 > 0:34:09- I don't know if you've been to the Forbidden City?- Yes, I have.
0:34:09 > 0:34:15- 1982, it was just opened.- Fantastic. You didn't try and count the rooms?
0:34:15 > 0:34:16No.
0:34:16 > 0:34:19There were allegedly - I may not be right -
0:34:19 > 0:34:22over 8,600 rooms in that palace alone.
0:34:22 > 0:34:23- Yes.- And there are other palaces.
0:34:23 > 0:34:26I don't know anything about this particular pavilion.
0:34:26 > 0:34:27It's probably possible to find out.
0:34:27 > 0:34:30But it is a very unusual bowl.
0:34:30 > 0:34:34- It's very, very interesting and very exciting to see it.- Good.- Um...
0:34:36 > 0:34:37It does have a problem.
0:34:37 > 0:34:40There is a crack, very faint.
0:34:40 > 0:34:43I thought I heard a slight ping when you did that.
0:34:43 > 0:34:45Yeah, yeah.
0:34:45 > 0:34:48Doesn't sound too bad, but there is still a crack there,
0:34:48 > 0:34:51it's about a two-inch crack, very clean in the rim.
0:34:51 > 0:34:54So I suppose it's only worth, maybe...
0:34:54 > 0:34:56£10,000 or £12,000.
0:35:00 > 0:35:02Oh, that's very unkind of you.
0:35:02 > 0:35:04LAUGHTER
0:35:04 > 0:35:06Take away the noise and we'll put it up a bit.
0:35:10 > 0:35:12There's a bit of a buzz going round the Roadshow,
0:35:12 > 0:35:15cos apparently a rather important collection has come in.
0:35:15 > 0:35:18Geoffrey Munn is going to be looking at this assortment here
0:35:18 > 0:35:22of Royal memorabilia, I guess you could call it.
0:35:22 > 0:35:23He's very excited about it,
0:35:23 > 0:35:26so excited he's insisted that we put it under this very special
0:35:26 > 0:35:30Antiques Roadshow pagoda, we're calling it,
0:35:30 > 0:35:32because - actually, we've been quite lucky so far -
0:35:32 > 0:35:34but there is the odd spot of rain.
0:35:34 > 0:35:36Anyway, the owner doesn't know very much about it,
0:35:36 > 0:35:38Geoffrey thinks it's significant.
0:35:38 > 0:35:40I wonder what he's going to say.
0:35:42 > 0:35:45Well, this book has no words, but it does have
0:35:45 > 0:35:50about 200 exceptional hand-coloured engravings.
0:35:50 > 0:35:54- Do you know where it's come from? - It was my great-great-grandmother's
0:35:54 > 0:35:57and it was just handed down in the family.
0:35:57 > 0:35:59- Do you know who it's by? - Buffon - am I right?
0:35:59 > 0:36:01Yeah, absolutely, spot on.
0:36:02 > 0:36:06It's actually only half the plates from Buffon's work on birds.
0:36:06 > 0:36:10- Right.- So we've got 200 wonderful hand-coloured plates here
0:36:10 > 0:36:14of all sorts of birds. They are in fact titled in French.
0:36:14 > 0:36:17And the engravings are by Martinet, or Martinette,
0:36:17 > 0:36:20and that's all that the book actually tells you.
0:36:20 > 0:36:21So we've got to have a look through
0:36:21 > 0:36:24and see some of these wonderful coloured illustrations.
0:36:24 > 0:36:29- The colour is all hand done, and you can see it's really vibrant.- Yeah.
0:36:29 > 0:36:34It's as fresh as it was done back in 1770-1780 -
0:36:34 > 0:36:37something of that sort of date - the late 18th century.
0:36:37 > 0:36:40Mm. How has it kept its colour so well?
0:36:40 > 0:36:43- Well, I think it's been closed up. - Yes, that's true!
0:36:43 > 0:36:46- And not much looked at, is my guess. - Yes.- Keep it away from the sun.
0:36:46 > 0:36:50- Yes.- And then the colour will survive.
0:36:50 > 0:36:54We have here an image of the Great Bustard.
0:36:54 > 0:36:57I think just being re-introduced into this country.
0:36:57 > 0:37:01- I understand that.- Salisbury Plain, isn't that correct?- Yeah, yeah.
0:37:01 > 0:37:02We've got a water bird,
0:37:02 > 0:37:04a puffin or something like it.
0:37:04 > 0:37:06A lot of those round here.
0:37:06 > 0:37:09Indeed, and one of my favourites,
0:37:09 > 0:37:11the toucan.
0:37:11 > 0:37:13- Yes.- Always a superb picture.
0:37:13 > 0:37:15Other good pictures include parrots.
0:37:15 > 0:37:18- The parrots are at the end. - Some of those at the back.
0:37:18 > 0:37:20Here's a green parrot
0:37:20 > 0:37:23and a grey parrot.
0:37:23 > 0:37:26- Have you been all the way through it?- I have, yes.
0:37:27 > 0:37:31Somebody once suggested that we remove all the pages
0:37:31 > 0:37:33and make them into pictures,
0:37:33 > 0:37:36- which of course I declined. - You haven't done.- No.
0:37:36 > 0:37:39Well, that's very honourable of you, very laudable.
0:37:39 > 0:37:43That would have made quite a lot of money that way. Sorry!
0:37:44 > 0:37:48- It's the way we have to value them, as a price-per-plate, I think.- Yes.
0:37:48 > 0:37:54- So, my calculation says 200 very fine hand-coloured engravings.- Yes.
0:37:54 > 0:37:58Auction price at least £10 a plate,
0:37:58 > 0:38:00so somewhere between £2,000 -
0:38:00 > 0:38:02possibly up to - £3,000.
0:38:03 > 0:38:05It actually belongs to my son.
0:38:05 > 0:38:08My mother left it to one of our children.
0:38:08 > 0:38:12- So he's going to inherit it.- So I hope he doesn't watch this programme,
0:38:12 > 0:38:15cos he's rather keen on money!
0:38:16 > 0:38:20So it seems that St Andrews really couldn't get any more royal,
0:38:20 > 0:38:23but here we are, surrounded by royal memorabilia.
0:38:23 > 0:38:26To be frank, it was hard to arrange it all on the table
0:38:26 > 0:38:29and every single one of them is a fascinating souvenir
0:38:29 > 0:38:33of the British Royal Family going back really about 120 years.
0:38:33 > 0:38:36But they've fallen to you - and how did that happen?
0:38:36 > 0:38:40Well, it was all given to my husband when he was young.
0:38:40 > 0:38:42They lived next door,
0:38:42 > 0:38:45and were very friendly with two elderly ladies who in fact
0:38:45 > 0:38:48had been brought up at Sandringham when Edward VII lived there.
0:38:48 > 0:38:52Their father was private secretary to Princess Victoria
0:38:52 > 0:38:55and bit by bit, they gave him things,
0:38:55 > 0:38:56and when we married,
0:38:56 > 0:38:59- we were given the plate and various other things.- Marvellous!
0:38:59 > 0:39:01Well, they are true souvenirs,
0:39:01 > 0:39:03there are specimens of royal handwriting here,
0:39:03 > 0:39:06which of course is the most ghostly of all, isn't it?
0:39:06 > 0:39:08I mean, handwriting - a real autograph -
0:39:08 > 0:39:11is a very exciting object to have and it says,
0:39:11 > 0:39:15"Her Royal Highness the Princess Victoria at Sandringham".
0:39:15 > 0:39:18And then there are photographs of Queen Maud of Norway.
0:39:18 > 0:39:20It seems really the focus are on
0:39:20 > 0:39:24- the children of King Edward VII, aren't they?- That's right.
0:39:24 > 0:39:27And these are intensely personal objects, there's a little dance card
0:39:27 > 0:39:30here from Sandringham in eau-de-nil coloured card,
0:39:30 > 0:39:34and its original pencil held in with a silk tassel
0:39:34 > 0:39:37and as you whirled round the dance floor, you made notes of who
0:39:37 > 0:39:39you were going to dance with next.
0:39:39 > 0:39:42Tell me what you know about the tortoise.
0:39:42 > 0:39:45An inkwell that was given as a present to Princess Victoria
0:39:45 > 0:39:48and it's I believe tortoiseshell.
0:39:48 > 0:39:51Tortoiseshell and it's a sort of tortoiseshell box, really, isn't it?
0:39:51 > 0:39:53Oh, it is an inkwell, of course it is!
0:39:53 > 0:39:56And it says quite plainly on the front "Her Royal Highness
0:39:56 > 0:40:00"Princess Victoria of Wales, July 6th 1885",
0:40:00 > 0:40:03and it's a beautiful object, an amusing object,
0:40:03 > 0:40:07it's a pun on tortoiseshell. And how to value it - I don't know,
0:40:07 > 0:40:10because there are dozens and dozens of pieces of plate here
0:40:10 > 0:40:13from an Imperial Russian Service with the cipher
0:40:13 > 0:40:17of Alexander III on it, and tell me about the leather cigar box.
0:40:17 > 0:40:21That belonged to Edward VII. It came with the other things.
0:40:21 > 0:40:25Marvellous, made of leather in a 17th-century taste.
0:40:25 > 0:40:28But how to value them? Bits of paper, photographs, but I think
0:40:28 > 0:40:31the most astonishing thing I've got to tell you is that this collection
0:40:31 > 0:40:33is not worth - you know - perhaps three or four hundred pounds...
0:40:33 > 0:40:37- No.- But I think my estimation of it is that it's worth £12,000.
0:40:37 > 0:40:41Good grief! LAUGHTER
0:40:43 > 0:40:44Yes, right.
0:40:44 > 0:40:48- And would you like to know why? - Yes. Yes, indeed!- Yes, you would.
0:40:48 > 0:40:53Because there is one object in here that positively radiates royal,
0:40:53 > 0:40:57- not only royal, but imperial majesty.- Ah, yes.
0:40:57 > 0:41:01And I think you can probably guess from what I've said,
0:41:01 > 0:41:06it's the stick pin here and the hint of its majestic power is that
0:41:06 > 0:41:11it's made of red leather and it has the twinned imperial eagle
0:41:11 > 0:41:14of the Russian - of the Romanovs, frankly.
0:41:14 > 0:41:19And it has no hint of the supplier's name in the lid,
0:41:19 > 0:41:23but when I was looking at it earlier, I took a lens to the pin
0:41:23 > 0:41:27and there's a tiny, tiny fugitive little mark that says
0:41:27 > 0:41:32"AT". Now, "AT" doesn't seem to add up terribly well either, does it?
0:41:32 > 0:41:37No, except that old bossy boots here knows that AT was a work master
0:41:37 > 0:41:41to the most famous goldsmith that ever lived, to Carl Faberge,
0:41:41 > 0:41:44and so this is a Faberge stick pin decorated in two colours of gold
0:41:44 > 0:41:47with the Romanov eagle with a tiny sapphire
0:41:47 > 0:41:49and a triumphal laurel
0:41:49 > 0:41:53and we have to now guess when this is likely to have been given.
0:41:53 > 0:41:55And it's easier than you might think.
0:41:55 > 0:41:59And the most significant time that the Tsar came to Sandringham,
0:41:59 > 0:42:01where the Princesses were living, was in 1893
0:42:01 > 0:42:05when he came to visit Queen Victoria
0:42:05 > 0:42:08to tell her that he wanted to marry her granddaughter
0:42:08 > 0:42:10- who was Princess Alix of Hesse. - Ah, right, yes.
0:42:10 > 0:42:14And he needed her permission for that marriage, and as he went,
0:42:14 > 0:42:18- he strew his way, STREW his way with stick pins.- Right!
0:42:18 > 0:42:23He actually... I knew earlier and I recognised this instantly.
0:42:23 > 0:42:24Right.
0:42:24 > 0:42:27Because when he got off the train at Wolferton, for Sandringham,
0:42:27 > 0:42:30he gave the station master an almost identical pin.
0:42:30 > 0:42:33- Oh, right.- ..which I saw 25 years ago.- Oh, goodness.
0:42:33 > 0:42:35And so I knew what this was, and I stalked you,
0:42:35 > 0:42:39and I think I've done it quite well, if you don't mind me saying so!
0:42:39 > 0:42:42- Yes, very well!- How's your heart? Mine's nearly...
0:42:42 > 0:42:45So £12,000 for the entire collection.
0:42:45 > 0:42:50£10,000 for a Faberge stick pin with an imperial provenance,
0:42:50 > 0:42:53and you can't ask for a royal object to be more than that.
0:42:53 > 0:42:55But curiously enough, what's in a name?
0:42:55 > 0:42:58These other things are just as valuable, but it's not about money.
0:42:58 > 0:43:00- No, no. No. - No, it's very, very touching,
0:43:00 > 0:43:02these are little ghosts
0:43:02 > 0:43:04that are ebbing ever so slightly away from us.
0:43:04 > 0:43:06Very few people know who these people are
0:43:06 > 0:43:08and now we've got a chance to show them
0:43:08 > 0:43:11in a town of royal, deeply royal significance,
0:43:11 > 0:43:14and I couldn't be more pleased, so thank you so much.
0:43:14 > 0:43:18- Thank you.- It's been wonderful, wonderful.- Thank you.- Brilliant.
0:43:20 > 0:43:23Wonderful to see that collection of royal memorabilia,
0:43:23 > 0:43:25and of course here at St Andrews,
0:43:25 > 0:43:28which has that most recent of royal connections
0:43:28 > 0:43:31with William and Kate - or Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
0:43:31 > 0:43:33as I think we're supposed to call them now.
0:43:33 > 0:43:35We've had a wonderful day here in St Salvator's quad.
0:43:35 > 0:43:37I hope you've enjoyed it as well,
0:43:37 > 0:43:39until next time, from St Andrews, bye-bye.