0:00:50 > 0:00:52Our venue today has had a varied past.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55There was an Abbey here in the 12th century,
0:00:55 > 0:00:56and then by the early 1600s,
0:00:56 > 0:01:00it had been transformed into one of the finest Jacobean houses
0:01:00 > 0:01:02in the land.
0:01:02 > 0:01:05But then, as successive generations ran out of money,
0:01:05 > 0:01:08it was gradually made three times smaller.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12But, still, today it is magnificent.
0:01:12 > 0:01:14Classically elegant on the outside,
0:01:14 > 0:01:17and a hotchpotch of styles on the inside.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Welcome to the Antiques Roadshow from Audley End,
0:01:20 > 0:01:21near Saffron Walden in Essex.
0:01:25 > 0:01:29As country houses up and down the land were updated over the years,
0:01:29 > 0:01:32particular rooms with particular functions were lost forever.
0:01:32 > 0:01:36But here at Audley End, there's a very rare survivor.
0:01:40 > 0:01:43It's a great big coal store up on the top floor,
0:01:43 > 0:01:46quite possibly unique for a stately abode like this.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49It was used by staff to provide coal for the fireplaces in the bedrooms,
0:01:49 > 0:01:51which were mostly on this floor,
0:01:51 > 0:01:55and to provide heat for their hip baths and foot baths.
0:01:55 > 0:01:59And the coal was brought up by the bucket-load through the window.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01Now, that's some kind of carbon footprint.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06Some of the staff started work at four in the morning
0:02:06 > 0:02:07to get the fires going.
0:02:07 > 0:02:09They were long, hard days.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15The Neville family, who owned Audley End, had up to 30 staff.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Here in the kitchen, the cook, Avis Croakham,
0:02:17 > 0:02:21along with the kitchen maids, would prepare the meal.
0:02:21 > 0:02:24The scullery maids washed the vegetables and plucked the birds,
0:02:24 > 0:02:29the dairy maids had the task of churning the butter.
0:02:30 > 0:02:34The laundry maids would clean and iron the clothes.
0:02:34 > 0:02:36And they would do this for hours.
0:02:36 > 0:02:38Phew!
0:02:41 > 0:02:43In the 1760s and '70s,
0:02:43 > 0:02:47the ground staff were kept hard at work by famed landscaper
0:02:47 > 0:02:51Capability Brown, as they reshaped the Audley estate
0:02:51 > 0:02:52according to his plans.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57But he was never allowed to finish the job, because,
0:02:57 > 0:03:01according to the marvellously-named Sir John Griffin Griffin,
0:03:01 > 0:03:03who commissioned Capability Brown,
0:03:03 > 0:03:06the bend in the river went the wrong way.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08The dispute over money went on for years,
0:03:08 > 0:03:10and the bend in the river...
0:03:10 > 0:03:11stayed the same.
0:03:13 > 0:03:15English Heritage now own and care for
0:03:15 > 0:03:17this well-shaped landscape and house.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20They've kindly invited the Antiques Roadshow onto their lawns,
0:03:20 > 0:03:23where we find our specialists hard at work.
0:03:25 > 0:03:30When you first saw this elephant here, what did you think?
0:03:30 > 0:03:32I've always loved this elephant.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34When I was a very small girl,
0:03:34 > 0:03:37we would go and have lunch with my great-grandparents,
0:03:37 > 0:03:39and if we behaved very well at lunch,
0:03:39 > 0:03:43then we were allowed to go upstairs and see the elephant. Yes.
0:03:43 > 0:03:47And it was given to my great-great-grandfather
0:03:47 > 0:03:49as a child, as a Christmas present full of chocolates.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52Ah! Well, let's have a look at him.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54Because, he's enormous. I thought,
0:03:54 > 0:03:57"Goodness, how did you bring that in? He must be so heavy!"
0:03:57 > 0:03:59But he's not.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01He's papier-mache.
0:04:01 > 0:04:02And he has...
0:04:02 > 0:04:04It's not elephant skin,
0:04:04 > 0:04:07but it's, you know, it's calf suede.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10And you couldn't sit on him as a child. Well, I hope you didn't!
0:04:10 > 0:04:13No, we were never allowed to sit on him.
0:04:13 > 0:04:17The good news is that his tusks are not ivory... No.
0:04:17 > 0:04:21..they're porcelain. You mentioned the chocolates, so...
0:04:21 > 0:04:24a hell of a lot of chocolates can go in there.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27Well, it's actually quite a small, little...
0:04:27 > 0:04:30It's just a small part of it. Yes.
0:04:30 > 0:04:34I think he's somewhere around 1890.
0:04:34 > 0:04:38I don't think he's as early as maybe your great-great-grandfather,
0:04:38 > 0:04:40but he's just heaven,
0:04:40 > 0:04:46and I would imagine he was made in Germany and exported, because...
0:04:46 > 0:04:48he has a voice.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50Shall I pull it? Yes, you can pull it.
0:04:53 > 0:04:54HIGH-PITCHED GROANING
0:04:54 > 0:04:57LAUGHTER
0:04:57 > 0:04:59That does sound like an elephant!
0:04:59 > 0:05:02That's interesting you see because when we were allowed to pull it,
0:05:02 > 0:05:04we were told to be very careful, so it sounds like this...
0:05:04 > 0:05:05It sounds like a sheep!
0:05:05 > 0:05:08It sounds like a sheep. DEEP GROANING
0:05:08 > 0:05:10LAUGHTER
0:05:10 > 0:05:13You're the first person who's pulled it strongly
0:05:13 > 0:05:15and then, I agree, it sounds like an elephant.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17Can I do it again? Yes, you can do it again! Thank you.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19HIGH-PITCHED GROANING
0:05:19 > 0:05:21LAUGHTER
0:05:21 > 0:05:22He is wonderful.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25Unfortunately, my great-grandparents' family
0:05:25 > 0:05:28lent it to some other children, another family, for a few years...
0:05:28 > 0:05:30Oh, no. ..and they broke its trunk,
0:05:30 > 0:05:33cos its trunk used to come up at the same time when you pulled the...
0:05:33 > 0:05:38Oh, I see, that would've been so realistic! So exciting.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Oh, I'm sure that can be rectified.
0:05:40 > 0:05:42I'm sure of it.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44But he's very old and he's very wise,
0:05:44 > 0:05:46and he's still screaming, which is amazing,
0:05:46 > 0:05:49cos usually they lose their voice. Yeah.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51In that condition,
0:05:51 > 0:05:56I think we've got to be talking about around ?1,500 to ?2,000.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00Well, we'd never sell him.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02At least now we know he doesn't sound like a sheep!
0:06:02 > 0:06:04HIGH-PITCHED GROANING
0:06:04 > 0:06:05GENTLE LAUGHTER
0:06:08 > 0:06:10You can't get more eccentrically British
0:06:10 > 0:06:12than what's known as a Fair Hebe Jug.
0:06:12 > 0:06:15There's so much going on, isn't there?
0:06:15 > 0:06:18There is. You've got, on one side there's the young lad,
0:06:18 > 0:06:21and he's happily having, enjoying a drink,
0:06:21 > 0:06:24inscribed there, "a bumper, a bumper."
0:06:24 > 0:06:28That's a happy toast, he's merrily getting drunk.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31And then on the back we've got his lass and his love,
0:06:31 > 0:06:34though she seems more interested in somebody else.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37And there's her name, Fair Hebe.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41Do you know the story, or anything about the history?
0:06:41 > 0:06:43I don't know anything about Fair Hebe, no.
0:06:43 > 0:06:48It comes from a song that was popular back in the 1700s,
0:06:48 > 0:06:51and I think it was something that you would drink in pubs and taverns
0:06:51 > 0:06:56to the tale of the rivalry between the different characters,
0:06:56 > 0:07:01but mainly it's about getting drunk and enjoying the drink
0:07:01 > 0:07:03that came out of the jug.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05Is there... Have you found a signature on it?
0:07:05 > 0:07:08I did, I took it down off the shelf yesterday,
0:07:08 > 0:07:11and I thought I'd better clean it a bit cos it was dusty,
0:07:11 > 0:07:14and it says...
0:07:14 > 0:07:16"I Voyez."
0:07:16 > 0:07:18Yes, "Voyez",
0:07:18 > 0:07:20and it's actually dated 1788.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22I didn't even see the date.
0:07:22 > 0:07:241788?
0:07:24 > 0:07:26Hard to see, but that takes it back a nice long time, doesn't it?
0:07:26 > 0:07:28That's Jean Voyez.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31Josiah Wedgwood discovered him in London
0:07:31 > 0:07:33and brought him to Staffordshire
0:07:33 > 0:07:35to make models for the Wedgwood factory.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38But Voyez repaid Wedgwood's friendship
0:07:38 > 0:07:39in a rather disastrous way -
0:07:39 > 0:07:41he stole moulds and clay from Wedgwood
0:07:41 > 0:07:44and ended up sentenced to seven years in prison.
0:07:44 > 0:07:49And it was probably in prison when he modelled this jug!
0:07:49 > 0:07:53So it makes it even more interesting.
0:07:53 > 0:07:56We don't see Voyez's name on many of his pieces.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59Mostly, he signed them with Wedgwood's name
0:07:59 > 0:08:03and tried to pass them off. He was a faker, really. Really?
0:08:03 > 0:08:08So Jean Voyez's masterpiece, the wonderful running glazes,
0:08:08 > 0:08:11this is an early Staffordshire pottery through and through.
0:08:11 > 0:08:14This was my mother's, which is why I brought it.
0:08:14 > 0:08:18Before that, it was my great-auntie, Sarah.
0:08:18 > 0:08:22Now, they were from the Midlands, does that tie in with Staffordshire?
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Well, absolutely.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27The Potteries around Stoke is where so much pottery was made,
0:08:27 > 0:08:29that's where this jug was made.
0:08:29 > 0:08:34And, so, Auntie Sarah's jug never travelled terribly far in its life.
0:08:34 > 0:08:36There's a few little cracks there,
0:08:36 > 0:08:38we've got a little bit of damage on the spout there,
0:08:38 > 0:08:41but I think we can forgive it that, don't you?
0:08:41 > 0:08:43Oh, yes. I forgive it everything!
0:08:43 > 0:08:48Because of that... It's probably worth, as a handsome jug,
0:08:48 > 0:08:50oh, ?1,000.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52MURMURING IN BACKGROUND
0:08:52 > 0:08:55I had a vague idea it might be like that, yes.
0:08:55 > 0:08:56Thank you very much.
0:09:01 > 0:09:02A piece of furniture like this
0:09:02 > 0:09:05is stretching my expertise to the very limit.
0:09:05 > 0:09:09It's one of the wonderful things about the Antiques Roadshow,
0:09:09 > 0:09:11you see more and more difficult pieces.
0:09:11 > 0:09:14This is a very early piece of furniture, potentially,
0:09:14 > 0:09:16and it really makes me have to think very hard.
0:09:16 > 0:09:17So, you help me -
0:09:17 > 0:09:20what can you tell me about it, where did you get it from?
0:09:20 > 0:09:24Right, it was actually a very special birthday present
0:09:24 > 0:09:28for a very special birthday last year.
0:09:28 > 0:09:33It was given to me by my husband to make it less painful, basically.
0:09:33 > 0:09:38He knows that I'm very passionate about early English history,
0:09:38 > 0:09:41and last year, when he asked me,
0:09:41 > 0:09:43"Where do you want to go for your birthday?"
0:09:43 > 0:09:46I turned down Paris, Brussels,
0:09:46 > 0:09:48I said I wanted to go to Leicestershire.
0:09:48 > 0:09:52Leicestershire. Leicestershire, yes, the Battle of Bosworth,
0:09:52 > 0:09:56because it happened to have been on the day of my birthday,
0:09:56 > 0:10:00and therefore there was no better place than the Battle of Bosworth.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02So, the Battle of Bosworth, 1485?
0:10:02 > 0:10:05August the 22nd, 1485.
0:10:05 > 0:10:08And I'm hoping that you will be able to confirm
0:10:08 > 0:10:10that there is a possibility
0:10:10 > 0:10:14that this piece was made around that time.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17Well, pieces like this fall into two, or possibly three categories.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20Right. One, that it's totally original... Yeah.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23..two, that it's a fake, a made-up fake... Yeah.
0:10:23 > 0:10:27..three, that it's a 19th century revered copy.
0:10:27 > 0:10:29I look at things like this,
0:10:29 > 0:10:32this sort of almost looks like artificial distressing, and I think,
0:10:32 > 0:10:35"Surely this can't be a period piece?"
0:10:36 > 0:10:39I then had a peep earlier at the inside of the door.
0:10:41 > 0:10:45That's wonderful, it's a typical early frame saw,
0:10:45 > 0:10:47when they stood in a pit and had a big, wobbly saw...
0:10:47 > 0:10:50To tighten up the blade, a string would tighten up the blade,
0:10:50 > 0:10:51you'd cut like that,
0:10:51 > 0:10:53and if you were underneath you'd get all the sawdust on you.
0:10:53 > 0:10:56That is how this sort of piece of furniture would be made,
0:10:56 > 0:10:58that's a very good sign. And these wonderful...
0:10:58 > 0:11:00We've all seen this before, every cathedral,
0:11:00 > 0:11:02Reims Cathedral, any big cathedral you go to,
0:11:02 > 0:11:06you've got this wonderful ogee trellis here with this carving.
0:11:06 > 0:11:08This is delightful carving.
0:11:08 > 0:11:09It's really inspired,
0:11:09 > 0:11:14hand-carved by an artist who knew and loved his work.
0:11:14 > 0:11:19The hinges on the locks to me are all very, very good signs.
0:11:19 > 0:11:20Mm.
0:11:20 > 0:11:22So, you know, looking at it...
0:11:24 > 0:11:26..I'm perfectly happy about it.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29Let's just for a minute think, do you know what it was used for?
0:11:29 > 0:11:31Right, um...
0:11:31 > 0:11:35I'm not quite sure whether you would call it a dressoir,
0:11:35 > 0:11:40or possibly ambry, one of the questions I actually have for you.
0:11:40 > 0:11:43Well, it's French, and it would be a dressoir. Right.
0:11:43 > 0:11:46The wonderful thing about these, the original ones... Yeah.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49..are made to go in the main room of a house.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51Yeah. And dressoir means you would dress it.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54You would probably have white linen,
0:11:54 > 0:11:56you would have pewter on top and below,
0:11:56 > 0:11:59or silver, or something of this quality,
0:11:59 > 0:12:01probably even gold plate,
0:12:01 > 0:12:02cos that was your duty as a host,
0:12:02 > 0:12:06to bring people into the house to show them how wealthy you were.
0:12:06 > 0:12:08Yeah. You didn't hide it, you showed your status,
0:12:08 > 0:12:11so you'd dress your dressoir. Yeah.
0:12:11 > 0:12:12So that's the correct word.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14So you asked me if it was
0:12:14 > 0:12:17the same date as the Battle of Bosworth, 1485.
0:12:17 > 0:12:18It's around that date.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21Nobody can be that accurate but certainly within 50 years, yes,
0:12:21 > 0:12:23if it's what I think it really is.
0:12:23 > 0:12:24Brilliant.
0:12:24 > 0:12:30If we can prove my theory and it is right, a period piece,
0:12:30 > 0:12:32insure it for...
0:12:32 > 0:12:35?30,000? OK.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38And hopefully it's going to be the one and only object
0:12:38 > 0:12:41in our family that's worthy of being passed on
0:12:41 > 0:12:46generation after generation, and possibly another 500 years.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48SHE LAUGHS Thank you. Thank you very much.
0:12:52 > 0:12:56I've had quite a few deja vu moments here at the Antiques Roadshow.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58When you got that out,
0:12:58 > 0:12:59I was having yet another one,
0:12:59 > 0:13:03because things like this, back in the 1970s, were my stock in trade.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06Is it something that you or your family use?
0:13:06 > 0:13:08It's not, I don't really know too much about it.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10My father worked in the casino business
0:13:10 > 0:13:13in the late '60s and early '70s.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16I can only surmise that he acquired it.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18About three or four years ago,
0:13:18 > 0:13:20I had a friend who worked in Hatton Garden,
0:13:20 > 0:13:23and I took some old jewellery up to scrap it,
0:13:23 > 0:13:24and Dad gave me this and said,
0:13:24 > 0:13:27"Can you take this up and scrap it?" No!
0:13:27 > 0:13:29It was on the scales...
0:13:29 > 0:13:32No! ..and I couldn't bring myself to do it.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35Thank God for that. Well, obviously, it's here.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37I can't believe... I came back and I said to Dad,
0:13:37 > 0:13:40"Look, it's a beautiful thing, I can't do it."
0:13:40 > 0:13:44He obviously wanted the money, so we came to an arrangement.
0:13:44 > 0:13:46I gave him the scrap value of it...
0:13:46 > 0:13:48And how much was that?
0:13:48 > 0:13:51I gave him ?2,500 for it. That's quite a lot. Yeah, but...
0:13:51 > 0:13:53You rescued it, in other words. Yeah.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56Well, obviously, you know what it is, it's a Dunhill.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00I believe so. Nine carat gold... Yeah. ..cigarette lighter.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02Can I open it? Of course, yeah.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05Which way does it open? Ah, there. There's a cigarette lighter,
0:14:05 > 0:14:08And here is a compact, with a lipstick in there,
0:14:08 > 0:14:11and the lipstick goes in there... That's got a mirror...
0:14:11 > 0:14:13..and the powder goes there and the mirror's there.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16But the best part about it is,
0:14:16 > 0:14:19we press the side piece here and the watch shoots out.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22This was called a vanity compendium.
0:14:22 > 0:14:27I looked at the hallmark... Right. ..and this is 1933.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29One in 1932... Right.
0:14:29 > 0:14:33..won the gold prize at Goldsmiths Hall,
0:14:33 > 0:14:38and it was said to be an ingenious assemblage of engineering,
0:14:38 > 0:14:39which you can see it is.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42It's so fine, it's finely reeded.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44And here, at this end,
0:14:44 > 0:14:46there's a little thumb piece where you put your fingernail,
0:14:46 > 0:14:51and lift the flap, and pull it, and you've got a gold pencil.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53I mean, that is extraordinary.
0:14:53 > 0:14:57The downside is smoke has become less popular.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00Yeah. The upside is, compacts are very collectable,
0:15:00 > 0:15:03and the other upside is that Dunhill is very collectable.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06So, they're made in Switzerland.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09Right. I mean, obviously the watch is a Swiss watch.
0:15:09 > 0:15:15But in the '70s, I used to sell one like this for about ?900. Right.
0:15:15 > 0:15:20But you paid 2,000, didn't you? 2,500. 2,500.
0:15:20 > 0:15:21Well...
0:15:23 > 0:15:24..now, that 2,500,
0:15:24 > 0:15:27I don't know if you'll get your money back, and probably...
0:15:27 > 0:15:33triple it, actually... Right. ..and it's between 7,500 to 10,000.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36It may be even as much as ?12,000 for this.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38So you were right to rescue it.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41Now that you know it's worth about three times
0:15:41 > 0:15:44the price that you paid to rescue it,
0:15:44 > 0:15:46what do you think you're going to do with it?
0:15:46 > 0:15:49Keep it. My father died a couple of months ago.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53I'm sorry. So, every time I get it out and look at it,
0:15:53 > 0:15:56it's a reminder of my dad. So...
0:15:56 > 0:15:57I'd do just the same, I think.
0:15:57 > 0:15:59Yeah. No, I won't be selling it.
0:16:04 > 0:16:07So, this fabulous poster of "Bostock and Wombwell's
0:16:07 > 0:16:10"World Renowned Menagerie, the oldest,
0:16:10 > 0:16:13"largest and best travelling exhibition ever organised."
0:16:13 > 0:16:14What's your connection with it?
0:16:14 > 0:16:17My connection is that George Wombwell
0:16:17 > 0:16:19was my great-great-great uncle.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22He started it because he loved animals,
0:16:22 > 0:16:26and he happened to go into the London docks one day
0:16:26 > 0:16:29and he saw a pair of boa constrictors, which he bought,
0:16:29 > 0:16:31and that was the start of it.
0:16:31 > 0:16:35So, this was established in 1805, this particular zoo,
0:16:35 > 0:16:38and of course continued throughout the 19th century...
0:16:38 > 0:16:40About 120 years.
0:16:40 > 0:16:43And what I think we've got to realise and remember,
0:16:43 > 0:16:46most people didn't leave the village or town they were born in
0:16:46 > 0:16:51and suddenly this menagerie would arrive with zebras and elephants,
0:16:51 > 0:16:52never seen before.
0:16:52 > 0:16:56So I think we've got to remember how exciting... Oh, yes.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59..that was for people in the 19th century. Yes.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02They were commanded to go to Windsor Castle
0:17:02 > 0:17:05on several occasions by Queen Victoria,
0:17:05 > 0:17:09and she wrote about them in her diaries.
0:17:09 > 0:17:12Again, because it was such a fascinating thing.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15And you've got Staffordshire figures,
0:17:15 > 0:17:19with lions and tigers and elephants.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22I mean, incredibly exotic. Mm.
0:17:22 > 0:17:27You've got this little book here of all the money they took,
0:17:27 > 0:17:32Banbury were very interested, cos they've paid ?44,
0:17:32 > 0:17:34they took ?44 at Banbury.
0:17:34 > 0:17:38But all these other, Broadway, they travelled all over the countryside.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40Yes. And all over the world.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43New Zealand, Australia, India...
0:17:43 > 0:17:45Incredible. ..China and Japan.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Absolutely amazing.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49And this is, who's this gentleman here?
0:17:49 > 0:17:52This is James Bostock, this is my great-grandfather,
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Edward Henry Bostock's father.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57So, a fascinating piece of history.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59I remember growing up in the Scottish Borders,
0:17:59 > 0:18:04being excited when the circus came, or when the fair came once a year.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07But take me, you know, back to the 19th century,
0:18:07 > 0:18:08it was even more exciting. Mm.
0:18:08 > 0:18:12And obviously, if we're looking at valuation,
0:18:12 > 0:18:16it's not going to be terribly high, so we're talking a few hundred,
0:18:16 > 0:18:19but it's the personal connection... It's the connection.
0:18:19 > 0:18:20..that's so important. Yes, it is.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22Thank you.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25UPBEAT MUSIC
0:18:42 > 0:18:44Hello. Hi there, what have you got in this briefcase?
0:18:44 > 0:18:47Important papers? Well...
0:18:47 > 0:18:49you might be surprised.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53THEY LAUGH
0:18:53 > 0:18:55Are these...? Are these...?
0:18:55 > 0:18:56They are what you think they are, yes.
0:18:56 > 0:18:58..toilet chain pulls? That's correct, yes.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01Um, why?
0:19:01 > 0:19:03Well, I used to watch this show back in the '80s.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05I felt I needed to collect something,
0:19:05 > 0:19:07and it needed to be something I could afford,
0:19:07 > 0:19:09it needed to be something small,
0:19:09 > 0:19:12and I found that one...
0:19:12 > 0:19:15in Brighton, and I understand it to be Royal Doulton.
0:19:15 > 0:19:17So how many have you got of these things?
0:19:17 > 0:19:18About 200.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20LAUGHTER
0:19:22 > 0:19:24So it must mean you're FLUSH, then?
0:19:24 > 0:19:26Oh, very good! Never heard that one before(!)
0:19:26 > 0:19:28HE LAUGHS
0:19:36 > 0:19:39Now, I think everybody would know we're looking at a smoker's cabinet,
0:19:39 > 0:19:44a very common piece of furniture in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.
0:19:44 > 0:19:46It's quite pretty, but I have to say to you,
0:19:46 > 0:19:48it's not very special, is it?
0:19:48 > 0:19:51Well, it's not really special until you come up to this part here...
0:19:51 > 0:19:55Right. ..where it's been presented to Dr Hugh Ferguson Watson,
0:19:55 > 0:19:59who was the first doctor to force-feed the suffragettes
0:19:59 > 0:20:00in Perth Prison.
0:20:00 > 0:20:04Now, the suffragette movement was very powerful in Scotland.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08I think the focus is always on London and the South, as usual.
0:20:08 > 0:20:10What did Scottish suffragettes do?
0:20:10 > 0:20:12Well, they did all the usual things -
0:20:12 > 0:20:15they broke windows, they demonstrated,
0:20:15 > 0:20:18there was a huge march in Edinburgh in 1909,
0:20:18 > 0:20:23and of course force-feeding, which becomes a major issue, not so early,
0:20:23 > 0:20:28normally from 1911, 1912 onwards, was important in Scotland.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31And obviously, this chap, Hugh Ferguson Watson,
0:20:31 > 0:20:33was the doctor that did it.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35Do you know anything about him?
0:20:35 > 0:20:38Only what I read or found out about him.
0:20:38 > 0:20:43He was the doctor of Perth Prison, he was the doctor of Perth Hospital,
0:20:43 > 0:20:46and he was the first one that actually started force-feeding
0:20:46 > 0:20:49the four suffragettes that were there at the time.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51I think we have to think briefly about that.
0:20:51 > 0:20:55I mean, it was a very intrusive, aggressive process,
0:20:55 > 0:20:59humiliating, dangerous and utterly unpleasant.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02It was done, as it sounds, force-feeding,
0:21:02 > 0:21:05often the tubes went into your lung rather than your stomach,
0:21:05 > 0:21:07it gave you pneumonia,
0:21:07 > 0:21:10it gave you permanent physical and psychological damage,
0:21:10 > 0:21:12and it was administered by doctors.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15And you think, "Well, hang on a minute, doctors are supposed to...
0:21:15 > 0:21:17"cure, not maim."
0:21:17 > 0:21:20And this was the big debate at the time.
0:21:20 > 0:21:22So I think this is a classic case,
0:21:22 > 0:21:25where an interesting but frankly fairly ordinary object,
0:21:25 > 0:21:29reveals a really, really sort of dark piece of our history,
0:21:29 > 0:21:31which we must not forget.
0:21:31 > 0:21:33This was a great fight for freedom.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Women did not get the full voting rights
0:21:36 > 0:21:38that you and I have until 1928.
0:21:38 > 0:21:40It was a long, long battle.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42What's it worth as a cabinet?
0:21:43 > 0:21:45?40 or ?50. Yeah. But that's not it.
0:21:45 > 0:21:48That makes it a really important piece of social history.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51That's what it is, the history of it, I think it's brilliant.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Yes. Just to find that out about it.
0:21:53 > 0:21:55Well, you did very well rescuing it.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58Thank you very much. Thank you. Pleasure, thank you.
0:22:01 > 0:22:05Well, here's how they landed the catch in the early 19th century -
0:22:05 > 0:22:09you wait for the tide to go down, and you beach your fishing boat,
0:22:09 > 0:22:13and then the family of the fishermen come and take the fish off the boat.
0:22:13 > 0:22:17It's an extraordinary capture of early 19th-century life, isn't it?
0:22:17 > 0:22:20Absolutely. And it's by Edward William Cooke.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Yes. Signed and dated 1839.
0:22:22 > 0:22:26Yes. And why are you interested in Cooke, if you are?
0:22:26 > 0:22:29Well, he's my great-great-grandfather,
0:22:29 > 0:22:33and we've always had a great interest,
0:22:33 > 0:22:36although he's not a very famous painter.
0:22:36 > 0:22:37Well, he is in my world.
0:22:37 > 0:22:38In his day,
0:22:38 > 0:22:41he was one of the most successful British landscape painters,
0:22:41 > 0:22:43well, marine painters, really,
0:22:43 > 0:22:44and you've got to remember, of course,
0:22:44 > 0:22:47that, in those days, Britain was very much king of the seas.
0:22:47 > 0:22:52Yes. And we relied on the sea for everything, commerce, militarily,
0:22:52 > 0:22:56diplomatically, in every way we were masters of the sea,
0:22:56 > 0:22:59and people would've understood sea pictures in the Royal Academy
0:22:59 > 0:23:02in those days in a way that they don't now.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04It's quite fun to deconstruct one now, isn't it,
0:23:04 > 0:23:07and look at it with older eyes?
0:23:07 > 0:23:09Yes. The wide variety,
0:23:09 > 0:23:11and the sheer size of the fish that they've caught,
0:23:11 > 0:23:13and landed it straight on the shore
0:23:13 > 0:23:15and shipped it straight to Billingsgate to be sold fresh.
0:23:15 > 0:23:19It's a very different food chain, isn't it, looking back? Absolutely.
0:23:19 > 0:23:22And much more real, somehow. Yes, healthy. Mm.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25I rather like the boy. He's probably the skipper's son, isn't he?
0:23:25 > 0:23:27Cos the clothes look too big for him.
0:23:27 > 0:23:31Now, usually, with EW Cooke,
0:23:31 > 0:23:34you can tell exactly the topography,
0:23:34 > 0:23:36and if I knew the south coast better,
0:23:36 > 0:23:38then I'd be able to say exactly where it was, but I don't.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41I know that he liked to go to the Isle of Wight a lot... Yes.
0:23:41 > 0:23:42..and it could be there.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45So, it's obviously oil on canvas,
0:23:45 > 0:23:49it's really got everything you should want, except that,
0:23:49 > 0:23:50if you don't mind me saying,
0:23:50 > 0:23:52it has been quite heavily cleaned... Yes.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56..and it's lost some of the glazes in the rocks
0:23:56 > 0:23:58and the sky has gone down a bit as a result.
0:23:58 > 0:24:00His skies are so luminous.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02You can just see that this one is too,
0:24:02 > 0:24:05but less so perhaps than one in very fresh condition. Mm.
0:24:05 > 0:24:09Um, you know, there was a time not so long ago
0:24:09 > 0:24:13when this picture would've been worth about ?20,000. Yes.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16Now, I fear that the market may have slipped a little since then,
0:24:16 > 0:24:18I'm afraid. Yep.
0:24:18 > 0:24:21And, actually, I want to leave it at 20,
0:24:21 > 0:24:24but I worry that we wouldn't quite get there these days.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27Yeah. But it's still a wonderful picture.
0:24:27 > 0:24:28Thank you very much.
0:24:32 > 0:24:35So, most people come along to the Antiques Roadshow,
0:24:35 > 0:24:36on the ceramics tables,
0:24:36 > 0:24:40and they bring cups and saucers and plates and vases
0:24:40 > 0:24:42and figurines of shepherdesses,
0:24:42 > 0:24:44but you...
0:24:44 > 0:24:46you come along with Nelson's Column,
0:24:46 > 0:24:48which is quite incredible!
0:24:48 > 0:24:50Now, the first thing that strikes me
0:24:50 > 0:24:54is where do you keep such an extraordinary object?
0:24:54 > 0:24:55Well, it is a bit of a problem,
0:24:55 > 0:24:56but at the moment,
0:24:56 > 0:24:59Nelson is in our spare bedroom, on the side, in the corner...
0:24:59 > 0:25:02So, this all comes apart, doesn't it? It all comes apart
0:25:02 > 0:25:04and the four lions are on the piano.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07It's very funny, isn't it? Well, in actual fact,
0:25:07 > 0:25:11I think this was designed as a table centrepiece.
0:25:11 > 0:25:12And you can imagine,
0:25:12 > 0:25:16you'd need quite a grand dining table to accommodate such a thing.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19And here we are, standing in front of Audley End House,
0:25:19 > 0:25:22behind us, just there, and it's just the kind of grand residence
0:25:22 > 0:25:25that something of this nature perhaps would have been made for.
0:25:25 > 0:25:29So, what do you know about where it's from or what it's made from?
0:25:30 > 0:25:35Well, I know it belonged to my father and his first wife.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38And then he married my mother
0:25:38 > 0:25:41and I think she rather tolerated it, a black...
0:25:41 > 0:25:45It used to be in her small sitting room, on a table in the corner.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48And I think she tried to brighten it up a little bit
0:25:48 > 0:25:50cos you can see the watermarks in there,
0:25:50 > 0:25:52and she would put some flowers in there occasionally,
0:25:52 > 0:25:56if we had visitors, to try and make it a bit more attractive.
0:25:56 > 0:26:00But, yeah... Well, it's actually made from
0:26:00 > 0:26:02a kind of stoneware called Black Basalt.
0:26:02 > 0:26:06And Black Basalt is most associated with Wedgwood.
0:26:06 > 0:26:09And indeed, when we pick up this lion here,
0:26:09 > 0:26:11cos the lions are all loose, we can see...
0:26:13 > 0:26:16..that there's an impressed Wedgwood mark.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18These are extraordinarily rare
0:26:18 > 0:26:22and, you know, in 30 years of looking at pottery and porcelain,
0:26:22 > 0:26:25I've never seen this. Oh, right.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28There is one in the National Maritime Museum,
0:26:28 > 0:26:30made in 1917,
0:26:30 > 0:26:33but apart from that, I know of no other.
0:26:33 > 0:26:37What is so interesting about it is the quality of the moulding.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40You can just see here, these delicate little acanthus leaves,
0:26:40 > 0:26:42and the real care in which
0:26:42 > 0:26:45the flutes of the column have been created.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48So, it's a luxury, grand object...
0:26:50 > 0:26:54..and probably, therefore, its life in a back bedroom and on a piano
0:26:54 > 0:26:56is not what it was intended for,
0:26:56 > 0:26:57but it doesn't matter.
0:26:57 > 0:27:01So, there must be a lot of collectors out there
0:27:01 > 0:27:04who would really love this.
0:27:04 > 0:27:08So, based on what they pay for things of equal rarity,
0:27:08 > 0:27:12I'm going to put a figure of ?3,000 to ?5,000 on it.
0:27:12 > 0:27:14Wow! That's fantastic!
0:27:29 > 0:27:31It's time for our regular guessing game,
0:27:31 > 0:27:33set by our experts, The Enigma.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36And this week's Enigma comes here from Audley End,
0:27:36 > 0:27:37this beautiful silver object,
0:27:37 > 0:27:40brought along by our silver specialist, Alastair Dickenson.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42This looks fiendishly difficult, Alastair.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45I haven't got a clue what that is and I know you've got three options.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47Certainly have. So, what are they?
0:27:47 > 0:27:52Well, the first possibility is that this is a stone holder.
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Why would anyone want a stone holder?
0:27:54 > 0:27:57Ah, well, it's not just any stone holder.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59We're not talking a pebble from a beach, here? We're not.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02Right, OK. We're talking of something more like a gall stone.
0:28:02 > 0:28:07Yuck! Like a fatty concretion from the gut of an animal,
0:28:07 > 0:28:10specifically from the goat.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13And it's called a bezoar stone holder.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16And the word "bezoar" is Persian
0:28:16 > 0:28:20and it means antidote or cure.
0:28:20 > 0:28:25And the bezoar was meant to guard or cure poison.
0:28:25 > 0:28:27They were highly prized,
0:28:27 > 0:28:32and they made these lovely containers to put the bezoar in.
0:28:32 > 0:28:36When abouts are we talking? We're talking of the late 17th century.
0:28:36 > 0:28:39They must have been massive, for the goat,
0:28:39 > 0:28:42if they went into something that size, is what occurs to me.
0:28:42 > 0:28:45Well, I've not been on the inside of a goat recently,
0:28:45 > 0:28:47so I can't tell you what the average size...
0:28:47 > 0:28:50It must have made that goat's eyes water!
0:28:50 > 0:28:52So, that's one option.
0:28:52 > 0:28:56I have heard of bezoar, so it's not quite as preposterous as it seems.
0:28:56 > 0:28:57So, what else?
0:28:57 > 0:29:01The second possibility is that this is a miniature globe holder.
0:29:01 > 0:29:03In the 19th century,
0:29:03 > 0:29:06when explorers were going all around Africa
0:29:06 > 0:29:08and other different parts of the world,
0:29:08 > 0:29:14the normal case for a globe would be made of chagrin or leather.
0:29:14 > 0:29:17Of course, they all fell apart in the tropics.
0:29:17 > 0:29:19So they made, initially, metal cases
0:29:19 > 0:29:22for these smaller, more portable globes.
0:29:23 > 0:29:26And special silver ones, like this, were made
0:29:26 > 0:29:30as gifts to visiting emissaries and dignitaries.
0:29:30 > 0:29:35We've had some beautiful miniature globes on the Roadshow in the past.
0:29:35 > 0:29:39I've never seen one in a case or ever heard anyone mentioning a case,
0:29:39 > 0:29:41I have to admit. They... As I say,
0:29:41 > 0:29:44they were usually given to foreign dignitaries.
0:29:44 > 0:29:47Well, that's handy, isn't it? That's why we haven't seen one! Exactly.
0:29:47 > 0:29:49If this is a tall tale,
0:29:49 > 0:29:51you're going into an extraordinary amount of detail,
0:29:51 > 0:29:54which makes me think maybe it has the ring of truth about it.
0:29:54 > 0:29:57What's your third option?
0:29:57 > 0:30:00The third option is that this is
0:30:00 > 0:30:03an 18th-century story sphere.
0:30:03 > 0:30:04And what is that?
0:30:04 > 0:30:08Well, story spheres originated in south-west France,
0:30:08 > 0:30:10way back in the 14th century.
0:30:10 > 0:30:14And the first ones were wooden
0:30:14 > 0:30:19and carved, on the outside, with folklore and fables and tales
0:30:19 > 0:30:22about things that they loved talking about.
0:30:22 > 0:30:25And you may wonder why...
0:30:26 > 0:30:29..Christmas trees have balls hanging from them.
0:30:29 > 0:30:31Or baubles, as I prefer to call them! All right,
0:30:31 > 0:30:33but they originate from the story sphere.
0:30:36 > 0:30:37Crikey!
0:30:39 > 0:30:41What do you think?
0:30:41 > 0:30:42Very confusing.
0:30:42 > 0:30:44Yes! LAUGHTER
0:30:44 > 0:30:46I'm quite confused, I must say.
0:30:46 > 0:30:49So, what have we got? The innards of a goat...
0:30:49 > 0:30:51What was the second one?!
0:30:51 > 0:30:55LAUGHING: Miniature globes. The miniature globes.
0:30:55 > 0:30:59Or the bauble on a Christmas tree.
0:30:59 > 0:31:00So, what do we think? Any ideas?
0:31:00 > 0:31:02Goat, has to be... Where's the globe?
0:31:02 > 0:31:04And if the globe's not there any more...
0:31:04 > 0:31:06Where is the globe, if it's a globe case?!
0:31:06 > 0:31:08That's a very good point!
0:31:08 > 0:31:11Actually, for that reason alone - thank you, madam - I am going for...
0:31:11 > 0:31:15I think let's go for the goat, the bezoar holder.
0:31:15 > 0:31:16You sure? LAUGHTER
0:31:16 > 0:31:20No, but that's what we're going for!
0:31:20 > 0:31:22Well, I hate to tell you, Fiona...
0:31:22 > 0:31:24you're right!
0:31:24 > 0:31:27Yes! CHEERING AND LAUGHTER
0:31:27 > 0:31:31Well done, that lady who told me about that!
0:31:31 > 0:31:32Right.
0:31:32 > 0:31:36The bezoar was a massively valuable thing.
0:31:36 > 0:31:39In the Renaissance period,
0:31:39 > 0:31:43a bezoar was worth ten times the value of gold.
0:31:43 > 0:31:45Wow!
0:31:45 > 0:31:49They were phenomenally expensive and valuable,
0:31:49 > 0:31:53and that's why you had these wonderful cases.
0:31:53 > 0:31:55Alastair, thank you for setting us this week's Enigma
0:31:55 > 0:31:59and telling us some preposterously tall tales about it.
0:31:59 > 0:32:00Story of my life!
0:32:05 > 0:32:07So, do you remember these from your childhood?
0:32:07 > 0:32:09No, not from when I was very young.
0:32:09 > 0:32:12We weren't allowed to sort of play with anything like this,
0:32:12 > 0:32:13it was sort of kept away from us.
0:32:13 > 0:32:15I was a bit destructive as a child.
0:32:15 > 0:32:18Well, you know, you and me both, really.
0:32:18 > 0:32:21But clearly it was a good thing they were kept away from you
0:32:21 > 0:32:22if you were destructive,
0:32:22 > 0:32:25because what we've got here are two absolutely lovely
0:32:25 > 0:32:28second-half-of-the-19th-century children's books.
0:32:28 > 0:32:31Dean's New Magic Peep Show Picture Book.
0:32:31 > 0:32:34It's not a sort of peepshow like the end of the pier,
0:32:34 > 0:32:36with what-the-butler-saw kind of peeps,
0:32:36 > 0:32:39this is rather more for children.
0:32:40 > 0:32:44And the first two peeps of this are just fantastic.
0:32:44 > 0:32:45They're the wonders of the age.
0:32:45 > 0:32:47We can see in a second why it was a good thing
0:32:47 > 0:32:49you weren't really allowed to play with them as a child,
0:32:49 > 0:32:51because here we have a wonderful peep
0:32:51 > 0:32:53and, as you look down into it,
0:32:53 > 0:32:54you see all the way along
0:32:54 > 0:32:56the grand central aisle
0:32:56 > 0:32:58of the Crystal Palace.
0:32:59 > 0:33:03So, it is a pretty amazing thing, actually. Unbelievable.
0:33:03 > 0:33:07And then the next one is also another wonder of the age,
0:33:07 > 0:33:10rather less well known today,
0:33:10 > 0:33:11and this is the Thames Tunnel.
0:33:11 > 0:33:13The Thames Tunnel was built
0:33:13 > 0:33:15slightly before the Crystal Palace,
0:33:15 > 0:33:20and the intention was that it was going to be for wheeled transport.
0:33:20 > 0:33:21But it cost so much money to make,
0:33:21 > 0:33:24and it was a bit of a white elephant at the time,
0:33:24 > 0:33:27so it became a pedestrian tourist attraction. Right.
0:33:27 > 0:33:30And about two million people a year went to see it.
0:33:30 > 0:33:32Two million?! Yeah. And, of course,
0:33:32 > 0:33:35this is educating children at a time when children
0:33:35 > 0:33:39were no longer being sent up chimneys, by and large,
0:33:39 > 0:33:42and they were having to go to school.
0:33:42 > 0:33:43And then this other one
0:33:43 > 0:33:46is absolutely charming, as well,
0:33:46 > 0:33:48which is Dean's Pantomime Toy Books.
0:33:48 > 0:33:50Aladdin.
0:33:50 > 0:33:52And this is all to do with
0:33:52 > 0:33:54going to the theatre and everything
0:33:54 > 0:33:56and it's just so dazzling!
0:33:56 > 0:33:58It is printed with chromolithography,
0:33:58 > 0:34:01which was a relatively new technique,
0:34:01 > 0:34:04which allowed cheap mass production in colour printing.
0:34:04 > 0:34:07And it's not just a little bit of text and a picture in the middle.
0:34:07 > 0:34:13It's got folding pages and the whole story of a Aladdin told in pictures.
0:34:13 > 0:34:15So these are very collectable today,
0:34:15 > 0:34:18and I think you've got some quite valuable things here.
0:34:18 > 0:34:21The Peep Show book, at auction, would make somewhere...
0:34:21 > 0:34:23?600 to ?800.
0:34:23 > 0:34:24Cor!
0:34:24 > 0:34:27And the Pantomime Aladdin,
0:34:27 > 0:34:30charming as it is, is not as valuable,
0:34:30 > 0:34:32and is worth perhaps ?200 to ?300.
0:34:32 > 0:34:34Blimey! I didn't think it was anything like that.
0:34:34 > 0:34:37I just liked them. So it is the best part of ?1,000 there.
0:34:37 > 0:34:39Fantastic. Thank you.
0:34:43 > 0:34:45You've brought me this sword,
0:34:45 > 0:34:48but this is a sword with a really special story.
0:34:48 > 0:34:51Absolutely. This sword...
0:34:52 > 0:34:57..ended the War of Independence in America,
0:34:57 > 0:35:02because my husband's great-great-great-great-grandfather,
0:35:02 > 0:35:06four greats, I think I got them right, Lord Cornwallis,
0:35:06 > 0:35:09surrendered with this sword at Yorktown
0:35:09 > 0:35:13and that was the beginning of the end of the War of Independence
0:35:13 > 0:35:17and we lost all our American colonies,
0:35:17 > 0:35:19which was a very dismal result.
0:35:19 > 0:35:22It was. And wasn't Cornwallis's fault.
0:35:22 > 0:35:26They'd been besieged by the French, they were hung up,
0:35:26 > 0:35:29they couldn't get out, there was nobody coming for them.
0:35:29 > 0:35:31No. He had no option other than...
0:35:31 > 0:35:32And he had to surrender.
0:35:32 > 0:35:37And Cornwallis was diplomatically ill and wouldn't attend.
0:35:37 > 0:35:41That, I didn't know. Poor man. Oh, dear. How very sad.
0:35:41 > 0:35:44You can understand why Cornwallis realised that that was
0:35:44 > 0:35:46the end of English possession... Absolutely.
0:35:46 > 0:35:48..in the American colonies.
0:35:48 > 0:35:50Absolutely, it was the beginning of the end.
0:35:50 > 0:35:52And this is the actual sword?
0:35:52 > 0:35:56And this is the actual sword with which he had to surrender.
0:35:56 > 0:35:59And then, because it was the etiquette of the day,
0:35:59 > 0:36:02they gave the sword back. Yes.
0:36:02 > 0:36:05So we've had it pretty well ever since, I think.
0:36:05 > 0:36:07But it's just an ordinary sword, really, isn't it?
0:36:07 > 0:36:13Yes, it's just a work... a workmanlike sword. Mm.
0:36:13 > 0:36:16But historically, absolutely fascinating.
0:36:16 > 0:36:17Amazing.
0:36:17 > 0:36:19Um... A value?
0:36:19 > 0:36:23I would have thought - a low estimate -
0:36:23 > 0:36:25?10,000 to ?12,000?
0:36:25 > 0:36:28Goodness me, that is amazing.
0:36:28 > 0:36:31It's such a fascinating thing for the American market.
0:36:31 > 0:36:34It is, isn't it? It represents the start of modern America.
0:36:34 > 0:36:35I think they would love it,
0:36:35 > 0:36:38but I think we'll probably have to keep it. Splendid.
0:36:38 > 0:36:40That's what I like to hear.
0:36:43 > 0:36:46Any time I see any type of box,
0:36:46 > 0:36:48I wonder if there's a secret inside.
0:36:48 > 0:36:51Tell me about this work box.
0:36:51 > 0:36:55It was my grandmother's engagement present,
0:36:55 > 0:36:59and we think she got it about 1900s.
0:36:59 > 0:37:02It is a sewing table,
0:37:02 > 0:37:05but my grandmother loved writing stories, even as a little girl,
0:37:05 > 0:37:06she was always writing stories.
0:37:06 > 0:37:09She wanted to be a journalist, but wasn't allowed to.
0:37:09 > 0:37:11But, as she grew older,
0:37:11 > 0:37:16she wrote stories for broadcast on Listen With Mother at lunchtimes,
0:37:16 > 0:37:18which people probably remember.
0:37:18 > 0:37:21And she always used to keep the scripts for those
0:37:21 > 0:37:25and other things that she wrote in this work table.
0:37:25 > 0:37:26This was your grandmother.
0:37:26 > 0:37:28That's my grandmother, yes.
0:37:28 > 0:37:31Janet Gemmill. Janet Gemmill, yeah.
0:37:31 > 0:37:34And, so, she kept her scripts in here?
0:37:34 > 0:37:36Yes, all of them, the ones that were accepted
0:37:36 > 0:37:38and the ones that were rejected. Right.
0:37:38 > 0:37:40They were always in there.
0:37:40 > 0:37:42And why didn't she become a journalist?
0:37:42 > 0:37:43She wasn't allowed to,
0:37:43 > 0:37:45I mean, woman's work and all that sort of thing.
0:37:45 > 0:37:48Oh, gosh, yes. You know, her grandmother just didn't let her.
0:37:48 > 0:37:49Yes. So...
0:37:50 > 0:37:52..these are her...her stories.
0:37:52 > 0:37:55Let's just put this back down again.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01And one is tempted to say,
0:38:01 > 0:38:04"Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin."
0:38:04 > 0:38:07LAUGHTER And here it is.
0:38:07 > 0:38:09"The little green gnomes had lived in the forest
0:38:09 > 0:38:11"for years and years and years.
0:38:11 > 0:38:14"They had come to look upon it as their very own,
0:38:14 > 0:38:18"although they knew that it was part of the country ruled over by a king,
0:38:18 > 0:38:21"the father of their beloved Princess Coralie."
0:38:22 > 0:38:24Well, she might not have been allowed to be a journalist,
0:38:24 > 0:38:27but it has been read out!
0:38:27 > 0:38:29So that was very good.
0:38:29 > 0:38:34So, we're saying that she got this as an engagement present in...?
0:38:34 > 0:38:36We think 1900s.
0:38:36 > 0:38:38Of course, it was not new then.
0:38:38 > 0:38:41No. No. I mean, this is very typical
0:38:41 > 0:38:46of the walnut furniture made around the middle of the 19th century.
0:38:46 > 0:38:50And she obviously found this very special use for it. Mm.
0:38:50 > 0:38:54Unfortunately, this sort of furniture is sort of out of fashion
0:38:54 > 0:38:57and it's got quite a bit of damage to it.
0:38:57 > 0:39:02And, in terms of the value of this,
0:39:02 > 0:39:04it's probably only ?300 to ?400.
0:39:04 > 0:39:07That's what we expected. But the thing is,
0:39:07 > 0:39:11the value of what's inside, to you as a family, is very much more.
0:39:11 > 0:39:13Mm. Lovely. Yes.
0:39:13 > 0:39:17MUSIC: Listen With Mother theme tune
0:39:21 > 0:39:25'Are you sitting comfortably?
0:39:25 > 0:39:26'Then we'll begin.'
0:39:32 > 0:39:36"Liberte, paix and solidarite."
0:39:36 > 0:39:39Liberty, peace and solidarity.
0:39:39 > 0:39:41What a lovely thing.
0:39:41 > 0:39:44Interesting people designed them.
0:39:44 > 0:39:46Very interesting people, I can see that.
0:39:46 > 0:39:48How did you come by all these scarves?
0:39:48 > 0:39:50Well, my husband and I,
0:39:50 > 0:39:53we belonged to a choir called the London Youth Choir.
0:39:53 > 0:39:57And this was when? This was in the early '50s, 1950s.
0:39:57 > 0:40:02And our aim was really a sort of, hopefully, singing for peace.
0:40:02 > 0:40:04You know, world peace sort of idea.
0:40:04 > 0:40:06So, where did you go with this choir,
0:40:06 > 0:40:07what kind of countries did you visit?
0:40:07 > 0:40:10We went to the East European countries quite often.
0:40:10 > 0:40:12They had youth festivals.
0:40:12 > 0:40:17So, Poland and Bucharest and Prague and so on.
0:40:17 > 0:40:21All the communist countries, all part of the Soviet Republic? Yes.
0:40:21 > 0:40:23And then where did the scarves come in?
0:40:23 > 0:40:25They were given to us.
0:40:25 > 0:40:29Most of them were made specially for each festival. How fascinating.
0:40:29 > 0:40:33I don't think anyone has ever brought along anything like this,
0:40:33 > 0:40:35certainly since I've been on the Roadshow.
0:40:35 > 0:40:40I think you and your idealistic scarves should be seen by Ronnie -
0:40:40 > 0:40:44he's our specialist in scarves and he'll be thrilled to see them.
0:40:44 > 0:40:46That's interesting. Thank you.
0:40:49 > 0:40:54The relationships that we have with our jewellery is so important
0:40:54 > 0:40:57and it's very unique to us.
0:40:57 > 0:40:59We wear jewellery because it makes us happy,
0:40:59 > 0:41:02it makes us think about past generations.
0:41:02 > 0:41:05And what I think is wonderful about this,
0:41:05 > 0:41:09is that two very, very different styles are in the same family.
0:41:09 > 0:41:11So, first of all,
0:41:11 > 0:41:13we'll start with the older style,
0:41:13 > 0:41:15which is these wonderful pearls.
0:41:15 > 0:41:16Tell me about how you got these.
0:41:16 > 0:41:18They belong to my daughter,
0:41:18 > 0:41:23they were given to her, when she was born, by my mother-in-law,
0:41:23 > 0:41:26to whom they were given when my husband was born.
0:41:26 > 0:41:28So, they're an heirloom? They're an heirloom.
0:41:28 > 0:41:31And have you had the honour of wearing them yet?
0:41:31 > 0:41:34I've never actually worn them, but Mum wore them on my wedding day,
0:41:34 > 0:41:38so actually quite a special piece of jewellery to all of us.
0:41:38 > 0:41:41They are a beautiful example of natural pearls.
0:41:41 > 0:41:44And there has been such a renaissance with natural pearls
0:41:44 > 0:41:47because they are so rare today.
0:41:47 > 0:41:52And I love the fact that you've got this wonderful diamond clasp.
0:41:52 > 0:41:54Quite 1950s, the clasp, actually,
0:41:54 > 0:41:58so I would think the pearls have come from an earlier source
0:41:58 > 0:42:00and then have been later strung
0:42:00 > 0:42:02or married together with the '50s clasp.
0:42:04 > 0:42:09But then suddenly, we have something completely different over here.
0:42:09 > 0:42:13So, what was going through your mind when you saw this
0:42:13 > 0:42:15and when did you see this?
0:42:15 > 0:42:18I bought it in 1972,
0:42:18 > 0:42:23with money from an insurance claim that...
0:42:23 > 0:42:25I'd had a diamond brooch stolen,
0:42:25 > 0:42:27which was given to me by my mother-in-law.
0:42:27 > 0:42:29OK, so it was from the same collection.
0:42:29 > 0:42:31It was from the same, yes.
0:42:31 > 0:42:35So, I bought that in Collingwood's of Conduit Street,
0:42:35 > 0:42:38a jeweller no longer with us, I think.
0:42:38 > 0:42:42And I have no idea by whom it was made.
0:42:42 > 0:42:45Collingwood's are quite a traditional jewellers,
0:42:45 > 0:42:49so, for them, in the '70s, to be selling an item like this
0:42:49 > 0:42:53was sort of quite out of the box. And for you...
0:42:53 > 0:42:56I'm very interested in what gravitated you
0:42:56 > 0:42:58to this style and this type of ring.
0:42:58 > 0:43:01Well, I absolutely love 1970s jewellery.
0:43:01 > 0:43:03I did then, and I still do now.
0:43:03 > 0:43:05What do you love about it?
0:43:05 > 0:43:08It's bold, it's slightly wacky,
0:43:08 > 0:43:11and I just love the bark effect.
0:43:11 > 0:43:15I can't stop holding it. You've seen me...
0:43:15 > 0:43:18I am so in love with this, so in love with this ring!
0:43:18 > 0:43:22The '70s was about big stones and dramatic pieces,
0:43:22 > 0:43:26and diamonds were just there just to highlight a design.
0:43:26 > 0:43:29And this stone is a tourmaline, which is a natural stone.
0:43:29 > 0:43:32And this would have come from Brazil.
0:43:32 > 0:43:34There were some wonderful workshops
0:43:34 > 0:43:37that were making these types of jewels
0:43:37 > 0:43:40and they're highly collected now, today.
0:43:40 > 0:43:44The '70s period is really quite in.
0:43:44 > 0:43:47And the only thing is, there is no signature.
0:43:47 > 0:43:52I know. There is no signature of this wonderful craftsman,
0:43:52 > 0:43:56and I would love to know who the craftsman is.
0:43:56 > 0:43:57Maybe, he might be watching.
0:43:57 > 0:44:00Wouldn't that be wonderful?! Wouldn't that be wonderful?
0:44:00 > 0:44:01Yes, it really would. It really would.
0:44:01 > 0:44:05We'll let you know if we hear. Thank you. We'll let you know.
0:44:05 > 0:44:10But, because of the '70s jewellery being in vogue,
0:44:10 > 0:44:15there's a lot of competitive bidding going on at the moment, out there,
0:44:15 > 0:44:17as there are with pearls, too,
0:44:17 > 0:44:19so you're not being left out, here.
0:44:19 > 0:44:21THEY LAUGH
0:44:21 > 0:44:24You've definitely, definitely got a wonderful heirloom.
0:44:24 > 0:44:27And, you know, the natural pearls, as I said,
0:44:27 > 0:44:30you don't find these in the oceans any more.
0:44:30 > 0:44:33These are saltwater pearls.
0:44:33 > 0:44:34And, at auction,
0:44:34 > 0:44:38you are going to be looking in the region of around about...
0:44:38 > 0:44:40?15,000.
0:44:40 > 0:44:43Wow! Slightly more than you thought!
0:44:43 > 0:44:45LAUGHTER
0:44:46 > 0:44:50Now, as for this one, do you remember how much you paid for it?
0:44:50 > 0:44:51No idea. Well...
0:44:52 > 0:44:56I just think it is absolutely fabulous
0:44:56 > 0:45:00and I think, at auction, you'd be looking in the region
0:45:00 > 0:45:01of around about
0:45:01 > 0:45:03?5,000 to ?7,000.
0:45:03 > 0:45:05Heavens! SHE CHUCKLES
0:45:05 > 0:45:07That's lovely.
0:45:07 > 0:45:10And if the person phones us up and tells us who made it,
0:45:10 > 0:45:11it'll be worth more!
0:45:11 > 0:45:12THEY LAUGH
0:45:12 > 0:45:16That would be a really good end to the story, thank you.
0:45:20 > 0:45:24When you came to the table and I saw these coming out of your bag,
0:45:24 > 0:45:27you brought them out, I couldn't believe my eyes!
0:45:27 > 0:45:29And then... I know that you had
0:45:29 > 0:45:33a conversation with Fiona about how you acquired them
0:45:33 > 0:45:37and wasn't it through going to world peace festivals?
0:45:37 > 0:45:39That's right, yes, it was. And when was that?
0:45:39 > 0:45:40In the early '50s,
0:45:40 > 0:45:43and into the '60s, but mainly in the '50s.
0:45:43 > 0:45:44So you went to Communist countries
0:45:44 > 0:45:46in the days when they were shut off to most people?
0:45:46 > 0:45:48It was the only way to get in!
0:45:48 > 0:45:51Well, these scarves are fabulous.
0:45:51 > 0:45:54And I'd like to focus on my favourite,
0:45:54 > 0:45:56and it's these up here.
0:45:56 > 0:45:58You must know that one like this...
0:46:00 > 0:46:05What does that say? "Liberte, solidarite."
0:46:05 > 0:46:06And that's designed by
0:46:06 > 0:46:09one of the most famous artists of the 20th century. Really?
0:46:09 > 0:46:13Fernand Leger. I knew the name, but I didn't know he was so famous.
0:46:13 > 0:46:16He was a cubist and a modernist... My goodness.
0:46:16 > 0:46:19..and his work is really sought after.
0:46:19 > 0:46:24And this chap here, who did this one, needs no introduction at all.
0:46:24 > 0:46:27No. We all know who Picasso is.
0:46:27 > 0:46:30And this one is what is known as...
0:46:30 > 0:46:33These are propaganda scarves to collectors. Yes.
0:46:33 > 0:46:36And artists that were interested in politics at the time
0:46:36 > 0:46:41made images that got printed up to be used at congresses
0:46:41 > 0:46:43and festivals like you went to.
0:46:43 > 0:46:47And that was... de rigueur in the '50s...
0:46:47 > 0:46:49Absolutely, yes, it was.
0:46:49 > 0:46:51..for forward-thinking, enlightened people.
0:46:53 > 0:46:55People really love these things.
0:46:55 > 0:46:58I remember seeing one of these, in the '70s, in a gallery
0:46:58 > 0:47:02and thought, I... I've always wanted one of those
0:47:02 > 0:47:04and I've never actually found one
0:47:04 > 0:47:06and you've got two of the greatest scarves
0:47:06 > 0:47:11from this type of collecting that I know of. Golly.
0:47:11 > 0:47:14And this Fernand Leger, as I said, is a huge name.
0:47:14 > 0:47:16Unfortunately, it's a bit smudged, but it's not too bad.
0:47:16 > 0:47:19I think it could be improved and this one,
0:47:19 > 0:47:23if it was in really good condition, is probably worth about...
0:47:23 > 0:47:26?1,200. Gosh!
0:47:26 > 0:47:29Maybe this one's worth about 800 or 900 as it is.
0:47:29 > 0:47:31This one is in really good condition
0:47:31 > 0:47:35and one of these made $2,500
0:47:35 > 0:47:37in a New York sale a few years ago.
0:47:37 > 0:47:38So, in all,
0:47:38 > 0:47:43the others are worth about ?500, plus about ?1,700 worth,
0:47:43 > 0:47:44plus about ?1,000,
0:47:44 > 0:47:48so that comes to something like ?3,000, I think,
0:47:48 > 0:47:50for the lot. Wow!
0:47:55 > 0:47:57Now, you've brought along some medals,
0:47:57 > 0:48:01but also a box of draughts. What have you brought that in for?
0:48:01 > 0:48:03We were clearing my parents' house
0:48:03 > 0:48:05after my father went into residential care
0:48:05 > 0:48:09and I found a draughts box, which I thought contained draughts.
0:48:09 > 0:48:12I was just about to throw it into a box for the charity shop
0:48:12 > 0:48:15and it rattled, so I looked in and I found the medals.
0:48:15 > 0:48:19That's amazing. And these medals relate to the First World War,
0:48:19 > 0:48:21but there's one medal in particular
0:48:21 > 0:48:24that I want to talk about and that's this one here.
0:48:24 > 0:48:28This is the Distinguished Service Medal.
0:48:28 > 0:48:29What do you know about it?
0:48:29 > 0:48:32My grandfather won the Distinguished Service Medal
0:48:32 > 0:48:34at the Battle of Jutland.
0:48:34 > 0:48:36He was a chief petty officer stoker.
0:48:36 > 0:48:41He changed over oil tank, after the oil tank was hit,
0:48:41 > 0:48:44to the other oil tank, under full steam
0:48:44 > 0:48:46and was awarded the DSM.
0:48:46 > 0:48:49So he was quite a brave man? Yes.
0:48:49 > 0:48:51The Battle of Jutland took place
0:48:51 > 0:48:54in 1916, on 31st May and 1st June.
0:48:54 > 0:48:56And it's an incredibly famous battle -
0:48:56 > 0:49:01it was the largest naval battle in the First World War.
0:49:01 > 0:49:06Many sailors were killed, many ships were sunk.
0:49:06 > 0:49:08This is a very, very important medal
0:49:08 > 0:49:11and important group of medals.
0:49:11 > 0:49:13These medals do have a value.
0:49:13 > 0:49:17And you were about to, not throw them out,
0:49:17 > 0:49:20but you were about to give them to a charity shop, weren't you? Yes.
0:49:20 > 0:49:27The Distinguished Service Medal is the important medal in the group,
0:49:27 > 0:49:29but you have got several other medals here, too -
0:49:29 > 0:49:32you've got a Long Service And Good Conduct,
0:49:32 > 0:49:34you've got a British War Medal,
0:49:34 > 0:49:36you've got a 1914-15 Star.
0:49:38 > 0:49:43The value of the group is going to be somewhere in the region of...
0:49:43 > 0:49:45?2,500 to ?3,500.
0:49:47 > 0:49:50I never imagined it would be that amount.
0:49:50 > 0:49:53But they stay with the family, as far as I'm concerned.
0:49:56 > 0:49:58So, what a pile of old bones
0:49:58 > 0:50:02and bits of smashed-up crockery and shells you've brought to me
0:50:02 > 0:50:04and I'm supposed to be the jewellery man.
0:50:04 > 0:50:05But tell me all about it.
0:50:05 > 0:50:08Well, we found them at the Thames,
0:50:08 > 0:50:12cos we went on a little search
0:50:12 > 0:50:15for all little pieces like this.
0:50:15 > 0:50:19Yes, and who took you there first, was it a friend?
0:50:19 > 0:50:22Yeah, and her family.
0:50:22 > 0:50:24Yes. They call it mudlarking, don't they? Yeah.
0:50:24 > 0:50:26And I'm a mudlarker,
0:50:26 > 0:50:28I'm absolutely thrilled to do this
0:50:28 > 0:50:30and once I get away from my jewellery table,
0:50:30 > 0:50:32what I really want to do
0:50:32 > 0:50:34is go down to the great, green, greasy Thames
0:50:34 > 0:50:36and try to find these things
0:50:36 > 0:50:38and you've found them perfectly, haven't you?
0:50:38 > 0:50:40Which is your favourite?
0:50:40 > 0:50:43It's probably...the jaw.
0:50:43 > 0:50:44And tell us why that is.
0:50:44 > 0:50:48Because I like that there's still teeth inside.
0:50:48 > 0:50:49Yes, amazing.
0:50:49 > 0:50:55And this is a jawbone of a sheep and we can only guess how old that is.
0:50:55 > 0:50:57But the Thames was a sort of rubbish dump
0:50:57 > 0:51:02and people hurled all kinds of trash into it, simply to get rid of it.
0:51:02 > 0:51:04But of all the things you've shown me,
0:51:04 > 0:51:06I think the most magical is this,
0:51:06 > 0:51:10and have you any idea why I like that one so much?
0:51:10 > 0:51:13Is it because it's very old?
0:51:13 > 0:51:16It is very, very old and it's not only very old,
0:51:16 > 0:51:19but it was made on the other side of the world.
0:51:19 > 0:51:24It was made in China and a little potter, 400 years ago,
0:51:24 > 0:51:27made a vast bowl and decorated it with all manner of good things
0:51:27 > 0:51:30including what is left of a peony here,
0:51:30 > 0:51:34in a dynasty known as the Kangxi Period, which is 400 years ago,
0:51:34 > 0:51:38and we can only guess at the sort of people that were eating from it.
0:51:38 > 0:51:41They were in the 17th century, they'd be wearing wigs,
0:51:41 > 0:51:44they'd be very strange to us, living in the centre of London,
0:51:44 > 0:51:47very prosperous, could afford all kinds of things
0:51:47 > 0:51:49and then, dang it, the servant breaks the plate.
0:51:49 > 0:51:51There's no point keeping that, fling it in the river
0:51:51 > 0:51:56and then you come along 400 years later and find it and show it to me.
0:51:56 > 0:51:59Well, if that isn't magic, what is? It's wonderful!
0:51:59 > 0:52:02These are not valuable objects in the conventional sense of the word,
0:52:02 > 0:52:04but they're enormously valuable to you
0:52:04 > 0:52:06and they're enormously valuable to me.
0:52:06 > 0:52:07I mean, I think they've got wonderful context
0:52:07 > 0:52:10and maybe, one day, you can make a career from it.
0:52:10 > 0:52:13What would you like to be when you come to work?
0:52:13 > 0:52:15An archaeologist.
0:52:15 > 0:52:17LAUGHING: Of course you would! I know!
0:52:17 > 0:52:19I always wish I had been an archaeologist
0:52:19 > 0:52:21but my break went in another direction,
0:52:21 > 0:52:22I've been enormously lucky.
0:52:22 > 0:52:24Thank you very much for bringing them.
0:52:24 > 0:52:26It was really good, wasn't it? Yeah.
0:52:29 > 0:52:35In the 1920s and 1930s, there was a lot of interest in fairies.
0:52:35 > 0:52:38You may remember there were some photographs produced
0:52:38 > 0:52:40and people were convinced
0:52:40 > 0:52:43there were fairies at the bottom of people's gardens.
0:52:43 > 0:52:44Yeah, there are!
0:52:44 > 0:52:46Well, you're a good one to talk to me
0:52:46 > 0:52:50because you've got fairies on your sideboard from what I can see.
0:52:50 > 0:52:53Have you been living with these fairies for quite some time?
0:52:53 > 0:52:55About 12 years.
0:52:55 > 0:52:5712 years. Yes. And before then?
0:52:57 > 0:53:00Before then, they lived in Ireland,
0:53:00 > 0:53:05from about 1962 until 2004. Oh, right. Right.
0:53:05 > 0:53:08Do you want to go further back? If you can go further back.
0:53:08 > 0:53:13They were owned by a cousin of my aunt, who lived in Johannesburg.
0:53:13 > 0:53:16Goodness me, these are well-travelled vases! They are.
0:53:16 > 0:53:19So they've been fairies in South Africa,
0:53:19 > 0:53:21they've been leprechauns by the time they got to Ireland...
0:53:21 > 0:53:22That's it, yes.
0:53:22 > 0:53:25..and now they are fairies again in Saffron Walden.
0:53:25 > 0:53:26That's it. Right.
0:53:26 > 0:53:29They are very special, because they remind me of my aunt.
0:53:29 > 0:53:33Ahh. That is what it's about, at the end of the day, isn't it?
0:53:33 > 0:53:35Let's have a look at the pieces
0:53:35 > 0:53:39because I know you've done a little bit of research,
0:53:39 > 0:53:43because, talking to the daughter who's behind you,
0:53:43 > 0:53:47with the next inheritor in her arms... That's it, absolutely.
0:53:47 > 0:53:51The big name here, it's one we've heard before on the Roadshow,
0:53:51 > 0:53:54is Daisy Makeig-Jones, as the designer. Yeah.
0:53:54 > 0:54:00She did come up with these amazing designs and produced by Wedgwood,
0:54:00 > 0:54:02in Etruria in Stoke-on-Trent,
0:54:02 > 0:54:07and...under the banner of Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre.
0:54:07 > 0:54:12Oh, right. So, you've got three very nice prime pieces.
0:54:12 > 0:54:17The thing about the Wedgwood Fairyland in general
0:54:17 > 0:54:20is that it is very, very dependent on condition.
0:54:20 > 0:54:22Right, yeah. A little bit of wear.
0:54:22 > 0:54:27And so the first thing I do when I see a bowl like this is this...
0:54:27 > 0:54:28BOWL CHIMES
0:54:28 > 0:54:31Oh, sounds good. That sounds all right.
0:54:31 > 0:54:33That's a good sound, that is a good sound.
0:54:33 > 0:54:37The decoration is called Castle On The Road,
0:54:37 > 0:54:40but the interior, for some reason,
0:54:40 > 0:54:43is called Boxers. I am looking at these fairies...
0:54:43 > 0:54:45Or Boxing, rather.
0:54:45 > 0:54:48I can't see any boxing fairies but, anyway, that's what it's called.
0:54:48 > 0:54:50That's what it's called.
0:54:50 > 0:54:53So, it's making the right sound.
0:54:53 > 0:54:54Good. OK?
0:54:54 > 0:54:57Because if it had made a bit of a snare... Yeah?
0:54:57 > 0:55:00..that would have been worth...?1,000?
0:55:00 > 0:55:02It's worth a bit more than 1,000 now.
0:55:02 > 0:55:05So I think we will start with that one...
0:55:05 > 0:55:06at around the 3,000 mark.
0:55:06 > 0:55:10Holy smoke! Really?! Maybe a little bit more.
0:55:10 > 0:55:13So, leaning over, let's have a look at this one.
0:55:13 > 0:55:16This one is called Pillar,
0:55:16 > 0:55:19cos you've got these columns. Yeah.
0:55:19 > 0:55:22OK, you have got these columns and...
0:55:22 > 0:55:26VASE RINGS
0:55:26 > 0:55:29Yeah, that's making a nice noise.
0:55:29 > 0:55:33So, with a piece like that...
0:55:35 > 0:55:38..the chances are, you're going to be...
0:55:38 > 0:55:40nearer ?6,000.
0:55:40 > 0:55:42Six?! What, for this ONE?!
0:55:42 > 0:55:45Mm, yeah.
0:55:45 > 0:55:47So... I should be sitting down! No, no, no.
0:55:47 > 0:55:49Or laying down, Mum?
0:55:49 > 0:55:51So we now move on to this big thing,
0:55:51 > 0:55:54which could even work as an umbrella stand, couldn't it?
0:55:54 > 0:55:55I think that's what they used it for -
0:55:55 > 0:55:57they just dumped umbrellas in it.
0:55:57 > 0:55:58Did they really? Yeah.
0:55:58 > 0:56:01Let's have a look. It's called Bubbles, for obvious reasons,
0:56:01 > 0:56:03and you've got this wonderful arrangement
0:56:03 > 0:56:07of what appear to be like water babies, little winged sprites.
0:56:07 > 0:56:09Have you noticed the sleeping dragon?
0:56:09 > 0:56:12Have you looked at the bottom there? Yeah. Yeah.
0:56:12 > 0:56:13Good. Now, I've to come round to this one
0:56:13 > 0:56:16because I don't want to lift it. That's got a...
0:56:16 > 0:56:17VASE RINGS
0:56:17 > 0:56:19Lovely. Did you like that?
0:56:19 > 0:56:21I did, yeah. Do it again! Are you sure?
0:56:21 > 0:56:23VASE RINGS OK.
0:56:23 > 0:56:25Um, right...
0:56:28 > 0:56:30The thing is, that I'm looking in there
0:56:30 > 0:56:33and I'm wondering if I can see a crack.
0:56:33 > 0:56:34DAUGHTER GASPS
0:56:34 > 0:56:37Because if that is a crack...
0:56:37 > 0:56:38Let's say it's one of my hairs!
0:56:38 > 0:56:41Well, no. The long and short of it is, if it's a crack...
0:56:41 > 0:56:43Do you mind if I look at it? No, that's fine.
0:56:43 > 0:56:45Because if it's a crack, it's ?2,000, you understand that?
0:56:45 > 0:56:47Ooh! OK. Yeah.
0:56:47 > 0:56:50That's still loads more than we expected. Still loads of money.
0:56:50 > 0:56:52Yeah, it is. It is a crack?
0:56:52 > 0:56:54No. I don't...
0:56:54 > 0:56:55Hang on, let's have a look. No.
0:56:55 > 0:56:57OK. No crack.
0:56:57 > 0:56:58Well...
0:56:59 > 0:57:02No, no crack. Excellent.
0:57:02 > 0:57:05So, I suppose,
0:57:05 > 0:57:06forget the 2,000,
0:57:06 > 0:57:08I think we've got to now say...
0:57:08 > 0:57:09?20,000.
0:57:09 > 0:57:13CROWD GASPS LOUDLY Oh, my word! OK, that woke the baby!
0:57:16 > 0:57:18You are joking?! My goodness.
0:57:18 > 0:57:22Where money's concerned, I never joke, I never joke.
0:57:22 > 0:57:24I'd better insure it.
0:57:25 > 0:57:28Well, you know, I mean, it's nice...
0:57:28 > 0:57:31It's nice to think that there's a profit to be had
0:57:31 > 0:57:33by having fairies in anybody's house,
0:57:33 > 0:57:37but in your house, it's come good. Yes, absolutely!
0:57:37 > 0:57:40Excellent. Amazing. Amazing.
0:57:41 > 0:57:44I think that family will be telling the story of that valuation
0:57:44 > 0:57:47and their day at the Antiques Roadshow for years to come,
0:57:47 > 0:57:49and it will certainly give that baby
0:57:49 > 0:57:51something to remember when it grows up.
0:57:51 > 0:57:54From all of us here at Audley End and the whole Roadshow team,
0:57:54 > 0:57:55until next time, bye-bye.
0:58:29 > 0:58:33I told you, I don't need any help. And I told you, you've got it.
0:58:33 > 0:58:34Leopard changed its spots, has it?
0:58:34 > 0:58:36Come on, then!
0:58:36 > 0:58:37Grant, what you doing?!
0:58:37 > 0:58:38Phil!