0:00:52 > 0:00:55There have been generations of aristocratic families
0:00:55 > 0:00:58living in this majestic house since the early 1600s.
0:01:01 > 0:01:07It's elegantly formal on the outside and hugely imposing on the inside,
0:01:07 > 0:01:10but you might be surprised to learn that in the 1820s
0:01:10 > 0:01:12this was a grand playground for eight children
0:01:12 > 0:01:15who were allowed to indulge their passion
0:01:15 > 0:01:17for painting and toy-making,
0:01:17 > 0:01:21creating objects that tell vivid tales of their lives.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24Welcome back to the Antiques Roadshow at Audley End
0:01:24 > 0:01:26near Saffron Walden in Essex.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31The children were the offspring of the third Lord and Lady Braybrooke,
0:01:31 > 0:01:34who were considered very liberal parents in their day.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37The nursery was the centre of the children's world where they played,
0:01:37 > 0:01:42slept, argued and ate, all under the supervision of their governess.
0:01:43 > 0:01:46This is a watercolour by one of the girls of the nursery.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50And it's a brilliant insight into what life was like then and it looks
0:01:50 > 0:01:52just the same now, with the wooden panelling,
0:01:52 > 0:01:55over there on either side of the fireplace.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58And it's so skilfully done.
0:01:58 > 0:02:02And that's because their drawing master was Caleb Robert Stanley,
0:02:02 > 0:02:06a well-known watercolourist who was commissioned by Queen Victoria
0:02:06 > 0:02:07to paint all of her palaces,
0:02:07 > 0:02:11and painting interiors was hugely popular back then.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14These watercolours done by other members of the family
0:02:14 > 0:02:17are so useful now in showing us what the decor
0:02:17 > 0:02:21and furnishings were like back in the 19th century.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28In the corner of these pictures is the original doll's house.
0:02:28 > 0:02:31It's enormous and with ten rooms fitted out
0:02:31 > 0:02:34with pre-Victorian worlds in miniature,
0:02:34 > 0:02:37this children's plaything has become an important record
0:02:37 > 0:02:39of the house and life back then.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43The furniture and the furnishings are made from odds and ends
0:02:43 > 0:02:47gathered by the children, so this curtain material here in the nursery
0:02:47 > 0:02:51is left over from the 1770s Adam dining parlour,
0:02:51 > 0:02:55and then the vibrantly coloured wallpaper in many of the rooms
0:02:55 > 0:02:59is Regency and culled from trunks and boxes of the period.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02I would have given my eye teeth to have a doll's house like this
0:03:02 > 0:03:06when I was a child and I bet our experts would be thrilled by it.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12English Heritage now own and cherish this lovely house and grounds.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16Over to our specialists examining the treasures brought in
0:03:16 > 0:03:18by our visitors for today's Roadshow.
0:03:20 > 0:03:25I always say that the finest things come in the best packaging,
0:03:25 > 0:03:27particularly in my subject of clocks and watches,
0:03:27 > 0:03:30and this is a cracking good box.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33Octagonal, tooled leather, don't you think it's rather special?
0:03:33 > 0:03:34It looks it to me, yes.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36Am I going to be disappointed with what's inside?
0:03:36 > 0:03:37I don't think so.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39I think it's rather unusual.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42Let me be the judge.
0:03:43 > 0:03:47Wow. You're not wrong.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49That is fantastic.
0:03:49 > 0:03:51Have you collected it or is it a family thing?
0:03:51 > 0:03:55No, it came from my grandfather, who was a potter,
0:03:55 > 0:04:01and he used to buy musical movements for putting in the bottom of jugs,
0:04:01 > 0:04:06tankards, and he used to buy quite a few thousand of these movements
0:04:06 > 0:04:08from Rouge in Switzerland.
0:04:08 > 0:04:10- Yes.- This was a gift to him from Rouge
0:04:10 > 0:04:13as a thank you for all his orders.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16That was a lovely gift, wasn't it?
0:04:16 > 0:04:20- It was indeed.- So what sort of date do you reckon this is?
0:04:20 > 0:04:25I would think round about the 1920s, early 1920s.
0:04:25 > 0:04:26I think you're absolutely right.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28I'll slip it out of there.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32It's such a beautifully fitted case, absolutely gorgeous.
0:04:32 > 0:04:38Collectors are so keen now on things of A, the finest quality, and B,
0:04:38 > 0:04:40the finest condition.
0:04:40 > 0:04:41And just looking at this,
0:04:41 > 0:04:43the enamel on the chaptering
0:04:43 > 0:04:46and this lovely powder blue enamel all around
0:04:46 > 0:04:48is absolutely mint.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52The thing of course is silver and this simulated water,
0:04:52 > 0:04:53in other words the mirror,
0:04:53 > 0:04:58is rotating within that chaptering and the little fellow,
0:04:58 > 0:05:01the little gondolier, is pointing to the time there
0:05:01 > 0:05:05- which is just after half past seven. - Better put that right.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07LAUGHTER
0:05:07 > 0:05:10Well, as you say, you have the little key in there
0:05:10 > 0:05:13and then we just turn him upside down,
0:05:13 > 0:05:19lovely enamel, silver and a full set of Swiss marks here
0:05:19 > 0:05:23and of course there we've got the two squares,
0:05:23 > 0:05:27one aiguilles for the rotating of the table up there
0:05:27 > 0:05:29and that's just to wind the movement,
0:05:29 > 0:05:31but what a wonderful thing.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34If I was being really picky,
0:05:34 > 0:05:39I would say there is a tiny bit of damage to his hand,
0:05:39 > 0:05:40which could easily be restored.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46Find another one and the answer is, I don't think you would.
0:05:48 > 0:05:49I really don't think you would
0:05:49 > 0:05:51and when I said it was a generous present when it was new,
0:05:51 > 0:05:53it would have been a great deal of money.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57It's a pretty good chunk of money today as well.
0:05:57 > 0:05:58- Really?- Yes.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00I hope I'm going to surprise you.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02I think if you went to a...
0:06:03 > 0:06:07..decent shop, seriously,
0:06:07 > 0:06:09you'd be paying £6,000.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11- I beg your pardon!- Happy?
0:06:13 > 0:06:16- Speechless! - LAUGHTER
0:06:16 > 0:06:17Absolutely speechless.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24So, here we have a lovely piece of Victorian invention.
0:06:24 > 0:06:25Tell me about it.
0:06:25 > 0:06:30OK, so this is an ear trumpet which my great-great-grandmother had
0:06:30 > 0:06:33and as we understand it, she was almost stone deaf
0:06:33 > 0:06:35from quite a young age,
0:06:35 > 0:06:37so she carried it everywhere.
0:06:37 > 0:06:38And here she is?
0:06:38 > 0:06:41Yes, here we see her with her five daughters.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45She also had four sons and as you say, holding her ear trumpet.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48Beautifully attired.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50She was obviously a wealthy lady.
0:06:50 > 0:06:51Probably quite reasonably wealthy.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55This is outside their house in Gravesend called Dashwood House.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57I don't think it exists any more.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59They were a family of auctioneers.
0:06:59 > 0:07:03Auctioneers! So they were involved in the antiques business.
0:07:03 > 0:07:04Possibly, yes.
0:07:04 > 0:07:08So, an ear trumpet, one of the great inventions of the Victorians,
0:07:08 > 0:07:11who were always inventing these fabulous things
0:07:11 > 0:07:12to look after people.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14This, we have here,
0:07:14 > 0:07:19We can see here the maker is "Rein & Son, patentees,
0:07:19 > 0:07:24"inventors and only makers" and then "The Strand, London,"
0:07:24 > 0:07:25so a very good piece.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28What I love about it is the fact that
0:07:28 > 0:07:31it has actually got this lovely grill.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34Did you ever think about what this was for?
0:07:35 > 0:07:37No.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39Well, they say it was to stop flies.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42- OK.- Somebody said even earwigs.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44Right!
0:07:44 > 0:07:46If you think you were using it...
0:07:46 > 0:07:47OK.
0:07:49 > 0:07:50I think...
0:07:50 > 0:07:52do we know when she became deaf?
0:07:52 > 0:07:57We don't know exactly. There is a story that quite early on
0:07:57 > 0:08:01in her marriage, they employed a maid who was cleaning the windows
0:08:01 > 0:08:04and fell out and screamed very loudly
0:08:04 > 0:08:08and ever since then, Granny Cooper was deaf.
0:08:08 > 0:08:10It's a great story.
0:08:10 > 0:08:14I'm not sure if that would make somebody deaf.
0:08:14 > 0:08:18We also know that if she was going to have an extended conversation
0:08:18 > 0:08:20with somebody, she didn't use the ear trumpet,
0:08:20 > 0:08:22but she had a yard-long tube
0:08:22 > 0:08:25which she offered you and you could speak into the end
0:08:25 > 0:08:26of this long tube.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28But we don't have the tube any more.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30That gave her great control, didn't it?
0:08:30 > 0:08:32I think so.
0:08:32 > 0:08:37So, it's mid-19th century in date.
0:08:37 > 0:08:40It is silver-plated so it's not solid silver, but in value terms,
0:08:40 > 0:08:45I would put it at £300 to £400, but as a family,
0:08:45 > 0:08:46it's much more important than that.
0:08:46 > 0:08:48That's right, exactly.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50Thank you.
0:08:53 > 0:08:55This type of bench can often be quite a conundrum.
0:08:55 > 0:08:58Is it a piece you've had in the family for a long time?
0:08:58 > 0:09:01It came out of my parents' Elizabethan manor house
0:09:01 > 0:09:04which they inherited in the 1970s,
0:09:04 > 0:09:08but we think it was probably in that house from 1920 or maybe before then
0:09:08 > 0:09:12because they inherited the furniture with the house.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14- The whole thing. - Lock, stock and barrel?
0:09:14 > 0:09:20Exactly. When they moved out about ten years ago, it came to me.
0:09:20 > 0:09:25My mother calls it a Suffolk bench, my children call it the ugly bench.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27What's your opinion of it?
0:09:27 > 0:09:29I really like it but I don't know what all the carving is about.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32Isn't it wonderful how furniture becomes part of one's life?
0:09:32 > 0:09:34I think that's what is so fascinating about it.
0:09:34 > 0:09:35You have pieces you have grown up with
0:09:35 > 0:09:37and you become very fond of them
0:09:37 > 0:09:39but you don't necessarily know what they are.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42- Yes.- I wouldn't call it a Suffolk bench.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44It is what is often called a settle
0:09:44 > 0:09:45because you settle down in it
0:09:45 > 0:09:48and that idea is a late 17th/early 18th century idea
0:09:48 > 0:09:50but what about the carvings?
0:09:50 > 0:09:52Are they old, are they Elizabethan?
0:09:52 > 0:09:55I don't know, I hoping you will tell us.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58So many of these are made up, often they are Victorian pieces,
0:09:58 > 0:10:01completely Victorian. The frame of this,
0:10:01 > 0:10:05the actual bench is certainly Victorian, late 19th century.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07It is a question of looking in detail at some of this carving.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09Let's start with this central figure.
0:10:09 > 0:10:12He is rather nice with his arms folded.
0:10:12 > 0:10:15A pilaster, a flat figure, with this Elizabethan costume.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18That is clearly a 16th century piece of carving.
0:10:18 > 0:10:24- Oh, right.- So, the other two are the same period
0:10:24 > 0:10:28and looking in detail at these, they are period Elizabethan carvings,
0:10:28 > 0:10:30but they would never have started off,
0:10:30 > 0:10:33never ever been used in an oak bench or Settle.
0:10:33 > 0:10:34- No.- We can only speculate, really,
0:10:34 > 0:10:37as to where these panels would come from.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39They might have been from a piece of furniture
0:10:39 > 0:10:42but more likely from a panelling, wainscoting around a fireplace,
0:10:42 > 0:10:44the centre part of the room where everyone is focusing,
0:10:44 > 0:10:46that is where you spend money on a carving.
0:10:46 > 0:10:50Is the central bit all one big bit of panelling?
0:10:50 > 0:10:52No, it has all been reframed.
0:10:52 > 0:10:53They probably have nothing to do with each other
0:10:53 > 0:10:55and nobody will be quite sure about that.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57- Someone put it together?- Yeah.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59Let's think about the value.
0:10:59 > 0:11:04- It's only worth in today's market only about £500 to £800.- Really?
0:11:04 > 0:11:06Very little but if you add up,
0:11:06 > 0:11:10you've got three panels there worth probably £200 each,
0:11:10 > 0:11:11so you've got £1,000 worth of panelling.
0:11:11 > 0:11:14- Right.- So, the fear is, if you sold this,
0:11:14 > 0:11:17and I know you aren't going to, somebody would break it up...
0:11:17 > 0:11:19- That would be such a shame. - ..sell the carvings,
0:11:19 > 0:11:22probably put plain panels in and put it back in auction and get £200
0:11:22 > 0:11:25- for the rest of it.- Well, it's staying as it is, that's fine,
0:11:25 > 0:11:27- thank you.- Thank you.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33So, I've seen a couple of bronzes today
0:11:33 > 0:11:37and then you turn up with just the monster of all bronzes.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40- Where did you get it from? - It comes from Belgium.
0:11:40 > 0:11:47It was at my aunt's house in Belgium where I spent my junior years.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51During the First World War,
0:11:51 > 0:11:56he spent the whole war underground and when the second war broke out,
0:11:56 > 0:11:57we were in Belgium,
0:11:57 > 0:11:59so we dug him in the ground again
0:11:59 > 0:12:03underneath a magnolia bush so after five years of war,
0:12:03 > 0:12:07we had a bit of trouble finding him because we couldn't quite remember
0:12:07 > 0:12:08where the hell we put him.
0:12:08 > 0:12:09Why?
0:12:09 > 0:12:11Obviously to keep it safe.
0:12:11 > 0:12:15To keep it safe, otherwise it would be used to make cannon shots
0:12:15 > 0:12:18and all that kind of thing.
0:12:18 > 0:12:19Just like in this country,
0:12:19 > 0:12:23iron railings were all taken away during the war,
0:12:23 > 0:12:25weren't they, to be used up?
0:12:25 > 0:12:26What do you like about it?
0:12:26 > 0:12:31Well, I was born in Tottenham, though my accent
0:12:31 > 0:12:33is not English as you can gather.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39I am a Spurs supporter, therefore the cockerel is the emblem of Spurs,
0:12:39 > 0:12:41and that is why we love him even more.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43- As long as we do well at Spurs, that's fine!- Sure!
0:12:43 > 0:12:45THEY CHUCKLE
0:12:45 > 0:12:52It's got the maker's mark there - it's not a maker I have heard of,
0:12:52 > 0:12:55but almost certainly Paris school, last quarter of the 19th century.
0:12:55 > 0:12:57None of that matters, cos this, to me,
0:12:57 > 0:13:01is all about the quality and basically the size of it.
0:13:01 > 0:13:05Although at some point it has been buried twice in its life,
0:13:05 > 0:13:06the colour is beautiful.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09It is exactly how you want to see it, this lovely nutty brown.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11It is just such a good-looking piece.
0:13:11 > 0:13:15So, whether or not a Spurs supporter would be interested in buying it,
0:13:15 > 0:13:20I don't know. I think the market for this would be in France
0:13:20 > 0:13:23and at auction, easily £3,000 to £5,000.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26Well, that causes a problem because I have two daughters
0:13:26 > 0:13:28so what the hell do I do...
0:13:28 > 0:13:29LAUGHTER
0:13:29 > 0:13:31- ..to divide it up? - It's not a bad problem to have.
0:13:31 > 0:13:32Not a bad problem.
0:13:35 > 0:13:40So, all this stuff here is entirely the fault of the Roadshow?
0:13:40 > 0:13:42Indirectly, yes. A couple of years ago,
0:13:42 > 0:13:46I was watching and there were some waterwork blueprints...
0:13:47 > 0:13:50..and I said to Amelia that I would really like to have one of those
0:13:50 > 0:13:53on my wall and she said, "Well, if you can find one,
0:13:53 > 0:13:55- "you can have one on the wall." - What generosity of spirit.
0:13:55 > 0:13:57- Absolutely.- So, you went on the internet,
0:13:57 > 0:13:59you tracked something down
0:13:59 > 0:14:01that fitted the bill and what did that cost?
0:14:01 > 0:14:05£100, actually, including p&p.
0:14:05 > 0:14:06What did you buy?
0:14:07 > 0:14:10I bought 650.
0:14:10 > 0:14:12It was 23 kilos.
0:14:12 > 0:14:15- Of drawings?- Of drawings. - You wanted one drawing?
0:14:15 > 0:14:17- One drawing on the wall. - More importantly,
0:14:17 > 0:14:19you only had clearance for one drawing on the wall.
0:14:19 > 0:14:22You know what you've got, obviously?
0:14:22 > 0:14:27This is a mass of working drawings for locomotives
0:14:27 > 0:14:31from the famous company, Robert Stephenson & Co.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34How on earth does something as important as this
0:14:34 > 0:14:38- end up on an internet site?- I have no idea.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41- So, you're just the buyer? - I'm just the buyer.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44They were in somebody's attic, is all I know.
0:14:44 > 0:14:45Do you like railways?
0:14:45 > 0:14:47- Yeah.- Up to a point?
0:14:47 > 0:14:50- Up to a point.- But not up to 600?
0:14:50 > 0:14:51No.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53Let's just look back at what they are.
0:14:53 > 0:14:57It's the greatest name in British railway history, Robert Stephenson.
0:14:57 > 0:14:58In 1823,
0:14:58 > 0:15:00he started a company in Newcastle
0:15:00 > 0:15:03which was actually to build locomotives.
0:15:03 > 0:15:05This was the beginning of the railway age
0:15:05 > 0:15:08and so he starts with Locomotion No. 1.
0:15:08 > 0:15:10Of course, the most famous name is the Rocket.
0:15:10 > 0:15:14It wins the Rainhill Trials, it sets the pattern for locomotive building.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18In the 1830s, he is selling locomotives to America,
0:15:18 > 0:15:20he is selling locomotives to Egypt.
0:15:20 > 0:15:24It is becoming a mega, mega industrial business.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27That's the key thing because what we have got here
0:15:27 > 0:15:33is a wonderful range of designs for locomotives for various companies.
0:15:33 > 0:15:36This is for an Indian company, as you can see.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38That is for an Irish company.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41This one here is for the Highland Railway in 1917.
0:15:41 > 0:15:44So, by mistake, or slightly by mistake,
0:15:44 > 0:15:47you have become the keeper of a great chunk
0:15:47 > 0:15:50of a very important archive.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52There are really two values to this collection.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54One is what it represents as a history,
0:15:54 > 0:15:57or part of the history of British engineering
0:15:57 > 0:15:59in the 19th and early 20th century.
0:15:59 > 0:16:02The second value is, of course, what are they worth?
0:16:04 > 0:16:06Was your £100 well invested or not?
0:16:06 > 0:16:10- What do you think? - 650, that makes them 15p each.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13Was that a good buy, do you think?
0:16:13 > 0:16:17- I hope so.- They are going to range from at the bottom,
0:16:17 > 0:16:23£10 each to £100 each so,
0:16:23 > 0:16:26do the maths. Let's take an average of £50.
0:16:26 > 0:16:31- That's a lot.- 500 times £50.
0:16:31 > 0:16:3325,000.
0:16:34 > 0:16:35That wasn't bad for a punt!
0:16:37 > 0:16:39I'm not sure what I will do with them, really.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42- Put them back in the wardrobe. - Well, yes, sit on them.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50Where did you find this?
0:16:50 > 0:16:53I found it about six years ago at a London auction house.
0:16:53 > 0:16:58Prior to that, it had hung in Lehman's Bank's boardroom in London
0:16:58 > 0:17:01and only came out for sale after the failure of the bank
0:17:01 > 0:17:05- and came as part of the contents.- So you bought it at a really good time.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08Lehman Brothers had just gone down, the market crashed, money was short.
0:17:08 > 0:17:13You've bought a really good image by the great Edward Bawden.
0:17:13 > 0:17:17It is a picture of Audley End and of course the tree is pretty much
0:17:17 > 0:17:18the main focus of the picture,
0:17:18 > 0:17:21- whereas Audley End is a little bit further back.- Tucked in there.
0:17:21 > 0:17:22So, tell me what you paid for it.
0:17:22 > 0:17:24A shade over 3,000.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26OK, you bought it very well.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28I absolutely love this artist's work.
0:17:28 > 0:17:34There is something very uplifting and powerful about it but certainly,
0:17:34 > 0:17:35£6,000 to £8,000.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37Wonderful, marvellous.
0:17:37 > 0:17:39- Thank you very much. - A super picture.
0:17:45 > 0:17:50We've got a little group of letter openers and page turners here.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53How many of these do you actually have?
0:17:53 > 0:17:54Upwards of 600.
0:17:56 > 0:18:01You see, I wanted you to share that fact because this is a tiny,
0:18:01 > 0:18:03tiny tip of the iceberg of your collection.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06Now, what got you interested in the first place?
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Well, this was my baby, my first baby.
0:18:09 > 0:18:13I am French, my husband is English and we live in England,
0:18:13 > 0:18:17so any time we had off work, off we went to France.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19After four years of going to Paris,
0:18:19 > 0:18:21I thought, "Let's go somewhere else."
0:18:21 > 0:18:22We went to Israel.
0:18:22 > 0:18:25At long last, we had...
0:18:25 > 0:18:27well, a second honeymoon, really.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30Fabulous. This was the result?
0:18:30 > 0:18:31This was your souvenir.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34- My starting point.- Great.
0:18:34 > 0:18:38Then I bought another one and another one and 600 openers later,
0:18:38 > 0:18:41I am still buying.
0:18:41 > 0:18:43The thing is, you look so normal!
0:18:43 > 0:18:45I'm not!
0:18:45 > 0:18:47LAUGHTER
0:18:47 > 0:18:51So, let's talk about actually what a letter opener is,
0:18:51 > 0:18:55because actually it's not to open a letter, historically.
0:18:55 > 0:18:59Historically, it was to open a letter when a letter was a letter.
0:18:59 > 0:19:03Only royalty and the nobility knew how to read and write,
0:19:03 > 0:19:08so only they used to write and the letters they wrote were rolled up
0:19:08 > 0:19:09in parchment or whatever
0:19:09 > 0:19:11and they used a letter opener to break the seal.
0:19:11 > 0:19:15They used to have a seal on the letter and that was it.
0:19:15 > 0:19:20So, really, what we do is open envelopes, we don't open letters.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23Exactly, so these are envelope openers, in fact,
0:19:23 > 0:19:24not letter openers.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26True.
0:19:26 > 0:19:29And then over on the side, we have page turners.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32Now, page turners of course were used for exactly that,
0:19:32 > 0:19:34to turn the pages of a book,
0:19:34 > 0:19:39so that you didn't get your grubby fingers all over the vellum
0:19:39 > 0:19:43or the parchment. This is one dating from 1887,
0:19:43 > 0:19:49for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee and it's got her picture there.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53And I suppose the one that is most mysterious to me is this.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56Now, what do you know about this one?
0:19:56 > 0:19:57I don't know anything.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01I'd like to know why that animal is trying to get hold of that lady.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04I don't think it is a lady, actually.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06I think it could be a bloke.
0:20:06 > 0:20:11- Right.- And who do we know that wears skirts in Europe?
0:20:11 > 0:20:13Well, apart from the Scots, I don't know.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16- The Greeks.- Ah, yes.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19Ah, yeah, never thought of that.
0:20:19 > 0:20:20Was that a light bulb moment?
0:20:20 > 0:20:21It was.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25Because I think that this is made of olive wood.
0:20:25 > 0:20:29- Right.- It looks to me as if this is a creature
0:20:29 > 0:20:32devouring this figure here,
0:20:32 > 0:20:33or trying to.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35And I'd like to think this is a dragon.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39- Yes.- And I wonder whether it is a Greek representation
0:20:39 > 0:20:42of St George and the Dragon.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44That would be fabulous.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47Let anybody say that we're wrong.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49That's my theory, anyway.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52It's a lovely piece of naive folk carving
0:20:52 > 0:20:53and I think it probably dates
0:20:53 > 0:20:57from the 1880s, 1890s.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00These are not probably going to be surprising values to you,
0:21:00 > 0:21:05but I think that if we look at everything on the table together,
0:21:05 > 0:21:10I would have thought we've probably got, doing the mental maths now...
0:21:11 > 0:21:13..something around £600 to £700.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16Really?
0:21:16 > 0:21:20Now, I'm not saying that all 600 are going to be worth...
0:21:22 > 0:21:27But, you know, the thing is it is a fascinating area of collecting.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Thank you. Thank you very much.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35It would appear to be
0:21:35 > 0:21:41a sort of late Regency tip-up table, nice mahogany top.
0:21:41 > 0:21:42Lovely mahogany top, actually.
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Have you always had it?
0:21:44 > 0:21:48- Or did you buy it?- We bought it at auction in 2002.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51And I thought, "Wow, it is just a beautiful table."
0:21:51 > 0:21:54- It is so simple.- It looks like it's all been nicely cleaned
0:21:54 > 0:21:57- and restored.- Yes, when we bought it, it was very scruffy.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00- Was it?- And we got a great friend who is an expert restorer
0:22:00 > 0:22:03- who did it for us. - Where does it sit in the house?
0:22:03 > 0:22:07It sits in a beautiful beamed sitting room.
0:22:07 > 0:22:08We have a bed-and-breakfast now,
0:22:08 > 0:22:11but it is just an occasional table.
0:22:11 > 0:22:14We have sometimes allowed people to have breakfast on it,
0:22:14 > 0:22:16but it is protected by a glass top.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19- Right.- We had a glass top made for it.- Did you?- Yep.
0:22:20 > 0:22:27But when you opened it up and you saw that, what did you think?
0:22:27 > 0:22:29My heart skipped a beat.
0:22:29 > 0:22:31Well, you would think it would, wouldn't you?
0:22:31 > 0:22:34I'm not going to embarrass myself
0:22:34 > 0:22:35with my schoolboy French.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39My French is awful, I'm afraid.
0:22:39 > 0:22:43But it does say, basically, it says, "On 5th April 1840,
0:22:43 > 0:22:48"Napoleon Bonaparte signed his abdication on this table
0:22:48 > 0:22:51"in the King's study, basically, in Chateau Fontainebleau."
0:22:52 > 0:22:55And you think, "Wow, that's quite something, isn't it?"
0:22:55 > 0:22:59- Yeah.- But, and I suppose this is really where
0:22:59 > 0:23:01you've got to question the whole thing -
0:23:01 > 0:23:05is it likely that Napoleon would be signing his abdication
0:23:05 > 0:23:06on an English table?
0:23:06 > 0:23:09I mean, if it was his later abdication,
0:23:09 > 0:23:12when the English had beaten him, as it were,
0:23:12 > 0:23:13they might have been nasty to him and said,
0:23:13 > 0:23:16"Now you've got to sign it on an English table."
0:23:16 > 0:23:20But I think it's very unlikely that in the Chateau Fontainebleau in 1814
0:23:20 > 0:23:23that they would have furnished it with English furniture.
0:23:23 > 0:23:26After all, they were never great mates.
0:23:26 > 0:23:30And so I think it's very unlikely
0:23:30 > 0:23:31that this was from that event.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34So what's going on?
0:23:34 > 0:23:38I just think it's most likely that the plaque
0:23:38 > 0:23:42has come off something else, or somebody has wanted to create this.
0:23:43 > 0:23:45So, I think we've probably got
0:23:45 > 0:23:49a perfectly genuine little brass plaque on a perfectly genuine table,
0:23:49 > 0:23:51but they don't go together.
0:23:51 > 0:23:53They don't match, yes.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57So you can still give breakfast in your B&B on this table
0:23:57 > 0:24:00and it would be slightly economical with the truth
0:24:00 > 0:24:02by suggesting that they're having breakfast
0:24:02 > 0:24:04at the table Napoleon abdicated.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06So I suppose we have to come to value.
0:24:06 > 0:24:11Had it been the table, then we would probably have to get you a chair
0:24:11 > 0:24:14to sit on because it would be a lot of money.
0:24:14 > 0:24:15But I think now...
0:24:17 > 0:24:18..it's a very nice thing.
0:24:18 > 0:24:23And it might be worth £1,000, £1,500, that sort of level.
0:24:23 > 0:24:26- OK.- But what a great story.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28- Yes.- Yes.- It is.
0:24:28 > 0:24:29I love furniture with stories.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31And I'm sorry to have to debunk it.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34But that's an interesting, different slant that we hadn't thought of.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36- So thank you for that. - Yes.- Great.
0:24:38 > 0:24:42What I absolutely love about jewellery
0:24:42 > 0:24:44is that I'm always surprised.
0:24:44 > 0:24:48There's always something that comes and shouts out at me and I'm going,
0:24:48 > 0:24:50"Whoa, this is amazing."
0:24:50 > 0:24:53And this is exactly what happened today.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55What are you thinking when I'm saying that?
0:24:55 > 0:24:57I'm just surprised, really.
0:24:57 > 0:24:58- Why are you surprised?- Well, I mean,
0:24:58 > 0:25:01it's been in the family quite a long time,
0:25:01 > 0:25:02on my father's side.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04He gave it to my mother.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06I don't remember her wearing it very much.
0:25:06 > 0:25:10Before she died, she decided to split her jewellery into two
0:25:10 > 0:25:14and give it to my sister and me. I haven't worn it very often.
0:25:14 > 0:25:18I'm sort of getting the feeling that you're not so enamoured by it.
0:25:18 > 0:25:19I think it's very beautiful.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21It's just I don't have many occasions
0:25:21 > 0:25:23when I can actually wear it.
0:25:24 > 0:25:27This is absolutely fabulous.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32This is luxury at its height,
0:25:32 > 0:25:34in terms of the craftsmanship.
0:25:34 > 0:25:39You can see through the sunlight here the piercing of the platinum.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42This is platinum, it's diamonds.
0:25:42 > 0:25:43Seed pearls.
0:25:43 > 0:25:49The beautiful articulation of this brooch is quite superb.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53And what is amazing - I can turn it around the other way...
0:25:54 > 0:25:56..and it still looks superb.
0:25:56 > 0:25:59That is craftsmanship at its best.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02This would all have been hand-done.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04All hand-pierced.
0:26:04 > 0:26:09And platinum was very new to this period, 1900.
0:26:09 > 0:26:13It came in a French box, a retailer in Rue de la Paix.
0:26:13 > 0:26:14It's not signed.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17I can't find any signatures on it.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19But because it has come in that box,
0:26:19 > 0:26:23I would imagine that it was made in Paris in the 1900s.
0:26:23 > 0:26:27And you've got this echoing of the sort of crescent moon here too,
0:26:27 > 0:26:31which was a very used motif at the time.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34This is the Belle Epoque style.
0:26:34 > 0:26:36In England, it was the garland style
0:26:36 > 0:26:40and in France in 1900, we call it the Belle Epoque.
0:26:40 > 0:26:44I mean, it is just to die for.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46Absolutely to die for.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to see something like this.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52In the right auction house, this,
0:26:52 > 0:26:55I would imagine at auction would get about £10,000.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58GASPING
0:26:58 > 0:26:59Really?
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Oh, dear.
0:27:01 > 0:27:03I need to wear it more often.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11What we've got here from a design perspective
0:27:11 > 0:27:14is a design solution to that age-old problem of what you do
0:27:14 > 0:27:16to keep your tea hot when it's in the pot.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19But before we begin, before I talk more about it,
0:27:19 > 0:27:21I'd just like to say something about this trolley.
0:27:21 > 0:27:25This tea trolley, which my grandmother had a very similar one.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28So, all of a sudden, it's 40 years ago, I'm back in the dining room,
0:27:28 > 0:27:31and I'm admiring the silver plate tea set you sit on the top.
0:27:31 > 0:27:34So I've got to ask you, do you use them?
0:27:34 > 0:27:39Very occasionally. We are rather tea-bag-in-mug people.
0:27:39 > 0:27:40I think most people are.
0:27:40 > 0:27:44But if we've had friends round, perhaps having an afternoon tea,
0:27:44 > 0:27:46something like that, then I will get them out
0:27:46 > 0:27:48and we use them and they do really work.
0:27:48 > 0:27:52So, how it works - we've got this outer casing, this shell of chrome,
0:27:52 > 0:27:55which is held down, held in place by a catch.
0:27:55 > 0:27:59Lift the outer cover and inside we've got this inner felt lining.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02It's that that insulates it and keeps the liquid warm.
0:28:02 > 0:28:08So you pour in with the kettle, hot water goes in, replace the lid,
0:28:08 > 0:28:10so that's how they work.
0:28:10 > 0:28:14Date-wise, we're talking mid-1930s to late 1950s.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16They were a very popular design.
0:28:16 > 0:28:19This design here was the most popular.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21And it was called the Heatmaster.
0:28:21 > 0:28:26Made in the Staffordshire potteries for about 20 years, up until
0:28:26 > 0:28:30the late 1950s. There were other names that applied to this design.
0:28:30 > 0:28:36Staywarm, Everhot, all these sort of very 1930s buzzy names,
0:28:36 > 0:28:37that describe what they do.
0:28:37 > 0:28:39Just to give you a kind of general idea.
0:28:39 > 0:28:43I mean, something like this, nice design with the ripple effect,
0:28:43 > 0:28:44that's going to be about,
0:28:44 > 0:28:46sort of, £40, £50.
0:28:46 > 0:28:49And we're talking shop prices here, in a retro shop.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52In a vintage shop. The egg cup, we're talking
0:28:52 > 0:28:54perhaps £10, £15.
0:28:54 > 0:28:56And the trolley,
0:28:56 > 0:28:58probably £40-£50. But lovely things.
0:28:58 > 0:29:01Really lovely things. And they mean a great deal to you.
0:29:01 > 0:29:02Yes. They do. Thank you very much.
0:29:02 > 0:29:03- Thank you.- Thank you.
0:29:25 > 0:29:29This oil painting and these two prints depict a particularly large
0:29:29 > 0:29:32gentleman. He seems to be quite a character.
0:29:32 > 0:29:34Where did you first come across him?
0:29:34 > 0:29:37I came across him in Maldon in Essex,
0:29:37 > 0:29:39it's the town that I live in,
0:29:39 > 0:29:43and he was a grocer there in the 1740s.
0:29:43 > 0:29:47And became famous for becoming known as the Fat Man of Maldon.
0:29:47 > 0:29:49Right. So this is Edward Bright?
0:29:49 > 0:29:51It is Edward Bright, yes.
0:29:51 > 0:29:53I mean, he was the fattest man in England, wasn't he?
0:29:53 > 0:29:56He died in 1750, weighing 44 stones.
0:29:56 > 0:30:01- Wow!- He came to Maldon when he was 12 and a half,
0:30:01 > 0:30:04- and he already weighed 10st 4lb. - Goodness!
0:30:04 > 0:30:07- And he was apprenticed to a grocer in Maldon.- Right.
0:30:07 > 0:30:10By the time he finished his apprenticeship, aged 19,
0:30:10 > 0:30:12he weighed 24st.
0:30:12 > 0:30:14He then opened his own grocer shop.
0:30:14 > 0:30:16He actually fathered six children.
0:30:16 > 0:30:18That's unbelievable in itself, isn't it?
0:30:18 > 0:30:19It's amazing, yes.
0:30:19 > 0:30:22So you've become a kind of obsessive researcher
0:30:22 > 0:30:23since you found the painting.
0:30:23 > 0:30:26I have done lots of research,
0:30:26 > 0:30:28I actually now do give talks about him
0:30:28 > 0:30:32because a lot of the local people have been so fascinated by him
0:30:32 > 0:30:34and his whole story.
0:30:34 > 0:30:36Looking at this oil painting, where did it come from?
0:30:36 > 0:30:40The oil painting itself, I bought at an auction.
0:30:40 > 0:30:42And I understand that before that,
0:30:42 > 0:30:45it had been from the estate of Frederick Fox,
0:30:45 > 0:30:47who was milliner to the Queen.
0:30:47 > 0:30:50And how have you found these two great prints?
0:30:50 > 0:30:53The one at the top, of him sitting in the chair,
0:30:53 > 0:30:55- belongs to the Bright family.- Right.
0:30:55 > 0:30:58And I've been allowed to borrow it from Bill Bright.
0:30:58 > 0:31:02He is a five times great-grandson of Edward.
0:31:02 > 0:31:04I love this print down here.
0:31:04 > 0:31:06It says, "The surprising bet decided."
0:31:06 > 0:31:08Can you tell me a little bit more about that?
0:31:08 > 0:31:13This waistcoat had been sent to his tailor to be enlarged just before
0:31:13 > 0:31:15his death. And after Edward died,
0:31:15 > 0:31:20a lot of the locals got together and had this wager that, first of all,
0:31:20 > 0:31:24if five men resident in Maldon could fit into the waistcoat.
0:31:24 > 0:31:26In fact, seven did.
0:31:26 > 0:31:30Goodness! There is a fantastic history about this, isn't there?
0:31:30 > 0:31:32And what do you think about the painting?
0:31:32 > 0:31:34Do you think it's a, kind of, an original?
0:31:34 > 0:31:35Have you questioned who it's by?
0:31:35 > 0:31:39When I bought it at auction, it was sold as being "after Ogborne."
0:31:39 > 0:31:43Now, David Ogborne was a painter from Chelmsford.
0:31:43 > 0:31:48And research has proved that he did paint a picture of Edward Bright.
0:31:48 > 0:31:52And I... Really, the question I'd like to ask is,
0:31:52 > 0:31:54is this by David Ogborne?
0:31:54 > 0:31:55Are we ever going to be able to prove it?
0:31:55 > 0:31:57Or is it just a copy?
0:31:57 > 0:31:59The painting, I believe,
0:31:59 > 0:32:05is a provincial artist copying the print after David Ogborne.
0:32:05 > 0:32:07And you'll see, there are differences.
0:32:07 > 0:32:11On the print, you've got two buttons that have sort of opened up through
0:32:11 > 0:32:14his weight. And on the painting, there's three.
0:32:14 > 0:32:17And his belly is kind of pushing his jacket open.
0:32:17 > 0:32:20But there's a provincial feel about the painting.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22I still think it's contemporary,
0:32:22 > 0:32:24I still think it's an 18th-century painting,
0:32:24 > 0:32:28but because of his popularity and because he was so famous,
0:32:28 > 0:32:30the Ogborne print would have been copied a great deal.
0:32:30 > 0:32:33It would have been a fun thing to do.
0:32:33 > 0:32:36So the oil painting, as much as it is a copy,
0:32:36 > 0:32:40it's a really fabulous provincial copy and it's certainly worth
0:32:40 > 0:32:43- £2,000-£3,000.- That's wonderful.
0:32:43 > 0:32:44I have to ask the question,
0:32:44 > 0:32:47what did you pay for the oil painting a few years ago?
0:32:47 > 0:32:52- I paid, I think, with VAT and the premium...- Yes.
0:32:52 > 0:32:54..it totalled about £470.
0:32:54 > 0:32:56Oh, well, you've done very well.
0:32:56 > 0:32:58Which was below the estimate.
0:32:58 > 0:32:59You've done very, very well.
0:32:59 > 0:33:01And I think certainly from my point of view,
0:33:01 > 0:33:03I'm on salads for the next month.
0:33:03 > 0:33:04Yes.
0:33:08 > 0:33:11Chinese monochromes really are quite fabulous, I think.
0:33:11 > 0:33:14They have this amazing, timeless nature to them.
0:33:14 > 0:33:17- Do you know how old these are? - I don't.
0:33:17 > 0:33:20The best guess we've had is 19th century.
0:33:20 > 0:33:22Best guess is 19th century? What about you?
0:33:22 > 0:33:24- What do you think?- 18th century?
0:33:24 > 0:33:27So you all think they're old? Amazing.
0:33:27 > 0:33:29Cos they look so amazingly modern.
0:33:29 > 0:33:31They're called monochromes because they're all one colour.
0:33:31 > 0:33:34But two of these are porcelain, this one and this one.
0:33:34 > 0:33:38And these other three are more unusual cos they're made in glass.
0:33:38 > 0:33:40They really are lovely. I want to know how you got them.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42My grandfather bought them.
0:33:42 > 0:33:44He was Australian.
0:33:44 > 0:33:47He was Agent-General for Queensland and he lived in London, but
0:33:47 > 0:33:51he travelled backwards and forwards and he seemed to, on the way,
0:33:51 > 0:33:54he acquired quite a few really nice antiques,
0:33:54 > 0:33:57and especially quite a few Chinese things.
0:33:57 > 0:34:00The two porcelain vases here are not marked,
0:34:00 > 0:34:03but the three glass vases, if you turn them upside down,
0:34:03 > 0:34:07they all have a four-character mark of the Emperor Qian Long.
0:34:07 > 0:34:08It reads...
0:34:08 > 0:34:10HE READS MARK
0:34:10 > 0:34:12..which means, "Made in the reign of Qian Long."
0:34:12 > 0:34:15He reigned from 1736 to 1795.
0:34:15 > 0:34:17So somewhat older than we thought.
0:34:17 > 0:34:19Yeah. They're 250 years old.
0:34:19 > 0:34:21And that's this, this and this.
0:34:21 > 0:34:23- And all three. - And all three of them.
0:34:23 > 0:34:26And what's so nice is this little stand here
0:34:26 > 0:34:28and this little stand here,
0:34:28 > 0:34:30whether they were exactly contemporary with the vases,
0:34:30 > 0:34:32they are 18th century stands,
0:34:32 > 0:34:34and that's really nice to see that with them.
0:34:35 > 0:34:36The vases here,
0:34:36 > 0:34:40they haven't got imperial marks, they're not imperial porcelains.
0:34:40 > 0:34:43They're very nice things, and again,
0:34:43 > 0:34:46this one dates from the beginning of the 18th century,
0:34:46 > 0:34:48- and so does this one.- Right.
0:34:48 > 0:34:51So they're the best part of 300 years old.
0:34:51 > 0:34:54- 300 years old, goodness.- And these, again, look so amazingly modern.
0:34:54 > 0:34:55I love Chinese monochromes.
0:34:55 > 0:34:57I have one or two at home.
0:34:57 > 0:34:59But sadly, mine are all cracked.
0:35:01 > 0:35:03When it comes to the value of these pieces,
0:35:03 > 0:35:06they are quite tricky. Have you had any ideas before?
0:35:06 > 0:35:11No. We tried to get them valued by local valuers, and they didn't know
0:35:11 > 0:35:13and said they were going to go away and research it,
0:35:13 > 0:35:15but they didn't seem to be able to find anything out.
0:35:16 > 0:35:19Well, they are quite unusual pieces.
0:35:21 > 0:35:24A little vase like this did come up for sale two years ago
0:35:24 > 0:35:28from the ET Chow collection, and that made a fair sum.
0:35:30 > 0:35:33So, to have a stab at all five of them,
0:35:35 > 0:35:38I'm going to try and do this quite quickly.
0:35:38 > 0:35:39- Are you paying attention?- Yes.
0:35:39 > 0:35:41I'm definitely paying attention.
0:35:41 > 0:35:42OK.
0:35:43 > 0:35:44Unmarked porcelain,
0:35:44 > 0:35:46- 1,000.- Right.
0:35:46 > 0:35:47Unmarked porcelain,
0:35:47 > 0:35:48maybe 5,000.
0:35:48 > 0:35:50THEY GASP
0:35:50 > 0:35:51OK.
0:35:51 > 0:35:54Qian Long-marked imperial glass vase with a stand,
0:35:54 > 0:35:5620,000.
0:35:56 > 0:35:57Right!
0:35:57 > 0:36:0040,000, 40,000.
0:36:00 > 0:36:02- ALL: Wow!- OK.
0:36:02 > 0:36:03- Amazing.- Wow.
0:36:03 > 0:36:06These are the works of art the Chinese really want to own.
0:36:06 > 0:36:09These were made by imperial command.
0:36:09 > 0:36:11You are a very lucky girl.
0:36:11 > 0:36:13Well, my sisters and I, my cousins...
0:36:13 > 0:36:14Don't tell them.
0:36:14 > 0:36:16THEY LAUGH
0:36:16 > 0:36:17Don't tell them.
0:36:22 > 0:36:24Now, we were talking down here in reception,
0:36:24 > 0:36:27but I brought you up here because I think this story needs telling
0:36:27 > 0:36:30away from the hullabaloo of the Roadshow.
0:36:30 > 0:36:31How did you come by these?
0:36:33 > 0:36:36My mum was a cleaner in the ministries in Whitehall
0:36:36 > 0:36:39in the early '80s,
0:36:39 > 0:36:41notably the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
0:36:41 > 0:36:43She noticed these from the basement.
0:36:43 > 0:36:46They were being practically thrown out.
0:36:46 > 0:36:50She was outraged, so she reported it to a senior civil servant,
0:36:50 > 0:36:53but he said, "Would you like to take those home to keep them safe?"
0:36:53 > 0:36:55And we've had them ever since.
0:36:55 > 0:36:57And what do you know about him? Who is this?
0:36:57 > 0:37:01Hedley Nevile Fowler. Squadron Leader Hedley Nevile Fowler.
0:37:01 > 0:37:03And this is him
0:37:03 > 0:37:05as a young boy. Such a charming photograph.
0:37:05 > 0:37:07- Yes.- And this is a painting of him.
0:37:07 > 0:37:09What a handsome devil he was.
0:37:09 > 0:37:10He was indeed, wasn't he?
0:37:10 > 0:37:13And what happened to him? What do you know about him?
0:37:13 > 0:37:16Well, we know he was born in London in 1916,
0:37:16 > 0:37:18schooled at Rugby,
0:37:18 > 0:37:21then we think the family relocated to Australia.
0:37:21 > 0:37:24He joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1936,
0:37:24 > 0:37:27came back to England in '37 attached to the RAF,
0:37:27 > 0:37:31and at the outbreak of war, he was sent to France.
0:37:31 > 0:37:36We know he was then shot down in May of 1940, and taken into captivity.
0:37:36 > 0:37:39He was held in three different camps.
0:37:39 > 0:37:42Finally, at Colditz Castle.
0:37:42 > 0:37:44Colditz, that is a name to chill the heart, isn't it?
0:37:44 > 0:37:48It is indeed. But he actually successfully escaped from Colditz.
0:37:48 > 0:37:51- How did he do that? - He, with two Dutchmen,
0:37:51 > 0:37:54they had the uniforms of Polish engineers.
0:37:55 > 0:37:58And fake papers.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01And they literally, during the roll call of work, walked through the
0:38:01 > 0:38:03length of the castle, and walked out of the place.
0:38:03 > 0:38:06- And he just walked out of there? - He literally walked out.
0:38:06 > 0:38:09They were nearly thwarted. They got to the very last gate,
0:38:09 > 0:38:11and the counterfeit key they had wouldn't fit.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15They were stood there wondering what to do, whether the game was up,
0:38:15 > 0:38:18and in fact a sentry turned up and apologised and let them through.
0:38:18 > 0:38:21- A German sentry.- A German sentry. - Let them out.- Let them through.
0:38:21 > 0:38:22And what happened to him then?
0:38:22 > 0:38:25He was posted to the Armament Squadron,
0:38:25 > 0:38:28near Boscombe Down, which was basically as a test pilot.
0:38:28 > 0:38:30And in March of '44,
0:38:30 > 0:38:32he had an accident and fell out of the sky
0:38:32 > 0:38:33and was killed.
0:38:34 > 0:38:36What a story!
0:38:36 > 0:38:39- So this is this man's story...- Yes.
0:38:39 > 0:38:44- ..and your mum found all this stuff, just being chucked out.- Yes.
0:38:44 > 0:38:45And how can we help you here today?
0:38:45 > 0:38:47Why have you brought this all to us?
0:38:47 > 0:38:51I thought to myself, it's not right that this fellow's forgotten,
0:38:51 > 0:38:54or I have it, so I really wanted to put it out there,
0:38:54 > 0:38:59in case someone knows Hedley Fowler, or is related to Hedley Fowler,
0:38:59 > 0:39:01and I'd quite gladly give it over.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03It's possible someone might be watching, and if they are, and
0:39:03 > 0:39:06they are related to him, you'd like to give this back to them?
0:39:06 > 0:39:08Absolutely. I certainly would.
0:39:08 > 0:39:09I would love that to happen.
0:39:09 > 0:39:12- Well, I hope it does.- So do I.
0:39:13 > 0:39:15If you know of, or are related to, the family of
0:39:15 > 0:39:18Squadron leader Hedley Fowler, we'd love to hear from you.
0:39:21 > 0:39:23So often on the Antiques Roadshow,
0:39:23 > 0:39:26we're thinking about things that are historic and heroic,
0:39:26 > 0:39:29but sometimes it kind of takes a turn for the dark, doesn't it?
0:39:29 > 0:39:32- It does.- Tell us what you've brought.
0:39:32 > 0:39:36Well, my great-great-grandfather worked at Broadmoor Hospital
0:39:36 > 0:39:40from 1873 to 1912 and he was chief attendant,
0:39:40 > 0:39:42so we've brought photographs
0:39:42 > 0:39:45and a book that he wrote about the patients, and about staff.
0:39:45 > 0:39:47And this is him, standing on the right.
0:39:47 > 0:39:51So we have here a photograph of the relatively new
0:39:51 > 0:39:54Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57- Yes.- But we should think about what it was really for.
0:39:57 > 0:40:01- I mean, it was for the criminally insane.- Yes.
0:40:01 > 0:40:06Mostly murderers, attempted murderers, arsonists, that kind of thing.
0:40:06 > 0:40:09So it's serious, serious crime, just as it is today.
0:40:09 > 0:40:11Now, this looks like a photograph of a brass band.
0:40:11 > 0:40:15This is really not what you expect from a lunatic asylum.
0:40:15 > 0:40:17- Yes.- What's going on here?
0:40:17 > 0:40:19Well, they always had patients actually playing in the band,
0:40:19 > 0:40:21up to about 20 at a time.
0:40:21 > 0:40:24My great-great-grandfather was the leader of the band.
0:40:24 > 0:40:26That's him, Charles Bishop Coleman, there.
0:40:26 > 0:40:31This is Jack the Ripper suspect James Kelly, and right next to him is Essex
0:40:31 > 0:40:33criminal George Stratton.
0:40:33 > 0:40:36It's a pretty amazing form of occupational therapy, isn't it?
0:40:36 > 0:40:42It is! George Stratton helped James Kelly escape from Broadmoor.
0:40:42 > 0:40:46He later committed a terrible crime against one of the attendants, and
0:40:46 > 0:40:48it meant that he ended his days at Broadmoor.
0:40:48 > 0:40:50James Kelly came back 38 years later.
0:40:50 > 0:40:53He just walked up to the gate and asked to be readmitted, and they
0:40:53 > 0:40:58- readmitted him.- It's so good that he wanted to come back!
0:40:58 > 0:41:01He felt the King owed him his living to his death, and that's exactly what
0:41:01 > 0:41:03- they provided.- Amazing, amazing.
0:41:03 > 0:41:09Well, I think it's just incredibly rare to get this sort of inside view
0:41:09 > 0:41:11of what life was like inside Broadmoor...
0:41:11 > 0:41:17- Absolutely.- ..to have your ancestor's diary recording people coming in...
0:41:17 > 0:41:21- Tragic stories, really. - Yes, they are.
0:41:21 > 0:41:24Are there any stories that you find sort of particularly moving in here?
0:41:24 > 0:41:29Well, obviously, the escape of James Kelly is particularly interesting.
0:41:29 > 0:41:33There's an awful lot of sad stories in there but there are some amusing
0:41:33 > 0:41:36ones. There is another one where some patients are actually warbling
0:41:36 > 0:41:38away in the middle of the night
0:41:38 > 0:41:43on one of the wards, and they have to be separated because, actually,
0:41:43 > 0:41:45it causes a disturbance.
0:41:45 > 0:41:47I like the idea of noisy neighbours when you're trying to sleep.
0:41:47 > 0:41:50Yes, exactly. There's a great story, I think,
0:41:50 > 0:41:55in here about finding a little cache of sheets that had been stashed away
0:41:55 > 0:41:58so that somebody could sneak back and turn them into an escape rope.
0:41:58 > 0:42:00Absolutely. Yes, yes.
0:42:00 > 0:42:03And I think they hid some clothing as well, because they knew of course
0:42:03 > 0:42:07that their uniform would be very noticeable outside of Broadmoor's walls.
0:42:07 > 0:42:10It's a sort of reminder that there's a kind of black humour in
0:42:10 > 0:42:12this quite tragic situation.
0:42:12 > 0:42:15There's quite a bit of gallows humour in that book!
0:42:15 > 0:42:19- Yes.- The commercial value is almost irrelevant.
0:42:20 > 0:42:25It's got such an important window into social history.
0:42:25 > 0:42:27Whether it's
0:42:27 > 0:42:29£1,000, £2,000...
0:42:29 > 0:42:32We won't part with it, but it's knowing how to look after it all, really,
0:42:32 > 0:42:35so that we, you know, have it for future generations.
0:42:35 > 0:42:37So, my grandmother saved it all for me.
0:42:37 > 0:42:40So I'm very fortunate to have seen it all, really.
0:42:40 > 0:42:42- Well, thank you so much for bringing it.- Thank you.
0:42:45 > 0:42:49Over the years, I've done some recordings with a number of objects in them,
0:42:49 > 0:42:52but I don't think I've ever done one with quite so many of more or less
0:42:52 > 0:42:55the same object. What an extraordinary collection.
0:42:55 > 0:42:58How on earth did you come by all these posters?
0:42:58 > 0:43:02My wife and I, we own a shop in Burnham-on-Crouch.
0:43:02 > 0:43:05Last year, we purchased the building next door and we knew there was a
0:43:05 > 0:43:09doorway between, an old boarded-up doorway between the two shops.
0:43:09 > 0:43:12When we took the boarding down there were all these...
0:43:12 > 0:43:15- Have you got a picture of the shop? - Yes, this is the shop.
0:43:15 > 0:43:19That's our original shop, here, and we bought the building next door.
0:43:19 > 0:43:23And there was a concealed doorway between the two.
0:43:23 > 0:43:26And this was just insulation, or packing, or...?
0:43:26 > 0:43:30It was just rolled up, scrunched up, wedged between two lots of wall.
0:43:30 > 0:43:34- How many are there, do you think? - In total, there's just over 100.
0:43:34 > 0:43:37Some are in fair condition. Some are in atrocious condition.
0:43:37 > 0:43:41Well, I mean, it doesn't take a genius to work out quite what's going on here.
0:43:41 > 0:43:45We have Wednesday August 5th 1914.
0:43:45 > 0:43:49It doesn't say '14, but it is '14. "Britain and Germany at war."
0:43:49 > 0:43:52It was declared on the 4th, and so, the next day,
0:43:52 > 0:43:53this is the terrible news.
0:43:53 > 0:43:57And this must have been a day or two before, "Our ultimatum to Germany."
0:43:58 > 0:44:02And very quickly, the war escalates.
0:44:02 > 0:44:05- Indeed, yes.- And here we are, Friday August 7th,
0:44:05 > 0:44:10so probably the day before, when it happened, "British cruiser sunk,
0:44:10 > 0:44:13"131 lost, official."
0:44:13 > 0:44:15There were casualties straightaway
0:44:15 > 0:44:17and it was a naval war to start with.
0:44:17 > 0:44:20And so, you know, this is telling us the history of the First World War,
0:44:20 > 0:44:23the early weeks of the First World War, in all these newspaper posters.
0:44:23 > 0:44:28There are stories of spies being shot, Germans being rounded up as spies.
0:44:28 > 0:44:31Obviously, if you were a German in the UK, you were suspicious.
0:44:31 > 0:44:34But it happened the other way round, because there's another
0:44:34 > 0:44:36lovely one which says, "British tourists held as hostages."
0:44:36 > 0:44:39- That's right, yes.- Well, you know,
0:44:39 > 0:44:42they were going to be putting up with sauerkraut and wieners for...
0:44:42 > 0:44:44That's a bad holiday experience, that one!
0:44:44 > 0:44:46Extended holidays.
0:44:46 > 0:44:50It's an incredibly atmospheric collection, really, isn't it?
0:44:50 > 0:44:54It is. I mean, when I discovered them and started pulling the panelling
0:44:54 > 0:44:57off, the stench in the air...
0:44:58 > 0:45:01..of the stale air was quite overwhelming.
0:45:01 > 0:45:07And the hairs on my arms started to prickle when I realised what it was.
0:45:07 > 0:45:09So what on earth are they worth?
0:45:09 > 0:45:11And this is the big question, isn't it?
0:45:11 > 0:45:14If, archaeologically, you go to the bottom bag in your suitcase,
0:45:14 > 0:45:20it's a bin bag full of, basically, confetti there, shredded.
0:45:20 > 0:45:23So they're not worth very much. So then the second bag is sort of
0:45:23 > 0:45:24half-decent ones.
0:45:24 > 0:45:27And if each of those is worth £10...
0:45:27 > 0:45:32- Well, that's £300 to £400 there. - In that bag.- Yeah.
0:45:32 > 0:45:36And then the top bag are in, by and large, pretty nice condition.
0:45:36 > 0:45:38It's a little bit torn but it's a great one.
0:45:38 > 0:45:40These ones would be worth perhaps £20 or £30 each.
0:45:40 > 0:45:44I'm not great at maths but, having added all those various bags up,
0:45:44 > 0:45:47you've got about £1,000 worth in all.
0:45:48 > 0:45:50For newspaper wrappings.
0:45:50 > 0:45:52- Exactly, exactly. - Expensive fish and chips!
0:45:52 > 0:45:55Yes, very expensive and historic fish and chips.
0:46:00 > 0:46:03You'd think, looking at these, that we were in 18th-century Italy.
0:46:03 > 0:46:05They're warm. They're luminous.
0:46:05 > 0:46:08They're absolutely beautiful little pictures.
0:46:08 > 0:46:11But, actually, we're in Ireland, aren't we?
0:46:11 > 0:46:13- We are.- Irish views.
0:46:13 > 0:46:15- Yes.- He's known as the Irish Claude.
0:46:15 > 0:46:17- OK.- And his name was...?
0:46:17 > 0:46:19James A O'Connor.
0:46:19 > 0:46:24That's right. And actually, there's a date on one of them, 1839.
0:46:24 > 0:46:26They're very late, because he died only two years later.
0:46:26 > 0:46:30- That's right.- But I just thought they were completely lovely.
0:46:30 > 0:46:32The light in these is almost magical.
0:46:32 > 0:46:35- It is, isn't it?- It's certainly meant to be a divine light.
0:46:35 > 0:46:39I'm not quite sure which god, but the point is,
0:46:39 > 0:46:43there is a very mysterious and mystical light in these pictures, and that's
0:46:43 > 0:46:45what does it for me. They're incredibly romantic.
0:46:45 > 0:46:47Is that what you saw in them when you first bought them?
0:46:47 > 0:46:51It was probably the romance of them that attracted me to them.
0:46:51 > 0:46:54I bought them initially because I liked them.
0:46:54 > 0:46:58I thought they were very suitable for where we were living and they were
0:46:58 > 0:47:00the kind of pictures that you can hang anywhere in the house.
0:47:00 > 0:47:03Well, aren't they? And it's a lovely little pair.
0:47:03 > 0:47:06Impossible to understand how he's painted them, they're so clever.
0:47:06 > 0:47:09And the luminosity of the light under the trees...
0:47:09 > 0:47:13- Yes.- ..and the sunset in the distance and the silvery light in this one,
0:47:13 > 0:47:15which actually is rather Irish, isn't it, that one?
0:47:15 > 0:47:18- It is, isn't it? Yes. - Anyway, lovely, lovely things.
0:47:18 > 0:47:21I don't think I've seen such pretty little pictures all day.
0:47:21 > 0:47:24Anyway, what are we going to put on them?
0:47:24 > 0:47:26What did you pay for them?
0:47:26 > 0:47:28- £30.- £30?
0:47:28 > 0:47:31Well, I think they're worth about £2,000 to £3,000 now for the pair.
0:47:31 > 0:47:33EVERYONE GASPS
0:47:33 > 0:47:35How lovely!
0:47:35 > 0:47:36LAUGHTER
0:47:36 > 0:47:38I'm amazed!
0:47:38 > 0:47:40Absolutely amazed.
0:47:58 > 0:48:01He's a handsome brute, isn't he? Where did you get it from?
0:48:01 > 0:48:06It belongs to my sister. It was left to her by her deceased husband.
0:48:06 > 0:48:08It's been stored away for quite some time.
0:48:08 > 0:48:10I don't really know much about the piece.
0:48:10 > 0:48:13- Yes.- It was bought at an auction quite a few years ago.
0:48:14 > 0:48:18- And you don't know how much was paid for it?- Unfortunately not.- OK.
0:48:18 > 0:48:25- Well, I've seen a lot of silver knights of this type.- OK.
0:48:25 > 0:48:28I've never, ever seen one as large as this.
0:48:28 > 0:48:31Normally, they're half the size.
0:48:31 > 0:48:33This is a German one.
0:48:33 > 0:48:38- OK.- But I think it's a post-war copy of an earlier one.
0:48:38 > 0:48:43- OK.- But it's still fantastically well made, and let's just have a look,
0:48:43 > 0:48:48and it has this splendid sword that actually comes out of the scabbard.
0:48:49 > 0:48:51And it's beautifully made.
0:48:51 > 0:48:54I mean, that's a really terrific blade and of some length.
0:48:54 > 0:48:57It's really a fabulous thing.
0:48:57 > 0:48:59The attention to detail is wonderful.
0:48:59 > 0:49:03We've got this swinging ball and chain, which just gives me the shivers,
0:49:03 > 0:49:06looking at it. Let's have a look at it in a bit more detail, because it's got
0:49:06 > 0:49:12this bone carved face here with this fantastic eagle on top,
0:49:12 > 0:49:15the suit of armour, beautifully done.
0:49:15 > 0:49:20A lot of the smaller ones were made by a firm called Neresheimer in East Germany.
0:49:22 > 0:49:25This one is made somewhere else.
0:49:25 > 0:49:29The marks don't tell me where, but I love it, actually.
0:49:29 > 0:49:33I don't normally like these things, but this one is so beautifully made.
0:49:35 > 0:49:41Things like this, even though it's a copy, are quite collected.
0:49:41 > 0:49:44I think, you know, one of this size... As I say,
0:49:44 > 0:49:46I have never seen one before,
0:49:46 > 0:49:50so I think it's got to be worth somewhere between £3,000 and £4,000.
0:49:50 > 0:49:54- OK.- Happy with that?- Yeah, absolutely.- I hope your sister is.
0:49:54 > 0:49:58- Exactly!- Otherwise she might use that on you!- No, exactly.
0:50:02 > 0:50:05So on this glorious summer's day, you've brought me a Christmas card.
0:50:05 > 0:50:08Why do you have this Christmas card? What's so interesting about it?
0:50:08 > 0:50:09Well, it's from 1950,
0:50:09 > 0:50:14Christmas 1950, and my parents had a number of these printed to send to
0:50:14 > 0:50:17family and friends, and inside there's an insert...
0:50:19 > 0:50:22..with Churchill's speeches. It was soon after the war, of course.
0:50:22 > 0:50:27My dad was in the RAF for six years, and he was quite a fan of Churchill...
0:50:27 > 0:50:31- Right.- ..and he decided this was a nice thing to do, presumably, and sent
0:50:31 > 0:50:32these out to family and friends.
0:50:32 > 0:50:36But he sent one to Churchill himself and he had a reply,
0:50:36 > 0:50:39a handwritten reply from the House of Commons, from Churchill.
0:50:39 > 0:50:41Churchill was very good at replying,
0:50:41 > 0:50:47often done by a secretary and often done with a sort of standard reply
0:50:47 > 0:50:52that was often with a printed signature, but I'm pretty confident
0:50:52 > 0:50:57that what you've got here is a handwritten letter from Churchill.
0:50:57 > 0:51:02It's not always easy to tell, but because it's such a...
0:51:02 > 0:51:06- a sort of one-off thing...- Yes. - ..I'm pretty sure that it's right.
0:51:06 > 0:51:11- OK.- So, "Thank you so much for your Christmas greetings which have given me
0:51:11 > 0:51:14"much pleasure," and then signed Winston S Churchill...
0:51:15 > 0:51:18..and dated, obviously, December 1950.
0:51:18 > 0:51:23So despite the fact that, you know, they're quite...
0:51:23 > 0:51:25Churchill items are quite common...
0:51:27 > 0:51:28..I've never seen one of these before.
0:51:28 > 0:51:34- OK.- And I doubt that most Churchill collectors have seen this before.
0:51:34 > 0:51:38It's in nice condition, it's, you know, as it was.
0:51:38 > 0:51:40- So, you've got two of them. - Two cards, yes.
0:51:40 > 0:51:43And the other one's in good condition, as well?
0:51:43 > 0:51:48- Yes, yes.- Well, I reckon that the card itself, to a Churchill collector...
0:51:48 > 0:51:52I can see them paying somewhere between £100 and £200 for it.
0:51:52 > 0:51:54But with the letter, with the accompanying letter,
0:51:54 > 0:51:58I think you could be looking at £500, £600, £700...
0:51:58 > 0:52:01- Oh, right.- ..for that. So, you know, you may add it all up, you've got,
0:52:01 > 0:52:03you know, another letter, another card back at home.
0:52:03 > 0:52:06- Yes.- You might be getting close to four figures.
0:52:06 > 0:52:10But it's a really nice, unusual piece of Churchilliana.
0:52:10 > 0:52:14- Oh, right.- Very sweet. - Yes! Thank you very much.
0:52:18 > 0:52:22I have seen a lot of diamonds, but for me to look twice at a diamond,
0:52:22 > 0:52:27I have to instantly fall in love with it, and I fell in love with this.
0:52:27 > 0:52:29But before I tell you why I fell in love with it,
0:52:29 > 0:52:32I want to hear your story. How did you get this?
0:52:32 > 0:52:34Well, it belonged to my husband's grandmother.
0:52:34 > 0:52:38She was the eldest of three sisters and, as I understand it,
0:52:38 > 0:52:42each sister received one on her 21st birthday. So, they were born round about
0:52:42 > 0:52:45the turn of the century, so about 1920s.
0:52:45 > 0:52:47And whereabouts were they? They were...?
0:52:47 > 0:52:49Primarily in India, with the British Army.
0:52:49 > 0:52:52- Do you know whereabouts in India? - I'm sorry, I don't.
0:52:52 > 0:52:54I'm guessing sort of Shimla and that area, but I don't
0:52:54 > 0:53:01- really know.- Well, you have mentioned a magic word there, "India".
0:53:01 > 0:53:08And, of course, before 1726, all diamonds in the world came from India...
0:53:08 > 0:53:10- Oh, right.- ..or Borneo.
0:53:10 > 0:53:11And there were alluvial...
0:53:11 > 0:53:15alluvial deposits there, so there was no digging, and it was in the
0:53:15 > 0:53:18Hyderabad mines in Golconda.
0:53:19 > 0:53:24There is something particularly wonderful about a Golconda stone, and, in
0:53:24 > 0:53:30fact, we now know that it's because it is with no nitrogen in the carbon.
0:53:30 > 0:53:34That makes it the purest form of diamonds that you can have.
0:53:34 > 0:53:38And when I'm looking at a stone... You've heard of the four Cs, the cut,
0:53:38 > 0:53:42the clarity, the colour and the carat weight.
0:53:42 > 0:53:43Well, for me,
0:53:43 > 0:53:48there's a fifth C that is equally important, and that's character.
0:53:48 > 0:53:55- Right.- And for stones to have character today, it's actually a rarity.
0:53:55 > 0:53:57And why this, for me,
0:53:57 > 0:54:03is making me fall in love with it is because of the way it has been cut.
0:54:03 > 0:54:06It has been cut completely by hand.
0:54:06 > 0:54:09On this perfect summer's day, look, if I just move it,
0:54:09 > 0:54:15you can just see the fantastic sparkle that it's creating, and that has
0:54:15 > 0:54:19been created by this wonderful craftsman who's cut this diamond
0:54:19 > 0:54:20back in 1890.
0:54:20 > 0:54:25Nowadays, you still do have it cut by man and by the hand, but the
0:54:25 > 0:54:27technology is so advanced,
0:54:27 > 0:54:31there's so many instruments now and machinery that is now cutting stones,
0:54:31 > 0:54:36and so they have become quite uniformed, whereas this, you can see the art
0:54:36 > 0:54:39of the craftsman. We call them cushion cuts,
0:54:39 > 0:54:42old-cut diamonds, but they're going to get rarer.
0:54:44 > 0:54:47And it's in this wonderful platinum mount.
0:54:47 > 0:54:48Do you enjoy wearing it?
0:54:48 > 0:54:52I do wear it occasionally but not too often in case something
0:54:52 > 0:54:54happens to it.
0:54:54 > 0:54:57Well, you know, I think it's just an absolute stunning stone,
0:54:57 > 0:54:59I really, really love it.
0:54:59 > 0:55:02- Thank you.- And I wish you very well to wear it.
0:55:02 > 0:55:05Do you have an idea of the value at all?
0:55:05 > 0:55:09I think once it was suggested that it was sort of 1,000, 1,500.
0:55:09 > 0:55:11£1,000, £1,500?
0:55:14 > 0:55:17- Right. OK. - LAUGHTER
0:55:17 > 0:55:19Are you ready for this?
0:55:19 > 0:55:22Should I sit down?
0:55:22 > 0:55:25I mean, you know, I haven't taken it out of the mount, and one would need
0:55:25 > 0:55:30to do more analysis of it for the cut and the clarity and the carat weight,
0:55:30 > 0:55:33but I would say, at auction,
0:55:33 > 0:55:36you would be looking in the region of around about
0:55:36 > 0:55:38£25,000.
0:55:38 > 0:55:41Wow! Thank you!
0:55:41 > 0:55:43LAUGHTER
0:55:43 > 0:55:45He'll be very pleased when I get home.
0:55:47 > 0:55:48Thank you very much.
0:55:53 > 0:55:56And that's what we love to celebrate here on the Antiques Roadshow,
0:55:56 > 0:56:00exquisite craftsmanship. It's a dying art.
0:56:00 > 0:56:03And you could tell that Joey fell in love with that diamond, and who can
0:56:03 > 0:56:06blame her? From all the Roadshow team here at Audley End,
0:56:06 > 0:56:08until next time, bye-bye.