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Boy, hundreds of people here, and have we got a show for you today. | 0:00:02 | 0:00:06 | |
Do you know, every year on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, the whole town of Ashbourne in | 0:00:06 | 0:00:10 | |
Derbyshire comes out in force for the Royal Shrovetide Football Game. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:14 | |
It looks like Flog It has had the same effect today. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
ALL: Yay! | 0:00:17 | 0:00:19 | |
Once a year, the Royal Shrovetide Football Match | 0:00:42 | 0:00:45 | |
plays half the town's folk against the other half, | 0:00:45 | 0:00:47 | |
with the town of Ashbourne itself becoming the pitch with the goals three miles apart. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:52 | |
Now, we're not letting you do anything as energetic as that today, as all they've got to do | 0:00:52 | 0:00:56 | |
is dust off unwanted antiques and collectables here at the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School. | 0:00:56 | 0:01:01 | |
Coming up, Will tries his best to break Michael's pewter plate. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
If I pick this up and just give... It's fairly soft. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:07 | |
-You can feel it, can't you? -Yes. Yes. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
We find out more about the game of Shrovetide football. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:13 | |
-Have you played it? -Well, I'm a big guy but I never have and it is quite tough and rough and tumble. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:18 | |
-And at the auction, one item breaks all records. -Selling. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:22 | |
-Never! -I'm shaking, do you know that? | 0:01:22 | 0:01:25 | |
I'm actually shaking. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:26 | |
Our team of experts is led by Michael Baggott. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
When he was 11, he saved up his dinner money for over a month to buy his first antique - | 0:01:31 | 0:01:36 | |
a silver vesta case which cost him £22 - and he hasn't looked back since. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:41 | |
While he was growing up around Newmarket, Will Axon's early career aspirations were as a jockey, | 0:01:41 | 0:01:47 | |
although eventually he became an auctioneer and a valuer, | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
which is lucky for us. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
Oh, they were the cutting edge of technology, these were, at the time. | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
Well, everybody's now safely seated inside the venue | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
and this is where the fun begins because Will Axon, one of our experts, is first at the tables. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:07 | |
Let's take a closer look at what he's spotted. | 0:02:07 | 0:02:09 | |
Michael, we're not going to leave you eating off the table, | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
if we flog this for you? | 0:02:14 | 0:02:15 | |
-No. -It's not your dinner plate at home? | 0:02:15 | 0:02:17 | |
-No, no, it isn't. I've got one or two more. -Have you? | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
-Pewter ones? -No, not pewter ones. Unfortunately not. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:22 | |
-A bit tricky eating off pewter because there's a bit of a lead content in there. -Right. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:26 | |
So you wouldn't really want to eat your dinner off it. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
-No. No. -How have you come by this? You collect pewter? -No. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
Have you got an oak furnished cottage that you display it all on? | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
Unfortunately not, no. It's one I had given me years ago. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:39 | |
-Given to you? -Given to me. -We hear that a lot on Flog It, I tell you. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
-By an old lady. -It's not hugely valuable. Some pewter is. -Yes. | 0:02:42 | 0:02:45 | |
Early pewter, Carolean pewter is valuable. | 0:02:45 | 0:02:48 | |
Can make good money, big charges, things like that. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:51 | |
Once we get into the sort of 19th century, which I think this dates | 0:02:51 | 0:02:55 | |
from, then quality does drop a bit and more of it is produced | 0:02:55 | 0:02:59 | |
and it's produced on more of a sort of commercial scale, for decoration | 0:02:59 | 0:03:03 | |
-and so on. -Right. Right. -I'm going to turn it upside down because | 0:03:03 | 0:03:07 | |
with pewter, similar to silver but nowhere near as documented, shall we | 0:03:07 | 0:03:12 | |
-say, as the silver pieces, are what we call touch marks here. -Yes. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
-We've got a London mark there you can see. -Yes. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:17 | |
We've got a crowned X at the top of the London touch mark. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:21 | |
Now that originally would denote the quality of the pewter. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
-Right. -But like I say, once you got into the sort of 18th, 19th century, | 0:03:24 | 0:03:28 | |
the regulation all went a bit higgledy piggledy and they were all | 0:03:28 | 0:03:32 | |
-stamping it with the crowned X, so everyone thought the pewter was of the top quality. -Yes. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:37 | |
And down here again, we've got some sort of pseudo hallmarks to try and follow on with that sort | 0:03:37 | 0:03:42 | |
-of silver tradition - the feeling of being fully hallmarked. -Right. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:45 | |
I don't know if you've seen pewter when it's been polished up, have you? | 0:03:45 | 0:03:49 | |
I've seen it in some of these halls, in the big houses. | 0:03:49 | 0:03:51 | |
-It literally shines like silver. -Right. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:54 | |
-Because that's originally what it was intended to impersonate. -Oh, I see, right. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:58 | |
Silver. I mean, what's it worth in monetary terms? | 0:03:58 | 0:04:01 | |
-I would have thought maybe £10, £20, £25. -Right. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:04 | |
That sort of level, I'm afraid, so | 0:04:04 | 0:04:06 | |
it's not going to sort of, no cruise this year I'm afraid, with the wife. | 0:04:06 | 0:04:10 | |
-No. -But if you're happy to put it into sale and | 0:04:10 | 0:04:13 | |
just, shall we say, let it make what it makes, how do you feel about that? | 0:04:13 | 0:04:17 | |
-That's fine, yes. -Yeah, is that OK? | 0:04:17 | 0:04:19 | |
They can be a little difficult to place because I mentioned the lead content as well. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:23 | |
-That changed in the 20th century. They put less lead in it. -Right. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:27 | |
-Hence you get the sort of more sturdy, harder pewter. -Right. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:31 | |
But if I pick this up and just give it... It's fairly soft. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:34 | |
You can feel it, can't you? It flexes. Well, that's the lead content in there. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
High lead content makes it more pliable. But at no reserve, just to confirm, | 0:04:38 | 0:04:43 | |
-I hope it makes ten or 20 rather than five or ten. -Money for a drink. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:47 | |
Exactly. That's the way to look at it, Michael. Well done. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:50 | |
At our valuation days we get people from all walks of life and all age groups | 0:04:52 | 0:04:56 | |
but they don't get much younger than Beatrice here. | 0:04:56 | 0:04:58 | |
What a good start into the antiques world at eight months old. Hi, Mum. | 0:04:58 | 0:05:02 | |
-She's a good little girl, isn't she? -She's been really good. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
This is what Beatrice brought in to have valued. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:07 | |
The Wonders Of The Peake. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
Where did Mummy pick this up from then? | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
-That is Daddy's purchase off the internet. -Oh, was it? | 0:05:12 | 0:05:15 | |
It's in very, very good condition. It dates back to 1664. | 0:05:15 | 0:05:20 | |
Gosh. You've had it rebound in leather, haven't you? | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
-Yes. -So how much did you pay for it? | 0:05:23 | 0:05:25 | |
It was about £30, I think. | 0:05:25 | 0:05:26 | |
Well, I think you've done very, very well. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:29 | |
-Thank you. -And it's good because you can actually use this now. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:32 | |
You're not going to damage the spine any more. That's beautifully done. | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
Beautifully done. That is a little family heirloom for you, Beatrice, isn't it? | 0:05:35 | 0:05:40 | |
What a lovely name as well. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:42 | |
-Thank you. -Ooh, bless her. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
Well, perhaps that's something Beatrice could bring on to Flog It when she's grown up, | 0:05:44 | 0:05:48 | |
just like Pamela, who has something that used to belong to her mother. | 0:05:48 | 0:05:52 | |
Pamela, thank you for bringing me my almost favourite thing | 0:05:52 | 0:05:55 | |
on Flog It, a piece of silver. | 0:05:55 | 0:05:56 | |
How did you come by this wonderful little cup? | 0:05:56 | 0:05:59 | |
It's from my mother, my mother won it at her club when she worked | 0:05:59 | 0:06:03 | |
and it had just been in the home and when they moved home and they died, | 0:06:03 | 0:06:08 | |
I inherited it, really. | 0:06:08 | 0:06:10 | |
Oh, so this inscription on the front, | 0:06:10 | 0:06:13 | |
-Bovril Swimming Club, presented by Sir James Crichton-Brown to Miss G V Wilder... -That was my mother. | 0:06:13 | 0:06:19 | |
-G V Wilder was your mother. -That's right. | 0:06:19 | 0:06:21 | |
-So she won the swimming cup. -She did. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:24 | |
-Yes. -Was she a fantastic swimmer? | 0:06:24 | 0:06:26 | |
I don't think so. She never talked about it very much. | 0:06:26 | 0:06:30 | |
But she was good enough to win a silver cup. | 0:06:30 | 0:06:33 | |
That's something to be proud about. Now, like all silver, | 0:06:33 | 0:06:36 | |
there should be a set of hallmarks which tell us a little bit more about it. | 0:06:36 | 0:06:41 | |
And there we've got the almost ubiquitous M & W for Mappin and Webb. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:46 | |
Huge manufacturers and retailers in the 20th century and provided | 0:06:46 | 0:06:50 | |
a lot of cups like this when they were fashionable, for presentations. | 0:06:50 | 0:06:55 | |
We've got the crown for Sheffield. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
We've got the lion passant, which tells us it's sterling silver and | 0:06:58 | 0:07:02 | |
we've got the date letter from 1926, which is the year or the year before | 0:07:02 | 0:07:08 | |
-she would have won the cup. -Yes. | 0:07:08 | 0:07:10 | |
-Do you use it much at home? -No, I don't use it at all. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
-It lives in a cupboard. -Therein lies the problem, | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
because there are two real reasons | 0:07:16 | 0:07:18 | |
why a piece of silver would be valuable. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:21 | |
It is either collectable or it's useful. | 0:07:21 | 0:07:24 | |
So candlesticks are still used for dinner. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:27 | |
-Yes. -To a lesser extent, tea sets and wine coasters. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:30 | |
A presentation cup is almost neither use nor ornament, | 0:07:30 | 0:07:34 | |
although it is quite ornamental. | 0:07:34 | 0:07:36 | |
It did come with a little wire thing, you use it like for flowers. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:41 | |
-For flowers. That's wonderful. -I presume so, yes. | 0:07:41 | 0:07:43 | |
Yes, they would provide a little wire, and you can put some oasis | 0:07:43 | 0:07:46 | |
-in the bottom and put fresh flowers in it and they're actually when they're at their best. -Yes. | 0:07:46 | 0:07:51 | |
In terms of value, as I say, it's not tremendously valuable. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:55 | |
I think at auction we would be sensible putting an estimate of £60 to £100 on it. | 0:07:55 | 0:08:00 | |
-Right. -And putting a fixed reserve of £60 which reflects the bullion value | 0:08:00 | 0:08:06 | |
-of the cup. -Yes. -So if you're happy to do that...? | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
Yes, I am, rather than it sitting in a cupboard. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:12 | |
It's better out than in the cupboard, isn't it? | 0:08:12 | 0:08:15 | |
Michael's always happy when he's got a bit of silver in his hands. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:21 | |
Next up, Will has found something that we've already heard about | 0:08:21 | 0:08:24 | |
earlier on in the show - something unique to Ashbourne. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:27 | |
Once a year, the whole town turns out to take part | 0:08:30 | 0:08:33 | |
in a free-for-all game. | 0:08:33 | 0:08:34 | |
Shrovetide football. There's no offside rule. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:38 | |
In fact, not many rules at all. | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
Only three. No mechanical means can be used, such as a car. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:45 | |
If the ball is out of play for over an hour, it's void. And, finally, | 0:08:45 | 0:08:49 | |
if a goal is scored before five pm, the whole game starts over again. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:54 | |
So let's meet someone who's had the bruises to prove he's taken part. | 0:08:54 | 0:08:58 | |
I spotted you in the queue outside here with this print, and it intrigued me really. | 0:09:00 | 0:09:04 | |
I came along and I said, "Hang on a minute, what's going on? | 0:09:04 | 0:09:07 | |
"Prince Charles being carried aloft with a football?" | 0:09:07 | 0:09:10 | |
I didn't think that was his sort of scene. And then I see here, | 0:09:10 | 0:09:13 | |
Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide Football, and then talking to you, | 0:09:13 | 0:09:17 | |
it triggered what I've seen about Shrovetide football. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:20 | |
I remember in my distant memory that there are a lot of people that, over | 0:09:20 | 0:09:23 | |
a few days end up getting very muddy, very tired, and some of them quite | 0:09:23 | 0:09:28 | |
badly hurt with this game, Royal Shrovetide Football. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:31 | |
-That's correct. -Fascinating. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:33 | |
Tell me about it, it's something Ashbourne is well known for. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
Well, it goes back to well before the First World War, | 0:09:35 | 0:09:38 | |
actually, where the gentlemen used to have shirt ties and trousers on. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:43 | |
-Yes. -And it just carried on to the present day. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:45 | |
Right. And it's an intriguing game. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:47 | |
I mean, you know it well, because you've taken part, haven't you? | 0:09:47 | 0:09:50 | |
-Yes, I have, yes. -Yeah. On several occasions. | 0:09:50 | 0:09:53 | |
-And you will do in the future? -Oh, yes, yeah. | 0:09:53 | 0:09:55 | |
-I started playing Shrovetide when I was 14. -Really? | 0:09:55 | 0:09:57 | |
Quite brave, then, cos there's some big lads who play it, aren't there? | 0:09:57 | 0:10:01 | |
-Yes. Yeah. Yep. -And the basic premise of the game, if I've got it right, tell me, | 0:10:01 | 0:10:05 | |
you're meant to get the ball from one end to the other, is it? | 0:10:05 | 0:10:08 | |
Yeah. From Ashbourne car park, there's a plinth. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:11 | |
-Yes. -And once it's thrown up or turned up it's one and a half miles | 0:10:11 | 0:10:15 | |
down to Clifton and one and a half miles down to Sturston. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:18 | |
-And that's where the sort of, the goals are? -Yes, yeah. -Right. | 0:10:18 | 0:10:21 | |
-Plinth and you've got like a circle in it and you have to tap it three times. -Tap the ball three times. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:26 | |
Once you've tapped it three times it's your ball. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:28 | |
-You keep it? -Yes. -For good? -Yes. Yeah. -How long does it go on for? | 0:10:28 | 0:10:32 | |
-Two days. -And you can sort of dip in and out whenever you want? -Yes. You can do. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:36 | |
You can sort of have a go in the morning and then pop home, have your tea, and join in again. | 0:10:36 | 0:10:40 | |
-Later on, yes, yeah. And all the shops and that are all boarded up. -Are they? -Yeah. | 0:10:40 | 0:10:46 | |
Well, this print here, looking at it, obviously sort of commemorates one of these. | 0:10:46 | 0:10:50 | |
I mean, looking here, 5th March 2003. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:52 | |
-That's correct, yeah. -And Prince Charles came along. -He did, yes. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:55 | |
And did he take part? Did you get a chance to sort of wrestle him to the ground for the ball? | 0:10:55 | 0:10:59 | |
-No. He came and threw the ball up, turned the ball up. -Turned the ball up? -Yeah. | 0:10:59 | 0:11:03 | |
-Right. So that's quite an honour. -It is, yeah. | 0:11:03 | 0:11:06 | |
-You've actually got a key to who the people are. -Yes, correct. Yeah. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:09 | |
Obviously we've got to talk about value. This is Flog It. | 0:11:09 | 0:11:12 | |
It is signed in pencil I notice, by the artist, which is good because | 0:11:12 | 0:11:15 | |
that limits the edition, as well as this number here. Three out of 850. | 0:11:15 | 0:11:20 | |
I mean, this was on sale in Ashbourne, was it? You bought it? | 0:11:20 | 0:11:22 | |
No. I won it on the raffle. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
-On the same day? -Well, it was one of the special evenings. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:28 | |
OK. How much did you have to pay for your strip of tickets? | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
-£5. -£5. OK. So, I mean, it's got to be worth that, hasn't it, for the framing and the glazing? | 0:11:31 | 0:11:36 | |
I think, let it make what it makes. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:37 | |
-Yeah. -It's the right part of the world to sell it! | 0:11:37 | 0:11:40 | |
Difficult to value, but I think we've got to put an estimate on it, haven't we? | 0:11:40 | 0:11:44 | |
Let's say, what, £30 to £50, something like that? | 0:11:44 | 0:11:47 | |
You wouldn't get it framed for that sort of money | 0:11:47 | 0:11:50 | |
-so it's got to be worth that, but I think we should go without reserve. -That's fine. | 0:11:50 | 0:11:54 | |
It's a hard thing to actually pin a value on, so you've decided to let it go. No reserve. | 0:11:54 | 0:11:59 | |
We're guaranteed a sale and I look forward to seeing you at the sale. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
Bring a ball along on the day. We'll have a game in the car park. | 0:12:02 | 0:12:06 | |
-Yes. -Andrew, it's been a pleasure. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:07 | |
Well, I'm not sure the BBC health and safety department will be happy with that, | 0:12:07 | 0:12:12 | |
but with any luck, we'll get as many bidders as people take part in the Shrovetide football match. | 0:12:12 | 0:12:17 | |
We're now about halfway through our day and we've been working flat out. | 0:12:17 | 0:12:21 | |
Everybody's having a marvellous time, aren't we? | 0:12:21 | 0:12:23 | |
-Yes. -Good, good, but right now it's time to up the tempo. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:26 | |
This is where we put our valuations to the test. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:28 | |
Let's get straight over to the auction room. | 0:12:28 | 0:12:31 | |
We've got a mixed bag of items going under the hammer today. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:35 | |
Michael's pewter plate might not look that impressive, but collectors | 0:12:35 | 0:12:38 | |
can sometimes surprise us on Flog It. | 0:12:38 | 0:12:41 | |
We've also got Pamela's swimming trophy. And, last but not least, | 0:12:41 | 0:12:44 | |
the interesting Shrovetide football print. | 0:12:44 | 0:12:48 | |
And this is where all our action is happening today, the Mackworth Hotel in Derbyshire. | 0:12:48 | 0:12:53 | |
On the rostrum, we have auctioneer Charles Hanson, who I'm going to have a chat to in just a moment. | 0:12:53 | 0:12:57 | |
The room is filling up. There's an excitement, there's a buzz about the place, | 0:12:57 | 0:13:01 | |
and hopefully, all of this lot are going to bid on some of our items. | 0:13:01 | 0:13:05 | |
This modern print belongs to Andrew. | 0:13:13 | 0:13:15 | |
He paid £5 for this at a ball he went to. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:18 | |
And he thinks this is the best area to sell it - lots of | 0:13:18 | 0:13:21 | |
local interest because this is big business up in Derbyshire. | 0:13:21 | 0:13:24 | |
-Shrovetide footie! -Yeah. -So tell me all about it. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:26 | |
Have you played it? | 0:13:26 | 0:13:28 | |
Well, I'm a big guy, Paul, but I never have. | 0:13:28 | 0:13:30 | |
And it is quite tough and rough and tumble. Not my sort of thing. | 0:13:30 | 0:13:33 | |
-You can handle it. -Well, maybe. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:34 | |
But this, obviously from 2003, it captures international interest. | 0:13:34 | 0:13:38 | |
The press come, the media come to watch the event. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:41 | |
The uppards against the downards. It's a great sport. | 0:13:41 | 0:13:44 | |
What sort of price would you put on this if it came into the rooms today? | 0:13:44 | 0:13:48 | |
I think, Paul, it's the right place to sell it. It's local. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:51 | |
I would say between £50 and £80. | 0:13:51 | 0:13:52 | |
Oh, that's good news, cos we're looking for £30 to £50. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:55 | |
-Great. Good. -Looks like we scored a goal there! | 0:13:55 | 0:13:58 | |
I hope so. | 0:13:58 | 0:14:00 | |
Remember, both buyers and sellers have to pay commission at auction | 0:14:00 | 0:14:03 | |
which can vary from sale room to sale room. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:05 | |
Here, at Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers, | 0:14:05 | 0:14:08 | |
the commission is 15% plus VAT. | 0:14:08 | 0:14:11 | |
And on the rostrum today is auctioneer David Greatwood. | 0:14:11 | 0:14:15 | |
Serving up right now, we've got a wonderful 19th-century pewter plate. | 0:14:15 | 0:14:19 | |
It's not a lot of money, but I tell you what, it's a cracking piece of kit, and I love pewter. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:24 | |
And you can collect all sorts of sizes of pewter plates - broad rimmed and some wriggle work. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:28 | |
This is a good start to a collection. | 0:14:28 | 0:14:31 | |
-You like this though, don't you, Sylvia? -Yes. It's all right. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:34 | |
But Michael wants to sell it. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:35 | |
It doesn't fit in with anything else we've got in the house. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:38 | |
-OK. -So we're going to lighten the load in the house, | 0:14:38 | 0:14:41 | |
if you like. We've been collecting for a lot of years. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:44 | |
Well, hopefully, Michael, it will be worth a little more | 0:14:44 | 0:14:47 | |
than the £20 or £30 we're expecting. | 0:14:47 | 0:14:49 | |
Yeah, I hope so, but bear in mind it is sort of 19th century, it's late, | 0:14:49 | 0:14:53 | |
it's mass-produced - hence, you know, the low estimate. | 0:14:53 | 0:14:56 | |
OK. We're going to find out what the bidders think. It's going under the hammer now. | 0:14:56 | 0:15:00 | |
This 19th-century pewter plate with a London touch mark | 0:15:00 | 0:15:03 | |
and commission's here close. I'm straight in here at 12. 14. | 0:15:03 | 0:15:06 | |
£16. I'm bid at 16. I have at 16. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:08 | |
At 18, I'll take. At 16. At 18. 20. | 0:15:08 | 0:15:12 | |
22. 25. 28. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:15 | |
£28. At the end of the road. 28. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:18 | |
30, new place. 32, madam. | 0:15:18 | 0:15:20 | |
30. In the middle of the room at £30 and selling at 30. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:23 | |
At £30. The pewter plate, £30, and selling at 30. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:28 | |
Well done. £30. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:29 | |
I'm pleased with that. | 0:15:29 | 0:15:31 | |
-Well, every penny helps, doesn't it? -It certainly does. It's all right. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:35 | |
Well, that was more than we all thought. | 0:15:35 | 0:15:36 | |
What a great start to the auction. | 0:15:36 | 0:15:38 | |
Let's hope our luck continues with our next item, the silver trophy. | 0:15:38 | 0:15:43 | |
Well, we're swimming along nicely now, and let's hope we just don't | 0:15:43 | 0:15:47 | |
tread water on this next lot, because it's a presentation swimming cup belonging to Pamela. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:51 | |
-In fact, it was your mum's. -That's right. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:54 | |
She won it when she worked at the Bovril factory. | 0:15:54 | 0:15:56 | |
-She did, yes. -They had swimming competitions there? -Must have done. | 0:15:56 | 0:15:59 | |
I didn't hear a lot about it but she must have done, mustn't she? | 0:15:59 | 0:16:02 | |
Why are you selling this, Pamela? | 0:16:02 | 0:16:04 | |
Well, I don't swim. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:05 | |
None of the family swim, otherwise, you know, I could have presented it | 0:16:05 | 0:16:09 | |
to them. So decluttering again. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:11 | |
Everyone's decluttering, I know. It's priced to sell, isn't it? | 0:16:11 | 0:16:14 | |
It is. And the price of bullion, I hate to say, hasn't been higher. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:19 | |
-Perfect time. -Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
So, hopefully, we'll start you off decluttering in the right manner and the right fashion. | 0:16:21 | 0:16:25 | |
If not, I'll have to have another go. | 0:16:25 | 0:16:27 | |
There you go, showing on my left there. | 0:16:27 | 0:16:30 | |
The George V silver twin-handled trophy cup. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:32 | |
Nice one with a presentation inscription, made by Mappin & Webb, | 0:16:32 | 0:16:36 | |
-Sheffield 1926. -Good name. Good maker's name. -Interest here. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:40 | |
Straight in at 75. 80 I'm bid. At 80 I have. At 80. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:42 | |
Where's five now? At 80. Five. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:46 | |
I'm out. At 85. 90 I'll take. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:47 | |
At £85. On the right-hand side. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:50 | |
At 85. Any advance now? At £85. | 0:16:50 | 0:16:52 | |
All done? | 0:16:52 | 0:16:53 | |
Well, that was quick, wasn't it? | 0:16:53 | 0:16:55 | |
£85. We had a guide of 60 to 100. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
-That was straight in at the deep end. -It was, wasn't it? | 0:16:58 | 0:17:01 | |
They are worth what they're worth and you'll find bidders will often leave | 0:17:01 | 0:17:05 | |
-commission bids very close to one another for bullion pieces. -Happy? | 0:17:05 | 0:17:09 | |
Yes, thank you. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:11 | |
Another good result. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:13 | |
Can the Shrovetide picture complete the successful run? | 0:17:13 | 0:17:16 | |
Going under the hammer right now is something very special to this area and only to this area. | 0:17:16 | 0:17:21 | |
It's the Shrovetide footie match, isn't it? | 0:17:21 | 0:17:24 | |
It's a shame, Andrew, you didn't bring the ball in, eh? | 0:17:24 | 0:17:27 | |
But anyway, it's a great print, it's a modern print, and it's a limited edition. | 0:17:27 | 0:17:31 | |
-It is, yes. -And we've got a value of around £30 to £40, Will. | 0:17:31 | 0:17:35 | |
And I had a chat to the auctioneer and it is big business up here. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:38 | |
Everybody joins in. It doesn't get better than this for local interest, let's face it. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:42 | |
Brilliant. I mean, we said there's not a huge amount of value in the print itself, | 0:17:42 | 0:17:46 | |
but the story was great, you know, this Shrovetide football, and I think I rather foolishly said | 0:17:46 | 0:17:51 | |
on camera that I would probably try and turn up for the next game, and he's going to hold me to it. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:55 | |
So next time, when I'm covered in bruises and perhaps an arm in a sling | 0:17:55 | 0:17:59 | |
and on crutches, you'll know that I made it. But I'm seriously tempted, you know! | 0:17:59 | 0:18:03 | |
OK. OK. | 0:18:03 | 0:18:04 | |
We might just film that. | 0:18:04 | 0:18:06 | |
-Yes. -Well, good luck, both of you. | 0:18:06 | 0:18:09 | |
Very fine print after S J Avery, | 0:18:10 | 0:18:13 | |
of course, the local sporting event in the Shrovetide. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:16 | |
So who's going to start me off at £20 only for it, surely? | 0:18:16 | 0:18:20 | |
20 anywhere now? Surely, £20. 20 bid, thank you. | 0:18:20 | 0:18:23 | |
Where are all the footballers? | 0:18:23 | 0:18:25 | |
You couldn't get it framed for that, could you? | 0:18:25 | 0:18:27 | |
25. 28. 30. 32. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:30 | |
£32 seated with the lady, at 32. | 0:18:30 | 0:18:33 | |
Any advances? With you, madam, at 32. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:34 | |
Any advance now? 35 surely now. | 0:18:34 | 0:18:36 | |
At £32, seated dead centre at £32. | 0:18:36 | 0:18:40 | |
Last chance at £32. | 0:18:40 | 0:18:42 | |
Hammer's gone down - £32. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:44 | |
It's not about the value, it's about the history, the social history | 0:18:44 | 0:18:47 | |
-of the game really, isn't it? -Exactly the point, Paul. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:50 | |
-And you've given someone the opportunity to own it and hang it on their wall. -Yeah. | 0:18:50 | 0:18:53 | |
-Brilliant. -And hopefully tell thousands of viewers that are | 0:18:53 | 0:18:56 | |
watching who hadn't heard of this, and hopefully they might turn up and watch Will get in a scrum. | 0:18:56 | 0:19:02 | |
Yeah. I'm the one at the bottom! | 0:19:02 | 0:19:04 | |
Well, we'll definitely watch out for that. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:07 | |
Next, one of the most magnificent stately homes that I've ever visited | 0:19:07 | 0:19:11 | |
currently houses a fascinating exhibition. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:14 | |
When you catch your first glimpse of Chatsworth House as | 0:19:23 | 0:19:26 | |
you travel through the grounds, it really is quite overpowering. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:29 | |
It's a magnificent building, and it's hard to sum it up in words to do it justice. | 0:19:29 | 0:19:34 | |
I feel really emotional right now. | 0:19:34 | 0:19:36 | |
You have to be here to experience this architectural delight. | 0:19:36 | 0:19:39 | |
It was built by Bess of Hardwick in the 1500s and it's been | 0:19:39 | 0:19:42 | |
handed down through many different generations of the Cavendish family | 0:19:42 | 0:19:46 | |
who have all left their mark on this building, the grounds and their extensive collections. | 0:19:46 | 0:19:52 | |
One member of the family who caught the collective imagination like no | 0:19:55 | 0:19:58 | |
other was Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. | 0:19:58 | 0:20:01 | |
Her life was recently portrayed in a movie called The Duchess, | 0:20:01 | 0:20:05 | |
some of which was filmed right here at Chatsworth. | 0:20:05 | 0:20:08 | |
The South Sketch Gallery of the house is full of artefacts | 0:20:10 | 0:20:13 | |
that Georgiana bought or collected herself. In fact, it's dedicated to her. | 0:20:13 | 0:20:17 | |
She was a celebrated beauty, a socialite, | 0:20:17 | 0:20:19 | |
and famous for her wonderful sense of style | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
and political campaigning, but perhaps more infamously | 0:20:22 | 0:20:25 | |
for her love of gambling and her rather unusual marital arrangements. | 0:20:25 | 0:20:29 | |
In 1774, on her 17th birthday, | 0:20:31 | 0:20:33 | |
Georgiana married William Cavendish, who was the fifth Duke of Devonshire | 0:20:33 | 0:20:38 | |
and one of the richest men in the country. | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
The marriage was an unhappy one. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:45 | |
For many years, Georgiana was unable to produce a male heir | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
and after introducing William to her best friend, | 0:20:48 | 0:20:51 | |
Lady Elizabeth Foster, she spent the rest of her life as part of an infamous menage a trois. | 0:20:51 | 0:20:58 | |
And here are the paintings of the two women and the duke, | 0:21:05 | 0:21:08 | |
and this is Georgiana, and she's absolutely stunning. | 0:21:08 | 0:21:11 | |
It's painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in the 18th century. | 0:21:11 | 0:21:14 | |
This is her best friend Elizabeth, also known as Bess, | 0:21:14 | 0:21:16 | |
again painted by Reynolds. And here's the duke in the middle, | 0:21:16 | 0:21:20 | |
looking rather proud and smug and pleased with himself. | 0:21:20 | 0:21:23 | |
And so he should, really, shouldn't he? | 0:21:23 | 0:21:25 | |
They all lived here in the house and both gave birth to his children. | 0:21:25 | 0:21:28 | |
In fact, the duke also had a child by a maid that worked at the house. | 0:21:28 | 0:21:33 | |
But finally Georgiana gave birth to the long-awaited Cavendish heir. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:37 | |
And this three-sided relationship continued right up until Georgiana's death | 0:21:37 | 0:21:42 | |
and then the duke married her best friend, Bess. | 0:21:42 | 0:21:44 | |
Georgiana's personal situation became even more complicated during her unhappy marriage | 0:21:46 | 0:21:52 | |
when she fell in love with the second Earl Grey and fell pregnant. | 0:21:52 | 0:21:55 | |
We've been given special access to a fascinating letter from this time. | 0:21:55 | 0:22:00 | |
The duke found out and he exiled her to France, hoping maybe not many people would find out. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:09 | |
Now, childbirth was risky at this particular time for mother and for child. Survival rate was quite low. | 0:22:09 | 0:22:15 | |
So Georgiana wrote this letter so her son could read this when he was old enough. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:20 | |
This letter was written in her own blood, and this explains why she did this. | 0:22:20 | 0:22:25 | |
I know it sounds dramatic, but this was Georgiana. Just listen to this. | 0:22:25 | 0:22:31 | |
"My dear little boy, as soon as you are old enough to understand this letter, it will be given to you. | 0:22:31 | 0:22:37 | |
"It contains the only present I can make you, my blessing, written with my blood." | 0:22:37 | 0:22:42 | |
Incredible. | 0:22:44 | 0:22:45 | |
"God bless you, my child. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:49 | |
"Your poor mother, | 0:22:49 | 0:22:50 | |
"G Devonshire." | 0:22:50 | 0:22:53 | |
That's so sad, isn't it? | 0:22:53 | 0:22:55 | |
As you can see, look, the blood is fading. | 0:22:55 | 0:22:59 | |
The more she's writing, the more it's fading. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:02 | |
It is very melodramatic, but that's Georgiana. | 0:23:02 | 0:23:06 | |
Because she loved gambling, in fact she was really addicted to it, | 0:23:11 | 0:23:14 | |
she was in debt all her life, and here's a summary of some of the gambling debts. | 0:23:14 | 0:23:19 | |
The gambling debts amount to around £61,859. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:23 | |
Now, that's a lot of money back then. | 0:23:23 | 0:23:26 | |
Today, that's equivalent, let's say, of earnings of around £40 million. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:31 | |
Now, they do say you can win some, you can lose some, but I think she was losing all the time. | 0:23:31 | 0:23:36 | |
Wasn't very good at cards. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:38 | |
She was living on a knife-edge, wasn't she? | 0:23:38 | 0:23:41 | |
Here, look, there's a list of all the people working on the estate, | 0:23:41 | 0:23:45 | |
tradesmen, people like that, that haven't been paid, | 0:23:45 | 0:23:48 | |
and they're owed £183, which was a great deal of money. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:52 | |
It took her family decades to pay these debts off after her death. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:57 | |
Georgiana was definitely melodramatic and terrible with money | 0:23:57 | 0:24:01 | |
but let's not forget she was a political campaigner, arbiter of fashion and taste | 0:24:01 | 0:24:07 | |
and one of the most influential women of the day. | 0:24:07 | 0:24:11 | |
When Georgiana walked into a room, everybody stopped and stared. | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
She had a wonderful, alluring presence and, as we've seen from her letters, she was a loving mother | 0:24:14 | 0:24:19 | |
but the time she lived in saw her bound by convention. | 0:24:19 | 0:24:23 | |
But what a fascinating story. I'd love to have met her. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
Our valuation day at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Ashbourne | 0:24:33 | 0:24:36 | |
is in full swing and a bit of colour has been added to the proceedings. | 0:24:36 | 0:24:40 | |
-We first must mention, Bill, because you're not in standard clothing today, are you? -No! | 0:24:40 | 0:24:46 | |
So you are...? | 0:24:46 | 0:24:47 | |
I am Ashbourne's Town Crier. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:49 | |
Oh, marvellous, marvellous. Well, thank you for coming down today. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:52 | |
Now, who do these belong to? | 0:24:52 | 0:24:54 | |
They're actually from my side of the family. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:57 | |
They originally belonged to my grandfather, | 0:24:57 | 0:25:00 | |
who was an inveterate hoarder. | 0:25:00 | 0:25:03 | |
-Oh, marvellous. -And when he died in the early '70s, for some reason or other I hung on to these two items | 0:25:03 | 0:25:08 | |
and, you know, couldn't be bothered to throw them away. | 0:25:08 | 0:25:10 | |
-First thing, people might be looking at that, wondering what that is. -Yes. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:14 | |
So let us reveal the first mystery of today. | 0:25:14 | 0:25:18 | |
And that comes out and it's marked and dated for 1874. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:23 | |
And we turn it and we've basically got... | 0:25:23 | 0:25:26 | |
a Swedish army knife. | 0:25:26 | 0:25:29 | |
And they're very useful knives because they lock into place. | 0:25:29 | 0:25:34 | |
If you're in a wilderness environment and you need a knife you can trust, | 0:25:34 | 0:25:38 | |
that isn't going to fold back on you. | 0:25:38 | 0:25:40 | |
-No. -These barrel knives, as they're called, are made | 0:25:40 | 0:25:44 | |
-in many different sizes and this is about the smallest you'll get. -Yeah. | 0:25:44 | 0:25:49 | |
This is more intriguing. | 0:25:49 | 0:25:50 | |
Closed boxes. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:52 | |
Very intriguing indeed. | 0:25:52 | 0:25:53 | |
Ooh, curiouser and curiouser. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:57 | |
Have you got any idea what it is? | 0:25:57 | 0:25:59 | |
I haven't got a clue. It's something I've been looking at for years and years, "Shall I throw it away?" | 0:25:59 | 0:26:04 | |
It looks too precision-made. | 0:26:04 | 0:26:06 | |
"One day I might find out, it looks too good to throw away." | 0:26:06 | 0:26:09 | |
I think your point, Jenny, that it's precision-made, is spot on. | 0:26:09 | 0:26:13 | |
There is one problem with this. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:15 | |
It has a sliding aperture here with a thumbnail groove | 0:26:15 | 0:26:18 | |
and if we could remove that panel we would know everything. | 0:26:18 | 0:26:23 | |
-There is only one small problem. We cannot remove that panel. -No! | 0:26:23 | 0:26:28 | |
I have tried, all our off-screen valuers have tried to open this at the peril to our thumbnails. | 0:26:28 | 0:26:33 | |
I have two ideas what it might be | 0:26:33 | 0:26:36 | |
and I'm fairly confident that one of them is right. | 0:26:36 | 0:26:40 | |
The first is that it is a quill cutter. | 0:26:40 | 0:26:43 | |
-Interesting. -So if you think you've got a little quill feather | 0:26:43 | 0:26:47 | |
and you pop it in there, into an aperture that | 0:26:47 | 0:26:51 | |
-would be revealed, and you do that and it clicks the shape. -Yes. Yes. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:55 | |
The other thing, the more lethal and gruesome thing it could be, | 0:26:55 | 0:26:59 | |
and this is what I think it is, is a scarifier. | 0:26:59 | 0:27:03 | |
I'm afraid, | 0:27:04 | 0:27:06 | |
before the NHS and before we had all these wonderful drugs, | 0:27:06 | 0:27:10 | |
one thing you did if you felt poorly might be to bleed yourself copiously. | 0:27:10 | 0:27:14 | |
-Yes. -Yes. | 0:27:14 | 0:27:16 | |
And I think this is actually a guard | 0:27:16 | 0:27:19 | |
for a section of very fine lancet blades. | 0:27:19 | 0:27:23 | |
-Interesting. -And you would remove that, | 0:27:23 | 0:27:26 | |
place it on the area you wish to be bled or cut | 0:27:26 | 0:27:29 | |
and then, by pressing this, that would send all the blades | 0:27:29 | 0:27:32 | |
through the skin and allow you to bleed freely. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:36 | |
-Interesting. -And that is probably why you've got | 0:27:36 | 0:27:39 | |
this very firm fixed cover, so you don't cut yourself accidentally. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:42 | |
-Yes. -What would your grandfather be doing with that? -Goodness knows. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:46 | |
Did he know what it was for? Could he get it open? | 0:27:46 | 0:27:49 | |
As far as I know, he never managed to open it, | 0:27:49 | 0:27:52 | |
and it had nothing to do with his trade because he was a painter and decorator. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:56 | |
Well, this is going to be a challenge for the auctioneer. | 0:27:56 | 0:27:59 | |
-It dates to about 1830. -As early as that? | 0:27:59 | 0:28:02 | |
But I think they work quite well together as two intriguing items | 0:28:02 | 0:28:05 | |
that aren't everything they appear at first sight. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:08 | |
-Yes. Very much so. -Would you put them in the same lot? | 0:28:08 | 0:28:10 | |
Pop them in the same lot, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:12 | |
because they're going to appeal to the same collector, | 0:28:12 | 0:28:15 | |
with the same mind for the curious mechanical bladed items. | 0:28:15 | 0:28:18 | |
-Any ideas of what the value might be? -No real idea at all. -No. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:23 | |
I think this, being a smaller version, is worth £40 to £60. | 0:28:23 | 0:28:28 | |
Oh, that's not bad. | 0:28:28 | 0:28:29 | |
This, with the slight bit of damage and the reservation that | 0:28:29 | 0:28:32 | |
you still might not be able to get that cap open, is maybe £40 to £60. | 0:28:32 | 0:28:36 | |
-So about the same value each. -About the same value. | 0:28:36 | 0:28:40 | |
So we're heading for that inevitable auctioneer's valuation which I try to avoid. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:45 | |
-The good old 80-120. -You've seen Flog It before. | 0:28:45 | 0:28:48 | |
Very much so. | 0:28:48 | 0:28:50 | |
So let's put them in at 80 to 120. | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
-Yeah. -Let's give the auctioneer a little bit of discretion and put, say, a fixed reserve of £70 on them. | 0:28:52 | 0:28:57 | |
Fine. And I'm glad you've solved the mystery for me as well | 0:28:57 | 0:29:01 | |
-after all these years. -Halfway, Bill, halfway. | 0:29:01 | 0:29:04 | |
'Well, we can't be sure what it is, but hopefully the bidders will know. | 0:29:04 | 0:29:09 | |
'There's no disguising what our next item is, that's for sure.' | 0:29:09 | 0:29:12 | |
OK. Game on. Well, it would be if we had the other half of the set. | 0:29:12 | 0:29:16 | |
Where is it, Sandra? Are you sure it's not at home? | 0:29:16 | 0:29:18 | |
-It's definitely not at home. -Have you had a jolly good look? -Yes. | 0:29:18 | 0:29:21 | |
Everybody's looked and searched high and low. We can't find the other. | 0:29:21 | 0:29:24 | |
This is possibly one of the best chess sets, or part sets, | 0:29:24 | 0:29:28 | |
I've come across in a long time. | 0:29:28 | 0:29:30 | |
So how long have you had these? | 0:29:30 | 0:29:32 | |
They've been in my possession for the last three years | 0:29:32 | 0:29:35 | |
but my mother before that had them for about 40 years. | 0:29:35 | 0:29:38 | |
-And where did she get them from, do you know? -My late uncle's, | 0:29:38 | 0:29:42 | |
when he died, so they were just found in his possession. | 0:29:42 | 0:29:46 | |
-And that's as far as you can trace the story back? -Yes. | 0:29:46 | 0:29:49 | |
We don't even know if he played chess. As far as I know, he didn't. | 0:29:49 | 0:29:53 | |
Did he tour at all for a living? Was he in the Navy? | 0:29:53 | 0:29:55 | |
Nothing like that, no. He never got married. | 0:29:55 | 0:29:58 | |
Because, you know, these come from Sorrento, these are Italian. | 0:29:58 | 0:30:01 | |
Right. That's what I can't understand. | 0:30:01 | 0:30:03 | |
He wasn't a traveller at all or anything like that. | 0:30:03 | 0:30:06 | |
I'm pretty sure these are made in around about the 1940s, 1950s, | 0:30:06 | 0:30:11 | |
and made in Sorrento, | 0:30:11 | 0:30:13 | |
renowned for its carving work and its inlay work. | 0:30:13 | 0:30:16 | |
Good tourist pieces of the day, so this isn't a rare set, or half set. | 0:30:16 | 0:30:20 | |
I'm sure there's some more knocking around, but they are hand-carved. | 0:30:20 | 0:30:24 | |
-Brilliant. -So, there's got to be some out there. | 0:30:24 | 0:30:28 | |
The condition is absolutely perfect, | 0:30:28 | 0:30:30 | |
apart from the little cross missing on the castle there, but otherwise, | 0:30:30 | 0:30:34 | |
look at the quality of the carving when you turn these figures around. | 0:30:34 | 0:30:38 | |
-Look at the king and queen. You see the folds in her dress. -Yes. | 0:30:38 | 0:30:42 | |
-Isn't that stunning? -The bun at the back of her hair. Beautiful. | 0:30:42 | 0:30:46 | |
-The bases are made of black walnut, can you see that? -Yeah. | 0:30:46 | 0:30:50 | |
-OK. That's grown in Italy. -Right. | 0:30:50 | 0:30:52 | |
I'm pretty sure this is a boxwood, or it might be a poplar, | 0:30:52 | 0:30:55 | |
but it's a good soft wood, a nice easy soft wood to turn and carve. | 0:30:55 | 0:30:58 | |
Oh, right. | 0:30:58 | 0:31:00 | |
But the detail on the pawns, because every one's different, | 0:31:00 | 0:31:04 | |
and on normal chess sets they're all the same, aren't they? | 0:31:04 | 0:31:07 | |
-The pawns are, yeah. -It's a shame it doesn't have a lot of age. | 0:31:07 | 0:31:10 | |
-That's the only thing it's got going against it. And the fact that it's a part set! -Yeah. | 0:31:10 | 0:31:16 | |
-Oh, dear. -I think we can put these into auction with a value of around £100 to £150. | 0:31:16 | 0:31:22 | |
-OK. -Keep the reserve at £80. | 0:31:22 | 0:31:25 | |
-Right. OK. Yeah. That's fine. -What do you think? | 0:31:25 | 0:31:28 | |
Yeah, that's absolutely fine, because I don't really want them. | 0:31:28 | 0:31:32 | |
Why do you want to sell them anyway? | 0:31:32 | 0:31:34 | |
Because it's half a chess set, basically! | 0:31:34 | 0:31:36 | |
-It's a silly question really, isn't it? -And I don't play chess. Yes. | 0:31:36 | 0:31:40 | |
I used to love playing chess with my father. | 0:31:40 | 0:31:43 | |
Thanks for making my day with these, because you know I like my woodwork, | 0:31:43 | 0:31:46 | |
I love my treen, and this is right up my street. It really is. | 0:31:46 | 0:31:49 | |
Thank you very much as well. | 0:31:49 | 0:31:51 | |
I'll definitely keep my fingers crossed for the success of the chess set. | 0:31:51 | 0:31:55 | |
Now, Kathleen and Ralph have brought in an interesting piece of jewellery | 0:31:55 | 0:31:58 | |
for Will to have a look at. | 0:31:58 | 0:32:01 | |
Thank you for coming along today and bringing a lovely piece of jewellery. | 0:32:01 | 0:32:04 | |
It really caught my eye. Is this something you've bought? You collect jewellery of this type? | 0:32:04 | 0:32:09 | |
Yes, I do, but I bought it off me brother, about...26 years ago. | 0:32:09 | 0:32:14 | |
We might as well get to the point. What did you have to pay him for it? | 0:32:14 | 0:32:17 | |
-£50. -Sounds all right, doesn't it? | 0:32:17 | 0:32:20 | |
Do you know what it is and what it's made of? | 0:32:20 | 0:32:23 | |
I know it's 15-carat gold. | 0:32:23 | 0:32:24 | |
-You're right. It is gold. -Blue enamel. -Blue enamel... -Diamonds. -Diamonds. | 0:32:24 | 0:32:28 | |
I'll get me coat. | 0:32:28 | 0:32:30 | |
Let you take over! | 0:32:30 | 0:32:32 | |
You're dead right. Diamond-centred sort of star | 0:32:32 | 0:32:35 | |
to the top of this wonderful blue enamelling. | 0:32:35 | 0:32:38 | |
I love that sort of deep blue. | 0:32:38 | 0:32:40 | |
And then you've got this very sort of intricate sort of gold wirework | 0:32:40 | 0:32:44 | |
around the central panel | 0:32:44 | 0:32:46 | |
and then you've got this sort of polka dot border, again, | 0:32:46 | 0:32:49 | |
which is rather attractive, isn't it? | 0:32:49 | 0:32:52 | |
And it's good, the condition it's in, | 0:32:52 | 0:32:54 | |
because as soon as you get the enamel either cracked or chipped, | 0:32:54 | 0:32:58 | |
then it's really quite a difficult job to get it repaired. | 0:32:58 | 0:33:01 | |
A lot of the time the firms that repair enamelling, a good tip here, | 0:33:01 | 0:33:04 | |
are sort of car badge manufacturers or restorers because a lot of the old car badges were enamelled, you see. | 0:33:04 | 0:33:11 | |
If I turn it over, we can see that it's stamped 15-carat | 0:33:11 | 0:33:14 | |
and then in this glazed panel at the back | 0:33:14 | 0:33:16 | |
we've got a sort of plaited matt of... You know what it is? | 0:33:16 | 0:33:20 | |
-Hair. -You're right, hair. | 0:33:20 | 0:33:21 | |
That's typical of morning brooches, which is a little bit, you know, | 0:33:21 | 0:33:25 | |
-some people don't really like the idea of wearing jewellery with sort of dead person's hair in it. -No. | 0:33:25 | 0:33:32 | |
I like it. I mean, do you wear it? | 0:33:32 | 0:33:35 | |
-No. -You don't? -No. -Where does it live? | 0:33:35 | 0:33:37 | |
-In the drawer. -In the drawer. What made you buy it from your brother? | 0:33:37 | 0:33:41 | |
-Cos I liked it! -You liked it from the back of the drawer? | 0:33:41 | 0:33:43 | |
-I think I wore it about three times. -OK. Well, let's start in the centre. | 0:33:43 | 0:33:47 | |
-We've got a diamond, reasonable size, about a quarter of a carat. -Yeah. | 0:33:47 | 0:33:52 | |
The diamond in the middle's got to be worth £100 on its own. | 0:33:52 | 0:33:54 | |
And the rest of it, the gold value, is probably another 100 on top, | 0:33:54 | 0:33:58 | |
-so I would say put it in at sort of 200, 250, that sort of figure. -Right. | 0:33:58 | 0:34:03 | |
-Would you be happy with that? -Yes. Yeah. -Yeah? | 0:34:03 | 0:34:06 | |
Are you going to buy yourself more jewellery? I see you have a wonderful cameo brooch on your turtleneck. | 0:34:06 | 0:34:11 | |
No, it'll go to me grandchildren. | 0:34:11 | 0:34:14 | |
-One's studying to be a doctor. -OK. -And the other one is in the last year of teaching. | 0:34:14 | 0:34:18 | |
-So the one studying to be a doctor will be straight down the student bar. -Yes. | 0:34:18 | 0:34:22 | |
We know what these doctors are like, and nurses, they know how to party. | 0:34:22 | 0:34:26 | |
-Well, look, we'll recap. We've agreed on a £200 to £300 estimate. -Yes. | 0:34:26 | 0:34:30 | |
-We'll reserve it at that. Can I put a bit of discretion on that reserve? -Certainly. | 0:34:30 | 0:34:34 | |
-Good. 200 with discretion. -Yeah. -And let's hope we get it away for you on the day. I'll see you there. | 0:34:34 | 0:34:39 | |
-Thank you very much. -Not at all. | 0:34:39 | 0:34:41 | |
The Victorian morning brooch is going off to auction in this part of the programme, | 0:34:41 | 0:34:45 | |
along with Bill and Jenny's knife and mystery object. | 0:34:45 | 0:34:48 | |
And the wooden chess set, which I thought was absolutely fabulous, | 0:34:48 | 0:34:52 | |
but does auctioneer Charles Hanson agree with me? | 0:34:52 | 0:34:55 | |
The commission here for buyers and sellers is 15% plus VAT. | 0:34:58 | 0:35:03 | |
But if an item reaches more than £500, it's 10% plus VAT. | 0:35:03 | 0:35:08 | |
Charles, the bad news is, half the set's missing actually. | 0:35:15 | 0:35:19 | |
But the good news is what we have got is absolutely fabulous, | 0:35:19 | 0:35:23 | |
quality like I haven't seen before. | 0:35:23 | 0:35:25 | |
I think the quality is superb. | 0:35:25 | 0:35:28 | |
The detail, the expressions even, it's all there. They're exquisite. | 0:35:28 | 0:35:31 | |
-They belong to Sandra. -Yes. -And obviously for not much longer. | 0:35:31 | 0:35:35 | |
I've given this £100 to £150 as a price guide and I expect them to, well, achieve that and a lot more. | 0:35:35 | 0:35:40 | |
Yeah. I think that is an enticing guide. I think it's well pitched | 0:35:40 | 0:35:44 | |
and hopefully with the right audience they'll race away. | 0:35:44 | 0:35:47 | |
You don't really need the other half. They would look great | 0:35:47 | 0:35:50 | |
just on a low table like this, a walnut table, | 0:35:50 | 0:35:53 | |
maybe with a table lamp here, just as figures by themselves. | 0:35:53 | 0:35:56 | |
Yeah. I think they are, as you say, stand-alone objects to really admire. | 0:35:56 | 0:36:00 | |
Have you many chess enthusiasts here which have admired them? | 0:36:00 | 0:36:04 | |
-Yes, we have. -Interest? -From all parts of the world, so we're excited. -That's what auctions are all about. | 0:36:04 | 0:36:09 | |
-That's why they're so fascinating. -Yes. -Anything can happen on the day. | 0:36:09 | 0:36:12 | |
-You never know. -Wait and see cos this one will be, hopefully, checkmate at the end of the programme. | 0:36:12 | 0:36:18 | |
Auctioneer David Greatwood will be back on the rostrum to sell the chess set shortly | 0:36:18 | 0:36:23 | |
but first we've got Bill and his grandfather's rather unusual collection of items. | 0:36:23 | 0:36:29 | |
-Bill and Jenny, it's great to see you again, in your civvies. -Yes. | 0:36:29 | 0:36:33 | |
-Without the regalia. -Instead of having my mufti on, as they say. | 0:36:33 | 0:36:36 | |
Michael's picked out this Swedish pocket knife | 0:36:36 | 0:36:39 | |
and the mystery object... which is a scarifier, really. | 0:36:39 | 0:36:41 | |
I think it is, yes, yes. Having done a bit more homework on it, | 0:36:41 | 0:36:45 | |
after the valuation day, but I still don't think you can get into it. | 0:36:45 | 0:36:49 | |
-I think that's a minus point, isn't it? -You can't have everything. -No. No. No. | 0:36:49 | 0:36:55 | |
Since the valuation, you've had a chat to the auctioneer, haven't you? | 0:36:55 | 0:36:58 | |
And we've had the reserve removed. | 0:36:58 | 0:37:01 | |
We thought, what are we going to do with it if it doesn't sell? | 0:37:01 | 0:37:04 | |
It'll just go back into a drawer and there it will stay for goodness knows how long. | 0:37:04 | 0:37:09 | |
It should make its money, whatever. | 0:37:09 | 0:37:11 | |
The knife alone should bring it into a reasonable price, I would have thought. | 0:37:11 | 0:37:15 | |
Well, I tell you what, Bill, | 0:37:15 | 0:37:16 | |
we're going to find out right now what it's worth because it's going under the hammer. Good luck. | 0:37:16 | 0:37:21 | |
We have a 19th-century Swedish barrel army knife, | 0:37:22 | 0:37:26 | |
together with a case scarifier. | 0:37:26 | 0:37:28 | |
I have commission interest here at £20 anyway. £20 I'm bid, 20. | 0:37:28 | 0:37:30 | |
Any advance at £20? | 0:37:30 | 0:37:32 | |
I'll take two surely. 20. | 0:37:32 | 0:37:34 | |
And two now surely. 20. Two. Five I'm bid. | 0:37:34 | 0:37:36 | |
Jeopardy of no reserve, isn't it? | 0:37:36 | 0:37:38 | |
At £25. And selling. Make no mistake. | 0:37:38 | 0:37:41 | |
It's against you all at £25. | 0:37:41 | 0:37:43 | |
Last chance. 25, and selling at £25. | 0:37:43 | 0:37:47 | |
-It's gone. -OK. -It's £25 I didn't have before. | 0:37:47 | 0:37:51 | |
Exactly, I suppose so. When you look at it on the bright side, the cup's always half full. | 0:37:51 | 0:37:55 | |
Yes. I think a collector's got a lovely start, maybe, to a collection there. | 0:37:55 | 0:38:01 | |
But I would have liked to see it make a little bit more but it's gone, it's gone. | 0:38:01 | 0:38:06 | |
It didn't do very well, but I don't think Bill and Jenny minded that much. | 0:38:06 | 0:38:11 | |
Will the Victorian brooch fare any better? | 0:38:11 | 0:38:15 | |
I absolutely love this next lot and I bet you do as well. | 0:38:15 | 0:38:18 | |
It's real quality and hopefully that's going to shine through and reflect in the value. | 0:38:18 | 0:38:22 | |
-Kathleen and Ralph, it's great to see you. -Thank you. | 0:38:22 | 0:38:24 | |
It's so stunning, it shouldn't be called a morning brooch. | 0:38:24 | 0:38:28 | |
I love that Prussian blue. No-one else in the family wants it? | 0:38:28 | 0:38:31 | |
-No. Me daughter or me granddaughters don't really want it. -And she's over there now. | 0:38:31 | 0:38:34 | |
Fussy taste, that's what it is! | 0:38:34 | 0:38:37 | |
Well, you're right about the morning brooch sort of angle because, yes, | 0:38:37 | 0:38:40 | |
-most people think morning brooch is - well, certainly the Victorian ones - black and you know... -Dour. | 0:38:40 | 0:38:45 | |
Exactly. But this is that sort of neoclassical morning brooch | 0:38:45 | 0:38:48 | |
where they started to use those enamels, those nice bright enamels, | 0:38:48 | 0:38:51 | |
seed pearls, diamonds, so, fingers crossed, someone here will buy it. | 0:38:51 | 0:38:56 | |
And at £200 to £300, it's worth every penny, isn't it? | 0:38:56 | 0:38:58 | |
Let's see what this blue gem does. | 0:38:58 | 0:39:00 | |
There we go, it's a gold, diamond and enamel oval morning brooch | 0:39:02 | 0:39:06 | |
and I must go straight in at £120 bid. | 0:39:06 | 0:39:09 | |
-That's good to start with. -At 120. | 0:39:09 | 0:39:11 | |
Where's 130? 120. 130. | 0:39:11 | 0:39:13 | |
140. 150. | 0:39:13 | 0:39:15 | |
-Come on. -160. 170. 180. 180 still with me. At 180. | 0:39:15 | 0:39:21 | |
All done now? Last chance at £180. | 0:39:21 | 0:39:24 | |
All done at 180. | 0:39:24 | 0:39:26 | |
-Not sold. -He didn't sell it. -Unsold. | 0:39:26 | 0:39:29 | |
Unsold. | 0:39:29 | 0:39:31 | |
It's the morning brooch thing, when you read it in the catalogue. | 0:39:31 | 0:39:34 | |
I mean, I thought it was worth 200. | 0:39:34 | 0:39:36 | |
I still think it's worth 200. | 0:39:36 | 0:39:38 | |
-So do I. -Yeah. So I would say to you... | 0:39:38 | 0:39:40 | |
-I'll have to wear it again, then, Paul. -Yeah! Why don't you do that? -I will. | 0:39:40 | 0:39:45 | |
Oh, go on, cos you're very stylish. | 0:39:45 | 0:39:47 | |
-It would suit you, and all your friends would be envious. -I know. | 0:39:47 | 0:39:50 | |
Real class, and so is our final item. | 0:39:52 | 0:39:56 | |
Sandra's chess set. | 0:39:56 | 0:39:57 | |
It's beautifully made | 0:39:57 | 0:39:58 | |
but will the fact that it's only half a set put the buyers off? | 0:39:58 | 0:40:02 | |
Let's hope not. I've been looking forward to this moment. | 0:40:02 | 0:40:05 | |
It's my turn to be the expert and I've got a big smile on my face cos I've been thinking of you, Sandra. | 0:40:05 | 0:40:10 | |
Since we did the valuation day, I can't stop thinking about that wonderful chess set that I valued | 0:40:10 | 0:40:16 | |
and I did say to you, you know, on a good day this could fly away, couldn't it? | 0:40:16 | 0:40:20 | |
-That's what you said. -And I'm still thinking that, do you know that? | 0:40:20 | 0:40:23 | |
I know I've got to be positive. It might not fly away but I tell you what, it's going to be sold, | 0:40:23 | 0:40:28 | |
-and even if it sells for £150 you'll be pleased, won't you? -I will, if it sells for 150, yes! | 0:40:28 | 0:40:32 | |
-Cos you thought it would be worth about £20. -That's right. | 0:40:32 | 0:40:34 | |
-Cos there's only half of it there. -Yes. -Shall we watch this go through? | 0:40:34 | 0:40:38 | |
-Yeah. -Here we go, this is it. | 0:40:38 | 0:40:39 | |
Italian half chess set. | 0:40:41 | 0:40:43 | |
And we've got four telephone bids in. | 0:40:43 | 0:40:45 | |
Portugal, Holland, and Germany and Denmark amongst other places. | 0:40:45 | 0:40:50 | |
-Did you hear that? Interest from Portugal, Holland, Germany and Denmark. -Really? | 0:40:50 | 0:40:54 | |
I'll go straight in at £220. | 0:40:54 | 0:40:57 | |
-Never! -£220 I'm bid here. At 220. | 0:40:57 | 0:41:00 | |
-That's a great start. -In the room at 220. | 0:41:00 | 0:41:02 | |
With you, Charles, at 220. 240 if you wish. | 0:41:02 | 0:41:05 | |
-OK. -240. 260. -280, sir? | 0:41:05 | 0:41:08 | |
280. I have 300. | 0:41:08 | 0:41:10 | |
-Yes. -320. I have 350. -380? | 0:41:10 | 0:41:14 | |
-Yes. -380. 400. -Is that 420? | 0:41:14 | 0:41:17 | |
-Yes. -420. 450. | 0:41:17 | 0:41:18 | |
-480. 500. -Is that 520? Yes. | 0:41:18 | 0:41:22 | |
-520. 540. -Never! | 0:41:22 | 0:41:24 | |
-560. 580. -I can't believe it. | 0:41:24 | 0:41:27 | |
-600. 620. -Never! | 0:41:27 | 0:41:30 | |
650. And I'm out. My commission bid at 650 is out. | 0:41:30 | 0:41:33 | |
At 650 on the first phone. | 0:41:33 | 0:41:35 | |
-680. -Oh, my. -£700. | 0:41:35 | 0:41:39 | |
A lovely moment. This is what auctions are all about. | 0:41:39 | 0:41:41 | |
-I can't believe this. -780. 800, David? | 0:41:41 | 0:41:45 | |
-800. And 20. -820! -850. | 0:41:45 | 0:41:49 | |
-850. 880. -Sir, 880. | 0:41:49 | 0:41:52 | |
I can go to Italy now for a holiday! HE LAUGHS | 0:41:52 | 0:41:55 | |
Hasn't finished yet. | 0:41:55 | 0:41:57 | |
1,100. 1,200? | 0:41:57 | 0:41:58 | |
No. 1,100. 1,100. | 0:41:58 | 0:42:00 | |
I'll go to the third phone, Ruth. | 0:42:00 | 0:42:03 | |
1,200. | 0:42:03 | 0:42:05 | |
Is that a bid? 1,200. 1,300, Charles? | 0:42:05 | 0:42:07 | |
1,300. 1,400, Ruth? | 0:42:07 | 0:42:10 | |
-1,400. 1,500? -1,500, sir? | 0:42:10 | 0:42:12 | |
-No. -No. £1,400 on the third phone. | 0:42:12 | 0:42:15 | |
Last chance in the room. At £1,400. | 0:42:15 | 0:42:17 | |
I'm going to kiss somebody in a minute. | 0:42:17 | 0:42:20 | |
Watch out, it might be you, Paul. | 0:42:20 | 0:42:22 | |
1,500. 1,600. | 0:42:23 | 0:42:25 | |
-1,600. -I can't believe it! | 0:42:25 | 0:42:28 | |
1,800. 1,900, Tom? | 0:42:28 | 0:42:30 | |
I'm shaking, do you know that? I'm actually shaking. | 0:42:30 | 0:42:33 | |
I'll take 2,200. Yes? 2,200. 2,400? | 0:42:33 | 0:42:37 | |
On the fourth phone at 2,200. | 0:42:37 | 0:42:39 | |
Never too late in the room. Come along, don't be shy. At 2,200. | 0:42:39 | 0:42:43 | |
2,000. | 0:42:43 | 0:42:45 | |
-Yes! -Yes! -2,200. -APPLAUSE | 0:42:45 | 0:42:48 | |
Absolutely brilliant! | 0:42:48 | 0:42:50 | |
That's what it's all about, moments like that. | 0:42:50 | 0:42:53 | |
-I can't believe it! -That's what we want to see. | 0:42:53 | 0:42:57 | |
Oh, Sandra, I'm ever so excited for you. | 0:42:57 | 0:43:00 | |
I'm ever so pleased because we dream of these moments, and what a surprise, what a shock for you. | 0:43:00 | 0:43:05 | |
-It's absolutely brilliant. -That sums up our day, doesn't it? | 0:43:05 | 0:43:08 | |
What a fantastic day. Sandra's going home very happy. I hope you're happy. | 0:43:08 | 0:43:11 | |
I hope you've enjoyed watching the show but sadly we've run out of time | 0:43:11 | 0:43:15 | |
and I think Sandra's going off to do some celebrating now. | 0:43:15 | 0:43:18 | |
Yeah, and some shopping, I think! Get the credit card out. | 0:43:18 | 0:43:22 | |
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