Today we’re across the Irish sea in londondary the second largest city in Northern Ireland in 1932 the city hit the headlines when an unexpected visitor landed here Amelia ehot was attempting to fly across the Atlantic when engine trouble and would you believe it bad weather meant that she had to land in
Dairy nonetheless she broke record she was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic and in record time our home for the day is ebrington Square where our visitors have flocked in with all manner of items for our experts to see my first reaction when I saw the
Sapphires was like wow so you may have some other Treasures might have few don’t tell me you found it in a charity shop I bashed it I drove it into walls I recognize that signature Muhammad Ali the greatest three-time world heavyweight boxing champion of the world welcome to the Antiques Road Show so I love photography real old school photography and when I see a name like Francis frii that really lights me up because he is to me one of the most important people in the history of commercial photography they have very exotic titles don’t they Upper Egypt and
Ethiopia Lower Egypt and thieves and in fact these two volumes are two are four volumes of his photographic travels published between 1856 and 1859 so where did you get them from well uh my mother left them to us whenever she passed away and we think she got
Them in the states she used to um go to flea markets and she’ pick up different bits and pieces and I think this was one of the I don’t know how long she had them but we have them for the Last 5 Years right okay let’s open up the first
Album here we have a really iconic image of the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid now I’ve been to see the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx and I’ve never seen the Sphinx like this buried virtually up to his neck and I think what I really love about this photography is that we’re
Capturing a moment in time time before all of these major excavations took place Francis fth was one of the very earliest exponents of commercial tourist photography I’m going to just quickly dip into the other album here condition is poor so the covers are disconnected and they’re not all in order and here
We’ve got the title page which is Lower Egypt and thieves uh and the first images we get are Abu symbol now this was the Great temple that was actually moved when the Awan dam was built so effectively we’re seeing Abu symbol where it was really meant to be Francis
Fth was a Quaker Merchant and he was in grocery to start off with believe it or not but he Diversified into photography and really in essence became one of I think one of our most famous photographers as his business developed into the later 19th century he in fact
Started photographing all the towns and cities of England and this is where he started off so I think these are absolutely fabulous had you ever thought about them being worth anything um I just thought they’re worth maybe I don’t know a couple hundred or something I’m not sure a couple of
Hundred I think even in this condition that these two albums are worth £4 to 6,000 wow if you had all four in really good condition they’d be worth 40 to 60,000 wow so it’s been wonderful to see these thank you so much for that’s great thank you thank
You that’s great I didn’t expect that at all thought maybe to be a few hundred not a few thousand so that was good i’ like to sell them if possible or maybe try and get them restored or something so they’re not lying around a room these are a splendid pair of
Earrings can you tell me about them they were given to my mother by her aunt who received them as a gift from her U American employer when she worked um with think in New Hampshire between 1925 and 1966 before she returned home to Ireland her and her hosit managed an estate we
Think the old lady died and she had left these earrings and a few other bits okay well they’re certainly very very striking pair my first reaction when I saw the sapphires was like wow that’s a pretty impressive color and sapphire and diamond in Platinum period jewelry of
About 1935 five and then I take a closer look at them and this is what starts telling the story I can see curved growth lines which you will never get in a natural Sapphire yeah okay and then there’s little tiny bubbles like gas bubbles as well which is telling me that these are
In fact synthetic sapphires but what I like about it is that it is still very much in the period And in the style because during the 30s and 40s you couldn’t get the real stones and they still wanted to make big and bold jewelry so synthetics really came into
Their own during this period they are absolutely stunning I mean the sun has come out just at the right time to really show these off at auction I would say you’re looking between two to2 and a half th000 oh thank goodness our visitors always find a way
To bring their Treasures to the road show no matter the shape and size and Ronnie Archer Morgan has commanded a push chair that was being used to transport something heavy that’s really caught his attention Mark what do you think of this I just love it Ronnie
I mean it has all of that kind of Simplicity that I’d expect in a piece like this that’s what it is about it that I love and the simplicity in these things is for a reason yeah absolutely I mean cuz it’s not about the detail it’s about the symbolism you know it’s the
Kind of thing I hoped we’d see in Ireland absolutely this is the place where they are looks like modern art you know Henry Moore bran coozie Absolutely this is wonderful don’t tell me you found it in a charity show no no um the actual sort of finding of it is a bit sort of clear we know that it was found about a hundred years ago um by our great-grandfather it was on the Family
Farm um I think he was maybe pling that would make sense because I can see very old lyen on it the house itself was built in the 1600s so this potentially dates as far back as then yeah dates back a lot further than that oh really absolutely don’t you think it’s really enigmatic
And Powerful do you like it as much as I do um it’s all right is it yeah all right God this is incredible it’s a great simplified Irish Celtic head second maybe third maybe first century ad it’s diff difficult to know we know what their art looks like but we don’t
Know why they made it and what it was made for there were Stone heads on the tops of pillars that have been found in Ireland M and there’s something else about it have a look it’s full of fine bits of quartz this would have sparkled in the sunlight look at the sun just
Coming out as I say that thank you this is about Simplicity obviously it’s not about detail I think this is Celtic this is the key to Modern Art but it’s ancient yeah you know I’ve seen drawings by modern artists and modern sculptures that look just like this face is
Simplified form basic just that one protrusion there’s a reference of eyes there there’s a reference of a mouth we really uphold modernism today streamlined cars and simple design and it all comes from things like this it’s extraordinary and that’s what make these objects fantastic they also have a price you
Don’t want to know the price though do you wouldn’t say no you wouldn’t say no well if this came up for auction I’d put an estimate of2 to 3,000 on this and I think it could go further mhm oh wow I think it’s fantastic mhm do you like it more
Now for something that’s been sitting at the bottom of the stairs for years yeah it’s really interesting to find out like where it’s from and how old it actually is yeah we sort of thought the house itself is about was built around the 1600s so we sort of thought maybe it
Was from around them but finding out it was so much older than that is just unreal on a cold day like today you can almost feel the heat coming off this landscape of Southeastern France where I think you the colors tell you it feels like a really dry hot day with a clear
Blue sky it’s by an artist who was born in England called Derek Hill but really he’s associated with the North irland cuz he lived in Dan G from the ‘ 50s and then he very kindly gave his house and collection to the nation mhm how did you
Come across Derk Hill um well my relations and I were coming today and we had um been told by another relative who’s a collector that she had a piece of art that she would like to see what the value was she left it on our kitchen
Table and said door’s open go and get it and I brought it here to see what you thought of it um I have limited knowledge of Derek hell um but I was speaking to her this afternoon and she said that it is signed um and his usual
Usually his pieces of art were not signed but she wouldn’t purchase it unless it was signed and she had bought it in Dairy um in the 80s it’s my understanding so so he’s a name that probably isn’t so well known today but during his lifetime when he was painting
I mean he painted portraits of some of the most wellknown people of their day John bamman yudi Menin King Charles III when he was the prince of Wales so he moved in some amazing circles he was a very interesting person himself he actually trained as a stage set designer
And I think you kind of see that in this landscape just an eye for composition where you get this panoramic view and knowing you know where to place the trees and the shadows and how to bring out um the interesting elements of the Mountain scape in front of you he loved
Ireland though and as I say he moved to Danny G in the late 50s he spent the latter part of his life here and he was particularly amazing at supporting younger artists lots of younger artists have said that he was a great inspiration to them although he spent
The latter part of his life in Dan Gul he still traveled all around Europe which is obviously where this was painted in Southeastern France and he probably painted it in the early ‘ 80s mhm yeah were this to come to auction I would put a value of in the region of
1,500 oh very good okay well my relation will be very happy with that I’m sure oh I really like these silver candlesticks these are lovely um such a pleasing design and tell me how you got them well they’re not actually mine they’re my mother’s here okay um she got
Them from her mother for her silver wedding anniversary and you can tell that you were able to choose I chose those you chose them yeah as a present then you know that you’re going to like it that’s a good idea isn’t it yeah when was that then 35 years ago you
Use them at home yeah candles in that’s what should be done they’re lovely when they’re lit up with candles in a dining situation yeah well these scream out arts and crafts period these are arts and crafts silver they are solid silver you’ve probably seen the mark on the bom
And they’re by a well-known firm James Dixon and Sons of Sheffield that’s what I expected to see just from the style of them and they’re made in 1906 so they’re obviously slightly secondhand when you got them but the thing about them is they’re such a pleasing shape aren’t they yeah this
Tapering stem um spreading base and this is the feature that you see often on these is this riveted border they’re not actually riveted but they’re made to simulate riveting on the strap work um you’ve got the the drip pans at the top the wax pans which I can see they’ve been used now
Looking take the cide of and so was your mother a bit of a collector then as well you think she liked nice things where do you think she got them from we antique shops around the place I suppose locally to Dairy yeah yeah so what was she
Buying mostly silver or silver she liked silver so you may have some other Treasures might have few she’s been very C isn’t she very C well let’s talk about the value obviously you were given them as a present or you chose them as a present which is the best thing these are
Desirable if I said to you if you wanted to buy a pair like these nowadays um you wouldn’t get much change out of ,000 nice there you go and you may have to pay slightly more probably ,000 to 1500 right there you are that was a nice present well chosen
Yeah she’s a good I my mom so I will I’ve always liked those cuz they’re modern no it’s just that nice to know cuz they’re going to be mine hopefully someday yeah I’m going to put a we sticker on the bottom Mine when you think of Northern Ireland and fast cars you’ll probably think of the ill- fated DeLorean built here in the 1980s gorgeous looking but never quite lived up to expectations but there is another less well-known name Crossley that has its roots here and is renowned
As one of the best of its kind and these are two of the latest Beauties the 90f and the 47s it all began with John Crossley brought up on a farm in County Tyrone who went on to build racing cars that still compete all over the world he
Started out repairing motorbikes but his real passion was for racing cars an expensive sport so in 1957 he came up with a simple solution build his own Caroline Crossley is John’s daughter and she grew up immersed in the family business I mean how did he know how to
To do this he didn’t know he was entirely self-taught trial and an error reading magazines talking to people put it down on paper and then just made one I mean in terms of finding the parts and everything I mean how did he do all that
He um started with an old Ford van and some parts from a scrap breaker yard and he made his first car within in under a year he was winning and consistently winning from his racing debut in 1957 Jon quickly established himself as a front runner in the racing world and
People soon started approaching him to build a car for them the first order was taken in 1960 and the crossly car company was born John wanted to keep it a small bespoke production line so he bought a house with a large adjoining workshop and established the factory that continues
Today what was it like growing up with this Caroline well it was busy Mom and Dad it was very much a partnership dad was an innovator and ahead of his time and he created a very competitive product mom developed the business she did everything else dad always said
There wouldn’t have been a business without Mom and you’ve had some very famous names driving your cars yes we’ve had um Nigel Manel Eddie arine um Tom Cruz actually okay I wasn’t expecting that one Tom Cruz yes he was uh doing some training for his film Days of
Thunder and these are custom cars that are made yeah what kind of races are these cars taking part in well this one races in uh historic sports car racing in Europe and this one is brand new it’s part of a a fleet that we’ve made for a racing school in
France and I’ve got to ask you how fast can these cars go you can do about 140 M an hour wow and the crossly name I mean it’s not one I’d heard of but I know in the racing industry it is it’s world famous 66 years we’re still going good
For you they are beauties than thank you the French fashion designer quite famous Coco Chanel okay she said at one point that fashion changes but style endures and you’re wearing a very stylish Shaw where did it come from uh it came from my aunt Neta she went to
America at the age of 19 as a work as a n then she went to work in H or she was recruiting she was like a head hunter uhhuh uh yeah she spent 50 years in America she drive her favorite car Cadillac red Cadillac convertible she’s living the American dream she did
She did but she’s living the American dream but also buying something very stylish you got this from her yes that’s her on cruises she wow hang on a moment look at her she so stylish she went uh Mediterranean Cruises many times and yeah she enjoyed her life for sure OK do
So what we’re looking at is an AET and these were traditionally produced in Egypt and we’ve got this sort of cotton or muslin um mesh which is then handwoven with metal thread okay so it’s traditionally done by hand often in very geometric patterns and sometimes people have Associated this with being produced
By a mother for a daughter for their wedding but there’s a wonderful sort of Art Deco feel to it and actually when you do this another Merit of these is the fact that they hang so beautifully exactly I love wearing them you love wearing yeah I do I for special
Col if I go to theater or opera or something like that or some parties you know so we see these being used all the way through through the Millennia I don’t think this is quite that old I think we’re probably looking at a 20th century piece the main Market’s
Online for these and somewhere in the region of sort of one to two 200 or so okay okay then that’s that’s very good you will never get sell well you really rock that brilliant and I will enjoy that walking and going for a parties and wearing that that’s what’s about thank
You so much no thank you thanks a million it’s not just our visitors who bring along objects discovered Gathering dust in the Attic it can happen to our experts too like new team member Katherine Wright well I brought this piece along because it has some significance to me
Um it’s been in my life for a long time one of a pair that I grew up with and um when I was 12 years old my dad moved house modest 1960s Bungalow it was just an empty shell there wasn’t really anything to find or discover but my dad
Looked up into a little hatch that went into the room roof and when he came down he came down with um two pictures olar um Seascape scenes by Morris canning wils I love the kind of almost what appears to be Simplicity of the way that they’re painted but it just captures it
So beautifully and lovely to see scenes that of course are Irish uh as well it’s not worth fortunes is it it’s not about the value what is it300 or 400 probably about that but nevertheless they’re very dear to me and they connect me to that
Moment in time they connect me to my dad they connect me to the excite of finding um an unexpected treasure I could so easily identify with that idea and I think it’s a really common theme there isn’t anyone who doesn’t sort of have a fantasy about finding a hidden treasure
And in essence these have been inspiring objects to you in your life definitely that little attic find reflects that um enthusiasm that I’ve always had well hundreds of people are going to be shouting at their TV screens the name morof because it’s it’s just so distinctive isn’t it it is you’re a
Collector I am I’m a collector and I’m a amst myself oh right so you you you Potter I’m a Potter I teach and I and I make but I also collect mostly Irish Ceramics and these are kind of my first de into collecting English Ceramics when
I seen the name William Morra I thought yeah uh i’ I’d like to get something that was quite old of his I have I have a couple of new pieces which are kind 2004 yes where these I talk were kind of around 1900 195 course it’s the what was
He called Florian wear which was the the most exciting art newvo Productions that the fact you made because this is the Lilac pattern and to find a matching pair and they looking pretty good order too they wonderful condition where did you to find them h i I found them on the
Local adverts and it was a guy selling off his uncle’s collection all right so I drove down to Cork to meet him at the house but I end up meeting in a car park which I thought was a bit strange and he opened the boot of the car and he had a
Load of stuff in the car and he had those and that’s what I went for may I ask you what what what you have to pay out in the car park for them 550 right but let’s see what you but well well there’s all the markings you’d expect to
See on the bottom the mark there printed in brown is for McIntyre yeah that’s um of course the the factory who produced them he was working for Florian wear it’s a little bit smudgy Mark but that’s printed on there but the signature is what we look for w morof Dez designer
What worries me when you see them here is are they too good to be true because they would be 1905 so oh 110 120 years old you you’re going to expect to see little defs here and there a bit of signs of of crazing it’s real fine
Cracking in the glaze yeah there is there but you can hardly see it and underneath there smears of old is that just been dipped in and dipped in tea I’m yeah well you know look the more I look closely the mark there is instead of being printed on a transfer print
That’s a sort of photograph photo lifo that’s been done a photograph of a genuine Mark has been put on there right not looking good okay I think they’re brand new okay had they been real I think you’d have got a bargain at that price because they should be three or
Four times that so be looking at5500 pound or something or more they’re modern fakes and therefore they’re just pretty well it’s good here it’s good to know you know rather than me thinking have a masterpiece and the mantle piece you know but next time let’s hope better yeah
This is a really beautiful voluptuous sculptural object I so love these do you use it at home where’ you keep it it sits on a stand at home in the hallway and we just use it for decorative what do you know about it all I know it’s a
Not nothing else it’s it’s actually a seed oh okay and it’s the biggest seed in the plant kingdom Coco deare translated a coconut of the sea and do you know where it comes from no this comes solely from the SE shells oh in the Indian Ocean when they fall off
The trees and the SE shells they’ve got the husk on and they sink they don’t float then the husk eventually soaks itself off and they float on the currents but because they would pop up from the seabed once the husk came up Sailors believed that there were forests
Deep beneath the ocean and that’s where these grew these were exotic yeah and you know Sailors would bring them back and they would be ambassadorial gifts they’d be mounted in gold and sometimes jeweled and made into containers they’re not allowed to be taken from the SE shells anymore it’s against the law okay
What’s unusual about this one is it hasn’t been polished it’s got its natural surface often they polish this to a very shiny smooth surface and I like this they’ve mounted it beautifully in Silver Plate I believe the 19th century and it’s hinged and it opens and
It’s I’m tea caddy in there and I love the leaves they are nice made of silver plate here they have a value and one as lovely as this would be between 6 and 800 good nice lovely our jewelry specialist Susan rumit has set us all a CH challenge
Haven’t you Susan with these three pieces of jewelry and it’s a game we haven’t played before so just tell us how it works so what we’re going to do is we’re going to look at each of these pieces I’m going to tell you a bit about
Each of them but we’re going to look back to what they were worth in the 199s which is when I started my career in the auction world and then you’re going to have to decide from the information that I give you whether the auction price has
Gone up or gone down since the 1990s on each of the pieces okay let’s start with that rather gorgeous necklace in front of you it is rather fun isn’t it it’s basically early 20th century example of Indian jewelry from the 1500s into the 1600s and during that period
The Indian designers loved to work with gemstones which all had healing properties and these are genuine Stones we’re genuine Stones we’ve got big torline in the middle here we’ve got got emeralds and torline in the necklace as well wow and then what’s really lovely is that on the back of the pendant
You’ve got some beautiful enamor work as well what was that going for in the ’90s so that in the ’90s a auction was going for between two and2 and a half th000 what about the Cameo here well this dates from round about 1860 1870 it’s Agate brilliantly carved beautiful gold
Mount to it and at auction that would have fetched around about 2 and a half in the ’90s okay and this that is a piece of costume jewelry by a very famous designer called Miriam hasal and she was at the height of her career in
The 40s and 50s now during the 50s 60s you can imagine the low slung necklines people like Elizabeth Taylor wearing those big chunky necklaces so obviously that was going to be popular as well but at the end of the day it’s costume jewelry they’re faux pearls they’re not
Cultured pearls and what what was this going for in the ’90s then so that in the ’90s would have been around about 15200 so were you all listening carefully good oh good okay so the pearl necklace do you think that’s gone up or down in valy since the ’90s up up what
About the Cameo brooch that’s about 2 and a half thousand up as well probably up as well and the rather Sumptuous Emerald necklace there that was two and a half up or down down down okay cuz that’s my favorite that’s my is it what what do you think I think that’s gone up
Costume’s gone up costume’s gone up I’m not sure about the middle and I think the Indian is the same you think it’s the same well not offering you the same I’m offering you down or up I’m afraid oh well go you can’t sit on the
Fence down you think up I think up I think up don’t so necklace up Cameo down costume jewelry down yeah you think it’s gone up and you so you think that’s gone up yeah what about the other two but just because of what the jewels are you
Know and stuff it’s a beautiful color it’s it’s a beautiful it is a beautiful color what what would we most like to wear that’s the thing the Indian the Indian one okay well come on let’s go with that then so on that basis up down up it’s amazing how tastes differ with
Everybody isn’t it so this one gone up you got it right okay that’s good and what what’s that gone up to then well this one now if it was in an auction you’d be looking at about6 to 8,000 minimum yeah it could fly it really could it could do really well and
Part of the reason is because of the talin in there the decoration it’s in such good condition as well you said down for that did you did the thing is that people like to collect but they’re not not so keen on cameos at the moment so you’re right
Yes she’s toying with us so today auction estimate would be 800 to 1200 so that’s gone from Two and a half down to 800 yeah it’s amazing isn’t it okay put us out of our misery have we got the triple you have oh great I like this game let’s do
More of it see costum we see costume Jewel The Road Show and The collectibility of costume jewelry has changed immensely over the years so this was you were saying in the ’90s about 150 and now 8 to 12200 so there we go up down up up well done [Applause] everybody
So I think many of us will have sort of fond memories of um speeding around a garden or on the street outside when you learn how to use a bike as a child you’ve got something a little bit more racy somewhat akin to the Fantastic more than Irish crossly cars that we’ve got
Here what we’re looking at at is the Austin Pathfinder pedal car yeah and it was made in South Wales it was made out of off cut of Steel brought from the main Austin Factory but it was actually put together by miners who’d been signed off work after developing breathing
Issues um connected to mining they were made from about 1949 till about 1950 they cost £25 expensive my goodness yeah well it is expensive because 25 quid is about what ,000 today oh my goodness yeah you’re very lucky boy was very lucky very lucky so yeah yeah do you have fun
Memories of using I do indeed absolutely yeah yes it came into our family about 60 at least 60 years ago uhh and have vague memories of my father spraying it in the garage and I drove it up and down the street uh where we lived and uh uh
Bashed into walls and you know had somebody standing in the back and somebody else sitting in the front here and you know down the hill it was all good fun so presumably you’ve played with it too yes I have okay and what happens next do you have any children to
Pass I have a son who who it’s going to be passed on to Fantastic two things I bashed it I drove it into walls I mean I know children do that sort of thing but the second thing I remember dad spraying it you said so we’re looking at a
Respray yes well has been resprayed twice actually right and I think as as far as I can tell the original colors or as near the original colors as you’ve got it and that’s good to know that it’s a respray but it was as far as we know
Mainly or only offered in cream so at least your dad when he resprayed it actually thought about the future with that um I also noticed that the bumpers don’t look quite right either no they were bashed these were made temporarily have the original bumpers the Bonnet has
Been replaced as well yeah okay so we’re looking at a little bit of a sort of Frankenstein piece in the way and I’m also just looking at the tires and I’ve noticed that they’re mishan times michon yes uhhuh I think the originals were Dunlop if I’m right all right right okay
So we are looking at a toy that is nearly complete but collectors really do want very best and original at auction what are we going to look at 2,000 right okay now I’ll go to next generation and they can do with it whatever they whatever they want in the buildup to
D-Day they had to choose where they were going to land this is quite an important Point obviously cuz you got to get a it right but also they had to know what was behind the beaches so the Allies had this unique idea what they did is they
They put an advert in the newspaper for Holiday snaps and what they wanted were were holiday snaps from Norway all the way down to the Spanish border right because they didn’t want anyone to really know where we were going yeah but they wanted to be able to
Get a picture of what the beaches look like but also what was behind them so when they actually landed what were the troops going to encounter yes now I’ve always known this fact from World War II but I have never seen what you have got
Here so what have we actually got in the photo okay so it’s a photograph of my my grandmother May Elizabeth lamac taken by my grandfather Albert on a day trip to cherborg around about 1939 I have no idea um who the the guy is and some unknown Farmer and the calf
Yeah and I guess it might have been quite unusual to have a day trip to Sher Borg in 1939 but but they did but they’ve got this photo and they they basically they’ve answered the country’s call haven’t they now the reason that we know this is one of those photos that
Was used as part of the D-Day buildup is because you have these two incredible letters your kind offer to lanus your photograph is acknowledged with thanks you will be notified in due course as to when your parcel should be dispatched and that’s F photographs admiralty London sw1 now
That’s obviously the branch that that came up with either this idea or I got the job to do it and they are putting together a collage of hundreds of thousands of postcards and photographs to try and build up this picture of what’s going to happen on D-Day yes and
Then it’s absolutely magnificent because they’ve actually taken the trouble to say we return here with the material you were good enough to loan for us for copying your contribution to our files is greatly appreciated now that is just a very very small letter but actually what that
Represents is an enormous part of the D-Day Landings and the fact that World War II was won by us wow and it was won by us by people like your name and that photo right brilliant amazing thank so much for bringing that in you thank you that’s that’s incredible she’d be really
Proud but my grandfather and they did another bit towards it as well so absolutely brilliant there are often some Lively discussions among our visitors as they wait to see our experts about what their treasured objects might actually be what have you got uh it’s a we brass
And copper stand is it for burning something I’m not sure oh you don’t know this is J I’ve had so many different opinions over the years do you think you would put a CLE I think you might put a flower pot on it un must madebe to catch the
Drops small Flor pot I think would that would be very small one but it’s very nice i’ love to i’ love to know a definite answer I hope you find one I’m hop to get one today and we you’re in the right place I than so hopefully Lennox K can solve the
Mystery people bring such strange looking objects to the Antiques Road Show so why have you brought this along um I really brought it along to find out what it was for I know a wee bit of history on it what you know about about
It I know it was made in London by a fairly famous designer W Benson was his name what’ you know about Benson then was Benson set up a factory in London okay made for the Rich and Famous made fromis catalog people picked items and I made them specially so the catalog was
Produced not just for the Rich and Famous it’s for everybody so things were affordable so how do you know by Benson oh it’s stamped on the bottom I had it for maybe 15 years before I discovered that it was stamped as names on the bottom of it and do you know the
Materials it’s made out of oh brass and copper yeah the leaves are copper mhm and the rest all brass so you obviously you’ve been doing your research what have you concluded what it was for right I think it’s a PL pot holder that cup as for collecting the drops of water yes
May not be yeah I’m willing to listen other people have told me that it’s an oil lamp holder right the oil lamp slotters here yes and other people said it was a spirit Kettle holder right and that this was for holding the the burner yeah to heat the
Spirit lamp yeah or it might be something completely different you’ve done a lot of research and you’re you’re nearly there if you go through the records of um uh WS Benson you will find something like this recorded it’s the base for holding a spirit Kettle which sat on here and then
There would be a little burner and um little burner would hold the parine or and the spirit to light the Copper Kettle because you got the copper here and the kettle being um copper so the the two would come together so I would date this around 1900 and this cost how
Much1 Irish pound 10 Irish pound how long ago 25 years okay if you found the kettle the Copper Kettle and the spirit burner the thing would be complete if this was complete it’s worth £1,000 it’s not complete so it’s worth say2 to £300 because it’s a decorative
Work of art and it’s signed on underneath on the fo Benson thank you very much thank you very much thank you for bringing such a bright lovely green bars today how did you come buy it uh it came from my great uncle and aunt’s house at the age of 15
I think he left home and went to seea wow but he traveled the world and finished as captain of the camra uh so here required many things from around the world and after they passed away uh it was divided my mother’s family and when she passed away it was divided among our
Family and I got this so this is a what is called a cl anvas cl takes its name from these little wires that were originally meant to keep all the various anamals separate Pro is quite an ancient technique that comes from West into Asia and then
From China to Japan and by the time it’s traveled to Japan you have this very fine smooth surface and minimal use of wiring the style of this vas with this um really strong forest green and and the floral designs and this lovely shape with the silver mounting is really quite
Consistent uh with the production of the Ando company in the showa ERA with which is starting in 1928 so relatively late in terms of production this is such a lovely interesting piece um it is from Japan so I think this is probably a sort of 1940s 1950s Style I do think that
Currently slightly underrated in the market so the estimate would be around2 to 300 if it were to sell at auction yeah oh thank you thank you very much indeed at least now I know about it yes thank you for bringing it not do thank you our venue today ebrington square is a
Former Army Barracks that was a hive of activity during the second world war so we expected our visitors might bring along some items of militaria but we hadn’t anticipated a top secret machine with a cunning disguise so LC Smith and Corona tight brighter so patent it’s going to be
Tight brighter isn’t it except patent it quite isn’t a tight brighter it’s C breaking machine an American one where on Earth did you find an American Enigma machine cuz there’s not a lot of them about a boot sale unfortunately no history behind it just stumbled across it in the middle of
A load of old Clarks did you know what it was I looked at and I seen the green I said that’s military anyways and I said I can’t leave that behind and it was near my birthday so I said I’ll treat myself and I bought it and and
Took it home and was looking everywhere on the internet and I seen a picture of it beside a German Enigma machine yeah and I said that has to be Enigma as well other than that I know nothing else about it I suppose you’re going to ask
Me how this thing works aren’t you yes I can’t help you they the British Enigma machines were at Bletchley they got an enigma of a sub and it enabled to break some of the codes so essentially you rotate this and if you look inside a little ticker tape you feed that in and
It decodes so if you’ve got the master code has been broken by somebody like Bletchley you can then decode um during the war by about 4344 we were breaking German codes almost in real time at some stage we knew what the Germans were doing before it got to the
German front lines so it was an incredibly important machine this one’s in fantastic Nick you bought it at a car boot sale what did you pay for it 200 quid that’s pretty Punchy for quirky but it was your birthday it was my birthday it was a treat yeah I would think at least
500 probably near a thousand but it could be an awful lot more because I’ve got nothing to base it on because I’ve never seen one got for sale again that’s it so I think your quirky birthday present was pretty good it’s rare and that’s cool yeah to me that’s cool it’s
Certainly I think cool sums it up really nicely perfect that’s Nice hello Mark you have come perfectly packed well there you go okay so what Treasures do we have inside what’s first painting here uhhuh Victorian painting from righto some sheep there going down a Country Lane righty ho so where does it live the attic this lives in the Attic that one there not
Pride of place is it and what have we got in that one so what do you know about them ped by A A lady called goodan S as it says just down here Barb goodan s yeah okay from the 19 60 as far as I know righto
And it’s been put in an old looking but I feel slightly more modern frame did you do that no no no no I bought that pin about uh 9 years ago ah okay and what about this one the one that’s hanging pride of place in the Attic car
Bo seal right okay dated 1892 I don’t know this artist it’s bowed a little bit I think you need to take it down from the attic and keep it dry that’s the most important thing what did you pay uh that’s from here I paid uh £ 681 exactly 681 and this one here
440 right oky dokie I kind of think you’ve had some expectations how far well I thought maybe we were going to be able to retire go on a world Cruise buy a million pound holiday home in Malaga but right um sorry to disappoint how did
You get here on the bus yeah it’ll be the bus back I’m afraid it won’t be a limo sorry about that I think you paid about the right price for this I’ll it’s a look and it’s a look that’s not necessarily in fashion right now I think
That’s a retail price for a piece like this I think you’d have trouble getting that back at auction but I B it because I love it yeah the horses and the sky just the colors it’s beautiful thing put it back on the wall continue to love it
It’s found its home with you very much so yeah thank you so you’ve come miles to uh come and show us your uh your collection yeah little 5our drive from Waterford City ouch yeah what’s the back story well I come from the home of crystal in in
Ireland anyhow and uh I’ve always been aware of Glass Cutters and blowers living all around me so I appreciated the craft involved in glass but you brought nothing vaguely resembling Waterford here yeah I got distracted by the colors I think yeah so picked them up in local auction houses and on
Holidays the odd time so here we are I think we should examine precisely what you’ve got here so let’s go to the oldest oldest so this is Ruby cased Bohemian 1850 1870 very nice quality how much you pay 50 60 50 this is a particularly nice one uh and it’s
Commercial because the Stag is calling out in the wild and that is a popular Motif next is here Bohemian how much you pay here uh maybe 60 the pair these were kind of wedding presents for workingclass people at the turn of the century and the commercial mileage in
There these are I think they’ve done their bit next uh kic kic coming on really strong how much you pay here again 2030 this is central European Bohemian so that’s a good one you’ve done well on that okay next up is the close pack Morano paper weight polished on the B
Nice quality how much 20 20 20 you done okay on that one so this it is signed Horna h o r n a nobody’s ever heard of Horna so I think there was better left and this is the most expensive thing that you’ve bought yeah maybe it’s
Modern Chinese yeah yeah it was made on Thursday which day did you buy it it was the day before that so the good news Okay this is150 to 200 100 to 150 100 so what you’ve done is you’ve made no losses you’ve covered your losses by some really nice these are
Quality pieces and this forgive me but this is kind of dross okay stick to your strong points b bash BOS thank you very much job done J down whenever the road show comes to Northern Ireland we always expect to see pottery made by The Firm bque taking its name
From the county for Mana village where it originated in the mid 19th century early examples are highly prized by collectors and today John sandon has spotted a couple of unusual pieces what is so nice is to see so much color on a piece of bque most of the
Bque Productions were pretty white or with a little bit of the other were Pearl iridescence for which they’re famous but here you got a nice bit of color theyve tulips they picked them out of this little red and col it’s colored luster and that’s very difficult but
Really nice to see where did you get them from oh I actually picked them up in a charter shop on colan about 5 years ago they were just on a shelf and notic they were damaged and I wasn’t going to take them well that normally means they
Don’t cost very much in a charity shop is that right no they were looking for pound for them but um I walked past and I said I don’t like them and my husband says oh there’s something about them they’re nice nice is but they’re damaged and the gentleman said well if you want
Them to pound and you take them with you so I that well for two pound two pound well you’ve got not only two pieces of early bque I mean they’re rare models too the the Tulip vases were they didn’t make very many of them and they certainly didn’t make so many with the
Added colors and a gold trim that always makes it a little bit more special indeed I think for that reason we can forgive it a bit of damage I mean that one actually looks rather a mess doesn’t it does it really does so let’s forget that one and concentrate on this it’s
The early period we’re looking at sort of probably about 1870 oh okay so they’ve been around a long time getting their damage yes but this one luckily has only got the tip of a leaf off there and otherwise it’s good so so that’s where the 2 well spent okay so you’ve
Got one V alone worth probably 700 pushing even ,000 wow yeah wow I actually was going to dump them but I first brought them home i’ unlik them dump them yeah I was actually well that when you can it’s a bit too far guard dump dump that one and
Enjoy a beautiful bque toip vas oh oh love well done thank you very much that’s brilliant oh Wow hello what’s this well it’s a sketch that was done for me by Muhammad Ali in the restaurant where I work in Du and he was in Dublin for the Special Olympics in 2003 of all the things I thought you might see today yeah do you know that’s
Why I love this job you never know what someone’s going to bring along and this has blown me away but wow the art experts will love looking at this that was a nice done that oh there he is what a brilliant brilliant thing you lucky man thank you well I recognize that signature
Muhammad Ali the the greatest three time world heavyweight boxing champion of the world how did you get this one night I got a phone call to my restaurant where I work for a table of eight people for Muhammad Ali they reckon he was here for the Special Olympics and Muhammad Ali’s wife asked
Me could I cut the steak up for him because he couldn’t use his hands right so I always said to Chef would you cut them up for Muhammad Ali but put them back together nicely so when I put them down in front of him and Muhammad Ali’s wife
Said to me I thought you’re going to cut them up I said they are and she was very impressed at the presentation then as the night went on first of all he says to me would I mind if he drew on the napkin I said no problem so I get my
Barrow so I said to myself I’m going to try and have that when you know when they’re going so anyway I put the bill on the table I said to his wife can I take the napkin so she said of course of course you can have it you’ve done such
A wonderful job and we are very impressed so she said what’s your name I said Michael so she parted mamad Ali I said sign that for Mike I think it’s it’s wonderful well I mean this particular picture is known as The Guiding Light and it’s one that he did
Very very often he first did it in 1979 right and also there’s some Marks here and they are that’s where he used it on his mouth really yeah his DNA is on it it is it’s absolutely true his DNA is on there yeah I I mean it looks very
Simple but you have to remember that you know he had Parkinson’s but what a lot of people don’t know is that you know Muhammad Ali was part Irish oh right yeah he was part Irish his great-grandfather actually came from County Clair a place called Enis in
County Clair and he went in the in the late 1860s to America and he met a black African lady and and they married and then couple of generations later there was Muhammad Ali fantastic you know he would a man I would have loved to have
Met so and was great have shook his hand even I can still feel it now shaking his hand so I think this is is a lovely thing I really do and value-wise and I’m going to be on the low estimate here but without a doubt 6 to
8,000 wow wow my gosh it’s a real iconic sporting item so thank you for bringing it in than very much thank you it’s time for us to depart from the antiqu road show today and I’ve had my eye on getting away in this car since I
Saw it earlier on but wouldn’t you know I haven’t got the work weather tires on unlike Oscar here who’s going to make a quick getaway thanks to Dad Peter off you go from the at Ro show till next time bye-bye remember that kettle heater that was missing its Kettle well I haven’t
Been able to Source a kettle or bner for the stand yet but expect do a f j the and after being seen by Ronnie that stone head has had a makeover since feling Fred the head has returned to private place at the bottom of the
Stairs as you can see heo has a new look he very much took that after his Idol now Ronnie but he gets a lot more attention than he did Before SLI of the super rich life on streets of gold Mumbai press red for a Peak at a city of star contrasts classical music star the CH Shu Ken Mason shares his desert island discs listen on BBC Sounds Look hi fore [Applause] for History of commercial photography they have very exotic titles don’t they Egypt and Ethiopia Lower Egypt and thieves and in fact these two volumes are two are four volumes of his photographic travels published between 1856 and 1859 so where did you get them from well uh my mother left them to us whenever
She passed away and we think she got them in the states she used to um go to flea markets and she’ pick up different bits and pieces and I think this was one of the I don’t know how long she had them but we have them for the Last 5
Years right okay let’s open up the first album here we have a really iconic image of the Sphinx and the Great Pyramid now I’ve been to see the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx but I’ve never seen the Sphinx like this buried virtually up to his neck and I think what I really love
About this photography is that we’re capturing a moment in time before all of these major excavations took place Francis f was one of the very earliest EXP components of commercial tourist photography I’m going to just quickly dip into the other album here condition is poor so the covers are disconnected
And they’re not all in order and here we’ve got the title page which is Lower Egypt and thieves uh and the first images we get are Abu symbol now this was the Great temple that was actually moved when the azwan dam was built so effectively we’re seeing Abu symbol
Where it was really meant to be Francis f was a Quaker Merchant and he was in grocery to start off with believe believe it or not but he Diversified into photography and really in essence became one of I think one of our most famous photographers as his business
Developed into the later 19th century he in fact started photographing all the towns and cities of England and this is where he started off so I think these are absolutely fabulous had you ever thought about them being worth anything um I just thought they’re worth maybe I
Don’t know a couple hundred or something I’m not sure a couple of hundred I think even in this condition that these two albums are worth £4 to 6,000 wow if you had all four in really good condition they’d be worth 40 to 60,000 wow so it’s been wonderful to see these
Thank you so much for bringing them in great thank you thank you that’s great I didn’t expect that at all thought maybe there be a few hundred not a few thousand so that was good i’ like to sell them if possible or maybe try and get them restored or
Something so they’re not lying around a room these are a splendid pair of earrings can you tell me about them they were given to my mother by her aunt who received them as a gift from her um American employer when she worked um we think in New Hampshire between 1925 and
1966 before she returned home to Ireland her and her husband managed an estate we think the old lady died and she left these earrings and a few other bits okay well they’re certainly very very striking pair my first reaction when I saw the sapphires was like wow that’s a
Pretty impressive color and sapphire and diamond in Platinum period jewelry of about 1935 and then I take a closer look at them and this is what starts telling the story I can see curved growth lines which you will never get in a natural Sapphire yeah okay and then there’s
Little tiny bubbles like gas bubbles as well which is telling me that these are in fact synthetic sapphires but what I like about it is that it is still very much in the period And in the style because during the 30s 40s you couldn’t get the real