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Antiques Roadshow UK Season 46
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Today we’re across the Irish sea in London Derry the second largest city in Northern Ireland in 1932 the city hit the headlines when an unexpected visitor landed here Amelia eot 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 sh don’t tell me you found it in a charity shop I bashed it drove it into walls I recognize that signature Muhammad Ali the greatest three-time world heavyweight boxing champion of the world 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 theves and in fact these two volumes are two or 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 Mar 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 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 f 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 than being worth anything um I just thought they 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 bring that’s 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 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 I
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 1930
5 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 thousand oh my 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 Koozie Absolutely this is wonderful don’t tell me you found it in a charity shot no no um the actual sort of finding of it is a bit sort of unclear 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 playan 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 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 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 just 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 nose just that one trusion 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 M oh wow I think it’s fantastic M do you like it more
Now for something that’s been sitting at the bottom of the stairs for years [Laughter] 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 Island CU he lived in Dan G from the 50s and then he very kindly gave his house and collection to the nation M 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 her kitchen table and said Do’s
Open go and get it and I brought it here to say what you thought of it um I have limited knowledge of Derek Hill 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 Derry 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 well-known people of their day John bman 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 Dan 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 said that he was a great inspiration to them although he spent the latter part of his life in Danny G 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 all right 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 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 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 bottom MH 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 C aside of them 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 she she’s been very Co isn’t she very Co well let 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 £1,000 nice there you go and you may have to pay slightly more probably ,000 to1 15500 right there you are that was a nice present well chosen
Yeah she’s a good I my 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 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 Breakers 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 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 Irvine 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 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 thank you the French fashioned 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 came from my aunt Neta she went to America at the age of 19 as a work as a
Nany then she went work in HR 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’s so stylish she went uh Mediterranean Cruises many times and yeah she enjoyed her life for sure okay do so what we’re looking at is an aset 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 these is the fact that they hang so beautifully yes exactly I love wearing them you love wearing I do i special col if I go to theater or opera or something like that
Or even some parties you know so we see these being used all the way 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 of1 to2 200 or
Okay okay then that’s that’s very very good you will never get sell well you really rock that yeah 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 Amion 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 roof and when he came down he came down with um two pictures oler 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 as well it’s not worth fortunes is it’s not about the value what is it3 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 excitement 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 yeah 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 mrst 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 deop into collecting English Ceramics
When I seen the name William Warra 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 of 2004 yes where these I talk were kind of around 1900 19005 course it’s the what
Was he called Florian wear which was the the most exciting art newvo Productions that the factory 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 find them h i I found them on the
Local adverts and it was a guy selling off his late uncle’s collection all right but 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 boots of the
Car and he had load of stuff in the car and he had the and that’s what I went for may I ask you what what what you had to pay out in the car park for them 550 right right let’s see what you put 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 where 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 is 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 defects here and there a bit of signs of of crazing it’s real fine
Cracking in the glaze there is there but you can hardly see it and underneath there smears of old is that just been dipped in out in 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 little photograph photo lifo that’s been done a photograph of a genuine Mark has been put on there right not looking good oh okay I think they’re brand new 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 we looking at5500 or something or more they’re modern fakes and they’re before they’re just pretty well it’s good to hear it’s good to know you know rather than me thinking have a masterpiece and the mantlepiece 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 F we use it for decorative what do you know about it all I know it’s a nut nothing else it’s it’s
Actually a seed oh 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 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 hus 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 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 in 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 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 to look back to what they were worth in the 1990s
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 Jew 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 genuine Stones we’ve got big
Taline in the middle here we’ve got emeralds and taline 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 the auction was
Going for between 2 and £25,000 what about the Cameo here well this dates from round about 1861 1870 it’s Agate brilliantly carved beautiful gold Mount to it and at auction that would have fetched around about 25,000 in the ’90s okay and this that is a piece of costume jewelry by a very
Famous designer called Miriam Haskell 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 was this going for in the ’90s then so that in the ’90s would have been around about 1502 200 so we you all listening carefully good oh good okay so the pearl
Necklace do you think that’s gone up or down in value since the ’90s up up what about the Cameo broch that’s about 2 and a half thousand up as well probably up as well and the rather Sumptuous Emerald necklace there that was 2 and a half up or down down down
Okay cuz that’s my favorite that’s m 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 medal 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 you can’t sit on the fence down you think up I think up I think up down so necklace up Cameo down yeah 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 emeralds and stuff it’s a beautiful color it’s a beautiful it is a beautiful col 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 about 6 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 so keen
On cameos at the moment so you’re yes she she’s toying with us so today auction estimate would be 800 to 12200 so that’s gone from Two and a half down to 800 wow 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 because costume we see a lot of costume jewelry come to 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 to 1200 so there we go up down 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 norn Irish crossle cars
That we’ve got here what we’re looking at is the Austin Pathfinder pedal car yeah and it was made in South Wales it was made out of off cuts 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 pounds in 19 expensive my goodness yeah well it is expensive because 25 quint’s about what a, pounds today oh my goodness yeah you’re a very lucky boy very lucky very
Lucky so yeah yeah do you have fun memories of you I do indeed absolutely yes I come into our family about 60 at least 60 years ago 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 it on to yes 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 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 bumper the Bonnet has been replaced as well yeah okay so we’re looking at a little bit of a sort of Frankenstein piece in way and I’m also just looking at the tires and I’ve noticed that they’re michan tires michan 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 build up to D-Day they had to choose where they were going to land this is quite an important Point obviously because you got to get 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 looked 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 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 loan us your photograph is acknowledged with thanks you will be notified in due course as to when your parcel should be dispatched and that’s 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 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 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 be brass and copper stand is it for burning
Something I’m not sure you don’t know this is des is it so many different opinions over the years do you think you would put a c on I think you might put a flower pot onto it unless mightbe to catch the drips very small Flor pot I think would
That would be a very small one but very nice i’ love i’ love to know a definite answer I hope you find one I I’m hoping to get one today and well you’re in the right place I think 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 it I know it was made in London by a fairly
Famous designer WS Benson was his name what do you know about Benson then W Benson set up a factory in London okay made for the Rich and Famous made from 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’ you nice by Benson oh it’s stamped on the bottom I had it for maybe 15 years before I discovered that it was start as names on the bottom of it and do you know the materials it’s
Made out of brass and copper yeah the leaves are copper mhm and the rest all BRS so you obviously you’ve been doing your research what have you concluded what it was for right I think it’s a pot holder that cup is 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 slots 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 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 paraffin or and or 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 19900 and this cost how much £1
Aish 10ish P 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 ,000 it’s not complete so it’s worth say2 to 300 because it’s a decorative work of
Art and it’s signed underneath on the F Benson thank you very much thank you very much thank you for bringing such a bright lovely green bars today how did you come by it uh it came from my great uncle 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 he acquired many things from around the world and after they passed away uh it was divided among 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 and amas cl takes its name from these little wires that were originally meant to keep all the various enamels 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 vase 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 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 around 2 to 300 if it were to sell a Au auction yeah oh thank you thank you very much indeed at least now I know about it yes thank you for bringing it not all 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 so LC Smith and Corona typewriter so pton is going to be
Typewriter isn’t it except pton it quite isn’t a typewriter it’s code 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 clocks did you know what it was I looked at it and I seen the green I said that’s military anyways and I said I can’t leave that behind and it was M my birthday so I said I’ll treat myself and I bought it 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’re 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 43 44 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 incred
Incredibly important machine this one’s in fantastic Nick you bought it 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 tree 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 cuz I’ve never seen one go up 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 is Nice hello 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 fromo some sheep there going down a Country Lane righty ho so where does it live this lives in
The Attic not pride of place is it and what have we got in that one here so what do you know about them pined by A A lady called goodan S as it says just down here Barb good s yeah okay from the 1960s 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 butal 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 this one here paid uh £ 681 exactly £
681 and this one here £40 right oky doie I kind of think you’ve had some expectations how far 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 a about the right price for this ultimately 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 your collection yeah a little 5H hour 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 a Bohemian how much you pay here uh maybe €60 to PIR 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 kraic kic coming on really strong how much you pay here again 20 30 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 base nice quality how much 20 20
20 you done okay on that one so this it is signed Horna h o r na 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 is 150 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 J done job done 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 the nice is to see some much’s color on a piece of bque most of the bque Productions were pretty white
Or a little bit of the mother of pearl iridescence for which they’re famous but here you got a nice bit of color they tulips they picked them out of this little red and color 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 on a Char shop in 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 it right
No they were looking for pound for them but um I walked past and I said no 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 two
Pound and you take them with you so it’s 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 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 was well spent okay so you’ve got
One vase alone worth probably 700 pushing even £1,000 wow yeah wow I actually was going to Dum them what I first brought them home I don’t like them dump them yeah I was actually well that one you can it’s a bit too far guys dump dump that one
And enjoy a beautiful bque toip vs oh lovely 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 Dublin and he was in Dublin for the Special Olympics in 2003 of all the things I thought we 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 oh the art experts will love looking at this that was a nice done that oh there he is what brilliant brilliant thing you lucky man thank you well I recognize that signature
Muhammad Ali 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 the 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 our Chef 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 you can have it you’ve done such a a
Wonderful job and we are very impressed so she said what’s your name I said Michael so she passed mamad Dar 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 yeah 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 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 they married and then couple Generations later there was Muhammad Ali fantastic you know he would a man I would have loved to have met so
And it was great to 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 myk gosh a real iconic sporting item so thank you for bringing it in thanks 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 with the tires on unlike Oscar here who’s going to make a quick getaway thanks to Dad Peter off you go from the at Road Show till next time bye-bye remember that kettle heater that was missing its Kettle well I haven’t
Been able to Source a CB or bmer for the stand yet but SP doing a fine job of fing the Cher and after being seen by Ronnie that stone head has had a makeover since filming Fred the head has returned to PR a place at the bottom of the stairs as
You can see he know has a new look he very much took that after after his Idol now Ronnie but he gets a lot more attention than he did [Applause] Before Oh [Applause] oh W Oh [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Oh W [Applause] Oh