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*All valuations were correct at the time of broadcast.* From a fabulous first edition of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit to a delightful games table gifted by the Duke of Wellington, enjoy an hour of the Antiques Roadshow experts looking over some fascinating valuables. Filmed in various locations between 1990-2002.

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what J good luck you do surprise me my grandmother knew the lady in the picture and always said everyone knew Mrs Sanderson because she always wore long skirts and Mr Sanderson actually had an art shop in Richmond um which was in French gate in Richmond and and sold easels and pains and the like um I guess to all the artists who Converge on Richmond to do paintings of the castle and the surround industry the actual medium is watercolor and body color and the body color gives more weight to the paint and I can think you can see this quite clearly the way that the structure and the forms are built up regardless of the folds in the dress are built up in a hatching cross-hatching way diagonal way even here just away from the dress you can see the way it is built up very carefully but one one comes away and outside the main figure kind of halo effect round around her you will see that the outsides of the picture the buildings and the pan here are expressed in more conventional style now the Italians in the 19th century um devised this particular technique and they were called divisionist I think it’s possible I think it would be good to look at the um label on the back because the painting has been kept in its original frame and doesn’t look as if it’s actually been taken out of the frame ever and here’s the label here with the darling Darlington Society of artists the subject the washing day the original price and then the artist’s name and address now it’s a little bit difficult to uh fix a price on it especially as it’s a local artist and I think it’s probably around rather unusual painting probably kind of a oneoff in many ways but I would imagine that um it would be worth something in the region of um ,500 I don’t know what that seems to you my grandmother have been absolutely thrilled delighted yes yeah put those down there look at these well these are three very pretty and and in fact beautiful plates actually I’d love to find out where you found them or how you acquired them where they inherited well they’re inherited from my grandfather yes uh he collected them and it was one of his Hobbies well he got some nice examples here I mean if you’re starting with this which is actually a cport plate rather than the the Welsh Manor uh it’s a very pretty thing um and that’s probably worth say £100 um this is a very pretty plate here um do you know what this is no no nothing at all at the back and you’ll see Chelsea red anchor Mark so it’s mid 18 century English porcelain plate from the Chelsea Factory molded in rather the m style and beautifully painted there are some minor imperfections here but it’s actually pull the value down a bit but that’s probably probably affect something in the order of 450 to 550 um this plate here is quite the most Sumptuous thing I would have to guess it may be even one of the most beautiful pieces of Continental porcelain we’ve had in the Antiques Road show it doesn’t take you know a great expert to see the incredible quality of painting no do you know what Factory it is nothing at all nothing at all no well in a way it’s it’s it’s a German it’s a German porc in Factory of nymphenburg um turning it around here you will see the mark there’s a sort of impressed Mark of a shield which is actually the Bavarian Shield these plates were probably come from um the the service which was made for the Electoral Court um now they are wonderfully painted by a man called uh Joseph zurger who specialized in doing this superb Botanical subjects and marvelous insects and also Sous guilding now we get on to the business of of what one thinks it’s worth um it’s nice that sometimes one can be fairly precise in this particular example I do happen to know that two plates from from this service uh came up for auction in Geneva where they generally they sell very well in that particular location uh do you know any idea what you reckon they made none idea what a hasard a guess thousand well you’re a little bit on the conservative side you know one made last year the equivalent of £88,000 we seem to have a a fabulous copy of uh a first edition of tolken The Hobbit so let’s investigate now the first thing I want to see is the condition of the Dust wrapper um it’s a little bit chipped but I don’t think particularly badly for its age um first edition freaks I’m afraid really insist on Dust wrappers they are rare people used to take them off and lose them and all that sort of thing so it is quite important for a first edition of this quality to have a dust strapper um the binding seems to have weathered reasonably well a little bit of dust staining at the top and the bottom of the spine um and a little round the edge but generally I mean there’s no tearing of the cloth or anything like that so again full marks there nearly full marks there eight out of 10 there shall we say um and then a complete knockout two things that knocked me out one a magnificent letter from Tolen signed Ronald but two sticky tape at the top now that is a thing that you must never do never ever do I’m not saying that you did it or or anything like that but people did this sort of thing is tack interesting bits of information in the front of books but you should never ever use sticky tape look at the back of this you can see it all comes off and actually sticks into the paper and it’s incredibly difficult to get out in fact it stains the paper completely so here wonderful letter my dearest Jane here is a copy of my little book which I send you with much love and so and so on and I hope it will amuse you you’re loving Ronald now who is Jane do you know is this a family I’m not certain who Jane is but I know that it’s a distant relative I I believe it was an aunt of jrrs so you are you are related to the toking well by marriage my husband is um Jr’s grandson turning over to the front free end paper I see another signature here for Auntie Jane from Ronald I assume Ronald I mean Jr’s Jr R’s um Aunt Jane and Simon tolken yes that’s my husband he the book came to him when the library when Jr’s library was broken up um when he died Simon was about 10 so they thought that um The Hobbit would be the most appropriate book for him to have out of that because it was a children’s book yes yes well The Hobbit as you know was written in what 1937 1937 um and it was the first book it Heralds the his famous trilogy The Lord of the Rings which everybody knows about and so really this is this is tolk’s first famous book now there’s one other point about a first edition of uh this book let me take the book out this is for dust rapper freaks um tolken in fact corrected this dust rapper himself or at least it is said that he corrected it himself there is a mistake on these two notes or on one of these notes on the end Pap here I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed it before no I haven’t well it is a point Dodson here has an e and with black ink it’s been crossed out so first edition freak is not only looking for his first edition he’s looking for a first edition with a dust rapper he’s looking for a first edition with a corrected dust rapper a corrected e crossed out like that possibly done by Tolen not sure and then he’s looking for a nice inscription like this and then possibly a letter he’s got everything so um what do you think it’s worth have you had it never had it valued I have abely it’s a family thing you don’t really you don’t really want to think too much further than that I would say that this would fetch at auction or some collector would be very happy to pay £35,000 for it wow that is amazing it is isn’t it M I really am surprised to hear that has this picture been in your family for a long time uh yes it has over 100 years it um came down to my brother from a maternal grandfather and we think it’s one that he bought in Holland um an old man in Holland this bedroom and he had a lovely collection of pictures which and he had a new picture put at the end of his bed every day to look at but when he became very old he decided to sell the collection and my grandfather and another friend went over and bought up the entire collection and divided it between them and we think this is probably one of those because Dutch pictures at the time were out of fashion and he gotten very reasonably and so um we think all the Dutch pictures came from him really well it is a lovely picture and um as we can see here from the label Herman swanel uh it is indeed by him labels can very often be misleading but in this case this picture is absolutely genuine Um this can be backed up by this charming little monogram here which is quite difficult to see but uh which is H and then an intertwining V and S which is typical for swelt but besides that it is very typical of the artist’s work he was I don’t know whether you know but he was a Dutch painter of the 17th century born around 1600 uh he was a pupil of Claude Lorraine and like a lot of Dutch painters of that era the Golden Age um he came came to Rome and painted there a lot of painters from Holland did exactly the same thing and they all a lot of them were very influenced by Claude lra who was an immensely influential landscape painter and as a result a lot of these Dutch paintings have a very Italian look about them regarding the quality of the picture I think it’s uh variable but on the whole very nice I think this figure here is particularly particularly well painted whereas perhaps uh other uh areas of the painting are not quite so good so perhaps some of the cattle here are a little bit weak and the rendering of the water is perhaps not quite as good as it might be um well I think a picture in this sort of uh this sort of condition which is rather dirty and has obviously been in a private collection for a long time could well be worth in excess of £15,000 today and possibly more are these part of a collection of yours no they came out of natural fireplace in the house your house yes inant be inant bees how many were there there’s about 14 complete and some with some chips and some broken really yeah do you know anything about their age or anything no no well uh this one here is signed Sadler Liverpool and that is the maker uh or rather the printer of these tiles and they were in fact um made in Liverpool in the middle of the 18th century just after in 1756 he actually swore an affidavit that he and his partner uh guy green printed as many tiles in 6 hours as 100 skillful pot painters could actually paint so it was a first very you know successful manufacturing process uh and then they continue to to manufacture these for uh houses and light your fireplace and so on uh they’re now very rare very collectible um this one is a lovely picture you’ve got the Sailor fa well you see she’s crying as she uh lover goes out to see and then she’s coming back here and he’s giving her a present of a watch and so on and that’s probably the one the sign one is probably Society of Foresters or something like that but I say they are rare and each one of those at least £100 possibly 120 and the signed one very nearly 200 so when you get home get your calculator out and work it out but it’s well over £2,000 I would have thought for those you rescue so tell your husband it was worthwhile doing well I like that very much it it sort of fits my wrist like a glove the wristwatch Market is quite an interesting phenomenon of the last few years and it’s influenced by all sorts of different factors size shape material what the watch does who made it this has a number of characteristics that actually put it in the the area of the of the better end of the market first of all it’s it’s rectangular or Square in shape of the dial but it’s a rectangular one watch it’s in white gold it is unusually flat yes and if we can open the movement and I’ve got a knife here which uh I’m sure we’re going to be have a hundred letters say here we go I can just take this delicate little instrument to open it here normally I can open it with my fingers but this one has a very very tight case there we are now we done all right we can look at the movement which again is an important consideration and here we’ve got immediately one can can notice that it’s actually got one particular little detail that makes it rather special it’s actually a minute repeating wrist watchat it’s not unique they made a number of them uh not specifically this firm but certain firms Von Conant ptic Phil made minute repeating rist watches and Goa were more retailers than manufacturers they actually had watches specifically created for them to sell and this is the name on this watch Goan now the particular movement here is 29 jewles it’s beautifully finished machine decoration all over it uh it’s adjusted for seven positions that means temperatures seven adjustments on it rather that means for temperature for positions and for various different types and seven is almost as many adjustments as they make that means the watch was tested before it was delivered in various positions and at various different temperatures the the actual train of Wheels here is made out of a gold alloy and this unique little feature where actually when I pull the lever on the side the hours the quarters and the minutes on the two gongs now people have actually faked these watches in the past they’ve taken round movements and fitted them into rectangular cases or taken miniature pocket watch movements and fitted them into cases in this case I’m absolutely sure there’s no problem at all the case back of the case has the same number as the watch itself it has the proper Swiss 18 carat Mark for the white gold and the small punch of the head which is the control Mark and it’s sign Gob and it’s sign Gob on here the strap I’m not so sure about uh that is white gold also but it doesn’t bear the same marks and I think it might have been fitted later fascinating do you ever wear no no so there give me a little clue as to how you got it well it’s my father’s and his father’s before father so it’s not you’re not collectors or anything no no no just had it in the family you know my life you know well I I suppose you’d like an idea about it oh bad idea you put me in a bit of a spot there because uh this has been a strong Market in recent months and years and I hope it’ll continue but I think at the moment I’d have to say that this would not be worth less than £50,000 what joking I’m not joking at all I’m I’m glad you brought it in it’s made my day it’s made mine as well what a pretty piece of furniture from the 1780s 1790s really oh absolutely pure Sheran in design and of course the latest fashion at that time was to show off all these exotic Timbers you’ve got this sort of Parry design do you know what they’re all called do you know all these names I should imagine there’re something like uh Amba Rosewood that sort of oh very good is it yes absolutely there’s thya wood and there is Rosewood and that is probably Kingwood and oh they’re just all of the new exotic Timbers that were being imported from the East and the West Indies and it was fashionable to show them like this to give this lovely diamand effect on the top the rest of it striking contast is this very black Rosewood just a very dense black color contrasting at that time with white stringing of boxwood or Sycamore either white or green and then the black and so elegant Little T Pap legs very smart thing and then it opens up to make a games table now I’ve never seen one without a a Loper there’s usually something to support cuz obviously people are going to put their elbows on I would have thought anyway it’s as it was totally original and you’ve got a checkerboard top which you lift off back gam underneath and if you wanted to play Ordinary cards there it is a multi-purpose table I thought it was good that that hadn’t been Mo eating or anything well I think so too I doubt very much though you know if that’s the original this is this is sort of 1890s cloth I see uh the the original would have been a coarser weave than that yes and a grayer color yeah sorry about never well doesn’t matter I will forgive it that the original leather here though my goodness I wonder how many fortres have been won and lost on that now tell me the the family history with this it originally came into the family through somebody who was either the secretary or the valet to the Duke of Wellington really and when he got married the Duke of Wellington gave him this and a set of Willow patterned uh a tea set a willow pattern tea set my cousin said that she very well remembered when she was a young girl her father was playing Wist I suppose it would have been in those days um lost yes you must never lose at cards he had a bad temper picked up the original playing cards that they were playing with which had gone with the table always and Chuck the whole lot in the fire oh how Dreadful what a shame so that’s sad yes it is sad but on the other hand it’s a part of History that’s right and it’s a reflection of the times and the character of the person and as long as you keep the story with the table you should write that down I have excellent then and tuck it in in the table so that that’s in 100 years time when we do this again I took it out when I brought it here oh excellent oh well then I’m telling you what you’ve already done that’s excellent well done but such a pretty table and with family history which makes such a difference Providence is so important today it is sufficiently valuable that if it got damaged or stolen then you should have some form of of of of compensation by insurance and for insurance purposes it’s 85,000 thank you to the Duke of Wellington do you have any background information about this picture well all I know that a letter so Mrs K way back in 1900s claimed that one of the ladies was her great grandmother and then about 1920s a Mr K wrote from Kolkata wanted to know what had happened to Mrs Kay because he thought she had the original dra draft of this picture and but after that it seems to have died the history yes um and so therefore we think it’s of the K sisters do we well one yes one was M her her great grandmother and the other was of Mrs Robin had become a Mrs Robinson yes and was there any indication at all of of an artist all any well apparently at the time it was claimed to a Romney but in this correspondence that was denied and it was said to the Mrs K claimed that it was a lawence because the ancestors had the original Droid yes which he was trying to trace well that’s very interesting you mention here two of the main British portrait painters of the 18th and 19th century following on from Gainesboro and Reynolds and in my opinion uh I don’t think by either of those two artists and the reasons I would say first of all taking Romney um is that the brush work is is quite different in this painting from anything that Romney ever did he tended to use rather angular brush Strokes um and this in no way has that sort of brush work uh likewise Lawrence who was another very very great painter uh had very very flashy brush work sparkling and uh and this picture uh in my opinion again uh is probably most likely by an artist called Sir William beichi who is a lesser known artist uh and in some ways perhaps a rather duller painter uh he’s very uh rather conservative in his brush work and uh this picture I think um if you look at the details of it you can see the way the hands are painted and it’s it’s perfectly competent but it doesn’t perhaps have the um the extra bit that uh artists like Romney and Lawrence had um it’s really in my opinion very typical of his work and I would think in terms of date we’re looking at something executed probably at the turn of the century around 1800 that sort of thing yes um it is really a very very nice painting um I noticed one thing that perhaps bothers me a little bit on first inspection and that is that this hand out of here um perhaps doesn’t quite work um it’s it’s rather sort of curious the way it sort of peeps through there but I don’t think he’s fully understood it but other details such as the face here and here are really very nicely painted have you ever had any idea what it what it might be worth well I can’t remember the last valuation but at the time my grandmother’s death was before the last war I I think none of her were valued at more than5 yes since then i’ had no idea well you I think it’s gone up a little bit since then um I would think that a picture like this um fully accepted uh as by civilian beichi is probably going to be worth somewhere in the region of sort of 15 maybe as much as 20,000 much is that um well it’s in very nice condition which of course is very important but also it’s a very nice subject of two good-look people this is very important it’s really crucial to work out precisely when this bracelet was put together I’ve just been talking with our jewelry expert John Benjamin and he confirms that the gold mounts with the fittings and the composition which is a very classical shape would have been made in MA Georgian period it dates from the end of the 18th century or perhaps around about 1800 and that’s really very important because the pieces of glass which it’s formed of uh contain decorative techniques um which weren’t reinvented by the venetians until the middle of the 19th century prior to that they hadn’t been made since Roman times so what we’re looking at is a collection of fragments of Roman glass bed together at the end of the 18th century so do you know a part of its history at all I don’t really all I really know is the fact that it was left to me by my mother and prior to that I believe it was given to my mother by old Aunt her but apart from that I would love to know it history the family as a as as a little piece of jewelry I mean when the pieces of glass were discovered they would have come from archaeological excavations as fragments of wonderful pieces of Roman glass bowls jugs and vessels when they were found they certainly didn’t look like this when we turn the back over it shows the unpolished surface here is how the glass would have looked U these little fragments are in the Raw state by being in the ground glass decomposes and develops a silvery iridescence as a result the um collectors polished them again and by repolishing as the Romans had done originally the colors inside the glass come out and these are the colors from uh they all date from around about the 1st Century ad so we going back almost almost two millenniums I suppose ago and to think how they did it me the techniques here really were wonderful um methods of making glass the um patterns they contain well there this one here that’s Miller Fury individual canes you all seen the glass paper weights um which contain little pieces of rods of glass light colored sticks of rock assembled together here they’ve made little patterns in the glass and fitted them around that would have probably been a Whole Bowl maybe that pattern all over it next to it even more remarkable we’ve got um Lino this is individual twists little candy cane twists of one color glass set in clear so the yellow glass twisted up and lay down side by side and remelted into the side of a bowl or a jug and um so many techniques which uh became forgotten no one knew how they were doing it um the Romans were able to practice so many techniques that we always think of as Victorian ideas because no one knew until then how it was done here right at the end that last piece um contains there’s a flower head um and other patterns of little flowers and Beads all made of colored glass um they would have rolled that little FL in one color glass petals and then melted it all together to form the patterns and these would have been marvelous extremely valuable Treasures in their day um the complete bowls were really quite wonderful um very few survive in intact condition a few have come from excavations complete they were normally repolished and put on display in the museums but collectors were glad to hold just fragments of them but because even the little pieces are scarce and they show the technology that the Roman glass makers invented and then the techniques came lost for a long long time I mean these pieces which were assembled they were shaped to fit into a nice piece of jewelry and here a collectors had this made at a time when there was a great deal of interest in the um Roman World um the excavations at Pompei had been working maybe some of these fragments had come from excavations like that who knows this might have been part of a suite of a m matching necklace and another bracelet once that’s often how these came in the 18th century that to think the pieces are even older and we’ve got a very valuable piece of jewelry because it has value for two reasons the glass pieces are precious even fragments of these rare glass are valuable because the complete bowls are worth hundreds of thousands of pounds it just don’t exist um very rarely come on the market even fragments are worth hundreds of pounds each some of these pieces alone can be worth many hundreds of pounds adding those up together we’ve got a fair bit and mounted in such a wonderful way in a period piece of jewelry which is so smart um somewhere perhaps £6,000 to 10,000 Heavens it’s just love it it’s beautiful I definitely won’t wear it now I must say these are really wonderful sculptural objects there’s very little else you can say except they are marvelous pieces of sculpture they are of course Salt sellers in fact it’s what they were designed to do now these were made by this very famous Goldsmith called Paul store three of them were made in 1813 and this one um was made actually in 1811 and you can see a date letter A Q there as opposed to all the rest which have a date letter s for 1813 um PA store was a remarkable Goldsmith probably the best native Goldsmith this country ever produced made absolutely breathtaking things he started um his working life in about 1792 and retired I think in about 1835 36 something like that the the design for these probably originates uh in the 16th century uh there’s a very famous salt seller made for Francis the first by ban vuta chelini but I think the design that Paul store who made these will have seen and slightly got a feeling for was actually at windser Castle at Windsor Castle there are some Source boats and salt sellers made by a man called um Nicholas spont in the 1740s that have very much this idea of shells being held by sculptural um mermaids mermen tritons and so on and I think that he will have seen those because he worked for a firm or worked with a firm that worked very largely for um George III and he would have seen those at Windsor Castle probably even repaired them from time to time and I think this is where he would have got the general idea where did you get them well my father gave them to me about a year 18 months before he died the the the gilding on them is so wonderful it’s so thick and heavy um and the and the just the quality of the work everything is absolutely brilliant they’re not worn all the chiseling on on the little mermen here is absolutely brilliant they are really tremendous tremendous salt servers um have you have you any idea of you know what do you think they’re worth I haven’t any idea what wor them well yes um well it’s it’s it’s it’s it’s difficult I see it’s difficult but I I’ve been looking at these and um telling you bits about them and uh trying to think myself but I think on balance if if I had to buy these um either from a private house or at an auction or whatever if I had to buy them I think I’d have to be looking at £40,000 good luck you do surprise me do you know what date this is no I don’t know I know how long ago I bought it I bought it 30 35 years AG go it to me is a very classic part of English Furniture history 1820s is it late Georgian I didn’t know that Regency um so it’s typical of that Regency period I mean the end of the Georgian period beginning of the Victorian period so when things were starting to get a bit fussy but I’m not going to call this fussy at all because it’s right at the time when things were very very very elegant indeed I like the shape of it I like the the the mass the size of it is very nice and generous um but you had it 30 years I mean what about this color I mean we’ve got a bit of a contrasting color if I start here it’s very very faded where it looks like it’s been in a bay window and then yes it it has been a very window and I go all the way around yes when I get to you it’s um almost well the natural color isn’t it yes John didn’t like the curtains being drawn so he uh so it’s a working table and it was the morning sun which I think is supposed to be worse um well it’s it’s it hasn’t helped I mean it’s it’s quite a nice color it’s lovely Timber I have a feeling that it might be Scottish whoever made this knew what he was about an Edinburgh maker glasgo maker who could afford a very good quality you know the timber I don’t know the timber it’s made of no it’s is it mahogany that’s it you do know the Tim mahogany beautiful mahogany very very nice indeed um I mean what what have you had have you had it valued it’s a great piece of furniture I like it yes what uh I had it valued and I didn’t believe valuation on it at all because they put too much on it what I thought it was worth that’s an unusual way around I ask you what they put on it then what did they put on it they put 35,000 on it well fairly recently or yes must have been yes yeah about a month ago two months that’s that is too much I’m afraid that is too much I it’s a great looking table what I think makes a huge difference for this table unfortunately it’s a working table did you put this leather on it was put on I bought it we didn’t put it in ourselves no cuz somebody has I’m afraid made a big mistake with this this was never designed to have a leather top no all right this is not a crossbanded edge this is a solid mahogany all the way around yes and what somebody’s done it was solid slab of mahogany or veneer of mahogany going right across the whole table and somebody has cut it out quite nicely to let a leather top in flat so it would have been originally all this lovely mahogan figured mahogany if it was made to have a leather top well it would have had what’s called crossbanding so the grain would be in different directions it would be this way around here the grain running like that and then pointing down towards the back of the piece so that’s the giveaway with this yes and that is going to make a huge difference to the value that a I’m afraid I’ve already taken quite a bit off your 35,000 result of that so I didn’t believe it myself I think you were right instinctively but just before I value it look at that base I mean it’s isn’t that fantastic the edge of this I mean that when it stands and you look at it this great big Coral base here this Trestle support with an anthian or honeysuckle from Greek art this is a Greek Revival of the 1820s these lovely poor feet with these great shells holding the feet together I think it’s a great looking piece of furniture I can see somebody like it I can see you falling in love with it and I see you using it and enjoying it but we have to revalue it I’m afraid right right minimum of 10 possibly 12,000 is more realistic cuz it’s great yes and you’ve obviously had fun over the last 30 years what did you pay for it then when I bought it I paid £600 for it oh funny we could all go back in time yeah thank you very much right thank you thank you and what you’ve got here is a pilot’s watch pilot a pilot’s watch I said in fact you actually put it it’s somewhat large yeah for everyday wear and they were worn outside probably on a big leather or fleece flying jackets and you wore them with a long strap actually outside so you could read it when you’re in the cockpit and it the date of this one uh we see inside there should be the marks of Omega the manufacturer the numbers but there’s also the import Hall marks yeah and the letter R which I think is 1912 Yeah so basically it’s a first world war Pilots watch yeah and hence the the very clear white dial with the black numbers have you heard this valued um tell me where got it actually it’s quite well I’ll tell I’ll tell you what I got it I bought it off a chop that was dealing in Bricker in Newport Market in South Wales some 20 years ago 22 years ago and there was trouble with the watch it wasn’t keeping time it was stopping so he said if you let me have it back he said I know a man that can get it fixed but you’ll have to pay what did you pay him um what is it 70 or 80 and I think I gave him about a 10 to get it fixed which was a lot of money that’s a a lot of money yeah 20 years ago yeah 20 years ago yeah well as a what it’s probably worth in fact more like a couple of thousand or so yeah but this is a repair bill yeah yeah 1933 yeah made out to a te shore of clouds Hill moritan endorsing yeah right yeah do you know who he is no you got a C it’s Lawrence of Arabia good God if I’m correct yeah after the first World War yeah he was a somewhat of complex character and he rejoined I think didn’t he rejoin the RAF under the name of Shaw yeah and I think he was killed under the name of Shaw in his motorcycle when dressed in RAF to be honest to be perfectly honest with you I always thought he was a fiction of car um a character of fiction I do no no no it’s the it’s the TE Lawrence of well as you say of The Marvelous film and wrote the book yeah I remember seeing the film years and years ago and um but I reckon that and he lived I’m sure yeah my rection is he lived at Cloud’s Hill yeah inors it good God and it’s actually his watch probably returned to him in 1930 having been cleaned under the name the stud that he’ adopted good God so yeah um couple of grand couple of a half Grand as just as a watch yeah how much you could add for the Lawrence connection I don’t know he’s one of the most fascinating characters of the early part of this Century I would it’s it’s a guess I’d double that maybe five maybe 10 good God i’ better get it in yeah now tell me exactly why you brought this BR to the Antiques Road Show well I was told it was valuable but I wasn’t just sure and I came to get the truth the truth the truth well the truth as you know has to be used with great economy in life and I’m going to tell it to you just as it is what were you told about the stones in this bro well I was told it was a brown Diamond mhm M well they were absolutely right it’s a brown diamond and white diamonds at either end and in a way it’s rather remarkable for that we don’t see colored diamonds very often in life to be perfectly honest we don’t see rather large diamonds in life very often do we MH tell me whose was it it was an aunt of mine MH and she was the same name as myself so I eared it well that’s wonderful isn’t it I’m was lucky you did have the same name actually you might have bypassed you and it’s not something one would want to bypass in life cuz it’s very very glamorous object indeed I think it’s worth saying about diamonds is that the white diamonds is what people really want blue white diamonds even better uhhuh then when they look inside they want to see it absolutely Flawless in the inner depths of the stone and they’ll use a Diamond Glass to determine that using quite a a high magnification to look into the inner recesses of the stone uhhuh then of course they look for sheer size in in in diamonds and this is a very respectable size it’s probably about 2 carats something of that sort and it’s a curiosity uh have you ever seen a brown Diamond before no and my aunt wore it and she said it wasn’t a diamond well I’m AB she said that’s not a diamond well I’m absolutely confident that it is and um and and it’s a very exciting thing for me to see actually it is of course the hardest material known to man it scratches every other material in the planet and there’s a guide to hardness called Mo’s guide of hardness where every stone is used to scratch another Stone The Diamond is at the top of that resplendant at the top whatever you do to it you cannot scratch it and then second on Mo scale is the sapphire and the diamond is seven times harder than the second layer down but what we can say is that this is a remarkable thing to find today and to tell you also that the cutting of the diamond is a a 19th century late 19th perhaps early 20th century carton it’s been put into bro rather later on so it lived in another Jewel before as indeed its little partners at the end did and it’s a Shaw pin for for a very elegant lady in about 1900 so a remarkable object in every sense of the word so we got to get down to the nitty-gritty the Nitty Gritty hardness of diamonds and get down to hard facts about Finance go home bring up the insurance company and say you want to cover it for £2,500 uhhuh right that’s surprise that’s good it’s beautiful isn’t it look at it gleaming in The Gleam of gold there this is actually a broach but it broke so I use it as a necklace but I will have it repaired one day it’s worth it I think they’re rather fascinating aren’t they were they your great grandmothers they were my great grandmothers yes and came down to me from from Germany from Germany yes but I think what’s significant about this jewelry is that it’s made of of filigre and granulation yeah which is um typical of all types of folk jewelry from the Mediterranean up to the north countries in Denmark and Scandinavia the bracelet itself is a later addition because the color of the gold is different and the phrasing of the metal yeah I wonder so and they yet there are holes here for stitching or at least some kind of textile and I I it’s my idea that this was once a hair bracelet that there was tightly woven lock of hair supporting this bracelet around it around it and this is what we very often find that of course this is perishable and wears out and yet a gold clasp remains and so they string it onto perfectly sensibly a later gold bracelet but hair I’m pretty certain that it was actually that’s interesting it’s an idea we’re totally at odds with in the 20th century must have been strong hair well I think it was I think it really was well good good Tonic Hair you see that’s what we want but anyway um they they marvelous survival but oddly enough having opened your little Pandora’s box of of jewelry here it’s not jewelry that you have in the case that’s interesting me but it’s the necklace you’ve got around your neck can we can you take that off yes let’s have a really good look I thought it belongs to what you thought it belong became part of it yes yes I think it’s not actually part it’s similar the clust if you look at it it’s similar to well it’s decorated again with with with these tiny granules of gold which gold is the most mysterious um commodity because you can solder granules of the tiniest tiniest dust like um proportions to the surface of gold and give it this this very interesting texture and that’s been going on since very ancient times and these have erroneously been called muff chains they’re not they’re not muff chains they because they were long it was assumed that a muff would hang on it and put your hands through it and it’s quite nice to be able to sort of demolish that terminology once and for all because they simply are not muff chains they’re simply there for decoration it dates from about 1840 and it’s this one that’s really disproportionately valuable because complicated gold jewelry not easy to wear in the 20th century and these two um fascinating as they are they’re worth low hundreds of pounds say 350 450 for the class bone and with a bracelet £500 but this one put it down on your little inventory for £2,000 surprised yes good do you know who all these people are yes this is my great great grandfather and his family uh this was painted about 1820 um they lived in Le just outside Edinburgh it’s it’s a really amazing picture I think it’s so nice very intimate but it is nice and we’re very fond of it but the trouble is we have no idea who the artist was oh well there I might be able to help you because it was exhibited in the Scottish National Gallery in 1956 at which point they attributed it to um the son of a a very well-known miniaturist um the son’s name being Charles Robertson oh it does seem to fit the date is exactly right well within a year of what you suggested and uh also the idea of it being by a miniaturist explains quite a few things about this picture that uh that that Intrigue you otherwise for example there’s a sort of clumsiness in the perspective um and the technical Merit of the picture that makes you think that the artist wasn’t used to painting such big pictures there is a school of thought that he painted one head and put it on all the I think he would have had to stay with your family for quite some while before he’d finished this picture it would have taken him I feel months it’s got that kind of meticulous attention to detail as well that a miniaturist painter might use and one of our experts has identified this toast rack as the Robert and Cadman patent spending toast rack patented in 1807 such is the detail that he can tell that yeah all these figures are really well arranged you’ve got this this lovely kind of compositional circle going on of glances and looks and uh the whole thing finished off by the father who’s got a look of slight dismay on his face and I think it’s yeah not as much as her look of dismay well I think that’s a look of resignation isn’t it yes it has to be but anyway he’s I think he’s actually looking across to uh one of his sons here and he’s saying don’t you bring that dead duck in here he’s dripping blood all over the carpet but what I really like about this picture is the um is the faces of each of the children I think their character is all immediately identifiable on the whole a a ravishing picture a real cross-section of life as it must have been but artistically not well I well it doesn’t wor me I mean I like it yes Tech technically perhaps it falls down in some ways but it’s so Charming it transcends all of that I think and um to put a value on the picture well now that is difficult because of course um the artist doesn’t have really a a good track record in the marketplace although we don’t really mind to its buy it’s such a wonderful Slice of Life M that it’s got to command £15,000 I think it could even go up to £2,000 and perhaps more good but I wouldn’t replace it you couldn’t replace it well I couldn’t replace it it’s the most wonderful picture now Lord Chumley um of all the wonderful things that are on display in the public parts of the house these items have come from the private Apartments haven’t they yes this was has always been in the hall the entrance hall downstairs and um under one of the mahogany tables and used as a as a a waste paper basket I’m afraid with a side very practical you could always put a liner in it I you want to do that there should be a pair to it there is a pair there is a pair that’s the other side you’re coming in or going out of the house um well they’re plate buckets that accounts for the fact that that it has a gap so that you could lift the plates in and out and they were carried from the kitchen to the dining room yes in pairs um and carried on a yolk so you I mean they’re so heavy anyway that’s quite heavy with that yes yes PS so they sort of carried them in in pairs this is rather a nice size one and probably for dessert plates rather than dinner plates right it’s got particularly pretty little uh brass Mount around here which is sort of 1810 to 1815 um which is about the right date for these things they they sort of tended to go out of fashion by about 1830 and weren’t introduced as such until the sort of 1780 so they’re fairly short lifespan um and their value I me in pairs usually today between 6 and 8,000 depending on their size and quality um but of course as soon as you have a Providence like this great house then then prices can make anything because in the future it means that someone’s going to own it and say well this came from hton Hall so I think we have to ignore the provent side and say um a pair of these should be insured for say7 and half to 8,000 really but as they’re Provence me makes them unique then uh they couldn’t be replaced well I think we certainly shouldn’t be using this find another put a few plates in just to remind you what they for exactly and then we have this extraordinary extraordinary wasel Bowl which is made of one of the most dense Timbers known which is lignum vti if you threw that into the lake it would sink yes it does not float and this was a wasil Christmas time and you toasted your friends they’re almost big enough to get into isn’t it like a sort of punch absolutely oh yes sure with apples and alcohol and all sorts of things I mean it really is a stunning piece it’s one of the largest I’ve ever seen there is one maybe a tad bigger but if not certainly the same size in the Victorian Al Museum which has a crisscross pattern cut onto it and the original fitments to go in those little holes which and those were little cups with a bike on and I suppose uh 1640 this was made really early very early yes where does this live by the way this lives by Sir Robert wpo’s desk in the library um doesn’t have any purpose it just sits there sort of throw anything into this no well I suppose with the lid but um it stands on the floor but really it should uh should be exhibited there this in today’s market could easily make £25,000 really yes so pop it on a table now definitely I bought it in one of these Antique Centers in London about a year ago yeah it was a case of love at first sight love at first sight yes it was uh a pattern that I already have in two other pieces right um nothing on the size of this I managed to persuade the colleague I was with that I needed it I couldn’t quite afford it at the time oh that was that was a problem you wanted it but you couldn’t afford it no how how did you resolve that well I bought one half of it you bought a half yes which half is yours the front side oh the front half is yours with the intention that if it was worth its value later on yes I could actually acquire the second car well that’s interesting I mean I I suppose right at the start then we need to know what your half cost £800 £800 for half of the vast I think it’s finest carton Weare vs that I’ve seen there is some printed work at the top of the V but when we come down through this lovely Willow Tree to the handwork on the bird here with each separate feather color applied by hand you we can see that it’s a a magnificent piece of work and has taken hours and hours of time to do let’s turn it around just to look at the design all the way around we’ll see that this wonderful bird is on the other side caught in Flight it’s almost a a photographic image of it it’s absolutely wonderful and the shape after a Chinese shape is absolutely gorgeous down the inside of the vase we have these lusters which carton Weare were were famous for their luster glazes but unusually for this quality of vase they haven’t used much luster work on it this vase was made about 1928 yes um it’s a rare pattern it’s very unusual in size so for all the reasons that you fell in love with it you know they were all the right reasons because it’s a it’s a wonderful object carltonware is just becoming more and more collectible at the moment people are really beginning to appreciate the quality of the work which by the 1920s was as good as anyone I think if you put this into an auction at the moment into an auction you would get £3,000 for it for that size £3,000 for that at this current moment at this stage gosh it’s a great object so it is worth acquiring the second half then you know I’m most amazed to see an American knife here today like this this particular knife is very very sought after by American collectors um how long have you had it 50 years about 50 years in the family MH right well here we have the American Eagle and on the other side The Motto which you often see on American coins uh e pluus Unum it’s a Bowie knife of course and there’s the typical shaped Bowie named after James Bowie who carried a very similar knife and so all these knives with clickback blades are known as Bowie knives but the Americans do like their own knives and this is very much an American knife many Bowie knives were made in Sheffield and they were shipped through the Hudson Bay Company and for Trappers and hunters in America but this is an americanmade one and of course very very desirable in the American uh knife market and I I think you might be surprised to know it has a value of about £3,000 you’re joking no that that is that is and possibly more well I remember my father buying it along with a lot of mes silver he was a in the Royal Scots fusers right and the regiment was going to India and my father retired that was in 1935 I think and he bought this and several other pieces which I didn’t keep when he died I sold them because quite honestly insurances and everything else was too much yes but I’ve always loved this I’m not surprised actually because looking at it very quickly my initial reaction is a spoon warmer absolutely then you get a big surprise when it you open the lid this is it because now a money box yes a swear box on the table swear box yes oh is that and anybody that swore had to put do you know what they had to put in no I don’t well I suppose earlier you could have put a sovereign absolutely yes and that would soon add I don’t know what date it is or how old it is actually so the first of all of course the it does straight away beg the question is it original or not the fact that it is what i’ like to know now it’s and here’s another surprise actually because normally if you get a spoon warmer of this form which there are many around they’re electroplated yes and that’s Sil silver this is silver yeah but there’s another Sprite because it’s Irish silver really so what is the Scottish regiment I wouldn’t know well the date of this here we are it’s Dublin 1866 right there has to be a reason for and I know definitely it was the swear box right and actually the maker there actually the maker funny enough is this this Mark over here which is the JS but we’ve got the name West appearing underneath there yes and this is something they did in in Dublin you would get the maker as we’ve got there and then you’d get the retailer putting his stamp on right little Locker of course being the bud inside obviously it has to be locked up yes no key afraid it should be pretty easy to find the key it be very it’ll be a very basic key for that um but interestingly it’s marked also if you see in the lid there yes now that confirms that the lid is original yes to the nautilus shell yes it’s it’s lovely the way they’ve done the flush hinge there as well yes I think it’s lovely cuz had this been a spoon warmer either it would have been left open right some do have lids but they have a slot cut at the front yes for the spoon yes so this convinces me that it is a swear box that it was made as a swear box yes so fascinating object I have to say it’s a very difficult object to put a value on have you got it insured or anything it’s yes it’s well I mean it’s in the household insurance I have’t oh just I mean it’s not specified um I suggest you perhaps Ure it for somewhere around 5,000 really yes well we are in the seafood business this was given to us by a gentleman that was retired and worked for us in the in our office however he had a very jealous wife and um my husband used to take him salmon fishing and she didn’t like this at all and he was dued to go salmon fishing up to Scotland when he was taken ill so my husband went on his own two days after he’d gone he collapsed and died um and about a few months later she said I’ve got something for you so this is the painting so was it given as a punishment she was what happened was she said I actually went and sold it I knew Donald wanted you to have this but she said I went and sold it and I couldn’t sleep at night so I had to go and buy it back again so she went and bought it back from the antique dealers and then gave it to Chris yes so I don’t so what do you feel about this I don’t like it I don’t like the eyes I don’t like the mouth cat I just but husband loves it well it was obviously quite a famous picture in at the time it’s by James baitman cuz it’s called lobster sauce lobster sauce I knew that yes and this comes from uh Germany really all sorts of strange animal pictures which are quite cruel through S through Edwin Lancia right the great animal painter in fact there’s a very famous Lano painting called the cats paw oh the cats which is which is the monkey using the cat’s paw to take the hot chestnuts off the burning Stone a similar thing yes which is very cool and this and I think that this is very much influenced in that manner I see that well it’s sentimental value that’s why we you know we like it because of the man who gave us it you know it’s just a wonderful story um as for Value I would say between £4 and £5,000 I better tell him he’s up in Scotland at the moment so I’ll tell him he’s after these things in Scotland yes salmon fishing yeah so you would think he would see enough of them would you but uh yes it’s his hobby one story we haven’t heard is the is the one about harate and the Russian royal Family Jewels Princess Alex of Hess when she was engaged to the the zorich of Russia came to Harriet for treatment for sciatica and while she was here staying in a boarding house the land lady gave birth to twins the zarena the future zaren took this as an good luck Omen and insisted that she’d be godmother to those Twins and she gave a number of gifts at the christening the cufflinks and the nappy pin that she bought here in Harriet and then when she returned to Russia she sent gifts to the family subsequently up until the 21st birthday in 1915 when she sent this beautiful gold cross to the male twin shortly after that of course the the gifts stopped sadly yes the uh Russian family came to a very unpleasant end and that was the end of that story but the beginning of our story because the son of the male twin came to Harriet in 1993 he had no family and he wanted these items to be where they would be appreciated and where they had meaning and of course here in the Royal pump room Museum in Harriet they have tremendous meaning so they’ve really come home yes they have they’ve come home and they tell a very Harrogate story of plumber’s son being chrisen butcher’s son being his Godfather and the future zareno of Russia standing as godmother sums up the essence of harriette in its spa day mother bought this in a jumble sale about to 65 67 years years ago oh wow right a jumble cell how wonderful what a thing to find cuz it’s very heavy it’s C around a jumble cell I would make the it’s made of black Belgian marble Belgium marble good but it’s not Belgian or French no no what what nationality do you think it is we thought it was maybe Italian very clever but wrong it’s English this is made probably on the Duke of devire estate devire chatworth oh yes Dar and there’s a difference between the this type of marry which is petre J hard Stone inlay yes the Italian markerry and the English markerry yes the English is much more complicated much more difficult to do this is a solid marble top yes and what’s happened is they’ve cut these little holes in to let this into the main surface the Italians have a thin veneer of marble on top and cut out a little stencil if you like which is an easier still very difficult but easier technique than this very typical English technique sort of ash Burton area of darbishire a lovely it’s a it’s a great little marble table Ian it’s such a pretty size and so fresh because the date we haven’t talk is about 1840 or 50 1840 yeah it’s a lot older it was already 100 years old or so when it was bought by your family at least yes yes now I got to Value this cuz I think it’s a great piece of furniture ensure it for £5,000 5,000 very nice very nice well as far as I know it belonged to my great grandmother but I don’t know more about it she came from Yorkshire and I suppose ladies of her status would have worn Tiaras quite often and broaches like that a typical form for a mid 19th century piece of English Diamond work and the the technically it it it’s interesting because on the back it’s of gold and yet on the front it’s set into silver and it was to be worn in candl light and so there wasn’t much concern about the front tarnishing which it does a tiny bit have you worn it does it got lots of memories for you I bet it has possibly at army dances I don’t go to those sort of things now not as a broach or in your hair oh no as a broach so it’s a wonderful spectacular display of of natural beauty isn’t it and very flattering wonderful wonderful thing it’s high Victorian it’s um it’s it’s it’s really couldn’t be a more elegant form and um peps put it down on your insurance policy for 8,000 something like that more than you thought shall I tell you how much it’s on my insurance for do go on 400 400 well it’s only 20 times the amount this is true my cousin has recently died and um I got these plus a whole lot of other things the watch has a lovely lovely white enamel dial yeah signed Webster of London just look at that case I mean that is absolutely superb say work it is lovely so let’s just peel that case off and that’ll give us a chance to show you that this is what we call a pear cased watch simply because there are a pair of cases the outer and the inner the in and and as you know you wind the thing through the back let me have a look inside yeah what a lovely movement have you ever seen inside there I looked in there yes absolutely superb and it’s actually signed William Webster exchange alley got this lovely lovely pierced and engraved balance super ballister pillars absolutely what you’d expect for this sort of thing and here something written there well it’s got a set of London Hallmarks I think I could say that that is 1751 all right and lovely to see a shatter Lane now of course this would have been worn on a waistband yes uh and although the the top bit here is guilt the reinforcement B the rest of it is gold is it yeah the joy of the sharine case of course and that is shark skin is it has just kept this as mint as you would want the collectors of Rus watches want these absolutely pristine in the way that coin collectors want no weere at all if you went to a good London retailer who specialized in that sort of thing with the gold chatter Lane well I think you’ve got to think about £8,000 eight 8,000 yeah this is uh one of the most magnificent and interesting works by this artist that I’ve ever seen is it yes it is Pike yeah yes by Pike by William Henry Pike and the date 1874 yeah and it’s a view of Celli I think with some license to it as well um the interest that the artist has built into this picture is uh quite incredible your eye is taken right across with various centers of interest um the children playing the high pitch of the houses here indicating the uh steepness of the streets the boats and the harbor of course of cell itself a really good Victorian composition picture um I’ve never actually seen one as big as this before my father actually I think got hold of it from a uh A Satisfied client when he was in property business before the war before the second world war uhh and um it passed to me when he died and we have it now in our home on on the hall wall I would say this was clearly a picture painted for a patron rather than just a picture that he painted commercially sure sure now it needs restoration it needs recanvassing to stabilize these areas of flaking paint it needs cleaning and it also needs the removal of those earlier attempts at restoration yes yes as it stands value-wise it’s worth between around five and say £8,000 today if it were to appear at auction yes yes thus is the importance of the picture sure sure the bracelet is 18 karat gold and it’s got an English Hallmark on it uh the diamonds which these are all the way around the outside are what we term as Swiss or eight Cuts that’s to say they haven’t got the same amount of facets as a full brilliant cut diamond but having said that uh the quality is exceptionally good I think but it’s a nice watch I mean it was your mother’s no actually it was my grandmother’s my grandfather was on the Queen Mary when it first s and the American woman was looking over the top and her jewelry box fou down the side and he had to climb over the side could have been killed and he managed to salvage the jewelry box and she gave them that in appreciation how fantastic yes it’s a lovely story isn’t it it’s very sentimental that I’ll it must be yes but I mean a watch like that today to go into a shop to try and buy one to replace one like going to cost your best part three or 4,000 thanks for bringing it along thank you thank you you’re from a local museum is that right that’s right the wheel Martin China clay museum near s oral I see this picture was commissioned by Henry Rockingham Gill of the tan tranan estate a local landowner and um the artist was a local artist Elliot of Nuki and commissioned and painted in 1892 the scene is a a China Clay Pit as it would have appeared in the late 19th century car clay and that’s still in existence about a mile up the road from here it’s called car clay car clay China Clay Pit yes it is a mighty pit and well worth going to see if you get the chance it certainly looks it from the painting I mean you get a very strong sense of the scale by these streams going up back through here and uh and that aerial little Railway presumably for taking that be carrying water I think that’ll be an aqueduct carrying water carrying water I see yes um well uh I looked up Elliot and uh he exhibited a number of pictures in the Royal Academy they all seem to be uh views which uh are very Majestic command a a a grand Prospect and you can see that that’s what he’s tried to do here to catch that he’s keyed it in very cleverly with just this little wooden Trestle here with a single chuff or Crow sitting on it CH be Chu okay it’s kind of keyed the whole thing right in and gives you a strong sense of the sheer size of the place um it’s also it’s in remarkably good condition the colors have lasted well so you get a strong impression of at least the artist’s idea of how this Clay Pit looked in those days I think it’s it’s rather rewarding painting uh its value something in the region of £3,000 would just about cover it go yes thank you very much it’s about right for