The Greatest Finds And Hidden Gems From Series 23 | Antiques Roadshow

*All valuations were correct at the time of broadcast.* From a breathtaking piece of Japanese earthenware pottery to a painting that needs to be insured for £100,000, Huge Scully and his team of experts cast their eyes upon incredible finds, fascinating stories and some of the highest valued items to appear in this series. Filmed in various locations between 2000-2001.

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oh lime me almost like winning the lottery it’s a family piece it’s just been handed down through the family and it’s ended up with us it’s actually Japanese and it’s the class of wear which is popularly called Satsuma uh which is a a high-f fired earn wear with a crackled glaze and the crazing on it is actually part of it it’s not a defect uh it developed really in response to Japan opening up to the West which it did uh in 1853 54 and the Satsuma type Wares uh one of the great makers was a man called so King Kazan he was part of a long family of Potters now King Kazan was interesting because he had this Factory turning out this stuff and if you just went in and bought a piece then you went away again if you said have you got any really good bits you were taken to his own house and he had a decorating Studio attached to his house where all the best stuff was done so it was a two tier manufacturing process this is one of the top pieces this is a really knockout piece um it’s in a form of sort of a tea canister but I don’t think it was ever meant for serious use on the bottom we would expect to find and indeed have got his Mark kin kosan and then the bottom character is sukuru uh which means made round it what appears to be just simply decoration um but actually it in very stylized characters it says Dion which is great Japan and then uh Koto the decoration on here is just breathtaking it is just unbelievable that somebody could take a brush with enamel colors on it and do this extraordinarily detailed painting um the scenes are absolutely typical we’ve got a woman and her daughter there we’ve got a mountainous landscape we’ve got a cockrel perched on a Blue Rock we’ve got a couple of children uh another landscape with figures going up to a sort of um house in the mountains and here which is very nice a sort of doglike character which looks more like a cross between a dog and a cat um the the sort of gray clouds which appear to be up here up close that’s every single dot is painted with the single hair of a bush and that’s actual gold and that’s continued over here now King Kazan one of his introductions was this dark blue enamel which he then gilded and the problem is with it the gold doesn’t like sticking on it very much and he’s usually worn off here it’s with very slight wear um it’s still in pristine condition the nice thing about this one is that some of the panels are actually signed by the painter and you’ve got at least two painters on uh on this piece and this one is one I can read it say oian it’s I think a remarkable find I mean it’s as good as a piece of Satsuma as I’ve ever seen on the road show really really where do you have it at home stuck in my husband’s office whereabouts in his office I don’t like the sound of offices offices sound like crashing about telephones files on a shelf it’s safe is it um well I thought so I’ll put it in a glass cabinet when I get home put it in a glass cabinet when you get home because it’s worth 8 to 10,000 lie me thank you very much thank you for bringing it in you have never used this nut no I hav you never wondered what that was for well I have wondered but I don’t know well we just hang the pendulum on I see okay and then this nut unscrews from this back plate oh yes okay and then it goes through there and it screws into the center so you can lock your pendulum rigid now when you take it home it’s not going to shake around right thank you thank you there we go excellent you probably know it’s a skeleton clock yes I had heard that actually yes and it’s very very typically English is it about 1860 to 1865 right we made numerous different models of of skeleton clocks yes and this one is actually rather better viewed from behind because you can see the architectural plates working a bit better there yes and you’ve got 3 ft to each plate yes so 6 fet all together and the two plates are held in position by these rather nice tapering ballister pillars is it made of brass because I know it’s quite heavy it is all brass I see and never be tempted to clean it that was my next question right now the reason I say that is because if you have a crack at it you’re going to do damage this has got to be taken apart professionally by a clock maker and every individual part cleaned polished put together and then it will look absolutely magnificent but never be tempted to use any sort of abrasive on it cuz all that happen is it will tarnish again I see and although the front’s slightly faded you can see that the back has a lovely lovely grain of rose yes it is Rosewood that it is Rosewood yes so there’s also a provision here for a glass Dome do you have that or not I do have a dome it doesn’t uh fit it properly it isn’t the correct one I’m afraid it’s cracked but it is undercover it does the DK off right worth your while having it cleaned is it yeah right which wouldn’t be too expensive but have you any idea of a figure well I had it valued with a house clearance uh belonged to my father mhm um but when my mother died um I had someone to come and have a look and it was only valued at about £150 150 yeah well realistically today at auction and I have to say at auction because it’s not in retail condition at the moment no it would still make close to £1,000 really yeah by the time the movement have been cleaned and overhauled and Polished and you had a nice dome for it it would certainly be retailing for an excess of 2,000 is it really so well I am surprised thank you very much thank you that is [Music] excellent very good well that it just proves that it’s got a good tone yeah yes um and what we’re looking at is a corop oh yes because at the date that this was made uh that is between about 1830 and 1860 they weren’t called cornets they were called Cor opian I know very little about it actually only that it’s possibly uh almost likely been handed down through the family uh and possibly played uh years and years ago by my wife’s grandfather in a Salvation Army oh it really was in a Salvation Army oh very good firstly it’s very attractive I love all this sort of curly cues around here and the next thing is you look a bit closer and you say hey there’s something a bit dodgy with the valves the invention of valves to uh to get the notes only came in in the 1820s and in 1838 a man called Shaw invented this particular his his system which must have worked very well because um although finally it’s died out now um it was actually used for many many years now have you played both types both types and and what do what’s the difference how how do you find this this is a much smaller movement than the Piston movement they valve movement now much much slower that’s interesting so probably that then decided the future of the shore system there there’s something that I love about it which is that you haven’t cleaned it no I was going to ask you about that actually I mean there are two schools of thought there and particularly with an instrument that’s used perhaps in public performances people like to think that um you know a brass wind should be shiny but to me um I know I bang on about this all the time something that’s old I think should look it and it’s got this wonderful patterner through here this golden coloring which which lightens the GR and I think it’s it’s wonderful to see here we have the maker Cola yes uh of Henrietta Street here it is again right in London um obviously of German extraction the instrument itself is a Rarity and um kopian are very desirable if one was talking about auction value today we’d be thinking about perhaps between ,000 and 15500 yeah yes it’s quite the surprise had you had its case yes that might have pushed it over 2,000 so that does make an enormous difference but as it is it’s a wonderful instrument and go on using it I first saw a cycle show in 1952 I fell in love with it it wasn’t for sale right and then saw it about 2 years later outside an Italian cafe with a sign on it 225 and I just had did that seem a lot of money then it was all I had in the bank I was saving up to get married and my future in-laws didn’t think much of that right but um you say 1952 you first saw it have you tracked it history any more accely than that well only that they were made during the war in Italy by Two Brothers we because of mainly because of the shorty of Ste in fact it was almost nonexistent for bicycle making and um one was a Ski manufacturer and the two of them got together and used their expertise to to make wooden bicycles it’s interesting you should say skis because in fact looking at it my mind sees about four or five different technologies that went into making this bicycle um you can see skis as you say you can see boat building you can see aircraft building all aircraft at that time were built of wood up until the the second war um es especially the propeller yes propellers were all laminated wood the frame starting here coming all the way around right through this extraordinary Bend at the front coming down the main tube through the bottom bracket and ending here at the chain stay um is one piece of wood that’s right I mean I measured it it’s 7t long if you la it ground yes blows my mind to think the way this is all bent round and everything arrives in the right place you knowe and that’s right probably they didn’t make the handle think handle bars and chain wheel and brakes probably stock items stock items but everything else they made in house which is quite amazing especially as they’re doing it during the war but as I say they were doing it because they wanted to build a bicycle out of wood because they couldn’t want build one out of anything else but also they were in tune with developments in cycling at the time build a lighter a better bicycle yes I wonder if they achieved it have you ever seen another one of these I’ve only seen a frame on its own um with no Forks um and I I have a feeling not many of these survive because the weakness of the forks if so many think the forks the weak point yeah right I don’t know how we’re going to compare a value because I don’t think there’s another one of these around in this condition I think a bare minimum of2 to 3,000 for this bicycle I think it is so rare and in such wonderful condition could I indulge myself please and go for a spin yes please do thank you my wife had it for I don’t know five six years it’s probably come down through the family she was quite happily wearing it as a bit of costume jewelry bit of costume jewelry yeah and what did she wear it on denim jackets denim jackets any thing that she thought nice sparkly thing and then we took it to a jewers and chance through Lane to get class sort of repaired a little bit mhm and he turned around and said you do realize it’s the real thing the real thing and so she’s not worn it since more as the pity diamonds and denim yes she really thought a bit about the design I did notice that the two ends unscrewed but that was well they unscrew because there’s probably not only this Bri but a Cascade of them running the front of a lady’s fiercely corseted dress in about 1900 so you think your wife had problems think think of um princess yusupova walking around with this not bad is it no not bad at all not bad now I say princess yusupova because I can tell that this is a Russian brooch by the safety clasp it’s a strange little sort of twist like a question mark at the end which is a brilliant device because it stops the owner pricking her finger or more accurately her ladies made pricking her finger because You’ never put this sort of thing on your on yourself in pre-revolutionary Russia what we call a stomacher because it runs along the front of the stomach of of such a lady at a I can’t think how it could have been more beautiful why what what’s the look and just underneath here there’s a a break in in the design which I think is where the second and third and I don’t know how many more broaches went down to meet it um a tiny little Groove here and also observe the beauty of this Gallery here the Pierce gallery and the fact that the back of the brooch is made of gold and yet the front is of platinum to give the whiteness of the effect I think it’s probably quite a late roach it’s 20th century the Russians is curiously sort of feudal um life they were living there and in the early 20th century things couldn’t be more Sumptuous and more Beed and more exotic really so this is a fantastic context really isn’t it I’m just going to look a little bit for Hallmarks Russian Hallmarks almost always appear um on on the clasp of um of the Jewel and along the pin which is strange and yet there are more here and and it’s jolly good that I did check that actually because there are the initials of the maker there Theodore laer who is a very well-known aruo Jeweler making things in the manner of laik um serpents and butterflies and that sort of thing so this is a slightly conventional one for him but a very beautiful one now what did the Jewelers um have to say about it they must have admired it very much I think didn’t they well they did yes they said it was a lovely piece and yeah and uh he even turned around and said I’ll give you 5,000 scrap for it I said no 5,000 scrap I said no I don’t think so no no I think scrapping it it’s not the right word I think we really we’ve gone beyond scrapping it’s too beautiful for someone to break down fabulous context well you know if he’s going to offer you £5,000 scrap for it double it up for insurance £10,000 for insurance yeah dear me I think what hasard a guess a terrier possibly a w Fox Terrier right what do you think uh not very good on dogs I’m afraid we just we call him Arthur at home because Arthur Arthur wle the signature here is one of the best artists working at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century he paints his doct with such vitality and personality that he’s almost ready to kind of spring right out of the string right out of the painting and I’m sure that’s why people absolutely love his work if you look at the quite detailed and partly this rather heavy impasto but this building up of a paint surface of a dog in contrast the background thinly painted what it actually does is it throws the head and the portrait of the dog forward giving him that extra kind of uh uh kind of personality and app poignancy it just looks like he’s just jumped up like someone’s Co to him and he’s just jumped off he looks so real the way he kind of stands forward there from the from the back Dar was considered a kind of value for Arthur is that what it’s called yes and why Arthur before just because of the artist’s name oh I see I’m I’m sorry I didn’t get that I thought there was some other family connection no reason no because we didn’t know his name but coming back to this question of the price I think probably the value is in the region of4 to £6,000 he always been one of the family really so yes 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’re see inside there should be the marks of Omega the manufacturer the numbers but there’s also the import H 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 you 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 over a 10 to get it fixed which was a lot of money that’s a lot of money yeah 20 years ago yeah 20 years ago yeah well as a watch 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 Endor yeah that’s right yeah do you know who he is no he 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 K to be honest to be perfectly honest with you I always thought he was a fiction of um a character of fiction I do no no no it’s the it’s the TE Lawrence of well as you said of The Marvelous film and wrote the book yeah I remember seeing the film years and years ago but um but I reckon that 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 double that maybe five maybe 10 good God I better get it into your yeah if there’s one thing that everybody thinks about when they think of Rolls-Royce it’s the spirit of ecstasy this I suppose vision of ethereal Beauty yes it’s a wonderful bronze the uh original was designed by Charles Sykes in 1911 which is when the uh the first Spirit of uh EX of course a much smaller version than this was first put on a Rolls-Royce interestingly enough actually it was an optional extra to begin with she’s commonly believed uh to be Elena Thornton who was Charles sy’s favorite model yes where did you get her from we bought it at an auction in New Jersey we lived there for 5 years and we bought it in 1987 it was an auction of Chinese things mostly but this was one odd item there which we spotted it was not listed as the spirit of ecstasy it wasn’t it was just a bronze figure well she certainly catches the eye I mean you couldn’t really avoid seeing her could you not at all but very few people at the auction actually your lucky day yes it was okay what did you pay for it as a matter of interest about $800 $800 1988 that was about £400 yeah okay well it’s it’s a wonderful bronze figure uh bronze figures of this size were actually used by Rolls-Royce uh for their main showrooms uh as a showroom model if you like Rolls-Royce I believe um only know of about nine or 10 of these models but the interesting thing here is this particular one is numbered what is that number8 28 28 um so it may well be that there were more than N9 or 10 actually made I I think the records were lost during the war the only other thing is that there are a tremendous number of fact similes around not just of bronze which which this is and you can you can hear it but also of plaster colored to look like bronze yes um it’s very difficult to know without a really good provenance whether this is an original that was made specifically for one of the Rolls-Royce franchises whether this is a a later casting the only thing I would say is if you look at the base here this black marble base it’s actually quite unusual to find find these with a rectangular base because all of the um the later castings I’ve seen are on circular bases so this is quite a good plus point I have to say Okay um so you can’t just discount that just discount it what about value the fact simil is um the the the later castings are not worth a huge amount of money and they can fetch anywhere between 8 and 12200 if we were able to prove that this was absolutely genuine that it came out of a dealer’s showroom then the likelihood is it’s could be worth 8 to 10,000 W so it may well pay you to do a little bit of poking about a little bit of research it might be worth a trip back to the states to find out well you know I think it could be I think when you first look at this um plaque you think it’s a piece of costume jewelry because of its shape and style um is that something that you’ve thought of or well I was 15 when I got it um it came in a rather untidy box just of bits and Bobs from my auntie I just liked it so I kept it safe and occasionally wore it I think it’s it’s good that you kept it safe um because it does have a value and it’s quite a a piece um that you could date quite precisely because of its design and style now first of all this material that looks a bit like a cloud formation or a snail shell um which you might think is just glass is actually rock crystal so it’s a natural C Crystal form um the this this flash of color in the center is actually a line of fine Burmese rubies and then the white stones on the borders of the rubies are of course lovely diamonds so you’ve got a complete mixture of precious stones in a natural looking hearstone rock crystal border now now its shapee is a bit peculiar because it doesn’t look very much like well would you wear it as a brooch would you wear it how would you wear it and then you you turn it round and the explanation is there because it is a lapel clip you’ve probably seen that if you just there above that little space there is a word have you ever seen that word I’ve looked at it and it says show show exactly because show were a firm of Manufacturers making jewelry particularly very fine pieces in the 30s and they used to make jewelry that had a tremendously pronounced style now the firm itself actually goes back way into about 200 years old something like that and they were patronized by Napoleon and they go back a long way and some of their jewelry makes a great deal of money um this clip although it’s a fairly modest piece really it’s not got a big flash of diamond it’s not what big chunky but because of its Singularity the fact that it signed show made in France and smothered all over the bottom of this clip are the little French control marks so it’s got all the right things there we look for Platinum Platinum it’s not white gold it would be platinum the Burmese rubies in the center and the quality of the Brilliance flanking the Rubes themselves do make it quite valuable so I think if it was sold in an auction and we’re looking at something in the Realms of £2,000 for it really well it’s wonderful to be here in the Victorian and Albert Museum but I never expected that we’d actually get brought in a museum quality picture but that’s what you’ve brought it is fantastic quality it really is just look at the way he has handled the whole light in this market SC the way the the the light comes off the candle and illuminates her face it’s the most brilliant piece of work and you’ve got the you’ve got the um source of light here then you’ve got another candle light here and tremendously subtle Lighting in look at the reflections on this copper jar wonderfully handled and the way these um this boy and this young man are conversing he’s looking at him but she’s he’s looking across at her wonderful little narrative details in this overall scene has it been in your family for some time it was in my husband’s family family right and uh I think his father bought it uh many years ago was there any particular significance to the subject do you think for your father-in-law when he bought it well he worked in the fish market as a young boy did he and his father was uh in the fish market uh before him and so I imagine that because it’s a market scene that’s what appealed him but I don’t know really AB but also say the fact that it’s on the key side the probably is fish being sold somewhere in the distance here I guess so and the the sort of moonlit nighttime markets would have been something that he would have remembered he had a good eye for paintings he certainly did and uh I think I had a good eye because when they uh split the house up when the parents-in-law died this was the one thing that I really loved it’s a very good choice you made a very good choice I mean there’s so much more when you get into it um there’s there’s this wonderful Moonlight at the top of the p picture again sort of Illuminating the Silhouettes of the buildings and the rigging of the ships behind because they’re rigging I didn’t rigging rigging of sailing vessels incredibly beautifully handled very subtle and then to reveal all down at the bottom is the signature here yes P van shandel petus van shendel uh a Dutch painter but he worked in Belgium and um Holland and he absolutely specialized in these moonlit candlelit scenes he was it was his trademark if you like it was what he was absolutely brilliant at and he was working in the middle of the 19th century between about 1830 and 1870 was um when he was really in his prime painted in oil on this very nice bit of wood well just quality is the word for it it is by probably the leading um Candlelight painter of the 19th century that I didn’t know I did see I did see some of anel’s paintings in New York yes uh two three years ago perhaps five years ago yeah no well he’s he’s his work does come up quite regularly at auction uh so we know reasonably clearly what this probably would make um I think at auction uh he’s very much in Vogue he’s very much sought after a lot of people people collect him mhm probably make between 70 and 90,000 so you should probably ensure it for £100,000 wow thank you almost like winning the lottery almost, 100,000s for insurance