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Antiques Roadshow 2025 - Shuttleworth House 2
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00:00this week we're right in the heart of the county of Bedfordshire and our home for today is Shuttleworth
00:08House set in four and a half thousand acres of rolling countryside it's a Victorian homage to
00:14Jacobean style it was built in 1875 for Joseph Shuttleworth who was an engineer who established
00:20a world-leading business specializing in agricultural steam engines and full steam ahead
00:27for our experts with the antiques brought in by our visitors she used to wear stuff like this at
00:33Christmas but while she was cooking the turkey yes she did actually I'd call that a prophet I'd call
00:39that a prophet as well this inscription here which reads Winston Spencer Churchill you think it's not
00:48okay well I'm delighted to tell you you're wrong oh welcome to the antiques Roadshow
00:57well just looking at this lamp and the style of it it is in quite stark contrast to the building
01:22behind us isn't it a bit younger but tell me where did it come from I bought it in a yard sale on the
01:29way back from the station it'd been there for about three days so on the third day the Friday was just
01:35that and a piece of lawnmower and left there so I went in knocked and asked is it still for sale
01:41he said yeah so I said well I'll have that I didn't realize how heavy it was though so I'm guessing if it
01:46had been there for three or four days it must have been really expensive then no no no it wasn't it was
01:50ten pounds ten pounds yeah ten pounds Wow what made you think I want to own this I want to have
01:56this in my home it remind me a lot of things I saw when I was growing up teachers with ceramic
02:02pendants and different sort of coffee mugs and I just really liked the color so did you know at the
02:08time who had made it or have you done some work since no not at all I was giving it clean and I found
02:13a stamped label and it said Rook right down here just at the back by the flex is just stamped the
02:19word Rook R double O K E that makes it clear for Bernard Rook now Bernard Rook was was really a great
02:27Potter certainly in that post-war that 60s era and you know he's very much classed as what we call a
02:34brutalist Potter and I think if you look at the style of it and look at the way it's made it's very
02:39reminiscent of that era you know think about architecture and buildings and new materials
02:43that were coming through at that time and it all fits really perfectly well I mean he started his
02:48potting career in 1960 in South London at the studio there but by 1967 he thought about grown that space
02:56and he wanted to find himself a better environment for him to work so he moved out to old mill in
03:01Suffolk I mean in terms of his work we do see a lot of lamps but most of the lamps that we see are
03:07table lamps yeah sort of 12 14 16 inches high absolutely typically him and you can tell they're
03:14him straight away but these are rare oh now this is called the totem and you're probably aware because
03:23it's yours but all of these elements here are you know just slightly movable because they sit on a
03:28central column that goes down through the middle of them well found good spot because ten pounds a few
03:35years ago is a thousand pounds today thank you thank you it's so nice to see a piece by Bernard Rook
03:49who over recent years has really become to be recognized for the Potter that he is and while
03:55he's not making any more there is still a wonderful link with his family and his children who are artists
04:00in their own right and still work out of that same location where he created that wonderful totem lamp
04:06so this is such a vibrant scene of loads of people gathered on a beach with lots of children riding
04:23on horses and it's unmistakably the style of someone called Gladys McCabe who was probably
04:29Northern Ireland's most famous 20th century artist and so I'm wondering how it came here to be yours
04:37well it belonged to um a family friend um they are an elderly couple that were friends with my parents
04:45basically when they they passed away we were invited to choose an item that we'd like to keep
04:52and that just appealed to me really so lucky you um what drew you to it it's just the colors really
05:00color and life that really is what Gladys McCabe was all about um she was quite a pioneering artist
05:06for her time she nearly lived at age 100 she was born at the end of the first world war so 1918
05:12she went to art school in Belfast just before the second world war and I suppose she really came of
05:17age after the second world war she was a pretty amazing person she really recognized in Northern
05:22Ireland that there was a wealth of female talent and so she founded something called the Ulster Society
05:28of Women Artists and she was its first president so she was a real kind of promoter of her fellow
05:34artist oh that's really nice it's very typical for her style it's oil on board and as I say she was
05:40really confident with her color and also her line you know she's used a black pigment to highlight
05:47the shapes of the horses and the people and then she's used lots of different bright strokes
05:54to bring out the colors of both the sea in the background the shore in the foreground and then
06:01it's almost like a kind of panoramic pattern of clothes in the midground and I think it really
06:08draws you in so it's something that if it was to come to auction today it would probably have an
06:13estimate in the region of 1200 to 1800 pounds okay good so well chosen yes it is yeah thank you very much
06:25I always love an antique that puts a smile on my face and a smile was certainly on my face when I
06:39saw this wonderful carved bear which of course is an umbrella stand so tell me how did it come into
06:45your life well it's been passed down the generations like all these things but we don't know too much
06:49history about it but it's one of those things that is always firmly planted in one's hallway and of
06:54course it when people come in needless to say grandchildren either squeal with delight or do
06:59lots of grrrs and get very very excited and put their fingers seemingly in the mouth there should
07:05be a metal liner do you still have that we still have that yeah yeah and it would sit in there and
07:09you put your umbrellas and walking sticks in there and there you would have a very useful and decorative
07:14item in your hallway to greet your visitors and your guests and a wonderful thing this is a black forest
07:19carving now the black forest is in Germany yes and this sort of wood carving that we see quite a lot
07:24of various shapes and sizes yes we tend to call black forest carving but actually it was made outside
07:31there and particularly associated with Switzerland and the bear is something which was again a very
07:37Swiss emblem it appears on the the emblem of the city of Bern from the 19th century there developed a
07:43wood carving industry for tourists who were coming into the area wealthy mostly English tourists who
07:49were coming in and wanted something to take back and they range from little trinkets all the way up to
07:54hall stands hat stands and very impressive umbrella stands like our chap here yes and really starts to
08:02make waves in the Victorian design world does he have a name by the way he does now he's been named Buster
08:07so Buster bear well let's have a look at Buster a closer look at him and the first thing you see is this
08:11wonderful expression really quite naturalistic we're a date wise we're late 19th century for
08:17this one you've got the snap glass eyes and fairly fearsome teeth every fearsome gnashes and this
08:23wonderful carved fur detail which goes in all different directions again really naturalistically
08:30this is almost certainly linden wood and would always have been a prestige status piece because it
08:36takes real skill to carve something this size right and with these objects it's always
08:41the size that really accounts for the value because the bigger something is the more valuable
08:47it tends to be which leads us neatly on to value and I think at auction I can say this fetching
08:54between five and eight thousand pounds thank you very much
08:58so someone's been on a cruise yes my dad's cousin went on the cruise he was a steward on the Canberra
09:11uh-huh he bought this back which was the voyage into darkness I think it was for the total eclipse
09:16in 1973 hence this this picture which I believe this could be Neil Armstrong's signature but I am not sure
09:26because it looks so different to anything else I've seen why do you suspect it's Neil Armstrong because he
09:31was there to talk about the eclipse and I'm basically I'm not sure whether my dad's cousin forged the
09:38signature or whether it was really Neil Armstrong's or to entertain the kids or something like that
09:42yes okay I met the great man the great astronaut exactly it's a bit weird um this squiggle at the
09:48top is completely weird and that's probably why you won't have found signatures that look like that
09:53in your heart of hearts what do you think I think maybe it's not you think it's not okay
10:00well I'm delighted to tell you you're wrong oh it is his signature it's a weird version of his signature
10:10without a doubt do you want to know what it's worth as well uh I do yes it's not in the top league
10:18because of the weird squiggle 500 quid wow that's way more than I thought thank you very much
10:25do you know I think we sometimes forget what a high street would have looked like in perhaps the
10:3619th or early 20th century because those were sepia kind of black and white days but the streets would
10:42have been lined with very colorful enamel signs very much like this one so where on earth did you get
10:49it from I brought it in an auction right okay and what attracted you to it well it's because it's old and
10:54it's lovely it's it's me daughters it's not mine oh right so you bought it for your daughter I always
10:59fancied it but she she saw it said we've got to have it so can I ask you what you paid at auction
11:05um it's about 1200 what you've got here is a g and an r and the g basically has been pinned
11:12over the top so what is under there it's an e it's an e exactly so what we've got is a repurposed
11:21sign and we've got a sign that started off in the period of Edward VII so pre-1910 because he died in
11:281910 and then it's been repurposed with a g for George V now that takes you past 1910 and what's
11:37happening in that period we're building up to the first world war the writing is on the wall the first
11:42world war is approaching and so these recruitment signs are very important to help the kind of
11:47remilitarization it's weathered it's been outside you can see there's quite a lot of damage to it
11:51there's enamel loss and things and loss of color too so let's talk about the value of it because you
11:57know despite the fact it has got some damages and things it is a really rare sign I think if you had
12:02to go and buy this from a dealer who specialized in good template signs of this type you would be
12:08charged in the region of about 1 800 to 2 200 pounds that's nice good that's good it's a great
12:15thing I think it's oh it's just lovely yeah yeah thanks for bringing it no it's lovely
12:19our venue for today complete with vintage vehicles on the lawn and the odd flyover by vintage aircraft
12:31like a spitfire is the old warden estate it was purchased in 1872 by wealthy industrialist joseph
12:40shuttleworth he filled the grand rooms with the latest fine furniture and artworks by sought-after
12:48artists of the day like benjamin williams leader and edwin long joseph shuttleworth was one of a wave of
12:57businessmen making their fortune from the industrial revolution sweeping across britain and he owed his
13:03huge wealth which bought this house and everything inside it to this magnificent traction engine and
13:09his ancestor the early steam engine an engineer by trade joseph shuttleworth founded and ran a company
13:17which manufactured steam engines and agricultural machinery capitalizing on the growing demand for
13:23mechanical power in the second half of the 19th century and many of the machines and engines still
13:29work today steward you're in charge of the vehicle collection here at shuttleworth tell me about this
13:34machine suit because this is a precursor to the the tractor effectively isn't it absolutely that they
13:40were built to do everything from driving machinery which they would do with the flywheel and they would
13:46then be used for haulage and how does this relate to joseph shuttleworth and the early use of the steam engine
13:51joseph shuttleworth and his brother-in-law started a company called clayton and shuttleworth in 1842 in
13:57lincoln and they started an iron and brass foundry but anyone who at that time wanted to work in
14:06industry had to get involved with steam engines and so they produced their own steam engine in the early
14:111850s so i had always assumed that a steam engine was its own mode of transport that actually wasn't the
14:18case to begin with no they weren't at the beginning they had to actually drag the steam engine from one
14:23farm to another with a team of horses what and then use it to power something a thrashing machine
14:28or simple thrashing machine or stone crusher or any anything that they were using on a farm so what
14:35was the next stage of evolution then so they developed their own portable steam engine and it would plod from
14:41one farm to another and then from evolution it would just go eventually into the traction engine we know
14:47today it's thanks to things like this this is how shuttleworth made his fortune yes he did because he
14:52realized that there was a huge market in particularly thrashing corn and he focused on that market not only
14:59in the uk but worldwide but through the first world war they were even making an aircraft and military
15:05equipment and afterwards they went on to make steam lorries and trucks and so they were very big in
15:12that that sort of area now you're in charge of the vehicle collection as i said i mean you must love
15:16working with these machines do you i've had a lifetime in steam preservation my father actually worked for
15:21a company that made similar engines and of course dragged me to traditional traction engine rallies when i was
15:28this high and i've never stopped i can see why you love them so much it's an absolute beauty well thank you so much
15:34for telling me all about it thank you
15:50this is a fabulous soft toy popeye he's huge and he doesn't look as if he's being played with
15:57what's your recollection of him he was left by an uncle we found him in the cupboard all wrapped up
16:06in brown paper that's about it really and we inherited him we'd been told he was put in a shop window
16:14and when the kids used to walk by the shop owner used to make out and wave at people and they used
16:18to frighten the kids to death when do you think he might have been made a hundred years a hundred years ago
16:25you're getting close popeye the sailor man um he first appeared in 1929 as a cartoon um in a national
16:33paper and so it's likely that he was made in the 1930s and the interesting thing to me is as i said
16:40right at the beginning the condition is extraordinary and what you said about being in a shop window
16:45actually rings true because if you lift up his collar you can see he's been faded by the sun and the only way
16:53that that's going to happen is if he's stood in a window somewhere yeah and also the fact that he still
16:58has his original maker's label so if we look at the label here we can see that it says dean's
17:04hygienic dolls and toys and it was known as dean's rag book which you can see at the bottom
17:11and dean's rag book started out in business in 1903 and they made what they said they did they made fabric
17:17books which were made for little children they could turn the pages and they wouldn't damage the book
17:23and they wouldn't damage themselves this is right at the height of their production in the 1930s
17:30and i would say that this was never meant to be played with it was only ever meant as a shop display
17:35and they're collectible yeah oh yeah yeah now everybody's waking up what's what's it worth i would
17:43put it at between four and five hundred pounds yeah it's a great object it obviously has a meaning to
17:50you as a family piece but it's also important in the history of toys yeah so thank you for bringing it
17:56it is okay thank you these are really pretty little bars and you don't see them very often
18:08do you want to tell me a bit more about it and where you got it i don't know very much i bought it
18:14about three to four years ago i think it was from the internet i paid about 300 pounds for it
18:20which i know is a lot it was a lot for me but i just liked the look of the vase so much particularly
18:26the fact that it's mainly flowers and rather than figures and the fact that the detail is raised on
18:33it and there's quite a bit of gold on it so it just caught my eye this is a satsuma vase and satsuma
18:40was a type of stoneware that was produced in southeastern japan and typically it was decorated with
18:49these thick enamels and very bright gilt most of the production of satsuma goes from the meiji period
18:58so the beginning would be 1868 all the way to the 1912 which is the end of the major period that
19:05sometimes even later in this case what makes this vase a little bit more special than others
19:11um is this thick blue enamel that is called gosu which is typical of the early production which were
19:21marketed in the west as imperial satsuma wares although actually they were not imperial at all
19:29so this is made by an artist called ipa within the satsuma region right so in terms of valuation the
19:36market is not quite as strong as it was back in the 90s but it still has kept quite solid interest
19:44for this type of wear and i think we're looking at perhaps around four to six hundred pounds
19:49adoption that's good thank you yeah that's great
19:52well what we have here is what looks like an open shelving unit didn't start life as that and what
20:05it actually is is an early form of recycling what can you tell me about it we think that it's possibly
20:12part of a boat from the oxford cambridge boat race we inherited it we know that this shield on the left is
20:19perhaps oxford university shield and the one on the right half of it is trinity college cambridge
20:26so we've presumed it's come from oxford and cambridge boat race but we don't know anything
20:30well what it actually is you're quite right it is the hull of a boat and it's um someone that's
20:34taken obviously a very long rowing boat that's cut the middle section and it's actually turned it
20:39into a useful object so the top is mahogany as is this shelf the drawers which have been taken from
20:45a piece of victorian or edwardian circa 1900 furniture these are stained so these would be more
20:52of a soft wood and that sort of stain to make it to give it a mahogany finish and then you see these
20:57sides have got this sort of like crackalure on it well what that is it's been varnished and it's reacted
21:04with the varnish or the polish that was on the wood underneath these two shields here are more real shields
21:09this is the arms of the university of oxford but this one with the the chevron and the three roses
21:16and the scallops is actually wadham college in oxford oh so there's no association to cambridge at
21:22all not a commercially made piece so it would be it would be unique basically but there is quite a
21:28tradition of actually making boats into pieces of furniture worried to come up for auction i would
21:34say it would probably make it around the two to three hundred pound mark something like that
21:38really nice to see it thanks for bringing it in you're very welcome thank you pleasure
21:52so the thing that we've bought today we think it's a wing canvas from a german flighter plane during world
21:58war one uh we keep it in uh in a plastic bag in a bottom drawer
22:09i'm pretty certain i know what that is that is a maltese cross first world war i suspect it was
22:16probably cut off a shot down german airplane yeah so that must have a connection with this which would be
22:24so this was my great uncle morris he was a fighter pilot and an sc5a on the western front during 1917 and
22:3218. he was a flying ace and we think that he would have shot down this plane landed taken the trophy
22:42and then taking it back to to bases as a trophy as a keepsake and it was also a balloon buster and that's
22:50interesting because most people didn't want to go anywhere near balloons static balloons were used to
22:57observe enemy trenches yeah and balloon busters were pilots who took on the task of shooting down enemy
23:03observation balloons right by 17 and 18 the life expectancy of a pilot was between two and five weeks
23:12obviously brave chap because he's got his first world war group and the mc yeah now that's fabulous
23:22very difficult to value right we know it's german because it's a maltese cross it's a trophy
23:28have you ever sort of addressed what a value of an mc group royal flying corps would be no idea okay
23:35mc you've got all this history you've got that as a brilliant addition i would put eight thousand
23:45pounds on it wow and it's a wonderful tribute to a first world war ace yeah absolutely so a very very
23:54brave chap and thank you so much for bringing it in my pleasure i was so excited to see this lovely
24:08buckle come to the table today i would love to know why you were attracted to it i just love the colors
24:17and the workmanship and i think the way the mother of pearl has been used it just changes whichever
24:24angle you look at it so this is struck with a full set of english hallmarks and i couldn't get a maker's
24:32mark out of it but you do have the date letter at the bottom 1909 the lion passant for silver
24:40and the town mark for birmingham which is an anchor okay so i think you know if you think about the type
24:45of woman that we wearing this i just because of the design i think that she may have been quite
24:51forthright uh quite powerful and that also brings to mind um the other side of the story which is the
24:59pansy which is about um thoughtfulness and thinking of me and it's a typically like a love token so when
25:07you're giving someone something with a pansy it's like think of me oh that's lovely where did you find it
25:14i found this in a little antique shop locally about three or four years ago and it just spoke to me
25:20of all the items in the cabinet that caught my eye and i just thought it's so beautiful yeah do you
25:26remember how much you paid for it i think it was about 75 80 pounds something like that really yeah
25:33because this is so beautiful i think at auction this could stand an estimate of
25:39two to three hundred pounds wow wow that is a surprise it's beautiful thank you
25:52given shuttleworth's close connection to aviation our experts have been expecting to see some flying items
25:59and sure enough paul atterbury has spotted a rare keepsake from the pioneering era of aerial racing
26:05here we are shuttleworth and we've got a very good piece of aviation history which is very suitable
26:11this is the first aerial derby the program for it which took place on saturday june the 8th 1912
26:19and this was obviously a great event at the time but why have you got this well we found it when we
26:25were clearing out my father-in-law's house after he died and it's a bit of a mystery where he got it
26:31from he spent many years in the navy and he had an interest in aviation but not so you think he picked
26:37it up somewhere i think he must have picked it up somewhere unless it was passed down to him
26:41we don't really know this was the first aerial derby in britain and it was at hendon which of course
26:47is a famous aviation name it was sponsored by the daily mail and it was effectively a race it was a
26:55circuit of 81 miles from hendon round the sort of suburbs of outer london and back to hendon again
27:02and it was about speed they weren't all flying together yeah but it was who did the fastest
27:08circuit and here we've got the route so here is the start at hendon and then they went this way
27:16round and there were six turning points so called and they had to be seen by the ground judges at each of
27:26these points the public enthusiasm was staggering 45 000 people bought a ticket to be at hendon to
27:35see the start and the finish and throughout the route which was well publicized by the daily mail
27:40there were crowds of people on the ground watching the planes go past now in that first derby there
27:47were seven entrants and the winner was tommy sopwith and the impact was colossal and so 1913 they do it
27:56again it begins to build 1914 they do it again it then stops and the war interrupts 1919 it comes back
28:06and it continues to build it then dies off and the last planned derby at hendon in 1924 was actually
28:16cancelled before it took place because of lack of support now it's not valuable particularly it's a rare
28:23thing it's going to be one 200 pounds something like that yeah it's history yeah so thank you very
28:29much for bringing it in thank you
28:41now this looks like a mystery of the scene what can you tell me about this fine teapot we understand
28:48or believe as a family that this was made by my great grandfather robert emmett oldham uh who went
28:54from the potteries in stoke-on-trent to commondale pottery in yorkshire and then to ferry bridge it's
29:02understood that he made seven of these or was involved in making of seven of these i would just like to
29:07know whether anyone knows the origins of this teapot even if we can't corroborate that story
29:14the idea of this is very victorian minton made these majolica teapots so these tin glazed colors that
29:23we see on here wonderful kind of shades of grays and greens and if we lift it off and look inside
29:31there's a beautiful pink hue in there now this was all the rage in the 1860s 1870s
29:38animalia was huge and novelty was huge so put the two together and you come out with a uh fish
29:46eating a fish to create a spout i mean i think that is just wonderful if we turn it over
29:53there are no factory marks which doesn't mean that's a bad thing it just means it's probably
30:00not minton probably not wedgewood and possibly your great grandfather's factory
30:06well i just think it's so much fun do we like this do we do we like this do we find it fun
30:10yeah see they love it yeah they love it you love it i think it's great and i think at auction
30:18three to five hundred pounds any day of the week i think if we could get some more information
30:24and you could easily double or triple that number yeah i won't be serving tea in it for a while that's for
30:30certain
30:36this is a box made by one of the most exciting 20th century craftsmen david linley who was a furniture
30:43maker so it's a presentation box in wood and silver and i believe you worked with him didn't you
30:50i did yes i worked there from 2000 to 2005 and um yeah he was just a wonderful person to work for
30:59david linley who's now second earl of snowden he's the son of princess margaret and we can see his
31:04hallmarks here can't we his actual maker's mark and then of course his late father is the famous
31:10photographer lord snowden so this was a present from david to you yes a leaving gift wow yes and and
31:18what does it do just push like this and it's a little jewelry box jewelry box hugely valuable to you
31:24but i suppose something in the region of 600 pounds would do today and um but it's your treasure for your
31:32treasures reach for the sky i mean how appropriate here we are at shuttleworth and of course we've got
31:50the airfield in the collection always reaching for the sky but you presumably reach to own
31:55what looks like to me a film script this is actually the shooting script for uh reach for the sky which
32:02the director would have used lewis gilbert himself he's what probably the most prolific certainly one
32:08of the most versatile british film directors so long been interested in in his career and we came across
32:14an auction yeah an auction of lots of memorabilia we got memorabilia for four of his films this is
32:21obviously the most famous of his early ones absolutely lots of bomb films shirley valentine
32:25the only sort of film he hasn't made is a musical i mean it won the 1956 bafta yeah i mean it went
32:31all over and he indeed had a legendary career a number of bond films you are so passionate now i
32:36understand the why but what got you into lewis gilbert as a film director i don't know probably through
32:43the bomb films i think initially and then he did lots of war films in the 50s which are another interest
32:49of mine so and this is clearly one of the most famous ones so as a passionate sort of fan of his
32:54films you have to own something that ultimately is right at the heart of the film lewis gilbert's
32:59own shooting script absolutely yeah but what i love about it is if you open it up you can see all
33:05the little amendments that were made so little sort of pink bits of paper that have been cut out
33:10and scribbles and scribbles as the film developed and of course none better than the developments
33:16effectively of the creator the director the person actually pushing this film to success it was it's
33:20fascinating to watch the film and go through the script at the same time and just see how it does
33:25how many times have you done that so you say you bought it at auction presumably with these other
33:33scrapbooks and there's another associated script here yeah i wouldn't imagine that this is an incredibly
33:38inexpensive thing the money wasn't the important thing we wanted to get you know to buy the objects
33:44and the the bidding was going up and up and up and i said this has got to be our last bid because we're
33:48just about reaching the limit i was holding the pedal i thought a thousand shaking were you
33:53shaking and then we were waiting waiting until eventually the gavel went we've got it we've got
33:59it and you won it we won it if you paid a thousand pounds a couple of years ago it's probably worth
34:06about a thousand pounds a day yeah i don't think i'm surprising you by saying that right you fought
34:11off the competition we did you won a heroic victory we did to own the script we're very glad we did
34:17yes it's going to be in the family for a while i think
34:27this is a first world war picture obviously and like so many of them they tended not to show combat
34:32they would show friendship combat and the fighting man would say how could you know you weren't there
34:38but friendship everybody understands that and that in this case between a southerner a tommy and a
34:45highlander with red hair rather immediate and fast the way it's painted isn't it clearly he's an
34:52experienced painter his name's fred rowe i suppose it's about 1916 time of the song how did you get
34:57it it belonged to my father he moved to hong kong many many years ago so we kind of inherited it and
35:04it's just hung in our lounge for many many years and not knowing anything about his background or
35:09artists or anything what do you think of it he had a number of paintings that's certainly my favorite
35:14just the the characters of the the soldiers and everybody who comes into the house is a focal point
35:20and talks about it so fred rowe he's quite interesting artist he was born in cambridge son of a print
35:25seller often these things went in families he and his brothers all helped in the shop and they all became
35:29artists but fred was easily the best fred went on for a distinguished career died after the second
35:34world war and quite often did scenes from english history which he exhibited in the royal academy
35:39and other places but this watercolor is done in a much quicker fashion than those oil paintings
35:44and it's better for it really it's quite fun but some of the white body color is lifting off here
35:49you can see that so we've got condition issues on the other hand it's absolutely vivid isn't it
35:55oh it's very good yeah so there was a time round about 2018 100 years since the uh the war ended
36:01when wartime pictures were very highly sought after and this might have been worth a bit more
36:05but now i think it's worth eight to twelve hundred pounds fantastic thank you
36:25our specialist mark allum has taken a break from his miscellaneous table i know you've been very busy
36:29mark so this is basic better best there are three different values and we need to work out from the
36:34lowest to the highest but they're three items all with one thing in common aren't they yes i'm really
36:40interested in things that are repaired and i have a real fascination for repairing things myself but what
36:46i love about the idea of repaired items is the idea of things being recycled so the first one is a japanese
36:56teapot and as you can see it's got a silver spout on it and that teapot dates from probably around about
37:031760. it was made for the european market as an export item tea was a very very precious commodity
37:13so things surrounding that kind of ritual of tea drinking would have been precious too in that way
37:18and putting that lovely silver spout on it was a way of actually improving it in some ways in my mind
37:25the second item is a japanese tea bowl and it's called a katsukari bowl but the problem is it's
37:30been smashed to smithereens and this one has what's called a kintsugi repair and the idea that something
37:36that was so imperfect because it had been smashed could be made more beautiful by the style of the
37:43repair is very much what this is all about i really like kintsugi i must say i think it is beautiful
37:51and this is a particularly precious bowl is this yes third item 18th century air twist cordial glass
37:59so we've got a georgian glass and what have we got we've got a nice glass but it's got a wooden foot on
38:05it how do you go about putting a new foot on a glass well there was no option other than to if you
38:10wanted to save it turn off a wooden foot and stick that on the bottom of it instead so what values are
38:16we talking for well i think we're talking about 500 200 and 100 as broken objects most of these would
38:25be pretty well worthless right let's give it a go hello young man what do you think we've got
38:32basic better best i think that one's basic that one's better the teapot yeah and that one's best
38:43okay all right do you agree with that i think i'd put basic the same the glass i'd put better the bowl
38:51and then best the teapot i think it's just pretty i think that's why i think it's the best it is pretty
38:57it's beautiful yeah yeah what about you i think the uh teapot is basic i think the glass is better
39:04and i think the teacup is the best because of the um style of how it's been repaired the kintsugi
39:11so what do you think well i love kintsugi i'm used to seeing it where it doesn't stand proud of the
39:17object it is flush with the surface and i like that more yes i think that has to be basic the glass
39:24better the japanese bowl best the little teapot with a silver spout right okay well i think that's
39:30interesting you absolutely nailed the idea of what kintsugi is all about so if i were to tell you that
39:37actually i bought that smashed a few months ago with an original receipt from 1967 and that was my first
39:46attempt at kintsugi this thing is i thought that's a bit rubbish but you know what do i know because
39:54it's just you're kind of absolutely right fiona i i'd never tried it before and it didn't turn out
40:01quite as well as i anticipated because it does look a bit kind of clunky doesn't it it's a bit clunky okay
40:06so that's the basic then well no actually it's not this is the basic that's the better and that's the
40:13best you got it dead right oh amazing my goodness so why is this worth more than the glass it's just
40:25the rarity of the bowl it's a really highly prized form of pottery and in that kind of unique japanese
40:31aesthetic the idea of the randomness of the creation of a piece of ceramic that is never going to be the
40:37same as another is very much part of why japanese ceramics can be very very special so basic 100
40:44yeah your handy work better 200 yeah and this charming little teapot 500 yeah well got there in the end
40:53thank you it was good fun thank you for you maybe have another go at that
41:07well i think this is the perfect setting to look at your picture please tell me what do you know
41:16about it uh my grandfather um i believe had an import export business with japan this is one of the
41:24things that i think came from japan there were three others and he had four children and each of his
41:30children got one and my mother got this one and i'm now looking after it for a while i'll share it with my
41:35sister it's really a lovely piece i really like it i think it's very um evocative of japan and it was
41:41probably produced in the late 19th early 20th century and it's typical of the the kind of souvenirs
41:46that westerners would bring back from japan during that period they often depict very touristic places
41:53in japan um often you see mount fuji or one of the five lakes around mount fuji and i think this is
42:00what's depicted here how do you think it was made well i think it's silk because there's a little bit
42:06of damage i think by by moths on it but it clearly isn't painted but i hope you can fill me in it's
42:12um it's actually a very sophisticated uh technique um called yusen birodo it's a very japanese technique
42:18it's painted velvet and the artist would apply a kind of rice paste around the design to create it
42:26and then it would be dyed and then the pile would be cut to kind of create this um three-dimensional
42:31effect it's much more complex than just a painting on silk do you like it i really like it yeah i think
42:37it's so serene because i think i could walk into there and walk along the beach and i think it's that
42:41sort of time of day where the colors aren't quite fully developed yet so it's kind of very very early
42:45morning before the sun's risen just very tranquil it is this type of of pictures these yusen birodo
42:52pictures uh recently in the last maybe five years they've become really popular again i think if it
42:58were to come up at auction one picture like this um would probably be worth maybe two to three hundred
43:04pounds okay if you had the whole set i think we took maybe of a thousand to two thousand pounds all
43:11right so you may want to contact that cousin okay there are three of them to contact thank you very
43:16much for bringing it i love it my pleasure thank you very much
43:22well set against the backdrop of this house these chairs look as daringly modern as they did when they
43:27were first created but tell me how do you come to own them we were uh in the gambia and we were going
43:34along the dirt road and there was a container there and they were selling stuff out of the container and
43:40these two were in the sands sort of outside it and i said they look quite nice and can i ask how
43:45much did you pay for 30 pounds each what we're looking at um is a chair and a design that is
43:51pivotal in the transformation of furniture design in the 20th century because what we're looking at
43:57fundamentally is based on a club armchair it's the kind of chair that would have been you know in a
44:02lounge in a in an environment like that but it's pared down and it's stripped back to its most basic
44:07principles the design was actually created by a gentleman called marcel brewer who was at this
44:14time a student at the bauhaus under the great walter gropius now the bauhaus was was a movement a
44:20design movement that was based in germany that were basically looking to reimagine how people live their
44:26lives and it was to do with everything your environment your space you know the homes you lived
44:31in the furniture that you sat in about cleaning everything up and making it simple and beautiful
44:37and i think what we see here he's achieved that so launched in 1925 under sort of the great banner of
44:45the bauhaus although he retained the rights to these chairs his whole career he always said they were his
44:51and they went through a few design changes which helps us sort of look and date and work out who made
44:56them so thonna were the first makers and then later on nol became the main licensed maker of them but
45:05because it's such a famous chair and because it's such an iconic chair they have been made by so many
45:12people so are yours genuine or are they copies yeah there's a few little details the end caps here at the
45:21end of the rods should have a chromed cap on them the fixings to the side should be black also looking
45:30at the way the leather's been stitched and finished they're beautiful they're great examples and they're
45:36true to the design but they are copies i think these are probably 30 to 40 years old i love the fact
45:46actually that they're you know they're nicely aged in you know that leather's starting to get that
45:51lovely color and actually that's what a lot of buyers want so as an interior design piece they're
45:56fantastic i think today if these came up at auction you would be very comfortable to see them fetch
46:03somewhere in the region of four to six hundred pounds for the pair that's not bad is it
46:08i'd call that a profit i'd call that a profit as well
46:20so it was a really lovely surprise to see this gorgeous lady emerge out of your bag at shuttle
46:26whirl so how did this ceramic art deco figure come into your life um i bought her about 25 years ago
46:33in hartfordshire from an antique center so it's nicely marked the base here with the gold scheider
46:40factory mark and also with the mark dacon for stefan dacon who was the designer of the piece yes well
46:47she's a wonderful austrian vienna figure and although the modeling of the actual figure is quite simple
46:53the enamel decoration gives it a real sense of movement and fluidity and the drapery of her clothes
46:59there she just captures the imagination in every way there is a good collector's markup for figures
47:05of this type in the art deco style and i'm sure that if she came to auction she'd fetch in the region
47:11of five to seven hundred pounds if not a bit more excellent
47:20so i love harry roundtree he always makes me giggle a bit but i'm struggling to understand this one
47:25is there's like a a red golf ball what's going on yes well my uncle was a member of the nottingham
47:30shore art set and he and harry rountree were friends and they both played golf together actually
47:36so when harry rountree came up for christmas they went out to play golf in the snow and in those days
47:41they used a red ball so you can find the ball in the snow harry rountree went back home and thought
47:48about it and he used this humorous sketch of the mice warming their paws on the red golf ball and it's
47:54called christmas cool like a hot coal like a hot coal yeah i love the speed at which he works as
47:59well it's just such confidence um i would imagine that's the work of 20 minutes yes quite what do
48:05you think it's worth don't know i think about um three or four hundred pounds all right people love golf
48:14yes kind fire so i'm really really pleased that you brought this in today i love these clocks i think
48:31they're so stylish so chic and they're beautiful feet of swiss engineering and they just work without
48:39winding how does it fit into your life it was bought by my grandfather for my mum who bought
48:45three for my mom and her twin brothers the other two i've no idea where they are and this is the last
48:52one and it's mine as i said i think these are these are really stylish uh they're a complete unique design
49:00to the makers jager lacoutre nobody makes a clock like this it's like a barometer in a way when we have
49:07good weather the the pressure's high and the needle moves up and then when we have bad weather the
49:13pressure's low and the needle moves down so what this clock does there's a cylinder inside under a
49:20vacuum and in there is a gas that reacts to that pressure change so when the pressure's high
49:28it opens up one way and when it's low it closes another way and that is connected to a little chain
49:38that pulls and pushes and through a series of levers turns that into the winding motion and winds a very
49:46very little mainspring and keeps the clock going and wound so it's quite amazing no other company has
49:55ever taken on the the challenge of reproducing it it is pretty unique to jager lacoutre it's late 60s
50:04early 70s and it's got that real chic sort of 60s 70s look about it it's got the gold it's got the
50:11brushed finish on it as well it's a real contrast and this wonderful sort of square skeletonized dial
50:18showing off this beautiful jeweled movement in the center it's really really finely made i'm a big fan of
50:24them auction about two to two and a half thousand pounds very nice i'll keep it of course
50:34yeah yeah we love it thanks very much that's a pleasure thank you
50:45i love the shape of this object this vessel tell me how you came about it
50:52i was given it for my christening by my grandparents okay but it was somebody else's first right okay
50:59did it come down within your family or did they purchase it for you they purchased it and i don't
51:03quite know where how that happened the most interesting part is of course this inscription here
51:09which reads giles samuel bertrand rumley from his godfather winston spencer churchill
51:20september 19th 1916. do you know anything about giles samuel bertram what's it yes exactly
51:28he was his nephew oh he was the son of his wife clementine's sister nelly he was a war correspondent
51:36he was in colditz he escaped from colditz he ended his life in california but that was in 1960 something
51:46and i was born in 56 so i don't quite know how this got to richmond in north yorkshire in 1956. do you like
51:52it i like it i like it very much it's got a nice shape it's a pineapple thing yeah so this takes its
51:57inspiration from german pineapple cups and they were mainly for display and they were quite tall
52:04actually this is a slightly squatter version of it and then of course we have these scrolled handles
52:12which are also kind of stylistically slightly different to the shape of the cup so you've got a
52:18couple marriages here of styles which makes me think immediately that it must be a 19th century
52:25or later piece of silver because that's when silversmiths and designers started picking different
52:32themes and designs from periods and putting them together on this side here you will have spotted the
52:39full set of hallmarks so you have a sg which is the maker's mark the lion passant for silver the
52:48leopard's head for london and then the capital s there which is the date letter for 1913. it should
52:56also as every good piece of silver does have a set of hallmarks on the cover yep and then underneath
53:04we have the gerard stamp as well so as an object without the churchill provenance i think this would
53:11be best at an estimate of 700 to 1000 pounds however we just don't know what those churchill collectors
53:18are going to do i think that once they see the fact that it's engraved with his name they know that
53:25he was involved with presenting this piece i think this could easily double the estimate make around
53:31two thousand pounds thank you thank you you brought me some lovely jewelry today that put a smile on my
53:44face thank you so please tell me who did these belong to these belong to my wife's aunt um she lived in
53:51droidwich in birmingham self-made lady she used to travel abroad a lot she had her own businesses she
53:57bought myself did she yeah yeah i very much approve of women buying their own jewelry quite yes
54:04do you remember her yeah she used to wear stuff like this at christmas but while she was cooking
54:09the turkey yes yes she did actually yeah yeah well the pendant and the ring um are very different
54:17in terms of styles so this pendant here this is about 1890 and it's silver and gold and it's set with
54:26cushion shaped diamonds and what i love about it it has just this one pearl in the middle right and
54:33that comes from the black lipped oyster okay when you look at a pearl oyster the colors on the outside
54:39of the rim of the shell usually dictates the colors the pearl that it will make itself so they're usually
54:46from you know tahiti or somewhere like that but this is natural as opposed to cultured and then we've got
54:52this lovely single stone diamond ring here and it's about three carats in size it draws a little bit
55:01of color to it and it does have just slight inclusions but you know nowadays i love to see inclusions in
55:10diamonds because then i know it's natural as opposed to synthetic diamonds which at the moment has really
55:17challenged the diamond market yeah and you've got a pair of earrings as well they're about 70 pointers
55:24each i could see these are sort of everyday studs my wife wears those as well every day excellent
55:31so the values for the pendant here with the natural pearl it's slightly baroque in shape
55:37i would say you'd be looking at about uh three to four thousand pounds okay wow wow
55:43lovely and then you've got the diamond ear studs here which are going to be around about 1500 to 2000
55:50pounds oh lovely and the single stone diamond ring here i would say this would be at auction around
55:58about 15 to 20 000 pounds okay she will be surprised yeah wow thank you so much for bringing it in
56:06it's a pleasure thank you it's great to meet you thank you very much thank you
56:19value wise i was quite surprised uh i thought it went very well and very instructive i knew she
56:25told me a lot about especially the pendant i didn't know it was that old it's 18 80 1880
56:31yeah you thought it was a pearl but you weren't 100 sure were you no no that was a that was a surprise
56:38um i've tried this on for the first time today my mum's had it for i don't know 13 years and
56:44it's the first time i've tried it on and it fits
56:46we've seen so many great items today here at shuttleworth but i think this might be my favorite
57:00the 1905 wolsey from the shuttleworth collection cruising speed about 11 miles an hour
57:06might take me quite a while to get home
57:08from the antiques stretcher bye-bye see ya
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