Antiques Roadshow UK 23×05 Glamis Castle 2

A special edition in which Michael Aspel introduces sequences from previous roadshows and recounts stories of the (Welfare) Queen Mother’s early life at Glamis Castle. Featuring ivory figures collected by a man nicknamed ‘Steptoe’ by his family, a pair of valuable Chinese imperial bowls once used as plant pots, a necklace of very ancient stones, and a collection of handbag mirrors.

La after a fascinating Road Show last week we’ve returned to glam’s Castle in Angus the childhood home of the Queen Mother the dining room here at glams almost constitutes the queen mother’s family tree the walls are covered by portraits of her Ancestors In 1767 John lion the ninth Earl of Strath Moore and the queen mother’s great great great grandfather married Mary Bose from an old and respected darham family eventually their names and their arms came to be combined as Bose lion the Queen Mother then Elizabeth Bose lion was born on August 4th 1900

The ninth of 10 children her mother embroidered the names of all her children on the canopy of her bed although she wasn’t born at glams Elizabeth spent much of her very happy childhood here as a little girl she said her favorite hobby was liking people and during today’s program we’ll be finding

Out how over the years the nation returned the compliment as well as telling that story we’ll be showing some cherished objects from recent Road shows that you won’t yet have seen so let let’s start in banable it was my aunties for ever since I can remember and when she died it

Passed on to me and when before that I think it belonged to her eldest brother-in-law who lived in Plymouth and that’s about it so when you went to your artist did you like it do you even remember yes I did I always liked it and when she moved into a nursing home she

Said Brian you better take that painting home with you that’s nice isn’t it yeah that’s good yes and you done hurt by no I’ve got no no idea at all it is actually signed you didn’t notice that no oh no is that up there halfway up by the cheres Yeah Yeah William W

Duffield 188 52 1852 yeah something I knew it was so he’s a he’s a nearly West country painter ah he bath bath bath self-taught to begin with but then he went to Belgium to stud study under a famous Belgium artist called Baron whoers a famous teacher and really what these Victorian

Paintings about right in the heart of the century is craftsmanship and we only have to study the this Green Goblet to see how the cherries are both inside and out how the one Cherry is darker than the other and I suppose you you might imagine if you looked at Victorian

Paintings of this period how when this is cleaned this will glow yeah this picture is probably never been touched no I not in my to my no and fine we there are things we have to pay attention to for the future it is flaking yes there’s a hole here that

Those things don’t matter what matters is how is the surface of this picture perfect condition the only negative aspect of this painting to make it put into a slightly different class is dead birds dead birds actually this bird is so beautifully painted and it could be in anybody’s

Ladder who cares but you know there are screamish people in the world and most of them live in America and that’s who P the money so um but I it’s certainly worth5 or £6,000 is it really you do surprise me you waiting for the tea boy I am

Let’s have a look at this oo are you a messy family no why have you got this I it was left me for family a pass down yeah and were they messy no not that I know her do you know I’ve I’ve seen these Illustrated in books but

I’ve never seen one in the flesh incredibly rare let’s have a look at what it says on the back yeah here we are it says Davenport patent drip preventative saucer and they’ve gone to Great trouble putting in this very nice little M Chinese lotus freeze to giving you these

Ridges which you know if you’re a particularly nervous person and um the tea is slopping everywhere then it goes into these receptacles and it doesn’t slot around I have to say it wasn’t the most successful P some of these stum work pictures have a date worked into them

And you can see here ink where they’ve um done the original design to work up in silver threads the snake around Adam and Eve here uh is done in silvered Threads um and you’ve got little bits of sequin or perhaps even cornelian bead for the eyes of these wonderful animals

Here but have you ever found a date only on the back my grandmother wrote in um the reign of Charles the whether she was right or not I don’t know Charles the first executed in the mid 17th century it could well be of that date it’s it’s

A very early piece I would actually dated to slightly later than that some of these are much brighter and this is faded slightly um so I’m going to be quite conservative on this and say somewhere between £3 and £5,000 um so it’s a it’s a wonderful

Object I love this blue ground this deep cobalt underglazed blue and and the painting and the the whole shape of it and these little Cupids with these wreaths on top are absolutely gorgeous um they come through the family well they came through my U wife’s family um at least grandmother had them and

Possibly her great great grandfather as well going back a few Generations years do you know what they are we’ve been told that they’re probably late 19th century and one person who looked at them suggested it might be bla Derby but I can tell you they are actually Minon really a very

Fine Factory in um sto Contra course uh Minon of the very finest period I mean the 1830s to 40s of Minton is is probably the as one of the greatest factories ever that’s a real surprise and they’re beautiful uh they’re called um the new VES when they came out in the

1830s uh they’re based vaguely upon dresdon and what is particularly just lovely about them I think is that on the front uh they’re painted with um figure subjects yes but on the on the back they have Landscapes which is really rather marvelous there there has been a bit of

Damage on on this one um well a bit of damage quite a lot of damage the cover has been BR do it been riveted together which is which is fun to see that one is damag this this one looks absolutely perfect doesn’t it I think that one’s probably okay that’s super isn’t it

Lovely quality I mean to make a a vase like that a little figure on top it is absolutely lovely there of work that goes into enormous amount of work each Little Flower is separately made and I think the whole thing is absolutely beautiful have you had them valued and

Insured um well well currently they’re insured for about just under £900 that’s our last valuation yeah well they’re worth a packet more than that really um I I think so of the last pair that have been sold um fit something like around about £4,000 really so I think you ought to

Ensure them um even with a bit of damage which is not too worrying um something like about £5,000 so um now they’re minted and to be sure for £5,000 nice and they’re very very beautiful nobody who knew the queen mother in her early days here at glams would have been

At all surprised to learn that she became well known for her great sense of fun reving in the freedom here she was known by her family as the Imp and merry Mischief one game which they called repelling Raiders involved climbing the spiral staircase to the top of the

Highest tower and lying in wait for Castle guests as the unsuspecting visitors approached the front door a welcoming Cascade of water would descend from from 90 ft above it’s not known how often Miss Elizabeth got away with that she had plenty of other tricks up her sleeve having five older brothers

Probably presented a challenge to her but it was her younger brother David who was her real partner they had a secret Den in the grounds called the flea house where they would hide to eat apples and sweets and it said to smoke wood binds when she wanted to Elizabeth could

Play the proper Little Hostess she’s remembered entertaining neighbors here in the drawing room having ordered tea all by herself at the rip old age of four but as she grew into a teenager the first world war changed life here at glams as we’ll hear in a little

While what we’re looking at here are two objects in their original boxes and I know I bang on always about keeping objects in their original boxes and this is a very good indication to show why cuz here we’ve got all the details on the outside says that it’s a triang gyro

Cycle and it’s in perfect condition whose was it well it was given to my brother when I think he was very small and probably too young to play with it I suspect my father bought it because it appealed to his sense of humor yes and it used to come out just at Christmas

And wobble around the room and then fall over and everybody was very amused and then it went back in its box for another year hence it’s perfect condition well can I take it out I yes of course you can feel that uh I don’t deserve to be

Playing with this this perfect but here we have um a Celluloid figure sitting on a bicycle and the clever thing is that in the front wheel here which is very heavy is a gyroscope so you wind the string round give it a yank the gyroscope starts spinning and of course then the toy

Keeps upright and it’s a miracle isn’t it it is a miracle especially as it go so slowly exactly and it doesn’t keep upright permanently of course it’s it’s a little bit sort of um very wly a little bit unbalanced but just the concept of the toy I think was so clever

The other reason that I like it is that it’s putting contemporary technology this is technology of the 1930s into an object but you can probably tell me the year that it was purchased almost uh yes probably 1934 yes well it’s a wonderful thing and lovely condition and value today because of all

All the things that I’ve said about condition and box and so on about perhaps 150 or2 200 so lovely continue to look after that let’s pop him away and um look and see what’s in the other original box which is much smaller and much older and all very exciting because I

Like to look at a box and know what’s inside and there is no question about what could be in a box this size and this shape which is a lovely pocket Globe uh it’s got one or two little dints on it but in general terms it’s in very good

Condition here we have the Maker’s name Lanes improved Globe London now Lanes is almost certain to be Nicholas Lane who worked in suok not a million miles from here um between about 1775 and 1786 and in fact if you have a look at some of the detailed names down here let’s go down

To Australia always a good place to start the whole of Australia is sketched in whereas on some of the early 18th century Globes part of Australia is missing but it’s called New Holland um and there’s van Damon’s land and so on so this is a globe absolutely of its

Period when people were still discovering investigating and charting unknown territories the case itself is covered in fish skin which has then been painted black which gives a very hard um uh resilient surface uh and inside we have the map of the heavens with the various stars um and signs of the zodiac

Charted um in this condition which is very good even though there’s a little crack just running through the top of the box we’d be talking about between £2 and £3,000 that’s an auction price so insurance would be quite a little bit higher than that I think it’s a a

Goddess of some sort a goddess of some sort that’s all I know Chinese Japanese English Chinese Chinese very good yes absolutely it is a goddess it’s the goddess of mercy guanin and uh she is the most famous of all of the Chinese divinities really where did it come from um it came from

An inheritance I had from my cousin whose husband used to travel quite a bit and he was a collector mhm all over the world all over the world yes right it’s 17th century is pretty ancient made during the reign of the emperor Kong shei he reigned from 1662 to

1722 and these became very popular they were shipped over to Europe um and in fact became misidentified and because it’s a a woman and a child they were thought to be the Virgin Mary oh uh which is really rather wonderful no no absolutely not at all

She’s a nice figure uh little bit of damage arm off here and a tiny chip but not too serious um that’s going to be worth around ,500 to2 and half th000 wow very nice nice inheritance very nice too this is such an unusual teapot did you buy it yourself or did you inherit

It I inherited it yes uhuh about 25 years ago something like that do you know anything about uh where they got it from no I don’t no no it is exceptionally well made that’s the first thing I can see just by looking at it from a distance and I’ve got to sort of

Pick it up and again it is a lovely weight that’s another thing I would expect because normally if something looks good it’s going to feel good now we can see inside here it’s got all this Hammer marks so originally this started off as a flat sheet of silver and was

Hammered up into this shape but what makes this particularly good is that all this decoration around here is cast and applied the normal form of decorating a teapot would be to just emboss it from the inside so somebody’s gone to a great deal of trouble not only in the

Construction but the design as well because it is beautifully made it’s it’s a lovely size and because it is such a small piece uh they sometimes call these bachelor’s teapots or or spinster teapots I’m going to hopefully find some Hallmarks yeah the maker Mark first of

All CF is for Charles Fox the Fox Family lasted throughout the whole of the 19th century um Charles Fox the first entered his Mark in 1801 but this one um is made by his son Charles Fox II and it has a a date letter for 1833 so we’re looking at a piece of

William the fourth period server I have to say I don’t think I’ve ever seen one quite in this form with this sort of naturalistic handle and spout and feet you made to look like branches and then all these beautifully made flowers around sides here have you ever had a a

Professional valuation of it about 20 years ago I took it to an auctioneers and they said it was worth about £800 20 years ago about 20 years ago right um nowadays I think uh you could at least double that maybe more because it is such an unusual pot and most teap

Pots are worth perhaps you know four5 600 at this period but because of the maker because of the quality I think you’ve got a real gem here Britain joined the first world war on the queen mother’s 14th birthday and soon glams became a hospital beds were

Set up for the wounded here in the dining room too young to be a nurse Elizabeth ran errands for the sick soldiers and wrote their letters home for them she was popular of course one soldier wrote in her autograph book May the owner of this book be hung drawn and

Quarted yes hung in diamonds drawn in a coat and four and quarted in the best house in the land a man of vision obviously by the end of the war Elizabeth was 18 it was time to join the Adult World which she did with typical enthusiasm it was at a ball in groa

Square in May 1920 that Prince Albert said he fell in love with her he and his brother came to visit glams to enjoy the relaxed atmosphere and for berti the company of Elizabeth when she finally accepted his proposal of marriage he was described as the luckiest man alive so

Popular was Elizabeth with the eligible bachelors of the day as the Duke and Duchess of York the royal couple spent part of their honeymoon at glams and they signed the visitor’s book Elizabeth and Albert and Elizabeth’s Brother David added a few romantic embellishments in 1930 Princess Margaret

Was born at glams and six years later the whole family was thrown into the spotlight and into a new life when King Edward VII abdicated later I should be talking to the doger Countess of Strath Moore about Elizabeth’s Life as a duchess Queen and Queen Mother now what we’ve got here is a

Whole collection of things I’ve often seen seen but never seen as a collection essentially handbag mirrors what an amazing variety how did you begin well my father collected them for a long time and um during that time I became interested and when he died 3

Years ago I decided I like to carry on so took over his collection and have added to them ever since I think they’re just so fascinating and it’s an an easy thing to collect and although one can’t display them well they’re they don’t take up a lot of space really have you

Got oh um 7 or 800 good Lord I think they’re wonderful things because we’ve got um Royal commemoratives we’ve got advertising we’ve got holiday commemoratives we’ve got film stars we’ve got first world war and they’re still being made I mean do you collect ones well I started to but they’re not

As interesting and I’ve got I’ve got a a selection of them but I wouldn’t go out of my way to get them no now pick out one that you like particularly well I like this one um that’s the it’s a perpetual calendar on there actually starting I think from um the late 1920s

Right so you can change the date constantly so this is one obviously it’s meant to be durable yes I think that’s unusual cuz most of them are pretty ephemeral aren’t they they are they come out they’re thrown away um and they’re replaced by something else yes I like particularly the shipping ones now

Shipping things I mean here we’ve got one which is um for um nor Norwegian Cruises I think the advertising one are particularly interesting CU they give us again a a a line straight into the period that produced them they do the challenge never beaten noted for style durability quality and reasonable prices

I mean it’s it’s the bravura of early advertising I like um there’s one over here which has got an early airplane on it 1920s actually probably 1930s pleasure flying developing as a sort of national Pastime and that’s a very good record of the time and that again would

Be of enormous appeal to somebody who was just a collector of Aviation material regardless of the mirror yes so you’ve got 800 um your father obviously paid a little amount for them what do you pay for them well they vary they are going up in price but between um five

The absolute minimum and pound this5 and 20 21 so they’re not 50p items any they’re not so it’s quite an investment but I mean we we can’t value them it’s it’s meaningless you can multiply 10 by 800 if you want to for insurance purposes but I think it’s just a

Wonderful slice of our own history this is a very deceptive thing you brought along it looks like a test for drawers but it in fact is a very elaborate way of concealing an essential bit of China and look this comes up like that and you lift up here and

Inside there is a creamware chamber pot or pot so it is a commode and what is intriguing is can you can you hold that for me thank you intriguing is that this is a bit of late 18th century creamware English creamware and of course it is

The same date as the whole of this which is probably around 1800 beautifully made so often these because they’re not very useful now get cannibalized into cocktail cabinets and things of that kind and this is absolutely lovely untouched condition original handles beautiful surface love the way these

Pegs fit so beautiful into the let that down so there you have a genuine 18th century or Circa 1800 bit of English Furniture how did you come by this one well I got it from an antique dealer M um how long ago was this uh 10 years ago

And what sort of money did you pay for 475 yes you see and that’s I would think today it’s probably worth twice that but still you can buy a wonderful absolutely authentic untouched bit of f bit of furniture for less than 1,000 pounds but it’s a lovely object interesting case of

Being able to find something that’s totally authentic untouched but not terribly valuable because uh the function um is fulfilled by other things nowadays in modern pluming yes yeah it was given to my mother by an old elderly lady and she was a Miss tatt from W withen Shore Hall and was there a

History about it passed down at all or no no I don’t know know more about it um did you wonder why all the stones were sort of engraved with these motifs no I I knew each one was different I’d looked at them and everyone was different well they are called in

Taglios and they are cut hard stones and what they’ve done is that they’ve cut into the stone itself and when you look at them quite close up with a lens you see that they’ve got many different styles and Designs some of them have got things like standing figures some of

Them have got Birds some of them have got wild creatures like BS I noticed there’s some animals around them um they’re in these Roman style seal settings but the word Roman is very pertinent to this because a lot of these are Roman hear Stones oh I always

Thought it was Cameo Cameo is when they carve above they carve the higher profile when they dig down into the stone itself that’s called intaglio um some of these are 2,000 years old those H and yep some of them are as old as that and in fact it was quite popular in

Around about 1790 to get these heart stones and what they did is that they put them into these settings and what they’ve done is that they’ve used a variety of different colored he Stones I think I’ve shocked you with that Roman thing haven’t I yes you’ve got cornelian sard which is this

Green material here that’s called a Nicolo hardstone that one there that grayish blackish one it’s very very collectible something like that because of the age and also because of the fact that this particular example is in such good condition it’s probably worth something in the region of maybe £2,000

Way they came initially from my grandfather’s who shipped it across from TM Singh and so they’ve come down through the family so you got there an extensive collection I have some more pieces yes and what do you know anything about them no not really only you know

That they’ve been around in the family for so long I’ve grown up with them you know I mean I used to keep plant pots in these you didn’t I did right let’s start with the with the this piece here this one let me remove it hat which is actually not the

Original hat that’s um uh this is should have a porcelain cover to it MH and this piece uh dates from about 1650 this is uh this is what is called transitional wear right that means it’s made during a period when the mingy was declining and and the new regime if you

Like the new Dynasty the Ching Dynasty came into into power and so this is in fact it’s painted with figure subjects and clouds and and all this this landscape and it’s it’s uh conventional for the date of of the in the 70 Century this is really intended for the sort of

People who would live in middle class houses in Holland or northern Europe in fact some of the great English houses have the same ones very heavy massively potted I suppose it was massively potted because it had to withstand uh uh a journey by sea right um a pot like this

Is going to be around about 2,000 really yeah it’s it’s it’s a good pot unfortunately it’s slightly drifted in the firing so it’s slightly blurred yeah around the figures as you see so this one is meant for export now these are not these are in fact Imperial bows

They’re actually made for the Imperial Court in the early part of the 19th century right um they are absolute Classics of their of their type you see the decoration on them you’ve got uh the dragon on this side all right and you have a phoenix here yeah which stand for I suppose the

Emperor and the empress right and it’s it’s painted with other objects like there the parasol this is all Buddhist significance around the top here it’s a type of decoration which comes in the late Ming nasty mhm and that the whole idea was revived at the beginning of the

18th century of doing the same technique and this formula for the dragon and Phoenix was made in every rain from the beginning of the 18th century right the way through right and these are made um between 1820 and about 1850 unfortunately one of them as you can see

Has got a crack yes and in this condition I think these are probably around 2,000 maybe 2,500 for the pair gosh right Mary who is daer Countess of Strathmore is niece by marriage to the Queen Mother and has known her since she herself was married what was your first memory of

The Queen Mother I think the very first memory I have was so exciting to me as as a 23 year-old um the night before my wedding my family and I were staying in a hotel in London and a box was delivered to me and this was the most beautiful ring and

I think it might have been a family ring that she was giving to me for my wedding present and I remember being so touched and so overcome by that that it’s really stayed with me all my life that memory she met Prince Albert in London and he

He pursued her to glams didn’t he as far as I know they met in London I really don’t know when they first met but I I know that her first involvement with the Girl Guides was the Princess Royal s King’s sister the Duke of York sister um

Asked her to the Girl Guides in glams and she came here with Queen Mary from Bal moral and I think the whole process probably began like that and there must have been great joy in the family at the wedding I’m sure there must have been and I’m sure everybody

Would have realized what exceptional girl she was and what a wonderful job she would make of marrying into the family they were very happy as the Duke and Duchess of York and then came the terrible shock of the application of Edward VII and her life changed completely complete change it must have

Been very hard for them and with two young daughters but I think with her usual sense of Duty and let’s get on with what we have to do sort of attitude to life I think they managed extremely well and I think how lucky we all were as a country that it

Happened then of course you have the added blow of the death of her husband yes the king died very young which was very hard on her and I think one should never underestimate the enormous ability she had to create a new and extremely useful life for

Herself and and and for us all I mean how important she’s been for all those many years her role as as Queen Elizabeth the queen mother really has been almost as important as her role as dut of York and then Queen I think one of the most important things about her

Is the way that duties and Pleasures are one they don’t divide anybody that’s ever done anything with her knows that it’s the most enormous fun as well as being extremely important and serious but always with a sense of fun and happiness what unusual back this has got

I’d never thought of it that way actually it seemed just part of the sideboard it well it is and my instinct is to come around the back to see if it’s original but I think it is I mean the the the oak is very similar here um

Not as well grained I mean here you’ve got this lovely graining which I love to point out called these melery RADS where it’s cut on the quarter to show these hard bits of grain and give this lovely dappled reflective look yes does it matter that um that it’s in sort of

Two planks at the top and it it’s got this Ridge along the middle no I mean it is a split in the sense that it the two planks would have been close together like fingers and over a period of time they’ve just walked a little bit and

Come apart but I don’t think I’d worry about that it must be bit irritating if you have food on it breadcrumbs all disappearing into the drawers but I think so yes and it’s had a fair bit of wear and tear I think but that’s part of

Its life I wouldn’t worry about that and certainly never try and restore this I don’t think there’s any point you’d never get it flat again and even if it went flat there’s nothing to say it wouldn’t spring up again in a year’s time but I love this this and this is a

Nice feature it’s a very popular sort of midn mid 18th century 1750s sort of feature this Serpentine line but of course we’re talking about a provincial piece of furniture yes where is it from somewhere in Lancashire and I always understood it was a Lancashire sideboard it’s it’s Northwestern certainly which

Is obviously a huge area well if we take that line and you look through here and you go down these lovely doors here with this this fielded panel and this rather little OG here and again the same believe it or not the same sort of shape

You call that an OG bracket foot is all typical of about the middle of the 18th century but we’re talking about a provincial piece and the fact that it’s got the quadrant columns and the serpentine top it could be 1780 even 1800 it’s never had a a rack or anything

It’s never had a plate rack it’s never had a plate they were called dressers it’s a not a dresser Bas it’s a dresser it’s a dresser yeah um this I think is charming I mean I love the shape of this I mean it’s so pretty to have this oh

Hang on even more isn’t that lovely you didn’t tell me about that what have we got in here is that original to it well I don’t know yes it is oh that’s really sweet that’s unusual to have in in below I mean they’ve all disappeared if they had them originally they’ve been cleared

Out to put big pots in or brow cauldrons or something yes the oak has a feeling of being perhaps um it’s probably North European oak or North Germany something like that I don’t think it’s Welsh oak or English Oak right but the one thing we haven’t talked about and I love this

Is the color of this you know what that wood is is it fruit wood ooh I got to say it’s mahogany but right well I think it is mahogany but it’s a clever guest fruit because in areas this is clearly mahogany on the top it’s actually more

Obvious to me there yes it is isn’t it yes but this type of banding was used in country areas and they could only afford a little bit of mahogany why they couldn’t afford mahogany it was very expensive they would use fruitwood and stain it to make it look like mahogany

So yeah 10 10 out of 10 for that one than so we’ve got to Value it it’s been with you for a long time it’s obviously a cherish piece of furniture and you’ve still got room for it I have made room for it right but you don’t have to worry

About the size of this today people want this size of dresser it’s a great piece of Furniture I think you’ve got to ensure it for 52,000 possibly six all right I know that it belonged to my grandfather um and my mother always called it the Darby Park well that’s

Quite right it is a Darby Park and Darby in the first quarter of the 19th century had two wonderful painters who painted PL one was called steel and the other was called Lucas yes when we turn to the back of the Beau Park we find a label which is very interesting that

Says that the Midland County’s works of art exhibition Derby 1870 JF Lucas lent this plug yes now JF Lucas in 1870 cannot have been J Lucas who painted it no in 1820 so that must be a family connection yes it is yes so you’re a descendant of

Lucas yes there a family connection yes well that is wonderful CU here we have a prime example of sort of Regency Clark painting wonderful with the with the basket on a shelf which is called terrrace painting by the master and there it is still in the

Family and that adds a hell of a lot to even into a beautiful object it makes it that much better you don’t have any others do you no no I understand they come in pairs but unfortunately I don’t have enough but still a single one is still well worth having particularly

With but it’s a family thing I’m sure you want to keep it in the family but still in order to make it safe you got to insure it yes and I think you should probably insure it for £4,000 I see yes thank you very much for your help made grandfather’s

Name wonderful and he he died died about 15 years ago and they’ they’ve been locked away before he finished this before we finished the last two yeah really there two ramrods missing and you want to keep those prism up yeah but as I say this is an American market today

Americans they go bananas over this I can first remember these pieces in my grandfather’s house um when I was when I was very small used to go bu to their house after school and that and uh play in the lounge and these pieces along with several other pieces were in a a

Glass cabinet well they’re they’re made of um of English call true porcelain I stress that true rather than what we called artificial or soft paac porcelain these are probably from the new Hall Factory in Staffordshire which the for of the porcelain began much earlier not far away from here in Plymouth by um

William cookworthy and the formula passed into staer and about 1780 81 and this is made a little bit later than that in fact it’s a very good example of the neoc classical style if you want or just neoc classicism if you want the teapots very very good oval shape taken

After silver shape nice faceted spout and the cups too these kind of simple u-shaped cup represented of period around 1800 1810 what first appealed to me was the uh this sorcer here with paint painted in this again classical style in the in this this Cameo this single color as it were with detailing

With that’s exactly the sort of thing that would be done by Wedgewood but this is slightly more primitive but that’s has more appeal as far as I’m concerned lot more appeal but it’s very rare to get this design New Hall itself produce a lot of material but this particular

One is so evocative of that period that it has enormous appeal if you look at them these are not printed these are painted and you can see the Primitive nature of the painting in the in the handling now tell me how many pieces have you got all is this it um no

There’s um another milk jug which is damaged um there’s about six it was called coffee cups I was thought they were and there’s about another three teacups another three of the sources right I don’t think there’s any plates right um well you’re probably looking at around a round figure of between 2 and

3,000 of this what you’ve got here even a line for the damage on the the the teapot even for that so they’re a real collector’s piece my father collected it many years ago and he since passed on and it’s been left to me he was quite acquisitive wasn’t he cuz there’s a big

Range here yes yes he used to collect a lot of things so much so that we used to call him Steptoe step every time he’d come home he’d had something else so this is the bone for the Rag and Bone man that’s right right okay um well

You’ve got a French fan you got a piece of Indian carving over here but then everything except one piece between here is Japanese or Chinese I suppose that’s the most eye-catching one and has it always been in the state yes cuz if I look closely at it I see that what

Should be mother of pearl inlay here and here is in fact little sequins little glass sequins so in fact looking over the body of elephant a lot of the inlay has been replaced it’s not in its original Condition it’s a shame also the broken trunk um so this has been through the

Wars and in fact looking generally at the collection it has a slightly nibbled feel to it one that really caught my eye was this one if we have to choose any here this is perhaps the finest representative of detail and can you see what’s going on here this little lad here he’s painting

At a table and then next to them is this rather corpulent fellow called hotai the god of good luck and Longevity and he’s always represented by lots of little children smothering him and climbing over him he’s sort of God of Plenty yes it’s beautifully carved well

There are one or two 18th century pieces here but our elephant is 19 late 19th century as are most of these little okon these miniature carvings and the one we’ve just looked at here is probably worth somewhere in the region of6 to 900 just for the one just for that one

And you’ve got one 2 3 4 5 of that caliber you’re doing your arithmetic I’m going to choose my favorite piece quite difficult to do but it’s this one this reminds me of when I was a a we l my grandfather used to take me to the

Fish shop and this lad is watching as the fishmonger is about to deliver the Cuda grass to this poor old eel and I love the expression of regret oh you don’t really want to look at this my son don’t you think that’s touching the way they theyve conveyed the eye

Contact with this little boy oh don’t do it Daddy and meanwhile the comical touch here the brother eel is looking out of his oh blimy what’s going on there it’s a very very nice little okimono it’s signed and again it dates to around 1900 and it has a terrific

Presence unfortunate for the eel but a beautiful piece of carving and observation that piece alone I think is £1,500 so your whole collection is really rather good it is isn’t it and um I think from an insurance point of view I want to go through it very carefully but it’s going

To come out in the region of £10,000 [Laughter] wow in 1936 the oldest tenant on the glams estate sent a letter to Lord St Moore the queen mother’s father James White wrote no more joyous people can there be found than the folks around here they are related in the knowledge

That the young lady who most of them knew not so very long ago as Lady Elizabeth is now their Queen and he goes on to say the new Queen Elizabeth is the finest asset our Empire possesses well the Empire might have disappeared but no one can argue with Mr

White’s sentiments and our thanks go to Lord Strathmore for the very warm welcome we’ve received here at glams Castle and until next week [Applause] goodbye Oh