Antiques Roadshow UK 23×17 Eastnor Castle Exterior (February 4, 2001)

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Michael Aspel and a team of experts examine curios and artefacts offered up by the public. Among the turrets and terraces of Eastnor Castle in Herefordshire, they find some bizarre objects, including a wooden bicycle, a huge pocket knife with 96 implements, an embroidered egg, a World War I pack with a bullet lodged in it and the first All Blacks rugby shirt.

On the Eastern edge of the county of herfordshire is one of its most attractive Market towns ladbury the look of ladbury is due partly to a scheme established in the 13th century by the bishop of Herford to allow Freeman of the town to rent strips of land they were called burgages they

Were 20 ft wide and 200 ft long and they sprouted the narrow half timbered houses so beloved by visitors the market house stands on 16 Stout Oak pillars originally intended to protect corn from 17th century rats 21st century Civic leaders still climb up here and trade goes on

Underneath but these days The Market Hall serves at Britain’s most distinguished bus stop Ley is a good few miles from the coast but you might get the impression of water an illusion caused by the plastic tunneling used locally in the production of soft fruits there are huge Orchards around

Here too cider makers and drinkers rely on them this is Big Apple Country and half of the Hops that go into England’s car alses are grown in herfordshire the result some very tasty beer cheers Michael in the nearby Hamlet of eastnor just below the morvin hills is a fairy

Tale Castle erected not as a fortification but is an impressive home for a local Family East nor castle built in the early 19th century at a cost of 85,3 123 13 Shillings and 11 P hpy is the setting for today’s Antiques Road Show I first saw it at a cycle show in

1952 and fell in love with it wasn’t for sale right and then sorry about 2 years later outside Italian cafe with a sign on it £25 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 his history any more accurately than that well only that they were made during the war in Italy by Two Brothers we because of mainly because the shorty was steer 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 propellers were all laminated 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 work that’s right I mean I’ve measured it it’s 7t long if you laid it on the ground yes blows my mind to think the way this is

All bent round and everything arrives in the right place you know for the head and that’s right probably they didn’t make the handle bar I think handle bars and chain wheel and brakes probably stock items but everything else they made in house which is quite amazing especially as they 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 faster 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 Faults um and I I have feeling not many of these survive because the weakness of the forks if so many you think the forks are 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 this is Dutch or to be more precise it’s Frisian that’s what I was going to say how do you know that I’m supposed to tell you that because my mother to whom it belong uh comes from an old Frisian

Family in Holland and this was passed down to me after she died we’re talking here about the 17th century and this is a time when Holland was obviously a wealthy country the Tulips of course the famous tulips until the early 17th century were very very expensive items

Um the Tulip B was made the Amsterdam trade is very rich Holland was a great sea fairing Nation at the time and of course the farming was always very rich but very very provincial I think it’s difficult to to imagine quite how provincial that that would be the family

Were sea farers and Merchants in fact right right for many generations and it probably would have taken quite a lot of money to achieve to buy a piece like this in the 17th century there’s an awful lot of work gone into it I mean well there has I mean I love this the

Various moldings here I you’ve got this one here which was almost like a almost like a thumbnail an over nail like scale pattern really here and then you’ve got a variation of it like a sort of Ripple molding here but all done by hand this is not a machine this is one man

Laboriously carving each little piece out like that which I love and I’m rather stuck here I mean this is sweet the hearts that’s very nice indeed so it may have been perhaps a marriage Coffer well I was told that it was a marriage Coffer they had them at the foot of the

Bed for um putting the linen in or something so in that case we assume these are these are billing doves you know I’ve never noticed the birds there no they are birds aren’t they two Amorous Birds two love birds let’s say for the marriage chest and the day the day

Would that be the date of the it was made or the date of the wedding maybe or something is that 1701 on there I think it’s 1701 there something about the cutting I don’t think it’s the same hand if you look really closely very crude and very very deep compared with this

Subtlety of the rest of the carving so it probably is later with these provincial pieces in any country it’s very difficult to date within 50 years so you know I could say 1650 it could be 1700 what what’s anything inside that’s interesting I don’t think particularly interesting no um original that’s nice

Is that is that a candle box at the end or candle box yes traditionally and a lovely lock oh it’s a snap lock oh that’s a wonderful per so that lock is 300 years old or so still it should snap shot when you when you close

That without let’s just I think so yeah so yes so Heaven help you if you’ve taken the key out and you can’t you can’t open it it snaps block and that that’s it but what a nice piece of furniture now I suspect that you probably know more about the value of

This than I do because no I don’t you had it Valu recently or anything no not at all I think at auction in London a pre-sale estimate of about2 to 25,000 that’s nice and I think it would probably be bought by a Dutch person or a Dutch dealer right over to to the

Netherlands I could see it in Amsterdam shop for probably 5,000 something like that oh it is nice to know it’s a very early piece lovely and part of your history thank you thank you very much yes this one was given to me in 1945 when as a young teacher I left Herford

Shire to go and work in Su um someone admired that a visitor to my house in 1980 tried to find me the salt pot and this is what he found for me and gave me as a present right not of course a salt pot but a mustard pot you one of

The things that I find so delightful about the way these were designed the little mouse in the beak there gorgeous you’re so lucky you’ve got that complete because so often that is missing and of course it isn’t part of the lid but the end of the soon as you know any

Too well um so it’s it’s such a clever design it’s such a clever design but let’s have a look at the the pepper pots now we’ve got the marks there of Sheffield in fact for 1851 51 um so we’re just around the time of the great exhibition coming up to that so

It’s recentely early for this type of novelty and the maker there uh is Henry Wilkinson that one is as a pepper p i mean it it is in really super condition have you had it Val at all never that one I would say on its soon you’re going to be looking at about

800 gracious man now the mustard pot the mustard pot I’m afraid the marks on here are rather indistinct mhm it’s the same date as as this one is it also 1851 but this is a London one uhuh it it has to be said this one had a little bit of a

Hard life mhm to being used remarkably the the liner does appear to be the original one but you can see that if you look through there oh yes yes you see around the eyes yes uh there all those those holes so that is I’m afraid going

To have have quite an effect on the value it probably looking maybe it may hit the Thousand you may be lucky and it may go a little more than that but the condition is going to pull it right down I’m afraid you’re going to be very busy

Aren’t you yes the okay what have you brought here a nice towel yeah it’s upside down so oh what’s this the Cavalry maybe we’re not quite sure oh I see 188 two on there have you spotted that yeah I have not as old as you though I don’t know that about 3 years

Out I’m sure you’re going to do very well you in thank you very much right thank you belonged to my uncle who was in the second world war and when he came back after being driving tanks in Germany he had this knife wonderful how many blades

There are 996 items on there and I think four are missing the little bits that come out at the end so let us have a look at a few because you’re more conversant with it than me but what do we got here here we we have clearly a

Hacka hacka and uh the large the large blade right and a quite large pair of scissors uh and then we get down to the small items which are here a little pair of pliers M and here a similar pair but of Pinchers right um it’s wonderful isn’t

It and there are so many things on here I’ve never had I don’t think I’ve ever had them all out together it’s impossible but there’s a COR screw that’s a most useful of course yeah and a a minut screwdriver here but then one can go over to the back side and and

Find the the the inevitable hook that’s for getting boy scouts out of horses H I think or out of girl gu’s tents out of girl gu’s tents oh that’s a new one and and on the back of that there is a a nail file mhm And Then There are a

Myriad of very fine blades yes and because because there are 100 items or roughly 100 in there the blades are so thin and some of them are lethal lethally sh I can imagine really and truly for the size of it uh sort of Impractical you know what I mean

I mean certain things you you could use to Advantage but um it’s hardly a pocket knife is it but the whole point is it’s it’s the cupless art is it about what date have you any idea around about 1900 I see I mean that and in America these

Go down in a very big way one like this is is quite valuable in itself but it’s certainly a nice collector’s piece that well because of the number of the blades admittedly a little bit of damage but in the American Market you’re looking at something in relation to ,000 good

Goodness good discretion yes it it’s they’re very very desirable a friend of mine had a Victorian Mansion Flats in West London and he was selling it to move to a new news house in hamstad and um he just didn’t have the war space and I was renovating a house

In bford park and I did have the wall space and that’s exactly why I wanted so was it wall space or was there more than that to attract you to this picture no it was W was the period as well the artist is James jabus

Shannon he was born in New York State uh and came to London age 16 in 1878 uh and so he has been if You’ like rediscovered as American because in my whole career he’s always been thought of as a British Artist a London artist there is a sort of wonderful bravura to

The brush tricks and I think in a way um you can see see that in the ring here you know you get that feeling of Sparkle and luster and it’s all to do with the weight of paint I mean actually it’s a very handsome portrait but commercially we need you

Know handsome young men or beautiful young women to really lift the price I would say4 or 5,000 I think probably how many have you got well I 24 or 25 you’ve got a whole kennel in here how long have you I bought any for uh at least 15 years and do you remember

How expensive the last one you bought how much I pay yeah well I think probably 25 years ago I probably paid about something the best about 30 20 to 30 20 to 30 do you know which Factories do you know which porcelain fact factories you have here oh most of these dogs were

Made in Staffordshire dating to 1830 1850 I never see any nowaday they are quite uh they are quite rare I’ve got some uh you know spaniels large one with uh the basket of flowers yes oh we’ve got some ink Wells down here as well I was hoping we might see these oh they

Pretty oh look at that beautiful yeah that’s one of my favorite yeah and of course one damage is uh the crack on the that one yeah yes you’ve got they were used for pet aren’t they these are little ink Wells and fortunately they have never been used

For ink because oh no I’m wrong look it had this one has been used for ink I was going to say usually they take an awful stain um if you put ink into the bottom here it soaks into the porcelain and it leaves you with this awful stain but I

Think at some stage fortunately uh they stopped using it and it is simply an ornament yeah well I will just see what we’ve got there another Inkwell this is like Christmas at crufts so as far as you know nobody’s actually been under the water no we haven’t no not well I’m deeply relieved

I have to tell you that these diving helmets um often reproduced an original dating from around about 1900 would probably be worth 1,000 to 1500 in a marine soil but if you look carefully at this for example open the front door there’s a socking great crack which is

By no means waterproof inside the inner bezel here this has been put together entirely for effect the front plate which says the um US Navy diving helmet looks incredibly warm War but it’s made to look incredibly warm and if you spin it over like this you can see all these

New nuts and bolts which are securing it inside if you went under the water in this you wouldn’t last for more than about 30 seconds that’s right I wouldn’t recommend it you like the inkw well I think the inkw well is gorgeous I think this Inkwell if you buy one of those at

Auction today you will have to spend about £400 for one ink well well I think that each pair as we go through here let’s give you an average each pair is probably worth between £4 and 700 each PA 1 2 3 4 5 6 22,000 yeah to £4,000 for that lot

And I’ve given you values on those maybe 100 to2 200 each yeah and maybe three to 500 for him alone I think you’ve done very well thank you it’s a big pleasure to us have you to look at them this sort of glaze cabinet was very

Popular in the the second half of the 19s it looks rather French particularly with the the the inlay work here and the metal Ms but it’s probably English I think Walnut made in England but with this very French style which was so popular uh I like this because it’s got

The it looks as if it’s got the original uh material inside and how did it come to you in the first place well we used to live in Southport and we met we used to meet an Old Gentleman and he used to often ask us for money for a cup of tea

And we’d give him thre or six p and and then this one Saturday he asked as if we’d buy a cupboard off him for 10 Shillings and the cupboard was absolutely disgusting it was just covered in hardboard and really horrible so we took it to our house and we left

It in the garden and then one day the children wanted a piece of hardboard so we took it off the front and this was underneath so you had no idea this was underneath at all AB no idea it was a kind of a casing it was just a piece of

Hardboard on it and it was nailed on the sides and it was tied on with a piece of rope how extraordinary well you got something that’s really very decorative yeah had we know we’ have taken care of it one of these they’re often made in pairs but for one you’re probably

Looking at about oh5 700 oh gosh that’s nice so that’s good for 10 shs it and philanthropy as well yes now I’ve seen all sorts of very peculiar things on the road show but I have never ever come across 17th century embroidered egg have you ever seen one before no and

Nobody we’ve talk to has ever seen I that’s definitely what it is we have a hen’s egg which has been carefully blown there’s a hole at the end which they blew it through and then somebody has sat down and has meticulously embroidered it um as as an afternoon occupation it

Seems to be somewhat um extreme um you know but it has to have really a considerable novelty value first of all because um of of the materials they’ve used at the actual style of the embroidery it’s typical 17th century what we’d expect to find on something

Like stumpwork but never on an egg they perhaps were doing the beautiful thing and going to work on an egg but I I imagine that if some somebody got hold of one of these and they wanted to sell it they would be asking mid to high

Hundreds £500 that sort of area for it um it’s a really beautiful thing very unusual thing the tragedy of it is that by the very nature of the material it’s going to gradually become dustier and duster and it will eventually one day crumble flake away flake away you’ll be

Left with a beautiful memory thank you so much for bringing it in thank you now here’s a very familiar scene and some very familiar faces although not all with us now Sammy Davis Jr Peter Lawford and Jerry Lewis now why are they here and why were they here in

1969 they were making the film one more time here and Peter lawford’s lady friend fell off a horse she was riding one of the stunt horses and fell from it and she was taken into the hospital in nury my mother was the matron in ledbury

And these were two of the nurses and so they came out to watch the filming so this was the day when Hollywood came to East with grateful thanks for a gallant Endeavor America’s Cup 1934 and then we got signatures of uh Tommy Sor I think that’s his wife and his wife could be

Yes right so what’s the history behind it well my father um was given it um by Tommy sorth for his Services Endeavor the um he was an AM crew and um a professional crew in 1934 went on strike and they had to S Endeavor across to Atlantic to challenge for um America’s

Cup they weren’t paid they had to their bill and um this is one the things they was given course sorth I always think of soor camel the pl and that’s that’s the same firm what is it actually made of oh it’s silver silver Sil silver with um that’s goal

Set onto the from that’s 9 karat gold as a straight for cigarette case we we’d be looking at perhaps 3040 on the market it’s difficult how much that is going to add to it it is certainly going to make a significant difference and I should

Think is easily going to add not to the to the figure so yes the real treasure is is the the inscription yes thank you thank you for bringing it along thank you we’ve had him about 40 years with the interesting background a great uncle of mine bought the this in another

Painting in the 1930s somewhere in wydale right he liked the other painting but this one rather offended his sense of decency so apparently he put it in a fitted wardrobe with its face to the wall hid it away indeed just so and as a

16y I found it there you found it in the in in the cupboard yes with its face to the wall did you and I I was told that if I could get it out of the house without him seeing it it was mine I did

So you did so you did you you saved his modesty and car apparently well it is definitely a 17th century painting this um and it shows St Jerome in his penitence he went into the Wilderness and uh lived um a life of prayer and and thought and uh down at

The bottom here we’ve actually got the lion that Legend has it that he removed a a thorn from the POR of and from then on the lon was his obedient servant so that’s a rather nice Extra Touch to the narrative indeed it is actually I think deriving from an original Ruben’s

Composition or possibly a composition by a follower of rubben but it’s very much uh in a Flemish 17th century style so brilliantly rescued by you from the back of a of a cupboard it’s a picture that you probably should ensure for something in the region of 2,000 oh good right and

I hope you will continue to enjoy it and look at it rather than keep in the back of a cupboard indeed oh it’s guaranteed a place on our wall very good thank you this jersey belonged to a member of the 1905 tour party to England which was the

First official New Zealand party to to to England in the All Blacks and um this jersey belonged to Duncan McGregor now Duncan McGregor played on the wing for for New Zealand and as it turned out in that very first game he scored four tries which um up until at least 1987

Had never been surpassed by any new zealanders in international game so that was quite unique these things relate to the first All Blacks T here um and they know they became known as all blacks because on arrival the Press said to them well what colors are you playing in

And they said all black and it Stu from that moment in and if I just have um a look at the ball the condition here is not so good the signatures are fading which is a shame but nevertheless um its association with that first Crystal

Palace match would um uh make it I would have thought at least £1,000 worth at auction and you should maybe be ensuring that for £2,000 the cap McGregor’s cap um with the New Zealand emblem on it and actually in pretty good condition recording um the years that he played as

You say 1903 to4 U right the way around to 1907 to8 is probably worth at auction um £500 to £2,000 you should ensure that for £3,000 and here we have D McGregor signed and inscribed along with other players around the Inside Edge of the piece of leather which is stitched on

The front of the jersey I must make this um the earliest piece of antipa and rugby memorabilia that um uh anybody could ever wish to find incredibly difficult to value at auction um soccer early soccer shirts make thousands and thousands of pounds in fact the top

Price for an early soccer shirt is over £20,000 but I wouldn’t be surprised if this shirt didn’t bring at auction £5 to £8,000 I think you should be ensuring this shirt for £10,000 it’s an incredibly exciting object Mark Louis Solon came from South and he in in France and he had developed

This wonderful technique called pator Pat where you built up layers of white glaze to get this diaphanous picture I mean technically absolutely wonderful prob it took him a long time to build up these layers and layers with glaze and he signed it down here Louis sonon it’s ins size there in the

Um in the glaze it how how long have you had it that one about 11 years that’s 11 years did you pay a lot of money for it 11 years ago uh £900 oh well you’re I think you’re comfortably in the clear and I would have thought that today would probably

Worth 3,000 that s of thing well I mean it’s a top object and and I and what I really enjoy is this I think he’s had such fun with all this the technically this is absolutely maerial but my favorite one is this one I am as certain as I can be that

That it was painted at Derby by Thomas steel Thomas steel was a great painter of of fruit still lives and he’s easy to to recognize because his great look like electric light bulbs I think that’s a good analogy that’s how I’ve always thought of them being they they glow like light

Bulbs and but this is a particularly good one I and a good still life always is enhanced by cut fruit don’t you think it’s it’s and then you’ve got this little bit of the the the pear that being nibbled at and it is a um um a

Really fine example I like these are quite speculative things if everybody likes them this kind of this kind of PL fetches three and a half or 4,000 is this an engine You’ ever ever fired up at all um no uh I don’t really want to fire it up because it’s in such

Good condition um and I’ve already got a collection of home of a few M mod and mesos which I I do fire up because they’re modern and so this is almost too good to use you think yeah this is actually marked by Bing The Firm Bing and the instructions also have that Mark

And the Bing Mark is from 1923 so that helps to um to give a date to the piece yeah but I noticed the accessories actually are made by marklin yeah um do you do you have other accessories at home um there’s a generator to go with this and a few

Other bits and pieces but um they did actually come with the engine right presumably these accessories would have been driven from some sort of band from this wheel it wouldn’t would have been a solid drive would it uh no it would have been one of these springy types uh

Linked to a rod up here yes uh with more wheels on uh with the same belt drive for the accessories yes presumbly you can still get the fuel to power this yeah yeah it runs off meths and you fill the boiler here with water mhm um heat

It up and after about 10 minutes should be it’s as long as 10 minutes before the pressure gets up yeah yeah this is the safety valve Arrangement here uh and there’s actually a weight that you can move about to get uh a different safety pressure and so that if you’re driving

Something which takes more power you’ll slide the way to one way or the other yeah to allow for that yeah has it been in the family or did you buy it um it came from auction a couple of years ago um and I think it was a couple of

Hundred quid it’s much larger scale than most of the um engines that you find That’s What attracted me to it cuz it’s so unusual and um this must be getting off for 20 in high this this chimney and I I think that does help the value if

You were to resell it yeah so I suspect that if it went to auction today it would make between £400 and £600 really um and it’s a wonderful thing to had brought along yeah thank you very much indeed thank you says Carlos Magnus which is for Charlamagne Charles I

Yes King of France who was the first Holy Roman Emperor and here he is looking U proud in his crown yes and the scene in the center is the coronation yes he was born in 742 um I think it was in Bavaria um and he was crowned by Pope

Steven II in the middle part of the uh 8th century and died I think in about 8117 so he lived a very long time about 70 odd years which is is amazing in those days this is very s proudly embossed with trophies of war and Justice at the bottom there and it’s

Sort of rolent of all the the achievements that uh that Charlamagne had of course you know all this is going on in the 8th Century but in reality it’s not an 8th Century piece unfortunately exactly um and and actually what’s interesting is it’s sort of copying in a style of U nurburg arms

Dish something like that of the 15th 16th century but it’s 19th century yes and late 19th century at that it’s actually ma machine pressed so it’s it’s a product of the Industrial Age yes and although it’s it’s a wonderful thing it’s not worth a huge amount of money

250300 something like that so you know a reasonable investment yes lovely thank you very much thanks a lot thank you we found it in my father-in-law’s Greenhouse in the greenhouse in the greenhous what he doing there it was just there and it looked well I thought

It looked a bit old yes but it is very old this is over 400 years old um this is a a very unusual example to get on on uh the road show because it’s um a piece of Italian myica and um it it’s it’s a tater it’s a tater that means it’s taken

After silver shaped dish for probably supporting wine glass or something on it and this is a a special type developed in the 16th century from around 1550 um we all always think that this stuff myate is white but this it developed from very very dull background you can

See this color in here how the white has gone over it that’s because they developed this new white glaze called Bianco deanza which this is and so they then felt much more confident about doing designs which were loose and open so you can expose much of the white body

So this is relatively relatively wide now what they did in the second half of the 16th century was to design it very sparingly in this style which is called compendio in Italian which means sort of shorthand so that this is a very simplified design with a wonderfully um

Uh mobile putty it’s the putty in the middle here so it’s a marvelous little object very sparing but quite rare and this piece uh I would value it around about 1,000 maybe 12200 under the hammer perhaps even more s thought I didn’t even like it but this

Is a very attractive child’s chair how long have you had this um well it’s been handed down to me in in my family actually yeah my father told me when I was little that um his his great-grandfather made it for his father that’s absolutely wonderful um this is

Really unusual to sort of see a chair like this made out of bobbins and what is even more clever is that that um your great-grandfather has reflected that in in turning a piece of wood along the back here along the arms to reflect the bobbin as well yes and I think at some

Points they they actually move look at that I think that’s really fantastic and the other thing that I love as well is the fact that you’ve got all this lovely sort of wear you’ve got the lovely sort of wear on on the elbows and on the

Stretchers here and on the seat and the other points here you’ve got this lovely sort of dirt that’s ingrained I think it’s absolutely fantastic well if you were to see this in an antique shop it was a sort of thing that people were just fall in love with and it’s got to

Be worth 4 to 600 PS really I think it’s fantastic oh it’s surprise here thanks for bringing it thank you very much now this is a story that could have come straight from a filmed script we have here just a a cloth packet containing lots of postcards on the outside of this

Packet is a hole it’s a bullet hole and inside the pack right in the middle of the cards is the bullet now this belonged to your father this belonged to my father what did he tell you about it well he told me that he had that I think

On a backpack it might have been in a breast pocket in the first world war and uh that saved his life the bullet went in and uh stuck in the middle of the cards that’s what I understand yes and he wasn’t a fanciful man your father oh no definitely

Not but these aren’t English cards are they no they’re not no no whether he collected them CU this was in France you see and he says he Souvenir de certainly was souvenir of the war was wasn’t it how old was your father uh when this

Happen about 17 he signed up early as a lot of uh young men did in those days they accepted accepted them under age and they went early too lot of them if he hadn’t been wearing this yeah he would have been killed well killed or injured I don’t know and you wouldn’t be

Here and I wouldn’t be listening to this amazing story it’s a terribly classical style out actually um which really dates back to the mid 17th century and sort of jiren do Style with all these little dropped hanging down very nice quality diamonds and they’re all 19th century Cuts round a sort of

Rectangular one pair shaped cushion cut and when we turn around and look at the back the gold works all beautifully done I mean this is what makes old jewelry so good and so delightful because the back should be just as good as the front it’s all beautifully pierced out and filed out

And it also has this detachable fitting which again is very common in in 18th and 19th century jewelry so it’s it’s multi-purpose and it’s got a a little Loop there that you can hang from a a chain or or ribbon and the front of course is set in silver cuz that’s the

Only white metal that they used to have if one were to see that in a fine quality shop today I think that would be retailing is somewhere around the £15,000 Mark and that’s the that’s the value it should be ured for 15,000 yes not a bad song both my husband’s father

And his grandfather were in the Navy and they were both in the Far East but the grandfather was in Yokohama in about 1860 something yeah and but the my his father was they certainly about 1900 right but then but in China not in Japan as far as I but he would have gone

To Japan because this is a Japanese piece well presumably yes what’s so fantastic for me anyway I mean I love Japanese metal work yes but to see something like this out of solid silver is actually quite trar exactly do you know how much it weighs no I’ve never

Weighed well I think it’s about 60 oz and that’s pretty hefty isn’t it I’ve loved the um all the dragons and the granthum I think are beautiful yes they’re marvelous well the Japanese were fantastic of course at chasing metal objects um the skill of the craftsmanship is fantastic I mean in the

Center we have a design of chrysanthum with all the stam ends of the flowers are picked out in Gold that’s contained by a little key fret border here and then this lovely Rim this lovely side of the the dish here is beautifully chased with uh one two three

Dragons I think amongst swirling waves and some of the waves are picked up with little drops of gold too so it’s a it’s a uh a very Japanese design it’s a rare thing and it’s a very it’s a very impressive object and I I I think uh I

Think if that was to come up in auction it would certainly make 4 to 6,000 do you indeed well that’s very handsome well here’s a commission document signed by Queen Victoria here and her prime minister Peele here appointing Edward White gentleman to solicit her to our first or Grenadier

Regiment of foot guards so who was this uh Edward White gentleman well he was the father of a friend of the family actually and most of these well all these documents were given to us by Barbara white mhm so he was obviously quite an important uh man and I see

You’ve got letters here wonderful collection of letters I mean there’s a Tennyson letter there uh uh Edward I 7th letter there and so on and so forth it goes on with sort of virtually every member of the royal household signing notes and all that sort of thing they

Come from all over the place Osborne the RO the art yes house Henry ponsonby obviously he was the um controller of the household of uh Queen Alexandra I think he was a rather chat with a big white beard I seem to remember and then you’ve got this wonderful um ceremony um to be

Observed at the funeral of his late Majesty King Edward I 7th of blessed memory and that gives all the instructions for well I find that most fascinating document of the lot it tells you what color the horses have to be what sort of carage carriage you can

Ride in and who was riding in what who was riding and you’ve also got a little um uh a little Illustrated birthday book uh of Shakespeare and again this is all filled in with royalty isn’t it I mean it’s just absolutely crammed full oh Victoria Mita of course Queen Victoria’s

Uh granddaughter Duke of edinburgh’s uh Duke of edinburgh’s daughter she was called Malita because Malta she was he was station stationed in Malta she later became um she made married secondly I think into the uh Russian royal family but you’ve got lots of other lovely things but particularly I have to say

This little collection of cabinet photographs I mean there’s a wonderful one of Queen Victoria with her grandchildren um Edward lania uh Queen Alexandra looking very young and very very beautiful I mean when she was obviously Princess of Wales there’s a pretty one of Queen Victoria almost smiling there I think well that’s absolutely

Lovely and then Le Leopold now Leopold of course uh he is very rare because uh he died when he was in his 20s in his early 20s he was hemophilia and um he died in an accident well the earliest one of Queen Victoria’s children to die Louise Duchess of five I mean they

Really are absolutely want oh look at that one Alfred that’s about the best one I think I’ve ever seen well very well posed indeed for a decent cabinet photograph um you’re talking anything from somewhere between 50 to sort of2 200 or300 in the case of Leopold and

Certainly in the case of Alfred I would think certainly that there’s an awful lot there all these other things these commission documents these letters from famous people I’ve totted it up it’s somewhere in the region of about 3,000 well I’m staggered they say the Antiques roacho works on

Several levels well it certainly has today because both the upper and the lower Terraces here at eastar Castle have been humming with activity and we haven’t quite Seen the Last of eastar because we should be coming back here next week to bring you the colorful inside story of the castle itself

Meanwhile thank you very much to the people and the countryside of Herer and until next week Goodbye The