Antiques Roadshow UK S46E02 – Crystal Palace Park, London 1

Today our home is in southeast London in Crystal Palace Park spread over 200 leafy acres and it has an incredible and eclectic array of History including these life-size Stone Dinosaurs the sculptures were unveiled here in 1854 to Mark the Reconstruction of the original Crystal Palace but today it’s the road

Show that’s proving the biggest draw here in southeast London and our experts are keeping their eyes peeled for Treasures ancient and modern we stumbled upon this ring that was wrapped up in a sock no what’s the address of the car boot s and springing a surprise or

Two we emailed it to the artist he’s here can’t it be a bit less and then I can keep it our complete piece sold for $25 th000 oh my goodness welcome to the Antiques Road Show looking at that checkerboard design it is about the most recognizable logo isn’t it in any piece of luggage or handbag wear and it is of course Louis Von so are you a collector no no I came by this by chance I went down to see my

Mother-in-law to help her do some DIY and I asked her where her tools were and she said they were in the shed in a box and I walked into her shed saw this opened it found all the tools in there went back did the DIY and said by the

Way I think you’ve got something quite special in the shed and so she said well if you want it you can have it but never never sell it so let’s talk a bit about Louis vuon as a as a company I mean the fact that they’re still in business

Today is Testament to the the quality of their products but his great kind of tadar moment was he realized that with the changes in travel from open stage coaches to Railways previously all the luggage had domed tops so that the water would run off them he said hey on a minute if

They’re inside they don’t need Dome tops they can be square and you can stack them stack them stack them stack makes a huge amount so he patented that and the other thing that he thought of well they don’t need to be made of leather what they need is to have a fabric that

Shrugs off water so he invented this Fabric and this design is the D design and it really did uh prove almost indestructive dble have you thought about date no I’m presuming uh 1890 1900 perhaps might be completely wrong there are various Clues here first of all I

Just love the remnants of the luggage labels on the side really great and the other clue inside is if we open up the lid this is just it’s fabulous to have the original interior I can’t see any sign of tool damage interestingly on this label we’ve

Got the serial number which is an early serial number but we can’t see it entirely I suppose from uh a historical point of view this is a good early one but it also shows how clever Louis vitton was not just to think about packing and packaging and stacking but he also thought about

Counterfeiting and he thought actually you know the checkerboard is one thing but I’m also going to put my name on it and if you look closely in some of these squares you will see his name okay but just the fact that it said Louis VTO made it just a bit more irritating to

Make a forgery this is just before 1896 because that’s when he used the LV monogram so look it’s a great thing I know this was bought by your mother-in-law what do you think she paid for it she indicates to me that she paid about £25 in a junk shop in little

Hampton sometime in the’80s I think well I’m pleased to say the market has moved on a little bit since then uh and I think in in an auction to the right Byer we’re going to be talking about a minimum of 5,000 and perhaps as much as 7 and a half wow fantastic thank

You very much what you going to do with it I have two daughters here with me who made me bring it today and I think they’ got their eyes on it how they split it I don’t know yes it might be swapped for something that you could wear over your shoulder

Absolutely thanks so much thanks very much indeed thank you now these are some of the most intimate little pictures that I’ve ever seen by the artist Yan Ugo who’s most well known for his more Monumental female nudes and portraits and beautifully measured still Liv but these are tiny and they say happy

Christmas love you and did he send them to you yes he did I’ve got four of them so he sent them every year and how did you get to know him I modeled for youan for six years and what was sitting for him like how many hours did you have to

It was amazing it would be 3 hours all in the same pose how long did it take him to paint your portrait six years in total yeah so it’s nice we got we were in the end good friends which was lovely so that’s why I think actually seeing these Christmas cards it’s so

Interesting because pictures like your portrait as I say they clearly took a very long time but with these Christmas cards we get a snapshot a very different side of him so I love this one because it’s essentially a figure with a skirt but he’s just used a stick of Rosemary

And actually only someone who had such a masterful idea of the shape and proportions of a human body would be able to choose a stick of rosem that’s just perfectly made out so that you can work out the arms the skirt the body and then he’s used I think their lentils for

Her head and her boobs and then this one is awesome where you know he’s used two pistachio shells and then this looks like a potato print or something to capture the female nude and put her arms behind her head he probably thought about them quite a lot but they probably

Took him a snapshot to make and they’re wonderful to see cuz they’re so different now these aren’t large scale nudes shame but in a way that’s why I love them so much because they’re so different they do have value because these two are handmade he’s had to obviously gather the the pistachio

Shells the Rosemary the lentils I think if they were to come up auction today these two would probably be in the region of sort of 2300 each okay lovely bless him thank you I love them thank you it was was amazing to be modeling for someone of that caliber he was such

A lovely man as well and they’re just very special and they they by his hand so it’s a real good memory of you yeah these three certainly in the sunlight they glisten like gold don’t they so let’s see if we can make your fortune with them today what can you

Tell me about them well I bought that uh this U about 3 years ago at a flea market and I asked the seller if you need knew how old it is he says there a mark but he say he can’t read it and he

Asked me if I could read it and I said I haven’t got a clue as well and do you know what they are uh I do know is a incense burner that’s it right okay yeah yeah and country of origin no no idea no idea okay well

Let’s try and clear that up for you I they could well have been a set of three but I suspect maybe I probably identify that one as maybe a single and then this was a a pair they’re Chinese and you’re absolutely right they’re sensors so uh you know incense burners for emitting

Aromatic smells and so on but it was interesting I think you said they’re made of brass in fact they’re bronze oh I think people have just sort of polished them over the years and you’ve ended up getting this rather shiny surface to them they’re lovely things I

Love this little squat form and they all sit on these rather nice tripod bases in the center of that one we’ve got this lovely dragon and this is very much a kind of Imperial in a way Motif now let’s clear the back mark up for you so

We are so we’ve actually got a Xander mark on there so Chinese jander Mark we hope this would tell us they were made between 1425 and 1435 okay it’s an apocryphal Mark and it’s quite a common thing to see whether it’s sort of paying homage to those early Masters but you

See that a lot so these are Ching Dynasty and I suspect these are probably very late in that sort of Ching Dynasty something around 18 19 1900 or even just into the early part of the of the 20th century ask what did you pay for them

Instead of three uh 50 Quid 50 Quid so anything over50 today is a good thing right yeah okay well look they are quite late but actually I have to say bronzes today are quite popular they seem to have had a rise in fortunes recently and

I think if those two came up for auction I could see those comfortably making2 to 300 or even a little bit more and I think the big one maybe 300 or 400 wow amazing so what’s the address rest of the car boot sale not going to tell anybody lovely

Things really nice yeah cool thank you Pleasure really shocked by the valuation never expect you know to be that kind of that high value at all definitely I go back to the flea market yes lovely to meet your my lovely clock your lovely station clock it is gorgeous it is fabulous I’m a huge fan

Of dial clocks wall clocks these come in different sizes yours is a 10in dial so we measure the dial here yeah these Clocks Were the workc timekeepers of the period they were all over stations in Waiting rooms junction box platforms everywhere and certainly back in the

Victorian times and up to the 60s when this was taken out of commission waiting room was always a bit cold and damp so these Clocks Were Made and designed to keep good time so where did your one come from my father bought it in the

1960s and I think he went up to Clarken well and bought it off British Rail for5 right obviously that’s not5 today it sounds ridiculously cheap but see I remember him bringing it home in a paper bag and it moved from my sister’s bedroom when it was painted purple you

Know in the 60s okay and then he sort of luckily took all that off and it restored it like this unfor he died in 2005 but um I just loved it so much my sister and I agreed that I could take it well traditionally this is how it would

Have looked so we got BRS so British Rail Southern so it would have been in a Southern Railway now John Walker in South Bolton Street he had the contract to supply and maintain all the clocks for the railway which is why he’s got his name on it and his address yeah and

You’ve got the number here 167b this for reference will be to this particular clock now there are records of these they’re a little bit disjointed they’re not complete but if you contact the Railway Museum in York okay they have lists and they may come up and tell you where this clock

Sat they make fantastic kitchen clocks they do they’ve got this lovely Rich tick to them that’s right and they’re lovely timekeepers you can just adjust the pendulum you can get it down to time and it’s the sort of thing you interact with if it’s not ticking I’m a bit like

Yeah it’s like part of the house is sort of is not is not right no so when you get home from holiday you you put the heating on you put the lights on you wind your clock and it’s home again you know exactly how I feel yeah that’s

Amazing one of the key things is where this clock was situated so it’s worth looking at that okay that could have an impact on its value okay but if I was selling it it’s in lovely condition the D is very original it’s got this lovely

Cast bezel I would be looking to sell it for for about £2,000 okay well it’s not going anywhere it’s staying on my wall well that’s always of my life well clocks do become part of your life and I’m so pleased that this one is such an intcal part of

Yours thank you it’s really interesting Crystal Palace is buzzing with activity and the queue is filling up fast and what’s hiding in all those carrier bags well that’s very lovely I think it’s from like 1906 and do you love it I do it’s kind of garish and ridiculous oh good luck

With that thank You what have you brought along guys we got a couple of Chinese bows which I don’t know we could be reproductions if they say made in China on the bottom that’s a sure sign when we buy things or you buy things he’s expecting to be this big and

It comes this big and I thought they were going to be this big so I’m terrified to find out what they’re not worth I know what I paid for them hoping they’re worth at least that what do you think absolute rubbish I wonder if expert will farmer will think the

Same so these two fine beasts must be yours then they are they are yes well they always say I mean it’s that classic line dogs are a man’s best friend and we’ve seen over centuries dogs have been portrayed in ceramic for many many years and for many many great people but what

Drew you to these they’re kind of Kit to be fair and they’re big and I bought them online a couple of months ago and I just really really liked them and so I had to make a sort of Split Decision important so you don’t have the breed no

We don’t no we have other dogs so it was a bit of a surprise coming home with two extra dogs to say the least before I sort of give you a little bit more what were they portrayed as they were Italian mid-century and that was kind of it so

Your hope is that you ass so them as 1950s yeah check okay good good okay so we’re not modern we’re not Repro I’m totally happy that we’re looking at that sort of mid 20th century era the next thing where they’re from you are hoping Italy yeah check

Good so so far is he earned some brownie points no it’s good yeah okay we’re doing all right I’m happy that these are you know they’re that classic sort of Italian molica molica feel whichever the pronunciation you want to go with but they’ve got that classic feel there’s

One thing I want to draw your attention to yeah I know you know yeah did you know when you bought so just what we’re looking at here this leg is a slightly different color and you think well why well this has had a restoration in terms

Of markings I know you were worried cuz there’s not much there underneath it’s all absolutely as I’d expect to see it just a couple of dot marks there they are what they are I think I should give you the price before you then confess how much you PID

Okay yeah that’s a good idea I think reasonably taking that bit of restoration into consideration I think you’re looking somewhere between ,500 that’s good I did okay that’s right did you do okay just under a thousand so I did okay brilliant y so we’re all going home happy y look I think they’re

Great things cheap to feed yeah thank you very much Brant absolute pleasure thank you thank you was a bit concerned that maybe I I’d overpaid for them in the first place but luckily not the boys would like to sell them but we’re going to keep them for a while till next [Laughter] Week our road show today is on the former site of the mon mental Crystal Palace building but it story doesn’t begin here but 9 miles north in the center of London the great exhibition in Hyde Park it had just opened in 1851 and it showcased the marvels of the Arts and

Industry in a vast glass and iron building the exhibition was deemed a huge success not least for the astonishing feat of engineering of the Crystal Palace itself when the Great exhibition ended Crystal Palace was moved here painstakingly piece by piece then these sphinxes were built and the hills all around were

Flattened by an army of 6,000 men to create huge long Terraces and formal Gardens designed to impress educate and entertain Crystal Palace Park was one of the earliest of what the victorians called pleasure grounds one of its main attractions still here today were the world’s first life-sized dinosaur sculptures fullscale models designed to

Amazed day Trippers and teach them about paleontology but in 1936 Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire and the park fell into ruin and this Terrace half a kilometer long gives you an idea just how huge Crystal Palace was towering over the landscape and subsequently there were many plans to rebuild it but

None ever happened All That Remains of the Great Glass House that once stood here is the occasional rare fragment like this piece of Crystal this a piece of Crystal from the osters fountain in the middle of Crystal Palace came from one of the tear across the fountain so my grandmother

Used to work at Crystal Palace and she bumped into one of the caretaker ground staff who was doing some clearing up and as he went past he said I got some bits of the palace here would you like a piece and she said yes certainly would I

Was born spry distance from the palace found that she got it and passed it to me as a grandchild means yeah a lot an awful lot so today I’ve bought in a sun dial in my Tupper Weare boox when I tell people that I have a sun dial they expect something sort of

Like this and then I open and say this is our sun dial and they’re quite surprised I’m intrigued by it I think it’s a little Hidden Gem what a fantastic day to bring me a sundal we couldn’t have more sun I know brilliant absolutely brilliant initially when I saw it I thought well just looks like a standard Garden Sund how did you get it my gr was demolishing a old barn and up

In the rafters he came across a bit of sacking and in this little bit of sacking was that little Sun Dial and that’s it he took it home and my dad and my uncle gave it little clean I think it’s been in the family about 70 years

Or something how howra you know why would somebody hide it away exactly there’s something very special about this it actually opens up and there’s another sundal there so how does that work cuz normally standard sundal it would be set on a plint like this set in stone and be set up for a

Particular latitude and then it would a to the time with this one could be portable so you can take it put any pocket arrive somewhere like here and you could set it up to actually tell you the solar time and how that works and it’s what this one’s missing is is

What’s called a gomon which is a stick like that and another one there okay so had two dials and they would have thrown a shadow onto the hour scale there and there so that you would have then turned it until the time here corresponded with the time there and then that’s it would

Given you the time it was invented by the guy who signed it there Mr Tuttle he had a shot not far from here in Sharing cross 5 miles in that direction wow and he started in 1695 he was maker to King William III William of Orange so he must have been

Good yes and he became the surveyor uh for the king wow sadly for him while he was surveying the temps uh he fell in and drowned so he died in I think 1702 so he was only making instruments for seven years if you turn it over on this side there’s a perpetual

Calendar and you can just see at the top here says Petr calendar and then it says 97 98 99 so that’s 697 so it’s signed it’s dated I’ve never seen another example wow as it is I think it’s probably worth a rare piece incomplete 3 to 5,000 if you if if

You if you have those pieces replaced I think you could probably double that six to 10,000 amazing a complete piece sold within the last couple of years for 25,000 wow oh my goodness well thank you because I’ve personally never seen this piece before and it’s just a joyous little pocket Sun thank You wait till we tell Dad tonight it’ll be over the moon it will be over the moon but I think we should think about getting it reconditioned though yeah it well obviously and I think we definitely going to get in contact with the museum on the road show for get on 25 30

Years it’s the most important scientific instrument we’ve ever Had our experts are always on the lookout for new trends and emerging markets in the world of antiques collectibles and all things vintage spotting the next generation of modern Treasures takes a Keen Eye and pop culture expert Claire tolm has picked out a piece of my fashion that’s rising in

Value hello hi what an eye-catching dress we have here I mean of all days this is the day to show this dress off what can you tell me about it so this was my dress from when I was a teenager I saw it advertised in a magazine and

Asked for it for a present I saw it as a way of having a designer dress without actually the designer price tag and then spent many many hours making it so it’s known as a do-it-yourself gold dis dress designed by Paca raban in 1996 however it was a a reissue or a

Revival if you like of the iconic design created by Paka raban in 1966 anyone who might remember the 60s might remember how popular and futuristic the design was really it was on the cover of Vogue and stars such as Audrey heurn and many other wore them so it really was

Quite revolutionary at the time just recently I heard that Beyonce wore um a version of this distress a custom made by Paka raban just for her opening of her World Tour wow so it just shows you how sort of timeless it was they were launched and they honestly were so

Popular the kit sold out in a matter of days and the thing was that it was a kit like you said you had to sort of build it yourself and it gave the creativity back back to the wearer um it was sold in this little plastic suitcase we had

Hundreds of plastic discs with metal rings you had to connect them and I can see you’ve got the instructions here and everything so you did it how long did it take you though oh my goodness it took me hours I’m pretty sure there was probably about a year between me getting

It and actually wearing it because it just took so long and when you sort of 16 17 I didn’t really have the patience for it probably I think by the end I was pretty Fed Up it’s very intricate isn’t it it’s really intricate it took a long

Time so what do you think of the dress I like it would you wear it yeah she wear anything gold and glittery oh well there you go it’s perfect that’s why you need to keep it I think it’s a really really fun piece in terms of value I wouldn’t

Be surprised if you get sort of 700 to ,000 that’s amazing we were trying to work out how much it cost okay and I think it was probably 50 definitely no more than that like you said it was a way of owning a piece of designer that you sort of were

Very invested in creating yourself the people of South London are still arriving with their precious objects hello hi our reception is their first stop before they get to see our experts I mean these are quite scary aren’t they yeah the nails are and the shards of

Metal but he’s got quite a friendly face Ronnie arre Morgan is here and he is the man who’ll be able to tell you all about it so you take That with all these nails sticking out this is not as witchcraft looking as it appears to be mhm what Drew you to it how it looked it’s very striking I’m an artist I’m drawn to interesting object sculpture when did you get it about 7 years ago and where you don’t mind me

Ask local Auction in North London I saw it across the room and wanted it and luckily it was priced pretty reasonably or within my budget anyway they’re usually from the Democratic Republic of Congo but this one is yombe Yom people from zier it’s called nissy and nissy is

Spirit yeah and K is Hunter so really what this is is the hunter of spirit Spirits oh wow okay and it’s a hunter of bad spirits yes so this is a good thing yes it’s a bit like the Gargoyles you see on an English or French Cathedral

The gargles are to ward off evil so that’s what this is for the community and each nail represents the threat to the spirit each nail is a curse in other words yeah on the spirit I was wondering about the big nail in the stomach cuz I’d read that some of these had things

Placed inside the stomach cavity that with the nail would then be energized or activated yeah exactly that’s what it is and there’ll be fetish material in the stomach anything that holds a charge carried by the spirit goes and seeks out and hunts yeah for the bad energy and

Dispels it I particularly like yombe I like the glass eyes that they set in do you want to tell me what you paid for it I think about 60 quid wow I think think in the right auction this would be valued at600 to 800 wow

H well I was hoping it wouldn’t be worth too much cuz I’d like to keep it that’s nearing the end towards I might think about it can’t it be a bit less and then I can keep it no one’s ever said that to me before I’m an impoverished artist all right it’s worth

£62 okay okay great we’ve got a bit of a challenge now guess the impostor with you mark our arms and Military Specialist of course so normally we see you talking about medals yes and today we’ve got a brush a Broly was it a button yeah three

Everyday items but all is not as it seems two of them are secret gadgets issued to spies in the second world war and one is not so which is it so what’s it all about well what I’ve brought along today for you to have a look at is

Something from the sort of the the very clandestine world of World War II particularly we sent out spies to France men and women and we parachuted them in behind the lines so when they parachuted in they parachuted in in civilian clothing both men and women and then

They had to assume their life in the French World and these are some of the things that they would have taken with them to help them do that job but to also make certain that the Germans if they were ever search wouldn’t actually know what they were looking at so you

Have an umbrella it’s just an ordinary umbrella or is it just an ordinary umbrella we have a hairbrush for one of the ladies perhaps who parachuted in is it just a hairbrush and then we have this which is a royal Air Force button warn by all of

The air crew that ever flew over France and Germany if he was searched is it just a button on his uniform or is it something different no idea right I’m going to have to get some help from you because I really have no idea at all so let me let

Me start with with with you pe any ideas what do you think I’m thinking the button because so hang on you think the button is the impostor yes yes because I’m thinking what could you conceal and what could how could that be of benefit I don’t know I don’t know a tiny

Transmitter or something I don’t know either was I’m thinking the brush could have something in the handle as could the umbrella but I I don’t know um I don’t know what do you think that button might have some sort tracking device or I don’t know some sort of device in it

Maybe the definitely the umbrella but I think the brush is just a brush now I’m not going to ask you sir because you own these things don’t you so right so listen keep your counsel uh what about you what do you think I think maybe the button I’m not sure it could conceal

Much in there no idea at all I mean it’s completely impossible Mark honestly as challenges goor I know well what I’m thinking is that you couldn’t have an umbrella with you at all times the umbrella is the obvious thing that would be useful in all sorts of ways you can

Conceal stuff in it in the handle in the tip all sorts of things but my my logic is that you know if we were walking around today with an umbrella we would stand out like a sore thumb I’m GNA say even though the umbrella looks like the

Thing that would be most useful I’m going to say that’s the impostor okay well you’re correct cuz this [Applause] is this is the umbrella that my aunt bought me the day I went to work okay so here we go look the button they were sewn on all RAF tunics all of

Them yeah and it is it is just a button they look exactly the same as all the others and if you try and unscrew it it doesn’t unscrew because it’s a reverse thread and with the reverse thread when it comes undone there’s a compass Inside now your hairbrush it is actually just a hairbrush it’s a 1940s hairbrush it’s the real thing but sometimes as a lady soe you need to kill people you loved doing that didn’t you whoa and that and that is an issue piece of Kit to a female s soe agent of

Course to die an item like this would be considered a concealed weapon and the law would frown upon it but at the time it could have been a vital means of self-defense it was a very rough war and we always have to I mean this stuff is

Is fantastic and and Gadget and stuff like that but you always have to remember that for the people who did this their life was on the line every single day and they were very brave people and we gave them just a few things that may have helped out on the

Big day but well done you got it right well thank you and thank you for bringing them alone well this is great what a fabulous object it’s a call sheet from the lenon McCartney special and a call sheet is so it’s a list of all the performers and

The times that they need to be ready by in a Granada TV program from 1965 this was a kind of variety show wasn’t it which featured lenon and McCartney songs are you involved in the music business I’m a herir of makeup artist ah so it has real relevance to

You and it was my mother-in-law’s brother-in-law’s sister who was one of the makeup artists on this show do you remember if she said anything does any family sort of history about what she thought of the show don’t remember so much about the show but she was a celebrity to us because she just

Knew everybody and we used to love it when you look down this obviously there’s lenon McCartney but there are also lots of other people listed further down there’s Marian faithful there’s Billy J Kramer and the dtas and I tell you the thing that’s really interesting is that is 1965 you know these guys

Hadn’t been in business for 30 years and were being honored this is really really new music and new Talent being recognized I mean that’s that to me that’s the extraordinary thing but the story actually doesn’t end there does it not quite not quite because if we turn it

Over we have signatures of John and Paul now presumably your relative got these herself did she she did we loved the beetles in our um in our house and she got it specifically for my sister who has learning disabilities who was a fan yes she used to like singing along still

Does sing along the songs yes still knows them brilli the market for rock and roll is hot hot value she got it for nothing yes she was paid for her job and she got this as a freebie yes um so it is between about 3,000 and 4,000

Yes it’s in up to said acceptable condition but the most important thing is you know exactly where it came from you can trace the line back yes great great object thanks so much for that thank Youk you pop memorabilia is a relatively recent addition to the antique auction Market

In fact it was Hillary Kay who held the world’s first auction of rock memorabilia in 1981 looking at a really clear set of signatures of The Rolling Stones talking just either side of ,000 until recently it’s the legends of the 1960s and70s that have commanded the top prices but

Now expert CLA toore is seeing 1990s acts climb in value you’ve got Oasis blur radio head The Cure all those sort of bands are really you know they had cult followings but it’s not cult anymore it’s it’s big it’s landed give me a high price for a cure item I’ve

Recently saw some lyrics sell for um £10,000 handwritten lyrics by Robert Smith you see that puts it into absolutely the the sort of Royal category of of of rock and roll doesn’t it so what next what next I think Electronica will continue to grow if you’re thinking of the ’90s there was

Also the dance scene Rave you know as obviously they might not just be there yet but I’d say 10 years absolutely why not I’ve been looking at your pocket watch and I know you haven’t open the back of this ever it’s really quite intriguing me this belonged to my great

Grand grandf father His Name Was Harold wood so I think the the monogram on the front is HW I’m told he was from a kind of very modest East End family background applied for a job in Brazil as a teenager an import export company somehow got the job had a had a great

Success at the company stayed for decades and this I understand was a retirement gift for him from the company or colleagues in Brazil there is a saying that with a watch you you never really own a watch or just safeguarding it for the next Generation have you

Heard of that one I have I’ve heard that do you know what the company is that use it is that with pek it’s pek right so pek Philipe had a partnership with Carlos gondo right in Rio de Janeiro if you look you have chronometer gondolo oh wow and then

You’ve got p P Philip here an incredibly special kind of watch because patake Philip don’t really make watches for other people but they made these particular watches only for Paulo gondolo and his business partner labourer I think the partnership came to an end in about 1927 and what’s really interesting about

Them is they were made to very exacting specifications I think they were the only watches that patake made with gold wheelwork and you can see it’s beautifully finished inside and there’s certain features that are just above and beyond other watch makers so you’ve got this wonderful micrometer regulator

Normally you just have a lever that you push backwards and forwards this is very finely regulated here what’s really key and very uh easily identifiable about with a patake watch is what we call this wolf tooth gearing so if you look at the teeth here where you wind it they’re shaped like a

Wolf’s tooth and that’s just to make it smoother when it’s being wound so do you know what sort of value it might be it was left to an uncle and he thought it was worth a couple of thousand but I’m guessing maybe he underestimated if it’s from such a kind

Of exclusive line these are really collected this has been used it’s got a couple of marks it’s not perfect but that’s great because it shows it’s been used it’s been loved and that’s what watches and clocks should be I would put a value on it between 5 and

8,000 it’s a lot enjoy it use it create your story with it and then pass it on to the next Generation I think that would be a really lovely thing for your great-grandfather as well Wonder thank you very much thank you very much pleasure occasionally on the road show

We see items that provide a fresh insight into Britain’s role in Africa in the early 20th century and the contradictions and complexities of the colonialism expert Ronnie Archer Morgan has spotted some items linked to what was once known as British Somali land and its neighbor Ethiopia which was

Ruled by Hy salassi Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 and a revered figure in the Rastafarian Faith this is interesting the Conquering line of the tribe of Judah highly salassi elect of God Emperor of Ethiopia to Sir Harold kmaster wow that’s a translation of this

Handwriting in Inc so who was Sir Harold kmaster to you he was our grandfather wow and what was his role so he was the governor of British Somali land from 1926 to 1931 and in that time he forged a friendship with h celesi was invited invited to his coronation and even after

Yes and at some point our aunt told us that these garments were given to our grandfather that’s a very Sumptuous robe gold thread beautiful and I love these trousers I mean the Velvet and the embroidery very exotic salassi work very closely with Colonial Britain hence the relationship with your grandfather MH which is

Attested to here in these documents these things I think are pretty wonderful and to actually see the handwriting of the man is very special what are you going to do with these things well that’s under discussion yes we’re just going to have a think about

It so if there’s a call for these things to be repatriated would you be happy to do that absolutely yes definitely so I think these are very interesting items his his actual handwriting here his clothes I think £ 4 to 5,000 wow that is amazing obviously it’s

More about our family history I feel privileged and thank you very much well thank you thank you this is an awesome cartoon by one of Britain’s most famous illustrators Ralph stemman and it looks like we’ve got a British Bulldog I think on the right and then he’s leaning his hand on what looks

Like a frog and I think it’s a French frog cuz you can see the French flag down here and I guess it’s so typical of Ralph stedman’s good sense of humor incredibly witty way of bringing together so many different elements to make such a strong image how did you get

It well my father worked in advertising for most of his working life he came home from work with it one evening and I’ve always admired Ralph stemman and I said to him oh I really love that Dad and he said have it so stemman today is one of Britain’s most well-known

Cartoonists I mean this style is so recognizable he’s probably had illustrations in practically every publication in Britain that there is but he’s probably most associated with rolling stone and his big break came when he met Hunter us Thompson very famous American journalist and he Illustrated Thompson’s Fear and Loathing

In Las Vegas and actually stman has also Illustrated and written his own books and this really typifies what a brilliant cartoonist he is because he manages to make in black and white two animals come to life such kind of characteristics it’s very difficult to do so I’ve got some good news and some

Bad news okay should we do bad news first yes let’s get the bad news out the way so the bad news on seeing this up close is this isn’t an original right I thought that it might be an original pen and ink but actually seeing it up close

This isn’t fenon Inc it’s actually just a photographic reproduction oh right it was probably made as part of the printing process stemman would have done the original drawing in his distinctive pen and ink yes and then I think this was clearly just a sort of almost like a

Photocopy that was made and found its way to your father Yes um so the bad news is it’s not worth a huge amount because it isn’t a limited inition print and it’s certainly not an original no but the good news and this doesn’t usually happen on the Antics Road show

But because you emailed us a photo of it we emailed it to the artist and he’s here so he’s come to meet you oh my and he’s going to come and here he is here’s Ralph how very nice to meet you zo absolutely oh my God don’t think that’s

Mine do you remember the picture I do actually I think I’ve got a picture of it at home I just love looking at it every day it reminds me of my dad is this your dad well it could well be yeah no it’s just a fabulous fabulous

Piece can we get you to sign it yeah okay would love you to sign some ink my goodness yeah I’ll hold it I’ll hold it flat yeah that’s there we go what do you think your dad would think I think he would just be completely as I am

Taken back over over ored by it all there we go hey and custom BLS thank you that’s [Applause] good it’s not often we get one of the world’s great artists along to the road show and I couldn’t pass up the chance to speak to Ralph myself he’s even brought along some

Original works with him Ral stedmond it’s such a pleasure to welcome you to the anti Road nice to be meet you face to face and to be surrounded by your wonderful artworks tell me how did you develop your Unique Style you don’t pencil in first right you go straight in

With a pen people say don’t you make a mistake I said there’s no such thing as a mistake a mistake is an opportunity to do something else you let it go you let the pen take over and that’s why I don’t do pencils first because if you do that

You make a rather wooden attempt at drawing you’ve had the most extraordinary career Ralph I mean you know punch private eye in the 70s with Hunter S Thompson this picture behind you from that period then later in the 80s I mean you’ve written a number of

Books this is from I Leonardo I Leonardo yes and so looking at your style I me the thing I associate with it so much is and we’ve only got one here but is is your abundant use of in Lots yeah being messy is far more interesting than just

Having everything is neat and tidy and finished which is so familiar to so many of us the thing I sometimes think is that you know your caricatures can be can be quite harsh yes I suppose so yes it’s trying to find that particular thing that makes the person look like

They are find the one attribute you can you can pick out so you’re 87 is that right only just well I know you’re still working and you’re still productive yes and I look forward to seeing more of your work I’ll try to do some I’ll be

Thinking about you as I do it well I better do that I’m very honored if that’s the case thank you so much pleasure to speak to you some larger items like chairs can be a bit harder to bring along to a road show but it can be worth it are our

Experts love a design classic everything that needs to be there is there which and that was the whole idea take it down to its simplest form and its most required function and that’s what you end up with out with the Victorian out with the decoration out with the upholster in with classic

Streamlined chromed cool oh you’ve sold them you sold I do feel they’re the only way to test them oh yes sit in them M see they don’t look comfy but they really are well the idea was that you’re meant to float or look like you’re floating I kind of get that actually you

Do look like you’re floating to me do I most of the time anyway well for me the term iconic is a word that’s banded around a little bit too often but when we look at this pair of chairs I think it’s fully Justified we’re looking at this amazing piece of

Of design by Marcel Brewer which is known now as the B3 chair but I’m interested what Drew you to them why do you own them the actual silhouette the shape the design of the chairs as a designer myself I can fully appreciate sort of the the aesthetic and look of

Them now he was a young man when he designed these he was an apprentice at the bow house yeah incredibly influenced by the constructivist and the real developments of the distill movement and these came about because he wanted to redesign re imagine rethink The Humble chair and the basis of this chair is

Actually what we call a club chair so those classic club chairs that you used to see in you know Lounge bars and so on so forth and if you look at what we’ve got here he basically strips it down to this series of horizontal and vertical planes it’s the bare minimum that is

Left that still tells you it’s a chair it’s thought that marel Brewer actually came up with the idea as he was riding into to work on his bicycle and he looked at his own handlebars they were strong but they were shaped but they were malleable so they could do

Something with them and he he took this material this tubular steel and started to work with the shape and the form to create this chair now the originals were made by a firm called th oh okay and they produced all the ones really up until the second world war after the war

There’s a company called gavina who come in and take on the design then on top of that in the 1980s you get an issue and an addition that were made by habitat so where do these sit looking at the production values of these and looking at the style of them looking at

The Aging of them I think we’re with habitat yeah so now comes the question because we’re we’re getting to that pival moment what did you pay uh 450 for the pair 450 cracking happy all day long I actually think they’ve got a little bit of room beyond that maybe upwards a 600

They’re a brilliant pair of chairs a later copy but they are just so iconic yeah I’ll be keeping them away we selling them don’t blame you thank you so much so I’m just trying to work out your thought process so you woke up this morning and thought I know I’ll go to

The road show and I’ll take a wrecked one legged doll yeah so what’s going on well I just love the way he’s carved and he’s made his articulated it’s so clever where did you get him from I worked at a school as a janitor about 20 years ago now the art

Department they changed the head and basically he was in a pile of rubbish Des didn’t for escape well look when I say I don’t know what your thought process was this to me is just unbelievable to see I love this sort of thing it’s without doubt the one thing

After I don’t know 17 18 years of doing the road show that I would love to go home with oh really it’s just well it’s actually quite a rare thing you know what they’re for uh an artist dummy exactly when they’re called lay figures which I think comes the the Dutch word

Which is just means jointed so it’s a jointed figure yeah and they come in various sizes I mean you get them from uh small this size and then you actually get life size one little thing which I think is unusual about this one he has a

Slight dimple in his chin there is a maker which I’m sure put the dimple in the chin so you knew that that was the make it there’s something about the dimple in the chin so we it’s worth doing a bit more right res search on it

This one I think is French mid 19th century they’re always quite crude I mean this is is a basic stained Pine yeah but the fact he’s missing a leg missing a foot that’s actually what I love about it okay so basically destined for the bin skip yeah ad auction three to 4,000 no

Way no way that is a real surprise I just love it just phenomenal so thank you fantastic yeah thank you you weren’t going to come to my table were you we weren’t actually we passed by you and realized there was no queue so we thought well actually my

Daughter said that’s a jewelry pleas should we show her the ring I said why not so tell me the story behind this the ring was my mom’s well we’re pretty sure it was given to her by my late grandfather and we were helping her we were clearing out stuff and in the sock

Drawer we stumbled upon this ring that was wrapped up in a sock no yes I don’t believe that it really was it could have gone in the washing machine it we could have just bundled everything up so G it to the charity maybe exactly oh my

Goodness but I know when I said mom is this your ring and she said oh yes I kept it in there saw I didn’t lose it it is absolutely superb made in Platinum okay it’s about 1915 the diamond is what we call is a transitional cut it’s a softer really

Soft look about it you’ve got the facets but nothing’s sharp the modern brilliant cut to me is quite Brash okay but this has such an air of sophistication it is nearly a four karat so it’s a really large size the the clarity it just has a very tiny little

What we call a Glatz or a little floor to the side it’s natural nothing that you’ve done you will need to retip the claw there there’s one claw that has come a drift but if you were at or this would be in the region of £20,000 wow oh

Gosh oh you better get taking off you better get that cloth quickly wow wow it is such a stunning stunning ring wow absolutely Lovely the things that have surprised me most ofday and there have been quite a few I think it’s probably this a doll missing a foot with half a leg but worth3 to £4,000 and there’s still The Mystery of the dimple in the chin who was the manufacturer who made the dolls with the

Dimple in the chin if you know let us know from the antiques roacha here at Crystal Palace I’m my new friend here bye-bye we’ve had a wonderful time here at Crystal Palace and remember those Majolica whippets who were looking for a place to fit in the family home so we

Found a place for the whipits after a great day at Crystal Palace by the five place and those lovely little personalized postcards I didn’t sell my cards I’ve kept them and I framed my favorite one which is just behind me Here more about our family history I feel privileged and thank you very much well thank you you this is an awesome cartoon by one of Britain’s most famous illustrators Ralph Stedman and it looks like we’ve got a British Bulldog I think on the right and then he’s leaning his town on what looks

Like a frog and I think it’s a French frog cuz you can see the French flag down here and I guess it’s so typical of Ralph stedman’s good sense of humor incredibly witty way of bringing together so many different elements to make such a strong image how did you get

It well my father worked in advertising for most of his working life he came home from work with it one evening and I’ve always admired Ralph Stedman and I said to him oh I really love that Dad and he said have it so stemman today is one of Britain’s most well-known

Cartoonist I mean this style is so recognizable he’s probably had illustrations in practically every publication in Britain that there is but he’s probably most associated with rolling Stone You the See to stemman would have done the original drawing in his distinctive pen and ink yes and then I think this was clearly just a sort of almost like a photocopy that was made and found its way to your father Yes um so the bad news is it’s

Not worth a huge amount because it isn’t a limited inition print and it’s certainly not an original no but the good news and this doesn’t usually happen on the anti rad show but because you emailed us a photo of it we emailed it to the artists and he’s

Here so he’s come to meet you oh my and he’s going to come and here he is here’s how very nice to meet you so absolutely oh my God think that’s mine do you remember the picture I do actually I think I’ve got a picture of

It at home I just love looking at it every day it reminds me of my dad is this your dadd is well it could well be yeah no it’s just just a fabulous fabulous piece can we get you to sign it yeah okay would love you to sign got some ink my

Goodness yeah I’ll hold it I’ll hold it flat yeah that’s there we go what do you think your dad would think I think he would just be completely as I am taken back over over ored by it all there we go hey and the custom blobs thank you [Applause]

Good it’s not often we get one of the world’s great artists along to the road show and I couldn’t pass up the chance to speak to Ralph myself he’s even brought along some original works with him Ralph stedmond it’s such a pleasure to welcome you to

The an Road show nice to be meet you face to face and to be surrounded by your wonderful artworks tell me how did you develop your Unique Style you don’t pencil in first right you go straight in with the pen people said don’t you make a mistake I said there’s no such thing

As a mistake a mistake is an opportunity to do something else you let it go you would let the pen take over and that’s why I don’t do pencil first because if you do that you make a rather wooden attempt to Joy you’ve had the most extraordinary career Ralph I mean you

Know punch private eye the 7s with Hunter S Thompson this picture behind you from that period then later in the 80s I mean you’ve written a number of books this is from I Leonardo I Leonardo yes and so looking at your style I the thing I associate with it so much is and

We’ve only got one here but is is your abundant use ofs l blots yeah being messy is far more interesting than just having everything is neat and tidy and finished which is so familiar to to so many of us the thing I sometimes think is that you know your caricatures can be

Can be quite harsh yes I suppose so yes it’s trying to find that particular thing that makes the person look like they are to find the one attribute you can you can pick out so you’re 87 is that right only just well I know you’re still working and you’re still

Productive yes and I look forward to seeing more of your work I’ll try to do some I’ll be thinking about you as I do it well I better do that I’m very honored if that’s the case thank you so much pleasure to speak to you some larger items like chairs can be

A bit harder to bring along to a road show but it can be worth it our experts love a design classic everything that needs to be there is there which and that was the whole idea take it down to its simplest form and its most required function and

That’s what you end up with out with the Victorian out with the decoration out with the upholstery in with classic Streamlined About the shape the design of the ch chair as a designer myself I can fully appreciate sort of the the aesthetic and look of them now he was a young man when he designed these he was an apprentice at the bow house yeah incredibly influenced by the constructivist and the

Real developments of the distill movement and these came about because he wanted to redesign reimagine rethink The Humble chair and the basis of this chair is actually what we call a club chair so those classic club chairs that you used to see in you know Lounge bars and so on

So forth and if you look at what we’ve got here he basically strips it down to this series of horizontal and vertical planes it’s the bare minimum that is left that still tells you it’s a chair it’s thought that Marcel Brewer actually came up with the idea as he was

Riding into work on his bicycle and he looked at his own handlebars they were strong but they were shaped but they were malleable so they could do something with them and he took this material this tubular steel and started to work with the shape and the form to

Create this chair now the originals were made by a firm called th oh okay and they produced all the ones really up until the second world war right after the war there’s a company called gavina who come in and take on the design then

On top of that in the 1980s you get an issue and an addition that were made by habitat so where do these sit looking at the production values of these and looking at the style of them looking at the Aging of them I think we’re with habitat yeah so now comes the question

Because we we’re getting to that pival moment what did you pay uh 450 for the pair 450 cracking happy all day long I actually think they’ve got a little bit of room beyond that maybe upwards a 600 they’re a brilliant pair of chairs a later copy but they are just so iconic

I’ll be keeping them selling don’t blame you thank you so much cheers so I’m just trying to work out your thought process so you woke up this morning and thought I know I’ll go to the road show and I’ll take a wrecked one-legged doll yeah

So what’s going on well I just love the way he’s carved and he’s made his articulated it’s so clever where did you get him from I worked at a school as a janitor about 20 years ago now the art department they changed the head and basically he was in a pile of rubbish

Destined for a skip well look when I say I don’t know what your thought process was this to me is just unbelievable to I love this sort of thing it’s without doubt the one thing after I don’t know 17 18 years of doing the road show that

I would love to go home with oh really it’s just well it’s actually quite a rare thing you know what they’re for uh an artist dummy exactly and they’re called lay figures which I think comes from the the Dutch word which is just means jointed so it’s a jointed figure

Yeah and they come in various sizes I mean you get them from uh small this size and then you actually get life size one little thing which I think is unusual about this one he has a slight dimple in his chin there is a maker which I’m sure put the dimple in the

Chin so you knew that that was the maker There’s Something About The dimple in the chin so we it’s worth doing a bit more right research on it this one I think is French mid 19th century they’re always quite crude I mean this is is a basic stained Pine yeah but the fact

He’s missing a leg missing a foot that’s actually what I love about it okay so basically destined for the bin skip yeah ad auction three to 4,000 no way no way that is a real surprise I just love it just phenomenal said Thank You fantastic yeah thank you

You weren’t going to come to my table were you we weren’t actually we passed by you and realized there was no queue so we thought well actually my daughter said that’s a jewelry pleas should we show her the ring I said why not so tell

Me the story behind this the ring was my mom’s well we’re pretty sure it was given to her by my late grandfather and we were helping her we’re clearing out stuff and in the sock drawer we stumbled upon this ring that was wrapped up in a

Sock no yes I don’t believe that it really was I it could have gone in the washing machine it could have we could have just bundled everything up so give it to the charity maybe exactly oh my goodness but I know when I said mom is

This your ring and she said oh yes I kept it in there saw I didn’t lose it it is absolutely superb made in Platinum okay it’s about 1915 the diamond is what we call is a transitional cut it’s a softer really soft look about it you’ve got the facets

But nothing’s sharp the modern brilliant cut to me is quite Brash okay but this has such an air of sophistication it is nearly a 4 Carat so it’s a really large size the clarity it just has a very tiny little what we call a Glatz or a little floor to the side

It’s natural nothing that you’ve done you you will need to retip the claw there there’s one claw that has come a drift but if you were at auction this would be in the region of 20,000 wow oh gosh you better get taking off you better get that claw fixed quickly wow

Wow it is such a stunning stunning ring wow it’s absolutely lovely The things that have surprised me most today and there have been quite a few I think it’s probably this a doll missing a foot with half a leg but worth3 to 4,000 and there’s still The Mystery of the dimple in the chin who was a manufacturer who made the dolls with a

Dimple in the chin if you know let us know from the antiques roacha here at Crystal Palace I’m my new friend here bye-bye we’ve had a wonderful time here at Crystal Palace and remember those Majolica whippets who were looking for a place to fit in the family home so we

Found a place for the whiet after a great day at Crystal Palace by the fir place and those lovely little personalized postcards I didn’t sell my cards I’ve kept them and I framed my favorite one which is is behind me Here