Antiques Roadshow Series 22 Episode 14 Grantham Lincs 2000

This week we have come to Lincolnshire and the ancient market town of Grantham, whose location made it a popular stopping point in the days when the Coach and Horses made the long journey north from London; in fact, the main street is still full of carriages. Inns Grantham's most famous son was Sir Isaac Newton, in Einstein's opinion, he was the most important figure in the entire history of science, he was the first man who not only understood the forces that govern the universe, but was also able to demonstrate them. . Newton's early education was here at King's School, but his early years were miserable, he was a weak child and frequently bullied, but one day he hit back at his main tormentor, pushing his face against the wall and was never bullied again, His initials can still be seen carved on the window sill of the Great Hall of King's School.

He went on to Trinity College, Cambridge, and achieved great academic distinction. His home was Woolsthorpe Manor, a quiet 17th century farmhouse on the outskirts of the city, and it was here that he returned to escape the then plague. I must say that I always thought that the story of Newton realizing the effects of gravity by Seeing an apple fall to Earth was probably apocryphal, but not all of this is the same place where the original apple tree that flew in the early 19th century happened. century, but the Maid of Kent, as the population was called, quickly went astray and has since grown again, as well as understanding the forces that govern the universe.

Newton was also fascinated by optics and was the first to understand that sunlight is not just one color but a mixture of different colors by using a prism he was able to demonstrate his theory in a very graphic way sunlight fed through of the prism separates into its component colors Newton's work on gravity and the refraction of light all took place in the space of just one year It's annus mirabilis, well, today we installed our cameras at Grantham Leisure Center Mears, where the large crowd already gathered is being entertained in a manner that was once so familiar that it is now sadly rarely heard over the nostalgic sounds of the keg. organ, let us now join our experts with the people of Galilee.

Now I'm a girl who desperately needs a new car and it looks like I found one. Any problem is that one of us has the wrong size. Where did he get it from? I bought it in a second-hand shop in Redding in 1976 and paid £50 for it. Ivor Syd for my son. Yeah, now that the cars were actually made by the Austin factory, I think there was a government plan that allowed it: the hood suffered lung disease. illnesses to work in a factory that was set up in Wales and used parts from the Austin company to manufacture them.

The first cars were produced in the post-war period of 1948. Yes, the first ones had a little mascot on top. there and they had a flash on the side that said Austin yes and they also came in different colors this is a later color but it's also a very popular color this bright red the only thing that really surprises me is looking at the dashboard because here in the center it has that September 1, 1948, which was actually the date the first one was made, yes, and usually that's a sign that this particular insert was later replaced. The other thing is the serial number below. here thirty thousand nine hundred thirty four are running quite late because I think they only made 31 thousand dollars on Wednesdays.

I figure it'll be 68-69 because they stopped in 1971, yeah, and then let's look at sharpening, there we go, this is the type of engine I need, there's no dipstick to look at, there's no water, there's no windshield wipers , unfortunately it's not ideal for me, so I think it's an absolute cork you paid for. I would have said you should insure this for about maybe a thousand or twelve hundred pounds, so it's actually pretty good hydaburg, yes, I see your grandfather's cousin, she lived in Weymouth at the turn of the century, she made six of these books, six, yes, and where are the other five, oh, one of my cousin.

She has one and I was told that a book was made for Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret and I was accepted into Brooklyn Palace. Did she really make this leather? Shabalala, she herself told all the illustrations of the leather. I think it is a most surprising job. but really the best thing about this in some ways is the illustrations because she was clearly a very talented watercolorist and I mean, she went right back to the kind of title page here and you can see the paperback Earth basically a fairy book, right? ? to me it's about a human child called Child Hazel and the fairies take him away and there are badge adventures and he finally reunites with his father and to Ticknor it seems like an awfully long time to do yes because it's him, yes, we see, she began.

I made it in 1912 and finished it in 1947. Yes, it really is a labor of love. It's quite extraordinary and as we go along you'll see that some of these watercolors are absolutely magical and there's no doubt that in this book she's showing that she really does believe in fairies. like so many people do, yes, and it copies the naughty, the naughty, the naughty, yes, yes, and there is a rather exotic appearance of the Sicilian fairy, oh yes, and all the fruits and the exuberance of warm climates, bright colors, yes, and then there's this. wonderful figure here from the Dakotas and he is very positive yes, I think it is a wonderful thing and if we turn to dedication we can glimpse his state of mind here dedicated to all those whose joy is still to believe that far from the restless places of men, the meadows have their fairies, the forests are elves, the hills are elves and the streams their haloes and the forces of nature are divine, she really was a believer, she wasn't, so I mean, you?

I once thought about valuing it, the Victoria and Albert Museum had to look at it, they put a value on it some time ago, what did they put on it? 5000 5000 pounds that's why it doesn't surprise me that it's actually a very difficult thing to value because in a way, watercolors are the best thing about it, you know you'd like to be able to frame them and put them on your wall, of course you can't , because it is this, you know it is a complete book and you would want If we have it as a book, I think that this book really has the capacity to cost twice what you have been told about the plans for ten people.

Well, we've only had the photos for two weeks, so all we know is that it's a Liverpool. artist who painted them almost a hundred years ago the artist who said Liverpool you are absolutely right his name we have it there look we have B B that's all we're giving give us b b and down in the we're going to be fine I I have a date there, it seems in oh six like in 1906 BB Bessie Thunder now we're not absolutely sure if it was her married name or her maid there but you're absolutely right because she had a gallery on Duke Street in Liverpool and I'm told she's actually a Birkenhead girl, yes, and of course Birkenhead in the 1900s period, there I was able to photograph a great quality of artists, we have della robia pottery and there was a lot going on. artistic in Birkenhead around 1900, but back to Bessie, now let's take those first three, you know, I don't want to be quiet, but they're a bit of chocolate squares, don't you think I mean they are? demure, they are less sweet and I love the fact that they have been portrayed next to an aspidistra because it makes them very similar to the Edwardian campus and they look very alive, wouldn't you agree?

Yes, they are lovely, is that okay with you? I have to tell you, and it's very sad, that Bessie used to have stuffed cats and kittens to paint and in this case she painted them on a white milk glass and it's pretty typical for her to use a milk glass now. I assume you know the price of cats. What is a kitten like that? A pedigree of 200 pounds. That's pretty expensive. No? That is the current price. The current price. It's okay when it comes to valuing the. a couple of panels are worth a little bit more than that because they're worth in the region in the region if you want to replace them £3000 £3000 repair and then we've got sound, take it out Wow, isn't it? wonderful, it's been covered by water Brixton in Devon and the family that evokes that I was evacuated to the grandmother of that family, you gave it to me as a gift before she died in 1948 in 1948, very good gift, you know? when he got married I don't know anything about it it was made almost exactly a hundred years ago dates around 1848 maybe as late as 1850 this comes from the oldest tradition of glass paperweights there were surely three main factories, all in France, that made paperweights and They were the cliché Factory, the battery factory and the actor from St.

Louis, and they are actually the big three of paperweights. Distinguishing which ones they come from can be very, very complicated and what you really have to do is you have to learn the different shapes of the rods that are inside them. This one comes from the back of our factory. If you look in the center of the flower, it has a little red and white spiral which is then surrounded by these little stars and that's a cane that was only used in baccarat these things start fires, I mean you could put them on an elegant Georgian table , the light will come on and leave a trail on the table, it has some air bubbles in the collectors.

They don't like air bubbles, but on the sales floor this would cost between eight hundred and a thousand pounds inside and the flap with a spring there yes, which one now I can see that there is a battery, yes, yes, but I appreciate the fine electromagnet, yes and the contacts are there and the sound goes down, mojo, you have a piece of paper mache, yes, you always say that If this were better, it would be worth a little more and I haven't looked under it, I've seen it. it's a better time, absolutely true, yes well I'm really glad you've been listening, it's a great company, in fact it's paper mache, which when it was first used for objects was basically introduced by a man called clay, which was the first factory we know of. of and then it was bought by jenyns and veterans who continued to make the best Regency paper mache until the thirties four times and this would date its shape to around 1825 285 hard to be more precise, but you see these beautiful bright blues, yes, and this must have been striking when it was new, but this panel almost has an Arab desire and then these beautiful English flowers, which are a kind of nice counter, date it after the Brighton Pavilion period, but before full Victorian Ossetia.

I don't know what they did in the Victorian era, they changed some dimension, white is never seen as graceful or elegant. Yes, I have to ask if you have the other one. No, unfortunately not. You know you have some damage there, fortunately not. Really to me and it doesn't matter much, it's pretty valuable, man, do you have any idea what this is? Well, I have no idea, even in that state, you know, it's two thousand pound arms, my God, well, it's not often we get it. a collection of Edwardian silk stockings down the road there must be a story behind them, but where do they come from?

Well, they were made by a company called iron our Morley, which has been manufacturing for three centuries and in the 1890s my husband's grandfather. I worked for the company and then my husband worked for the company. Ah, there's the I&R Moly catalogue, yes, huge factories spread all over the country and this has all the lists and prices, and these seem to have some labels at the top. of each of them, well, we think they're probably samples for reps to take to larger outlets. Yes, this is what amazed me. I see that they are looking at the prices of a quarter of a dozen boxes, in other words, three pairs of half 72 shillings, so that's over a pound of AB in absolute terms.

I mean, I don't know how much a pair of socks costs nowadays, but that seems like a lot of money to me and we actually have a list here that says that too. It's from the period 1901 to 1909 and I love how it says they should be worn with long dresses and stockings which are usually only worn by people of means, so they are obviously very, very expensive. The other thing I love about them is that in the Edwardian era it was still fashionable for ladies to wear dresses that practically reached the floor because even showing an ankle instead of, you know, the late Victorian era.

The Edwardian era was considered quite edgy and I love this pair featuring little Lacey. Lacey bit and all that just for a simple glimpse of a lady's ankle, do they fit? Yes, they are ladies and they are coming. I have my pants on today, but they would reach mid-thigh and I have no idea. whether they discontinue belts or garters or whatever, I really don't know, there must be something hidden underneath, well, as a kid I profess ignorance in terms of value today, it's a pretty hard figure to put on. about them, I mean, I think if we look at a pound in 1901 and 1910 and translate it to today, I imagine some of those pairs are more decorative, probably worth a hundred pounds and maybe less for the black ones , well, we're very used to seeing reproductions of Russel Flint's clothes on this show.

Color reproductions often worth several hundred pounds alone. Yes, but this is fantastic. This is an original watercolor message by Russell Flinch and wonderful. I'm serious, it'sabsolutelyTypical, this is true for Scizor women's luxury and I think this is one of his favorite leisure models, it is Ryan I Cecilia Green and if you look at the back of the image you will see the dedication of the artist, how fascinated he is. a senior reading and says he painted especially January 2, 1964 of my dear friend EJ Jay, is that he was my father, so it's every father to whom Russell Venter gave this and says with lasting gratitude for his presentation to Cecilia.

That's right, yes, as it says here, says Russell Flynt, a kindness that has brought great happiness to my life. That introduction, why did he find Cecilia at the Royal Photographic Society or the Camera Club, where she used to go once a week or once a month? but he was a photographer, he was amazing and he came up with a real fantasy of beauty. That's what I think is so wonderful about Russell Flinders, the way he captures these beautiful girls and puts them in dresses that are always a size smaller. Yes, he loved it. To paint the Falls dress he loved to paint the pleats of the dress which he had done beautifully here he was also a master of flesh tones.

I mean, that's absolutely his trademark and another aspect of his technique that is so distinctive and incredibly well done. It's the way he paints with a very wet brush and paints with great authority with great immediacy that paints on this very rough textured piece, it's almost as if he's lodging a paint pigment into this rough texture, one of the reasons why It's so successful, a wonderful thing and actually a fascinating insight into the way Russell Flint worked and how he met one of his most famous models. I think you should probably insure it for something like £10,000.

Well I feel like I've been transported from Grantham Mears Leisure Center to the old Corsets and Andrews because here we've edited out the course highlights and here at the top it says featured golf, what the hell am I looking at? Well, as far as I can, this is a golf machine from the early 1930s. Tell me from the original balls that were in the machine, is it what kind of skill machine do you know, no, you can actually play again with one or two players, you are actually hitting a golf ball with a golf club, well, this is too good. a description to ignore I'm going to come in here and take a look at the Gubbins.

Well, there's a green square here that's nice, a golf ball. Oh, that's right, it's an original golf ball. What would you do? Would you stretch it to the maximum? extension and then hitting it with a golf club, movements to the right, yes that's right, which moves it out and also when you put a draw or a fade on it, you go to the right or to the left and somehow romaji is filtered transmitted by an electric current. through this cable to the machine and behind this scroll there are centrifugal weights that the current activates and that moves a light that behind it is a mirror and rotates to the right or to the left and places a spotlight where the ball would have landed . the ruff included the ruff and it also lights up it says out of bounds when the ball goes out of bounds that is oh actually it's not, it's a simulation of playing on a real golf course, which is the old Sanders course, what I would like to do is just take a look inside, what's the best way to expose the mechanism, take this cockpit right, beautiful, so here we have the various correct counterweights and then down here you have the light shining on the mirror. correct, which then illuminates well the actual place where the ball lands.

I guess we should talk about value. I mean, the last one I saw that came up for auction was about three or four years ago, now I know the market has moved in quite a direction since then, but it was between £250 and £350, remember exactly, I mean, I think the market for this type of object is largely in the United States, yes, and I think an American would look at this, they would love it. but then think about how much it's going to cost to get it back, but having said that, when you go see another one, it's absolutely trying, it really is, and one thing I have to do is have a good, I happened to have a golf. club here now, well we started off by talking about Grantham's most famous son, Sir Isaac Newton, now here's his most famous daughter, Margaret Thatcher, of course, I assumed it was a caricature from the local newspapers.

Yes, this is from our local newspaper, the Branson Journal, and was published in the late 1990s, what is the story behind the cartoons? Well there was some movement locally to have some sort of memorial to Margaret Thatcher in the town and it got a pretty mixed reception, let's just say no there isn't a plaque on the house. where she was born in fact you can see that here in this photo that is the store is a health center now they are taking her to the rhythm the rhythm is the local River so obviously some people did not approve of the idea of ​​the monument and made their opinions now , she goes to watch the broadcast and tells Toby too.

Yes, I have this is another limited edition from Toby Jugg. We have Dennis being his normal loyal support self, the Iron Lady, which was based, I think, on spit. image and of course those turkeys are now very collectible, especially among political figures, yes, and in fact we are doing quite a collection at the local museum here in Grantham in relation to his Margaret Thatcher, which ranges from one of her blue suits even articles like this, well, thank you. Thank you very much for letting us see them, thank you if it got into someone you would have to push them through these, they will do more damage on the way.

I know we shouldn't put our elbows together, but it invites you to be informal. table, this is a family dining table and they have these beautiful dark areas where the tables were set and left, yes, in the sun, so I mean, well, the sun has reached this part and not this part, so that we have everything that placemats location location matters usually it is left on the fabric yes, sure, thank you, well, that's what the store has now is uh 1792 1810 and the last two designs from Sheraton, this type of leg conical with what we call a scoop foot, very, very delicate, it's very very finely drawn leg and then what can you see? 868 comfortably a nice wide table, everyone can talk to everyone else, but you know, great, great, now you've got the other parts.

I didn't know there were other parts. Well this is the middle part of a long dining table oh there should be 2d ends that had similar legs and the round chips under the top and they hooked and it had two little tabs that had been removed here and there and that was a little tab that fit into a little slot or slot on the end and there were sort of u shaped clips put in to hold everything together, then you could drop them down and put the 2d ends here if you wanted so you could have a table with ends that You would see six, eight or fourteen and of course what happened over the years depending on how long you had it, but probably in the last century the table was sold or someone died, the owner died and Uncle George and Auntie had both extremes. and cousin Alice had the middle part, you have the middle part because I think the sad thing about it is, of course, if you also have the two ends, you have a table worth about fifteen thousand pounds.

It's a table worth between two and a half and three thousand pounds anyway, these are their chairs too, right, yeah, the same period a little bit earlier. I mean, you could say they are from 1785 to 1795, they are before the turn of the 18th century to the 19th century. a known model, that particular shield is the first type of dating signal or the first thing you look for that gives you that type of publication in 1775 and then if you see it, you have an arm, you have a single if If you look at this part, it's more like if it's a chinois, it's like a little mandarin hat and then you have this wonderful kind of mourning leaf shape. there are seven chairs that we are sitting on and carvers upright, which are nine internal wells individually, I suppose they are in the region of two thousand mm 250 something like that, they are worth about three four hundred pounds for a single chair if you have If I have nine of these, They are worth as much as the table would have been nine chairs of that model.

I'm worth between twelve and fifteen thousand pounds so you have to keep them together and I can tell you what patriotism, but they are very pretty / very decorative she has had a new human maybe bu and one bad day she just comes she belongs to this lady and she is Japanese hello not so funny this is a non-mass in O H of the non-game and this would have been used in a drama, yes, and the character would have appeared. I can tell you who it is, but in reality they are all identifiable. Where did he come from.

I gave it to my husband about 20 years ago. Yes, he said he was ancient and he was. intended to protect the lady's family when my husband was away from home, it's a good idea. I like that he actually has some seniority. This one is certainly from the 19th century in a modified area and they are quite collectible. I mean, it'll be worth about £250 to £350 very nice I love it I love the idea that when we were all couch potatoes and in the 1970s, watching the mash advert would tear you apart and you just couldn't understand why the Humans would really want to peel potatoes when mashed potatoes were needed.

It all came in a package, but I think it's fantastic. Finally saved this little guy and it still works. I'm guessing it's probably worth around £20,000 now. Where did all this come from? Because they really are an interesting group, just different places. I've collected them over the years, mostly about twenty years ago, we haven't taken anything from my husband and her husband travels all over the country and you see something else, he has a good eye. I particularly like this one, it's the repair there. It's a pair, yes, that makes a big difference because a pair, of course, is not worth twice, it's worth three times one, someone should never split pairs.

This is a very fine piece of bone china made by the Royal Crown Derby factory and in fact little symbol under the bottom there is a date code that can be searched do you know what it is? I believe it is around 1907. It would fit beautiful bouquets of summer flowers and painted by Jean Jessup. It's not someone I know particularly well. Did you know? that was signed no it wasn't, often this excellent quality was made by the likes of Darby Worcester coal port on this date in the early 20th century, they were often signed a splendid pair of ours, I mean, and the other in good condition too.

I just had a little damage on one of the corners, but not much, that will affect the price. Do you know what your husband paid for them? 95 pounds. Well, he did pretty well. I mean, now we're looking around. 1,800 to put out a thousand pounds with this I have two very beautiful silver tea carts and by the style they must date from the last part of the 18th century at the bottom we have the stamps, the complete set of stamps and those that claim to tell us that the Pieces were made by Aaron de Sturgeon in 1774 and are engraved with brilliant cut, which was the height of fashion in England in the 1770s.

If you can imagine a beautiful Georgian hall lit only by candles, you can see how that would reflect with that brilliant cut engraving, tea boxes have now been made since the early 18th century but this oval style became more popular in the 1770s. The engraved coat of arms obviously dates from 1775. There is a cartouche tied with a garlanded ribbon shell and is typical of In that period, do you know where there was a marriage in 1775? I have no idea that they belong to my in-laws' family because I think you will find that these were made to celebrate a marriage and it is quite typical that the silver was made to celebrate a marriage but it is not very typical to find pieces that still belong to the same family after 225 years.

What's also nice is the torture cell box. This is a tortoise shell lined with ivory, yes, and with a silver handle and a tortoise shell like this. made in the hawksbill turtle and nowadays it is very difficult to find a turtle shell in good condition. Now what about a value 1 cart like that in that kind of condition that's worth around two and a half thousand pounds? We have to do it because you have to do it. Not only do you double the price, you probably triple it, so three times two thousand five hundred seven thousand five hundred, but then you have the box too, oh, do you know what the box is worth?

No, no, I mean, the box is wonderful. The box is worth two thousand pounds alone, put it all together and you have a cart worth more than 10,000. Well, there is a splendid collection of Staffordshire figures that you have brought. Have you been collecting for a long time? Yes. This collection was compiled over a period of about 20 years, mainly in the sixties and seventies, so they were bought when these things were not as fashionable as they are now, sir. I think many of the smaller figures weigh around 15 pounds. These are very interesting figures because most of them were made in the 1820s and 1830s and they have these bakas from the lighting and behind and this is really an imitation of the 18th century figures.

I'm sure you know, like Chelsea, etc. part of the revived rococo to have them as part of its style and they really are very notable, but in another senseThey are simply a kind of peasant art, they are not very sophisticated and at the time they were made they were very inexpensive. buy people just bought them at the fair and so on and they reflect the life of the times are actually earlier of course the things are a flat figure, not a figure and I'm sure you know that I would especially like this figure of singers and there You see she's playing a triangle, he's playing a kind of flute, it's a wonderful figure and on the back we have the Walton mark, you know Walton, of course, John Walton, who was making pots from 1820 to 1846 and is mainly known for these types of figures so it's a rare figure and it's one of a pair and it's one of a pair and then here we have I have this Ram and again you have the mud on the bottom and we flip it over again and another name, which is a very strange name, I'm selling now, okay.

I don't know if I've ever seen another Selman mark Pete. it was a Potter that came after John Walton in the period of 1860 64 65 and that is an extremely rare figure you may be able to see on it, there have been some repairs and this is one of the problems with these figures. I'm sure you realize that yes and it does affect the price the figures have gone up a lot in price since you paid fifteen or twenty quid or whatever for them, the ones that have the brand today are making do with something in the region of 750 even thousand pounds for one that is not being restored by a pair each, they have increased in enormous size and as for the others, they will vary depending on the amount of damage, the amount of restoration, the rarity of the figure, like postal breaks, but they will vary between three and seven hundred or eight hundred pounds each is very nice it was a peace offering from my husband after a very disastrous dinner in which one of the guests he had invited did not eat any of which I had served and in fact had to send it to the local pub for the steak and the potent kidney, well, it is a very, very nice airport, big and beautiful before 1850.

Opie's came from Czechoslovakia and it is likely that all the small things and in 1850 they began to open the opal mines in Australia and where the opals are obtained. The color form, unfortunately, is a play of colors made of silica and water, and it is the water that actually forms the opal because it is like an oil stain. You get this diffraction play between the different layers of silica or the water in between, and that's why sometimes people I think opals are unlucky because they can dry out, so you don't want to keep them in a very, very dry atmosphere and Did you manage to find out what your husband paid him?

No, I don't think it was a stretch because I don't think it was that big of an apology, well, I think it was a pretty good apology actually because, for insurance purposes, a high value would value this necklace at five to six thousand pounds today in day. Well, I definitely think so. Okay, I just wanted that, but actually, oh, this, well, it was a birthday present, oh, that's pretty fabulous too, I think it was reasonably expensive, a thousand pounds, really, that's a lot more valuable, actually , because he's a black to have a good eye for these things, first things first, rusty clips. and the old paper do not go together, they are again to return that should not be seen together, so I have here a draft of a letter that is signed and they are at the bottom here and as I look here I see dear sir. tower is now this man. tower certainly is and who is Miss Rolle well, he was he wasn't at Oxford and Ferris was one of his tutors but he was a poet he was a published war Persian yes, yes, but that wasn't really his livelihood, I know he's a wine merchant, in fact, well because he's a poet on a wine note and what could be better and here we are, CS Lewis's most extraordinary letter, all in his hand and he often had his typed letters or his letters were tied, yes, or written by his brother but this is entirely in his hand an extraordinary letter a very interesting letter because it exposes many points of philosophy about poetry all kinds of things and here we are one two three and a half pages and he signs it here at the end and I don't feel obligated to answer this out of courtesy, on the other hand, feel free to continue the discussion if you wish.

I always have time for the type of letter from him. Yours, CS Lewis, that's why he gives you a lot of praise. I mean, that's it. Quite incredible, isn't it, yes, and here is the author of the Narnia books again, dear sir. rooks absolutely tremendous wonderful letters full of little diagrams and all sorts of things but this one instead of three and a half pages goes to five give up hope about oysters I've been trying to learn to like it for 39 years with no success yours CS Lewis absolutely fantastic , then you also bring not so exciting perhaps, but anyway someone who is a member of the Inklings in the yes, they were a group of like-minded literary professors who used to meet at the Eagle and the Boy who were at Oxford in a Giles that They called the load baby because we actually have a silver cigarette case at home where they found that inside this is too much but it's also discolored.

I didn't think you'd be too hard on your brother anyway. copy of The Hobbit now it's not a first edition of The Hobbit it doesn't have a dust jacket it's quite dirty so I'm not going to get particularly excited about it a second printing but inside you have this postcard from Tokyo, yes, Lord. of the Rings and the person who wrote this particular book, but on the back, just look at this beautiful, lovely script and he signs it jay-ar and a wonderful flourishing team and if you look at this you could because he did all the illustrations yes If you look at this map here, you can see the similarity between the scripts that I know today, especially the one at the end, which I think is absolutely wonderful, which has more color, but they are so Dory.

I mean, this one is completely different. age, I mean, who would think of doing that? You pick up your cell phone, right? You just call and everything is lost, but here is the unusual thing we tell you about correspondence between professors in university faculties. It's just that everyone made provisions, mainly they made provisions for their letters to be received in one of the big university libraries or something, so I have to say that a Tolkien postcard is pretty rare. Cards of this quality from CS Lewis are extremely rare because they almost always ended up in-universe now tell me, do you have any idea what kind of value one would place on a five page letter from CS Lewis?

A three-page letter. I just put a family value on it. Do you know something? Someone famous who wrote to someone in the family. He hadn't thought of it as a monetary value at all. Well, they do have a monetary value. This lovely little item from Tokyo would sell for five hundred pounds. Yes, five hundred vans. Only that now, if I said. something about The Hobbit, if I had said something about The Lord of the Rings, we'd probably be talking twice as much about CS Lewis Shadowlands being very desirable and all the productive stuff that's come out recently about it and all that kind of stuff is very It's interesting or fascinating, so a letter like this, in which you go into many details about your academic work and academic ideas, would be very valuable, so a three-page letter would be worth around fifteen hundred pounds, but five one-page letter , I have to say that it is worth two thousand five hundred.

I can't help Phoebe, you are such a treasure thank you for bringing me, many, many thanks, the end of our day here in Grantham is especially memorable for the quality of the furniture, the jewelery and certainly the best, the trolley prettiest tea I've ever seen so we thank everyone here and I hope you'll join us for another Antiques Roadshow next week until then investigating the computer giant trapped in the Software Wars money program starts in a few moments on BBC Two here on BBC One life as a ranger and crew member on a tall ship holiday, fasten your seatbelt is next