Antiques Roadshow Greatest Finds: Part 1 (2006, BBC)

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  • @Great-Documentaries
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    • @sunshinecoastrealestatepho9970
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      @piustwelfth Рік тому +1

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      @bruimbored Рік тому

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    • @Ceractucus
      @Ceractucus Рік тому

      Not monetized? What a surprise!

  • @sherrylawrencelewis2544
    @sherrylawrencelewis2544 8 місяців тому +12

    Watching this was a great hark back to my family Sundays evenings. The 'Antiques Road Show' and 'That's Life.' BBC gold. Bittersweet. Many of the specialists and presenters have now passed. One learnt so much and new hobbies in our family - were inspired.
    My mother loved a bargin, so we were dragged out of bed on many a dreary Saturday morning. We would trail her around jumble-sales and fetes - in church halls and community centres. After watching the lovely antiques, I collected old handbags and loads of broaches, pins and dress rings. I dressed up and played with it all. It is still in my parents attic.
    I also had a complete Ladybird collection of fairy tales, children's books with lots of illustrations.
    One day, I might go up and look for it all. 😊😊😊

  • @justjoe942
    @justjoe942 Рік тому +25

    Anytime I need a 'good' cry, I just pop these ones on and feel happiness for people realizing they have a treasure.

  • @lescline2246
    @lescline2246 7 місяців тому +4

    The fire scene when camping in the desert was out of this world! The way the firelight hits people around the fire is magical and at 22:45 the image of a person in the fire is mythical i am literally speechless.

  • @donstclair4619
    @donstclair4619 Рік тому +60

    You guys have done a real service to all the people you've helped and educated over the years

  • @pattih7
    @pattih7 Рік тому +18

    How surprising and exciting , for this family to learn of the treasures they had! And the history connected with them! Suffragettes!!
    The young girl collecting her treasures, struck me as charming and committed to her passion and it’s history, as well! Charming!

  • @wht-rabt-obj
    @wht-rabt-obj Рік тому +41

    That painting from the desert is phenomenal 😍😳

  • @samp4050
    @samp4050 Рік тому +37

    Freya is an old soul, for sure. Even the hat she wore, and her serenity, smartness. Very unique young lady.

    • @andreaandrea6716
      @andreaandrea6716 10 місяців тому +1

      I thought the same! (And the cloche hat; from the 1920's! My favourite!)

    • @allisonanderson5224
      @allisonanderson5224 2 місяці тому +1

      ❤❤❤she almost seems royal ❤❤❤

  • @paulleckner8235
    @paulleckner8235 Рік тому +132

    I have a third hand story about a man who bought a ring for his girlfriend at a yard sale. It was a gaudy piece of crystal on a gold band. The antique dealer wanted to know if the family who had the yard sale was of French ancestry. The gaudy piece of crystal on a gold band has been missing since 1789. It was stolen from Marie Antoinette's personal jewelry box when the French peasants looted the Versailles Palace during the French Revolution.

    • @rastra1321
      @rastra1321 Рік тому +16

      Wow!!!! 😮😳😳

    • @tatianarusmade336
      @tatianarusmade336 Рік тому +6

      O my god! What the story!

    • @11bravo18
      @11bravo18 Рік тому +2

      Crock

    • @MsPinkwolf
      @MsPinkwolf Рік тому +2

      @@11bravo18 prove it

    • @jeanneratterman
      @jeanneratterman Рік тому +11

      Steve Harvey told a great story of a necklace bought by a new groom for his bride. She wore it often. At some point she had it looked at by a jeweler who immediately offered something like $500. She said no. It was too personal. She kept it put away. At some point she again had it looked at and the jeweler asked if she knew what she had. He gave her his loop and she looked at the stones. Everyone one was minutely inscribed (in some fashion?) to Josephine from Napoleon. It was worth way more $500. (The first jeweler was a tad unethical, eh?) And that was the rest of the story!

  • @ianking-jv4hg
    @ianking-jv4hg Рік тому +9

    @ 16:45 Richard Dadd's desert painting is good,
    But the fire scene is perhaps one of the best "fire scenes" i've ever had the privilege of viewing.

  • @TheFiown
    @TheFiown Рік тому +37

    Dining with my step daughters family, her uncle offered to show me his coin collection. The family said " don't bother her with your old coins", they laughed at him. I saw the collection and listened to his passion and realised that he had over a million euros in value in his office. He has since died and I have no idea if his family knew what they had.

  • @Dman-wp7ri
    @Dman-wp7ri Рік тому +63

    Freya was so mature and well spoken for her age. Very impressed.

  • @Sassyglbeauty
    @Sassyglbeauty Рік тому +15

    Oh man, how sad about the artist. Sometimes, those whom are the most gifted, tend to also have psychological issues. Is it because they are so sensitive? Idk. But, we definitely still haven’t unlocked the mysteries of mental illness.

  • @sarahsaurus9317
    @sarahsaurus9317 Рік тому +15

    Whenever I see clips of this silver it reminds of my mother. Apparently she was engaged to their father many years ago, who gave her some solid silver button hooks, which my sister now has.

  • @craigdutton6072
    @craigdutton6072 Рік тому +33

    The sale of the silver was a touching story ❤his wife going on travels to places she dreamed of was nice 👍I’d never dream of letting my kids go with out anything for a collectables and I’m a deranged collector of antiques lol 😂 some folks roll one way some folks roll the other !

    • @susi-emily
      @susi-emily Рік тому +2

      I remember watching that episode as it aired. I'd never forgotten the chap with the dreads who kept pulling more a more pieces of silver of of a duffel bag.

  • @nobbystyles4807
    @nobbystyles4807 Рік тому +19

    anyone that knows anything about photography can see the levels of light work in that Richard dadd painting. it is unbelievable the level of light detail.

    • @dragonfox2.058
      @dragonfox2.058 Рік тому +7

      I know the treatment of the light alone told me it was exceptional...dead giveaway. Only masters use light like that

  • @lucyrose-akins602
    @lucyrose-akins602 4 місяці тому +1

    My grandma said she was watching an episode years ago and a photo of her mum and her mums uncle came up in the background somewhere so now seeing if I can somehow find it

  • @TheVanillatech
    @TheVanillatech Рік тому +28

    My old man went to one of these without telling any of us. It was somewhere local, on the East Coast. He took a handful of things, one of them a very old chinese ornate fan in a box. He swapped it when he was in Borneo with the Merchant Navy, back in the late 40's, with an ex-pat local for some microscope parts. Anyways, the only thing worth something significant, of all the items he took, was that fan. A couple of grand. Nothing to sniff at, considering the specimen slides he swapped it for cost him just a few quid from a mail order catalogue.
    He gave it to my brothers girlfriend as a housewarming gift when they got their first house together. He never told her what it was worth. He told me one night, years later, about the trip to the roadshow. And I thought "Jesus christ, Dad! I hope she's still got it!". So I asked my brother, and he said she did, so I told him the story just to make sure the kids didn't play with it! XD

  • @rickstevens1479
    @rickstevens1479 Рік тому +18

    I love that English poise ...the girl with the bakalight was adorable.. she thought she was nervous, but it didn't show...

    • @mrmrsmarshall9110
      @mrmrsmarshall9110 Рік тому

      A lovely London accent too, not evey Londoner was/is a cockney

  • @bonnierae7159
    @bonnierae7159 Рік тому +50

    We are so appreciative of the episodes you have recently put on. Thank you a million times over. Perfect quality videos, so unlike the purposely distorted postings that other You Tubers have put on. Hope you keep 'em coming.

  • @nickinportland
    @nickinportland 11 місяців тому +5

    13:43 I feel the Bakelite girl. I’ve always loved Bakelite too. And the market proved her right as well.

  • @bartonseagrave9605
    @bartonseagrave9605 Рік тому +24

    I entered a very old part of the attic and to my amazement I discovered a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius so you can imagine my excitement.
    I immediately sent for a valuer but was horrified to find that Stradivarius was a terrible painter and Rembrandt couldn’t make violins for toffee.

    • @PetroicaRodinogaster264
      @PetroicaRodinogaster264 Рік тому +3

      oh bad luck…you just cannot avoid it!

    • @deboraballes9044
      @deboraballes9044 Рік тому +2

      🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

    • @philiprice7875
      @philiprice7875 Рік тому +1

      Stradivarius is the most faked item after "ming" if your violin has a label saying Stradivarius it is covering "made in czechslovika"

    • @susieg4624
      @susieg4624 День тому

      That's a very old one - sounds like Tommy Cooper. The old ones are the best!

    • @bartonseagrave9605
      @bartonseagrave9605 День тому

      @@susieg4624 : it was Tommy and then he smashed the violin through the painting.

  • @betty5064
    @betty5064 Рік тому +22

    I remember when a painting was brought in and declared to be quite valuable. The host asked what the family was planning to do with it, and was told it certainly wasn't going back in the garage.

    • @sherrylawrencelewis2544
      @sherrylawrencelewis2544 8 місяців тому

      Nope. I do like its provenance. Knowing the same hand that murdered created that painting - would mean I would not want it anywhere I was living. Creepy. ⚱️☠️🪦⚰️💀

  • @paulmoffat9306
    @paulmoffat9306 Рік тому +54

    I went to an Antiques Roadshow event in Mobile, Alabama a number of years ago, to have an item I had appraised (nothing out of the ordinary), and I bumped into another 'seeker of truth', after exiting the event. He had a number of listeners gathered that were hard pressed to keep from laughing about his object. The appraiser had told him, that it was probably the weirdest and most unique object that he had seen, but he could NOT show it on TV. What was it? They were renovating the grounds around the perimeter of an old pub, that dated to before the Civil War. Apparently, the pub was a bro**el during the war, and the object was a lead cast dil**o complete with teeth marks on it!

  • @cinemaipswich4636
    @cinemaipswich4636 Рік тому +3

    This compliation episode is my favorite.

  • @1mmickk
    @1mmickk Рік тому +17

    He was a probate clerk, he knew who had what when they died and if it went to auction, where and when. He couldnt show anyone because what he was doing was illegal.

    • @Chipper-cs3xm
      @Chipper-cs3xm Рік тому +9

      That makes a lot of sense and explains the secrecy.

    • @clarkpalace
      @clarkpalace Рік тому +4

      Good idea. I assume the family knew that right away, it was dad’s job after all

    • @1mmickk
      @1mmickk Рік тому +2

      @@clarkpalace He could have even been bolder and I suspect he was. Once you know who has what, theres no end to the ways of having objects move from one party to another.

  • @brianlopez8855
    @brianlopez8855 Рік тому +36

    I bet the children of Harold Hobs were 'delighted' to find how much Dad had given away over the years !

    • @juliehughes1258
      @juliehughes1258 Рік тому +14

      Agreed. He comes off as a very selfish prick, doesn't he? The family were suffering and here he is with this secret fortune in silver, and not sharing it with them. In the end, though, his wife did get the last laugh, and good for her.

    • @PlateletRichGel
      @PlateletRichGel 10 місяців тому +2

      You're only getting one side of the story.

    • @sherrylawrencelewis2544
      @sherrylawrencelewis2544 8 місяців тому

      ​@@juliehughes1258💯

  • @evryhndlestakn
    @evryhndlestakn Рік тому +6

    I completely remember the episode of the silver, it did stand out for various reasons & I did think that at least & at last they were finally in a position to benefit after earlier frugality.

  • @1961ebutuoy
    @1961ebutuoy Рік тому +5

    Having a convict in the family, historically speaking, will often bring a twinkle to the eye of a colonial Aussie.

  • @YochevedDesigns
    @YochevedDesigns Рік тому +5

    Absolutely delightful! Thanks so much for uploading.

  • @fringedwellermccatintyre730
    @fringedwellermccatintyre730 Рік тому +6

    My favourite is @ 10:02 - the guache, for it's composition alone, is breathtaking...

  • @wendywhite2642
    @wendywhite2642 Рік тому +10

    that is one stunning painting

  • @JM-gd8nl
    @JM-gd8nl Рік тому +7

    these are the kinds of videos i really really like

  • @forsterkimberley575
    @forsterkimberley575 2 дні тому +1

    How awful to keep your family without and donate pieces to someone else

  • @LS-xs7sg
    @LS-xs7sg Рік тому +7

    I wonder what was going on in Mr Hobbs mind. Perhaps he was more obsessed with the joy of collecting than the value of the items

  • @Algorithmicgeneratedwordsalad
    @Algorithmicgeneratedwordsalad Рік тому +15

    Financial abuse is a form of abuse and that is really sad that his family had to go through that

  • @junebennett978
    @junebennett978 Рік тому +7

    Another Great Episode! Thank You!!

  • @EnoVarma
    @EnoVarma Рік тому +6

    I love the clock lady at 29:18 for being such a good story teller.

    • @redwoods7370
      @redwoods7370 Рік тому +1

      And she has a lovely speaking voice and accent. I could listen to her all day.

  • @heru-deshet359
    @heru-deshet359 Рік тому +7

    If any museum wanted a valuable art piece that I owned, they would have to pay a hefty premium for it.

    • @jeanneratterman
      @jeanneratterman Рік тому

      I wonder if there can be a yearly write off when lending art and relics to museums? Offset other income and maybe not even owe any taxes for a while. Just wondering.

  • @denisesudd5318
    @denisesudd5318 Рік тому +4

    Awesome picture

  • @rolandoruiz7659
    @rolandoruiz7659 Рік тому +11

    We know something about artists who penalised as murderers. At Fremantle, Western Australia, we have an old 1890s prison that has jail cell walls filled with painted art. Really fascinating.

  • @petercastles5978
    @petercastles5978 Рік тому +6

    An older lady in Brisbane, Australia, a member of the Suffragettes, was at a protest. The powers that be had men with fixed bayonettes against them. Anyway there was a stouch, and in the mellee she drove her hat pin into the rump of the Superintendant's horse. He got bucked off, and broke his arm. He earnt that!

    • @Roses-lilac
      @Roses-lilac Рік тому +3

      I have to admit I feel sorry for the poor old horse. Good enough for its rider!

    • @petercastles5978
      @petercastles5978 Рік тому

      @@Roses-lilac Yes, too true. I still can't believe those " brave" men fixed bayonettes on those Ladies. If the order to do that came from the Super then he deserved all he got!

  • @CrazyUncleChris
    @CrazyUncleChris Рік тому +10

    The little girl Friya looks like a living China doll. Adult Friya is a lovely young lady, but as a child she looked like the kind of dolls my grandmother collected.

  • @ukdnbmarsh
    @ukdnbmarsh Рік тому +25

    Freya has very fine parenting, so well spoken, a great example of how to bring your children up.

    • @dshe8637
      @dshe8637 Рік тому +3

      Very wealthy

    • @MsPinkwolf
      @MsPinkwolf Рік тому +2

      @@dshe8637 you don’t have to be wealthy to talk like that in England

  • @redwoods7370
    @redwoods7370 Рік тому +7

    Mrs. Hobbs! What a strong woman! She didn’t give in to any resentments. So glad she got to enjoy the money from the sale of the silver.

  • @kellycook5314
    @kellycook5314 Рік тому +1

    Young miss W is very confident & composed … you go girl

  • @msreid52
    @msreid52 4 місяці тому +2

    Wondering if the silver stashwas knicked long before the family discovered it. Might explain the father not trying to sell the items.

  • @elizabethredmond4585
    @elizabethredmond4585 Рік тому +3

    Id LOVE❤ to attend one of these there lol😂thanks for posting

  • @ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13
    @ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 Рік тому +3

    I remember this shows it was always on SUNDAY'S at around 5PM..

  • @Poloturbo77
    @Poloturbo77 7 місяців тому +1

    If the soul was unable to pay Charon, then he was left stranded between the two worlds, belonging to neither

  • @zioncardman18
    @zioncardman18 Рік тому +10

    I connected with Freya and felt her words.... then I looked up proudly at all my junk and realized I'm over the line into a hoarder now🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @ktkat1949
    @ktkat1949 Рік тому +25

    I will be honest. If I was the wife in the first story the next time I saw my 'late husband' I would have batted him around the ear. Imagine living in modest means scrimping and saving and all that time he was buying silver and donating it to other people. That would make me burn. I am glad my favourite people were on. The mother and son who owned the tip and got all the jewellery. How could anyone throw out all those beautiful pieces!!

    • @madlift
      @madlift 9 місяців тому +1

      He was a right bastard, wasn't he?

  • @lornapecaoco6468
    @lornapecaoco6468 Рік тому +4

    New Subscriber 12-24 22 Im Glad i found your Show here in U tube !! I like to towatch this Antique Road Shows 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @dianafromcalifornia5127
    @dianafromcalifornia5127 Рік тому +12

    2022 I'm watching. Happy they could use the money. Dad's secret collection helped him transcend a humdrum life perhaps....well they are gracious the wife and children.

  • @eileencollins8799
    @eileencollins8799 Рік тому +4

    I loved the shell that was mounted in silver.

  • @Sassyglbeauty
    @Sassyglbeauty Рік тому +4

    So, unwittingly, the first man gave his wife a beautiful life for her retirement years.

  • @danrook5757
    @danrook5757 Рік тому +5

    I’m going up in the attic after this viewing, and start going. Through the boxes of my grand parents. They came from europe before the start of ww1

  • @dtulip1
    @dtulip1 Рік тому +4

    About a gazillion years ago (or so it seems) this program was called going for a song...i remember it well...happy days

    • @Sofasurfa
      @Sofasurfa Рік тому +1

      So do I along with Arthur Negas such a gently spoken gentleman 😊

  • @andrewwebb-trezzi2422
    @andrewwebb-trezzi2422 Рік тому +173

    Their father sounds like a real piece of work. Who donates stuff like that while your family is hungry and can barely get by. When he showed them the silver that they hadn’t known about, you can tell they were mad and rightfully so.

    • @irisheyes5890
      @irisheyes5890 Рік тому +8

      Stolen items?

    • @irisheyes5890
      @irisheyes5890 Рік тому +2

      Doubt the last name was Hobbs.

    • @faithlesshound5621
      @faithlesshound5621 Рік тому +18

      @@irisheyes5890 They skated over how he got hold of all that valuable silver. He seems to have been "something in the city," so they may not have known how much money he had.
      Was he a member, or even the head, of a Livery Company? If so, he valued it more than his own family. Buying silver spoons for his children only to donate them seems to be some sort of message.

    • @joniangelsrreal6262
      @joniangelsrreal6262 Рік тому +8

      Sadly that sneaky behavior Happens all the time…a tough life

    • @bluecollar58
      @bluecollar58 Рік тому +9

      I hope the kids got something out of it. It sounds like Mom might have done the same as the old man.

  • @gwae48
    @gwae48 Рік тому +3

    that picture is beautiful.

  • @elenalatici9568
    @elenalatici9568 Рік тому +15

    The story behind the incredible silver story is disgusting. The father's collection represents deprivation for his young family and no doubt great anxiety for his hard working, bill paying wife. That he gave away a piece silver when each of his children was born is twisted. The only difference between the silver and a string of mistresses is that the silver remained and grew in value to finally bring a bit of enjoyment to his wife in the end.

  • @jt.s.7418
    @jt.s.7418 Рік тому +3

    That was fascinating!

  • @douro20
    @douro20 Рік тому +2

    Freya has been at McKenna & Co. for the past eighteen years.

  • @andreaandrea6716
    @andreaandrea6716 10 місяців тому +1

    (15:31) I find the Bakelite SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING than the jewelry!

  • @gwae48
    @gwae48 Рік тому +10

    Hard to believe mrs. Hobbs never went under that bed 🤔🙄 Probably more to that story than we're being told.

    • @robertoarmstrong7317
      @robertoarmstrong7317 Рік тому

      Stolen silver, or perhaps their secret metal society needs further investigation. Perhaps they provided services in exchange for precious metal… who knows. Why you wouldn’t say anything about them is telling. Donating birth spoons? Very odd. I think you’re correct.

  • @jeanneamato8278
    @jeanneamato8278 Рік тому +5

    This was astonishing.

  • @mmfitter6731
    @mmfitter6731 Рік тому +2

    Great show!

  • @stephenmcdonald3422
    @stephenmcdonald3422 Рік тому +76

    Wouldn’t hurt the tin workers to return the gifts - bit immoral to hold them

  • @dianefields6056
    @dianefields6056 8 місяців тому +1

    'The look of love' song so appropriate - those specialists did look entranced, or did the music make me think so?

  • @Sofasurfa
    @Sofasurfa Рік тому +4

    To all those people alluding to Mr Hobbs being a criminal, how would you like it if someone did that to a deceased member of your family, it would be nice if you kept your cynicism to yourself.

  • @mythgreatbritain5634
    @mythgreatbritain5634 Рік тому +6

    Fancy finding out your dad was a burglar....

  • @babettelock2106
    @babettelock2106 11 місяців тому +3

    Well done Freya.

  • @JM-gd8nl
    @JM-gd8nl Рік тому +3

    thank you for this it means alot!

  • @philiprice7875
    @philiprice7875 Рік тому +3

    it is IMHO the stories behind the objects that count
    one i will always remember a japanese tea bowl half melted if you saw it at a jumble sale for 10 pence you would thin only worth 5p but was found @ Hiroshima. how much heat it needed to remelt porcelain?

  • @jeanross7430
    @jeanross7430 Рік тому +1

    Wonderful.

  • @margkropf5541
    @margkropf5541 Рік тому +28

    A bit sad and disgusting to think this man kept all the silver under the bed when he could have improved his family’s living situation .I love the wife’s reaction, so British.Just getting on with it.Stiff upper lip et al!!!

  • @castelodeossos3947
    @castelodeossos3947 Рік тому +1

    Good to hear someone say you 'get on with the next thing' (8:32), instead of the now ubiquitious 'moving forward', which sounds absurd.

  • @englishrose4388
    @englishrose4388 Рік тому +1

    Love this.

  • @robertgoh7420
    @robertgoh7420 3 дні тому

    My favourite titles were the 1997-2002 multicoloured titles and gold logo used from series 20-24.

  • @lutomson3496
    @lutomson3496 Рік тому +3

    Interesting how a murderers paintings are worth so much...different times I guess

    • @robertoarmstrong7317
      @robertoarmstrong7317 Рік тому +1

      Warhol was a creep and people still love the guy 🤷🏼‍♀️

  • @grahamwhittle1971
    @grahamwhittle1971 Рік тому +3

    1607 and it looks like it was made yesterday outstanding James the first wow 😳

    • @paulleckner8235
      @paulleckner8235 Рік тому +1

      Now, if you had a first edition of the KJV, King James Bible, that would be a find!

  • @sharonlee4773
    @sharonlee4773 Рік тому +6

    Steve Coogan clearly based his Alan Partridge character on Ian Pickford!

  • @seahagkeylover
    @seahagkeylover Рік тому +2

    As for the Hobbs family sometimes richness doesn't help raise outstanding people for the future

  • @maryclaremayo6157
    @maryclaremayo6157 Рік тому

    I'm hearing the Moby song "Extreme Ways" - the theme used in the Jason Bourne films.

  • @mikewillmott75
    @mikewillmott75 Рік тому +4

    Look at 9;20 the chair moving. Father is still there...

  • @robertgoh7420
    @robertgoh7420 3 дні тому

    From series 25 the logo changed font and the titles were cars traveling antiques rather than 4:4:2 videographics.

  • @laurie4275
    @laurie4275 Рік тому +4

    How do we know dad was STEALING the silver and that's why no one could know about its presence?

  • @Martin-sp4zf
    @Martin-sp4zf Рік тому +1

    When it comes to this sort of stuff 'tis hard to beat England and I'm from Ireland. Now it's the last but one day of April and I'm in Asia. Forgive me 'cos I can't resist : "Oh, to be in England now that April's there..."

  • @Chris.Davies
    @Chris.Davies Рік тому +1

    360p - we meet again!
    It's just like 2008 all over again.

    • @Great-Documentaries
      @Great-Documentaries  11 місяців тому +2

      Hey, if you want to upload a 4K version of a program that was never broadcast in HD, be my guest.

  • @metaphosV
    @metaphosV 7 місяців тому

    Love these British accents.

  • @vernelledouglas1801
    @vernelledouglas1801 Рік тому +15

    Mr. Hobbs omitted somethings from his family but...deep in his heart, I think he knew they'd benefit from it in the future.

    • @colddiesel
      @colddiesel Рік тому +5

      I disagree, you have no idea how much they sacrificed to serve his selfishness. His widow comments were very gracious, far more than he deserved.

    • @ianworley8169
      @ianworley8169 Рік тому +5

      Instead of which, he kept his family, worked hard all of his life and amassed a fortune to be left for their benefit after his death. His wife appears to have cashed in the lot and travelled the World on the proceeds. Perhaps he knew her better than those quick to criticise on here. The fact that he gave certain historically important pieces to the Guild of which he was a lifelong member, just serves to show that he cared more about the historical than the monetary value. They should be proud of him, rather than bear grudges against his memory.

  • @8ballphil150
    @8ballphil150 Рік тому +1

    the dad painting , £100,000 . a damn site more now .

  • @mrliberty8468
    @mrliberty8468 Рік тому +1

    Some people gamble their money away some people gamble some people should count their blessings it was antique silver that was money invested in their future and had value like a life insurance policy...

  • @jeanneratterman
    @jeanneratterman Рік тому +3

    That discarded jewelry…a disgruntled or spurned lover? a quarrel? a found item for a lover and not the wife? So many possibilities! Or were some stolen and dumped? I wonder what old police files might reveal about stolen/ lost jewelry.

    • @karmelicanke
      @karmelicanke Рік тому

      I know a woman who was searching for her very large solitaire diamond ring. It wasn't in the jewelry case. Asking her 30 yr old autistic daughter if by chance she has seen the ring somewhere in the house, the daughter replied: " when I was mad at you a few months ago, I threw it in the garbage on collection day."

  • @brandonmaynard9507
    @brandonmaynard9507 Рік тому +1

    The son in the later clips looks like Mankind.

  • @richardmckelvey4343
    @richardmckelvey4343 Рік тому +1

    I wonder who had a glass shop i kinda think it was Singer :)

  • @johnbaldock6353
    @johnbaldock6353 Рік тому +2

    Rick from Pawn Stars will offer you £50.🤣

  • @dereksmith5150
    @dereksmith5150 Рік тому

    I never realised Alan Partridge was into antiques

  • @dragonfox2.058
    @dragonfox2.058 Рік тому +1

    wow this is really interesting

  • @jcallaway1617
    @jcallaway1617 6 місяців тому

    18:18 Ms Doubtfire was very happy