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Antiques Roadshow BBC episodes


Antiques Roadshow is a long running British television series about the appraisal of antiques produced by the BBC. Having begun on 18 February 1979, the show is as of 2017 on its 39th series. The dates in brackets given below are the dates each episode was filmed at the location. The dates not in brackets are each episode's first UK airing dates on BBC One.

Extracts from this series:

– Great Hall of Manchester Town Hall, including 12 murals by Ford Madox Brown
– toy Alfa Romeo P2 racing car made by CIJ (Compagnie industrielle du jouet) of France in 1920s, £3,000
– 1920s mechanical Teddybear by Schuko of Nuremberg, Germany, £1,200
– Italian Renaissance revival bust in bronze and Alabaster, sculpted by Gustave Varenburg (poss. G.V. Wehrenberg) style of Naples or Turin, £1,800
musical chair, ornately carved and inlaid with Chamois motifs, made in Brienz, Switzerland, £2,000
– Japanese figure carrying sword, net and monkey. Carved in ivory by Harojama of the 'Tokyo School' (set up by Ishikawa Komei), c. 1890, £8,000
– leather belt with silver buckle concealing a Cyma Watches Swiss watch, 1920s, £600
– decorated 'fireplace' tiles made by Pilkingtons, decorated by John Chambers for William and Joseph Burton, £150 per tile
– score of Der Ring des Nibelungen - Die Walkiere by Richard Wagner. Donated by the great-granddaughters of music conductor Doctor Hans Richter (conductor), to The Hallé orchestra archive. A personal wedding gift from Wagner to Richter, £20,000
– faux copy of George Stubbs painted panel of Horses Fighting 1787, which disappeared, £2,000
– peacock blue vase from the Aesthetic movement 1890s Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, £500
– gold necklace Classical revival 1865-70, made by Robert Phillips (goldsmith), £3,000
– collection of drawings by John Mennie.Singapore in World War II, including the Selarang Square Squeeze from September 1942. Mennie (died 1982) trained at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen and Westminster School of Art in London. He worked as an art teacher, £1,200
– glass bowl decorated in Vienna Secession style, the Habsburg Empire version of Art Nouveau (Jūgendstils), £300
– award winning photograph of clog-maker and his apprentice c1910, plus the clogs in the photo, £30
– lesson in pearl quality
– 1900s toy In the country - The Model Village with hand-written message 'Father wishes Ernest a happy Christmas'. Made in Bavaria, £1,000
Clarice Cliff Mr Fish wall pocket, 1930s, £150, and fake Clarice Cliff ornament
– collection of cartoon Careless Talk Costs Live posters from World War II by Fougasse (=Cyril Kenneth Bird), £1,500
– broken Japanese Arita porcelain cat, made in 1680, £300
– silver cigarette case, autographed book and decorated scroll, presented to Lieutenant Glover and engraved/signed with the names of the White Russian Aristocracy who escaped to Crimea, Yalta and Malta in 1918, £10,000
Suffragette scarf from 1918, depicting Women's Rights in 1981.


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