I dont know how to say this. Youve heard something father, is that it . Or had a mystical experience . It was a vision, was it . I cant say. Uhhuh. A tip in the confession box. Siobhan . Information is information. And it may be better than mine. Tarbet warrior it is so. Thank you, siobhan. Thank you. Im glad to be rid of the responsibility. Ill bet. Good one, father. Right. Off we go then. £40 to win, tarbert warrior. Squandering the church funds, padre . Im trying to build a new cathedral. Nothing like good works to put the boost up a dogs bum, eh . Been a bit of a shift on tarbert warriors price. Some money has gone on at the last minute. Did you have anything to do with this . Im not a fool. I hope not. We get paid at starting price. Someones going to be very unhappy about this. [ cheering and shouting ] first, number 2, black dazzler. Second, number 3 tarbert warrior. Third, number 1, wonder boy. [ phone ringing ] hello . Father collins. No, no, im fine. Just a bit husky today. He wants it for what . New vestments . What, just for himself . Two for you, two for you and dealer takes one. Well, hows the work going across the way . All being done by me at the minute, michael. Excuse me, whos running up the curtains . Cant all have long, paid holidays. Yeah, paying for it is something else. Yes, i heard and ive tried to get the kitty rolling again. Ive collected £73, and out of the goodness of my heart ive made it up to the round 100. Well, thats very generous of you, michael but its not going to improve matters much. Well, £100 is £100. Just dont give it to father clifford to hold. Hes likely to back a dog with it. I just wanted to apologise to everyone and especially to you, siobhan, im sorry. Ill try not to be as stupid again. Ah, sure. Bettings always a matter of tips and whispers, father. Do you fancy a drink . Mineral water, thanks, padraig. Im practising for next lent. Doc ryans managed to raise another £100. Oh, well done, michael. Straight flush. Two pair. Thats the first time in weeks i got a full house. Its like playing the cincinnati kid. Did you ever think of playing cards for a living, siobhan . Thats it what is . A poker tournament. Er, start again, me brain hasnt caught up yet. Well organise a poker tournament. Sure, siobhanll turn that £100 into 1,000. Ah, hold on now. Its a great idea, sure, what have we got to lose . What do you think, father . Im no authority on gambling. Thats true. Its too short notice. Its wednesday now. How could get word round . We need the money by monday. Are they serious . Ring gamblers anonymous. Padraig. The countrys full of gamblers. [ brendan ] well spread the word. Theyll come from miles around. So where you going to hold this tournament, then . Well, here, of course. Think of the business. Think of my license. Think of my reputation. Ambrose wouldnt stand for it. Would he . Its for charity. Say youre closing the pub to the public. I wont be allowed to do that. Niamh . Well, its his day off sunday and he hasnt visited his old mother in months. Niamh it can be his contribution. Be his sacrifice. Yes . Vote. All those in favour . Im waiting for somebody to ask me. Will you vote, siobhan. Please. Ah, well, you know assumpta . My future could depend on this. Trust me. Thats it. This sunday, the ballykissangel poker tournament yes i would be happier if you cut out the cigarettes. Poker tournament. Do you know about it . Ill give you this. Its to raise money for kathleen. At 10 40, make sure youre there now, okay . Its gonna be great. See you. Its on, sunday, 1 30. Yeah, fitzgeralds, yeah ring sean, will you . Great. Fine, bye, yeah. Coming along nicely, padraig. Father. Father clifford, whats this i hear about a poker tournament . Its for kathleen. On a sunday . Yeah, i know. And i hear that you were seen betting at the dog track the other night. So thats where the money goes, is it . The money that would be better used to refurbish our parish church. I agree, father macanally, if indeed the money is being spent refurbishing the parish church. Whats that supposed to mean . Now, understand i give this no credence but i did hear the money was going on new vestments. Isnt that revolting . It is. Malicious rumours. Thats what i thought. The lengths to which some people will go. Im glad you told me, father. We must scotch this rumour. Right away i wish you wouldnt get involved with this, niamh. Why not . Im not the strong arm of the law. Youre its wife. I thought we had agreed, youd see nothing, hear nothing, so why dont you go and see what the mountainy men are up to. Niamh do you want kathleen to come home to an empty house . Niamh, isnt it . Yes. I was looking for your dad. Hes not at home. Hell be in here. Good, ill walk in with you. I might fancy a gamble. I love a game of cards. There you go. Youre doing better than i expected. 24 players. 5 tables, so thats 4 tables with 5 players, and one with 4. Ill be here in the morning to help you set up. Oh, thanks, thanks. Can i help you . My god, but youre a finelooking woman. Oh, thanks. Would you be in the market now, for a decent man . No, no, im not in any market, decent man or not. Anything that would interest you . How can she resist . Janey mac, youve got a priest for a bodyguard well, that beats madonna any day. What do you want . Id like to sign up for this tournament thing. Im mad about a game of cards. 31, whist, solo. I loves it. Well, this is a poker tournament. Poker . Oh, yeah, and, sure arent they all the same . Yes, but were talking serious money here. Oh, all money is serious. How much money are we talking about . Well, at least 100 quid. Oh, oh, would would this be enough . Well, youre a youre a lucky man. We have one last place. Whats your name . Mossy phelan. Mossy. Phelan. There you are. Make sure you have it with you tomorrow. I will. Now if youll, er, excuse me and dont you be wasting your time with these priests, my dear. Sure, theyre all theory and no practice. Well, i never expected to see you again. Whats the good of revenge unless youre around to enjoy it. Ill get you for this, phelan. Which is worse, quigley . Losing the money or being made to look like an idiot . Dont be too sure youve got away with it yet. Youve got away with a few strokes in your time, quigley. I bet your daughter, niamh, would be interested to hear about them. Including cheating me out of a grand. Or did you think id forget . You dirty. [ niamh ] dad till tomorrow then. [ murmuring ] peter, would you Say Something to siobhan . Hello, siobhan. Im serious. Shes nervous. Im not nervous. Im panicking. Siobhan, we have every faith in you. Even if you lose, what difference does it make . People will never talk to me again. Ah, people arent like that. I mean, look at me. Theyve forgiven me. Dont bet on it. See . Siobhan, itll make no difference at all. Have your ticket booked for holyhead just in case. Padraig id better start getting all these people together. [ bell ringing ] okay, everybody. Er, will all contestants please, take their places. All the best. All the very best. Has anyone thought what kathleen will say if she finds out this money was raised by gambling . Well spotted. She probably wont accept it. Tainted money. Give it to me then. Taint me, taint me. Father clifford can launder it. What . Well, he can drop it in the box with one hand and take it out with the other. I certainly will not. Thatd be dishonest. Isnt it nice to meet a priest with integrity. First things first. Ladies and gentlemen, er welcome to the. Ballykissangel poker tournament. [ applause ] now, you all know what its in aid of refurbishing kathleen henlys house because we dont want to lose our local shop. [ all ] hear hear which is why were asking the winner to donate 10 percent of his or her winnings to the cause. Our local vet, Siobhan Mehigan has generously offered to donate all her winnings, should she win the tournament. [ applause ] now, you all know the rules, but should there be any disagreements or arguments father clifford will be referee, and his word is law. [ applause ] why me . The dog collar. Lends authority. But i know nothing about poker. Well advise you. But ive got mass at six. Cut it short. Ten, nine eight, seven, six, five four three, two, one [ applause and cheering ] [ musical interlude ] hows it going, eh . Well enough. Hello, michael. Hi. Hes the one that worries me. Who . Look at the way he leads. Hes easy meat, that one. Im not so sure. Oh ho ho ho ho ho ho ho [ musical interlude ] twenty. No. [ snoring ] [ radio ]. And if you enjoyed his song james joyces grave, then im sure youll enjoy his new material as well and then ill be just coming. Hey aaahh get up, theres still a lot to be done in here. Oh, come on, niamh im knackered. Everyone else is working. Get to it. Selection on radio one, following the news at five oclock this morning, we will be into our feature hour. Plenty still to come for the remainder of the programme. Its not still going on . Looks like itll never finish. Anyway, what are you doing here . I woke up and you werent there. Dont worry. I dont have a job to go to. Neither will i if this gets out. Ill open for, er £50. Assumpta, wake up. See you. Im out. Oh, im telling you, its all flowing now. I will raise it £100. See you. Im out. Snap. Oh. Lets see the colour of her money. Another hundred. See you. Oh. Now. Thats very interesting wouldnt you say . Ill raise it fifty. Ill see you. Ill see you all the way to the bank. And another fifty. Oh, im getting dog weary of all of this. Ill tell you what ill push you to the wire and see what youre made of. Ill see your old fifty, and ill raise you £1,000. A thousand pounds. Did you see that . Now, lets see the colour of your eyes. Theres 1,900 quid on there. I cant cover it. Indeed, then you cannot my darling. See him, siobhan. You keep out of this, quigley. No cheques allowed. Referee . thats you. Me . Oh, yeah. What . No cheques allowed; am i right . Im not sure of the protocol. Padraig . Its up to you. If you say cheques are allowed, cheques are allowed. Oh, er, right. I take it the cheque isnt likely to bounce, is it . Made out to cash. Safe as the bank of ireland. In that case, ill permit the cheque. A priest siding with sodom and gomorra. Oh theres a thousand here, quigley. Are you man enough . Im man enough. Straight deal . Straight deal. This is nothing to do with charity. Im going to have to stop this. No, ambrose, you cant. You stop this now, and youll never live it down. I dont care. I care. Now, please, go on out and direct traffic or something. Theres no traffic at this hour in the morning. Go on, find some. Let the priest deal. I know its thick of me, but i dont think hell cheat. Me . I know nothing about the game. Just deal em, face up. Its a straight bet. All right, then. [ brian ] first card to you. [ padraig ] oh, two pair. [ padraig ] three of a kind. [ sighs and chuckling ] that was a masterly deal, father. [ snoring ] theyre nearly finished laying the carpet. Start bringing the furniture in now. Come on [ banging ] hurry up kathleen might arrive any minute. Shes her fathers daughter, all right. Whats all this . Its hard enough to get some of you into the church on a sunday, but ten oclock on a monday morning . Were waiting for kathleen, father to present her with the money weve collected. If i may mention it, father, were still open for a donation. Oh, yes, of course. Slipped my mind. And how was the collection . Successful . Oh, very successful, father. 2,900. Oh and £5. Its the poker tournament, father. Siobhan won it. Two thou in one night . Here we are, everyone. What is all this . Well, weve got a little surprise for you, kathleen. You see, while youve been away at your sisters we have put your house to rights and and there was a tidy sum of money left over. Here. What . Where did all the money come from . Um. I think father clifford should answer that. There was a collection. We all contributed. And the parish church, dont forget, made its contribution. Oh, father macanally you shouldnt have. Youre a very good man. An example to us all. Isnt he . Well, i think were about ready, kathleen, to show you just exactly how this money has been spent. Father well done, siobhan [ clearing throat ] hello, sam. Get over here, assumpta. Oh, niamh its lovely [ snoring ] its a miracle father, so it is. The lord provides, kathleen. And, we hope, will continue to do so. Captions by midwest captioning des moines, iowa some set their clocks by it, others say sunday just isnt the same without it. At last, the wait is over. Welcome to the new series of antiques roadshow. whistle blows weve not been taking it easy over the last few months. As spring beckoned wheels rolled and our team set out on another nationwide tour. From the banks of the firth of forth in scotland to the normally tranquil corners of the Channel Islands weve clocked up thousands of miles. Look at this. Something remarkable has been happening. We have rarely seen queues like it. It seems everybody wants to meet our experts. It looks like weve got our work well and truly cut out so lets begin at the most Southerly Point of our journey through the British Isles the island of jersey. Coming to jersey can be a curious experience. The island is just 14 miles from france, closer to the continent than the uk, and you can feel the gaelic influence everywhere. Until 1960, french was the official language here and its still used in the legal system. Many of the older population speak an ancient version of norse and norman french called jerriais. [speaking jerriais] but despite the french flavor, the people of jersey are british at heart and the island bears the scars of a love hate relationship with its continental neighbor. Over the ages, an astonishing number of fortifications have been built to keep the french out. Though island has endured centuries of french attack there were advantages to their allegiance to the english crown. Jersey was granted independence settling its own taxes and laws. Even today certain areas of jersey still exist as feudal fiefs, like this weeks roadshow venue, samares manor. The seigneur or lord of the manor was awarded special powers and privileges. One of the most closely guarded was the right to keep pigeons, once an expensive delicacy. This magnificent granite canopy was a great symbol of status and power. It contains 500 nesting places which meant as much pigeon pie and as many fresh eggs as a seigneur could possibly wish for. Now, the present seigneur of samares has invited the roadshow to his manor and were hoping for a multicultural mix of treasures. Over to our experts. Jewish scripture. Whats the jewish scripture called . The torah. I dont know. Oh, right. Okay. The torah is the japanese for tiger. Oh, right. Okay. Its a very complex pun. Right. Now, this is japanese. Did you know that . I wasnt sure. Whether it was chinese or japanese . Yeah, we just thought it was chinese. The chinese do fantastic needlework but for naturalism the japanese are strengths ahead. The tiger is actually not indigenous to japan. The first tigers came over in the 1870s i think. But theyve always known about tigers because one of their 12 zodiac signs, which they inherited from the chinese where there are tigers. So they got this beast which as far as they were concerned was kind of mythical but existed. Where did this one come from . My husband. He bought it at an action in jersey back in 1991. Okay. So its not a particularly long provenance as far as youre concerned. Because he liked it . Yes. He loved it. Yeah. Yeah. And you love it, too . I love it, too. He bought because i like tigers as well, so. This is just wonderful. It is beautiful. This says here tanaka in seal characters. And then kyoto which of course was the old edo, the seat of government before it moved to tokyo. And at kyoto there was a whole industry of needlework. Right. And ive got at home a catalog i think its 1910, it might be 1920 which lists all the exhibitors at the kyoto exhibition. Great. And there were more needlework makers than there were potters. So it was big. These were hugely popular. And, you know, this one is probably of that date early 20th century. Okay. I did wonder. Its a superb example of a tiger sort of appearing out of nothing which is very clever. And he recedes beautifully, the color of his fur. The stripes go backwards so that all the attention is concentrated on his snarling mouth. I think its a very, very nice example, and its in splendid condition. They do deteriorate. This is silk and if you put sunlight on silk, it gives up. Right. Do you know what your husband paid for it . £290. Did he . £290. Okay. I think that was a really good buy. I really do. I could see that making £600 to 1,000. Right. Excellent. Its a really nice one. Lovely. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Can i ask you a rather cheeky question . Because id like to know how you feel about having such a lovely nubilelooking lady around the house. Well, try to compare yourself to her every morning when you get up and you walk down the stairs. Its quite difficult actually. Can i match that every day . No. But i keep trying. She also seems to have some slightly polished highlights. Oh, thats nothing to do with me. All right. Okay. And i suspect shes been touched quite a few times by several passersby over the years. But, of course, that goes with the territory with this kind of bronze to be honest with you. Youll see that anywhere in the world. Shes a very powerful and emotive bronze and, of course there is a very serious side to her. But what i want to know is why you were drawn to her . Well, many years ago i walked into a local auction sale saw it, and i thought, well, i must have that. Its as simple as that. It was as simple as that. Yeah. However, i have no history of it. I dont know what she was or anything and i just said, well, im taking her home and i did. Right. Okay. Well, theres a good clue on her. Up here on her sword we have the word deliverance, and i say it like that because this is a french figure. She was sculpted by a well known french sculptor called Emile Guillaume and she is called la deliverance. That is why she is so important, because she symbolizes the delivery of the french people from the germans during the first world war. I dont know whether you know this, but in fact there is a 16foothigh bronze version of her up in finchley and i believe the locals know her as dirty gertie. This, of course, is bronze. She was founded by the famous french founders barbedienne and she has a good value. I dont know whether youd ever considered value, but certainly a large version of her like this is going to be worth between about £4,000 and 6,000 at auction. Whats interesting though, i find is you seem to have another version. Yes. And how did you acquire this one . Again, it was through a contact with somebody who found it at an auction sale for these. Again, i couldnt leave it. I had to have it to go with the other one. And hopefully im hoping to get the 16foot version to go with those two. Well, i dont think theres a 16foot version ever to likely come up for sale but im wondering how many of these you are prepared to line up along the mantle piece. Again, bronze, gilded bronzed signed in the same way. I think, frankly even your small version is probably going to be worth anywhere between about £12,000 and 18,000 at auction. So what you have are two very, very good objects. Its nice to compare them and see them both together, but you have two very emotive and forceful objects which symbolize to the french a very important part of the first world war. Thank you very much for bringing them along. Thank you. This is a delightful, colorful and vibrant painting signed lower left gregoire. Now, tell me, this is a South African artist. Thats correct. Its come a very long way to jersey. Tell me a little bit about it. All right. It belonged to my dad, and when he passed away last year, i went out to south africa. And prior to that hed let his house and the family had put some of his furniture and all these paintings in the garage. So after he passed away, i decided i wanted to go and collect his paintings. And my sister and i drove up to the house in neisner, and i had to clamber over everything in the garage to find these paintings that were just, you know left lying around. And then when i flew back to jersey, i just wrapped it in bubble pack and put it in my suitcase and brought it back. My goodness. Its a wonderful early picture by gregoire boonzaier, whos very well known, recently died, 2005. I didnt know that. But what i do know is that the south African Market has been particularly vibrant especially for some of the really great artists. What i love particularly about this little picture is, first of all, its small and contained, but its very vibrant and colorful. Are these cape barn houses or oh, i would think so. I would think its one of the farms, probably with the thatched roof and the white house and probably white walls around it. Yeah, and the chickens in the front here. After my dad died, i feel that he comes back to me in a bird shape, and so this is even more meaningful to me because of the birds in the picture. And this morning when i left to bring it here, i looked at it again and there was that bird again. I just thought my dad was with me. Its rather spiritual. I feel it is. I feel it is, yeah. Well thats lovely, too. So youve really saved the picture from a garage, and youve got a little gem and quite a lot of value, too. Its dated 25, it could possibly be 35, which would make it very early. Theyre getting quite sought after. Commercially were certainly looking at £8,000 to 10,000. Really . Whoa. No. laughs im shocked. I really am. Its a delightful picture, and im thrilled you brought it in. I wasnt expecting to hear that at all. Well, thank you very much. Thank you. Well, this is a very strong victorian design, the set and color of the stos. Its a cartoucheshaped brooch strongly naturalistic flower cluster in the middle, and flower scrolls around the outside. So i assume were talking about a family piece. Would i be right . Absolutely. Yes. Tell me a bit about it. Well, it was left to me by my mother and in turn it was given to her by her mother. But, i mean, apart from the fact that i think its a pretty brooch the real story behind it is it caused a monumental sort of family rift which stayed until she died. What happened was that i think shed been told verbally by her mother, you know, before her death that she was going to get this piece because it was clearly her favorite piece. But actually when the will came out of course it wasnt set aside, and that caused this huge row that her two halfsisters believe that, you know it should all be divvied up, if you like. And my mother was saying, no, no, no. This was, you know given to me specially and this was always my favorite brooch. I think what happened in the end was they said, well, look, if you want that thats all you get. So indeed thats what happened. Goodness gracious me. Was there a problem beforehand or was this it . Was this the lightning conductor towards this bad feeling or did they get on not very well before that . Well, of course, its difficult to know. I think the way my mother put it was i dont think she was always incredibly close, but it was very clear from the way she talked about it that, you know, the brooch was the thing that caused this is the cause. Absolutely. And they didnt talk for 20 years. Was it very much the value or was it just the piece itself . I dont think it was the value but you have to assume that they werent arguing about something that was worthless but maybe they were. No, because if it had been a few pounds then so clearly the issue is whats it worth. Yes. I mean, you know on the one hand, if its expensive you think at least they fought about something that was worth this. If its worthless, you know, what were you doing . Well, shall we have a look at the back first . Its mounted in gold and silver which is, you know typical of the victorian metal that wouldve been used. And, well, they are diamonds. Okay. They are diamonds. Its a midvictorian diamond brooch. Its set with a cluster of old mine diamonds which means theyre slightly cushioned in shape. Can i just point out one teeny weeny diamond there is missing so that perhaps should be replaced at some point. And the good news is i suppose, we must be looking at something in the region of £4,000 for it. Wow. Would she be pleased . At least it was worth arguing over. Yes, but not to such an unbelievably furious extent. I mean it is a tragic story. Its a fascinating story. Its a story of Human Emotion taken to an extreme, all encapsulated in a white stone brooch. Thank you very much. Thank you. Its so unusual to get two amazing pieces of french art deco pottery. How come you have two . Are you just greedy . Well, this was my motherinlaws and i always remember it on her kitchen wall. And my husband my late husband, was in the south of france in the fifties and he brought that piece back on his motorbike. His motorbike. On his motorbike . Where did he on a back sack or yeah, i think it mustve been. Well, its in pretty good condition. So i suppose he saw that which was his mothers and thought, hang on theyre the same. And they are. Theyre both by someone called longwy. And this one is clearly marked on the bottom here atelier primavera longwy, france. Primavera was a Department Store in paris. Oh, i didnt know that. Who commissioned these pieces from the factory. And theyre just wonderful. You so rarely see examples outside of france. When i saw them, i knew we just had to feel them. Ive got a few more pieces as well. Youre just rubbing it in, arent you . I mean, two is enough, but a collection . You couldve brought them all. But, i mean, just look at it. It just typifies the french art deco style, and the french really almost invented art deco. Weve got, you know, these very elegant women with these amazing flowers sort of, id suppose youd say theyre bathing. And just the shape. Everything about the whole piece fits in beautifully. And when we look at this one again, the same. A horse charging. Well, two horses arent they . And then these amazing stylized flowers. And then these little sort of funny green lollipops down at the bottom. Longwy were famous for this particular style. Its a similar work to moorcroft in england except moorcroft slip trailed and then filled in with color. What longwy did, they used metal to stamp into the thing, and then it was filled in with enamel. And you can see how it is almost raised up slightly. And also this looks like crazing. Thats not a defect in it. If you look at the horse its a bigger crater. Thats all part of the design. And you can imagine, you know going into an amazing parisian Department Store in the twenties, and this mustve looked so new and so shocking. And i suppose weve praised how wonderful they are. We really maybe have to go to the value of them. Have you ever thought about their value . Nope. Well, lets start with that one there, the little green lollipop one and the two horses. That one, in the right sale, it would have to be a special sale setting, art deco we would probably looking at an estimate of £1,000 to 1,500. And the big one, i can easily see that selling for over £3,000. So thank goodness he drove safely on those roads all the way back from the south of france. Absolutely. 50odd year ago. Because one hiccup and it wouldve been worth £3. 00. Thank you so much for bringing them in. A pleasure. Thank you very much. You know, at first glance, standing back, the color of this leads me to think straightaway a wonderful 1930s copy of a mid18th century knee hole desk. Just the color. I mean, its sort of ingrained that this is the color you would expect. And what i want to do is to go through it with you and see whether or not it is that or if its got any more age. Before i do that can you give me any Family History with it . Its been in every house ive known. I first saw it in my grandfathers home when he lived in ilkley, and it subsequently came into our family. My mother used to keep flowers on the top of it. Hence the water staining. I think it looked a lot better before then. Fair enough. And now its in our home. Okay. Well, the first thing, you know, naturally pull out a drawer. You see people pull drawers out of furniture and wonder what theyre looking at. Right. Well, theres the first indication that its got age. And you can see these lines drawn in it by these nails which protrude. Thats a drawer stop, okay . And that has shrunk and the nails stick out and theyve gouged those lines. Thats no reproduction. That didnt happen. You didnt reproduce that sort of thing. So we now start to look at it as potentially an 18th century piece. Furthermore, its got these lovely old steel locks and the whole thing is mahogany lined. And you see how new that looks . I mean, thats quite fresh and sharp. Well, so it should be, because the drawer fits so well that theres no air to get to it. If you see a lot of dust and dirt and stain on there, then it is likely to be a copy and we see that more often than not. So, so far so good. Now, its got the little drawer which pulls out, but its got what we call blind fret in this sort of faux chinese style. That starts to give us a really accurate date of between 17551760 and 1775 at the latest. Now, this part. Does this pull out . It does. Can you do that . It comes out. Almost. Okay. Almost flush. Almost flush. I think it did come out flush. It should do. And what that did was to change the appearance of the piece so that it could be moved around the house for different purposes. If you wanted a knee hole desk then you could just push that back and sit and write your letters. Or you could use the brushing slide. We call it a brushing slide, which is there. We call it a brushing slide because if you were in a bachelor pad you used it to put your clothes on there and brush them before you put them on. 1765, were getting there. And the whole thing is constructed of this wonderful mahogany. In this case, veneers on the front and then solid mahogany drawer lining, again, another mark of really top quality. So its just the color and this color was created when it was cleaned off. What we would call patina, what they thought of as dirt. In the 1930s, this was the color that was desirable. But its part of its history. A lovely piece of furniture. Now, on the market today this would realize if sold properly between £30,000 and 35,000. Wow. Wow. Now, that was a surprise. It is a surprise. Wow. Its wonderful. Its just amazing. Can i just ask you in that case with the staining on the top . Do nothing with it. Do nothing with it, really . Leave it. Leave it. Just leave it. Its part of its story. Good heavens. David, youve got a bit of a reputation as a celebrity on this island and looking at you im beginning to get an idea why. You are marilyn everywhere. Well, i am. Im a great marilyn fan, as i say. The jacket is probably the best bit, you see. Look at that. And ive bought several jackets like that now. So ive been wedded to marilyn from about 1981 when i bought my first costume. Now, weve got a beautiful photograph of marilyn a signed photograph. What on this table belonged to marilyn . In actual fact, well this lemon squeezer, it was her own personal little piece. And when she broke up her marriage with arthur miller, she went with the actor Ralph Roberts back to the house. Ralph told me, he said, we went in and she said to arthur i want a couple of things. And i think arthur thought she wanted something expensive. Marilyn being marilyn, she wanted a photograph and her lemon squeezer. It does strange today. Now, as well as marilyn, youve got other sort of film star memorabilia, havent you . Whats in here . This is mae west. You know, come up and see me sometime. In actual fact i have to confess, fiona theyre not diamonds but theyre very, very very good reproductions. They were original diamonds and she sold the original in 1942 when america went into the war and she had these reproductions made. And theyre very good reproductions because they fooled everybody for 30 years. And she sold them in 1942, what, to help the war effort . Yes, to raise the war effort. But she didnt want any publicity out of it because she was not that sort of gal. She was a gal, you know, who was well, her portrayal on the screen was a goodtime gal. It didnt sort of come across too well so she went with the image. She thought it would spoil her image if she looked too patriotic . Yes. Yes, yes, yes. So theyve been on the Frank Sinatra show all the other shows in america, yeah. Its a marvelous collection here. What about this . Yes. A mail bogart. Hollywood, california. And inside i love you, bogie. And the initials on the back h. B. , of course. Humphrey bogart. She was one of his wives and they were known as the battling bogarts. I think that after she stabbed him a couple of times, that was the end of the marriage. I think he got the message it was over. So this was prelauren bacall, then . Yes, 1935. Christmas 1935, yes. Now what about this . Elviss pink sapphire ring. Of all the things in my collection which i do have some quite lovely things everybody wants to see that. Everybody wants to try it on. Given to the sister, the lady who was unfortunately in his bed when he died. So its perfect provenance. Well, thats a provenance you cant dispute then, is it . You cant dispute that, no. If the lady says that elvis gave it to her, then he gave it to her. But anything of Elvis Presley now has become so iconic. Its like john lennon or marilyn. Its just lots of cash. Couldnt afford to buy it today. So how much would Something Like that be worth, then . Today, abouti would say, £30,00040,000 today. Yeah. I didnt pay anything like that but there we are. Gosh. So how did all this come your way . Well, i started really collecting about 60 years ago, just painted postcards of marilyn and things like that. Before i even could read i mean, i was collecting things, and i just collected and collected and collected, and now ive got a house. I keep on adding a few more rooms to the house. I moved the cars out now so i havent got a garage anymore because i need to get all the stuff in, you see. So you just go to auctions, basically where this stuff is being sold. Yes, and, of course, i know a lot of people that were associated with quite famous people and i buy from them if theyll sell to me. You know, so its been a great life. Getting poorer and poorer every year, but there we are. Well, a wonderful collection. Thank you so much for showing it to us. Well, thank you. But square cut or pear shaped these rocks dont lose their shape diamonds are a girls best friend before i go into this, id love to hear how did you acquire this. Well, it comes from my husbands side of the family. My motherinlaw received it from her cousin when she died in with a box of lots of other trinkets as well. And she very generously let each member of the female side of the family choose an article out of the box. Oh, really . And so, actually i just chose that because i thought it was rather pretty. And i wear it sometimes, actually, on special occasions. You do. Oh, good. Im very pleased to hear it. Now, what we have here is we have van cleef and arpels on the face. So with a piece of jewelry when it comes in it has to prove to me that it is all genuineand its all right. So i sort of break it down in my mind and then piece it all together when ive looked at various aspects of it. You had Alfred Van Cleef and he was from a line of diamond merchants and he set up a workshop in round about 1898. And he and his two brotherinlaws, charles and Jacques Arpels they all got together and in 1906 they moved their workshop and shop to place vendome, number 22, i think, place vendome. And it has the best jewelers in the world all around the outside and its so grand and elegant and beautiful. And this is where this watch was purchased. Now, what else is wonderful about this watch is that it has single cut diamonds. Single cut diamonds mean there are eight facets above and eight facets below. And then youve got the black onyx and this suggests to me that it is around about in 1925, 1930, that sort of period. What i also look for is there are two marks that are alsatians heads and alsatians heads is the french mark for platinum. Oh, right. So thats telling me that it is platinum. It then has, on the other side, a little number inscribed, and that also tells me that that will relate to the archive in the shop in paris. So all these things all marry up to make it a genuine piece. Now, these are seed pearls and, i mean, the sun is so bright today you cant quite see it but they are a beautiful delicate melange of pinks and whites. And, again houses like van cleef, the attention to detail is what makes them so desirable. Now, value. Do you have any idea . No, in a word. No, i dont. I would suggest that you probably will be in the region of £10,000. Really . Wow. My goodness. I mean, its just gorgeous and i hope youre going to enjoy wearing it, especially when you go to paris and go to place vendome. And go in to van cleef and arpels. Theyre still there now. And that would be fantastic. Take it home. both laugh well, youve brought along today a very peculiar object and if i pull this pin out and allow the cover to come off, ive got in my hand whats known as a sticky bomb. And this is a Second World War object which would be thrown against a tank. You run up to the tank youd smash it on the side of the tank, because this is covered in a sticky substance. Its still sticky after all these years. Incredible, really. Glass underneath. And whats the inside . Whats inside it . Nitroglycerin. About a half a pint of nitroglycerin. Nitroglycerin . The most powerful explosive available. Now, why have you got it . Well, i was a bomb disposal officer and i got it in the course of my duties. It was an exhome guard depot that we had to clean out and it was found there. Well, as a bomb disposal officer during the Second World War, you mustve been a very brave man because many of your colleagues would have been killed. Well, yes, we did have quite a number. One of my friends was killed on alderney during the clearance of the Channel Islands but it was sort of normal. We didnt think too much of it. We never had funerals. We never had funerals because it discouraged everybody else. And what happened towards the end of the war . Towards the end of the war we were allocated to 135 force that was engaged to liberate jersey. We cleared mines in meantime, but when we got ashore we were mobbed by the people