Antiques Roadshow is a British television series produced by the BBC since 1979. Series 29 (2006/07) comprised 31 editions that were broadcast by the BBC from 3 September 2006 – 22 April 2007TV.com Antiques Roadshow Series 29 database Homes And Antiques, Meet the ExpertsBBC, Antiques Roadshow Series 29 programme guide
The dates in brackets given below are the dates each episode was filmed at the location. The date not in brackets is the episode's first UK airing date on BBC One.
Series 29 (2006/07) Series 29: 31 editions in 2006/07
Series /EpisodeAired Location&Region Host & Experts Notes 3/9/2006 Antiques RoadshowGreatest Finds Michael Aspel & Elizabeth Crawford – 10 September 2006 Antiques RoadshowGreatest Finds Michael Aspel & – 17 September 2006 Antiques RoadshowGreatest Finds Michael Aspel & – 29/124 September 2006 Gloucester Cathedral Gloucestershire Michael Aspel & Henry SandonGeoffrey MunnJon BaddeleyDavid BattieSteven MooreHilary Kay – Staffordshire Pottery figurines of Jeremy Ward. £200-£400 – English Majolica cheese pot by George Jones, £5,000 – bronze statue by Kathleen Scott, widow of Robert Falcon Scott of the Antarctic value £2,000 – letter from J. R. R. Tolkien about The Lord of the Rings. value £3,000 – 'castle top' Visiting card case depicting Westminster Abbey, made by Nathaniel Mills of Birmingham, 1855, value £3,000 – original film scripts: - Dr Who (William Hartnel) £300; Not Only... But Also by Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and John Lennon, £500 – collection of Campaign furniture from the 1790s onwards. early 19th century canvas chairs; chest of drawers / bathroom unit / vanity unit / writing desk 1785-1810 £2,000 – collection of watercolour paintings by Charlie Twilton, Worcester Cathedral, Friar Street, River Severn. Sacked from Royal Worcester for indiscipline, worked as paint sprayer at car factory. value £700-£800 each. – Working model/toy gas cooker by Charlie Twilton, – gold decorated powder compact with Cabochon rubies, designed by Boucheron of France, 1940s, value £7,000 – Henry Berry (rugby union) Rugby union caps and memorabilia, including England 1910, Gloucestershire 1910, £2,000 – Box of Chocolates dated 1900 – collection of René Lalique glassware, 1920s Ceylon style lamp £4,000; Avalon style vase, £1,000; Powder Pot with Dandelion design, £1,200 – silver Christening set decorated with vine leaves, made by Aaron Hadfield, 1840, £1,000 – bronze Japanese statue holding gong, Japanese, Meiji period, late 19th century. £1,500 – coins from Sir Cloudesley Shovell's fleet in the Scilly Islands. – Celestial sphere by 'J. & W. Cary', London, Late 18th Century, £400 – Marine chronometer, 1837, £4,000 – 1940s waterproof Panerai watch, as worn by the frogmen of the Decima Flottiglia MAS in World War II, captured from a Nazi diver at the Battle of Arnhem, £20,000 – Japanese vase, Satsuma ware, made in Kyoto, c1885-1900, decorated panels and black lacquer framing and gilding, Kinkozan, £10,000 – catalogue from Witley Court estate sale in 1937, £150 – pair of bronze crested parakeets £250 – railings art £300 – Worcester porcelain made by George Grainger, 1840, an extra (experimental) plate from a set that Queen Victoria gave to Tzar Nicholas I of Russia, £4,000 – ornate Credenza / cabinet, 1860s-1870s, French shape, English decoration by Owen Jones (architect) and Christopher Jess and Wedgewood Jasperware, £7,000 – collection of jewellery - emerald and diamond brooch, 1930s Art Deco, £3,000 – Victorian emerald and diamond earrings, 1845, £5,000 – individually foiled emeralds in 'canateel' gold setting, William IV (1830s), £8,000 29/21/10/2006 Carter's Steam Fair Priory Park, Haringey Michael Aspel & Lars TharpNicholas MitchelJohn Axford – 1920s Art Nouveau vase by Moorcroft, in Maiping shape. £3,000 – Painting of 'Girls scrumping plums' by Arthur Elsley. Marked 'Frontispiece'. £5,000 – collection of Brushes: ceiling brush; fireplace 'blacking brush'; carpet beater; brush for fur coats; ensemble - £400 – two vases / bottles by Burratot of France, 145 copy of Persian style by William De Morgan, £3,000 & £8,000 – Ronnie Barker sketch scripts, written under the alias of Gerald Wiley, including the Four candles sketch. £2,000. (Subsequently, authenticated and sold at auction for £48,500) – Satinwood veneer cabinet 29/38 October 2006 Kedleston Hall Derbyshire Michael Aspel & John AxfordLars TharpPaul AtterburyDavid BattieIan HarrisNicholas MitchellAndrew DavisJohn Benjamin – Art Deco bronze sculpture of woman and Borzoi dog, made by Louis Riché 1920s Paris £5,000 – Noah's Ark toy with 120 animals, made in Nurenburg, 1843, with inscribed messageTo Carolyn Mary Johnston from Grand-mama. £3,000 – bronze 1898 Japanese, bronze sculpture, by shobi, £2,000 – Donald Duck teapot made by 'Wadeheath' company of George Wade (pottery manufacturer) £500 – 'turret clock' possibly the 'lost original' from Kedleston Hall. Designed by 'Whitehurst of Derby' in 1761, £3,000 – 'Mill clock' incorporating longcase clock mechanism and second dial powered by the 'Mill Wheel'. Used as a productivity aid. – bronze figure by Franz Xavier Bergman of Vienna, signed Namgreb, dated 1900 £1,200 – bronze figure of female dancer by Gustav Schmidt-Cassel, 1920s. £6,000 – prize Devonport desk latterly better known as Davenport desk, made in Spanish mahogany by 'F Sherwin' in 1894. Won first prize in't Co-op competition. £1,800 – Mintons Ltd pottery 1890s copy of design style by 'Bernard Parisi' from the 1560s. Lazy Susan oyster server, £5,000. Oyster plates (chipped) £400 – English necklace in 'Cambridge blue' enamel and gold with half pearls 1865 £2,000 – 1880s pendant with scrolling Byzantine or Coptic motifs by John Brogden (jeweller), (maker of revivalist jewellery in Roman and Byzantine styles) £3,500 – painting of Pekingese dogs and Mount Fuji, by A.C. Duggan, £2,500 – collection of electric toasters, 1909–1960, up to £3,000 – Smoking pipe (tobacco), carved in Meerschaum style in Germany, carved with head on the bowl in Vienna c.1860, £1,000 – ornate 1900 porcelain bog and wash basin by 'Cauldon Potteries'History of British Pottery - Cauldon PotteriesRoyal Cauldon Potteries of Staffordshire. The Neptune toilet bowl. £5,000 – musical automaton of Girl playing with cat. Probably used by street vendor, probably Bulgarian or Hungarian manufacture, £500 – pair of 1870s bone china Spode vases made by W. T. Copeland (William Copeland) of Stoke-on-Trent, painted by Charles Ferdinand Hürten.History of Spode, Charles Ferdinand Hürten £6,000 29/415 October 2006 Auckland Castle Bishop Auckland Michael Aspel & Jon BaddeleyChristopher PayneHilary KayLars TharpEric Knowles – collection of cats figurines, - pair of Staffordshire made in the 1900s, £400, – miniature cat 'love token' made in 1750 by the Chelsea porcelain factory £1,000 – 1926 'wind-up' toy car, made in Great Britain by Chad Valley or Metoy or .... £500 – oil painting by 'Miss Hoadley', 1920s – gold and black decorated 'widow's mourning locket', (black ivy symbolising the end of a marriage), £700, plus gold chain £500 – carved wooden statue of American Indian, 1990s shop sign for tobacconists, – 1970s Studio glass blue bowl, by Charlie Meaker, (American working in Sunderland, UK) £200 – Caterpillar Club gold brooch and membership card. Awarded since 1922 by the Irving Air Chute company for over 20,000 crew who bailed out of planes, £250 – carved wooden wall-mounted pot stand decorated with gilt gesso. English 1725 Rococo (first period) £7,500 – late 19th century, Norwegian pine bench, carved in Viking [Old Norsk] revival style, £1,000 – 1870 English Gothic table £1,250 – silver case made by Liberty (department store) in 1903, decorated by Archibald Knox (designer) in the Celtic Revival style of Art Nouveau £400 – bronze sculpture by Charles d'Orville Pilkington Jackson (known as Pilkington Jackson 1887–1973) in 1928. Cast from a 'studio model' for a tableau in wood at the David Livingstone memorial, (Blantyre, South Lanarkshire) £3,000 – collection of chamber pots, – ceramic statue of woman and baby by Charles Vyse, 1931, for the Chelsea porcelain factory, £1,500 – photo of victorious 'blind sheepdog' and shepherd, mohair christening gown from the 1870s, £200 – World War II memorabilia, pilot's log, photos, dog tags, plus skeleton keys used to escape from handcuffs on the Lamsdorf Death March, £600 – Devonish Harvest Jug, 1767, Slipware carved through stained clay layers by Morgan Binahan of Barnstaple, £9,000 29/522 October 2006 Auckland Castle Bishop Auckland Michael Aspel & Steven MooreJon BaddeleyChristopher PayneHilary KayLars TharpEric Knowles – oil painting Early 19th century fake of William Shakespeare £1,200 – glass bowler hat made in Sunderland in the 1860s, (Frigger whimsey glass). £100 – brown earthenware flask styled as a 'Railway chronometer', made at the 'Canny Hill Pottery'£250 – two Royal Worcester dessert plates, 1820s, painted by 'Doctor' George Davis/ marked Flight Barr and Barr. £1,000 – 1935 Rolls-Royce, via Rhodesia, Germany, William Wrigley in Santa Catalina Island, California, to Auckland Castle. – collection of optician's false eyes from the 1920s. £30,000 – gold helmet containing compass and 'gambling gamed. Gift from Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) £1,000 – 1760 'mourning ring' decorated with human hair on ivory £800 – painting of Romilly John by her father Augustus John £20,000 29/629 October 2006 Swansea Guildhall Swansea Michael Aspel & John SandonRichard PriceHilary KayLars TharpJohn Benjamin – Swansea Guildhall decorated with Frank Brangwyn panels – Merry Musicians porcelain figures, from Royal Doulton of Lambeth, sculpted by George Tinworth (GT), £5,000 – Butterfly brooch, made of opals, emeralds and diamonds, 1895, £3,000 – Swallow brooch, made of gold and diamond, 'late Victorian sentimentality', 1895 £400 – diamond ring, 2.5 carats, set in rubies, £4,000 – enamelled Staffordshire pearlware die (plural "dice") / ball. 52 sides, numbered up to 260 in 5s. 1820s £260 – 1850, Cantonese Pagoda ornament in bone and ivory, made for East India Company tourists, £2,500 – Victorian pedestal sideboard, £1,000 – George III 'mock pendulum' striking English Bracket clock made by Thomas Hill (clockmaker) of Fleet Street London, 1770s, £8,000 or £11,000 – painted 'tin glazed' Delftware figurine with Bonnetiere for holding Holy water, 1770s. £800 – Battered World War I cornet, presented to the Welsh Guards by the Prince of Wales, – collection of family memorabilia, photographs and diary, from Great Uncle Bachlan, lost in India in the 1920s, – Marc Bolan's Gibson Flying V guitar, £50,000 – Marc Bolan's costumes / stage threads, £8-12,000 each – gold vanity case decorated with enamel scene. Gift to chauffeur from Charles Baillie-Hamilton (Conservative politician). Hallmark - 'imported to London by 'Freeman and co' (Freeman Bennett?), 1930s £800 – needlework sampler, first Welsh settlers to Patagonia aboard HMS Vandyke (HMS Vandyk?), c1884, £150 – Frank Brangwyn panels jigsaw puzzles – anti-suffragette doll, £300 – collection of anti-suffragette postcards, c1908, £20 each – English silver candlestick, 1640–1680, £2,000 – self-portrait by Sidney Frank Mouchon, 1800s? £5,000 – portrait of his wife by Sidney Frank Mouchon, 18th century, reflecting the styles of Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough £35,000 29/75 November 2006 Hughenden Manor High Wycombe Michael Aspel & John BenjaminDavid BattieHilary KayLars TharpEric Knowles 29/812 November 2006 Hughenden Manor High Wycombe Michael Aspel & Christopher PayneHilary KayLars Tharp – Benjamin Disraeli's drawing room used for drawing 'top secret' maps during World War II. Map showing Hitler's secret hideaway – Royal Worcester coffee set, 1930s, £4,000 – Royal Worcester 'dealers proofs' artwork by Harry Davis in the style of Correau, £3,000