Antique treasures in roadshow spotlight

Monday 15th February 2010, 9:23AM GMT.

A visitor has her painting valued

A silver frame with an engraved ship in the middle, which turned out had been made by Faberge, was valued at between £10,000 and £15,000.

The woman who took it to the show had cleaned it up after finding it in her husband’s possessions. She was told it was “pure pedigree”.

The Swinging Sixties were recalled when a Birmingham woman took along her Mary Quant designed Mini as well as clothes, shoes and patterns from the era. Her collection excited expert Katherine Higgins, who valued it between £7,000 and £8,000.

But it was not only high value items that attracted the attention of the experts.

A Merrythought panda given to a woman whose mother worked at the factory in Ironbridge was valued at £300 to £400 while a Nora Wellings aviator doll, a prize in a village hall competition after the Second World War, was worth £500 to £700.

Art deco glasses and a decanter, which were given as a wedding present to the lead cameraman for film-maker Alexander Korda, were said to be worth about £600.

There were also letters and sketches of border designs for Queen Victoria’s dinner service, connected to the Coalport China Works and Thomas J Bott, who became its art director, valued at £3,000 to £4,000.

By Lisa Rowley

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