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

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. 😊😊😊

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

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

That painting from the desert is phenomenal 😍😳

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 !

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!

@ 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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

Awesome picture

that is one stunning painting

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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.

This compliation episode is my favorite.

Absolutely delightful! Thanks so much for uploading.

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.

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!!

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

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.

Another Great Episode! Thank You!!

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

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

these are the kinds of videos i really really like

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Wow the National Gallery SCAMMMMMED that couple! Bought the painting for $100,000 yowza. Worth a milli

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

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.

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

I loved the shell that was mounted in silver.

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

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

Well done Freya.

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

Great show!

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.

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

This was astonishing.

That was fascinating!

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

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

that picture is beautiful.

thank you for this it means alot!

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

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.

Wonderful.

Love this.

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

Love these British accents.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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!!!

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

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

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

18:18 Ms Doubtfire was very happy

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

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

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.

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

Yes. Give the birth spoons back.

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

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...

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

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.

My cat Osirus is a bit touched....not to downplay mental struggles. Treatment can be very harsh.

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

By who is the portrait of the girl after the host says "many a handsome find" ?

The son in the later clips looks like Mankind.

" Grandfather- in Law?" You mean your husband's Grandfather.

37:20 Pure Bliss

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

thank you . ( 2023 / Nov / 12 )

wow this is really interesting

Silver man? Modest salary? How did he afford all those pieces?