you see, it's taken roadshow stalwart eric knowles 28 years to uncover his best find.noon in scotland. dumfries house really was, for me one humdinger of a day. it was the icing on top of the cake. where has this rather unpretentious vase been lurking before you brought it along today? it's been up in the loft. i was cleanin' out the loft and we came across it. we were going to bin it. we thought it was just a heap of junk. so we were going to bin it and then we thought we'll hold onto it. 'cause we heard the antique roadshow was comin' here. and that's why i've held onto it. i actually bought it at a car boot. and it had a plant kind of purple plant that was the reason we bought it, for the plant, 'cause it was quite nice in the bowl. knowles: as for the owners it was only too obvious that they really, really didn't have a clue about what they'd picked up at that car boot. it was obvious, also that there was no great attachment, be it emotional or whatever to it. do you know who made it? i don't know anythi well can i tell you? yes. okay. because if you look very care

now, my friend eric knowles was born in burnley, and apparently he says simmonstone is the stock broker belt of burnley. so, whether it was in 1770, i don't know. what's even nicer-- not only is it completely flat on the bottom the top unscrews. do you know how difficult it is to make a screw jar in pottery? can you imagine? somebody has taken the time to run this in to equally match that, i know. and still, after 200 and something years, it still closes shut perfectly. so, a few pound in a charity shop a few years back. today... £600, £800. wow. so, it was a good present. oh, yes. thanks very much. thank you. the photograph is my great-grandfather tommy miller and tommy was an assistant deck engineer on board the titanic. uh, the pennies are the two pennies that he gave to my grandfather before he sailed on titanic and he pressed them into his hand and said "don't spend those until i see you again." and of course, he didn't see him again, because he didn't survive the titanic. my grandfather went on to become a playwright and an author, so he wrote a lot about how he felt about his fat

eric knowles valued it at £25,000. but would it make the grade? we joined owner ann on the big day.t'll be solved. but if not well, doesn't matter. it was something we had anyway up the loft, so it doesn't matter but hopefully, it'll get sold today. we've had a considerable amount of interest but you never quite know what's gonna happen until it goes under the hammer. the estimate is £20,000 to £30,000 and we are hopeful it will make that. and it's starting to appear on the screen. we'll start this off at 12,000, 13,000. 14,000. £15,000 now. 15,000. at £15,000. 16,000. 16,000. 17,000. 18,000, internet bidder. 19,000 in the room. an advance, 22,000. 22,000. 24,000. thank you with the telephone here. 24. 26,000 now. 26,000. 28 will be next. at £26,000 then. it's in the room and selling here. at £26,000. are we all done? it's going down at 26. sold. i can't believe it. good. very good. i'm pleased for having got the estimate sort of bang on the nail. i'm actually sort of delighted for the lady concerned because i've never met her before i've never met her since and something inside als

deco building, we're asking some of our experts to choose their ultimate age of elegance, and eric knowles you should feel very much at home. i do. i mean, this is-- bridlington's art deco temple, it really is and yes, i mean, those interwar years really do it for me. because it was the age of thoroughly modern millie, when it was stylish to raise your skirts and bob your hair, and people just wanted to have a party. i mean, they'd had the horrors of the first world war, and there's this new generation, this new emancipated woman, um, and, uh-- they were able to get out and follow their heroes and heroines on the silver screen 'cause hollywood introduced glamour to the working classes in general. i mean, this figure-- this is josef lorenzl. i affectionately always refer to him as "legs lorenz." and here's this woman, i mean, she is the epitome of perfect health and form. and, uh, again, this was an age where people took you know a great interest in their own-- in their own health. so, um-- certainly the lines of this are beautiful, as indeed this-- this cocktail shaker. well, you know here