not that one, but we call these wally dogs, i think because they're just put on the wall, on the mantelpiecei think that's how they-- - is that where it comes from? - i think that's it. - it's not because it's a wooly dog? no. not that i know of, anyway. hairy, i suppose. um, date for this-- it's very similar, actually, to these staffordshire ones. so it's the second half of the 19th century. and they continued making them actually into the 20th century. i just think he's magnificent. he's just so much away from the usual. haven't had a valuation ever done on these? well, there was one chap did offer us £200. he didn't? if he had offered you £200 for that, you should've taken it like a shot. this one, if he'd offered you... £800, it still wouldn't be enough. a single one of these at auction would be somewhere around£1,200. - gee whiz. - it's a very good thing. sure it is. ( chuckles ) brushes. any significance in the brushes? well, i happen to know that the brushes belonged to l.s. lowry. - fascinating. - yeah. and my parents were friends of lowry's. it was a friendship that was established