An old woodworker gets real joy from this story. Bravo. It is sometimes wonderful when things aren’t as they seem.

@brmam1385

4 ай бұрын

Stunning!!!

@johnbell-yn5xe

2 ай бұрын

Try selling something of that quality now to a younger generation Where do they go F****** IKEA 😁😁😁👎👎👎

@iMadrid11

2 ай бұрын

⁠@@johnbell-yn5xe TBF the younger generation can’t afford to buy real hardwood furnitures. Since they are very expensive. So they have to settle with affordable IKEA furnitures.

@johnbell-yn5xe

2 ай бұрын

I would agree but I have purchased Ikea and it csn be expensive Good quality second hand is worth looking for but most modern apartments are too small , Ikea flat pack is easier to transport and put together in situ

@biowerks

Ай бұрын

A couple/few generations of carpenters working in the same shop supplying just one large estate, making a dresser for the house, and using its old Tudor era paneling for drawer bottoms. It really is a fun story for a carpenter.

This is why I love Antiques Roadshow. People find a thing that to them just seems a bit quirky, and the appraiser is just in awe of it.

That's amazing ... and the maker even matched the pattern layout even though no one would see it.

@MoMoMyPup10

4 ай бұрын

He said it was originally used for wall paneling

@lazygardens

4 ай бұрын

@@MoMoMyPup10 I know, but taking the bit extra time to put the panels in an attractive layout with the fancier ones in the middle is impressive. As is the workshop that has 150 year old scrap piles.

@user-sj7fu6es3y

4 ай бұрын

They were true artisans

@Yvolve

4 ай бұрын

You see the bottom of the drawer when you look into it, which has the lines where the wood panels meets up. The maker chose to use the wider panels in the middle, flanked by two narrower ones to make it look nice. You don't see the pattern as that was old fashioned by the time the chest of drawers was made.

@jarvisfamily3837

4 ай бұрын

@@user-sj7fu6es3y The distinction between artisan and pack rat is sometimes a small matter of shading. 🙂

As they pulled the second drawer out there’s a brief moment where it’s tilted back and the outside of the drawer back is visible. It too is carved. As a furniture maker myself I’d LOVE to have some good quality photos of all these carvings. Just… WOW!!

@patriciavankirk173

3 ай бұрын

I went back and saw it. I wish they had stopped and shown it as well. It is beautiful also. Thank you.

@juniorsanchez7441

Ай бұрын

Yes i noticed that right away!! I was expecting them to talk about it or at least show it but they didn’t 😔

@user-rw3fm9ix3i

Ай бұрын

0:33

This is why I watch the BBC version. UK Roadshow has Elizabethan furniture while US Roadshow is like a Green Bay Packers jersey from 1989

@RussellTurner

4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@CroneLife1

4 ай бұрын

True. The oldest building in America is a pulling infant next to the oldest building in England. Yet, if it's from before 1950 in America, they consider it an venerable ancient.

@osc630

4 ай бұрын

A Majkowski jersey in good shape though...

@isotropisch82

4 ай бұрын

The US version does have some good stuff though, particularly from the descendants of gilded age eccentrics and whatnot who went off to god knows where and just "loved collecting". I'm British, but there is decent stuff in the US version - although obviously far too much sports memorabilia

@suzannejenkins3896

4 ай бұрын

yep...my sentiments exactly...

I like how he’s a little disappointed at first, and thinks it’s not what he thought it was, and then he slowly changes as he hears just what he has.

@MK-re6sf

4 ай бұрын

I got the vibes from him that he was going to use this to go after the seller, the way he was almost desperate to show the expert each drawer, then moment he realised it was worth more than he paid and not the other way around yeah his attitude changed, but it wasn't a pleasant thing, he was ready to go after someone.

@csnide6702

4 ай бұрын

that is the beauty of this show !

@jimbo236

4 ай бұрын

Yeah he seemed to scoff at the very idea of "recycled wood" kinda snooty really.@@MK-re6sf

@L_Martin

4 ай бұрын

@@MK-re6sf It's so bizarre how people project intentions and emotions onto other people based on almost nothing... 0:23 he's interested by the drawers, not "ready to go after someone" 🙄 goodness me.

@RustyPetterson

4 ай бұрын

@@L_Martin That was an extremely weird comment, wasn't it? What the hell lol.

There's something so engrossing about someone getting excited about their passion. It's almost contagious.

As an American I can truthfully say, the BBC never, ever lets me down when I watch these shows. They are my absolute favorite! Our history in America is brand new compared to the rest of the world.

@melissasaint3283

4 ай бұрын

Right? Although our "stone age" history is much, much more recent.

@trytellingthetruth.2068

4 ай бұрын

Obviously depending on your ethnicity, if it's English or partly English, then this piece of furniture represents part of your history.

@watts18269

4 ай бұрын

I’m from Scotland and there’s a pub just down the road from my house that was built in 1360. It’s a lovely pub as well, does a good pint. I guess in Europe we tend to forget the age of things when we grow up around and amongst them.

@Mr-Mr66

4 ай бұрын

I live on a council estate in England that wraps around a castle. Mary Queen of scots was held prisoner inside its walls at one point in time, It was built in the early 1500s. I Drive past it's remains daily. I think you're right about our history being overlooked because we have so much of it. I found a medicine bottle from 1890 just layed on the top of the soil on my garden for example.

@janewood8665

3 ай бұрын

I’m an Australian our history is very new (200-300 years?) I am so jealous of the history you have in the UK.

I bought an old chest of drawers in a junk shop and the insides of the drawers had exotic wood inlay. It had been made from other old furniture cobbled together.

@brmam1385

4 ай бұрын

Enjoy your find.👍♥

WOW!!! THE APPRAISER REALLY KNOWS HIS STUFF!!! AM SO THRILLED FOR BOTH OF THEM.

@Lily_The_Pink972

4 ай бұрын

John Bly was always a favourite on Antiques Roadshow. Such a charming gentleman and was a true expert on wooden furniture. Still alive at 84, he's also a jazz historian and drummer!

@TransoceanicOutreach

2 ай бұрын

They are the best in the business, unlike the US version where half the time they don't seem to know what they are talking about.

@kasplat5874

Ай бұрын

@@TransoceanicOutreach As a US PBS viewer I never liked Antiques Road Show and then I saw the original and real show and wondered how we managed to muck it up so bad. The UK version almost always has a couple of interesting bits and an interesting location to boot.

@MrShanester117

Ай бұрын

You are thrilled for them?

"Like the day it was painted"...... Got to love the enthusiasm!!. Lovely clip, interesting stuff

"Show your friends when they come around.." that was so cute!

Magnificent find . The enthusiasm of the expert and the grin of the owner.

LOVE it when a guest gets an unexpected bit of GOOD news on the Roadshow !

You can get just a brief glimpse of the back of the second drawer as he lifts it out and it appears carved as well. What a great find.

@user-rw3fm9ix3i

Ай бұрын

0:32

I bought an insert for an English Secretaire desk at an auction for $7 dollars. No one wanted it because it was only one part of a piece of furniture and no one knew where the rest of it was. I knew it had value because it had hand cut dovetailed drawers and an elaborately gold foiled leather insert on the desk part. I got it home and researched it and found it was most likely made just outside London around 1796 to 1799. I also found it had a secret hidden compartment like you usually find in older roll top desks! I sold it on eBay for $300 plus shipping!

As soon as I saw the drawers I started bouncing up and down and saying in it’s Tudor art! So beautiful. Must have been extraordinary in an entire room. In a way it’s very sad they are hidden. I’d have to take them out and have them properly framed to hang. Then I’d sit staring at them for hours!

@yugandali

4 ай бұрын

Staring at them, letting your mind roam back to the time somebody got out a chisel and started carving those, cut by cut. Think of the years of practice required to make those with the tools available then. That is certainly worth ruminating on!

@Art-zs6sl

4 ай бұрын

Isn't the fact they were hidden the reason we can enjoy them now?

@allenatkins2263

4 ай бұрын

Contain yourself, woman!

@DavidKnowles0

4 ай бұрын

One of the reasons they were this well preserve is because they have been hidden from the sunshine.

@sharonkaczorowski8690

4 ай бұрын

@@DavidKnowles0 yup…very important.

Handsome young fellow getting a big surprise. Always look at the undersides of drawers or other parts that are usually unseen. Surprises often await.

Love the gentleman kneeling down like he knows what he's looking at - British manners at its finest

@JohnnieAshton

2 ай бұрын

John Bly, and his knowledge was and still is, (although long retired) encyclopaedic, but also his enthusiasm, was always so magnetic.

@ValkyrieTiara

2 ай бұрын

Or he's, you know, kneeling down to get a better view of what the expert is showing him. So that he can begin to understand what he's looking at.

That's why I love the British Antiques Roadshow.

Beautiful furniture, beautiful woodwork and fantastic lesson. Additional bonus… I believe I now know where Kelsey Grammer developed his Frazier character from. 👍👍

I've never seen anything like that! Absolutely wonderful!!!!!!

What a stunning piece

@hewi1352

3 ай бұрын

Yes he is 🙂

Mouth dropping open in awe. Absolutely beautiful and I learned something.

That is so cool! Wonderful discovery!

My wife inherited a grand father clock that we couldn't find the origin of. Turns out it was remade from bits of timber when the original case was destroyed during the bombings in Britain during ww2. Has a 1922 date stamp though.

What a wonderful find! Beautiful carvings

This was amazing! I’d have been sorely tempted to find a niche, out of sunlight, where I could have displayed the beautiful drawer bottoms!

Did they look at the Back of the draw, that too was carved!!! At 0.33 if you stop film, you can see the carved back piece.

@mangoman9290

4 ай бұрын

well spotted!

@justinfarnell2284

4 ай бұрын

0:33

Absolutely amazing

I had no idea that Elizabethan houses had coloured wainscotting. Those painted Elizabethan wainscot panels have survived intact BECAUSE they were hidden away in the dark for more than 400 years. If the drawers are kept out to display them, or repeatedly removed and replaced to show them off, they will fade over the coming years and thus slowly LOSE the value they had silently gained.

How neat that dresser is that old! A friend of a friend is a cabinet/furniture maker and it takes many years to learn properly. We live in such a throw away society that anything hand made I appreciate. So satisfying to build something or fix an old machine. We all will be better off when we realize sitting on computers is sapping our creativity and soul.

Stunning! Simply STUNNING!!

It was so interesting to watch the guy turning from "disappointed-angry" to "surprised-understanding-proud" ❤😊 What a stunning, precious and beautiful gem he got by chance! 😮👌

This is priceless! Museum piece!

I love how the buyers obvious irritation in his facial expression thinking he'd been bamboozled gradually transforms to satisfaction as he realizes the chest is worth more than he paid. Money, the great pacifier.

Oh I do hope it ends up in a museum.

Incredibly well preserved chunks of history, art, and craftsmanship like this are priceless if you ask me. That would hang proudly on my wall and I'd use it as an excuse to become quite the expert about that period of art and craftsmanship and carpentry!

Fabulous to see John again 🙏👏👏👏👏👏

I'm pleased that this gent has landed himself such a beautiful set of drawers with a very interesting history.

Probably watched this (I’m from the Netherlands) about when it was aired on the BBC. And always gave John Bly a little cheer; great storyteller!

It once belonged to Tolkien, who carved the Eye of Sauron into the panels.

If they took the panels out and put them on display, the colour would likely fade from exposure to sunlight. Being kept in the dark all that time protected the colour.

This made me smile.

That is fabulous!😊❤

I can't believe he just put that drawer on the polished top!

@user-on3zq2nc7l

4 ай бұрын

All of the wood is finished , nothing gets scratched.

@ktinxx

Ай бұрын

He put it on top of the brass handles, so the polish would not have been touched. What bothers me more is that the back of the drawer was obviously also carved, as some have remarked (pause at 0:33) so the brass handles could have scratched those carvings...

How lovely, and the great John Bly enthusing.

The history in that piece! Mind boggling! Magnificent!

Love ❤antique s roadshow

Really fabulous that the chap looked all over the chest after he purchased the chest.

*NEEDS TO BE IN THE V&A* really - its so interesting.

To find out what is not seen is worth more than what is seen ... made his day!

@markbajek2541

Ай бұрын

Now he can afford a razor to trim some of that chest hair

@wapperjaw8282

Ай бұрын

@@markbajek2541 LOL ... Save the money ... just button the top button ...

I wonder if anyone checked the inside backing of the actual chest for the drawers. But wow, what a lucky bloke.

@user-rw3fm9ix3i

Ай бұрын

0:32 had the back of one of the drawer which has a pattern too

In the USA, we call anything older than 40 years of age an "antique". I lived in Switzerland and had furniture made in the 1600's we used every day.

@Viper42104

4 ай бұрын

Prove that one. Prove the US calls ANYTHING older than 40 years is an antique. You sound like a foreigner who knows nothing. By US standards, anything older than 100 years is declared an antique.

@reggietullos7283

4 ай бұрын

​@@Viper42104 leave ol 98 alone. It makes him feel smart to say things like this. You know the current commercial running where the lass turns in the cafe after correcting the spelling of "cwosain" and loudly proclaims to no one in particular "I just returned from Europe". Yeah. That person.

@jarvisfamily3837

4 ай бұрын

@@Viper42104 - damn, buddy - who butt-hurt you? 😥

@id10t98

4 ай бұрын

@@Viper42104 Travel around to small towns in the USA and see the shops labeled "Antiques" and take a look inside to see what they are selling. I can guarantee you there is grandma's oak kitchen table from 1968, perhaps a poster bed from 1955 and more 'chest of drawers' from the 1960's and 1970's than you can haul away on a 10 foot flatbed trailer.

@piccalillipit9211

4 ай бұрын

My sister's house in the UK is older than the USA.

A very insightful, interesting and engaging appraisal Kevin !

i love when experts get excited because they ramble and that rambling isnt filtered for the layman

I love the excitement - I feel it whenever I find something myself. I was waiting for the inevitable Antiques Roadshow comment by the owner at the end "well, I'm never going to sell it".... 🤣

I always get a hoot from the difference between Antiques Roadshow America and the UK. The English are exicitededly reserved while the Americans fall all over themselves when they have a find. Neither one is bad, but you can see in the cultures how different we are.

@redceltnet

2 ай бұрын

*The British, FFS.

Gorgeous surprise ✨♥️✨

That is so cool.

Just awesome, these little discoveries.

wow, from the 1500s, that is incredible!

Gotta love You Tube recommendations...another Channel rabbit hole to go down!

Love Mr Bly's enthusiasm!

@susanheath5467

3 ай бұрын

And that a young chap like that has such interest in old furniture

Love History...!!!

Amazing … what an awesome suprise.

John Bly, simply the best!

Most Lovely, with a very interesting features...

Love this

it is interesting to learn that in the 1700's wood paneling over 200 years old was viewed as rubbish.

@bumblebeebob

4 ай бұрын

What l find amazing is that those panels laid around for ~150 years without someone scrapping them. Or throwing them in a fire. Nowadays we can those people "hoarders." 😅

@fortissimoX

4 ай бұрын

@@bumblebeebob Lol, true. Although, I guess at that time any piece of wood that has already been cut, curved etc. had more value than today, and therefore they were keeping them because, as we can see, you never know where you can use them!

@victorhopper6774

4 ай бұрын

@@fortissimoX exactly, a ton of work went into making a board in those days. circuelar saws were invented after 1800. on the plus side they had the best wood to work with. i lived in a log home probably built around 1840-1860 and the roof sheathing was oak boards 4 feet wide and 5/8 of a inch thick. i doubt that there is a oak that big in the county now. sadly that home burned about 10 years ago.

@faithlesshound5621

Ай бұрын

Interior designs go into and out of fashion. In the 1950's and 60's people were tearing out Victorian and Edwardian panelling. Panelled hardwood doors were replaced by plain sheets of plywood. In this case, after a century and a half the woodworkers were certain that wainscotting like that was never going onto a wall again, so they felt free to reuse the boards where the old-fashioned pattern would not be seen.

wonderful find!!

I'm a big fan of the road show..

Veey nicely crafted. Wow! The year 1740 crafts are spectacular.

Very interesting indeed.

Someone who dumps a grand on that in the 90's is not short of money!

@JohnSmith-yv6eq

4 ай бұрын

The posh accent would tend to emphasise his ancestry...and money.

@hamishalexander5294

4 ай бұрын

Hardly , a Sony wide-screen TV and video combo was 2 grand. A grand for a denom cd system. Carpets were expensive. Street fighter 2 turbo was 70 quid on the mega drive! Ninties weren't cheap but folk still bought pricey stuff!

@moyadapne968

4 ай бұрын

@@hamishalexander5294 I paid $2.500 for my Black Diamond Mitsubishi cassette player. It got stolen and I still had to pay it off.

@bill90405

3 ай бұрын

Sadly that chest is worth £300 today!

I always thought they did a walk through before filming the shot but I believed the experts excitement, like he was seeing them for the first time. It is fun to think of who passed by those wall tiles so long ago. There weren't as many heroes as there were villains in those days.

The British respect age and workmanship. I like this so much more than in the USA where lack this heritage and knowledge.

I put those panels in around 1986, they came off a crate used to haul beer from the early 70s.

Very interesting. I have never seen something like this.

Who cares about the value, the sheer discovery is so wonderful

Great Historians!!!

I feared up when he said it was Tudor period. Imagine having that surprise in an innocent purchase. Unbelievable>

The understated “it’s very exciting” 😂

amazing

WOW!

What a treasure.

...am I going to go down a UK Antiques Roadshow rabbit hole now? Beacuse this was fascinating.

Wow!

I have a book case made by flipping the boards on a large egg incubator a hundred years ago. The painted panel is intact inside. I didn't notice for years. I wouldn't take it to a show. I went to one and it was a disappointment, they went to ebay on their phones for something near unique and just made-up a low b.s. number that was 300 when I sold it for 4,800.

@brmam1385

4 ай бұрын

Good for you! Hope it wasn’t an Antiques Road Show, either UK or US variety!

Какая прелесть )))

I'd love to see more details, the back of the drawers, for instance. Just got a glimpse of smaller panels appearing to make the back of the second drawer.

That was a nice surprise. Now its worth more. Wood reveling history 😮

amazing chest hair

Such a treat to see that were avid eye of Sauron worshippers.

I like the drawer backs better than the dresser.

WOW

It is surprising that so often the back of a magnificent piece of antique furniture will be made of bits and pieces of scrap wood. I guess it is what shows that matters.

Intact wood panel from 1540-1580 with the original paint. That's pretty rare stuff. We're talking Henry VIII era manor house stuff.

"let me allay your fears" the British just know how to talk.

I never considered that a wood shop would just use any old 'scrap' of wood in a drawer, let alone a decorated one. But it totally makes sense. So interesting to realise that these waste bits are now more valued than the antique dresser itself.