Still time to get on Antiques show

The owners of large or delicate items that they wish to have valued by experts from BBC ONE’s Antiques Roadshow at Gregynog Hall, near Newtown on 4th July are being encouraged to contact the programme.

“It’s not too late to contact us if you have any large items that you would like valued,” said Olwen Gillespie, the Antiques Roadshow’s public liaison officer. “It may be possible to arrange to look at the item in advance and organise transportation to the venue.”

Owners are asked to send details and photographs of the objects to: ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, BBC, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2LR or to e-mail them to: antiques.roadshow@bbc.co.uk

The Antiques Roadshow will be filming for its 36th series in the grounds of Gregynog Hall at Tregynon from 9.30am until 4.30pm.  Entry to the show is free.

The show will reunite presenter Fiona Bruce and art expert Philip Mould at Gregynog Hall following their BBC One series ‘Fake or Fortune', which turned the spotlight on a painting owned by the late sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies, who lived at the hall.

The sisters amassed the largest collection of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works in Britain, which is now housed in the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff.

‘Fake or Fortune’ proved that three oil paintings in the sisters’ collection by landscape artist J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), which were discounted as fakes in 1956, were in fact genuine works and worth millions of pounds.

Fiona said she was looking forward to the visit to Gregynog Hall and encouraged the public of Mid Wales and Marches to turn out in force with items to be valued by the team of experts. “This will be my sixth year on the Antiques Roadshow and I still feel so lucky to be presenting the programme,” she said. “Every week is different; a new location and thousands of new visitors.”

Some of Britain’s leading antiques and fine arts specialists will be on hand to offer free advice and valuations to visitors.

The last series, watched by an average of six million viewers, included some amazing finds such as a 1680 Japanese jar bought at a car boot for less than £10 and worth £5,000, a Fijian buli buli club valued, much to the owner’s surprise, at £35,000, an 18th century English lidded glass goblet bought for £2 and worth £5,000, a sculpture by Barbara Hepworth, which had been sitting in a school office for years and was worth £80,000, a 1660 wine bottle found in a skip and worth £12,000 and a collection of powder compacts valued at £100,000.

More information can be found at: www.bbc.co.uk/antiquesroadshow

Picture caption: Fiona Bruce and Philip Mould filming for the Antiques Roadshow.