The British Artiques Roadshow Tour of the Dominion for 2007 begins this Spring with a repeat Roadshow at the KOZLOV CENTRE in Barrie on the 16th-17th April 2007
In keeping with the spirit of will be more than one hundred shows for the experts they offer up highlights of what they have found on their nation-wide tours.
The single most valuable find.
Paintings: $1.2 million dollar Courbet a $750,000.00 Manet
32 Group of Seven works, 2 Renoirs and a Dufy.
The biggest Boo Boo
A Picasso plate – dropped by the owner!
The next biggest Boo Boo!
The lady with an $18,000 Moorcroft vase who had given all the others away to Mums friends as mementoes after mothers death! She gave away about 20 in all!
The next biggest catastrophe!
The lady who cleaned both her Dutch oil paintings by Jacob Maris with VIM as she was too house proud to bring them in Dirty!
Bye bye to 28 grand. Each!.
The Most difficult items to prove legitimate:
The Zulu spear that it is claimed killed Napoleon III.
Silliest item.
The owner wondered if DNA could help but added, that the spear had been kept in a garden shed and used by Granddad for fifty years for digging up weeds in the lawn!
The most incredible - by the skin of your teeth stories:
There was a rock from a beach in BC that the owner was certain was the worlds earliest primitive tool!
Grandfather escaped the Nazi occupation of Paris taking with him only what he could carry. He’d always told his Granddaughter that an old print was her inheritance and ‘she must look at it very, very closely one day.’ She’d always dismissed it as the old mans tale.
Not so, we spotted a bulge in the back of the frame and hidden behind the print was Renoir drawing! Her $70,000.00 inheritance!
Another inheritance story. Two prints by Sir Arthur Elsley mistakenly thought to be paintings were brought in by a road worker. Explaining that Elsley only did very large pictures and these 2 were 1980’s lithos, he told us of a much bigger one under the bed! He fetched it in the back of his pick up in the rain!
Bingo: $150,000.00!
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