Antiques Roadshow

APPRAISER: The name of this pattern, you told me, when you brought this in, was...?

GUEST: It's called Morland.

APPRAISER: M-O-R-L-A-N-D?

GUEST: Right.

APPRAISER: It's a Royal Doulton pattern.

GUEST: That's correct.

APPRAISER: Now, you've inherited this from your family?

GUEST: Several pieces, and then I was at a country auction years ago, and I bought another dozen pieces.

APPRAISER: I've never seen this size in this pattern.

Well, it's particularly beautiful for a pitcher and bowl set.

A lot of them come into the show, and by and large, pitcher and bowl sets, it's toilet ware, it was meant to be used and abused.

It wasn't meant to be saved and treasured.

GUEST: Mm-hmm.

APPRAISER: And consequently, one of two things happened-- either number one, it was beaten up over the years, and didn't survive intact, or number two, they're not that good.

This is one of the exceptions to that, because you can see, it's much more ornate.

This is probably a 1 in 500 bowl and pitcher set.

And for that, it's worth between $1,000 and $1,500.

GUEST: This will not change my lifestyle.

(laughs) APPRAISER: Okay.

When I got into the business almost 40 years ago, bowl and pitcher sets were a hot deal.

And they've since cooled off quite a bit.