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  • 1 million im dissapointed i thought ist would be up to 20 millions like a chinese vase

  • To me it just looks like someone bronzed an old dressmaker's dummy or mannequin, welded the vanes from a windmill across the back and said, "Voila!"

  • @rargpilt Pretentious? It's true. This bronze object may or may not still be highly desirable when 100 years old (for most, the definition of 'antique') but tastes and the market can change in unpredictable and surprising ways. My guess is it will be melted down for scrap sooner than you think.

  • @RollaArtis Yeah, thanks for proving my point.

  • Have you ever noticed how often the ugliest things are worth the most....guess I am just a hick with no sense of art 'cause I don't get how this crude piece could be worth so much

  • Amazing how much wealthy people will pay for crap.

  • controversy...lol

  • £1,000,000 shit me i could make one of them for half that

  • does anyone no where the episode that had the victorian mourning ring on it?!

  • Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnot, really an "antique" though is it?

  • That is easily the ugliest thing worth over a million pounds in the whole world.

  • @kozmon0t a lot of people would probably say the same thing about your partner.

  • I'll take 2 of them please... Would look nice in my garden!! lol

  • This was quite stupid and it defeats the purpose of the show.

    It's like someone from the Louvre going: hey this is painting called Mona Lisa, is it expensive?

  • $1 million pounds in 2008, today worth maybe $500,000....nice work chap!

  • that statue is awesome, who wouldn't want that over a luxury sports car and a 3 bedroom condo at the heart of Toronto???

  • £1 million Amazing piece of waste metal!

  • I hope he donated all the proceeds to city since he acquired it in his capacity as a public servant and never would have had access to it were it not for his government position.

  • surely if you had something thats worth 1million you wont go "amazing" ...

    you'd effin freak out and sell the thing! 

  • I don't know what's worse... the appraisal value, the fact that someone bought it, or the fact that someone MADE IT to begin with.

  • i want to be a person that values everything sooo bad. I'd literally value my shit over millions of dollars

  • 1 million British pounds = 1.61210141 million Canadian dollars

  • This was one of the dumber appraisals. This guy obviously knows how much this thing is worth. Antiques roadshow is about people taking an old bed spread of their bed and finding out it was a one of a kind sewn by an apache indian and worth 25K. Not about someone going to Christies auction last year and finding out their piece of art purchased for million is now worth a million and 5.

  • @ryanstimpson I,ve seen that episode, with the apache bed spread. Very surprising and that's what makes this show so enticing... :)

  • @ryanstimpson I got my Cat Valued. Turns out it was the Mongrel of a Great Egyptians cat :L

  • @ryanstimpson totally agree , this has nothing to do with the essence of antiques roadshow.

  • Antiques Roadshow is a pile of fucking shit and needs to be axed - SAVE BBC F1 !!!

  • I heard Moltress... Like the pokemon!

    Now that I think of it, this gateshead looks like a burning man to me.

  • Total crap. Nightmare Angel is a better name for this. Clearly, Da Vinci and the rest have done it all already. Contemporary artists are left with making interpretive bullshit.

  • lols - alright mate pull your tougue out / farting in glasses and smelling it

  • Id say give me the money and its yours

  • @ MrWoodinleg Brilliant! Can't believe people responded seriously to your witty comments haha.

  • the guy tells him "this piece of art is worth over 1 million pounds", and all he can say is "amazing, absolutely amazing." ?? I would shit a brick and friggin scream at the top of my lungs

  • I've been caught! What is truly astounding is that there are people so quick to call others stupid that they themselves prove their own intellectual inadequacy. Abe Lincoln said it best, "it is better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt." I admit, there are some real gems here in the good old USA that make me cringe. A monument to their stupidity would surely weigh 1,000,000 pounds!

  • If Pounds are British, then why on earth is America the only place that still weighs stuff in pounds. I know other places use the metric system so why would you name your currency after our measurement of weight. It makes no since!! I eat hamburgers that are 1/4 lb. Is that the same as 25¢? If so I have been paying too much for them.

  • @MrWoodinleg I'm not entirely sure if you're trolling, or just suffer from intellectual deficiency.

  • This was sort of cheating, let's face it.

  • Very controversial as many of the experts and watchers asked what was it doing on the "antique" roadshow in the first place? Ok it may be a work of art and in some parts of the world it may be thought of as antique as its over a year old! But on the BBC? Some experts made their displeasure known on air and rubbished the valuation and asked the above question in disgust! Was it sour grapes or was it a concern that that real £1 million pound antique has yet to be found!

  • 1 million pounds is about 1.6 million dollars

  • Seeing as "the market" is this unseen force sort of like an invisible hand, it makes since that this invisible hand would benefit by having a marker or a pen. That way this force, which I would presume is also etherial in nature, would be able to MARK-IT. That way we wouldn't have to take sculptures which weigh 1,000,000 pounds to an antiques roadshow in order for someone to tell us how much they weigh or cost. The price would be clearly legible and understandable by all.

  • @MrWoodinleg Are you retarded? Pounds is the British currency, and not your dumbass weight estimate. Christ there is a world outside America you know?

  • You mean to tell me that someone would pay 1,000,000 pounds for this? 1,000,000 pounds of what? Is it feathers, or bricks and if so, which weighs more? 1,000,000 pounds of bricks or 1,000,000 pounds of feathers?

  • @MrWoodinleg haha bumb

  • @MrWoodinleg There's this thing called 'the market'.

    It's made up of buyers. There are buyers who would pay a million pounds for it - what they are willing to pay for it is known as 'the market rate'.

    The market rate is due to both the history of the piece, and the piece itself.

    Given you initially thought they were talking about weight and not money, it's no surprise that the bare basics of market economics is beyond your understanding...

  • There is no way that thing weighs 1,000,000 pounds. It would have to be made of lead or something in order to weigh that much. I say its more like 400.

  • @MrWoodinleg By saying 1,000,000 pounds, that is the price, not the actual weight.

  • Fuck up and get to the point

  • Not the greatest reaction, mainly because it was owned by the council, and therefore worth nothing to anybody really.

  • I'll give £10 for it tops, some one would nick it from my garden so whats the point?

  • @locouk uhh...keep it inside maybe?

  • Anyone else skip straight to 2:30?

  • this guy is so obviously super-loaded, even more than most of the people on this show... when he tells him it's a million pounds he doesn't even pretend to act suprised. i wonder how he'd feel if he woke up & realised it'd stolen his mittens.

  • Modern art critics can make a cardboard box seem like a solid gold egyptian sarcophagus, and sell it for 1,000,000 pounds. What a farce.

  • HOLY COW!!!

  • A million pounds? Quite the amount, is it not? Now let's play a round of croquet shall we?

  • @Piatasify just making fun of how calmly he takes the news..

  • @FightThroughFaith gotcha, was thrown off by the croquet

  • A million pounds? Quite the amount, is it not? Let us play a round of croquet, shall we?

  • i like how people take the piss out of the ENGLISH because we speak the ENGLISH language properly

  • @sobye96 How can you take the piss out of something that isn't biological?

  • Is that sydney harbou bridge in the background??

  • @MrAidanwk your an idiot

  • @hobshobson1 im joking haha i live in sydney

  • Mark the top rated comments as spam everyone.

    Ruins the point of the video.

  • The top 2 comments are blatant spoilers, why are they voted to the top? i knew the end before i'd even started watching.

  • Love the long distance conversation. They must've had some trouble hearing eachother.

  • Yeah...........right..........­.....a real modern art masterpiece. It deserves 5 gallons of gas and a match...........'Dogs playing poker' on black velvet or a Tijuana Elvis more striking. 'Value' is simply an issue of perception. I really want to see the a $ $ hole that would PAY for this thing........

  • Yeah...........right..........­.....a real modern art masterpiece. It deserves 5 gallons of gas and a match...........'Dogs playing poker' on black velvet or a Tijuana Elvis more striking. 'Value' is simply an issue of perception. I really want to see the asshole that would PAY for this thing........

  • A million pounds for that pile of shit or a nice car + a big house + a few holidays +living costs for 5 years

  • why the fuck does this arsehole get it? it's a public sculpture

  • @sapientersisincere He doesn't ,he belongs to the city council..it is valued for a Million..if it was to be sold,the money would go into the public coffers for the city to use.

  • That Vs 3 or four ferrari's?

  • Thats stupid, why would a piece of contemporary art, a model basically for the bigger famous version, net a million pounds? And there are multiple versions of it, multiple models used while creating some recent statue.

    So lame, anyone who pays that is an idiot, way cooler owning some amazing chinese statue masterwork from the 6th century for 1/3 that price.

  • If you want to skip to the guy saying the price, skip to 2:50

  • Would never command such a price outside of the UK.

  • Valuation starts at 2:30

  • i'd value it at around the price range of 1p- 1pound.

  • I'd value it at around £4700 - £6500

  • Why would he value it at a £1m ?

  • Back when I was 10 I used to go into the house of this old woman on our street & steal bits of her stuff- she was totally demented & never noticed -no-one believed anything she said anyway. She died when I was 14.

    A few years later at University & decided to have her jewellery that I still had valued- turned out it was rare antique stuff worth over £50k! I thought about giving it to charity, but used it to fund a superb student lifestyle instead- 3 yrs of drink, drugs& posh student girls!

  • @SuperTruth77 ahahahaha good on you. Damn what a spend thrift - it lasted 3 years? It would have maybe lasted 3 months with me!!!! nice one

  • What a piece of shit! A million quid for this??? My poo look's more artful then this crap! Maybe I should sell my Number twos!!! O_o

  • Appraisals don't mean squat. Good luck finding someone to buy this, or even insuring it.

  • I would have his exact reaction too, I would have shit my pants and instantly throw my shit everywhere and while I'm being tazed and beat down by the 5'o I spasm out and fake a seizure, and break out with my cocaine rage, yeah.... I roll like that

  • is that the fken harbour bridge behind it? oh wait.

  • @slicker9996 No, its the Tyne bridge. Syndey Harbour Bridge was partly modelled on it and built by the same firm 4 years after.

  • I'd pay more than 1m pounds for this. It's so beautiful.

  • Looks like the model airplanes I used to build.

  • 1.6 Million US

  • wait... did that guy seriously just say that the "peice of art" (a metal human with its arms not cut out yet) reminds him of a angle and brings him back to the time of christ?

  • How much is a million pounds in american tender??

  • @SaizCNM187 About 1.5 million US dollars.

  • @SaizCNM187 1.6 mill

  • Its a piece of wood for fuck sake. Get over it! A million pounds?!?!

  • it's bronze

  • It's only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it. For me it would be 2p

  • @madabbafan

    hahahah guess what, you're not going to get it

  • It's crap!

  • How the hell is that an antique? It's what, 20 years old?

  • @starchaser77 well all antiques are 20 years old at some point , right ?

  • Seen more expensive objects valued on this show.

  • I like how hes just like 'Amazing."*srs face*

  • That is no angel.

    More airplane man.

    A metal statue went for 16,000,000 at Sothebys or something. Both are ugly.

  • wow the owner of this sculpture needs to calm the fuck down. he just got way too excited at the end when he found out the value.

  • Ars Gratis Auris

  • What an anti-climax! You'd be a bit more excited than that, surely? xXx

  • that's pretty heavy....

  • thats allot of money. N nice.

    I wouldnt like standing next to it incase I accidently broke it! o.O lol

  • That's 2 million Mars Bars.

  • Philip Mould is so snotty

  • How the heck did he fit that in his car?

  • @equarg he did drive he used it as a hand glider

  • that's suppose to be an angel? :S

  • hahaa lol

  • so who gets the proceeds of that sale???

  • @hoplite46 the guy takes it there just to find out how much its worth, then he sells it

  • @kkende112233 did he not work for the council???

  • @InfomercialRemixer LMAO, that comment made my day XD

  • @InfomercialRemixer

    Well I don't know where you're buying your crumpets for 2 dollars each but you're getting ripped off.

  • @InfomercialRemixer you pay a squid vfor your crumpets??? where Harrods !!!!

  • @InfomercialRemixer you pay a squid for your crumpets??? where Harrods !!!!

  • @InfomercialRemixer ROAHAHAHAH ROFL

  • @InfomercialRemixer I honestly laughed really, really hard at that.

  • @InfomercialRemixer How expensive are the crumpets you buy?

  • @InfomercialRemixer Oh shit, yo better get yo ass back to watever hellhole yo mamma shit you outta!

  • @InfomercialRemixer actually its a bit more

  • @InfomercialRemixer more than one million crumpets fuck face

  • wow........ the chair im sitting on is worth 10p,

  • @greaserleo LOL!

    

  • I want a remake. Dam trippy thing

  • What the heck is that thing? Did someone fall in the machine that makes airplane wings?

  • @Starbitss Hahahaha!

  • Yeah, he was very excited when he heard the amount... :P

  • idc that thing is scary as fuck 

  • @JMRabil675 I know! right! its that blank face o.O

  • i love how this guy is like wow amazing when he finds out its just a million pounds. i would shit my pants and start foaming at the mouth.

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  • amazing....you got that right.

  • That is not true, there was a priceless item on the show at least once, it was an elder lady's board that pilots from the RAF signed before they flew off to fight in the battle of britain.

  • Id shove an engine in its butt and see if it could fly...

  • What a douche.

  • One million pounds - hmmm that's over 2 million dollars nearly - to me, with that value, it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen!

  • "It seemed to take the room over"...? Its 15 feet wide guy. Of course its gonna take the room over. I'd get the hell out of the way.

  • really i like the look of it smaller size i would put in my home wouldnt pay 1 mil in british pounds shit that like what 2-3 mil in us $ but i like it

  • Didn't seem too enthusiastic that he owned something that was worth a a million quid...

  • wow that thing is worth 650,000 lol

  • i say, looks like sydney lol

  • i dont give a shit, this stupid crap isnt worth a million... use the money to donate to the orphans. rather than spending money on stupid things

  • @jlimjlim18 would you donate it all if you all of a sudden found a million pounds?

  • @jlimjlim18 Come on youtube in own time. Comment: I don't give a shit. Feels good man.

  • You'd have to have a powerful truck to take a million pounds home

  • @HerecomestheCalavera hahahahahahah lmao....best comment

  • Can't believe I just watched that whole, boring video...

  • 1 million pounds for a man with plane arms?!? Fuck me in the rectum!!!

  • Good god he went on.

  • I like art, but not enough to pay millions of dollars for it, especially when I can just Google it.

  • That guy is rich enough, he didn't even care it was worth that much.

  • @MangoBells trust me, he's a public servant and its not his to sell, he's not rich.

  • If I was wealthy enough to 'burn' money, I would buy any Picasso piece of....art and burn them. End of those pieces of crap.

  • @MrCombat1965 well i guess the world is fortunate that you can only afford to burn refrigirator magnets

  • did he put that in his car?

  • hahaha imagine if they were walking in with it and dropped it and it broke in half, bahahahah!!

  • I wish wealthy collectors were more tech-savvy and idealistic and invested money in useful endeavors. This could be copied in a similar manner for maybe a few thousand by a sculptor. Is it really worth the extra millions just to say "this is an ORIGINAL!". Same with expensive art, like spending millions on a Mona Lisa, when a high-quality replica or realistic painted copy is visually identical and could be gotten for a few hundred or even few thousand. Sentimental people are just so wasteful.

  • @hughtub you don't get it.

  • @j0ames you don't get it.

  • @hughtub no, you really don't get it

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  • Interesting.. but it's hardly an antique.

  • to save everyone 3 boring minutes, it's worth a million pounds

  • @danverinodude thnx mate, wish Id read ur comment before I watched it!

  • @danverinodude Thanks dude seriously that shit was retarded.

  • Only people in the U.K will understand gormleys fantastic piece of art.

  • It is an overpriced piece of garbage