Antiques Roadshow guest in disbelief as value of dad’s ‘irreplaceable’ sketches ‘takes breath away’
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WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Antiques Roadshow. An Antiques Roadshow guest was wowed at the price of his dad’s “rare” sketches that were worth thousands. Filming at Firstsite in Colchester, car fanatic Cristian Beadman met with a guest who brought in a collection of designs his dad had made while working for the Ford Motor Company.
The guest shared he had gone to America in the 1950s and described it like going “from black and white in England post-war to technicolour in America.”. Beadman began: “So this is in the heyday of those huge flying Fords with the big engines and the fins and the wings and all the rest of it. The design process, obviously, we’ve got this incredible gull-winged supercar here but this is the pencil sketch. Is this the early stages then?”.
The owner replied: “Yeah they would do a crayon sketch. The photograph on the front of this magazine of my father Maurice, shows him doing those sorts of sketches. If the boss liked what they saw there, they would say ‘OK, we like this drawing, now render these up.’ And so you’ve got these colour renderings done in airbrush. He was really good with the airbrush.”.
Beadman remarked: “The way he has picked out the sparkle of sunlight on the chrome is utterly extraordinary. I don’t know how he did it. And if you look at the hubcaps, you can see that he’s put reflected landscapes with the hubcap, distorting the light with an airbrush. It’s absolutely incredible.”.
