You might know me from BBC TV antiques shows like 'Antiques Road Trip’ Bargain Hunt' 'Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is' and 'Flog It'
Well, I still do work for the BBC making these programmes, but here is my David Harper Antiques TV Channel especially for RU-vid
I feature big players in the world of antiques, real experts in their fields, auctioneers, antiques centres and antiques fairs. Also, I love historical stories. Over the decades of antiques dealing, I’ve discovered countless fascinating and little-known stories connected to antiques (so much so I’ve written two history books)
So, you’ll find funny, entertaining or educational historical films inextricably linked into my antiques videos!
I’m always keen to hear from people in the antiques business, or private collectors with great stores to tell…do get in touch.
Walking stick with a secret..my first thought would be sword stick, but it's a horse stick/spirit level. Useful beastie. I guessed 325 - so 30 quid off. Not bad.
There is no single Australian accent. Various regions have aurally distinct accents in areas of pronunciation, word stress, nasality and other areas. In the same way there are dialectic differences too. Not all Australians say castle with a short a. South Australians such as myself and, to some extent Victorians say carstle. On the East coast you get an increasing nasality as you head north. In part, as someone suggested, in response to the mouth being opened less to avoid dietary supplements in the form of flying insects. I can, if hearing a Canberra accent, can immediately distinguish it from a Sydney accent, Sydney from Brisbane and so forth. Because of relative remoteness, Adelaide, Perth and Darwin have all developed distinct accents as well
You obviously forget the impact of the pervasive common fly in Australia; you dare not open your mouth to fully proclaim you voice and have to speak nasally through closed lips lest you swallow one
No they didn't. Australia, in the early years, had a large percentage of involuntary immigrants, sourced from the finest Gaols and Prison Hulks in mainly England, largely composed of working class and less educated crims from various places around the British Isles. Add to that the effect of Clearances and the Potato famine and the resultant disporia of the Scots and Irish (my Scottish ancestor was an indentured farm labourer) Aslo add to that a Gold Rush which sourced people from all around the Globe seeking their fortunes New Zealand didn't have a convict base stock and was settled by free settlers and farmers and also had the impact of the Maori peoples and the Treaty of Waitangi upon their language I can speak fluent RP Australian, 'strine, bogan and profanities; in England I was accused of being a Scot whilst in Scotland I was accused of being a Southerner 😉
David, i would like to ask your advice on damage. I have several nice pieces that have to a lesser or greater, expense. I mean, do i sell it at half the price i would have sold it. If, it was undamaged? What is the rule. Also, will auctions accept pieces with a degree of damage?
As mentioned at our site … can’t stand these horse’s backsides who do this embedding disabled thing. There are but two ways to know now, there used to be three. First way is to preview in blgr/ipad … that’s often an indicator. The other is to just wait for the scheduled post, attributed to the vlogger, to come up. It’s a form of ambushing of us who were promoting the guy, just for pratty personal reasons of his. Next step is to leave this comment here, third is to delete his account on my recommended list. Grrrrr.
It’s rare that I get comments like this here, but I’m fascinated why you think you can be so rude and vitriolic? If you don’t like the topic (which is as clear as day…no click bait) why click on it?
The dominant accent in Australian English is cockney, the London accent. This is because most of the convicts were from London. This isn’t my idea btw, I read this I think in David Crystal. I’m not a cockney, I’m from the north. But I can do a passable cockney accent and a passable Australian accent, I grew up watching Neighbour and Home and Away. If you try speaking with a cockney accent, you have to form the vowels in a certain part of the mouth and make shapes with your mouth that are different to my own accent. When I try and do an Australian accent, I use the same parts of the mouth to form the vowels and the sounds, it’s a natural kind of shift in the mouth you can feel if you try them. It’s true the kids would have picked it up from each other- children learn their accent from other children not from parents
Everytime your partner walks behind her with the tablet over his face (filming) that's all I can see, and it makes me chuckle. You have a keeper there.
Very interesting, David. I was born in England but I've been an Aussie for many years and I've never given it much thought. Your explanation makes sense.
There is a posh sounding accent among the well educated from the fifties, sixties and 70s. You generally hear it amongst the professions and elderly etc. Then there is the casual sounding accent which i notice is prominent in some country towns. What i consider our normal accent. And then there is the awful, varying strains of Strine, which sounds bloody dreadful. You might think it is being exaggerated, but no, people really sound like that. You would think they never went to school. This accent pops up everywhere, most prominent amongst the trades, prisons, crowds at the footy etc.
Thank you. A man at the Senior Center gave me a beaded necklace and bracelet. He didn't say anything about it except that it would look nice with my white shirt. Now I know that it is Ivory ❤🕊
What amazed me when I first came to Australia was the lack of dialects. The same object may be called differing names, but the accent is generally similar. There are three noticeable exceptions. Some South Australians, usually from Adelaide, speak with the Strine accent, and Aussie movies often have that same Strine. There is a Greco-Australian accent spoken mainly in Melbourne and Sydney by the Greek, Italian and to a lesser extent Turkish communities. Australian Aboriginals also have their own accent, which is still used by those that only speak English as well as those that are bi-lingual. That brings me to my next amazement. In Africa the aborigines are known by their tribal grouping, eg Zulu, Baka, Bantu. In Australia all the countries were lumped together under the term Aborigine. It is only recently that individual peoples or countries are recognised.
Yes, except the Aboriginal peoples themselves always knew what grouping they were. Anyone who is a Yamatji for instance will baulk, and severely object, at being grouped in with Ngoonahs, etc
They do indeed sound British, at least to me. The Ozzie accent is a stew. To me it sounds like a mix of Cockney and generalized Irish. Americans have regional accents, but probably fewer than in the UK. (listen to Mainers and Yoopers some time.) Ozzies do too by now.
If you listen to late 19th century Americans in interview, or at least 1920’s interviews with elderly Americans, they sound in some cases quite British!
My wife, being a linguist, has talked about this phenomenon. She says that it take about 40 years (a generation) to establish a new dialect or accent of a regional language, so what you said regarding Down Under sounds about right. And yes, that and other great bits of info can be found in David's book, 'A Bash With The British Empire'. It's a good book and an easy read. It's a must have beside your loo for those long sessions.
It can take longer if there are "new chums" joining the mix. I'm just now starting to "hear" Los Angeles, California and have yet to reliably pin down Marin County. Too many new fish.
Good info Bill. Don’t forget, the American accent in the 18th century would have been quite British…it was in many parts like that till the early part of the 20th century!
@@DavidHarperAntiquesTV Well, America even 240 years ago had French, Dutch and German influences (Spanish came some 60 or so years later) and all of them did not agree. Hence the wide variety of accents in the New World.
I knew she wasn't 16 yet, so 11 yikes. ... not even legally allowed to work here at that age unless her parents owned the shop! From the evidence she learned on the job and learned well.
What a load of bollocks,,,, its the law passed by the sheriff of Nottingham, legal extorsion ,I believe in animal conservation,, particularly elephant and rhino protection,, i dont see how elevated levy or taxes or charges will stop poaching,, seems these laws are revenue raising bills designed to recoup money for depressed economies,, post covid in particular
It’s virtue signalling mixed in with a little revenue boost…it doesn’t do anything to help living elephants in Africa today…nor the people who want to care for them
I wondered why he had an armchair. Made from Nelson's ship, the Billy Ruffian ( like that name better BTW) it makes perfect sense. The tapestry looks custom-made for that chair. The front probably had a lot more blue in it, but it's faded over the years. Blue in modern prints is the least fugitive color. Not so in tapestry wool of the 1830s.
Bronze is not gold! Even silver is not gold. So zinc, brass, copper, silver... these are all cheap metals and you don't have to treat them so seriously when you come to buy a work of art. By the way, the bronze sculpture you saw here is not worth more than 20 dollars in material. So bronze shmonze... buy art, not material. If you like the piece, just buy it, even if it's made of iron. Focus of course on art deco, it's a timeless style that can come in any type of metal and it's a shame to waste energy on whether it's one cheap metal or another. There are an amazing sculptures made of iron and there are many ugly art nouveau made of bronze, I'll take the iron, thanks.
@@DavidHarperAntiquesTVwho cares david my man. are you buying art or material ? they are all cheap materials. me personally, i don't care. i rather buy a zinc piece that excites me than a gold plated boring statue. but again, this is me.
Pity you didn't actually show a cubicle or flush. You couldn't persuade find a woman willing to film the other half of such a lovely antique toilet block?
I was filming Antiques Road Trip for the BBC at the time…I took a few minutes away to film this. Asking a lady to take cameras into toilets to film for me might have caused one or two issues!
