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we call it the regimental duel the
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regiment who was to share urinary later
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to become the Queen's and Worcestershire
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as ours was formed in 1794 to protect
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these shores against a Napoleonic
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invasion
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it was agreed that the regiment should
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serve only within the United Kingdom
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however in 1899 when the Boer War was
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going badly it was decided that some of
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the yoandri as volunteers would be
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mobilized and when they left the shores
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the Countess of Dudley whose husband the
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earl of Dudley was a member of the
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regiment he was second-in-command she
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presented each and every soldier that
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went out with a sprig of pear blossom
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worked in silk that they were to wear in
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their hat as a reminder of the county
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that they had left ie the the pear
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blossom emblem and Worcestershire a
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marvelous when they returned in 1903 she
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presented this sprig of fair blas
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astonishing manufactured by Faberge yes
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it's a lovely piece it certainly is a
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lovely piece this looks for all the
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world like a glass farce and there's a
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stretch in here that it's filled with
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water and this is the meniscus at the
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top of the water and nota fact it isn't
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it's a solid block of what is apparently
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glass but it's certainly not it's stone
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it's rock crystal it's icy cold even on
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this hot day and it's immensely
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difficult to carve it's in much much
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harder than glass and then the magic is
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to make it look as if the sprig is
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supported in this so it's drilled down
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into the rock crystal to receive the
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Stork life and the stalk is made of gold
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and it's almost as if we can see from
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time to time that new buds are going to
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blossom on here that would be quite
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surreal wouldn't it and then the flowers
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are made of enameled silver and tiny
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silver stamens but in the centre there's
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a dewdrop of Dimond glinting in the
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sunshine here and the leaves are made of
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Siberian jade from from the Ural
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Mountains and then we have the original
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fitted box here which is made of poly
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would literally the wood of the holy
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tree from Siberia and then just to get
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the message across you probably asked
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Faberge to put a triumphal Laurel here
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in green gold tied with the red gold bow
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well that invoice was the Battle honor
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that was awarded to themself
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Africa I see that's hard and so you know
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it is recorded there that's why we think
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it was 1904 because that was when they
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received the battle honor South Africa
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well it's absolutely bang-on for date
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for the object because some of the best
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things from Faberge are made in the 20th
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century in the age of motorcar the
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telephone even of electricity and here
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we have something that sort of redolent
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to the distant past because it's a
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shrieking pitch of perfection and luxury
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and it's an utterly breathtaking object
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so give me some impression of what the
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Pearblossom means in this regiment to
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you I think when it was presented by
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lady Dudley she did it to recognize the
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sacrifice of those soldiers that didn't
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come back from the war war and those
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that were injured I think it's a focal
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point almost for the younger soldiers
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soldiers such as me that don't way past
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their sell-by date and I just think it's
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it's this focal point it's the from what
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has happened years ago that we still on
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occasions look back to but it's
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important that we also look forward and
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I just think it provides that link for
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all the different ages of soldiers that
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have soldiered with the regiment and are
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intending in the future to soldier with
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the regiment it still comes out on
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dinner nights when the officers of the
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squadron and the regiment are assembled
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it's perhaps suffered over the years
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from being stuffed under the bed on
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occasion the end of the evening yes or
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miss the odd bread roll yes exactly
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it's making me utterly breathless this
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really because I find Faberge things on
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the Antiques Roadshow but nothing of
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this scale and I can tell you that this
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the size of the object the
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sophistication of the object the
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provenance of the object brings it very
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very close to only two other flour
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studies in the United Kingdom which are
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in the Royal Collection given what are
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the qualifications I've already put on
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this object that is a towering
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masterpiece of the Goldsmith's art by
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the most famous goldsmith of the 20th
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century so I'm going to tell you in my
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opinion that this is worth a million
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pounds
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well I supposed to say no it's not for
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sale it's only sneza well that's the
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rest a custodian I know it's not for
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sale
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