Episode 19

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0:00:02 > 0:00:04It's the nation's favourite antiques experts.

0:00:04 > 0:00:06What about that?!

0:00:06 > 0:00:08With £200 each,

0:00:08 > 0:00:09a classic car

0:00:09 > 0:00:11and a goal, to scour Britain for antiques.

0:00:11 > 0:00:13Can I buy everything here?

0:00:13 > 0:00:15The aim, to make the biggest profit at auction

0:00:15 > 0:00:17but it's no mean feat.

0:00:17 > 0:00:18Feeling a little saw.

0:00:18 > 0:00:20This is going to be an epic battle.

0:00:20 > 0:00:21There'll be worthy winners

0:00:21 > 0:00:23and valiant losers.

0:00:23 > 0:00:26So, will it be the high road to glory

0:00:26 > 0:00:28or the slow road to disaster?

0:00:28 > 0:00:29- The honeymoon is over.- I'm sorry.

0:00:29 > 0:00:31This is the Antiques Road Trip!

0:00:34 > 0:00:35Yeah!

0:00:35 > 0:00:38MUSIC: Hoots Mon by Lord Rockingham's XI

0:00:39 > 0:00:44It's approaching crunch time in the battle of Scot versus Scot,

0:00:44 > 0:00:46with the female of the species just in front.

0:00:46 > 0:00:50We're onto our fourth leg here and we're neck and neck!

0:00:50 > 0:00:52There's a whisper between us.

0:00:52 > 0:00:54Sadly, your tail is still in my face.

0:00:56 > 0:00:57Anita Manning and Paul Laidlaw...

0:00:57 > 0:00:58Auctioneers both,

0:00:58 > 0:01:01and did we mention highly competitive?

0:01:01 > 0:01:02Yes!

0:01:02 > 0:01:04You've taken your fair share of a drubbing.

0:01:04 > 0:01:08..have had a lot of fun in their Morris called Whooty, this week.

0:01:08 > 0:01:11And this wee baby, she's really only happy about 40, isn't she?

0:01:11 > 0:01:14What are you trying to tell me? Is it...

0:01:14 > 0:01:17That's coded for, "Slow down, Laidlaw."

0:01:18 > 0:01:21But it's all about glory for those two

0:01:21 > 0:01:23and Paul's not used to being runner-up.

0:01:23 > 0:01:25If it takes the whip,

0:01:25 > 0:01:26I might have to use it!

0:01:30 > 0:01:33Paul started out with £200 and so far he's won two auctions

0:01:33 > 0:01:37and amassed £261.25.

0:01:38 > 0:01:41While Anita, who also began with 200,

0:01:41 > 0:01:44has that all important wee slither of a lead

0:01:44 > 0:01:46with £286.90.

0:01:46 > 0:01:50BUT there's still a long road to travel.

0:01:50 > 0:01:53It might only be three inches on the map

0:01:53 > 0:01:56but it's 300 miles in reality.

0:01:56 > 0:02:00Our epic journey begins in Northumberland at Ford

0:02:00 > 0:02:03and takes in an awful lot of eastern England before ending up

0:02:03 > 0:02:08over 1,000 miles later at Stamford in Lincolnshire.

0:02:08 > 0:02:11Today, were starting out in Lincolnshire at Navenby

0:02:11 > 0:02:14and making for an auction in the Norfolk town of Diss.

0:02:14 > 0:02:17We're seeing a good old bit of the country on this one, aren't we?

0:02:17 > 0:02:20I think we've only got two more counties left.

0:02:20 > 0:02:22Welcome to Navenby,

0:02:22 > 0:02:24your latest battleground.

0:02:24 > 0:02:27That was a lovely piece of parking.

0:02:27 > 0:02:30I couldn't have got in there.

0:02:30 > 0:02:33I'm trying to butter you up before we go in.

0:02:33 > 0:02:35You go into that post office, get me a stamp,

0:02:35 > 0:02:37I'll go into this antique shop.

0:02:37 > 0:02:39They've started already.

0:02:39 > 0:02:41OK, I think this is a bunnets off job.

0:02:41 > 0:02:46Which might, in the circumstances, translate as gauntlet down.

0:02:46 > 0:02:47On your metal, everyone,

0:02:47 > 0:02:50because there's little margin for error in this struggle.

0:02:50 > 0:02:53We're still very close together

0:02:53 > 0:02:57and it takes only one good buy

0:02:57 > 0:02:59for someone to surge ahead,

0:02:59 > 0:03:02and Paul Laidlaw is a titan!

0:03:05 > 0:03:07And doesn't he know it?

0:03:07 > 0:03:09Have a look at this.

0:03:09 > 0:03:14Two little chimps underneath a somewhat stylised tree.

0:03:14 > 0:03:17There's just a touch of the Jugendstil about this.

0:03:17 > 0:03:19It's a Germanic piece, I think,

0:03:19 > 0:03:22Storer, cast-iron,

0:03:22 > 0:03:24late 19th century.

0:03:24 > 0:03:26I want to cut to the chase, I'm going to buy it.

0:03:26 > 0:03:28I'm going to try and buy it and this may be a problem

0:03:28 > 0:03:32because it's got a whopping price tag of £49.

0:03:32 > 0:03:33Is this, erm...?

0:03:33 > 0:03:35- It's mine.- This is yours, you own this?- Yeah.

0:03:35 > 0:03:38Isn't it great to be in an antique centre talking to someone

0:03:38 > 0:03:39that owns the thing?!

0:03:39 > 0:03:40OK, Paul, your move.

0:03:40 > 0:03:44If it's just a little cast iron funny dish, can it be £10 or £15?

0:03:44 > 0:03:46- I can't go as low as that, I'm afraid.- OK.

0:03:46 > 0:03:48- I could go 30.- Oh, my word.

0:03:51 > 0:03:53Let's go through the motions and see where we end up, yeah?

0:03:53 > 0:03:57- I'm going to say 20... - And I'll say 25.

0:03:57 > 0:03:59- And I'll go... I don't know your name?- Stella.

0:03:59 > 0:04:02Stella. Stella,

0:04:02 > 0:04:04you were a star.

0:04:04 > 0:04:06I haven't heard that before!

0:04:06 > 0:04:07Wonderful, you've got a deal.

0:04:07 > 0:04:10So, what is it with those chimps, Paul?

0:04:10 > 0:04:12- At £25, I think I'm going to struggle.- Hmm.

0:04:12 > 0:04:15Unless I'm right about this!

0:04:15 > 0:04:17Two chimps under a tree, not any old tree,

0:04:17 > 0:04:18the tree of knowledge.

0:04:18 > 0:04:21Well, you know why it's the tree of knowledge,

0:04:21 > 0:04:24because chimp number two is offering chimp number one an apple.

0:04:24 > 0:04:25Chimp number one,

0:04:25 > 0:04:27look at the face.

0:04:27 > 0:04:29Mutton chop whiskers.

0:04:29 > 0:04:31Is that Charles Darwin?

0:04:31 > 0:04:34- I put it to you that that IS Charles Darwin...- Really?

0:04:34 > 0:04:36..and this is mocking

0:04:36 > 0:04:38Darwin's theory of evolution.

0:04:38 > 0:04:41There was a great reaction to Darwin's theories

0:04:41 > 0:04:45of evolution from the Christian fraternity,

0:04:45 > 0:04:48it has to be said, because it undermined the Bible.

0:04:48 > 0:04:51Now we've got more than just a silly little novelty dish with chimps,

0:04:51 > 0:04:55have we not? We've tapped into an extremely exciting

0:04:55 > 0:05:00period in the history of science and the development of human thought.

0:05:00 > 0:05:02Now, you see why I love it?

0:05:02 > 0:05:03Good theory, Paul.

0:05:03 > 0:05:06Or might it just appeal to fans of cute chimps?

0:05:06 > 0:05:08- Stella, £25.- Yeah.

0:05:09 > 0:05:11I shall settle my debt to you.

0:05:11 > 0:05:13There you go.

0:05:13 > 0:05:16Anita, meanwhile, has also unearthed a curiosity.

0:05:16 > 0:05:18Well, two actually.

0:05:18 > 0:05:19It's a pair of bookends,

0:05:19 > 0:05:22they are commemorative bookends.

0:05:22 > 0:05:24They're made of a metal,

0:05:24 > 0:05:26sounds like tin.

0:05:26 > 0:05:30And they are a souvenir for the formal opening

0:05:30 > 0:05:33of the Stevens,

0:05:33 > 0:05:36which is the world's greatest hotel.

0:05:36 > 0:05:39Well, that's what these bookends are telling us anyway.

0:05:39 > 0:05:43And this hotel is in Chicago,

0:05:43 > 0:05:48and it's dated 2 May 1927.

0:05:48 > 0:05:49Quite a place it is, too.

0:05:49 > 0:05:51Although, it's not called that any more.

0:05:51 > 0:05:55The Stevens was once the largest hotel in the world,

0:05:55 > 0:05:57as I'm sure Al Capone could have told you.

0:05:57 > 0:06:01The shape of them takes us to the Art Deco period,

0:06:01 > 0:06:02but we have these figures here,

0:06:02 > 0:06:07two little children with a big fish.

0:06:07 > 0:06:09I don't know what that's about.

0:06:09 > 0:06:11The ticket price is £18.

0:06:11 > 0:06:13Time to consult Dean.

0:06:13 > 0:06:15We're selling in Norfolk, not in Chicago.

0:06:15 > 0:06:19- Oh, right.- Yeah, not even Norfolk, Virginia either.

0:06:19 > 0:06:21Could they be bought for 10?

0:06:21 > 0:06:24I can certainly give them a ring. I mean, the best I can do,

0:06:24 > 0:06:26I can take 10% off which will make it 16.

0:06:26 > 0:06:30- Uh-huh.- I'll go and give them a bell now.- OK, thank you.

0:06:30 > 0:06:33While Dean makes a call, Paul's come up with something similar.

0:06:33 > 0:06:35It's a Victorian presentation tankard.

0:06:35 > 0:06:38Now, we see presentation tankards all over the place, yeah?

0:06:38 > 0:06:42Every golf club hands them out like sweeties and so on,

0:06:42 > 0:06:44and they're generally dull as dishwater.

0:06:44 > 0:06:47However, show me a tankard

0:06:47 > 0:06:49presented in 1870

0:06:49 > 0:06:51by the Hythe School of Musketry...

0:06:51 > 0:06:54This is the British army's training establishment

0:06:54 > 0:06:58for excellence in sharpshooting, musketry, yeah?

0:06:58 > 0:07:00..and you've got my attention.

0:07:00 > 0:07:03Very pleasingly engraved, curlicues all over the place,

0:07:03 > 0:07:06cracking little imperial crown, there.

0:07:06 > 0:07:09It paints a picture of these chaps in their scarlet frocks

0:07:09 > 0:07:11and their Enfield rifles

0:07:11 > 0:07:14shooting away at Hythe in 1870.

0:07:14 > 0:07:15That's quite a vision.

0:07:15 > 0:07:17There are a few blemishes though.

0:07:17 > 0:07:19- It's got a big hole in the bottom. - Whoops.

0:07:19 > 0:07:23And it is £68.

0:07:23 > 0:07:24This is an issue.

0:07:24 > 0:07:27Quite. What about those bookends, then?

0:07:27 > 0:07:32We haven't got hold of him, but I've been told that we can do them at 12.

0:07:32 > 0:07:34Do them at 12? Put it there.

0:07:34 > 0:07:36That's lovely, thank you very much.

0:07:36 > 0:07:39I'll put them on the counter for you, then.

0:07:39 > 0:07:41That was an offer she couldn't refuse!

0:07:41 > 0:07:43Will Paul get his tankard?

0:07:43 > 0:07:47I wondered what your very best price would be?

0:07:47 > 0:07:50And Paul Laidlaw says to tell you it's got no bottom.

0:07:50 > 0:07:53Seems the lowest the dealer can go is £55.

0:07:53 > 0:07:55Paul doesn't seem too crestfallen though.

0:07:55 > 0:07:58I've not bought any silver this road trip.

0:07:58 > 0:08:02Base values for silver are lean at the moment, but...

0:08:02 > 0:08:04there's a few wee bits in there that are pretty

0:08:04 > 0:08:06and seem to be fairly priced.

0:08:06 > 0:08:07Tankard? What tankard?

0:08:07 > 0:08:09You've got a perpetual calendar.

0:08:09 > 0:08:12Silver framed, it's actually cast,

0:08:12 > 0:08:14so there's some substance to that,

0:08:14 > 0:08:16it's not stamped out of relatively thin plate.

0:08:16 > 0:08:21And it carries this series of printed little cards,

0:08:21 > 0:08:25and we should have 30 days in there.

0:08:25 > 0:08:27- Is this yours, Dean? - It is mine, yeah.

0:08:27 > 0:08:29The wee perpetual calendar, is it all there?

0:08:29 > 0:08:31- It's all there, yes.- Seriously?

0:08:31 > 0:08:33The cards, they're kind of turned upside down and turn them

0:08:33 > 0:08:35back to front. There's like four on each card.

0:08:35 > 0:08:38- I get you. Clever, clever, clever. - Yeah.

0:08:38 > 0:08:40The ticket price is £28,

0:08:40 > 0:08:42but there's more.

0:08:42 > 0:08:45Picture frame, that could be a little French piece,

0:08:45 > 0:08:48imported by the London Silver trade

0:08:48 > 0:08:51and, by law, re-assayed.

0:08:51 > 0:08:55The frame itself is a little ribbon tied laurel bezel,

0:08:55 > 0:08:57but it's being supported by a little Cupid,

0:08:57 > 0:09:00nicely executed, bow in hand.

0:09:00 > 0:09:04So, herein we would place surely a little miniature

0:09:04 > 0:09:07portrait of a loved one, a sweetheart.

0:09:07 > 0:09:10- I'm going all gooey! - Oh, Lordy!

0:09:10 > 0:09:12Oh, it's not French. It's German.

0:09:12 > 0:09:15I think that's an Augsburg pine cone mark,

0:09:15 > 0:09:18- could be wrong. - Unlikely, Paul.

0:09:18 > 0:09:19That one's also £28.

0:09:19 > 0:09:22This pillbox is a bit pricier, however.

0:09:22 > 0:09:25There's no dings, dents, warps,

0:09:25 > 0:09:27deformations,

0:09:27 > 0:09:28gilt interior.

0:09:28 > 0:09:30£98 though.

0:09:30 > 0:09:32It's all right. It's not the most exciting...it's not

0:09:32 > 0:09:34a standout piece.

0:09:34 > 0:09:35Rule of the three, eh?

0:09:35 > 0:09:37What can Dean do on them?

0:09:37 > 0:09:39100, for the three.

0:09:39 > 0:09:4220, 20 and 60 is probably where you'd put it, wouldn't you?

0:09:42 > 0:09:46- Yeah, 20... - That is the one that's hardest work.

0:09:46 > 0:09:49I'd like to give you 30 for that,

0:09:49 > 0:09:50I kid you not.

0:09:50 > 0:09:53Making it 70 for the three.

0:09:53 > 0:09:55I can do it 80 for the three.

0:09:55 > 0:09:58- That's 40 for the box, 20 for each of the others.- 40, 20 and 20.

0:09:58 > 0:10:00That's got him seriously pondering.

0:10:00 > 0:10:03The wee devil on that side's going, "Buy them all!"

0:10:03 > 0:10:06The devil on that side's saying, "You crazy fool!"

0:10:06 > 0:10:10- I'll take the lot.- Thank you. - "In for a penny," as he said, yeah?

0:10:10 > 0:10:13He who dares wins and all of the above. You're a good man.

0:10:13 > 0:10:16£80 plus £25 for the dish,

0:10:16 > 0:10:18not a bad morning's work.

0:10:18 > 0:10:20Over to you, Anita.

0:10:20 > 0:10:23This is rather a nice wee thing.

0:10:23 > 0:10:25It's a little mahogany rack.

0:10:27 > 0:10:29Now, I don't know, what...would you put a photograph in there,

0:10:29 > 0:10:32or would you keep letters, or whatever?

0:10:32 > 0:10:35But I don't think it's a made up thing,

0:10:35 > 0:10:38I think it's a thing that has been manufactured.

0:10:38 > 0:10:44And we have this border of inlaid,

0:10:44 > 0:10:46it's like a boxwood

0:10:46 > 0:10:51over the mahogany and I think that's a nice wee thing.

0:10:51 > 0:10:55It's priced at £29 and if I can get a wee bit off that

0:10:55 > 0:10:57I think I would be happy.

0:10:57 > 0:11:00- Dean? I picked this up. - Beautiful.

0:11:00 > 0:11:03And I thought it was a nice wee thing. What's the death on that?

0:11:03 > 0:11:06I can go and find out for you. The lady is here whose it is.

0:11:06 > 0:11:11Oh, right, yeah. Could you ask her if maybe it could be bought for 20?

0:11:11 > 0:11:14- I'll have a word with her for you. - OK, thank you very much.

0:11:14 > 0:11:18Thank you. When I looked at all of these jewellery cabinets, I thought,

0:11:18 > 0:11:22"I'm going to buy jewellery here," I love jewellery.

0:11:22 > 0:11:24- And I haven't. - Maybe next time.

0:11:24 > 0:11:26Anita, I've spoken to the owner and that's fine.

0:11:26 > 0:11:29That's great, I'm happy, I'm happy.

0:11:29 > 0:11:32- I'll put it with your bookends. - Yeah.

0:11:32 > 0:11:33Another crafty buy,

0:11:33 > 0:11:36just £32 spent.

0:11:36 > 0:11:39That's 30 and 32.

0:11:39 > 0:11:41That's fantastic, thank you very much.

0:11:41 > 0:11:44- It's been an absolute pleasure. - Oh, great.

0:11:44 > 0:11:46They're both on top form, this morning.

0:11:49 > 0:11:52Meanwhile, Paul's gone on ahead,

0:11:52 > 0:11:56making his way south from Navenby to Woolsthorpe to visit

0:11:56 > 0:11:57the home of one of the

0:11:57 > 0:12:00greatest scientists of all time.

0:12:00 > 0:12:02Picked the right time of year, too.

0:12:02 > 0:12:06Yes, he's here at Woolsthorpe Manor to learn about the early

0:12:06 > 0:12:08years of Sir Isaac Newton.

0:12:08 > 0:12:11- Is it Margaret? - It is. Welcome, Paul.

0:12:11 > 0:12:13So, was Newton actually born at the Manor?

0:12:13 > 0:12:16He was, yes, in 1642.

0:12:16 > 0:12:20He spent his childhood here and evidence on the wall,

0:12:20 > 0:12:23we think, of some of his graffiti.

0:12:23 > 0:12:25Paper was very scarce in those days

0:12:25 > 0:12:30but he'd got stuff teaming through his brain and he had to record it.

0:12:30 > 0:12:34- Yeah, so what is this, Margaret? Is it a cathedral?- It's a church.

0:12:34 > 0:12:38Newton was fascinated by spires and all things that pointed heavenwards.

0:12:38 > 0:12:40Were these lost and rediscovered?

0:12:40 > 0:12:45They were, yes. They were discovered completely by accident in about 1947

0:12:45 > 0:12:48when the tenants of the house then

0:12:48 > 0:12:50were doing a spot of decorating.

0:12:50 > 0:12:56- Oh, my word.- And we've got about nine examples of graffiti.

0:12:56 > 0:13:00That could have been a wee boy, "Oh, that's a windmill,"

0:13:00 > 0:13:02but there is a strict geometry,

0:13:02 > 0:13:04I think, there.

0:13:04 > 0:13:07Knowing the man, that really gets you thinking, doesn't it?

0:13:07 > 0:13:10Yes, interesting. Yes, it is, yes.

0:13:10 > 0:13:13Newton's mother was keen to make young Isaac into a farmer

0:13:13 > 0:13:16so that he could one day run things round here.

0:13:16 > 0:13:20But, thankfully, a schoolmaster persuaded her to let him

0:13:20 > 0:13:24continue his education and Newton went to Cambridge in 1661.

0:13:24 > 0:13:29A few years later, however, he came back home to avoid the great plague.

0:13:29 > 0:13:33And it was here that he spent 18 months doing his most

0:13:33 > 0:13:35important scientific thinking.

0:13:35 > 0:13:38And he actually said to one of his early biographers,

0:13:38 > 0:13:41"I was in the prime of my age for invention".

0:13:41 > 0:13:44So, now, this is his bedchamber

0:13:44 > 0:13:47but also his study and laboratory?

0:13:47 > 0:13:51He formulated his law of gravitation during this time.

0:13:51 > 0:13:54He also worked out his three laws of motion

0:13:54 > 0:13:56and he split white light.

0:13:56 > 0:14:00So, he wasn't idle by any means.

0:14:00 > 0:14:03Certainly not. Although Newton's great work, the Principia,

0:14:03 > 0:14:06wouldn't be published for another 20 years,

0:14:06 > 0:14:08many of his most influential ideas

0:14:08 > 0:14:12had their origin during his Woolsthorpe annus mirabilis.

0:14:12 > 0:14:16Is that not the classic sketch of his splitting

0:14:16 > 0:14:19- of white light into the spectrum? - It is, and...

0:14:19 > 0:14:23So, that's the kind of thing that we're talking about, in this room?

0:14:23 > 0:14:25Yes, and it happened here.

0:14:25 > 0:14:26Over here.

0:14:26 > 0:14:32In his work about it, he said the image travelled 22 feet.

0:14:32 > 0:14:36We got very excited one day when we had another film crew,

0:14:36 > 0:14:37would you believe, and they said,

0:14:37 > 0:14:40"Well, do you know what this area measures?"

0:14:40 > 0:14:43And we went, "Do you know, we've never tried it,"

0:14:43 > 0:14:44but we did

0:14:44 > 0:14:49and from that wall to that window

0:14:49 > 0:14:51- is 22 feet.- Oh, please.

0:14:51 > 0:14:53So, it's here it happened.

0:14:53 > 0:14:56Blackened room, a little peephole in the shutter,

0:14:56 > 0:14:58a beam of white light comes in,

0:14:58 > 0:15:04and science at that point thinks white light is pure, heavenly,

0:15:04 > 0:15:08but he splits the light using a prism

0:15:08 > 0:15:11and casts a rainbow on that wall,

0:15:11 > 0:15:15- not any wall, that wall. Oh, my word.- Yes.

0:15:15 > 0:15:19Yes, not only did our understanding of light originate

0:15:19 > 0:15:23in this room, tempting some to try to find it for themselves...

0:15:23 > 0:15:25I can't really believe I'm doing this.

0:15:25 > 0:15:27..but out in the garden, with the help of an apple,

0:15:27 > 0:15:30Newton was hit with his now famous laws of gravity.

0:15:30 > 0:15:32- Stephen.- Paul, lovely to see you.

0:15:32 > 0:15:33Good to see you.

0:15:33 > 0:15:35So, are you going to tell me this is it?

0:15:35 > 0:15:40After 350 years of careful preservation and loving attention...

0:15:40 > 0:15:43- And it is THE tree?- There's pretty good historical evidence.

0:15:43 > 0:15:46We know the tree blew down in a storm, the way it fell

0:15:46 > 0:15:49and sketches that have been taken over the years that identify

0:15:49 > 0:15:51this as the tree that Newton described.

0:15:51 > 0:15:55Although the fruit is still falling in the very spot where Newton

0:15:55 > 0:15:58began his enquiries, there is one popular misconception

0:15:58 > 0:16:00that Stephen can clear up.

0:16:00 > 0:16:01So, it didn't hit him on the head?

0:16:01 > 0:16:04Newton never said that the apple actually hit him on the head,

0:16:04 > 0:16:07but he told his biographers that

0:16:07 > 0:16:11in 1665, as a young man, here at Woolsthorpe

0:16:11 > 0:16:13he saw an apple fall from that tree

0:16:13 > 0:16:16as he sat in the garden in contemplative mood.

0:16:16 > 0:16:19Stephen, one last favour to ask.

0:16:19 > 0:16:22- Going to give me that apple? - Absolute pleasure, Paul.

0:16:22 > 0:16:26- And it's off that tree?- It's from Newton's tree, it's Newton's apple.

0:16:26 > 0:16:29I'm going to take that home and blow some young kid's mind.

0:16:29 > 0:16:32Now, where's Anita gravitated to?

0:16:34 > 0:16:38Taking our route north and east towards Sleaford,

0:16:38 > 0:16:41the fabulous birthplace of Jennifer Saunders

0:16:41 > 0:16:44and also Eric Thompson of Magic Roundabout fame.

0:16:46 > 0:16:48- Oh.- Oh, this is so beautiful.

0:16:48 > 0:16:51- How are you?- I'm Anita.- Javed.

0:16:51 > 0:16:53Javed, it's lovely to be here.

0:16:53 > 0:16:55Yeah, I think you'll enjoy it here, Anita.

0:16:55 > 0:16:58Maybe acquire that jewellery you were thinking of?

0:16:58 > 0:17:01I must look at your favourite one.

0:17:01 > 0:17:02Is it a reasonable price?

0:17:02 > 0:17:05- £200 is very reasonable.- Ahh...

0:17:05 > 0:17:06That's too much money.

0:17:07 > 0:17:09Well, it was worth a try. Anything else?

0:17:12 > 0:17:15- Peridot.- Peridot, yeah.- 1910.

0:17:15 > 0:17:18That's a particularly beautiful one.

0:17:18 > 0:17:20- It's lovely.- In original box.

0:17:20 > 0:17:21In original box.

0:17:21 > 0:17:25I think that might be too expensive for me as well.

0:17:25 > 0:17:26£700.

0:17:26 > 0:17:28Blimey!

0:17:28 > 0:17:30I don't even want to look at it!

0:17:30 > 0:17:32Let's be sensible, shall we?

0:17:32 > 0:17:37- I rather like these Agate Brooches. - Yes.

0:17:37 > 0:17:41Favourite sort of items of Queen Victoria and they collected all

0:17:41 > 0:17:45these lovely polished Agate's from the beaches of Bonny Scotland.

0:17:45 > 0:17:47No ticket price, apparently though.

0:17:47 > 0:17:50- These are quite pretty little pieces. - Yes.

0:17:50 > 0:17:52We've got a sterling silver one with,

0:17:52 > 0:17:56- I would say that was Amethyst glass rather than an Amethyst.- Mm-hm.

0:17:56 > 0:17:59My auction estimate on that would be

0:17:59 > 0:18:01- 25 to 35.- Mm-hm.

0:18:01 > 0:18:03Would I be able to buy these for...

0:18:03 > 0:18:06in that region?

0:18:06 > 0:18:09- Each, or both together? - Both together.

0:18:09 > 0:18:13If you just give me a little bit more, I'll go ahead with it.

0:18:13 > 0:18:15Erm, what sort of...?

0:18:15 > 0:18:1735?

0:18:17 > 0:18:19- Could you do them for 30?- Yeah, OK.

0:18:19 > 0:18:22- You do them for 30?- I knew that you were going to say that.

0:18:22 > 0:18:25OK, thank you very much. That's great, that's a deal.

0:18:25 > 0:18:27Off to a flying start.

0:18:27 > 0:18:32The pendant that Javed showed me was priced at 700,

0:18:32 > 0:18:37which is not dear because it was the Rolls-Royce of pendants.

0:18:37 > 0:18:41I was looking at a cheaper example, really.

0:18:41 > 0:18:46It's of the same period, but it's not in gold,

0:18:46 > 0:18:48just a gilt finish on it.

0:18:48 > 0:18:51But it does have the look of it.

0:18:51 > 0:18:55Although not quite an old banger at £50.

0:18:55 > 0:18:57- See, that's quite pretty as well, isn't it?- Very nice.

0:18:57 > 0:18:59You know, I like these lovely Edwardian pendants.

0:18:59 > 0:19:03- These type of pendants are coming back into fashion...- Exactly.

0:19:03 > 0:19:05..and they're doing a bit better.

0:19:05 > 0:19:08I'd like to be able to buy that for 30 though.

0:19:08 > 0:19:11I think £40, that would be my...

0:19:11 > 0:19:14- Would that be your bottom on that? - Yes.

0:19:14 > 0:19:18Could you go to, say, 36?

0:19:18 > 0:19:1940's good.

0:19:19 > 0:19:22I know 40's good.

0:19:22 > 0:19:27Is there any chance of taking even another little bit off of it?

0:19:27 > 0:19:28- 38.- 38.

0:19:28 > 0:19:30- Shall we go for that?- Yes.

0:19:30 > 0:19:32That's wonderful, Javed.

0:19:32 > 0:19:34That's wonderful, thank you so much.

0:19:34 > 0:19:38She's certainly bought jewellery now, for some keen prices, too.

0:19:38 > 0:19:41- 30, 40, 60, 80. - Thank you very much.- That's you.

0:19:41 > 0:19:45And now I have to pay you back £12.

0:19:46 > 0:19:48Is that the till?!

0:19:48 > 0:19:51That's where I keep my change.

0:19:51 > 0:19:53Gives "stocking up" a completely new meaning.

0:19:56 > 0:20:00Now time to find Paul. On the Minor road again.

0:20:00 > 0:20:03It's raining, I don't know where I am.

0:20:04 > 0:20:08Don't worry, you're with me! You are in safe hands, Laidlaw.

0:20:08 > 0:20:10Night, night, then.

0:20:12 > 0:20:15Sure enough, next morning we're heading south.

0:20:15 > 0:20:18We're a long way from home, us two northerners.

0:20:18 > 0:20:22- Yeah, you've no tried to pay with any Scottish money, have you?- No!

0:20:22 > 0:20:23I had somebody look at a fiver,

0:20:23 > 0:20:25he said, "I thought that was foreign currency."

0:20:25 > 0:20:27I said, "It very nearly was."

0:20:27 > 0:20:30Their cash was good yesterday, for sure.

0:20:30 > 0:20:32Anita parting with £100 for some bookends.

0:20:33 > 0:20:38Various items of jewellery - some Scottish - and a frame.

0:20:38 > 0:20:41Put a picture of my boyfriend in there. Or one of my boyfriends.

0:20:41 > 0:20:42One of your boyfriends, yeah.

0:20:42 > 0:20:47Leaving her just over £186 available for today.

0:20:47 > 0:20:50While Paul picked up three little silver items,

0:20:50 > 0:20:54and a cast-iron dish, with a possible Darwinian theme.

0:20:54 > 0:20:57Two chimps under a tree.

0:20:57 > 0:20:58That lot cost £105,

0:20:58 > 0:21:03which means he has a little bit more from the £150 to spend.

0:21:03 > 0:21:06You want that item that'll just tip the whole thing,

0:21:06 > 0:21:11and you can blow a kiss to me as you surge ahead.

0:21:11 > 0:21:14I won't even be able to see you in the rear view mirror.

0:21:14 > 0:21:17Later, they'll be heading for a Norfolk auction

0:21:17 > 0:21:19at Diss, but our first stop is in the

0:21:19 > 0:21:22Northamptonshire town of Oundle.

0:21:23 > 0:21:25- Good luck, Paul!- See you later.

0:21:27 > 0:21:29Where it's said, at the age of 21,

0:21:29 > 0:21:31Billy Bragg wrote A New England.

0:21:33 > 0:21:36- How you doing? I'm Paul. - I'm Vicky, nice to meet you.

0:21:36 > 0:21:38It is good to see you, Vicky. Great to be here.

0:21:38 > 0:21:41- What a pretty little town this is! - Isn't it cute?

0:21:41 > 0:21:43Cute shop too, Vicky.

0:21:43 > 0:21:45Proper antiques.

0:21:45 > 0:21:48That clock's ticking away - it's like Mr Pipkin's shop.

0:21:48 > 0:21:50You'll be too young to remember that.

0:21:50 > 0:21:54Paul's good start yesterday means he can afford to be choosey here.

0:21:54 > 0:21:56I had lots of monkeys yesterday.

0:21:56 > 0:21:59I'll no buy some more, but they're good fun, those.

0:21:59 > 0:22:03- They're quite menacing little chaps those, aren't they?- They are.

0:22:03 > 0:22:06They're monkeys. That still leaves quite a lot.

0:22:06 > 0:22:11- May I see the sweetheart brooch there, please?- Of course.

0:22:11 > 0:22:14I'm getting old, my poor eyes aren't what they were, I'll tell you.

0:22:14 > 0:22:18I'll be reading books like that...

0:22:18 > 0:22:21- It's the Seal of Gibraltar. - Is that what it is?

0:22:21 > 0:22:24And it's 1916, but other than that...

0:22:24 > 0:22:28- Those are the arms of Gibraltar. - Yep.

0:22:28 > 0:22:30Also a good place to find monkeys, by the way.

0:22:30 > 0:22:35Simply a little touristy souvenir - of no mean quality.

0:22:35 > 0:22:37I mean, that is really lovely work.

0:22:37 > 0:22:40Whether it was sent home by somebody serving in Gibraltar...

0:22:40 > 0:22:42That's what it is, isn't it? Without a shadow of a doubt.

0:22:42 > 0:22:46- What have you got on there, out of interest?- Um, £30 on that.

0:22:46 > 0:22:49Cutting to the chase, is there slack in the price of that?

0:22:49 > 0:22:53Uh, I could do it for 25?

0:22:53 > 0:22:56Let's hold that thought. Thank you!

0:22:56 > 0:22:59- You're welcome.- Here, we're off and running, are we not?

0:22:59 > 0:23:02We certainly are. And those could be useful.

0:23:02 > 0:23:05I'm really toying with the idea of trying period specs,

0:23:05 > 0:23:09because I fear - as I've suggested - I need new specs.

0:23:09 > 0:23:11And I'm seeing all these hipsters and so on with, you know,

0:23:11 > 0:23:15old horn-rimmed specs, looking like Dr Crippen, and I'm quite envious.

0:23:15 > 0:23:17Not of the Crippen look,

0:23:17 > 0:23:20but I've got such a massive bonce, my problem is,

0:23:20 > 0:23:22they look like tiny, little...

0:23:22 > 0:23:25- That's not going to work, is it? I'm going to go cross-eyed.- Scary.

0:23:25 > 0:23:30So, vintage specs are out too. I'm not sure he needs them though.

0:23:30 > 0:23:34- That looks like Arab script on that, doesn't it?- It is.- Is it?- Yes.

0:23:35 > 0:23:37How interesting.

0:23:37 > 0:23:39Ah, it's a marching compass.

0:23:39 > 0:23:43The rose is all described in Islamic characters.

0:23:43 > 0:23:45That'll no be dear, surely? 50...

0:23:45 > 0:23:48- Do you want me to make you an offer? - You can try.

0:23:48 > 0:23:50I'll take a cheeky little punt at 20 quid

0:23:50 > 0:23:53to relieve you of an Islamic compass.

0:23:53 > 0:23:56Shall we go half, and go 25?

0:23:56 > 0:23:59- No... - THEY LAUGH

0:23:59 > 0:24:04That compass, I think, was manufactured in Germany.

0:24:04 > 0:24:08Because I've seen very close variations on this format

0:24:08 > 0:24:12issued to the Wehrmacht, and German military forces.

0:24:12 > 0:24:15An ally of the Germans in the Great War

0:24:15 > 0:24:18was the Ottomans - modern Turkey.

0:24:18 > 0:24:24There's just a possibility that this is Ottoman Turkish army issue.

0:24:24 > 0:24:26A fairly big assumption, Paul.

0:24:26 > 0:24:28There's a lot of wishful thinking in here.

0:24:28 > 0:24:32It is smothered in wishful thinking.

0:24:32 > 0:24:37If I'm unlucky, it's just a compass made for sale to North Africa,

0:24:37 > 0:24:39or Turkey, or wherever.

0:24:39 > 0:24:41And I suspect that's a niche market.

0:24:41 > 0:24:43THEY LAUGH

0:24:43 > 0:24:48- Can we do a deal? - I can do a deal at 22.

0:24:48 > 0:24:50You're quite right, you can.

0:24:50 > 0:24:52Loving your work, Vicky, that's grand.

0:24:52 > 0:24:55Only you could come into a classy antique shop

0:24:55 > 0:24:58and turn up some obscure militaria, Paul.

0:24:58 > 0:24:59That's for you.

0:24:59 > 0:25:02- Thank you very much.- Vicky, what a pleasure. Lovely to see you.

0:25:02 > 0:25:05- Very nice to meet you. - Likewise. Thank you!

0:25:05 > 0:25:07But while Paul's been enjoying Oundle...

0:25:10 > 0:25:12..Anita's motored on.

0:25:12 > 0:25:13Making her way

0:25:13 > 0:25:14to Cambridgeshire,

0:25:14 > 0:25:16and Helpston.

0:25:16 > 0:25:18The birthplace of one of Britain's greatest,

0:25:18 > 0:25:21and yet most neglected, poets.

0:25:21 > 0:25:26- Hi, I'm Anita.- Hi, I'm David. Welcome to John Clare Cottage.

0:25:26 > 0:25:31John Clare was born into a farm-labouring family in 1793.

0:25:31 > 0:25:35At that time, this little cottage was shared by five households.

0:25:35 > 0:25:36During his schooldays -

0:25:36 > 0:25:39often interrupted by the need to help his parents scratch a living -

0:25:39 > 0:25:42the young man fell in love with the beautiful countryside

0:25:42 > 0:25:43around his village.

0:25:43 > 0:25:46A friend of his showed him James Thomson - a Scottish poet -

0:25:46 > 0:25:48a book called The Seasons.

0:25:48 > 0:25:51And he had to have a copy, so he walks to Stamford, buys a copy...

0:25:51 > 0:25:54- How old was he?- He is 13.

0:25:54 > 0:25:57The story goes that he's walking back from Stamford,

0:25:57 > 0:26:01he jumps over the wall at Burghley, which is just along the road.

0:26:01 > 0:26:04Reads it from cover to cover, and here he sees

0:26:04 > 0:26:07a vehicle by which he can express the joy that the wildlife gives him.

0:26:07 > 0:26:11And he writes his first poem, The Morning Walk.

0:26:11 > 0:26:14Clare's understanding of nature extended far beyond

0:26:14 > 0:26:18that of other romantic poets, like Wordsworth or Blake.

0:26:18 > 0:26:22He writes about the countryside from first-hand knowledge.

0:26:22 > 0:26:25If he describes you a bird's nest, it's a specific bird's nest,

0:26:25 > 0:26:27a sky lark, a bluetit.

0:26:27 > 0:26:31He's writing about the countryside from living on it.

0:26:31 > 0:26:33But the landscape was changing fast.

0:26:33 > 0:26:37The Inclosure Acts of the early 19th century meant landowners

0:26:37 > 0:26:41were able to fence in what had once been common land.

0:26:41 > 0:26:44Around Helpston, trees were felled and streams diverted,

0:26:44 > 0:26:47as the landscape became commercialised.

0:26:48 > 0:26:53- Did that mean he couldn't wander as a free person?- Oh, very much so.

0:26:53 > 0:26:57Keep out signs came up, fences came up - and it really hurt him.

0:26:57 > 0:27:00And it hurt a lot of people, because all of a sudden they've

0:27:00 > 0:27:04no longer got access to common land for fuel, or to graze their cows.

0:27:04 > 0:27:08And it gave him a great inspiration for some of the anger in his poems.

0:27:08 > 0:27:12Clare's first collection was published in 1820, and with his work

0:27:12 > 0:27:16briefly outselling Keats, the poet made a journey to the capital.

0:27:16 > 0:27:23So, he was celebrated in London, and accepted by the literary circle?

0:27:23 > 0:27:26He met people like Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt - and it's while he

0:27:26 > 0:27:29was down there he got the title of the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet.

0:27:29 > 0:27:31This is a reprint that we have.

0:27:31 > 0:27:33And this is one of the first poems that he wrote?

0:27:33 > 0:27:36- This is one of his early poems. - Can I recite?- Yes.

0:27:36 > 0:27:39This is called Helpston.

0:27:39 > 0:27:42'Hail, humble Helpston

0:27:42 > 0:27:46'Where thy valleys spread, and thy mean village lifts its lowly head

0:27:46 > 0:27:50'Unknown to grandeur, and unknown to fame... '

0:27:51 > 0:27:54Back at home, Clare, now with a family of his own to support,

0:27:54 > 0:27:57was torn between two very different worlds.

0:27:57 > 0:28:01A published poet, who still worked the land.

0:28:01 > 0:28:03Fame came at a cost

0:28:03 > 0:28:05because people didn't believe

0:28:05 > 0:28:09that such poems came from such a lowly person.

0:28:09 > 0:28:14And they'd come and view him, to see whether it really was the case.

0:28:14 > 0:28:16Almost like a freak show.

0:28:16 > 0:28:18Soon, his health began to suffer,

0:28:18 > 0:28:22and Clare endured long bouts of mental illness.

0:28:22 > 0:28:23But he continued to write,

0:28:23 > 0:28:28until ending his days, at the age of 70, in an asylum.

0:28:28 > 0:28:31John Clare, we don't see his name along with

0:28:31 > 0:28:34the other great poets of that time.

0:28:34 > 0:28:37Unfortunately, Clare is not part of an education curriculum.

0:28:37 > 0:28:40He's still very relevant. A number of years ago,

0:28:40 > 0:28:43they were going to start selling off the forests, the woodlands.

0:28:43 > 0:28:45And an MP started quoting Clare

0:28:45 > 0:28:48when they were debating that in the House of Commons.

0:28:48 > 0:28:50So his poetry is still relevant today.

0:28:54 > 0:28:57Now, what about that Paul Laidlaw?

0:28:57 > 0:29:00Never adverse to an antiques shop,

0:29:00 > 0:29:01he's made his way through

0:29:01 > 0:29:04the Lincolnshire Fens to Long Sutton,

0:29:04 > 0:29:06where, in the 18th century,

0:29:06 > 0:29:09highwayman Dick Turpin hid for a short while,

0:29:09 > 0:29:12under the alias of Mr John Palmer.

0:29:14 > 0:29:17Beats muzak any day.

0:29:17 > 0:29:19I'm still hungry to spend money.

0:29:21 > 0:29:23Bear with me.

0:29:23 > 0:29:26This is a huge establishment, and Paul being Paul,

0:29:26 > 0:29:29there's a long and rigorous search taking place.

0:29:30 > 0:29:34Firefighting material isn't something I am any authority on.

0:29:34 > 0:29:38However, instantaneously recognisable as an early

0:29:38 > 0:29:4220th century firefighter's helmet. Continental.

0:29:42 > 0:29:45British never wore anything quite like this.

0:29:45 > 0:29:47C, Z, H, J...

0:29:47 > 0:29:49Sounds Czech, then.

0:29:49 > 0:29:51And it's got a label, and it tells us, BRNO.

0:29:51 > 0:29:56Now is that pronounced "broon"? That's in Czechoslovakia.

0:29:56 > 0:29:57Thought so.

0:29:57 > 0:30:00Now in the Czech Republic. South of Prague, don't you know?

0:30:00 > 0:30:03An inter-war Czech firefighter's helmet.

0:30:05 > 0:30:07Find me another one of those, I dare you.

0:30:07 > 0:30:10The ticket price is £75.

0:30:10 > 0:30:13Do I love it? Does it set my passions alight?

0:30:13 > 0:30:15No, it does not.

0:30:15 > 0:30:17But it shows you what you can find,

0:30:17 > 0:30:20perched atop a standard lamp, in a place like this.

0:30:20 > 0:30:21The search goes on.

0:30:23 > 0:30:25As Anita manoeuvres the Morris

0:30:25 > 0:30:29towards the Cambridgeshire Fens, and Wisbech.

0:30:29 > 0:30:31The town is on the river Nene,

0:30:31 > 0:30:34with some very nice Georgian architecture.

0:30:36 > 0:30:38And some winding staircases.

0:30:38 > 0:30:41I think that this is a primitive washing machine.

0:30:41 > 0:30:47And you stick this in your tub, and you rotate it like that.

0:30:47 > 0:30:49And I think you'd have to rotate it

0:30:49 > 0:30:52for a long, long time to get your clothes clean.

0:30:52 > 0:30:54Yes, it's called a washing dolly.

0:30:54 > 0:30:55Oh, we've seen some mysteries today.

0:30:55 > 0:30:58And that's one of the joys of our industry -

0:30:58 > 0:31:02you're continually thinking, "What's that for?"

0:31:02 > 0:31:04Meanwhile, in Long Sutton,

0:31:04 > 0:31:07Paul's found something we could all do with.

0:31:07 > 0:31:09Rather stylish tea for one.

0:31:09 > 0:31:16You're getting - teapot, cream, sugar pot, teacup, saucer.

0:31:16 > 0:31:20And what does that cry out? Yeah, that's Art Deco.

0:31:20 > 0:31:22The geometry is what it's all about.

0:31:22 > 0:31:27The reason I really like it is a £10 price tag. Can you believe that?

0:31:27 > 0:31:29No. What's the catch?

0:31:29 > 0:31:32This is very well modelled.

0:31:32 > 0:31:35The gilding, on the other hand, is awful.

0:31:35 > 0:31:40You can see the brushstrokes, it's clumsy, it does not follow the lines

0:31:40 > 0:31:44of the modelling - I don't think that's how it left the factory.

0:31:44 > 0:31:46Someone went at that with gold paint.

0:31:46 > 0:31:48Now we ask ourselves, "Why would you do that?"

0:31:48 > 0:31:51Well, you would do it to cover up a crack, would you not?

0:31:51 > 0:31:54And there we have it - cream jug cracked.

0:31:54 > 0:31:57What a crying shame.

0:31:57 > 0:31:59Ugh! Foiled again.

0:31:59 > 0:32:01Back in Wisbech, Anita's on the scent.

0:32:01 > 0:32:03This is a rather sweet thing.

0:32:03 > 0:32:08It's a bit of a girlie thing, but, well, what's wrong with that?

0:32:08 > 0:32:12It's a little green glass perfume bottle.

0:32:12 > 0:32:15And the perfume is lavender,

0:32:15 > 0:32:21and it's made by the Crown Perfumery Company in London.

0:32:24 > 0:32:25Oft!

0:32:25 > 0:32:28Oh, dear. Wrong pong?

0:32:28 > 0:32:30That is definitely not lavender.

0:32:30 > 0:32:32So this is quite a nice wee thing.

0:32:32 > 0:32:34We have the bottle, I like the green glass.

0:32:34 > 0:32:40I like the fact that we have the original label intact,

0:32:40 > 0:32:43and it has a lot of charm.

0:32:43 > 0:32:47Ticket price £22. And what's that beside it?

0:32:47 > 0:32:49There's another little piece of silver here,

0:32:49 > 0:32:53it's sterling silver, and if we look at the base,

0:32:53 > 0:32:56we can see it has a title.

0:32:56 > 0:32:58La Pierre.

0:32:58 > 0:33:02It has a bit of charm. I think it's too big to be an eggcup,

0:33:02 > 0:33:04unless it's an extra-large eggcup.

0:33:06 > 0:33:10Duck egg, eh? That's marked up at £20. Time for a word with Richard.

0:33:10 > 0:33:15I picked up these two little things, and I thought that they were quite

0:33:15 > 0:33:19a feminine thing, but I was wondering if you could give me

0:33:19 > 0:33:23a drop-dead deal on both of them?

0:33:27 > 0:33:28Well, as you probably already know,

0:33:28 > 0:33:31the price reflects they're not in perfect condition.

0:33:31 > 0:33:32They're not dear.

0:33:32 > 0:33:36To you, a special deal - £15 the two.

0:33:36 > 0:33:38Richard, put it there.

0:33:38 > 0:33:40Thank you very much.

0:33:40 > 0:33:44From £42 down to £15. Yes, that's definitely what she was after.

0:33:44 > 0:33:46Thank you very much, Richard.

0:33:46 > 0:33:48I'll take my treasures and depart.

0:33:52 > 0:33:56So, with our shopping complete, let's have a look at their buys.

0:33:56 > 0:34:01Paul, having spent a canny £127 on a perpetual desk calendar,

0:34:01 > 0:34:03a dish,

0:34:03 > 0:34:04a photo frame,

0:34:04 > 0:34:05a compass,

0:34:05 > 0:34:07and a pillbox.

0:34:07 > 0:34:10While Anita parted with an even cannier £115 for

0:34:10 > 0:34:12a perfume bottle

0:34:12 > 0:34:14and a silver cup,

0:34:14 > 0:34:15plus some bookends,

0:34:15 > 0:34:17a wooden frame,

0:34:17 > 0:34:18a pendant,

0:34:18 > 0:34:20and two Scottish brooches.

0:34:20 > 0:34:22So, what did they make of all that?

0:34:22 > 0:34:26Glass toiletry jar with the silver top, and the little silver cup.

0:34:26 > 0:34:29Well, I don't know how she did it. That's just genius.

0:34:29 > 0:34:33Those three little silver pieces are just divine.

0:34:33 > 0:34:38And I can see them in a lovely little silver collector's bijouterie cabinet.

0:34:38 > 0:34:41I not only need to win the auction, I need to win it well,

0:34:41 > 0:34:43because I've got to overtake her.

0:34:43 > 0:34:45Well, I don't HAVE to.

0:34:45 > 0:34:47But I'd really like to.

0:34:47 > 0:34:48After setting off from Navenby,

0:34:48 > 0:34:51in Lincolnshire, our experts are now

0:34:51 > 0:34:53heading for a Norfolk auction at Diss.

0:34:53 > 0:34:56It's lovely being in East Anglia.

0:34:56 > 0:34:57I love the flatness of it.

0:34:57 > 0:35:01- I love the big, big, big skies. - Yeah.

0:35:01 > 0:35:05- Well, we're not used to that, being northerners.- No.

0:35:05 > 0:35:08We're not used to this weather either, to be honest with you.

0:35:08 > 0:35:12It's market day in Diss too. Busy, busy!

0:35:12 > 0:35:14Ah, this is so exciting!

0:35:14 > 0:35:15Oh, lovely, isn't it?

0:35:15 > 0:35:17Are you going to make up that 20 quid?

0:35:17 > 0:35:20- If there's a god in heaven. - Let's go!

0:35:20 > 0:35:22Our auction director, Elizabeth Talbot,

0:35:22 > 0:35:26thinks Anita's Chicago hotel souvenirs might do very well.

0:35:26 > 0:35:28The Stevens bookends, I like these very much.

0:35:28 > 0:35:30It's a very posh place to stay.

0:35:30 > 0:35:32But it also has a lot of scandal in its history -

0:35:32 > 0:35:36there were some murders, there was some suicides and a robbery.

0:35:36 > 0:35:37I have high hopes for these.

0:35:37 > 0:35:40The Darwinian dish - it's a simple little piece which is quirky and fun,

0:35:40 > 0:35:43but I don't think this is going to make a lot of money.

0:35:44 > 0:35:48Mixed reviews then, with the scandalous bookends to start us off.

0:35:48 > 0:35:51I heard a couple of American accents outside.

0:35:51 > 0:35:53So maybe there's a couple that have

0:35:53 > 0:35:56- flown over from Chicago to buy these. - That's what it'll be.

0:35:56 > 0:35:58Yeah, that's what it'll be(!)

0:35:58 > 0:35:59I start here at £22.

0:35:59 > 0:36:02- Yes!- Tenner already. - £22, I have.

0:36:02 > 0:36:04Where's 25? 28.

0:36:04 > 0:36:0630, 2.

0:36:06 > 0:36:0835, 38.

0:36:08 > 0:36:09Oh, go on.

0:36:09 > 0:36:11Ha-ha, yeah, go on!

0:36:11 > 0:36:13I think they've made enough profit.

0:36:13 > 0:36:15Ah, don't give me that. 38, I have.

0:36:15 > 0:36:1740, new bidder. 42.

0:36:17 > 0:36:1945, 48.

0:36:19 > 0:36:21Where's 50?

0:36:21 > 0:36:2250, new bidder. 55, I have.

0:36:22 > 0:36:24Oh, there's a lot of competition.

0:36:24 > 0:36:25Right, at 60, I'm out.

0:36:25 > 0:36:28At £60 bid, surely worth more?

0:36:28 > 0:36:2965.

0:36:29 > 0:36:3270. At £70, all done?

0:36:33 > 0:36:34Yes.

0:36:34 > 0:36:38Well, those attracted appropriately high-rise profits.

0:36:38 > 0:36:40- I'm happy with that. - Och, do you reckon?

0:36:40 > 0:36:44Now for Paul's monkey business. Will they buy into his theory though?

0:36:44 > 0:36:47I start here at £10.

0:36:47 > 0:36:48At £10 bid, where's 12?

0:36:48 > 0:36:5112, the lady, 15, I have.

0:36:51 > 0:36:5318 bid, 20 got.

0:36:53 > 0:36:5522 now, the lady standing at 22.

0:36:55 > 0:36:5625, the gentleman.

0:36:56 > 0:36:5928. 30. 2.

0:36:59 > 0:37:0135. Are you sure?

0:37:01 > 0:37:04At 35 now, looking for 8.

0:37:04 > 0:37:0738, the lady. 40, the gentleman.

0:37:07 > 0:37:08Are you sure?

0:37:08 > 0:37:11Are you sure you're sure? 40's the gentleman.

0:37:11 > 0:37:14Any advance on 40?

0:37:14 > 0:37:17- Well, that's all right. A wee bit. - Not bad, not bad at all.

0:37:17 > 0:37:18Pretty good, really.

0:37:19 > 0:37:22Next, it's Anita's mahogany frame.

0:37:22 > 0:37:25£20. Little frame there at £20, surely?

0:37:25 > 0:37:26Ah, come on.

0:37:26 > 0:37:2810, I'll take.

0:37:28 > 0:37:3010, the lady bid, thank you. 10, I have.

0:37:30 > 0:37:3212, is gallery. 15.

0:37:32 > 0:37:3618. What a pretty little frame for £18. Where's 20?

0:37:36 > 0:37:38Bid, new bidder. 22.

0:37:38 > 0:37:3925.

0:37:39 > 0:37:4128.

0:37:41 > 0:37:4328, looking for 30.

0:37:43 > 0:37:46A frame there for 28. All done?

0:37:46 > 0:37:47Oh, well.

0:37:47 > 0:37:49More profits, Anita.

0:37:49 > 0:37:52Closely followed by the first of Paul's little silver collection.

0:37:52 > 0:37:57It shows us the soft side of Paul Laidlaw. I've got you blushing again.

0:37:57 > 0:37:58It's marshmallow in here.

0:37:58 > 0:38:01And I start at £28.

0:38:01 > 0:38:04That's a charming piece at 28, don't sit on your hands at 28.

0:38:04 > 0:38:06If we stop at 28, you'll let me know...

0:38:06 > 0:38:07Yeah, we're away.

0:38:07 > 0:38:1032 here. 35, 38.

0:38:10 > 0:38:12Commission bids are in at 38, where's 40?

0:38:12 > 0:38:16Are you all done? A last chance at £38.

0:38:16 > 0:38:18- 40, new bidder in the gallery. - Yes, yes, yes.

0:38:18 > 0:38:1940 in the gallery.

0:38:19 > 0:38:21God bless the gallery.

0:38:21 > 0:38:24Anyone else can join in. At £40, all done?

0:38:26 > 0:38:29- £40?- You've doubled your money. - Doubled my money.

0:38:29 > 0:38:32Yes, much more of that and he'll be at your heels.

0:38:32 > 0:38:35What can your perfume bottle and cup lot do?

0:38:35 > 0:38:37If I get my money back, I'll be happy, I suppose.

0:38:37 > 0:38:40I'll be happy, if you just get your money back. I'll be happy.

0:38:40 > 0:38:41Now, now.

0:38:41 > 0:38:44And I start here at just £18. £18?

0:38:44 > 0:38:46- Did she say 80?- 18.

0:38:46 > 0:38:48Don't say that, I could faint.

0:38:48 > 0:38:51I have 18, and 20. 22.

0:38:51 > 0:38:5325, 28.

0:38:53 > 0:38:55Where's 30? 30 bid, 32.

0:38:55 > 0:38:56Oh, yes! Lovely!

0:38:56 > 0:38:58- 35, 38.- Yes!

0:38:58 > 0:39:02Still with me at 38, commission interest shown at 38, where's 40?

0:39:02 > 0:39:0340, the hand. 42.

0:39:03 > 0:39:05Is there any advance on 42?

0:39:07 > 0:39:09Just about tripled your money with that.

0:39:09 > 0:39:11He said through gritted teeth.

0:39:11 > 0:39:14Time for Paul's silver calendar.

0:39:14 > 0:39:17And I start at £18. Very low start for 18, now where's 20?

0:39:17 > 0:39:19- Beautiful little start. - Come on, come on, come on!

0:39:19 > 0:39:2122. 25, 28.

0:39:21 > 0:39:2230, by the fire. I'm out.

0:39:22 > 0:39:24- 32, new bidder. - Ah, we're away again.

0:39:24 > 0:39:2635. 38.

0:39:26 > 0:39:2840...2.

0:39:28 > 0:39:29Where's the 5?

0:39:29 > 0:39:32Any advance on £42?

0:39:32 > 0:39:34- 45, just in time. - 45!- Oh, stunner.

0:39:34 > 0:39:3548, well done.

0:39:35 > 0:39:3750? 50 bid.

0:39:37 > 0:39:38Are you sure, sir?

0:39:38 > 0:39:4150's the nearer bid, at me at 50. Where's 5?

0:39:41 > 0:39:42- 55, well done.- Yes, yes!

0:39:42 > 0:39:44You might say 60?

0:39:44 > 0:39:46At 55, all done?

0:39:47 > 0:39:48That's good.

0:39:48 > 0:39:52That hot competition's really boosted Paul's profits.

0:39:52 > 0:39:55Any Scottish brooch fans out there, I wonder?

0:39:55 > 0:39:58I'm selling two Scottish brooches in Norfolk.

0:39:58 > 0:40:01There'll be Scots here. There are Scots everywhere.

0:40:01 > 0:40:03- Are there? - Everywhere.

0:40:03 > 0:40:07And I start at £12. £12 bid, where's 15?

0:40:07 > 0:40:0915, 18. 22.

0:40:09 > 0:40:1125, 28, 32.

0:40:11 > 0:40:1435, 38, 42.

0:40:14 > 0:40:16With me at 42 now, looking for 5.

0:40:16 > 0:40:20At the 42, that's two brooches, 45 is bid, I'm out.

0:40:20 > 0:40:2245 is now the lady standing ahead of me, at 45.

0:40:22 > 0:40:25All done at £45?

0:40:26 > 0:40:27- Yes!- For my mother.

0:40:27 > 0:40:30For your mum? Aw, that's lovely.

0:40:30 > 0:40:34Everyone likes Scottish brooches, it seems. Profits, too.

0:40:34 > 0:40:39Good saleroom. Good auctioneer. Lovely things.

0:40:39 > 0:40:41Pair of chancers.

0:40:41 > 0:40:44Now for Paul's silver pillbox.

0:40:44 > 0:40:45Well, I have 40 on my sheet.

0:40:45 > 0:40:47She's got 40 and she's going for it.

0:40:47 > 0:40:4842, and now I'm out.

0:40:48 > 0:40:49Surely worth more.

0:40:49 > 0:40:5145 is in front. 48.

0:40:51 > 0:40:5450. 5. 60.

0:40:54 > 0:40:55Yes, yes.

0:40:55 > 0:40:5870. Yes, 75 is now gallery.

0:40:58 > 0:40:59Good, good, good.

0:40:59 > 0:41:0180 bid.

0:41:01 > 0:41:04Any advance? We'll sell...

0:41:04 > 0:41:06- Yep.- Happy days! - That's what we wanted.- Bang on.

0:41:06 > 0:41:10Great result, he's catching up again.

0:41:10 > 0:41:12Can Anita's pendant get her out in front?

0:41:12 > 0:41:1450 to start.

0:41:14 > 0:41:15- Lovely.- Come on 50.

0:41:15 > 0:41:17Come on, don't be shy. 50, thank you, sir.

0:41:17 > 0:41:1850, I have, where's five?

0:41:18 > 0:41:1955, gallery.

0:41:19 > 0:41:2160, 5, 70, 5.

0:41:21 > 0:41:23- Yes.- Oh, it's flying.

0:41:23 > 0:41:26This is more like it, 80 downstairs, surely worth more.

0:41:26 > 0:41:30- The lady's out. It's 80 to my right. It will sell.- Fantastic.

0:41:30 > 0:41:3280 has that one, thank you.

0:41:32 > 0:41:34The fight goes on. Anita's back on top.

0:41:34 > 0:41:38It's all down to Paul's unusual bit of militaria.

0:41:38 > 0:41:41- You need two mad collectors. - I always need two mad...

0:41:41 > 0:41:43I live for mad collectors.

0:41:43 > 0:41:45And I start at 25.

0:41:45 > 0:41:47- Right, OK, good start.- I'm winning.

0:41:47 > 0:41:49Surely worth more. 28, gallery. 30 bid.

0:41:49 > 0:41:5232, 35.

0:41:52 > 0:41:53- Yep.- You're away, darling.

0:41:53 > 0:41:55Are you sure, sir?

0:41:55 > 0:41:5740, I have. I'm now looking for 2.

0:41:57 > 0:42:01On the compass at £40, I have 42 by the door, and I'm out.

0:42:01 > 0:42:0342 is now in blue, where's 5?

0:42:03 > 0:42:06- Oh, is there any competition? - On the floor, on the floor.

0:42:06 > 0:42:07At 42?

0:42:08 > 0:42:10- That's all right. - Doubled your money.

0:42:10 > 0:42:13Yes, it's been a very good day, with profits on everything.

0:42:13 > 0:42:19Because of our success, we deserve a nice, wee cup of tea.

0:42:19 > 0:42:21A nice, wee cup of tea it is.

0:42:21 > 0:42:24Quite right. And a garibaldi, eh?

0:42:25 > 0:42:29Paul, who started out with...

0:42:29 > 0:42:33made - after paying auction costs - a profit of £83.74.

0:42:33 > 0:42:36Leaving him with...

0:42:36 > 0:42:38to spend tomorrow.

0:42:40 > 0:42:43While Anita began with...

0:42:43 > 0:42:50And, after paying auction costs, made a profit of £102.30.

0:42:50 > 0:42:55So, she's today's winner, with...

0:42:55 > 0:42:59That's two auctions apiece, by the way. But you're still ahead of me!

0:42:59 > 0:43:03Aye, but only a wee bit! And it's still all to play for!

0:43:04 > 0:43:06It's going to be a bumpy ride!

0:43:06 > 0:43:08On the next Antiques Road Trip...

0:43:08 > 0:43:11It's their final leg, so Anita's getting scary.

0:43:11 > 0:43:13Boo!

0:43:13 > 0:43:15And Paul's on the offensive as well.

0:43:15 > 0:43:17How big a telescope have you got?

0:43:17 > 0:43:19It's Manning I'm looking for!