0:00:02 > 0:00:04It's the nation's favourite antiques experts...
0:00:04 > 0:00:05I don't know what to do.
0:00:05 > 0:00:09..with £200 each, a classic car and a goal -
0:00:09 > 0:00:10to scour Britain for antiques.
0:00:10 > 0:00:12What a little diamond!
0:00:12 > 0:00:17The aim? To make the biggest profit at auction, but it's no mean feat.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19Back in the game, Charlie!
0:00:19 > 0:00:22There'll be worthy winners and valiant losers.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24SHE GASPS
0:00:24 > 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 > 0:00:31- Oh! - This is the Antiques Road Trip!
0:00:34 > 0:00:35Yeah!
0:00:37 > 0:00:41Welcome to a taste of the west, with Charles and Raj.
0:00:41 > 0:00:45Last night, I had a pint of Somerset cider.
0:00:45 > 0:00:48Do you know what I really enjoy? If it's not cider, I love cheese.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50They make a very nice brie in Somerset.
0:00:50 > 0:00:51- Do they really?- Yep.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54Those two gourmands in the Triumph Herald
0:00:54 > 0:00:56are actually here to gobble up bargains.
0:00:56 > 0:01:01This is a treasure island and I just want to dig with you.
0:01:02 > 0:01:06Dig that, Charles Hanson, our auctioneer from Derby,
0:01:06 > 0:01:08antiques expert and Rams fan.
0:01:08 > 0:01:12It's Hanson 1-0 Raj
0:01:12 > 0:01:15Can it be two in Somerset?
0:01:15 > 0:01:17Not if Raj Bisram, our auctioneer from Kent,
0:01:17 > 0:01:19has anything to do with it.
0:01:19 > 0:01:23Antiques expert, llama aficionado, and wizard of the slopes.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26- I was a downhill racer.- Oh, yes?
0:01:26 > 0:01:30Which means that I'm going to go flat out to win.
0:01:30 > 0:01:34Highly competitive between these two and it's only the second leg.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39Raj started out with £200 and he's already made a tidy profit,
0:01:39 > 0:01:42with £259.58 to spend today.
0:01:43 > 0:01:47While Charles, who began with the same sum,
0:01:47 > 0:01:53had done even better, with £317.46 at his disposal.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56Our journey starts out at Corsham, in Wiltshire,
0:01:56 > 0:01:59and takes in most of the south west of England,
0:01:59 > 0:02:02before ending up about 900 miles later at Crewkerne, in Somerset.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05But today, we begin in the Somerset village of Blackford
0:02:05 > 0:02:08and journey south and east towards an auction
0:02:08 > 0:02:11near the Hampshire coast, at Swanmore.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14Located deep in the heart of the Somerset Levels,
0:02:14 > 0:02:18Blackford's premier - and quite possibly only - antiques outlet
0:02:18 > 0:02:21is housed in an old primary school.
0:02:21 > 0:02:22Good morning.
0:02:22 > 0:02:25- Hello.- Hello, good morning. - Good morning, sir. How are you?
0:02:25 > 0:02:28- How are you, sir?- Good to see you. What a wonderful building
0:02:28 > 0:02:33and I'm just greeted by astounding antiques.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Yup, Les does have stock worth shouting about.
0:02:36 > 0:02:40In this cabinet here is some really good blue and white porcelain.
0:02:40 > 0:02:44Now, be careful. Don't drop it, Charles.
0:02:44 > 0:02:46Took the words right out of my mouth.
0:02:46 > 0:02:48But when you're looking for blue and white,
0:02:48 > 0:02:50you're looking for rare Chelsea blue and white,
0:02:50 > 0:02:53you're looking for rare Lowestoft blue and white
0:02:53 > 0:02:58and if you can find the rarer factories in blue and white,
0:02:58 > 0:03:01value can be ten times more than the more bog standard,
0:03:01 > 0:03:04so I'm just having a quick peek in here now.
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Oops!
0:03:06 > 0:03:07Nice...
0:03:07 > 0:03:09Him up there.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11They're lovely.
0:03:11 > 0:03:12Put these...
0:03:12 > 0:03:17- I've got six saucers and matching tea bowls.- No price though.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19- Les.- Yes, Charles.
0:03:19 > 0:03:24If I said to you, pluck a price for six tea bowls and saucers..
0:03:24 > 0:03:26£200.
0:03:26 > 0:03:27Interesting.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29But I don't really want to sell them.
0:03:29 > 0:03:33One more thing I pulled out, this little tea bowl here.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36- That would be Chinese. - I think it probably is.
0:03:36 > 0:03:37How much?
0:03:37 > 0:03:39Could be 40 quid.
0:03:39 > 0:03:41The other piece is a good, early lot.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44- How much is that? - Probably the same price.- 40 quid.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46- Yeah, you could have that the same price.- £40.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49I'm from Derbyshire. Things seem to be more expensive down here.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52- Really?- You're not in Derbyshire now, Charles.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54- Thank you, Les. - Well, I'm working on it.
0:03:54 > 0:03:55I shall think on.
0:03:55 > 0:03:56I think you'd better had, Charles.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59Worth having another look around though.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02What I quite like are these figures down here.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05You've got him and her, they're still together.
0:04:05 > 0:04:10And these are modelled by James Hadley,
0:04:10 > 0:04:13who was a very important modeller at Royal Worcester.
0:04:13 > 0:04:16- Les?- Yes?- Only a quickie.
0:04:16 > 0:04:20I'm really impressed with your Hadley his and her ladies.
0:04:20 > 0:04:25- How much are they for the pair? - £100.- £100, and between friends?
0:04:25 > 0:04:26110.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29- CHARLES LAUGHS - Plus VAT.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31I like those.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33Time to take another peek at the old china.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35I might just ask Les
0:04:35 > 0:04:39if I could get a bit off because he's come straight in at £200.
0:04:39 > 0:04:44Next door to these are also these bits of broken Chinese porcelain.
0:04:44 > 0:04:49What I might do is use this pile as a bargaining tool
0:04:49 > 0:04:53to perhaps buy two lots.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55Round two.
0:04:55 > 0:04:59Could you do me anything on these bits of broken Chinese bits here?
0:04:59 > 0:05:01225 and you can take the lot.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05- Oh, dear.- I tell you what, 200 quid.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07- For the whole lot? - Yeah. How about that?
0:05:07 > 0:05:12The break would be something like 180 for that lot there
0:05:12 > 0:05:15- and £20 there.- I would think that would be reasonably accurate.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17You know you're going to.
0:05:18 > 0:05:22- Yeah, I will. Thank you very much. Thank you, Les.- I've been done.
0:05:22 > 0:05:23I'm not so sure, Les.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26They're certainly a big gamble for Charles,
0:05:26 > 0:05:28not that he seems too worried.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34But while all that excitement's been taking place,
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Raj has had a more leisurely start,
0:05:36 > 0:05:39making his way towards the village of Nether Stowey,
0:05:39 > 0:05:42where he's come to visit one of the most cherished places
0:05:42 > 0:05:45in the history of English Romantic poetry -
0:05:45 > 0:05:46Coleridge's cottage.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48- Hello, Stephen. - Hello, nice to meet you.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51Nice to meet you. I'm Raj. What a lovely place.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53The Devon-born critic and philosopher
0:05:53 > 0:05:56Samuel Taylor Coleridge had just been discharged
0:05:56 > 0:05:58from the Royal Dragoons
0:05:58 > 0:06:02and was editing a failing journal when a meeting changed his life.
0:06:02 > 0:06:03Everything turned around
0:06:03 > 0:06:06when he met William Wordsworth in Bristol in 1795
0:06:06 > 0:06:09and it was that point that the two of them
0:06:09 > 0:06:12realised there was something that each of them had,
0:06:12 > 0:06:15a spark of genius, and that was a hugely profound moment
0:06:15 > 0:06:20for both of them and they became friends from that moment onwards.
0:06:20 > 0:06:24Coleridge soon decided to leave Bristol
0:06:24 > 0:06:25and live in nature,
0:06:25 > 0:06:29moving his family to this cottage in the foothills of the Quantocks.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31He took long walks in the countryside
0:06:31 > 0:06:36and wrote works like The Nightingale and This Lime-tree Bower my Prison.
0:06:36 > 0:06:38The Romantic poetry period
0:06:38 > 0:06:41is not about, sort of, Mills & Boon romantic love.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44It's much, much more about our connection to nature,
0:06:44 > 0:06:46how it makes us feel,
0:06:46 > 0:06:48and that's what he wanted to start writing about,
0:06:48 > 0:06:50in a language that people understood
0:06:50 > 0:06:53because all the poetry that went before was quite complex,
0:06:53 > 0:06:55the way it was structured,
0:06:55 > 0:06:57and this was just in the language of ordinary men.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01So, Stephen, most of his famous work originates from here, the cottage.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04Yes, Frost At Midnight, which is one of his better-known poems,
0:07:04 > 0:07:09was written in this parlour, 1798, in February,
0:07:09 > 0:07:11and it's absolutely silent
0:07:11 > 0:07:13and the only thing that he could hear
0:07:13 > 0:07:16was the fire, the flame, this sole and quiet thing.
0:07:16 > 0:07:20His son, Hartley, was lying next to him in his cot here,
0:07:20 > 0:07:23and it was one of his most famous poems.
0:07:23 > 0:07:27These conversational poems were a great influence on Wordsworth
0:07:27 > 0:07:29and soon, he moved close by.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31Together, they caused quite a stir.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34They used to go out at night. From their point of view,
0:07:34 > 0:07:37that was experiencing nature at a different time of day.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40But from the point of view of the village,
0:07:40 > 0:07:42they were a bit suspicious because at the time,
0:07:42 > 0:07:46the French Revolution was going on, they just thought, "Are they spies?"
0:07:46 > 0:07:48And they believed that they were mapping the area
0:07:48 > 0:07:49- for the French to invade.- Really?
0:07:49 > 0:07:52Someone from the Foreign Office was sent here.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55Fortunately, they realised they were just poets and that was it,
0:07:55 > 0:07:57- that was the end it. - Bit crazy.- Yeah, yeah.
0:07:57 > 0:08:02The two poets published in 1798 a work which was
0:08:02 > 0:08:04a landmark of the English Romantic age.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06This is the Lyrical Ballads.
0:08:06 > 0:08:07It's a first edition,
0:08:07 > 0:08:10and although it looks tiny and quite insignificant,
0:08:10 > 0:08:13in terms of English literature, it's huge.
0:08:13 > 0:08:18One of Coleridge's contributions, The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner,
0:08:18 > 0:08:23became so famous that a particular phrase entered the language.
0:08:23 > 0:08:28"Day after day, day after day, we stuck nor breath nor motion
0:08:28 > 0:08:32"As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean
0:08:32 > 0:08:36"Water, water everywhere and all the boards did shrink
0:08:36 > 0:08:40"Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink."
0:08:40 > 0:08:43Coleridge spent just three years in Nether Stowey
0:08:43 > 0:08:47and although subsequently his collaborator became Poet Laureate,
0:08:47 > 0:08:50Coleridge fared less well.
0:08:50 > 0:08:54He developed an addiction to the laudanum he'd been prescribed
0:08:54 > 0:08:56and then quarrelled with Wordsworth.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58He continued to write, however,
0:08:58 > 0:09:02and was encouraged by Byron to publish Kubla Khan.
0:09:02 > 0:09:06Coleridge died in London in 1834, aged 61.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08I think when people talk about Wordsworth,
0:09:08 > 0:09:11it's very rarely that you won't hear the name Coleridge
0:09:11 > 0:09:12in the same sentence.
0:09:12 > 0:09:17The two of them are always linked. It's Coleridge's work that endures.
0:09:17 > 0:09:22His poetry that was written here is still remembered today.
0:09:22 > 0:09:27I suppose his legacy is that he was one of the crucial voices
0:09:27 > 0:09:30of the Romantic poetry movement in this country.
0:09:32 > 0:09:35Now, back on the lonesome road,
0:09:35 > 0:09:37our two travellers are together again.
0:09:37 > 0:09:39Raj has on good authority
0:09:39 > 0:09:42that there may be a bargain around here somewhere.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45- Don't be long. - No, I'll try not to be too long.
0:09:45 > 0:09:47I've got shopping to do.
0:09:47 > 0:09:50Not sure Brian's workshop would be Charles' sort of thing anyway.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52Wowee! Look at this!
0:09:52 > 0:09:54I'd like to sell this, but I can't.
0:09:54 > 0:09:58Well, to be honest, it's a little on the big side for me.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00This is the only one in the world.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03- It's the only one in the world?- Yes. - And what exactly is it?
0:10:03 > 0:10:06It's a portable steam engine, motive power,
0:10:06 > 0:10:08made by Paxman's of Colchester.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11- Amazing. - I have been, in my collections,
0:10:11 > 0:10:12gathering little bits for years
0:10:12 > 0:10:15and I've got a little steam boiler,
0:10:15 > 0:10:18which will be very attractive to the right people.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21- If you wanted it, I'd sell it cheap. - Yeah?- Yeah.
0:10:21 > 0:10:24To be honest, I haven't got a clue what it's worth.
0:10:24 > 0:10:28What are we talking about? A tenner? Could I buy it for a tenner?
0:10:28 > 0:10:29A little bit more than a tenner
0:10:29 > 0:10:32and I expect you could get 150, 200 for it.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35What about £20 and I'll just take a chance?
0:10:35 > 0:10:38- Done.- We have a deal. - Good man.- Thank you very much.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41- So, it's a vertical... - A vertical steam boiler.
0:10:41 > 0:10:45- How old is it?- Oh, there you are. There's no maker's plate,
0:10:45 > 0:10:48but I would say it's got to be 100 years old.
0:10:48 > 0:10:50Well, at least it's an antique then.
0:10:50 > 0:10:52- Charles?- Raj.- Close your eyes.
0:10:52 > 0:10:57Are you being serious? I can hear something jangling in the back.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59- Raj?- Keep your eyes closed. - What's going in the boot?
0:10:59 > 0:11:01There's a fair weight in there.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03Yeah, mind the back axel.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05- Thank you very much. - Point to Raj, I reckon.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07Yeah, just pump it a bit.
0:11:07 > 0:11:11Pump it a bit? I tell you what I am going to pump in a minute!
0:11:12 > 0:11:14That little encounter took place
0:11:14 > 0:11:17just outside the Somerset town of Somerton,
0:11:17 > 0:11:20which is the next stop for Charles.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24- Good morning.- Good morning. - Sorry, afternoon. I beg your pardon.
0:11:24 > 0:11:27- No problem.- And your name is? - I'm Paul.- Paul, Charles Hanson.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29Pleased to meet you, my friend.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32Now, Charles got off to a runaway start earlier,
0:11:32 > 0:11:35so what, we wonder, will his tactics be here?
0:11:35 > 0:11:37I quite like... Is it for sale?
0:11:37 > 0:11:41I think maybe you're using it in your shop, this lucky dip bin?
0:11:41 > 0:11:44- It could be.- Could it be for sale? - It could be.- What could it be?
0:11:44 > 0:11:471960s? '80s? '70s?
0:11:47 > 0:11:48Maybe '70s.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51- Was it your era, Paul? The '70s? - Yes!
0:11:51 > 0:11:52There we go, there we go.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55I'm normally very much into my antiques, Paul.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58An antique, by definition, needs to be 100 years old.
0:11:58 > 0:12:04This isn't, but to me, it radiates a period, it radiates a style,
0:12:04 > 0:12:06and almost for me, it's a yesteryear object
0:12:06 > 0:12:09- that takes you back to your childhood.- Yes.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11What's the best price?
0:12:11 > 0:12:13- Between mates.- Ooh...
0:12:13 > 0:12:15£70? And you get the free gifts?
0:12:15 > 0:12:20I might give the gifts a miss. I could then almost have £40 off?
0:12:23 > 0:12:24- £30 off.- Really?
0:12:24 > 0:12:27- What's his name, by the way? He's got a name?- No.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30- No name.- You can name him. - I might call him Charlie.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33So, £40, and on the shortlist.
0:12:33 > 0:12:37And elsewhere in Somerton, Raj is on the prowl.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40Raj, nice to see you. Welcome to Market Cross Antiques.
0:12:40 > 0:12:41Hello, Andrew. Nice to meet you.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44- Lovely-looking shop you've got here.- Oh, thank you.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46Oh, yeah. No seaside clowns though.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48Ah, well. I'm sure he'll find something.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50There's a nautical cookery book here.
0:12:50 > 0:12:51It's a lovely little thing.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53I've never seen a nautical cookery book before.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56This dates from about 1920, 1930.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59It's an unusual little piece.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02Stewed oysters or clams, with white wine sauce.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04So they didn't eat too badly, did they?
0:13:04 > 0:13:06It's got £20 on the ticket.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09I might be pushing it, but if I get this for a fiver,
0:13:09 > 0:13:11I think I might do quite well on this.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14I'm beginning to think that everything I buy is a fiver.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16You're not alone there, Raj.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19How's the lucky dip going on?
0:13:19 > 0:13:24Over here, we've got this almost magical figure on a carpet,
0:13:24 > 0:13:27which appears to be a little eastern cobbler, isn't he?
0:13:27 > 0:13:31- Yes, he is.- Priced at £85, Paul. What would be the best on him?
0:13:31 > 0:13:33- 50? - 50, yeah, you see? You're good.
0:13:33 > 0:13:35Not everyone's cup of tea,
0:13:35 > 0:13:39but he was designed by the famous CJ Noake,
0:13:39 > 0:13:41plus, when it comes to Royal Doulton,
0:13:41 > 0:13:43there's always a guide price to help out.
0:13:43 > 0:13:47So, there he is. Here, his retail price is £275.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50It's a good price. Food for thought.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53So, the cobbler versus the clown.
0:13:53 > 0:13:56It's like an episode of Batman in here.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00Holy knick-knacks! He's already got plenty to ponder.
0:14:00 > 0:14:06- If I did buy and took a risk and bought the Doulton cobbler...- Yep.
0:14:06 > 0:14:12..and bought the clown, what would be your best prices, to an old mate?
0:14:12 > 0:14:15- £80 the pair.- Oh, dear.
0:14:16 > 0:14:18What do I really want to do?
0:14:18 > 0:14:21- Your absolute bottom is...?- 70.
0:14:21 > 0:14:22That's it.
0:14:22 > 0:14:25Getting tense. Time for a spot of Somerset air.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27It's a difficult decision.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30I've got to think about my big find, my Worcester,
0:14:30 > 0:14:34and how I put those in the sale, but these two objects,
0:14:34 > 0:14:36if the price if right, if they can come down a bit,
0:14:36 > 0:14:39I might take the two and then work it out later.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42Gird your loins then.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46- Is there anything you could do on the £70?- Aw...
0:14:46 > 0:14:48Erm...
0:14:48 > 0:14:52- We'll go down to 60. That's a good price.- Yeah.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55But I just wonder if I could perhaps acquire them both for £25 each.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57- Put your hand there.- Thanks a lot. - Thank you, sir.
0:14:57 > 0:15:01- Deal done.- £50 for the two, they got there.
0:15:01 > 0:15:04Now, I wonder what Raj has unearthed.
0:15:04 > 0:15:09I've spotted a pair of watercolours by a listed artist.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12This is by, I believe it's Abraham Hulk.
0:15:12 > 0:15:15It could be either Hulk Senior or Junior.
0:15:15 > 0:15:18Incredibly, there were a whole dynasty of 19th century
0:15:18 > 0:15:22Anglo-Dutch painters of maritime scenes.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24The price for the two is £110.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29I'm going to really chance my arm on these.
0:15:29 > 0:15:31Time to pipe Andrew aboard.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34I quite like these. They're very nice and decorative.
0:15:34 > 0:15:38- And the auction that they're going to is on the coast.- Perfect.
0:15:38 > 0:15:42- So I think they might be perfect and they've been well framed.- Yeah.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45- But I'm going to be cheeky. - OK.- OK?- Cheek away.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49- I mean, would you take £20 for them? - Yeah, go on, as it's you.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53- Really?- Yeah. - Really?- You've got yourself a deal.
0:15:53 > 0:15:55- Really?- Yeah.
0:15:55 > 0:15:57- Shake his hand then. - Now, I feel bad.
0:15:57 > 0:15:58You want to give me some more as well.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01Well, I was going to go higher, but I tell you what I'll do,
0:16:01 > 0:16:03I'm going to be fair. I'm going to give you 25 for them.
0:16:03 > 0:16:0525, we've got ourselves a deal.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08- Well, that is a first. - I've seen something else then.
0:16:08 > 0:16:11- While I'm on a roll, yeah. - We're on a roll now, aren't we?
0:16:11 > 0:16:13- Can I show you this? - Yeah, course you can.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16- Yeah, it's just a nice little nautical cookery book.- Yeah.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19- Can I offer you a fiver for that? - I can go and make a phone call.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21- Would you?- And find out for you, yeah.- Brilliant.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24I can't believe I got the pictures for £25.
0:16:24 > 0:16:27- They've got to do well. - Raj.- Yes, Andrew.
0:16:27 > 0:16:31I've given the dealer a phone call and the best she can do is ten quid.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34- I've got to squeeze you on this one. - OK, mate.- Eight?
0:16:34 > 0:16:36- Yeah, go on then.- Yeah? - Yeah.- We've got a deal.
0:16:36 > 0:16:38- Thanks very much.- That's all right.
0:16:38 > 0:16:41While you're here, is there anything else nautical that you can think of?
0:16:41 > 0:16:44I'll take a bit of a look around and see what if I can find something.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47You never know. It would be nice if there was something to go with it.
0:16:47 > 0:16:52- Make a bit of a job lot up. - More?! He can't stop buying today!
0:16:52 > 0:16:56I was just thinking, there's a nice flag here. Got a bit of age to it.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59St George's flag. Could be a naval flag.
0:16:59 > 0:17:02It's the sort of size that they use, the naval signalling flags.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04Yeah, that might go perfectly with the book.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06- Can I make you an offer? - Course you can.
0:17:06 > 0:17:07Will you take a fiver for it?
0:17:07 > 0:17:09Yeah. Go on, I'll take a fiver for that.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11So, Raj now has his watercolours
0:17:11 > 0:17:14and another nautical lot of the cookbook and the flag.
0:17:14 > 0:17:18I think he's been inspired by The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20I don't think there's any great age to this,
0:17:20 > 0:17:23but it's just a pretty little sloop.
0:17:23 > 0:17:25I mean, I should think this is as modern as anything.
0:17:25 > 0:17:28A sloop, from the Dutch sloep,
0:17:28 > 0:17:31is a sailing boat with a single mast.
0:17:31 > 0:17:32The ticket price is £24.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35If I can get this for a tenner,
0:17:35 > 0:17:38it'll just give some more oomph to the lot I've got.
0:17:38 > 0:17:39Or sink it.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42- Andrew, this naval lot... - This is growing now.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45It's growing into a convoy. OK?
0:17:45 > 0:17:48- This sloop here...- Oh, the sloop. - What about a tenner?
0:17:48 > 0:17:52The absolute death on it is half price, 12.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55- I'm not going to quibble on that. - OK, mate. Thank you very much.
0:17:55 > 0:17:58- Thank you. Thank you very much indeed.- OK, that's good.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02Not a bad haul for £45, Raj.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07And after that shopping frenzy, it's time for some rest.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09Sweet dreams, you two.
0:18:10 > 0:18:14Today is someone's very special day.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17- It's your birthday!- Sure is. - The sun is shining,
0:18:17 > 0:18:20you're antique road tripping with your new best mate
0:18:20 > 0:18:22and it's your birthday.
0:18:22 > 0:18:23How old are you today?
0:18:23 > 0:18:25- Cut! - THEY LAUGH
0:18:25 > 0:18:28Later, they'll be making for an auction in Hampshire at Swanmore,
0:18:28 > 0:18:30but the next stop
0:18:30 > 0:18:32is at Wareham in Dorset.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35I wonder if our birthday boy will find a pressie?
0:18:35 > 0:18:38- Good morning, Jake. - Hi, there, how you going?
0:18:38 > 0:18:40- Very well, thank you. - Nice to meet you.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43Lovely to meet you, too. Very nice little shop you have here.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46Anything you think would be a good little buy for me?
0:18:46 > 0:18:50We've got what I thought was a Chinese or Japanese cup there.
0:18:50 > 0:18:52We did have an Oriental expert look at it,
0:18:52 > 0:18:54and she actually said it was English.
0:18:54 > 0:18:58The ticket price is £49. He's after blue and white as well.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01- Yeah, it's a 19th century copy, isn't it?- Yeah.
0:19:01 > 0:19:03But it's unusual to have these marks on the bottom.
0:19:03 > 0:19:07If I was going to put money on it, I would have said it was Japanese.
0:19:07 > 0:19:08What could you do it for?
0:19:08 > 0:19:12Um...to give you a chance, I could definitely come down to 20 for you.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14£20, you say?
0:19:14 > 0:19:16Yeah, I reckon you'd have a chance at that.
0:19:18 > 0:19:20- We've got a deal.- All right, brilliant.- Thanks very much.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22- Thanks very much indeed.- Cheers.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24It could create a buzz at the auction.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26I think Charles has similar hopes, Raj.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28What else do they have?
0:19:28 > 0:19:32It's not that old. It's definitely a sort of turn-of-the-century one.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35I would say this is probably early 1900s.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38What have we got on there, 29?
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Certainly come down to 20 for you.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43To be honest, I'd rather be paying more about ten.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45How about meeting in the middle at 15?
0:19:45 > 0:19:48I think there's definitely a profit in this, Jake, with that at 15.
0:19:48 > 0:19:50There's no doubt about it. The thing is,
0:19:50 > 0:19:53- I don't know if you know, but I'm up against Charles Hanson.- Ha-ha!
0:19:53 > 0:19:57I suppose Charles ought to be flattered by such tactics.
0:19:57 > 0:19:58All right, then, to give you a chance,
0:19:58 > 0:20:00I'll do it for a tenner.
0:20:00 > 0:20:02How can I turn down a chess set for £10?
0:20:02 > 0:20:04There is actually a wooden board down there.
0:20:04 > 0:20:06It doesn't actually belong to the chess set,
0:20:06 > 0:20:09but it might be...something that you could look at.
0:20:09 > 0:20:12That's not a bad board.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Can you do that for a tenner?
0:20:14 > 0:20:15- Yeah, I'll throw it in.- Will you?
0:20:15 > 0:20:19- Yeah.- Fantastic.- All right.- Great.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22So, £20 for those, and £20 for the cup and saucer.
0:20:22 > 0:20:23- £40.- Brilliant.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25Lovely. Thanks again.
0:20:25 > 0:20:29He's got quite a pile now.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Now, fortunately for our two,
0:20:31 > 0:20:32Wareham's a convenient distance
0:20:32 > 0:20:34from the Hampshire town of Ringwood
0:20:34 > 0:20:36where they'll be enjoying
0:20:36 > 0:20:39one last shop together.
0:20:39 > 0:20:40Oh, dear.
0:20:40 > 0:20:44If you can park up up there, I'll be appreciative.
0:20:45 > 0:20:46Wait for me!
0:20:46 > 0:20:48Lordy.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50He won't let me in.
0:20:50 > 0:20:51Control yourself, please.
0:20:51 > 0:20:53Sorry about that.
0:20:53 > 0:20:56- Now, best behaviour, OK? - Best behaviour.
0:20:56 > 0:20:58Hello, I'm Carol Miller. Hello.
0:20:58 > 0:20:59How do you do? Nice to meet you. I'm Raj.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02Which way are we going?
0:21:02 > 0:21:03Oh, hello, Charles.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Sorry, Charles!
0:21:05 > 0:21:08We can hardly blame them for getting a little bit over-excited.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10It's a very nice shop, after all,
0:21:10 > 0:21:12with a bit of French influence here and there.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14You like oysters, don't you?
0:21:14 > 0:21:16Well, I don't, but my husband does, yes.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18Because I've noticed that, in all the rooms,
0:21:18 > 0:21:20there's these beautiful oyster dishes.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23Yes, that's quite a nice one, that oyster plate.
0:21:23 > 0:21:24That's quite nice.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26That's French.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29Dating it, I would say between sort of 1890-1910?
0:21:29 > 0:21:32Yes, that's about right, yeah. Difficult to tell exactly.
0:21:32 > 0:21:33Lovely colours, as well.
0:21:33 > 0:21:37They are good colours and that one's in good condition, too.
0:21:37 > 0:21:38How much can you do this for?
0:21:38 > 0:21:40Really, it's marked 65...
0:21:41 > 0:21:4345.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45That's a good deal for it today.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47Could you do it a little bit less?
0:21:47 > 0:21:49What do you mean by "a little bit less"?
0:21:51 > 0:21:52It's not going to be a tenner.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54Has she seen him in action, then?
0:21:54 > 0:21:56Would you do £30?
0:21:56 > 0:21:58Oh, I don't know that I could do 30.
0:21:59 > 0:22:01I'll do 35, just to be... Just to be nice.
0:22:01 > 0:22:0335? Are you sure you're happy with that?
0:22:03 > 0:22:07- Yes, yes.- In that case, definitely, we have a deal at 35.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09- Thank you very much indeed, Carol. - Thank you very much.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Now, what's Charles up to?
0:22:11 > 0:22:15Quite like this lamp over here now.
0:22:15 > 0:22:18It jumps out because it's probably eastern.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21- Mm-hm. - If we lift it up very carefully...
0:22:22 > 0:22:24..without damaging the...
0:22:24 > 0:22:27- Oops! Ooh! - Oh...
0:22:27 > 0:22:28Without damaging the shade!
0:22:28 > 0:22:31Oh, dear. Maybe I'll put it on there for safekeeping.
0:22:31 > 0:22:38It is a very nice Japanese bronze vase.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40I'm so sorry, but it isn't for sale.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42She wouldn't be open to an offer at all?
0:22:42 > 0:22:44- Not at all.- Oh, what a shame.
0:22:44 > 0:22:48That is unfortunate, although his rival may not see it that way.
0:22:48 > 0:22:49Are you bought up already?
0:22:49 > 0:22:52- I think I might have done. - Being serious?- I'm serious.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54OK, well, the world's my oyster.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Funny you should say that!
0:22:56 > 0:23:00Quite! Now, Charles hasn't actually added to his purchases here,
0:23:00 > 0:23:03so let's have a look at what they'll be taking to the auction.
0:23:03 > 0:23:07Raj parted with £145 for a steam boiler,
0:23:07 > 0:23:10a flag, a sloop, and a cookbook,
0:23:10 > 0:23:12some watercolours,
0:23:12 > 0:23:13a cup and saucer,
0:23:13 > 0:23:15a chess set and board,
0:23:15 > 0:23:18and finally an oyster dish,
0:23:18 > 0:23:21while Charles spent £250 on a clown,
0:23:21 > 0:23:23a Doulton figurine,
0:23:23 > 0:23:24some oriental tea bowls
0:23:24 > 0:23:26and six Worcester tea bowls
0:23:26 > 0:23:29that he's dividing into three lots of two. Get it?
0:23:29 > 0:23:31So what did they make of each other's buys?
0:23:31 > 0:23:34There's no doubt about it that Charles has a reputation
0:23:34 > 0:23:36for being a bit of a clown.
0:23:36 > 0:23:38I do like the 18th/19th century-style
0:23:38 > 0:23:40tea bowl and saucer.
0:23:40 > 0:23:42In fact, it's more like 1920s.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45Full of Eastern promise, I doubt.
0:23:45 > 0:23:49Ha! After setting off from Blackford in Somerset, our experts are now
0:23:49 > 0:23:53heading for an auction close to Swanmore on the Hampshire coast.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56Welcome to this fine Edwardian pumphouse,
0:23:56 > 0:23:58now converted to a quite different use.
0:23:58 > 0:24:01Our auctioneer today is Dominic Foster.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04So, boiler time for Raj.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Heavy enough, but how hot can it be?
0:24:06 > 0:24:10- I've got 40, 50 and I've got 60... - No!
0:24:10 > 0:24:13- ..reserved, 62 there is.- Well done. - 65 anywhere?
0:24:13 > 0:24:1565 here. 68?
0:24:15 > 0:24:1670...
0:24:16 > 0:24:18- I can't believe it.- Yes!
0:24:18 > 0:24:20That's £70 here. 72 anywhere?
0:24:20 > 0:24:23- Keep going. Keep going. I need it. - You are...
0:24:23 > 0:24:2478 anywhere?
0:24:24 > 0:24:26Come on!
0:24:26 > 0:24:2975. I'll sell it, then, at £75.
0:24:29 > 0:24:31Give me a high-five.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Wowee!
0:24:33 > 0:24:35RIVETING result, what?
0:24:35 > 0:24:37Next up, it's Charlie the clown.
0:24:37 > 0:24:39Look at me, son, when I'm talking to you.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42Bids on it here, I've got 40, I've got 45...
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Come on, let's go.
0:24:44 > 0:24:4648 there is. 50. 50 anywhere?
0:24:46 > 0:24:49- 50 there is.- Good man, we're going. We're going.
0:24:49 > 0:24:5155, 58, 60.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53At 58. 60 anywhere?
0:24:53 > 0:24:55Gottle of Geer?!
0:24:55 > 0:24:58- Is it the wrong lot? - 65, sir?
0:24:58 > 0:25:00No, it's definitely yours.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02- 65 anywhere?- Oh, no!
0:25:02 > 0:25:05Sell it at £62, then.
0:25:05 > 0:25:06165.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08Nice profit, Charlie.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11Next, it's Raj's little maritime collection.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14Couple of bids here, 20, 24 here.
0:25:14 > 0:25:16- Well done. Profit.- No?
0:25:16 > 0:25:1826, 28, 30.
0:25:18 > 0:25:212, 34, 36, 38,
0:25:21 > 0:25:25- 40, 2, 44, 46... - Yes, yes...
0:25:25 > 0:25:2748...
0:25:27 > 0:25:2950...
0:25:29 > 0:25:31- You've got a gift, you have. - 2?
0:25:31 > 0:25:36- No, at £50. Sell it at £50, then... - Bit more, bit more.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38- Sold, 50 quid.- Well done, chief.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40Yep, doubled his money.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42How will his Hulks fare?
0:25:42 > 0:25:46Again, a couple of bids here, I've got 40 and 5, £48.
0:25:46 > 0:25:48Wowee, that's good.
0:25:48 > 0:25:5150 anywhere? 50, there is. 2 anywhere?
0:25:51 > 0:25:5252, 55, sir?
0:25:52 > 0:25:58Yes, 55. 58, 60, 2, 65, 68,
0:25:58 > 0:26:0070, 2 anywhere?
0:26:00 > 0:26:02At £70. 2 anywhere?
0:26:02 > 0:26:04Come on, come on.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06Selling them at £70.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08Bought up.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10That's another good profit for Raj.
0:26:12 > 0:26:15Time for Raj's chess gambit.
0:26:15 > 0:26:1735, 38 here? 40 anywhere?
0:26:17 > 0:26:19- Profit.- Good. 38's OK.
0:26:19 > 0:26:2140 anywhere?
0:26:21 > 0:26:2340 there is, 2, 44...
0:26:23 > 0:26:2546 anywhere?
0:26:25 > 0:26:27Sell it, then, at £44.
0:26:29 > 0:26:30I salute you.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Rightly so. Another profit.
0:26:32 > 0:26:35Now, what about Charles' china, part one?
0:26:35 > 0:26:39- I've got 38 and I've got 40 here. - Let's go! Let's go.- 42 anywhere?
0:26:39 > 0:26:4242, there is. 44, 46?
0:26:42 > 0:26:44- 48, 50.- Ooh, Charles.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47..2, 54. 56, 58.
0:26:48 > 0:26:5060, anywhere?
0:26:50 > 0:26:51Ooh!
0:26:51 > 0:26:53Selling at £58 here. 60, anywhere?
0:26:53 > 0:26:55One more!
0:26:55 > 0:26:57That's £58.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00- That's good.- That's very good.
0:27:00 > 0:27:04Yup, not bad for the makeweights of the deal.
0:27:04 > 0:27:05Time for Raj's blue and white.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07It might not be Ming, but here goes.
0:27:07 > 0:27:1015, I've got 18, 20 is there?
0:27:11 > 0:27:1220 anywhere?
0:27:12 > 0:27:17I've got 2, 24, 24, at 24 here, 26 anywhere?
0:27:17 > 0:27:18That's good.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21Sell it, then, at £24.
0:27:21 > 0:27:24At least it's a profit.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27But how will Charles' big buy fare?
0:27:27 > 0:27:29The first of his three pairs of tea bowls.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31Bids on the book. Yes.
0:27:31 > 0:27:3335, 38 here?
0:27:33 > 0:27:34- I'm in trouble.- 40, where is two?
0:27:34 > 0:27:3944, 46, 48, 50, and 2,
0:27:39 > 0:27:4155, 58, 60, and 2?
0:27:41 > 0:27:42Profit?
0:27:42 > 0:27:4565, 68, at 65?
0:27:45 > 0:27:4668?
0:27:46 > 0:27:5070, and 2, 75, 78,
0:27:50 > 0:27:5180 and 2.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53Charles!
0:27:53 > 0:27:5685, 88, 90?
0:27:57 > 0:28:00No? At £88. 90, anywhere?
0:28:00 > 0:28:05- Two fat ladies, at 88. - Sell them at £88, then.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08But they're still great value. They're still great value.
0:28:08 > 0:28:10More of that and he'll do fine.
0:28:10 > 0:28:11The second lot.
0:28:11 > 0:28:15I've got 50 and I've got £60. 2 anywhere?
0:28:15 > 0:28:2162, 65, 68, 70, 2, 75, 78, 80.
0:28:21 > 0:28:262, 85, 88, 90, at 88?
0:28:26 > 0:28:29Two fat ladies again! It's two fat ladies.
0:28:29 > 0:28:31At £88, then.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33- I've now got four fat ladies.- Yeah.
0:28:33 > 0:28:34Yep, very respectable.
0:28:34 > 0:28:37He's set fair for a big profit if this pair delivers.
0:28:37 > 0:28:40£40 for them, somewhere?
0:28:40 > 0:28:4140 bid, 2 there is. 44, 46, 48?
0:28:42 > 0:28:43We're warming up.
0:28:43 > 0:28:4850, 2, 55, 58, 60, 62?
0:28:48 > 0:28:50Oh, no.
0:28:50 > 0:28:5365, 68, 70?
0:28:54 > 0:28:55No?
0:28:55 > 0:28:57- At £68.- Oh, no!- 70 anywhere?
0:28:58 > 0:29:01At £68, then.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04I didn't make six fat ladies.
0:29:04 > 0:29:08No, I think in bingo, that's called saving grace. Ha! strangely enough.
0:29:08 > 0:29:11Raj's big spend, the oyster dish.
0:29:11 > 0:29:13- 30, 34 here.- Well done, profit.
0:29:13 > 0:29:16- No, no, no, it's not a profit. - Put it there, you've done it.
0:29:16 > 0:29:1936 there is, 38, 40, 2 anywhere?
0:29:19 > 0:29:22At £40 here, 2 anywhere?
0:29:22 > 0:29:25- That's worth more than 40. - You've done it.
0:29:25 > 0:29:27- It's worth more than 40.- Well done.
0:29:27 > 0:29:28Thanks for coming.
0:29:28 > 0:29:31Definitely worth shelling out for!
0:29:31 > 0:29:33Raj is just in front on this auction.
0:29:33 > 0:29:36But it's never over until the cobbler's cobbled.
0:29:36 > 0:29:40Couple of bids with me, 40 and 45?
0:29:40 > 0:29:42- That's good.- Yeah, I'm happy. That's good.
0:29:42 > 0:29:4348, 50 anywhere?
0:29:44 > 0:29:4650 anywhere?
0:29:46 > 0:29:4850 here, and 5, Sir?
0:29:48 > 0:29:5055?
0:29:50 > 0:29:5158 anywhere?
0:29:51 > 0:29:52I'm really pleased.
0:29:52 > 0:29:54Sell it at £55, then.
0:29:55 > 0:29:57All done.
0:29:57 > 0:29:59Profits all round.
0:29:59 > 0:30:01So, who is coming out on top today?
0:30:01 > 0:30:05The competition is sparking, come on. And sparring! Let's go.
0:30:05 > 0:30:09Charles began with £317.46.
0:30:09 > 0:30:14And after paying auction costs he made a profit of £93.58.
0:30:14 > 0:30:20So he still leads overall with £411.04.
0:30:20 > 0:30:21But Raj wins the day.
0:30:21 > 0:30:24Having started out with £259.58
0:30:24 > 0:30:29he made, after paying auction costs, a profit of £103.46,
0:30:29 > 0:30:34leaving him with £363.04 to spend next time.
0:30:34 > 0:30:36Wow.
0:30:36 > 0:30:39With one auction apiece, it's another day and another leg.
0:30:39 > 0:30:42Today we begin in the Dorset town of Dorchester,
0:30:42 > 0:30:45and head west towards an auction in Bridgwater, Somerset.
0:30:45 > 0:30:48But there is plenty of shopping before all that.
0:30:48 > 0:30:52First stop for our battling twosome is the antiques centre.
0:30:52 > 0:30:54- Morning, sir. - Good morning.- How are you?
0:30:54 > 0:30:55- Very well.- Your name is...?- Martin.
0:30:55 > 0:30:58- I've been before, haven't I, Martin? - You have.- Meet my colleague, Raj.
0:30:58 > 0:31:01- Hello, Martin.- Good to see you. - Nice to meet you, too.
0:31:01 > 0:31:03- Nice big place you've got here. - It is.- Thank you.
0:31:03 > 0:31:07Martin can negotiate on behalf of the several dealers
0:31:07 > 0:31:08who own all these items.
0:31:08 > 0:31:10Now, what has Charles got?
0:31:10 > 0:31:13This fork here, almost what appears to be a bread fork,
0:31:13 > 0:31:15or perhaps a toasting fork...
0:31:15 > 0:31:16Or pickles.
0:31:16 > 0:31:19- It almost looks to be like 17th century.- Sure.
0:31:19 > 0:31:23I don't think it is. We've got here, for example, the old...
0:31:23 > 0:31:25- I would say, needlework. - Needlework. Exactly.
0:31:25 > 0:31:28You find some really odd pieces made in bone.
0:31:28 > 0:31:30You never quite know what they are for.
0:31:30 > 0:31:31The ticket price is £10.
0:31:31 > 0:31:33What could it be, £5?
0:31:33 > 0:31:34No, I think it would need to be...
0:31:34 > 0:31:37I think it is worth a little bit more than that.
0:31:37 > 0:31:38I think, £2 apiece, £8.
0:31:38 > 0:31:40Two, four, six, eight.
0:31:40 > 0:31:43Would you do the group for £6?
0:31:43 > 0:31:46Call it seven, and I'll shake your hand.
0:31:46 > 0:31:49For £7, well, I'm off and running.
0:31:49 > 0:31:51- Worth a go.- Yes, worth a go.
0:31:51 > 0:31:55Well, that didn't take too long. Trousers up, I'm off.
0:31:55 > 0:31:58Now, where has that Raj got to?
0:31:58 > 0:32:00I keep being drawn to this area.
0:32:00 > 0:32:03And there is a few things. A nice little nest of drawers.
0:32:03 > 0:32:05There are either called collectors drawers,
0:32:05 > 0:32:06or spice drawers.
0:32:06 > 0:32:08This one is late 19th century.
0:32:08 > 0:32:11They are very, very useful and very, very saleable.
0:32:11 > 0:32:14Because of the little tabs on it, and it is French,
0:32:14 > 0:32:16it looks like it might be an apothecary one.
0:32:16 > 0:32:19It is priced at £175.
0:32:19 > 0:32:25You see, if that could be about £50 or £60... Are we way too off?
0:32:25 > 0:32:30- Highly unlikely. £100, best price. - Yes, not quite enough, is it?
0:32:30 > 0:32:33I wonder whether, if I put a few things together in this section,
0:32:33 > 0:32:35we could then renegotiate?
0:32:35 > 0:32:36You could have a go.
0:32:36 > 0:32:39Have a go? Because there's a few things.
0:32:39 > 0:32:43- Down here there is the three antique brass spoons.- Oh, right, yeah.
0:32:43 > 0:32:46- These three, I quite like those.- No, they are nice.- Yes? A bit different?
0:32:46 > 0:32:50- Sure.- And also, I quite like the Dalton beaker.
0:32:50 > 0:32:52I was just checking to see if the rim is silver
0:32:52 > 0:32:54and it looks like it is,
0:32:54 > 0:32:57so that would be one, two, three different lots, in this section.
0:32:57 > 0:33:01OK. So, ticket price, we've got 175,
0:33:01 > 0:33:0436 on the spoons, 59 on the beaker.
0:33:04 > 0:33:06All right, leave it with me, let me see what I can do for you.
0:33:06 > 0:33:08Would you?
0:33:08 > 0:33:11It looks like he is about to spend a serious amount of money.
0:33:11 > 0:33:13Mainly so he can get his mitts on those drawers.
0:33:13 > 0:33:18- Good news?- Three pieces, 150. Very best I can do, I'm afraid.
0:33:18 > 0:33:21Can I ask you to go back to them one more time, then, OK?
0:33:21 > 0:33:24150, and will they throw that in, as well?
0:33:24 > 0:33:26The wooden bowl? Yes.
0:33:26 > 0:33:29It is very rustic, I can see this in a Somerset farmhouse,
0:33:29 > 0:33:31full of fruit, and it has got £22 on it.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33- Give me a minute.- Yes?- Yes.
0:33:33 > 0:33:36Hang on, chaps, look who's here.
0:33:36 > 0:33:37Sorry, guys. Sorry!
0:33:37 > 0:33:40Yes, give them a moment, Charles.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42I think a deal is in sight at last.
0:33:42 > 0:33:46Give me another fiver, and then we are done. 155.
0:33:46 > 0:33:48155.
0:33:48 > 0:33:50We have a deal.
0:33:50 > 0:33:52- Excellent.- We got there, thank you.
0:33:52 > 0:33:54Big spending from Raj, eh?
0:33:54 > 0:33:56And Charles isn't done, either.
0:33:56 > 0:34:01I love these early sticks. They would date to around 1760.
0:34:01 > 0:34:07And I love them even more because you, today,
0:34:07 > 0:34:10can buy a good pair
0:34:10 > 0:34:15of mid-18th-century gilded brass candlesticks, for £30.
0:34:15 > 0:34:17Hey, Martin. Hi.
0:34:17 > 0:34:21- I love these candlesticks, how much could they be for the pair?- £30?
0:34:21 > 0:34:25- We could probably squeeze to 25, Charles.- They are really nice.
0:34:25 > 0:34:31- Yes, I think they are charming. You wouldn't do 20, would you?- 20?
0:34:31 > 0:34:34- Go on, why not? As the sun is shining today.- Good man.
0:34:34 > 0:34:39Tell me, Martin. This big wooden dish here, has it got some age?
0:34:39 > 0:34:41Erm... I don't think it has got a massive amount of age.
0:34:41 > 0:34:44Oh, dear. Come on, Martin, speak up.
0:34:44 > 0:34:46- It's sold, Charles.- It hasn't!
0:34:46 > 0:34:49- You've just missed out on it. - Oh, no!
0:34:49 > 0:34:51Charles, I would like to step in here at this point.
0:34:51 > 0:34:52Highly embarrassing.
0:34:52 > 0:34:54You bought it? Good man! I love it.
0:34:54 > 0:34:59- Did you really buy it? Really? - Yes, make an offer, make an offer.
0:34:59 > 0:35:03- It's gorgeous.- I'll make a small profit on it.- Get out of here.
0:35:03 > 0:35:08Yeah, let's get out of here. £27 in total.
0:35:08 > 0:35:12But that's enough shopping for a while. Time to travel south,
0:35:12 > 0:35:16to Dorset's Jurassic Coast, and the Isle of Portland...
0:35:16 > 0:35:18Look at that view. Wow!
0:35:18 > 0:35:21..where Charles has come to Portland Bill,
0:35:21 > 0:35:23the southernmost tip of Dorset,
0:35:23 > 0:35:27to visit to the disused Old Higher Lighthouse.
0:35:27 > 0:35:30- How do I get up? - Through the door there.
0:35:30 > 0:35:34Although the lighthouse has now been closed for over a century...
0:35:34 > 0:35:37Crikey! It's a bit steep.
0:35:37 > 0:35:40..Fran Lockyer, the current owner, can tell Charles about
0:35:40 > 0:35:43a controversial earlier resident, Marie Stopes.
0:35:43 > 0:35:48- Pleased to meet you, do have a seat. - What an amazing landscape you have.
0:35:48 > 0:35:49It is, isn't it?
0:35:49 > 0:35:52The Jurassic Coast, with its incredible fossils
0:35:52 > 0:35:54was the reason that Marie Stopes,
0:35:54 > 0:35:57a leading paleobotanist, came here in 1923.
0:35:57 > 0:36:00But her name is justly famed worldwide
0:36:00 > 0:36:03for her work in a different field - family planning.
0:36:03 > 0:36:04How did it all begin?
0:36:04 > 0:36:07How did she get into the whole subject of birth control?
0:36:07 > 0:36:10She worried about women having to have
0:36:10 > 0:36:13so many children that were unplanned.
0:36:13 > 0:36:16And she was very keen to alter that.
0:36:16 > 0:36:18So she went into contraception.
0:36:18 > 0:36:22She gained her popularity in the first instance with books she wrote.
0:36:22 > 0:36:26She wanted them to be cheap, so the poorest people could buy them.
0:36:26 > 0:36:28And that brought her fame,
0:36:28 > 0:36:31until of course the Catholic Church got involved.
0:36:31 > 0:36:34They didn't like what she was doing one little bit.
0:36:34 > 0:36:38Stopes' books, Married Love, and the sequel, Wise Parenthood,
0:36:38 > 0:36:40published around the end of the First World War,
0:36:40 > 0:36:44reflected her belief that there should be equality in marriage.
0:36:44 > 0:36:47Those caused quite a furore, but sold well,
0:36:47 > 0:36:49and were soon reprinted several times.
0:36:51 > 0:36:53Emotion came into it. Caring came into it.
0:36:53 > 0:36:57- How to look after your partner. - Married Love?- Yes.
0:36:57 > 0:36:58An interesting title, isn't it?
0:36:58 > 0:37:01But what's so amazing is the fact
0:37:01 > 0:37:04that she herself was so naive, originally.
0:37:04 > 0:37:08Her first marriage was never consummated and she had it annulled.
0:37:08 > 0:37:11So really, she had no experience of her own at all.
0:37:11 > 0:37:16Just this overwhelming desire to help women with huge families.
0:37:16 > 0:37:19Together with her second husband,
0:37:19 > 0:37:24Stopes opened Britain's very first family planning clinic in 1921.
0:37:24 > 0:37:26Run by midwives and doctors,
0:37:26 > 0:37:29the London clinic offered free advice on contraception.
0:37:29 > 0:37:31So, Fran, even going back to 1900,
0:37:31 > 0:37:35what contraception was there in the Victorian times? Nothing at all?
0:37:35 > 0:37:36You'd be surprised.
0:37:36 > 0:37:39Back in Egyptian times there was a natural sponge,
0:37:39 > 0:37:41that would have been used.
0:37:41 > 0:37:44Lemon juice. Balloons. Children's balloons.
0:37:44 > 0:37:46All manner of strange things.
0:37:46 > 0:37:51The mothers' clinic was soon followed by other Stopes clinics
0:37:51 > 0:37:54which opened in the '30s and '40s against sizeable opposition,
0:37:54 > 0:37:58by which time Marie Stopes had come here to recover
0:37:58 > 0:38:02after defeat at a lengthy libel trial to protect her reputation.
0:38:02 > 0:38:05She spent every penny defending this right.
0:38:05 > 0:38:07Didn't work against her.
0:38:07 > 0:38:11Because the women realised that there was something there for them.
0:38:11 > 0:38:13And they just flocked to the clinics.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15Away from the headlines,
0:38:15 > 0:38:18Stopes restored the old lighthouse and, amongst all the fossils,
0:38:18 > 0:38:21soon rediscovered her love of palaeontology.
0:38:21 > 0:38:27And then she decided that the island should have its own museum.
0:38:27 > 0:38:29- Of fossils?- That's right, yes.
0:38:29 > 0:38:32And she donated this lovely old cottage,
0:38:32 > 0:38:34which was called Avis' cottage,
0:38:34 > 0:38:37- because it is in Thomas Hardy's book.- Wow!
0:38:37 > 0:38:41There is a lovely museum, for the size of the island, it is fantastic.
0:38:41 > 0:38:44- Is it far away?- No, a couple of miles away.- Can I give you a ride...
0:38:44 > 0:38:49- Certainly can.- ..in the Herald? - Will I freeze to death?!
0:38:50 > 0:38:52Marie Stopes became
0:38:52 > 0:38:55the first curator of the Portland Museum in 1930.
0:38:55 > 0:38:57Let's go to this museum.
0:38:57 > 0:39:00Once a rising star of the study of fossil plants
0:39:00 > 0:39:02and the author of influential works,
0:39:02 > 0:39:05Stopes donated several of the artefacts here,
0:39:05 > 0:39:07including a Megalosaurus toe bone.
0:39:07 > 0:39:10Knowing a bit about antiques, of course,
0:39:10 > 0:39:11we know of Portland stone.
0:39:11 > 0:39:13I can see, just around me now,
0:39:13 > 0:39:15some wonderful carved Portland stone -
0:39:15 > 0:39:17even the floor we are standing on.
0:39:17 > 0:39:20Obviously through the quarrying a lot of the fossils got exposed.
0:39:20 > 0:39:23You have got the ammonites, there is a nice one down there.
0:39:23 > 0:39:24I think what she wanted to do
0:39:24 > 0:39:26was bring to the attention of the local people
0:39:26 > 0:39:28what they were actually sitting on.
0:39:28 > 0:39:32The museum part of it, the palaeontology and all that,
0:39:32 > 0:39:34has never made any headlines or anything -
0:39:34 > 0:39:36it has always been the birth control -
0:39:36 > 0:39:39and, really, this needs to be brought out,
0:39:39 > 0:39:41because she was a pioneer in this, as well.
0:39:41 > 0:39:44Yes, what an amazing lady she was,
0:39:44 > 0:39:47and, I think, what an amazing legacy she left Portland.
0:39:51 > 0:39:54Meanwhile, in another part of Portland,
0:39:54 > 0:39:59right next to Chesil Beach, Raj is still combing.
0:39:59 > 0:40:02- Hello there.- Hello.
0:40:02 > 0:40:04- I'm Raj. And you are?- I'm Pete.
0:40:04 > 0:40:06- Pleased to meet you, Raj. - Hello, Pete. Nice to meet you.
0:40:06 > 0:40:09I need something with a nice big profit in it.
0:40:09 > 0:40:11Point me in the right direction. What have you got?
0:40:11 > 0:40:14We've got a lovely old garden plough here. Fantastic.
0:40:14 > 0:40:16What's the best on it, Pete?
0:40:16 > 0:40:18I don't know, think I've got about...
0:40:18 > 0:40:21- The best I could do on it, I should think, is about 35.- OK.
0:40:21 > 0:40:24Not much of a gardener, I fear.
0:40:24 > 0:40:26What's he got down there?
0:40:26 > 0:40:30This is a 19th-century mahogany writing slope.
0:40:30 > 0:40:34And is something that is incredibly out of fashion today.
0:40:34 > 0:40:36But it is not bad condition -
0:40:36 > 0:40:40it has got a little bit of a veneer missing on the front here.
0:40:40 > 0:40:41£30, Pete's got on it.
0:40:41 > 0:40:43About what it is worth.
0:40:43 > 0:40:44Table a bid, Raj.
0:40:44 > 0:40:46It is pretty run-of-the-mill.
0:40:46 > 0:40:49But at the right price, you know, there might be a small profit.
0:40:49 > 0:40:51What's the best you can do on it?
0:40:51 > 0:40:55- Well, I can do 25. - You're a hard man, aren't you?
0:40:55 > 0:40:59You're a hard man. 25? I was hoping you were going to say more like 15.
0:40:59 > 0:41:01You know what I'm going to say now.
0:41:01 > 0:41:04You're going to say 20, aren't you?
0:41:04 > 0:41:07- Yes.- Will you take 18?
0:41:07 > 0:41:12- Go on, then.- We have a deal. Wahey! We got there.
0:41:12 > 0:41:14Another one in the old bag for Raj,
0:41:14 > 0:41:17and time to get back to the Herald,
0:41:17 > 0:41:19and head off into the sunset.
0:41:20 > 0:41:25It's the start of another day for our road-tripping auctioneers.
0:41:25 > 0:41:28The first stop this morning is back in Dorchester,
0:41:28 > 0:41:29at De Danann Antiques.
0:41:29 > 0:41:32- Hello, sir. How are you? - John Merton.
0:41:32 > 0:41:34Charles Hanson, good to see you.
0:41:34 > 0:41:37So, John, what I'm looking for are things which are market fresh.
0:41:37 > 0:41:39But I'm hoping I can be first on.
0:41:39 > 0:41:42- We've just had a new lot come in. - Have you?
0:41:42 > 0:41:44- Yes, cleared a big attic. - You're joking!
0:41:44 > 0:41:47Lots and lots and lots of boxes that haven't been touched since '52.
0:41:47 > 0:41:51- Tell me, not back to 1952?! - Yes, yes, so nobody's seen it.
0:41:51 > 0:41:53- Oh, that's wonderful. - Not for the last 50 years.
0:41:53 > 0:41:56That news has definitely perked him up.
0:41:56 > 0:41:57There we go, it's a bit cheeky.
0:41:57 > 0:42:01I wonder how long it will take him to pick up the scent.
0:42:01 > 0:42:05That's a really good box. It says, Sorrento souvenirs.
0:42:05 > 0:42:08And if you were visiting Sorrento back in the 1890s
0:42:08 > 0:42:10you may have picked up this box.
0:42:10 > 0:42:14What puts me off is the fact that we have got this split here,
0:42:14 > 0:42:16but it is 120 years old.
0:42:16 > 0:42:19Is it priced? Yes it is. £50.
0:42:19 > 0:42:22Could be a mental note for later.
0:42:22 > 0:42:24Right up his street - as is that.
0:42:24 > 0:42:28On one road trip, I was very lucky to try on Henry VIII's armour,
0:42:28 > 0:42:30at the armouries in Leeds.
0:42:30 > 0:42:34This is quite similar, but, of course, this is later.
0:42:34 > 0:42:36This is probably mid-20th century.
0:42:36 > 0:42:38But it is decorative and it is complete,
0:42:38 > 0:42:42and I might just give John a quick call. John?
0:42:42 > 0:42:46- May I just have a word with you? - Yeah.- Tell me about your treasure.
0:42:46 > 0:42:48I don't really know much about it, if you want the truth.
0:42:48 > 0:42:52- It came out of an attic in a big box...- Hold on, from that attic?
0:42:52 > 0:42:57- From the attic, yeah.- Tell me, John, does much more come with this?
0:42:57 > 0:43:00- Just those leggings over there. - A pair of leggings.
0:43:00 > 0:43:03Mind if I bring them over? Did this come all from the same?
0:43:03 > 0:43:07- Yeah, all from the same. - Goodness me, aren't they wonderful?
0:43:08 > 0:43:13- Could the mannequin come with the lot, as well, John?- Yeah, yeah.
0:43:13 > 0:43:17- Could I ask you how much it could be?- As it is you, £40.
0:43:17 > 0:43:18Oh, don't say that.
0:43:18 > 0:43:21Let me go for a walk on, and what I may just do
0:43:21 > 0:43:23is make you an offer if I get
0:43:23 > 0:43:27- a bundle of bits and pieces together.- OK, all right.
0:43:27 > 0:43:29Now for the cabinets.
0:43:29 > 0:43:30These are nice.
0:43:30 > 0:43:33There is a section of the market today which I think is really
0:43:33 > 0:43:35going well - its collector sections.
0:43:35 > 0:43:40And the market also is particularly strong for fountain pens -
0:43:40 > 0:43:44this one is a vintage Conway Stewart pen, of the 1950s - a bit plain.
0:43:44 > 0:43:49- John, tell me, these fountain pens, where do they come from?- The attic.
0:43:49 > 0:43:51- They didn't! Out the same attic? - Out the same attic.
0:43:51 > 0:43:53That motherlode again, eh?
0:43:53 > 0:43:55There is eight pens in total.
0:43:55 > 0:43:58- To an old mate... Look at me.- £60.
0:43:58 > 0:44:01- Look at me, how much?- 40.
0:44:01 > 0:44:03Why did I said that? £40! OK!
0:44:03 > 0:44:06Highly excited. Is there still more?
0:44:06 > 0:44:11- Goodness me, John, this is a dirty buckle.- There you go.- Brilliant.
0:44:11 > 0:44:14If I just rub this hallmark,
0:44:14 > 0:44:17I think we will see what might be lurking.
0:44:17 > 0:44:19There is a date letter, which is an X.
0:44:19 > 0:44:23- The best price on that, John, would be how much?- 45.
0:44:23 > 0:44:27Blimey, if he buys all this it will match Raj's efforts yesterday.
0:44:27 > 0:44:32Just when I came over here, before, this here is a phonograph.
0:44:32 > 0:44:35Which is the forerunner to the record player.
0:44:35 > 0:44:40Within these rolls here, you've got records, which can be played.
0:44:40 > 0:44:46Hey, John. I have just seen this. Edison standard phonograph.
0:44:46 > 0:44:49- It is missing its horn, isn't it?- Yes.
0:44:49 > 0:44:52- Obviously, John, the rolls would come with the phonograph.- Yeah.
0:44:52 > 0:44:56- How much could it be? - £80.- It is just the condition.
0:44:56 > 0:45:00- We are lacking the horn. - I could do it for less.- Could you?
0:45:00 > 0:45:02- What is the best price on that?- 60.
0:45:02 > 0:45:04So, what is the plan, then, Charles?
0:45:04 > 0:45:08Play it safe, but at the same time, go wild.
0:45:08 > 0:45:09Good grief.
0:45:09 > 0:45:12I don't know whether you want to perhaps get a pen and paper out.
0:45:12 > 0:45:15- Yes, I'll do that. - And then we can do some maths.
0:45:15 > 0:45:17- How much?- 240.- Yeah.
0:45:17 > 0:45:19Time for Charles to have a turn.
0:45:19 > 0:45:24- So that's actually...- Yes.- 220.- 180.
0:45:24 > 0:45:26Getting better. Bit more.
0:45:26 > 0:45:31- 170.- Oh, don't! You wouldn't meet me halfway at 160, would you?
0:45:31 > 0:45:35- Yes, go on.- Are you sure? - Yeah.- Sold! 160! Thanks a lot!
0:45:37 > 0:45:38So, he got them all,
0:45:38 > 0:45:42and now has the tricky task of sorting them into lots.
0:45:47 > 0:45:51Meanwhile, back in Dorset, Raj, with just under £200 to spend,
0:45:51 > 0:45:54takes our trip to beautiful Bridport.
0:45:54 > 0:45:56Hello there. Hi, I'm Raj.
0:45:56 > 0:45:59- Hi, Raj. I'm Bill. - Hello, Bill, nice to meet you.
0:45:59 > 0:46:01- Hello, Raj, I'm Francis. - Hello, Francis.
0:46:01 > 0:46:04- What a lovely little shop you have here.- Thank you.
0:46:04 > 0:46:08Raj splashed out yesterday, so has £190 left.
0:46:08 > 0:46:13- I've seen a brass ladle over there.- Oh, yes.
0:46:13 > 0:46:16It is a 19th-century English brass ladle.
0:46:16 > 0:46:20Used for serving soup, sauces.
0:46:20 > 0:46:23If I can get this at the right price this will go with my other spoons.
0:46:23 > 0:46:27I do like this, Bill. It's quite nice, it has got copper rivets.
0:46:27 > 0:46:29It is nicely made, yeah.
0:46:29 > 0:46:31It is nicely made. What's the best you can do on that?
0:46:31 > 0:46:35The best I can do - I'll do that for a fiver for you.
0:46:35 > 0:46:39- Yes, you sure you're happy with that.?- Yes, happy with that.
0:46:39 > 0:46:42- Thank you very much indeed. - Great, thank you.
0:46:42 > 0:46:46Swift, Raj. Anything else catch your eye?
0:46:46 > 0:46:50I know they are not very old, these Regency-style brackets,
0:46:50 > 0:46:54wall brackets, but I do like them - they are sellable.
0:46:54 > 0:46:56That sort of thing - very, very decorative items -
0:46:56 > 0:47:01- there's always a market for them at the right price.- Yes, there is.
0:47:01 > 0:47:03- There is £35 on the ticket. - For the pair.
0:47:03 > 0:47:06For the pair. What could you do them for?
0:47:06 > 0:47:09Oh, I think we could do them for 15.
0:47:09 > 0:47:12- 15?- Yes.- You're happy with that? - You need some help, don't you?
0:47:12 > 0:47:15I do need some help! Believe you me, I need lots of help.
0:47:15 > 0:47:17- Right.- And you're happy with that? - I'm very happy.
0:47:17 > 0:47:20Let's shake hands on it. Thank you very much indeed.
0:47:20 > 0:47:25- £5 for the ladle and 15 for the brackets, £20.- Yes.
0:47:25 > 0:47:27- £20, yep. - I just remembered, actually -
0:47:27 > 0:47:30I know you said you've got spoons.
0:47:30 > 0:47:33We've got this, another spoon that you might be interested in.
0:47:33 > 0:47:36Didn't cost us much and I can throw it in for a couple of quid.
0:47:36 > 0:47:40- You sure?- Yes, yes, absolutely. - Sure you're happy with that?
0:47:40 > 0:47:43I'm happy with that, I think it goes nicely with the other ones.
0:47:43 > 0:47:45I'm not going to say no to that, thank you very much indeed.
0:47:45 > 0:47:47You're welcome.
0:47:47 > 0:47:49£22 for another little pile.
0:47:49 > 0:47:52Where has Raj's rival got to?
0:47:52 > 0:47:55He is heading to Antiques Bazaar in Crewkerne,
0:47:55 > 0:47:59with his remaining £224.
0:47:59 > 0:48:01Careful!
0:48:01 > 0:48:04Oh! Now, walk away, slowly.
0:48:04 > 0:48:07There must be plenty squirreled away in here.
0:48:07 > 0:48:10What really excites me is this dish down here.
0:48:10 > 0:48:14This little octagonal dish is hand-painted in blue,
0:48:14 > 0:48:20but actually it is also gilt outlined. It is not...minging...
0:48:20 > 0:48:23OK, it might be, because it is broken.
0:48:23 > 0:48:25But in fact, this is Ming.
0:48:25 > 0:48:31This is true Ming porcelain. Made pre-1644.
0:48:31 > 0:48:35And it could be yours for 500 pence.
0:48:35 > 0:48:38Astonishing. Almost 400 years old,
0:48:38 > 0:48:41and next door, for just a few more pounds...
0:48:41 > 0:48:45We've got some English Staffordshire porcelain circa 1820,
0:48:45 > 0:48:49some Chinese Qianlong cups from circa 1780,
0:48:49 > 0:48:54some small Kangxi Chinese dishes from 1700,
0:48:54 > 0:48:57and then, almost rolling home,
0:48:57 > 0:49:03we have a Derby dish here, pre-1795.
0:49:03 > 0:49:05They are £12 each.
0:49:05 > 0:49:10And what I am really tempted to do is grab him
0:49:10 > 0:49:13and almost make a bundle of joy
0:49:13 > 0:49:18and put the Ming plates with the two Kangxi dishes
0:49:18 > 0:49:21and the three Qianlong period cups
0:49:21 > 0:49:25and then maybe put the Derby dish in there, as well.
0:49:25 > 0:49:29I think this little lot here has real Eastern promise.
0:49:29 > 0:49:32Is that East Midlands promise? Ha-ha!
0:49:32 > 0:49:34Time to bring in Anthony.
0:49:34 > 0:49:39- I've been digging. Obviously, take a seat.- What have you got here?
0:49:39 > 0:49:44This ensemble just oozes probably 300 years of history.
0:49:44 > 0:49:47So, five, two 12s are 24,
0:49:47 > 0:49:4945, that's £50, isn't it?
0:49:49 > 0:49:51Yeah. I mean, £40?
0:49:51 > 0:49:55Yeah, I was hoping £25.
0:49:55 > 0:50:00- That's like 50%! - Look at me.- Look at you, yes!
0:50:00 > 0:50:05- Haha! 30 quid and it's yours. Yes? - I'm OK. I'll take them.
0:50:05 > 0:50:08- Thank you so much, Anthony. - A deal. Thank you very much.
0:50:08 > 0:50:11Well, he did rather well with a similar assortment last time.
0:50:11 > 0:50:15- Excellent. Seals the deal, thank you.- I've enjoyed it so much.- OK.
0:50:15 > 0:50:18Providing he can get this to auction more or less intact.
0:50:18 > 0:50:20Careful, Charles!
0:50:20 > 0:50:23Time to take a look at what our experts have picked up.
0:50:23 > 0:50:25Charles parted with £217
0:50:25 > 0:50:29for a phonograph, some porcelain,
0:50:29 > 0:50:33some implements, candlesticks, a wooden box,
0:50:33 > 0:50:36some fountain pens, a buckle,
0:50:36 > 0:50:38and a mannequin - in armour. Huh!
0:50:38 > 0:50:41While Raj spent £195
0:50:41 > 0:50:44on some spoons, some ladles,
0:50:44 > 0:50:46a writing slope,
0:50:46 > 0:50:48a beaker, a wooden bowl,
0:50:48 > 0:50:51some spice drawers, and some wall brackets.
0:50:51 > 0:50:54So, what do they make of each other's items? Be honest.
0:50:54 > 0:50:58The knight's costume, what do I call him? Sir Charles Hanson?
0:50:58 > 0:51:00I just hope he gets knocked off his horse on this one.
0:51:00 > 0:51:04I'm seeing more of a heavy spend by Raj,
0:51:04 > 0:51:08and that will make the competition bubble and become quite volatile.
0:51:08 > 0:51:10After setting off from Dorchester, in Dorset,
0:51:10 > 0:51:14our experts are now heading to an auction in Bridgwater,
0:51:14 > 0:51:16on the edge of the Somerset levels.
0:51:16 > 0:51:19At Tamlyns, business is brisk.
0:51:19 > 0:51:22Wielding the gavel today is auctioneer Claire Rawle.
0:51:22 > 0:51:24Is Bridgwater ready?
0:51:24 > 0:51:28First up, Raj's repro Georgian brackets.
0:51:28 > 0:51:31And these, I have to start, away at £30.
0:51:31 > 0:51:34- £30?- Come on.- £30, come along.
0:51:34 > 0:51:37- Yeah!- 32, 35 with me. Can't lose them for that, can you?
0:51:37 > 0:51:4038, they are worth it, they are ever so pretty.
0:51:40 > 0:51:43Absolutely sure? They're going to sell here with me, then, at £35.
0:51:43 > 0:51:46- BANGS GAVEL - That's very good, well played.
0:51:46 > 0:51:48Yes. Doubled your money and more.
0:51:48 > 0:51:51Now for Charles' combination lot of implements and box.
0:51:51 > 0:51:53Can I start this one away at £30 here? £30.
0:51:53 > 0:51:56- Do I see two anywhere, bids coming in at 30?- Come on!
0:51:56 > 0:52:03- At £30 now, at 32. - Come on.- 35? 35.- Go on.- 38.
0:52:03 > 0:52:07Oh, go on, treat yourself! At £38, the lady's bid at 38. Now, 40.
0:52:07 > 0:52:09£40 I have, fresh bidder at 40. Are you sure?
0:52:09 > 0:52:11At 40, I have, straight ahead here.
0:52:11 > 0:52:14At £40 it is going to be, then - are you all done?
0:52:14 > 0:52:16- BANGS GAVEL - 40 it is.
0:52:16 > 0:52:17Another decent profit.
0:52:17 > 0:52:20Followed by the treen they both wanted,
0:52:20 > 0:52:22but Raj came away with.
0:52:22 > 0:52:25And I have to start this one straight in, I've got £12 here, £12.
0:52:25 > 0:52:27Do I see 15 anywhere?
0:52:27 > 0:52:30- At 15, at the back of the room, at 15, now. 18 anywhere?- No, more!
0:52:30 > 0:52:35And 18, 20, 22, 25.
0:52:35 > 0:52:3828, are you sure? At £28 here.
0:52:38 > 0:52:41- It's worth more than that. - 30, anywhere?
0:52:41 > 0:52:45At 28 it's going to be, then, are you all done? It sells, then, at 28.
0:52:45 > 0:52:49- BANGS GAVEL - Good profit! High five!- No way!
0:52:49 > 0:52:51Yes, another profit served up.
0:52:51 > 0:52:53Time for a bit of Victorian high fidelity.
0:52:53 > 0:52:55£50 straight in, please.
0:52:55 > 0:52:58- £50? 50.- No interest. - Start me somewhere.
0:52:58 > 0:53:00- Thank you, 50, I have. - Great, let's go.
0:53:00 > 0:53:05- Do I see five anywhere? Five. 60, either of you. 60.- Go on.
0:53:05 > 0:53:10- Go on!- 65, 70, surely? 70, at £70.
0:53:10 > 0:53:14- Are you all done...? - The needle is on.
0:53:14 > 0:53:16And it's playing sweet music in Somerset.
0:53:16 > 0:53:19- BANGS GAVEL - She worked nicely for you there.
0:53:19 > 0:53:21With its horn it might have done even better.
0:53:21 > 0:53:24What will they make of Raj's Dalton?
0:53:24 > 0:53:2620, surely, to start me. 20.
0:53:26 > 0:53:29- 20, surely.- Come on. - Who is going to start me away, then?
0:53:29 > 0:53:31- MAN: Five? - Five?
0:53:31 > 0:53:35- No, come on. - Eight, at £8. 10, 12.
0:53:35 > 0:53:38- It's moving now.- 15. Are you sure?
0:53:38 > 0:53:42I've got 15, 18. 20. At £20, then.
0:53:42 > 0:53:46You all done? It's going to sell, then, at £20.
0:53:46 > 0:53:47BANGS GAVEL
0:53:47 > 0:53:50- Thank you, sir.- What a bargain. You got a bargain there.
0:53:50 > 0:53:54Now for Charles' slightly chipped porcelain pile.
0:53:54 > 0:53:55Featuring a bit of Ming.
0:53:55 > 0:53:5710. 10 I have from the hand in the back.
0:53:57 > 0:53:59- At £10.- Hold tight.- At 12.
0:53:59 > 0:54:0415, 18, 20. 22, 25, 28.
0:54:04 > 0:54:07No, at £28.
0:54:07 > 0:54:10- At 28, now 30.- Yes, over there.- £30.
0:54:10 > 0:54:14It works, every time you ask for one more, somebody puts their hand up.
0:54:14 > 0:54:17- At £30...- Get it down, he says, get it down!- At £30...
0:54:17 > 0:54:18BANGS GAVEL
0:54:18 > 0:54:20Well done, Mr Hanson.
0:54:21 > 0:54:24After auction costs, that actually results in a bit of a loss.
0:54:24 > 0:54:26Now, Raj's writing slope.
0:54:26 > 0:54:29£10? 10, 12, 15.
0:54:29 > 0:54:33- Here we go.- 18, 20, 22.
0:54:33 > 0:54:36- Oh, my goodness me.- 25. At £25.
0:54:36 > 0:54:38One more, one more, I haven't finished yet.
0:54:38 > 0:54:39- Fresh bidder.- Thank you.
0:54:39 > 0:54:42At 28. Are you all done now? It is going to sell at £28.
0:54:42 > 0:54:46- BANGS GAVEL - Good for you.- Yes.
0:54:46 > 0:54:48We've still only had one loss so far,
0:54:48 > 0:54:51but Raj is not going to catch Charles at this rate.
0:54:51 > 0:54:53Even though he is having second thoughts about these.
0:54:53 > 0:54:55I may have made a mistake with these pens.
0:54:55 > 0:54:57Do you think the writing is on the wall?
0:54:57 > 0:55:00I start straight in, I've got £55.
0:55:00 > 0:55:02- Wow!- Do I see 60 anywhere?
0:55:02 > 0:55:05It is with me here at 55. At 55 for the fountain pens.
0:55:05 > 0:55:07- 60, 65.- Go on.
0:55:07 > 0:55:10No? Bid here with me still, you all are sure in the room?
0:55:10 > 0:55:13It is going to sell with me here at £65.
0:55:13 > 0:55:17BANGS GAVEL No need to worry there, was there?
0:55:17 > 0:55:21Now, can Raj's sponge, plus his bargain ladles, scoop up a profit?
0:55:21 > 0:55:2510? Ten, surely, somewhere. £10 I have.
0:55:25 > 0:55:27At £10 for the nice early spoons.
0:55:27 > 0:55:3112, 15. At 15. You sure?
0:55:31 > 0:55:35- That was short and sweet. - The ladles would have...- 20. At £20.
0:55:35 > 0:55:40- You and your profit!- Are you all done? Going to sell, then, at £20.
0:55:40 > 0:55:43- BANGS GAVEL - Was that a profit?
0:55:43 > 0:55:45No, it's definitely a loss.
0:55:45 > 0:55:49Next it is Charles' slightly odd lot of candlesticks and fork.
0:55:49 > 0:55:52£10, anywhere, for them? Thank you, 10 I have.
0:55:52 > 0:55:54£10, do I see 12 anywhere?
0:55:54 > 0:55:59And 12. 15. 18. 20.
0:55:59 > 0:56:02- At £20, 22, fresh bidder. At 22 here.- I'm at a loss.
0:56:02 > 0:56:06- That's good, they've done well.- At 25, right at the back of the room.
0:56:06 > 0:56:10- You're out now? You're all sure? 25, it's going to be.- That's not bad.
0:56:10 > 0:56:12- BANGS GAVEL - That's not bad.
0:56:12 > 0:56:13That's OK.
0:56:13 > 0:56:14Yes, they just made it.
0:56:14 > 0:56:16But if Raj is going to catch,
0:56:16 > 0:56:19those spice drawers will have to make a pile.
0:56:19 > 0:56:22- I've got a bid of £20 on them. 22, 25, 28.- Here we go.
0:56:22 > 0:56:27- Listen, 35, 38...- 38, 40, 42, 45.
0:56:27 > 0:56:31- 45, 48, 50. 60, 70...- Five, five...
0:56:31 > 0:56:34- You've put me off!- Sorry!
0:56:34 > 0:56:36Shush, Charles!
0:56:36 > 0:56:3965, 70, 5, 80, 5, 90, 5,
0:56:39 > 0:56:43100, 110, 120, 130, 130 here...
0:56:43 > 0:56:45That's amazing. Wow!
0:56:45 > 0:56:49- 140, 150, 160, 170... - Oh, my goodness me.
0:56:49 > 0:56:50170 there. At £170.
0:56:50 > 0:56:53- You all done, you all sure? - One more, one more.
0:56:53 > 0:56:56- 170... - BANGS GAVEL
0:56:56 > 0:56:58Wow! Goodness me!
0:56:58 > 0:56:59Quite a double.
0:56:59 > 0:57:05- That's massive! - Yep! Back in the game, Charlie!
0:57:05 > 0:57:11Raj could win this auction. It all comes down to Charles' final lot.
0:57:11 > 0:57:13Mannequin, armour, and belt buckle.
0:57:13 > 0:57:15Start me straight in, £30, please.
0:57:15 > 0:57:1930, anywhere? Surely, thank you, 30 I have. 32. 35.
0:57:19 > 0:57:20You're away, you're away.
0:57:20 > 0:57:25- 38. 40.- Here we go. 50, 100. - 45. 48. 50.
0:57:25 > 0:57:2855. No, at 55.
0:57:28 > 0:57:31Still the gentleman at 55. 60, fresh bidder.
0:57:31 > 0:57:35- New bidder, there you go.- 65. - Stop worrying.- 70. 75. 80.
0:57:35 > 0:57:38- Two more!- 85.
0:57:38 > 0:57:42- 90.- Oooh!- 95. Go on. Don't miss it for five.
0:57:42 > 0:57:45At 100, see, it's done the trick.
0:57:45 > 0:57:48At 100, going to sell at £100.
0:57:48 > 0:57:50BANGS GAVEL
0:57:50 > 0:57:53Good profit to end the day.
0:57:53 > 0:57:55- After you.- After you.- Go on.
0:57:55 > 0:57:57No, after you.
0:57:57 > 0:57:59Just too polite.
0:57:59 > 0:58:03Raj Started out with £363.04
0:58:03 > 0:58:07and made, after paying auction costs, a profit of £51.82.
0:58:07 > 0:58:11Leaving him with £414.86 to spend next time. Well done.
0:58:13 > 0:58:15Charles began with £411.04.
0:58:15 > 0:58:20After paying auction costs he made a profit of £53.60.
0:58:20 > 0:58:25So, clock this, he won by £1.78, and still leads overall. Ha!
0:58:25 > 0:58:28- Fantastic.- Will our Herald hark?
0:58:28 > 0:58:30- ENGINE REVS - Yes, she will.
0:58:30 > 0:58:33- Here we go! - Here we go, fella!- Wahey!
0:58:33 > 0:58:36Cheerio, chaps.