Episode 18 Antiques Road Trip

The nation's favourite antiques experts, £200 each and one big challenge.

Well, duck, do I buy you, or don't I?

Who can make the most money

buying and selling antiques as they scour the UK?

-Yee hah!

-The aim is trade up

-and hope that each antique turns a profit.

-Ooh!

But it's not as easy as it looks and dreams of glory can end in tatters.

-60.

-Get out of here!

So, will it be the fast lane to success or the slow road to bankruptcy?

I'm going to cry.

This is the Antiques Road Trip.

THEME TUNE ENDS ON JAZZY NOTE

Yeah.

Today, we're back on the antiques hunt with Philip Serrell

-and Jonathan Pratt.

-Another day, another dollar.

And this pair are getting to know each other rather well.

-Where did you grow up, Phil?

-Worcestershire.

-Worcester born, and bred?

Worcester born, Worcester bred,

-strong in the arm, thick in the head!

-LAUGHTER

Jonathan Pratt sometimes has to look long and hard to spot a gem.

-What can I see, eh?

-Ships?

Philip Serrell, however, can spot a good,

and often rather odd buy, in an instant.

How much are they?

And with his canine skill he's slowly but surely

been increasing his original £200 and now has £301.96 in his pocket.

Or should I say piggy?

Jonathan, however, has been on a losing streak

and he only has £150.40 to shop with.

Back on the road in their spiffing 1965 Triumph TR4,

as Jonathan's being somewhat outshone by his rival,

what's his game plan?

I'm going to ignore the fact that I didn't do well in the last auction,

or the one before and I'm going to go in

in my normal haphazard and jovial approach.

Ignorance may not be bliss, Jonathan.

This week's trip sees the chaps travelling 140 miles

from Cockermouth all the way to Wilmslow.

On this leg, they're heading first to the market town of Darlington in the Tees Valley

and eventually on to their auction in Doncaster.

Darlington was originally an Anglo-Saxon village.

The Stockton and Darlington Railway was opened in 1825

and the town is proud to be home of the world's first passenger railway.

And there it is. Ha!

(AS RAILWAY ANNOUNCER) These two passengers are pulling in to their first stop.

Jonathan will alight at Darlington

and Philip will continue on to his first shop.

Mind the gap.

Time for the spending to begin.

-Good morning.

-Good morning, Gordon.

-Jonathan, how are you doing?

-Very well, thank you.

Look at this, isn't is a wonderful place? Jam-packed.

Proving that the antiques business is a small world, unbelievably,

one of the first things Jonathan spots is a rather familiar item.

-That's an interesting table.

-It is a very interesting table, yes.

-JONATHAN CHUCKLES

Who would've thought that the table Jonathan sold in the last auction

for £20 would have ended up in this area shop?

-I could buy it again, couldn't I?

-No, best not, Jonathan!

Used to drive a Mini. Nothing like this, though.

-Sorry, I'm skitting around like a grasshopper.

-Maybe Gordon has got an idea.

-Walk this way.

-Like that?!

Ooh, it's an oak bureau with a price tag of £80.

-Nice little thing here.

-From the 19...yes '20s.

-'20s again.

Nice thing, tidy.

Even has a little...

..inside here we've got the manufacturer's tag in it somewhere.

-What does that say, then?

-If you can read it.

-It's made by Lebus.

-Yeah.

-OK.

-Nice one.

-I've heard of Lebus. They made a lot of desks.

They did a lot of roll-tops. So made by Lebus.

It's all there. Forget the ticket price.

£35 to you today. I'll be disappointed

if you don't double your money on this in that auction.

-I would take it.

-Did you hear that?

-I did!

-JONATHAN CHUCKLES

How about 25, just to really help you out and take it away?

Do 27 and you've got a deal.

Oh, what the heck.

So one deal down.

But Jonathan quickly has his eye on more furniture.

-This is 19 sort of '60s, '70s.

-About '76.

And the style is... I thought was quite fashionable.

-Yet they're sitting here at £49.

-They're beautiful tables.

Would you take £20 for them?

I would like a bit more, but I would like to see them going somewhere.

-Put your hand there. Thank you very much.

-Thank you.

-Two lots bought.

Not bad going, he's now bagged a trio of G Plan tables for £20,

as well as the bureau.

Jonathan's buying is under way and Philip's off to his shop in Yarm.

11 miles east of Darlington.

Yarm began to thrive as a town during the Georgian period,

nestled on the south bank of the River Tees,

it has an old-world charm, with its quaint, cobbled streets and historic buildings -

like the 18th-century town hall.

Let's hope the shops Philip's heading to our as appealing as the town.

-How are you my dear, is it all right if I have a look round?

-Probably a good idea.

That might hit the right note. Could be a squeeze, though! Ha.

This is a squeeze box that was made in London in about, what?

About 1891, something like that.

SCREECHING NOTE

Ooh, that's terrible, isn't it?

Clearly it's not just my ears that are tone deaf.

If you look there, there's a paper label

that gives you the maker's mark.

And this is fret cut and the think you want to look at

when you see this is to make sure there is no damages

to any of the frets, which there doesn't appear to be.

You just open it and squeeze it.

If life were that easy, Sandy.

Clearly, my fingers and thumbs are too fat.

How often do you come across these?

And especially complete with box.

And I can do you little deal on that.

-Sandy, you'll have to do me a fantastic deal.

-Well...

-This has been a long time hasn't it?

-It has.

-So you probably want to get rid of this, don't you?

-I do really, yes.

I do.

How did you know it'd been in a long time?

-Was it the dust?

-No, my love, you've got it originally marked up at 195.

Then you've knocked 70 quid off it

and you might have to knock another 70 quid off it and then who knows?

Philip!

-I'm going to have a look upstairs but hang on to that for me.

-OK.

-Thank you, my love.

Oh, dear.

I like that.

All this is is a little cane picnic hamper.

But I said.. Agh! Cor!

A little cane picnic hamper with a sharp nail sticking out of it!

Gordon Bennett!

I'm going to speak to Sandy and see if I can buy this.

Sandy, have you got your best dealing hat on?

Yes.

I'd like to give you 60 quid for that.

And I'd like to give you 10 quid for that. 70 quid for the two.

How much?!

-Watch my lips.

-My God, she's a strong lady, this one.

-Right.

I was thinking, and I'm really being generous here, 110.

What about if I gave you 80 quid for the two?

90.

-Come on, get your hand out.

-I'll give you 85 for the two. Split difference.

-Go on. Put your hand out.

-Go on, then.

-You're an angel.

-Deal.

-Thank you, my love.

So that works out at £75 for the squeezebox and £10 for the hamper.

Music to everyone's ears.

So the auction's in Doncaster. Doncaster is in Yorkshire.

If I buy Yorkshire produce and put it in there,

some jams and chutneys and cheese.

-That would be unique.

-Off we go.

Sandy, you've been an angel. Love you lots. Speak to you soon.

-And you.

-See you.

-Thank you for everything.

-Thank you, bye-bye.

-Good luck.

-Thank you.

Time for a spot of lunch.

This is my best deal, because I'm really hungry.

-I tell you what, are these lobster pots?

-I believe so, yes.

-Really?

They are made out of cane.

Only Philip could find an item for auction in a chippy.

-Um, how much is fish and chips?

-4.90.

So could I buy fish, chips and a lobster pot is, can I do that?

-How much?

-I'll give you £7.50. Fish, chips and a lobster pot.

-No.

-Go on then, how much?

15 quid?

-How much?

-15.

-No, no, no.

I tell you what, this is my best deal, because I'm really, really hungry.

Fish, chips, and a lobster pot, £10 and there is a "but" coming.

-Mushy peas.

-Mushy peas, as well?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. A tenner.

-£10, yeah, mushy peas.

-You're an angel. Thank you so much.

First prize for the most random catch of the day,

a lobster pot for £5.10.

About the same price as the plaice.

And these have got to be the best fish and chips in the north, haven't they?

-You're an angel, thank you.

-You're welcome.

Gosh, I'm feeling hungry now.

It's really good this is.

He's at it again, but with a full tummy.

Philip is now on a mission to fill his hamper.

# Shopping, shopping, shopping

# When mommy takes me shopping #

I'll have some home-made jam, as well.

That's all right. I wanted to buy some Wensleydale, Gromit. Rambler's chutney.

Yorkshire biscuits. That's got be good stuff.

Now, I wonder if there's a Yorkshire beer? Captain Cook.

-I've got to buy that.

-Yes. It would be rude not to.

I've got to be mean on price. Can I make you an offer for this stuff?

You can have a go.

Are you really haggling in a deli?!

-Will a tenner buy that?

-Go on then, seeing as you've asked so nicely.

-Thank you, bye!

-Bye-bye.

So, with a weird and wonderful combination of buys,

time for the boys to get back on the road.

How did your shop go?

-I did three shops.

-You did how many?

-Three.

How did you manage three?

-Well...

-Hang on a minute. You do three times as many shops as me.

This is a conspiracy. There is going to be further investigation into this!

Little does Jonathan know that only one was actually from an antiques shop.

The boys are now travelling 37 miles east of Yarm

to Whitby in North Yorkshire.

It's a fantastic place. I really like it.

Ah, I'm off to see Captain Cook.

Whitby is famed for being where 18th-century British explorer and voyager Captain James Cook

began his life as an ordinary seaman.

Still dominated by its ancient abbey ruins,

Whitby lies at the mouth of the River Esk.

In Cook's time, the port was a centre for shipbuilding and whaling

and, today, a small fishing industry still exists.

Cook is renowned for charting and mapping the Pacific,

New Zealand and the east coast of Australia.

It was this harbourside house where he started his apprenticeship.

Sophie Forgan, chair of the Trustees of the Captain Cook Memorial Museum,

will take Philip on the journey to this remarkable man.

-Hi.

-Good to meet you.

-I'm Philip. How are you?

-Very well, thanks.

-This is lovely, isn't it?

-Isn't it gorgeous?

-Cook is famous for being an explorer.

-He is.

Like a sort of a latter-day Neil Armstrong, I suppose.

I think that's a good comparison,

because not only did he discover lots of new places,

-he placed them on the map.

-Did he?

-He charted them.

And he charted all sorts of places that had never been charted before,

and he did it so accurately

that they were still using his charts 200 years later.

Time to find out more.

In 1768, the British admiralty wanted to explore unknown territory

and observed the transit of Venus from the Pacific,

which was to be useful for navigation.

They chose Cook to lead the expedition in a Whitby-built ship called the Endeavour.

This was to be his first of three major voyages of discovery across the globe.

-What was Cook's first voyage?

-The first voyage starts in Plymouth.

Yeah.

And they call at Madeira

-and then we swap around to the other side.

-Right.

And they go round Cape Horn and then across the Pacific

until they get to Tahiti.

Then he has secret orders from the Admiralty, which he opens,

and the Admiralty say go and search

for the great undiscovered southern continent,

if there be such a continent, and so he sails south, due south.

Doesn't find anything much,

so he turns westward and they hit New Zealand.

Discovering that it is two islands, not one.

Then they go westward again

and they hit the east coast of Australia,

which no-one had seen before.

How long did it take them when they left to get back again?

The whole voyage was three years.

Cook embarked on a second exploration

and became the first man to sail around the world

in both directions. But it was his third voyage,

to find the Northwest Passage, that would prove to be his last.

These are Cook's three voyages, but he didn't make all.

He was killed in Hawaii in a fracas over a stolen boat with the natives.

A misjudgment.

He didn't have enough men with him, he was killed

and committed to the deep, as was normal with sailors,

in Kealakekua Bay in Hawaii.

Cook was stabbed to death by islanders in 1779

and so the man who radically changed our view of the world for ever

was never to sail again.

After a long day,

it's time for Philip to read farewell to the museum.

Jonathan's also in Whitby and still on the hunt for a bargain.

-Will he be able to seek out the truly bizarre?

-Good afternoon.

-Mr Doyle?

-Mr Doyle, yes. How'd you do?

Oh! A bit of an Aladdin's cave here.

A bit of one, yes.

What have you found there?

Yuck!

I'm looking up at this hull of a boat and inside it you've got what

I can only assume is the remains of possibly a steam

or petrol-fired engine, so it would have had a cover and a mast.

People collect these things,

because people who are engineers like to repair these things, make these things better.

I might ask him about that.

This model of a World War II torpedo boat is priced at £85,

but with missing bits, I'm sure there's a deal to be done.

I bet you that is built to scale. Give me £50 and we'll have a deal.

Look at it.

It's a wreck!

You're mad! Absolutely mad.

No comment. Ha.

OK. I'm going to be brave

and I'm going to say...

..all right.

Thank you very much.

-I've no idea what it's worth, but I'll say thank you. 50 quid.

-OK, then.

-Great.

-That's a bold move for someone who is trailing behind.

Anything else worth a, er, punt?

-I saw the green glass vase with a silver collar.

-This one.

Yeah.

True to form, Jonathan simply can't resist a colourful vase.

I like this iridescent glass, it's like Austrian glass.

A bit like the Loetz factory.

-That's a word, I remember that one.

-Silver mounting, 1905.

-Little bit thin, but the neck's quite good.

-Would you pay £30 for it?

I would be happy to offer you

not 10,

not 15,

£18.

JONATHAN CHUCKLES

I tell you what, you give me 20 and you can have it.

All right?

What the heck, go on then. I'll take that as well.

Ah.

First day of shopping done and dusted.

And so to bed.

Separately.

It's a brand-new day.

# Good morning, world It's a brand-new day

# A be-ba-ba ba-ba ba-ba bow! #

So far, Philip Serrell has spent £100.10 on three lots.

The squeezebox, the hamper filled with Yorkshire produce

and a lobster pot, leaving a whopping £201.86 to spend today.

Jonathan Pratt bought four lots - the oak bureau, nest of tables,

a model boat and a glass vase, spending £117 in total.

So he has only £33.44 today.

He'd better spend wisely.

Philip's now going for a spot of shopping

just down the road in Sleights.

Much of the small village sits on hillsides

on either side of the pretty River Esk.

Philip's gone to see what Eskdale Antiques have to offer

and immediately he can see that things here are right up his street.

Where else other than the antiques world can you get old quarry tiles

an anchor or a cartwheel?

-Hi, how are you, I'm Phil.

-Hi. Phil Smith.

-Phil, Phil. It's like an echo. How you doing?

All right, thanks.

Philip's absolutely chomping at the bit to buy something here,

just look at all these big, old lumps.

I love that spice box. What I love about that

is in the middle you've got a nutmeg grater and you just grate your nutmeg like that.

Smell that, that's absolutely lovely.

Mm. Spicy.

-Could I have a look at that one?

-Yes.

-How much is it first?

What's the ticket price on it? The ticket price is...

-..30.

-30 quid.

Your pony's head goes in there.

-And then?

-Packed out with straw with leather back to cushion it

and fasten your straps there and then fasten onto the cart behind.

Right. Deal time.

I'll give you 15 quid for that.

Go on, then.

-Have a deal.

-I like that a lot.

Let's just hope somebody in Doncaster has got a pony with no harness for it.

Time to trot on. Trot on.

Jonathan, meanwhile, is galloping 40 miles to Coxwold,

once home to one of England's most famous authors.

18th-century novelist Laurence Sterne was the Vicar of Coxwold

for eight years, and it was while living here,

in the now-named Shandy Hall,

that he wrote his bawdy best-seller Tristram Shandy.

Sterne and his humour have been likened to the rudeness of Max Miller and Frankie Howerd.

The book is named after the haphazard main character Tristram,

who endures a string of calamities from birth.

He's his creator - Sterne's - alter ego,

a chaotic genius and a literary one-off.

Not a conventional museum, Shandy Hall is also home to curator

Patrick Wildgust,

who strives to ensure that people like Jonathan continue to visit.

Can I introduce you to Laurence Sterne?

He'd written the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy and paid for them himself.

This is in 1759?

He was sure the book would be successful,

but couldn't find anybody to publish it.

There's no name on the title page.

It doesn't say it's by Laurence Sterne,

but this portrait was painted within a few months

of Sterne arriving in London to find out how his book was doing.

And then he discovers it's a success, so he now becomes famous.

Despite being a vicar, the book was very risque for the time,

as well as being semi-autobiographical.

It was also an extraordinary book, because it made people laugh.

It entertained people and it's going against the whole grain

of how the 18th-century novel is supposed to be constructed.

That painting identified him as being the author,

because he's resting his elbow on the manuscript of Tristram Shandy.

Time to get acquainted with a few of Sterne's most loved characters.

So what do we have in here?

-Well, we have Uncle Toby.

-Who's he?

Uncle Toby is a significant character in Tristram Shandy.

He is the uncle who influences Tristram's belief and attitude to life.

-He's a gentle, careful, considerate man.

-That's nice.

-And he's also completely naive.

-Oh.

JONATHAN LAUGHS

This proximity, with this woman - this is the Widow Wadman.

She is the most beautiful woman who existed in fiction.

Sterne encourages you to imagine how beautiful she is by not describing her word for word

about how she looks but he says to the reader,

"Here's pen and ink and just think as much of your mistress as you wish

"and as little of your wife as you wish to and draw her yourself."

If you imagine the most beautiful woman you have ever thought of, that's the Widow Wadman.

Hello! HE LAUGHS

Patrick will now show Jonathan the very room that Tristram Shandy was written in.

All the books on the table, what's the significance of them?

They're to show the visitor an indication of where Sterne got his ideas from,

when he was writing this book.

-Rabelais and Cervantes and Locke and Burton and the Bible.

-OK.

So his works are peppered with references,

some of them deliberate and ones you should pick up

and others are in homage, or he's just pinching things.

He's created Shandy Hall in the book as a fictional place

and then when he comes here, it becomes Shandy Hall.

-He names it Shandy Hall when he comes here?

-His friends did.

Is he becoming Tristram Shandy himself?

-You've hit on it exactly because there, "Dr Sterne, alias Tristram Shandy".

-Really?!

It's the end of this chapter for Jonathan. So time to close the book on Shandy Hall.

Carefully how you go.

Reunited, the chaps are off to the seaside town of Scarborough.

I do want to go to the promenade, or whatever it is, in Scarborough.

Let's drive through the promenade first.

There's no point of coming to the seaside and not seeing the sea.

We should buy one another a stick of rock, JP.

Scarborough, known as the Queen of the Yorkshire coast,

is full of attractions.

The historic and dramatic looking Scarborough Castle for one,

but it's been a booming seaside resort for the last 360 years

and is still as popular as ever.

Sadly, there's no strolling beside the seaside for these two.

There's a competition to continue.

Let's hope Philip's last shop looks promising.

-You've got some good things in here, haven't you?

-Lots of things.

-Yeah.

-Just going to look at that fish. Can we get the fish down, please?

-Yes, you can.

-I'll pop it down here.

-Thank you.

Now the first thing we want to do is is there a label on the back?

There's absolutely nothing.

I mean, the big exponent of doing these was a man called Cooper

and Cooper was a great taxidermist.

-Is that some sort of a trout?

-I think it is.

-Is it the old trout?!

-LAUGHTER

But what bothers me is condition.

If you look here, you can just see that he's starting to flake away.

What someone is going to have to do is take this out of its case

and remount it and re-glaze it

and that's going to cost what this thing is worth, really.

Typically, Philip's drawn to the only thing in the shop that's not theirs.

It's being sold for a friend who wants £150 for it.

-Does your man definitely want to sell this?

-Yes.

He doesn't want it back in his house.

I like that and I'd like to buy it off you.

I am worried about condition.

Um, can I give you £40 for it and that's my best?

-Yes, sir.

-You're an angel.

Blimey!

Is Jonathan having similar bargaining power next door?

That conjures up a strong image, doesn't it?

Perhaps that's something I should put in the sale.

Our militaria always tends to, in any sale, whether it's a general or specialist sale,

it always tends to do OK.

It's obviously depicting a battle scene in the Boer War.

That's a Scottish regiment.

It's a colour print, signed and dated in the print as 1900

and this is probably a reproduction not long after that.

What would you sell that for?

-The best I could do today, Jonathan, is a tenner.

-Oh, crikey.

How's that?

-Oof.

-HE LAUGHS

Didn't expect that, did you?

-I'll take it for a tenner.

-Yes?

-Why not?

Jonathan's keeping his last buy under wraps.

But their next stop is the big reveal.

PHILIP GASPS

JONATHAN GIGGLES

Isn't that the finest quality bureau that you might have ever seen?

It's the best I've seen today.

But I do like those turned bun feet. That lifts it up from the norm.

And "Norm" will be pleased to hear that.

-TIM LAUGHS INSINCERELY

-You joker, Philip!

My next lot is this.

-These are the hames.

-Yes, this is...you obviously put the head of a pony, or something?

A pony or a donkey.

It's quite useful.

-Well, it cost me 15 quid.

-15?

Are those G Plan or something?

Another mark of quality, you're saying, of course. 1970s teak, all the rage.

-Antique? No, teak.

-Just teak, I'm afraid.

And they cost me... I mean, I was amazed, gobsmacked. £20.

I went into this antiques shop and I bought a picnic hamper, right?

-Yeah.

-No, you see.

-Have you been to the deli, or something?

-You haven't!

-I have.

I thought I've got to get some good Yorkshire produce to go with it so I got some biscuits and chutney,

some Captain Cook beer, there's a hamper full of little goodies there.

And the goodies cost me a tenner and the hamper cost me a tenner. What do you reckon?

I like your style, Philip, I like your style.

Let's hope someone at the auction does, too.

-This is my next lot.

-I like that. I do like that.

Loetz style, silver-mounted,

-circa 1904, 1905.

-That's all right, then.

What I did, I bought fish, chips and mushy peas, right?

-Yeah.

-And I bought that.

-A linen basket.

Not from a fish shop, it ain't.

I don't know. It's a lobster pot, isn't it?

I'm bought fish, chips, peas and that for a tenner.

But I ate the fish, chips and mushy peas.

-So this cost you a tenner?

-It cost me £5.10,

because the fish, chips and mushy peas with £4.90 and I ate those.

You're suitably unimpressed.

HE LAUGHS

-Come on, JP, you're next.

-Put it away.

-What's next?

-This is the bit I'm most scared about,

purely because it's not in great condition.

Bit's just fallen off.

It looks like it's been scuttled, JP.

People like to go to auctions and buy these mechanical engines.

I'm with you. Listen, if they've got lobster pots, you've got no problem with that!

JONATHAN LAUGHS Good point.

-This is a squeezebox.

-Yeah.

OK.

PLAYS A FEW NOTES BADLY

They make money, don't they?

HE EXHALES They can do. They can do quite a lot of money, can't they?

Because they're quite unusual, quite rare.

-I thought I might make, if I was lucky, 200.

-Cor blimey.

But I don't know.

I hope you don't. I mean, I don't mean that too cruelly. I want to try get back in the game here!

That's the spirit, Jonathan.

What about the print?

I think the print's worth £1 and the frame's worth £20 to £30.

-A tenner.

-That's all right.

Hello!

HE LAUGHS

I got the old trout.

-Brilliant.

-What do you think?

You're not brave enough to spend a lot of money on things, I know that.

Miaow!

I had to pay £40 for it. I think in the right auction, it's 100 to 150

and 50 to 80 quid in the wrong auction.

Time to get the fish knives out, Maud, and find out what they really think.

For me, the Achilles heel in the whole operation is the boat.

Because he paid £50 for that and I just don't see that.

On a bad day, it could really make, I don't know, £15 to £30,

something like that.

For me, I'd be really nervous if I owned that.

Crikey! I mean, Phil's gone off his rocker buying a hamper

and buying some jam from down the road.

For goodness' sake.

On this leg of their road trip, the pair have travelled

from Darlington to Yarm, Whitby, Sleights, Coxwold and Scarborough.

Let's see how their buys fare at auction in Doncaster

in South Yorkshire.

Oh, this must be St George's. Is this a cathedral or a church?

I don't know.

Is Doncaster a city?

I know a man who will tell us. OK, Tim, tell us what it is.

Well, chaps,

St George's may look impressive,

but it's a church, not a cathedral, and Doncaster is in fact

an historic market town founded in AD71 by the old Romans.

Sitting on the River Don, it has a rich horse-racing and railway heritage

and some famous faces were born there,

including Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson.

Hear we are, this is it. Excellent. We've got a spot just outside.

-Christen your boat. You should call it Hope.

-I think I'm going to call it Doncaster.

-Despair?

-Don't be horrid!

-Tudor Auction Rooms, house clearance specialists,

have been doing business in Doncaster for over 30 years.

Let's hear what our auctioneer George Allen's favourite items are.

The G Plan nest of tables, always a winner now.

'70s furniture's really coming on.

There's dealers buying that sort of stuff. It should be a pretty good winner.

The squeezebox is in really good condition

and it's rather unusual that you get the original box.

There are quite a few collectors into accordions and squeezeboxes like that.

I should think it will do £75, £100 on that one.

It's probably the better item of the few that he's bought.

So to jog our memories on what each expert has spent,

Philip bought five lots totalling £155.10.

And Jonathan Pratt forked out a wee bit less than his rival, £127, for his five items.

I know Jonathan's trailing, but I've got a good feeling in my waterworks for him about this auction.

Here we go.

First, one of Philip's more randomly acquired items from the fish-and-chip shop.

The cane lobster pot. 5 anywhere? 5 bid. Any advance on five?

Any more? All done. Tenner bid. £10.

-Get in there, George!

-I'll have to sit down.

15 bid. £15. Any more? All out. Done at 15.

If I'd known that, I could have had another portion of chips!

I'm aghast.

He knows what he's doing, our Philip.

A decent profit on the lobster pot.

Second is Jonathan's 1900 Scottish military scene print.

Rather nice. Very collectable. War memorabilia. 5, surely. 5 bid.

Any advance on 5? All done.

7.50 on the book. 7.50 bid.

-Going.

-10 bid.

-Oh!

-12.50.

-Yes!

-15.

£15 bid. Have you all done? At £15.

-There you go.

-That's cheap.

Yes, it's a couple for me.

Gets me off on a snail's pace.

Ha. Not a bad buy. The print served him well.

Next is Philip's pony hame.

Highly collectable, ladies and gentlemen. 5 bid.

Any advance on 5? 10.

15. 20. 5. 30.

£30 lady's in at 30. 35. New bidder. 40 bid.

£40 bid.

£40 bid. I'll take 2.50, if it will help you.

42.50 is back in. 45.

45 bid. All done at £45.

-The drinks are on you tonight, Phil.

-They certainly are.

Another profit for Philip and mine's a Campari and soda.

No, I didn't come from Luton airport! Ha.

Next, Philip's been at it again. It's a bad case of stuffed fish. Ha.

10 bid. £10. Any more?

15, 20, 5, 30, £30, still cheap.

-£30 bid. Any advance on 30? 2.50, if you like.

-It's crashed and burned.

35, she's back in. 37.50.

New bidder. 40 bid.

£40 bid. Any advance on 40? Have you all done? At £40.

No complaints at all.

I'm quite happy now. You can give the rest away.

Minus commission, the fish floundered and was actually a loss for Philip.

Now for Jonathan's Loetz-style green vase.

Lot number 202 is a very nice, iridescent glass vase

with the hallmarked silver, ladies and gentlemen.

10 bid. £10 bid. 15 bid. 20 bid. 25, 30 bid.

35 bid. 35 on the side.

35 bid. Any advance on 35? Still cheap is this.

-35 bid.

-It is cheap, it's a great vase.

-Any more? All done.

42.50.

At £42.50. Another chance.

At 42.50.

Go on, go on!

-That's all right, JP.

-Yeah.

-So after commission that's...

I'm on the way back!

You'll need a bit more than that to put you in the lead, Jonathan, or even to get you back

to where you started. Oh, dear.

It's time to see if anyone's in the mood for a picnic.

You know it's going to be red-hot tomorrow. It's the picnic basket

and it is full.

5 anywhere? 2 bid. £2 bid. £6 bid.

He's going to work the room.

8 bid on the front row. Any advance on 8, have you all done?

10. Very cheap that. That jam must be worth 20! 10 bid.

You buy it, George!

Any more? A bit of cake, as well!

12 bid. 14. We're getting better.

16. 18.

18 bid, we've got her. Any more? Done at 18.

See you down by the riverside.

-He did really well.

-Tell you what, old George works them well, doesn't he? Bless him.

Maybe so, but you still made a loss, Philip.

Aha. It's the 1920s Lebus oak bureau up now.

Lovely piece.

Very collectable,

usable item. 10 bid.

£10 bid. 15.

20. 25.

-25 bid.

-Keep going.

25, 7.50. 20, please? 30 bid.

£30 bid. £30 bid. Any advance on 30? Have you all done?

-At £30. 43.

-Oh, goodness.

So what are the tables going to make now?

They've got to make about £100 for me go in a profit, I think!

Well, it's not over yet, Jonathan.

So let's see what his nest of 1970s G plan tables make.

£30 to start me. 20.

10 to start me. 10 bid.

£10 bid on the G Plan nest. Any advance on 10?

That is ridiculously cheap.

Are you sure? 15 bid. 20 bid.

Lady's in at 20. 25 bid.

25 bid. Any more?

All done at £25.

-Good night.

-You were hard done by. I'll shake you by the hand.

You were hard done by, old mate.

He was a bit. Not a whopping profit when he needs it most.

Time for Philip's rosewood concertina to face the music.

It's a little beauty this one, ladies and gentlemen.

It's the Victorian squeezebox.

-Give it a little squeeze. There we go. Perfect.

-Thanks, George(!)

-£50 to start?

£20 bid. 20 bid. £20 bid. Any advance on 20?

30, 40, 50.

60. 70. £70 bid, lady's in at 70.

£80. 90, 100. £100 bid.

£100 bid. 110.

120.

130.

130. The yellow cap in at 130. 140.

150.

-£150 bid.

-I feel a bit better, JP.

-Are we all done?

At £150.

JONATHAN CLAPS

Well done, George.

You doubled your money, Phil.

And that's a fantastic profit for Philip.

He's got a hard act to follow.

Last, but by no means least,

Jonathan's slightly incomplete model boat.

This is a rather nice craft, ladies and gentlemen(!) A gunboat.

5 anywhere on the gunboat? 5 bid. Any advance on 5?

7.50 can I see? 7.50 bid. Lady's in at 7.50.

-A lady's going to buy it.

-Interesting project. 10 bid.

£10 bid. 12.50 new bidder. 13.50 bid.

13.50, have you all done?

At £13.50.

I don't quite know what to say now, JP.

LAUGHTER I'll go down with my ship.

SPLASH!

And he's sunk. Ha-ha.

GURGLE!

So, with that final lot, it's safe to say

it's a hat-trick for Philip Serrell,

who has now won his third auction on the trot.

-On the whole, a good result.

-Eh?

-For you.

-Oh.

-JONATHAN CHUCKLES

Jonathan started this leg of the trip with £140.40

and, sadly, after auction costs,

ends today with even less, £126.70, to be precise.

Oh, dear.

Philip started with a healthier sum, £301.96.

But even minus commission, has increased that even further

and now has a decent £366.62.

Steady Eddie.

Surely now it's time for Jonathan to change tactics.

Have you got a plan for the next leg?

Um, as always, Philip, my plan is to have no plan.

-That's good enough, isn't it?

-Yeah.

Just get in the car and drive.

Next time on the Antiques Road Trip, Jonathan goes off his rocker...

Yee-ha!

..whereas Philip is starting to feel his age.

Makes me feel like a dinosaur, really.

When you see things in an antiques centre

that you can remember your parents buying new.

A pair that truly are chalk and cheese.

You're going to church I'm going to a pub,

which I think probably sums up our respective characters.

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