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Nothing like a really good burst of fresh air!

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Hello and welcome to the programme that searches your home

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for all those collectibles and antiques to take off to auction to sell.

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I think we are all a bit guilty of having bits and bobs and stuff that we've collected

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over the years or maybe had handed down through the family, and we never get

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around to doing anything with it until we have a really good reason.

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Well, on good authority, I understand that the couple we are about to meet today

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have a really big incentive to sell lots of their things.

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So let's hope that we manage to help them raise a lot of Cash In The Attic.

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'On today's Cash In The Attic, this piece of 19th-century pine

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'may appeal to someone other than the auction-goers.'

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Perhaps an auctioneer might want one.

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That's true. And we know a few of those!

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'I may not have hit quite the right note with this 1940s gramophone...'

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# Da da da da-da-da Da da da da-da-da... #

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Awful! On sale day, John makes a promise he may live to regret.

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If it doesn't make £50, I'll eat my catalogue.

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Find out what happens when that hammer falls.

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Today I am in the small village of Roud

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on the absolutely beautiful Isle of Wight.

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We are about to meet Tim and Zarina,

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who spent much of their time running a wonderful charity.

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They're hoping that their house clear-out will raise valuable funds.

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Tim and Zarina met over 20 years ago when they worked together in the health service.

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Tim was a consultant surgeon, and Zarina was a secretary

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at St Mary's Hospital right on the island here.

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'They married in 1997, and moved into this absolutely delightful

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'500-year-old thatched house, once a safe haven for Oliver Cromwell and his men.'

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Our hosts are now retired, but two years ago, they founded a charity

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to educate doctors in southern Sudan.

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Now, this is a cause we hope to support today.

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Our expert John Cameron has more than 20 years' experience

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in antiques and wastes no time starting our search.

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Tim and Zarina, this is what I like to see on Cash In The Attic.

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How are you? You're hard at work already finding things.

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How are you, Tim? Lovely to meet you.

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It's such a beautiful setting.

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-Great house! How long have you lived here?

-12 years.

-Excellent.

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Well, we are so glad to be here today, but I'm always fascinated to know why people call us in.

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I was watching the programme, and you had somebody doing it for a charity.

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-And I said to Tim, "Why don't we have a go for our charity?"

-And what's your charity?

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It's called the St Mary's Hospital Isle of Wight Juba Teaching Hospital Link.

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We try to help by sending trainers out there to train their local health care professionals.

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Obviously, we are going to need to talk about that

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in great detail later on.

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How much are you hoping to raise?

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I thought we should hope for the air fare for one person, which is £634 -

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-at the moment.

-£634, to be precise!

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-Yes!

-I will tell the auctioneer that he has got to make that at least.

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So that would be an air fare to get a doctor out there?

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Doctor, nurse - any health care professional.

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We have John Cameron, our expert, here today, of course.

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So maybe we should go and find him and see what he has unearthed,

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because he's pretty good at rummaging.

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This Grade II listed house is idyllic,

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and everywhere you look, it's packed full of interesting objects,

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even in the garage.

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Now, this is the man, Tim, who has been rooting around in your drawers!

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-You make it sound so sordid!

-I know!

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This is a very majestic piece, I have to say.

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It is obviously a lectern. Where is this from?

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This was in the medical education centre for many, many years.

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-At the hospital where you worked?

-The local hospital, yes. And then when they moved

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into the new buildings with the new equipment, it was discarded.

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I always had my eye on it, but I've had a little bit of reservation from my wife.

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-Hence it goes!

-She didn't seem to want me to have it.

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It is a 19th-century lectern, as you've said.

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We can tell it's 19th century looking at the front of the drawers.

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Those original turn-pulls could have quite easily been on a chest of drawers of that period.

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So it is a 19th-century piece and it is made of pine.

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I'd certainly suggest having it stripped down and wax polished.

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But what is somebody going to do with this?

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Perhaps it would end up in a restaurant, in the foyer, where they take the bookings from.

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-Or perhaps an auctioneer might want one.

-That's true!

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And we know a few of those.

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So we come to... I guess it is hard to put a price on this, really.

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It is a difficult one, but if we treat it like a chest of drawers, I think we would be

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looking around the £100 mark for it, so I think, even in this condition,

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I'd want to estimate it at £80-120.

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-I think that's jolly good.

-I think so.

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-Do you?

-Excellent.

-Good.

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Positive thinking. And just looking around, Tim clearly doesn't like to see anything go to waste.

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I wonder if he is a real horder.

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That could bode very well for our search.

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Upstairs, Zarina comes across something given to her almost 40 years ago.

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Known as Elegance, this Royal Doulton figurine was a very popular model

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and should fetch £30-40 at auction.

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Tim, why are the curtains drawn?

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It's in order to see... the use of this,

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which is an editing machine for this old cine camera and projector.

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-Where did it come from?

-Well, I was given this years ago by an uncle.

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He'd had it for a few years, and I think he probably got a bit fed up with it.

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-So he gave it to me.

-It certainly looks a technical piece of equipment.

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We've got some big names in the production of camera equipment.

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We've got Bolex and Paillard, that's two different companies.

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Certainly after the war, there was a collaboration between Bolex and Paillard, all Swiss companies,

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to produce these popular hand-held cine cameras.

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I just love that you squeeze the trigger like this... GENTLE CLICKING

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They just give a wonderful sound, don't they?

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-So you'd be happy to put these into auction?

-Yes.

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I haven't used it for years.

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-It's been in a cupboard.

-There is a market for this sort of thing.

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It often surprises me how little sometimes things can make,

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but I guess that reflects the amount that were produced.

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But it is going to appeal to two sorts of people.

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Mostly serious historians for camera and cinema equipment,

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but I think the three items together make a wonderful display. Lovely aesthetic appeal.

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I would suggest something like £50-100 for the lot.

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Better than sitting in the cupboard and doing nothing, so...

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But what I would love to do is, can you show me how this editing machine works? It is fascinating.

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All you have to do is just turn that.

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And you can see your film on the little screen.

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How wonderful!

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I'm sure they'll cause more than a flicker of interest come auction day.

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'In the bedroom, I spot this early 20th-century carriage clock, and downstairs, I have seen two others.'

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There is a Victorian marble example and an Edwardian mantel clock with wooden inlay.

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John thinks if we combine them into one lot,

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they should bring in £150-200.

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In the spare bedroom, our expert finds two Beswick horses

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which have been sent along by a friend from Tim and Zarina's charity.

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Beswick horses are very collectible, and John reckons

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this mother and foal should easily reach £40-60.

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Zarina keeps the search going downstairs,

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but in the bedroom, Tim's keen to show me another of his favourite things.

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So, Tim, where did you get it?

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Well, this was in the loft of a house my parents moved into in Jersey.

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I am going to test you out now.

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I've got my hand on the winder, cos this used to be my job back in my parents' house.

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So will you do the rest of it if I give it a bit of a wind?

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Yes, of course I will.

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Do we know what this record is you're putting on?

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We'll soon find out.

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MUSIC: "La Donna E Mobile" By Verdi

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# Da da da da-da-da # Da da da da-da-da. #

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Are you having a party without me?

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Oh, there you are. How about this?

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And it plays!

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I think they are wonderful. They have a timeless quality.

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Whenever we have one in the sale room, there's always a temptation to wind it up.

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It always sets people in a good mood.

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This particular model is a table-top gramophone, as I know you know.

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It is the HMV, His Master's Voice.

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This one, probably around the mid-1930s.

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You can see it's the Model 104, oak-cased.

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And what a fantastic sound. Value-wise, about £40-60,

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-around the £50 mark at auction.

-Is that all?

-It is.

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We sell them quite often. They don't tend to make hundreds unless they are the horn type.

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Are you disappointed by that, Tim?

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Not particularly, no. I am very happy with that amount.

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# La la la la-la-la La la la la-la-la... #

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'So out of tune!

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'But will this musical treasure appeal to any of the bidders when it goes under the hammer?'

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And why the long face, John? Surely the going isn't as rough as all that?

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That is a remarkable price today.

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All that intrigue is still to come.

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Meanwhile, our search for collectibles is still in full swing.

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Zarina is unpacking some Victorian wine glass coolers.

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Each one would've been filled up with iced water and then the glasses were placed upside down

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inside them, with their stems resting on the fluted edges.

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They should fetch £30-50.

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Also winging its way to auction is this late Victorian page turner with a hallmarked silver handle.

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Tim inherited it from his mother and John values it £30-£50.

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Whilst I continue the search, John thinks that Tim and Zarina are slacking on the job.

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-Guys, have you ever heard the saying "many hands make light work"?

-We WERE working!

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We were thinking of putting this into the auction.

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Leave a nasty big hole in the hallway.

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-A lovely big hole, you mean.

-You want to get rid of it! Oh, I see.

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It's Tim's but I'd like to get rid of it.

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-What's the story behind it, Tim?

-I bought it in a junk shop in Bath.

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It was in pretty poor condition, so I did it all up.

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And my mother, who had it in her house for years and years, thought

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my restoring of the upholstery wasn't good enough, so she's actually had it done professionally.

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Well, as you know, it's a chaise longue.

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That form of furniture has been around for thousands of years.

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In fact, early examples have been found in Egyptian tombs,

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and there are also examples of them on ancient Greek pottery.

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This piece here dates to about 1900.

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It's Edwardian, very typical of that period.

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I have always thought they are undervalued, certainly in recent times.

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At auction, I think we would be looking at about £80-120.

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That would be good, because all it has done is used to have the telephone on.

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Anyway, I think we have still got some rummaging to do,

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so talking of those many hands making light work, let's continue rummaging.

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He's tough! The items we're finding today should hopefully raise £634

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to fly one trained health professional to southern Sudan.

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Tim and Zarina are certainly passionate

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about improving the health standards in this war-torn African country.

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Now, it seems an unusual charity, so what is the origin of it?

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It started about two years ago,

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when a group of us at the hospital got together, and there was a consultant

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who comes from southern Sudan and obviously he had an interest and he was part of the group.

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The health care indicators for southern Sudan are probably the worst in the world.

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3% maternal mortality.

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13.5% of children do not reach the age of five.

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Is it very hard to watch that kind of suffering when you're there?

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It's heart-breaking to see it.

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It's reality.

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As a professional, you have to deal with that.

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Is it a pure lack of facilities?

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It's a lack of facilities, but particularly a lack of skills.

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One state which has a well over a million people, there is only one hospital and two doctors.

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From a practical point of view, what do the medical staff do when they get there?

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They undertake intensive training of the local health care professionals.

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They undertake teaching sessions, which may be formal, they go and work on the wards with them

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or in the delivery room - for example, with midwives.

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We have a number of meetings to try and influence the way that the hospital is run.

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Do you sometimes feel that what you are doing, albeit very worthwhile, is still just a drop in the ocean?

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What we're trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean,

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but the ocean will be less for that missing drop.

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We are all so deeply impressed by their devotion to this good cause,

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we're determined to help them search for items that'll bring in the money.

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John's been scouring the bookcases in Tim and Zarina's lounge and has come across

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a set of six silver teaspoons made by the Birmingham company Barker Brothers back in 1931.

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They belonged to the grandfather of one of Tim

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and Zarina's charity friends, who has very kindly sent them along.

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With luck, they should bring in £20-30.

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This painting by Italian artist, Arsenio De Boni was a gift from Tim's daughter, Vanessa.

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But it's no longer his cup of tea so off it goes to auction with a £15-£30 estimate.

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Now, we're all having one last big push to try and find another item that can go to auction.

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Perhaps one of Tim's childhood collections could be just the thing.

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This looks like a fascinating collection. How many have you got here?

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-I haven't a clue.

-Well, don't start counting them now!

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I can tell you that in the Natural History Museum,

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they have over three million specimens.

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That is something, isn't it? So, where did they come from?

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It started when I was a boy, probably about nine or ten.

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It started off as a bit of a hobby, and then it became part of a field study for A-level biology.

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There has long been an interest in nature,

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and certainly when you go back to the ages of voyage and discovery,

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new species were coming back and being brought back by naturalists.

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And certainly, the books that were produced around those times would have fuelled young minds,

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and people would have wanted to study them.

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So it is something that, although today people frown on it a little bit,

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in the past, this was in the name of education.

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And we have some wonderful specimens here.

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I don't suppose, though, you have the world's largest butterfly,

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the Queen Alexandra Birdwing in here by any chance, do you?

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No, these are all British.

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Listen, you're getting very technical here.

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Zarina and I have been flitting around like butterflies ourselves

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trying to raise all the money. But these are amazing.

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What do you think? Do people still collect these at auction?

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There are still collectors of specimens such as these,

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so yes, we sell all sorts of taxidermy at auction these days.

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There is the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981,

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which prohibits them now, but these are old specimens,

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and they have been caught and mounted,

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and so it would be the right thing to preserve them

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and use them for study for future generations.

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-Have you got to the price yet?

-No, we haven't.

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Looking at it, I think it is a good collection.

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It is in a useful collector's cabinet.

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It should make something like £150-200 at auction.

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-Good heavens. I didn't think it would be that much.

-It is amazing.

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-You're in shock!

-I am.

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I wanted him to give it to a local school or something.

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I have been doing my sums, and I have to look the figure up,

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because yours is a very unusual amount that you were aiming for.

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You were looking for £634 precisely.

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Well, I'm terribly pleased to tell you that you have £715.

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Good heavens, that is fantastic.

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-Is that good?

-That is great.

-That will pay for a visa as well.

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And a cup of coffee at the airport while you're waiting!

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What a great result for Tim and Zarina,

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and what a busy day it's been here on the island.

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We have unearthed a real assortment of items to take to auction.

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Here are the most interesting.

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There's the 19th century pine lectern.

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It's an unusual piece of furniture, and could reach £80-120.

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Then there is also the post-war cine equipment,

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which belonged to Tim's uncle.

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At £50-100, that should be snapped up.

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Plus that Edwardian chaise longue,

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which Zarina desperately wants to get rid of.

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Hopefully, it won't lounge around for long, valued at £80-120.

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Still to come on Cash in the Attic,

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we dissect every one of John's valuations.

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I feel like I'm under the microscope here today.

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And when Tim's butterfly collection is sold,

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he makes a surprising announcement.

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-I thought John was over estimating that.

-Did you?

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Now you tell me!

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All will be revealed when the final hammer falls.

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So it's been a few months now since we visited Zarina and Tim

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at their beautiful Grade 2 listed home here on the Isle of Wight.

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And we've taken their items to Island Auctions

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to sell them off for what I think is a really good cause.

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They're hoping to raise a very precise sum of £634

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to send a medical colleague to the Sudan,

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where they do a lot of really, really good work.

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So I do hope that their items do exceptionally well when they go under the hammer.

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These auction rooms are in Shanklin,

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a busy town in the south-east corner of the island.

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Sales are held over two days each month,

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and we're here on day one for antiques and collectibles.

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Tim and Zarina's items have been here for a few days now.

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I hope they are looking forward to watching their treasures go on sale.

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Well, Zarina and Tim, how absolutely gorgeous to see again.

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-Are you well?

-And you.

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I hear since we did see you last that you've been to the Sudan and back?

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-Yes.

-We have indeed.

-What was the object of that mission?

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We're trying to develop accommodation out there for the visiting trainers.

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Did a bit of teaching in surgery, all sorts of things.

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-How many weeks were you there?

-Three.

-Three.

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Did you take your camera with you?

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Not this camera, no.

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We're going to raise the money to send another medical colleague of yours to the Sudan,

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I think we'd better get in position for the auction.

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-Thanks.

-Here we go.

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We're all in place now and so is our first lot.

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It's the oil painting of an Italian coastal scene.

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Do you know anything about it?

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He was known as Arsenio De Boni.

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Not a huge amount of his work on the market.

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We've got £15 to £30, but it's not an unpleasant Italianate scene,

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so let's see how it goes.

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Somebody start me at £40.

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30 here. Commission bid at 30. Two, can I say?

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32, 34, 36, 38.

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And 40, and two, 44.

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46, 48. And 50.

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Five.

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60. Five?

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It's £60 here. Five anywhere?

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65, and 70. And five.

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Selling at 75. All done?

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Fantastic.

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Yes, the bidders certainly liked the look of that one and the silver spoons go down a treat as well.

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-£30, all done at 3-0 and selling.

-HE BANGS HIS GAVEL

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They hit the top estimate of £30.

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Next up is the Victorian silver and ivory page turner.

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Let's hope it's a head turner.

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Someone start me at 30 for that. 30 anywhere?

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34, 36, 38, 40, 42.

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44, 46, 48. We're selling at 48.

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50 in a new place.

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Five? 50. One more? 60?

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Yeah, and five?

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Reluctant. 65 on the right.

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We're selling at 65. All done?

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-Excellent!

-That was a fantastic price.

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A lot of interest, about five different bidders on that.

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I'm excited. Another great result.

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The bidders obviously like Tim and Zarina's items

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and John's proved right again with his estimate

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on the Doulton figurine.

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£34 at the back. 34.

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All done then at 34. Selling at 34.

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£34.

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John, you've done all right again.

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I feel like I'm under the microscope here today.

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Our medical couple's items are selling like hot cakes today.

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Not a single one has sold for less than the lower estimate so far.

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Let's hope this pattern continues with the HMV wind-up gramophone.

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55, 60, five, 70, five.

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80, five.

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90, five.

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100, 110, 120?

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130, 140, 150, 160?

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170, yep? 180.

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190. 200?

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190, then. We've got 190.

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Commission bid at £190. All done at 190?

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-Good grief!

-That is the highest price I've ever got for one of those in 20 years.

-Really.

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These Isle of Wight bidders don't mind paying a bit more

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when they really like something.

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Will they be as keen on the next lot,

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the four wine coolers that belonged to Zarina's mother?

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They're up for £30 to £50.

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30 if you like. £30, and five.

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40, five, 50, five.

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Way above the estimate.

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60, five, 70?

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65 here. 70 anywhere?

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It's 65 and selling at 65. All done?

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Another fantastic result.

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At the halfway point, we've made an impressive headway

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towards our £634 target and we've got 459 in the kitty already.

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Let's hope our luck continues.

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If you've been inspired by their progress

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and would like to raise money at auction,

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bear in mind that there are charges to be paid, such as commission.

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These can vary from one sale room to another

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and it's always worthwhile checking in advance.

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Next up on the rostrum are the Beswick horses valued at £40-£60.

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Going to start at £35.

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-35 with Tim.

-6 anywhere?

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40, two,

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44, 46, 48?

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And 50, five?

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60, 62, 64, 66, Olly?

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68, and 70.

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And five, sir?

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Go back in fives. 75, and 80, Olly?

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80, then, and selling at the 8-0.

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Across the board all, the different items we have had,

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-they're all doing very well.

-Very well.

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This is a very lucky auction house for us!

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They're certainly having a very good run here.

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The Bolex camera, projector and Haynor editor

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are going before the bidders next.

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48 and 50.

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48 at the back. 50 anywhere? 50 here. Five anywhere?

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It's £50 here. All done at 50. We're selling at 50.

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Five, 60, five, 70, and five.

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80 and five.

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£80, gentleman at the top of the stairs at 80.

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We're going to sell at £80. All done?

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Right in the middle of John's estimate and a great result.

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Up next, the only item with a reserve on it.

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It's the button-back chaise longue.

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In the movies, it always looked so marvellous to have this lady

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sort of draped along the chaise longue, you think, marvellous!

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But again, are they in demand, John?

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Not hugely. I've put £80-120, which I think is about right.

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-You've got a reserve on this Tim?

-We've got a reserve of £50.

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If it doesn't make £50, I'll eat my catalogue!

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Someone start me at about £40.

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40 here.

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-Two can I say?

-No!

-£40 here. 2 anywhere?

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42, 44, 46, 48 and 50.

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Five? 50 at the back. Five anywhere?

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60 and five. It's 60 right at the back. We're selling at 60.

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All done at 6-0? And selling at £60?

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-Well...

-Now, that's a steal.

-That is quite poor.

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I was going to start tearing pieces off the catalogue,

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-but he got over £50. That was cheap!

-That's a bit disappointing.

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At least we didn't need to hold John to his word!

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Still, it's the first item today not to reach his lower estimate.

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Things are soon back on track though as the pine lectern goes under the hammer.

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All done at 80. We're selling at 80 in the centre. All done at £80.

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It sells bang on its £80 estimate,

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followed quickly by the three clocks, valued at £150-£200.

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£188 then, for the three of them.

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I said 150-200, so we were in the middle.

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-You're doing well today.

-Not too bad.

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-You are beating your average.

-I want to come here again!

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Another sensational result, and it's not over yet,

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as we have one last item to sell.

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It's the display cases packed with butterflies

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that Tim has been collecting since he was a boy.

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To be honest, I'm a bit nervous about this lot

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because it isn't everybody's cup of tea,

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and we've got quite a lot riding on it.

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150 is our bottom estimate, but I'm hoping somebody

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will at least fall in love with the collector's cabinet, so fingers crossed.

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Someone start me at £100.

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£100 anywhere?

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110, 120, 130, 140?

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At 150.

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150 here, then. It's 150 in the front. 160 anywhere?

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150, then. We're going to sell it for 150. All done?

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-That's a good result, isn't it?

-That's a very good result.

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-I didn't think... I thought John was overestimating there.

-Did you?

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Oh, now you tell me!

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It's always good to finish on a high.

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Tim and Zarina must be delighted,

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and I can't wait to give them the final total.

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How much did you want precisely?

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£634 was the air fare.

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To be accurate!

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You have the grand total of £1,097!

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-Oh! Fantastic!

-How about that?

-Fantastic!

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Tim and Zarina recently went back to southern Sudan

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and are looking through the video they filmed whilst they were there.

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It's a district hospital,

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but it serves a population of about half a million people.

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There's no running water, for instance, in the hospital.

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When the surgeons scrub, they do it from a barrel.

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The money they raised at auction

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will be used to send out a medical colleague

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to help improve health care standards in the region,

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so well done, them!

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If you'd like to raise money for something really special

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and realise a dream of your own,

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it's very easy to join us here on Cash in the Attic.

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I hope I see you here one day.

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In the meantime, thank you for your company and bye-bye.

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