0:00:02 > 0:00:05- The nation's favourite celebrities. - We are special then, are we?
0:00:05 > 0:00:09- That's excellent.- Paired up with an expert...- We're having our first tiff.- Yes, we are.
0:00:09 > 0:00:11..and a classic car.
0:00:11 > 0:00:15- Their mission, to scour Britain for antiques.- I have no idea what it is.
0:00:15 > 0:00:20- Oh, I love it!- The aim, to make the biggest profit at auction.
0:00:20 > 0:00:23- Yes!- But it's no easy ride. - ALL GASP
0:00:23 > 0:00:25There's no accounting for taste.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28Who will find a hidden gem?
0:00:28 > 0:00:30Who will take the biggest risks?
0:00:30 > 0:00:35- Will anybody follow expert advice? - Go to work on a little shopping list.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39- There will be worthy winners and valiant losers.- Are you happy?- Yes.
0:00:39 > 0:00:42- Promise?- Ecstatic.- Time to put your pedal to the metal.
0:00:42 > 0:00:44This is Celebrity Antiques Road Trip.
0:00:47 > 0:00:48Yeah!
0:00:51 > 0:00:56Today's celebrities are two ground-breaking TV presenters.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58- Mind your hat doesn't blow off. - Oh, no, that'll be all right.
0:00:58 > 0:01:01- I'm just warming up the tyres now. - JOHN LAUGHS
0:01:01 > 0:01:04Yes it's Johnny Ball and John Craven.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07Hello. And there's good news tonight for Tom and Jerry fans.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10In the 1970s, John was the co-creator and anchorman
0:01:10 > 0:01:13of other world's first news programmes for children.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15We'll be back again on Tuesday. Bye for now.
0:01:15 > 0:01:20While Johnny was being equally innovative, first for Playschool
0:01:20 > 0:01:23and then on shows like Johnny Ball Reveals All and Think of a Number,
0:01:23 > 0:01:26making maths and science cool.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29It's a hover chair!
0:01:29 > 0:01:33You're obviously interested in anything to do with mathematics and science in general and I'm not.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36I think we'll be going for different things, actually.
0:01:36 > 0:01:42Today's experts, auctioneers Phil Serrell and Charles Hanson are big fans of the two Johns.
0:01:42 > 0:01:47- Are you happy to meet and greet Mr Craven?- Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're both legends, aren't they?- They are.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50I'd come home from school in the late '80s,
0:01:50 > 0:01:53you know, in my shorts...watching the telly.
0:01:53 > 0:01:58- You weren't nearer the 1880s, were you?- I'm going to punch you in a minute.
0:01:59 > 0:02:02The 1980s, of course, was when John Craven
0:02:02 > 0:02:05took off with yet another hugely popular factual show.
0:02:05 > 0:02:08In Britain there are 22 million sheep.
0:02:08 > 0:02:10A quarter of a century later,
0:02:10 > 0:02:13John's still at the helm and in the country. Whoops!
0:02:13 > 0:02:18- I quite like small agricultural tools and things like that.- Yes.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22- Anything really involved in the countryside.- So Countryfile's rubbed off on you.- Yes, it has indeed.
0:02:22 > 0:02:26- You become what you do, don't you? - Yes.- Absolutely.
0:02:26 > 0:02:29That'll be music to the years of potential partner Phil.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32Celebrities and experts have £400 per team,
0:02:32 > 0:02:37driving a 1960s MGB and a 1966 Mercedes-Benz 250SE.
0:02:37 > 0:02:43- Well, my first car was a Heinkel bubble car.- Really?- Yeah.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46- A little bubble car. I paid £200 for it, I remember.- Wow!
0:02:46 > 0:02:49And I sold it because it was eventually using more oil than petrol.
0:02:49 > 0:02:53Ah, three wheels and no reverse gear,
0:02:53 > 0:02:56those really were the good old days.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58Our trip begins in Ringwood in Hampshire
0:02:58 > 0:03:01and then takes a country ramble through Wiltshire and Dorset
0:03:01 > 0:03:04before heading north to an auction in Oxfordshire at Watlington.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10- Here we are.- That's a plus, isn't it?- Morning.- Look at that.
0:03:10 > 0:03:13- Morning! Wow! How are you?- Nice to see you.- Lovely to see you.
0:03:13 > 0:03:17- Whoops! I think there's a handbrake somewhere.- Yeah, put the brake on.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20- I think you two are going to get on really well. - LAUGHTER
0:03:20 > 0:03:23- So am I with you?- I hope so. - Oh, tremendous!- All being well.
0:03:23 > 0:03:27- Oh, the hats versus the non-hats. - Nice to see you.- Great to meet you too.
0:03:27 > 0:03:30We'll go in this one and you have that fiddly little thing over there.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33A beautiful old British sports car.
0:03:33 > 0:03:38- This is us. See you later. Shall I drive?- There's just one minor problem.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41- Charlie!- Yes.- You've got the keys.
0:03:41 > 0:03:44- Sorry, Philip. Sorry, John.- Well, that's a good start.- Apologies. - Oh, Lord!
0:03:44 > 0:03:46- Thanks, Charlie.- See you later.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49So with the motor running, let's head out onto the highway.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53Hats in one car and country boys in t'other.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57- How competitive are you?- I'm...I'm reasonably competitive, yes.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59- That's good. That's good.- Yeah.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02But I'm going to need your help a lot, cos I don't know an awful lot about antics.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05- Well, you're in good company. - JOHN LAUGHS
0:04:05 > 0:04:09He said it. Ringwood's name seems to suggest a place ringed with trees,
0:04:09 > 0:04:15that's probably about right, although the 10th century version of it translates as "border wood,"
0:04:15 > 0:04:19which reflects the towns location on the edge of the New Forest.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Right.
0:04:21 > 0:04:24So let's see what they've got, shall we, Phil?
0:04:24 > 0:04:27I think I'm going to wait for the corporation dustcart to go past.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32I'll go and have a look. JOHN LAUGHS
0:04:32 > 0:04:33I might be some time!
0:04:33 > 0:04:38Miller's Antiques is a long-established antique shop
0:04:38 > 0:04:41complete with its own workshop for restorations.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43- Hi, Philip.- Hello.- Lovely to see you, my love.
0:04:43 > 0:04:48A fair bit of all this treasure will be beyond John and Phil's budget, of course.
0:04:48 > 0:04:52- I was just thinking you could do a, "Argh, Jim lad!"- Yargh!
0:04:52 > 0:04:55So what's the plan, maties?
0:04:55 > 0:04:59- Tactically, I think we want to try and find something perhaps a little bit unusual.- Yeah.
0:04:59 > 0:05:04- These type of things are lovely, but they've got a standard saleroom price.- Yeah.
0:05:04 > 0:05:09- I think...- So what we need is something that nobody can really guess how much we've paid for.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11- You got it in one.- Right.
0:05:11 > 0:05:14That bit of pastoral paraphernalia might just do the trick.
0:05:14 > 0:05:19- That's a grain measure,, isn't it? - Yes, it's an old grain measure from the days of farming,
0:05:19 > 0:05:21you know, well over 100 years ago.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25- A lot of these are French, aren't they?- Yeah, I think this is.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28- Double...- Entendre?
0:05:28 > 0:05:32- ..something.- Yeah.- I can't quite make it out.- And how much is that?
0:05:32 > 0:05:35That is £48. It says 1880 circa.
0:05:35 > 0:05:39- Shall we put it on the table?- Yeah. - That would be a great display
0:05:39 > 0:05:41for dried flowers in a big farmhouse kitchen.
0:05:41 > 0:05:46- Yeah.- It looks really good on this table. Perhaps we should buy the table.- You think that might sell?
0:05:46 > 0:05:49- It's a possibility. Let's see what else we can find.- OK.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51There's some boots over here. Let's just pull those...
0:05:51 > 0:05:53- Oh, Lord above!- Steady, Phil.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56- Carol, are we all right to put these on your table?- Yes, I think so.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00It's a bit unlucky to put shoes or boots on a table but, never mind, we won't worry about it now.
0:06:00 > 0:06:05- It's new shoes you shouldn't put on a table.- Oh, is that what is? OK. - Old ones are really lucky, Carol.
0:06:05 > 0:06:09- Don't believe a word of it. - But these are quite expensive boots
0:06:09 > 0:06:13- and nobody would wear them, they'd just be for decoration, wouldn't they?- Yeah.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16- You could perhaps do something on those?- Yeah, of course I can.
0:06:16 > 0:06:20- Let's see what else we've got.- These two are definitely on the march,
0:06:20 > 0:06:22but what about our other pairing?
0:06:22 > 0:06:26- Anything in common, apart from the hat?- I think we're quite similar.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29I think we are. I think we're both quite quirky.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32And maybe that line of quirk in the field of antiques
0:06:32 > 0:06:36could be the way we'll go today. Are you, Johnny, a bit of a negotiator?
0:06:36 > 0:06:38- I'm a pushover.- Are you?- Yes.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40Well, I'm hoping, Johnny, as we walk into the shops
0:06:40 > 0:06:43I'll be saying, "Johnny Ball, please reveal all."!
0:06:43 > 0:06:45- JOHNNY LAUGHS - And I'll let you search and find
0:06:45 > 0:06:49and I'll then come in as your wingman and give you some context, OK?
0:06:49 > 0:06:52They're also heading for Ringwood.
0:06:52 > 0:06:56- Good morning. How are you?- I'm fine. Lovely sunny day.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59- And pretty in pink as well by the way.- Thank you very much. Hello.
0:06:59 > 0:07:03- Hello.- Nice to meet you.- I'm Johnny. - Hello, Johnny, nice to meet you too.
0:07:03 > 0:07:07- May we enter your emporium?- Yes, of course. You're most welcome.- Thanks a lot.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09Hats off, squad.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13- Wow!- It looks like Lorraine's shop requires a thorough search.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17I think I'm the oldest thing in the shop. I go back some time, you know.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21- Which has surely got to help. - What a great pair of jugs.- Yeah.
0:07:21 > 0:07:25- Can you say that on television? - LORRAINE LAUGHS
0:07:25 > 0:07:29- They carry, Johnny, what we call the Bretby Sunburst mark.- Yeah.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31And that mark is a very Art Deco mark
0:07:31 > 0:07:34for Bretby of Burton-upon-Trent, near where I live.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37- South Derbyshire...these were made. - For beer?
0:07:37 > 0:07:41- Yeah, possibly the beer or perhaps mead.- It could be for mead.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44- With the honey.- Absolutely right, with the bees on.
0:07:44 > 0:07:45They're really quite nice.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48The only issue I've got on my jug is there's a chip here.
0:07:48 > 0:07:52- I saw on that one, that one's worn on the handle.- Yes.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55- That's in the firing. - Lorraine's quite right,
0:07:55 > 0:07:58that would've happened during the firing, so that goes back to when they were actually fired.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00So there's always seconds?
0:08:00 > 0:08:03So these are seconds, so we can knock half of that off.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06Well... Oh! SHE LAUGHS
0:08:06 > 0:08:09- I suppose we could come to some agreement, couldn't we?- Hmm.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13Cheeky! I think they're interested in those.
0:08:13 > 0:08:16- What's the very best price on those, Lorraine?- What was on the ticket?
0:08:16 > 0:08:20- 85.- 85? Oh, dear! What are you going to offer me, then?
0:08:20 > 0:08:22Well, my man here carries the money.
0:08:22 > 0:08:25- Do I?- I would... Lorraine, what's your very best?
0:08:25 > 0:08:29We would think 30 or 40, because then we might get 50 back.
0:08:29 > 0:08:31I was thinking more like 45.
0:08:31 > 0:08:34- I have to be guided by someone. - Yeah, I know.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37- I wonder, 40 and a kiss. - 35 and two kisses.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41- Whoa!- One from each of us. - Whoo! Go on, then.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44- 35 and two kisses, why not. - We'll take those.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46- Yes, that's fine. - Are we taking them?- Yes.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49- Yeah, fine. We'll take them. Thanks a lot- Why not?!
0:08:49 > 0:08:52And he said he wasn't much of a negotiator.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55What's happening elsewhere in Ringwood?
0:08:55 > 0:08:57I've been advised that brown furniture
0:08:57 > 0:08:59doesn't go too well auction at the moment.
0:08:59 > 0:09:04- No, that's perfectly true.- Oh, what have we got here? What is this?
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Well, I think it comes from a seaplane.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10- What the propellers of a seaplane turned into a table?- Yes.
0:09:10 > 0:09:14I think that is really unusual. I've never seen anything like that before.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16Can I pick it up and have a look?
0:09:16 > 0:09:19- What do you think?- I think that is... I think you've struck gold there.
0:09:19 > 0:09:24- All depending on price, of course. - They're £345.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26Is that for the...for the pair?
0:09:26 > 0:09:30- That is the for the pair, but I suppose I would split them if you were just interested in one.- Would you?
0:09:30 > 0:09:33My maths is awful. I should've had Johnny Ball here, really.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36So 345 divided by two is about 80, isn't it?
0:09:36 > 0:09:39- Eh, everybody's in a bit of a cheeky mood today.- Sounds good to me.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42- I like your maths.- Well, those are a possibility, aren't they?- Yeah.
0:09:42 > 0:09:44I could probably do them at 120.
0:09:44 > 0:09:49I think I'm warming to this lady. I love them. I do love them. I think they're funky.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53Shall we take that with us into the other room into our little collection and see where we go?
0:09:53 > 0:09:56Looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
0:09:56 > 0:09:59If that's going to be our big buy, I think we need to just forget those.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01Yeah, let's give 'em the boot, shall we?
0:10:01 > 0:10:04It's all down to price, but we like that, don't we? We both love that.
0:10:04 > 0:10:10- Yeah.- We've got this.- Now, I like this because of its kind of agricultural nature, you know.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12I don't suppose you can get this on Countryfile before the auction?
0:10:12 > 0:10:15- It might just increase the provenance a little bit.- Yeah.
0:10:15 > 0:10:20- Carol, we'd like to buy those two off you.- Yes.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23- And I think at auction that's probably 30-50 quid.- Hmm.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25Which means after commission...
0:10:25 > 0:10:29If it sells for 30, we'd like to try and buy it for 20-25 quid.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32- Oh, I say!- Would you like to pull up a chair, Carol?
0:10:32 > 0:10:34- SHE LAUGHS For support.- I'm going to need that.
0:10:34 > 0:10:40And I think that at auction is going to be perhaps £100-£120.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42- Hmm.- Which means we've got to try for that for about 80.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45- Oh, gosh! That's difficult.- It is, isn't it?- Hmm.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48- Which is putting the two in at about £100-£105.- Yes.
0:10:48 > 0:10:52Right, well,,, I can't do that, but I'd do 120 for the two.
0:10:52 > 0:10:57- Can we meet you halfway?- 110?- Well, it's a nice sunny day, why not?
0:10:57 > 0:11:01- Oh, you're an angel!- I'm trying to be an angel.- You are an angel.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04- Let me shake your hand. The first deal I've ever done.- That's 110.
0:11:04 > 0:11:08- OK.- And that's our lunch.- Yeah. - Aren't you lucky?
0:11:08 > 0:11:10You wouldn't like to throw in the champagne flutes as well?
0:11:10 > 0:11:13- No, I don't think so.- Sure? Then we'd really toast you.
0:11:13 > 0:11:17- Yes.- I think his first deal's gone to his head.
0:11:17 > 0:11:21So, a table and a grain measure for £110.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24- How about the hatters?- Are those cuff links?- Yeah, they are.
0:11:24 > 0:11:26No, they're not cuff links, they're silver buttons.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29- Are they quite early, do you think, Lorraine?- There's no actual date mark.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32You have got the lion on there, but I couldn't see a date.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35- Let's untie them.- OK.- Let's untie them.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38And one more thing I saw here, this is quite nice. Look at that.
0:11:38 > 0:11:42- Now, that's very me.- This is very you, isn't it?- This is a lighter.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46Lorraine, we're looking at a few things. Just this lighter here, it is Chagrin, isn't it?
0:11:46 > 0:11:49- It is.- So it's a sharkskin.- Yes.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52- And that goes back to the Jazz age? - Yes.- Right.- Back to the 1930s.
0:11:52 > 0:11:56- The 1920s.- Yeah.- '20s, '30s.- Oh, wonderful.- Isn't that nice?- Hmm.
0:11:56 > 0:12:01- English or would you say...?- I would have thought...- I'm not sure if it's got a maker on the bottom.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04- We don't catch a lot of sharks here, do we?- No, I haven't seen any in Ringwood.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07Not until today anyway, Lorraine.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10Lorraine, if I said to you... May I speak on your behalf?
0:12:10 > 0:12:13- You may speak on my behalf.- Are you sure, skipper?- Absolutely.- Thanks a lot.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16What could be the very best on those buttons
0:12:16 > 0:12:18and the little cigarette lighter?
0:12:18 > 0:12:22- If you had the lighter and the buttons...- All in for?
0:12:22 > 0:12:24- Only cos it's you.- Get out of here. - 30.
0:12:26 > 0:12:29- Would you take 25 for the whole lot? - No!
0:12:29 > 0:12:31- No, no, no, I can't!- Meet me at 28.
0:12:31 > 0:12:36- Final best price is 30.- OK. Shake her hand. We'll take them.- Cheers!
0:12:36 > 0:12:39Thanks, Lorraine. That means the silver buttons have cost us...?
0:12:39 > 0:12:42- The silver buttons have cost you 25. - Thank you.
0:12:42 > 0:12:43And a fiver for the lighter.
0:12:43 > 0:12:47- And we've just bought that fine pair of jugs for £35.- Those lovely jugs.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49- It's 65.- £65.
0:12:49 > 0:12:54Oh, look at this! One, two, three, four, five, six.
0:12:54 > 0:12:55And another five.
0:12:55 > 0:13:00- That's fantastic! Oh, and another kiss. Mmm. Oh, I say!- Good job.
0:13:00 > 0:13:04- I didn't really need you with me, did I?- Well, well,... - THEY LAUGH
0:13:04 > 0:13:08I reckon Charles is going to have to watch out, actually.
0:13:08 > 0:13:10Thank you.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13Time for a celebrity driving lesson.
0:13:14 > 0:13:21I haven't driven a gear-change car for about 25-30 years.
0:13:21 > 0:13:26I've been driving automatics, so if I forget to change gear, will you forgive me?
0:13:26 > 0:13:29- Do you want to just pull in and let me get out? - JOHN LAUGHS
0:13:29 > 0:13:34Mind the indicators too. But now for a brief shopping time-out.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37Cruising into Wiltshire and the cathedral city of Salisbury
0:13:37 > 0:13:40to find out about the man who's been described
0:13:40 > 0:13:43as the father of modern scientific archaeology.
0:13:43 > 0:13:48- And what did you say his name was? - Augustus Pitt Rivers, bit of a hero of mine.
0:13:48 > 0:13:51- Augustus Pitt Rivers is a great name.- Oh, wonderful.
0:13:51 > 0:13:55The Victorian was one of the first archaeologists
0:13:55 > 0:14:00to explore the lives of ordinary people and the founder of not one but two museums.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03- Hello.- Nice to see you.- Good to see you.- Good to see you as well.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05- Yeah, welcome to Salisbury Museum. - Thank you very much.
0:14:05 > 0:14:11George Augustus Pitt Rivers not to be confused with the Roman Emperor of the same name,
0:14:11 > 0:14:14spent the last 20 years of his life living near Salisbury
0:14:14 > 0:14:18creating a collection that's sure to appeal to John.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22The museum he set up on Cranborne Chase was actually for educating the local community,
0:14:22 > 0:14:24the local farming community.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27So he amassed huge amounts of agricultural equipment
0:14:27 > 0:14:31from places like Cyprus and from the Far East which he put on display.
0:14:31 > 0:14:35- In fact, we've actually got some of the items he brought here that I can show you.- Right.
0:14:37 > 0:14:42- What on earth is that?!- Well, it looks like it should fit on a beast of some sort or another.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45- Well, absolutely, yeah. It's a Neapolitan saddle.- A horse saddle?
0:14:45 > 0:14:50Well, it's called a saddle but it was actually for attaching a cart to the horse.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53- That would be a really impressive thing, wouldn't it?- It is wonderful.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55- And how old is that? - It's 19th century, we think.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58- And how did he start his collection? - He was originally in the army,
0:14:58 > 0:15:02so he travelled around Europe and he was also fascinated with Darwin
0:15:02 > 0:15:05and this idea that evolution could be applied to objects.
0:15:05 > 0:15:09- And that objects would evolve...- Did they know each other?- Yes, they did. Yeah.
0:15:09 > 0:15:13I mean, he was a huge fan. When The Origin of the Species was published in 1859,
0:15:13 > 0:15:16this was a huge thing for Pitt Rivers
0:15:16 > 0:15:20and he applied those theories to the material object world.
0:15:20 > 0:15:26So he started to think that you could look objects in the same way that animals evolved.
0:15:26 > 0:15:29Interesting. That's like where a stool then has a back put on it
0:15:29 > 0:15:33and then the back becomes raked and a stool develops into a chair.
0:15:33 > 0:15:35That's right, yeah.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39Most of the contents of the museum were less fancy than the saddle, however,
0:15:39 > 0:15:44like this 19th-century mill from Dorset and this Chinese rice winnowing machine.
0:15:44 > 0:15:47But why would he want that?
0:15:47 > 0:15:51He wanted to educate local people about farming practices around the world.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54So the core of the collection was things like this
0:15:54 > 0:15:59that showed people in Dorset how people worked and farmed all across the world.
0:15:59 > 0:16:04- And also how things were pretty similar around the world.- Absolutely.
0:16:04 > 0:16:08And that was part of it was really to try and show those similarities
0:16:08 > 0:16:11between the lot of the working person on a farm in Dorset
0:16:11 > 0:16:14and the lot of somebody working on a farm in Hong Kong.
0:16:14 > 0:16:19The general's greatest passion, however, was for archaeology
0:16:19 > 0:16:23and when he inherited a vast estate containing several historic sites,
0:16:23 > 0:16:26he set about excavating, completing about a dig a year
0:16:26 > 0:16:30from the mid-1880s until his death in 1900.
0:16:30 > 0:16:34- Well, what do we have here, Adrian? - We have some of the general's finds
0:16:34 > 0:16:37from his excavations on Cranborne Chase.
0:16:37 > 0:16:38The thing you can see particularly
0:16:38 > 0:16:42from these models here is that he was a methodical archaeologist.
0:16:42 > 0:16:45He recorded things in huge amounts of detail.
0:16:45 > 0:16:50Because before him archaeologists were really more like treasure hunters, weren't they?
0:16:50 > 0:16:53That's right, they were interested in the blink and the great discoveries,
0:16:53 > 0:16:57whereas the general was interested in finding out the mundane, things relating to people's everyday lives.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01He believed that even the most unexceptional piece of pottery or piece of bone
0:17:01 > 0:17:04could provide vital evidence to understand the past.
0:17:04 > 0:17:08Nearby Stonehenge came under Pitt Rivers protection
0:17:08 > 0:17:14when in 1882 he became Britain's first Inspector of Ancient Monuments.
0:17:14 > 0:17:18It was the first step towards the state safeguarding our heritage.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21And although the law gave him little real power,
0:17:21 > 0:17:24he travelled throughout the land recommending sites for recognition.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27He was an amazing man. Would you like to have known him?
0:17:27 > 0:17:31I think I would, actually. I think he was quite incredible. I mean his achievements in archaeology,
0:17:31 > 0:17:35in collecting, in founding museums and this whole sort of ethos behind educating the public,
0:17:35 > 0:17:39- I think makes someone quite remarkable.- And, of course, an incredibly rich man,
0:17:39 > 0:17:42which is why he could make this vast collection.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45Any idea how many things he did actually collect all his life?
0:17:45 > 0:17:48He must have bought in excess of 50,000 objects.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51- More than you, Phil.- Absolutely right.- Lovely to see you, Adrian.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54- Thank you very much indeed.- Thank you very much.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56Quite a chap, eh?
0:17:56 > 0:18:01Our trip now heads south towards the coast and Boscombe in Dorset.
0:18:03 > 0:18:05Looking out over Poole Bay...
0:18:05 > 0:18:08Gosh, think of a number.
0:18:08 > 0:18:12We have spent how much today so far? We have spent how much? How much?
0:18:12 > 0:18:17- We have spent 65 quid.- Correct. - For a load of old tat. No! No!
0:18:17 > 0:18:20- Get out of here!- Stuff that's going to make us a fortune.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24They could do with Johnny perhaps plumping for something he likes.
0:18:24 > 0:18:28- Spread the blame a bit, eh?- Meet Johnny.- Hello.- How are you, love? - Claire.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31Hello. Charles. Good to see you. Nice to see you on this lovely day.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34- We're here to buy one of everything. - Yeah.- Right.
0:18:34 > 0:18:38- But we might run out of money. - Yeah, you're the maths man, Johnny.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42It's quite charming, isn't it?
0:18:42 > 0:18:46- No. It's so drab.- Look at it. Late Victorian. Isn't it charming?
0:18:46 > 0:18:49- Do you like it?- I think it has legs, don't you think?
0:18:49 > 0:18:51Johnny's clearly not impressed.
0:18:51 > 0:18:56But if he can just find something that speaks to him, who knows?
0:18:56 > 0:18:58- They're quite heavy.- They are, yes.
0:18:58 > 0:19:03You've got to press that button there and it flips up like that.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06- Ah, mobile phones.- Right.
0:19:06 > 0:19:11- And now you lift up the receiver. - Right.- Aren't these wonderful. - Speak to me.- Johnny, are you there?
0:19:11 > 0:19:14- I am, yes.- I think these could be a good buy, you know.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17- I'm sorry, I've got to go, I'm wanted on the other phone. - CHARLES LAUGHS
0:19:17 > 0:19:22- What do we know about them? I think these are military issue, aren't they, Johnny?- I think so.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25They're really interesting. Er...Second World War.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28Oh, you charge 'em with this, don't you?
0:19:28 > 0:19:30I don't know if that's charging. I'll know if I get a belt off it.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33- Hello.- I think that sounds the bell usually, Johnny.
0:19:33 > 0:19:37- Claire, how much are they out of curiosity?- To you...£20 each
0:19:37 > 0:19:40- So £40.- Mental note, Johnny, for a second.
0:19:40 > 0:19:44- I'm making a mental note of that. - OK, good man.- We might come back to that.
0:19:44 > 0:19:47- We'll walk on for a sec.- So one possible purchase. Anything else?
0:19:47 > 0:19:52- Is this German?- It is.- Yeah, cos they have a character called Meckie,
0:19:52 > 0:19:55and when I was in the RAF I had a haircut like that.
0:19:55 > 0:20:00- And I was called Meckie cos I had a face like a pig, I suppose.- Oh, no!
0:20:00 > 0:20:06- And that was it.- They were cruel to you.- To me?- Yeah.- It toughened me up. Toughened me up.
0:20:06 > 0:20:10These three soft toys are by the German Steiff Company,
0:20:10 > 0:20:12famous for their teddy bears.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15But if they require a bit of a haircut...
0:20:15 > 0:20:19- That's a hedge trimmer.- He's right. He knows what it is.- Yeah.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22Privets, you just go... and keep going, you'll get everything.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25- Oh, yes, look. "Sponge's garden hedge trimmer."- There you go.
0:20:25 > 0:20:29- It says so.- We knew, but I've never seen one.- Oh, that's quite neat.
0:20:29 > 0:20:34I love that. I bet it cuts a card...a business card.
0:20:34 > 0:20:37- Oh, do be careful, chaps. - Oh, God! This is dangerous!
0:20:37 > 0:20:40- Johnny Ball's card.- Yes, put that in there.- Oh, crikey!
0:20:40 > 0:20:44- Look at that!- That is a neat cut. - Almost took my finger as well! - LAUGHTER
0:20:44 > 0:20:47I'll cut a corner off now.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49- Ouch!- Ohh! No, I'm OK.
0:20:49 > 0:20:54- That's enough, that's too close for comfort.- How much will this be?- 20.
0:20:54 > 0:20:57- I would like to do that, because it's so novel.- OK.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00- Just for the novelty value alone. - Yeah.- OK.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03That's number one. Number two, we'll revert back to the phones,
0:21:03 > 0:21:07which I think have a bit of mileage in them.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10- Let's put them in the equation as one lot for the auction.- Yes.
0:21:10 > 0:21:15- And then Johnny's clippers.- Johnny can have those for 15.- Cut price.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18- There you go.- Wow! I think that's good value.
0:21:18 > 0:21:22And if we put these in the array as well...in the arena.
0:21:22 > 0:21:24The best on these two would be?
0:21:24 > 0:21:28- £40.- No less?- She's not moving on those. She's not moving on those.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31- You want a nice round 50.- 50?- Yeah.
0:21:31 > 0:21:35- For the three? Yes, you can have that.- Yeah, OK.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37And now you're going to say something else.
0:21:37 > 0:21:41I think they might, judging by the way Johnny's hugging that squirrel.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43How much will they cost together?
0:21:43 > 0:21:46If you want those three, you can have those for 50.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49They should be 25-30 each.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52- I can't do any less than 50. No, sorry.- I'm not sure about the phones.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55- Not sure about the phones? - No, I'm sure about the others.
0:21:55 > 0:21:58- I'm sure about the phones.- You're sure?- Yeah, I'm sure about the phones.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01- We're a team.- That's teamwork. You want to be different, don't you?
0:22:01 > 0:22:03- We're sort of the Brazil of the antique world.- Yeah, we are.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06But we can make mistakes as well, can't we?
0:22:06 > 0:22:08Does that include own goals?
0:22:08 > 0:22:10They've not agreed on anything.
0:22:10 > 0:22:14So it's all in - wham, bam, thank you, ma'am! - £100.
0:22:14 > 0:22:19- Done.- Done. Yeah, we'll take them. Yeah, thanks a lot. That's a lot.
0:22:19 > 0:22:22- Thank you.- Shake the lady's hand. Thanks a lot.- Thank you very much.
0:22:22 > 0:22:25- Thanks. Give me the money.- Reasonable request.
0:22:25 > 0:22:30- It's so easy to get rid of it. Thank you ever so much.- Cheers. Thank you.
0:22:30 > 0:22:35- Thank you.- Very nice to meet you. - That's your eighth kiss today.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37Jealousy will get you nowhere, Charles.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40So £100 for the phones, clippers and toys.
0:22:42 > 0:22:46And shop shut, it's now time to get back to our starting line-ups.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49- ENGINE TURNS OVER - I think we've got a problem.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Try pressing a different button next time.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54I'm glad we're not stuck behind that.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56Not...not that we can actually move.
0:22:56 > 0:23:00- JOHN LAUGHS - We might need a bubble car for them tomorrow.
0:23:00 > 0:23:02I wonder. Night-night, chaps.
0:23:04 > 0:23:08Next morning our classic cars are once again up and running...
0:23:08 > 0:23:12- A perfect day, isn't it, for a open car and the countryside.- Beautiful.
0:23:12 > 0:23:15..en route to an agreed rendezvous.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18- Oh!- What's going on?- Oh, no!
0:23:18 > 0:23:21- Stay there.- This could be...awkward.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23LAUGHTER
0:23:23 > 0:23:26Well, someone must be going the wrong way.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29Yesterday, Johnny and Charles bought a large amount of stuff.
0:23:29 > 0:23:31- Hello?- Johnny, are you there?
0:23:31 > 0:23:35Acquiring some field telephones, some Steiff animals,
0:23:35 > 0:23:38some jugs, some silver buttons,
0:23:38 > 0:23:41a sharkskin lighter...and a hedge trimmer.
0:23:41 > 0:23:48That lot cost £165, leaving £235 to spend today.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51While John and Phil chose a grain measure
0:23:51 > 0:23:54and a table made from a flying boat propeller.
0:23:54 > 0:23:57- What do you think?- I think you've struck gold there.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59Those set them back £110,
0:23:59 > 0:24:02so they still have almost £300 in their wallets.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04They may well need it, too.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06Phil, I'd like to be honest with you,
0:24:06 > 0:24:11I do have the intention today of probably buying up to six lots for the auction.
0:24:11 > 0:24:14Well, that's good. Well, we've bought two so far
0:24:14 > 0:24:18and we've got two shops left and I was thinking if we buy two in each shop, so that's us six as well.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20So then it's to me to you at the auction
0:24:20 > 0:24:22to me to us to me to you to you to me.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24- What you talking about?!- Time to get started.
0:24:24 > 0:24:30And although yesterday Johnny Ball enjoyed the Merc, John Craven's got other ideas today.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34- Are we swapping cars?- Would you like to?- Absolutely, yeah.
0:24:34 > 0:24:38- Take a chance.- Can we get in that one with two hats.
0:24:38 > 0:24:40- JOHN LAUGHS - We'll be OK.- OK.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43Later, they'll be on their way to Oxfordshire
0:24:43 > 0:24:45and an auction in Watlington,
0:24:45 > 0:24:49but our next stop is the Dorset village of Lytchett Minster.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55John, that was a masterstroke swapping cars this morning.
0:24:55 > 0:24:58- Do you think so?- Oh, yeah. - Well, I think we deserve it.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01I mean, the MGB is a lovely little car but this is a nice big car!
0:25:01 > 0:25:03- This is a gentleman's club, isn't it?- It is.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06It's an elegant cruiser, isn't it?
0:25:06 > 0:25:10Ever deeper into the country, Phil's thoughts are taking a familiar turn.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13We'll go to our shop, but there might be a farm here or something,
0:25:13 > 0:25:16- we can rock up and try to buy something from.- Are we allowed to do that?
0:25:16 > 0:25:18- The rules are how we make them.- Oh, right.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21Yeah! Phil's always pushing the envelope
0:25:21 > 0:25:24and for once he seems to have found a kindred spirit.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Mind your head. Tiny little shop.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29- Thelma it must be?- Yes.- Nice to see you.- Hello. Hello, nice to meet you.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31- Button shop, antique shop?- Yes.
0:25:31 > 0:25:36- 44 years I've been here.- Oh, right. - Getting the hang of it now?- Yeah, just about.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38LAUGHTER
0:25:38 > 0:25:40It's called The Button Shop because of the Dorset buttons
0:25:40 > 0:25:42Dorset buttons, what's that then?
0:25:42 > 0:25:45- Never heard of Dorset buttons? - I haven't heard of Dorset buttons.
0:25:45 > 0:25:49Dorset buttons were the biggest industry that Dorset's ever known.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53And they were made in Dorset for 300 years.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55- Wow!- Here they are.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58They're all hand-stitched in linen thread.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01Thelma's even written a book about them.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04But there are plenty of other items here that might catch their eye
0:26:04 > 0:26:07and John's not wasting any time.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09What do you think of this then, Phil?
0:26:09 > 0:26:11Arts and Craftsy, but I think that's really nice.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14- A firescreen, isn't it? Is that copper?- Yeah, I like that.
0:26:14 > 0:26:16- No, it's brass, I think.- It's brass? - Brass, yeah.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19- It is beautiful, isn't it?- She's almost eastern looking, isn't she?
0:26:19 > 0:26:23- Yeah, she is, isn't she?- And I think it is around about Arts and Crafts era.
0:26:23 > 0:26:26It's got some stainings on it, do you think they'll come off?
0:26:26 > 0:26:30- No, I think we should just leave that the way it is.- Oh, should we? - I do.- Really?
0:26:30 > 0:26:34- We want to present an undiscovered jewel, that's what we want to do. - THELMA LAUGHS
0:26:34 > 0:26:38- What's your ticket price on that, Thelma?- 50 quid.- Could you take 30?
0:26:38 > 0:26:43- 35?- 30.- His learning the trade, - isn't he? Cos I need to make a bit of a profit on it.
0:26:45 > 0:26:49- Oh, well, since it's you.- Are you sure?- Yeah.- Thank you.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52- Do you think that's a good buy?- I think that's a really good buy.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55- I think that's a very good buy. - Thank you very much, Thelma.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58- Thank you, Thelma.- Lovely.- There you are, I'm going to put it in the... - He's got the money.
0:26:58 > 0:27:02- THELMA LAUGHS - Giving me the money.- There we are, look, in the tin.
0:27:02 > 0:27:06- Thank you very much.- But there is something else Thelma can help with.
0:27:06 > 0:27:10This is an off-beat question this, are there any big farms around here?
0:27:10 > 0:27:13- Yes, there's Post Green Farm just up the road here.- Where would that be?
0:27:13 > 0:27:16- Do you know them?- Yes, I do.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19Do you think you could, could I impose on you, perhaps make a call
0:27:19 > 0:27:23to see if they would be receptive to John and I just appearing on them?
0:27:23 > 0:27:26- Sure.- This is your thinking, to go and see if there's anything worth buying?
0:27:26 > 0:27:30- Yeah, if we can go find a farm, it'd be lovely to go find old equipment. - Yeah.- Yeah.
0:27:30 > 0:27:34Here we go. Phil and John's growing contacts book
0:27:34 > 0:27:37- has brought them just up the road. - Here we are, Post Green Farm.
0:27:37 > 0:27:42- I wonder what the farmer will be happy to sell?- Hello. Are you Christopher?- Yes, I'm Christopher.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45- We spoke on the phone.- We did.- How are you? Good to see you.- And you.
0:27:45 > 0:27:49- And you've got something for us maybe?- I got something you can look at.- Oh, right.
0:27:49 > 0:27:54Beware, Chris, once introduced these pests can be difficult to get rid of.
0:27:54 > 0:27:57Oh, look at that cart. That is just a bit out of our budget that, isn't it?
0:27:57 > 0:28:00Yeah. What era is that do you reckon?
0:28:00 > 0:28:03I would have thought it was sort of between the wars.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06- Or maybe before that.- A bit earlier than that, I think.- Yeah.
0:28:06 > 0:28:10- Not for sale! But what is?- This is the silage knife.
0:28:10 > 0:28:13- And you used to...- Cut it into the silage.
0:28:13 > 0:28:18- Make it into the silage and make nice squares.- Chop a square out. Yeah.
0:28:19 > 0:28:24- I think that's probably a bit too rough for us.- Well, that's a first.
0:28:24 > 0:28:28- Staddle stones?- We've got the things that go up like that.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30- But not the caps?- Not the caps.
0:28:30 > 0:28:35- Look at that!- Those are wicked. Have we got four.- Three or four. Four there.
0:28:35 > 0:28:40- They are big, aren't they?- Staddle all stones should tickle John's country interests.
0:28:40 > 0:28:44- These were formed in...the 19th-century?- Yes, I would have thought so.
0:28:44 > 0:28:47These date back to the old days of agriculture
0:28:47 > 0:28:51when you would put these all around in an oblong shape
0:28:51 > 0:28:56and put the mushroom tops on and then create a base and then put your haystack on top.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58Going back to the old days of haystacks.
0:28:58 > 0:29:02And that meant there was air coming up and it stopped the rats coming up.
0:29:02 > 0:29:05These are very much part of farming history.
0:29:05 > 0:29:07I think they're lovely. How much would you want for two of those?
0:29:07 > 0:29:10- 50 quid each.- Oh, 50 for the two.
0:29:10 > 0:29:12LAUGHTER Don't you...?
0:29:12 > 0:29:15- I'm nothing to do with this.- I'm a farmer.
0:29:15 > 0:29:19- The price of beef has gone down for farmers.- Yeah, lamb's gone up though.
0:29:19 > 0:29:21And milk prices have gone up.
0:29:21 > 0:29:25Hey, never mind Countryfile, this is turning into Farming Today.
0:29:25 > 0:29:27- Honestly, Phil, do you think they would sell?- Yeah, I do.
0:29:27 > 0:29:30This architectural salvage stuff is actually quite sought after.
0:29:30 > 0:29:35And in all fairness to Chris here, if you had staddle stone caps on these,
0:29:35 > 0:29:39I think you'd be looking at £200 each for them as straddle stones.
0:29:39 > 0:29:41What would you be happy with?
0:29:41 > 0:29:45- 75 for the pair.- That...I'd say that's great.- Do you think so?
0:29:45 > 0:29:50- Yeah, I do. Shall we shake the man's hand and then find out what they're worth?- Yeah.
0:29:50 > 0:29:53- This could be interesting, couldn't it? Thank you. - CHRIS LAUGHS
0:29:53 > 0:29:56- Thank you very much indeed. This is the man with the money, Chris.- Good!
0:29:56 > 0:30:00- 60. 80. So you owe us a fiver - I owe you a fiver.
0:30:00 > 0:30:04- And we now own two staddle stones that we don't know the value of. - LAUGHTER
0:30:04 > 0:30:08- And we don't know if anybody will buy them without the mushroom top. Bit of a gamble, Phil.- Good point.
0:30:08 > 0:30:12But we've seen him splash out on quirkier items, haven't we.
0:30:12 > 0:30:14Not heavy though. Mind your back.
0:30:15 > 0:30:19Now, what about Johnny and Charles? Two hats in a hurry, I'd say.
0:30:21 > 0:30:25As they manoeuvre towards the Dorset Downs and Blandford Forum.
0:30:25 > 0:30:28Blandford Forum. I love it, I've been there several times.
0:30:28 > 0:30:31He's not been to Blandford Camp, though,
0:30:31 > 0:30:36to a museum dedicated to a vital supporting unit of the British Army.
0:30:36 > 0:30:38Welcome to the Royal Signals Museum.
0:30:38 > 0:30:41This should interest a technology buff like Johnny.
0:30:41 > 0:30:44As you can see our cap badge is the figure of Mercury,
0:30:44 > 0:30:48- who was the messenger of the gods. - Is that Hermes?- It is.
0:30:48 > 0:30:51- Hermes, Mercury.- There you are. - It's both, the same bloke.
0:30:54 > 0:30:58Communications in war has meant life or death since ancient times.
0:30:58 > 0:31:00But first as the Royal Engineers
0:31:00 > 0:31:02and now as the Role Signals
0:31:02 > 0:31:04the British Army has its own specialists.
0:31:04 > 0:31:06A very simple system of...
0:31:06 > 0:31:10- shutters to make your letters.- Open and closed.
0:31:10 > 0:31:14Blandford Camp was once the site of a Murray Shutter telegraph station,
0:31:14 > 0:31:19whereby semaphore messages were transmitted via several hilltops
0:31:19 > 0:31:21from navy ships to the Admiralty.
0:31:21 > 0:31:24- What's that say?- No idea.- No, OK.
0:31:24 > 0:31:27But it was during the Crimean War in the 1850s
0:31:27 > 0:31:31that communications technology took a huge step forward.
0:31:31 > 0:31:33This is the single-needle telegraph
0:31:33 > 0:31:38and it was the first use of electronic communications on a military battlefield.
0:31:38 > 0:31:41The Telegraph was invented in the 1830s,
0:31:41 > 0:31:44but obviously the military saw a use for it.
0:31:44 > 0:31:47It had its pros and cons, certainly from the military perceptive
0:31:47 > 0:31:50they weren't too happy with it because all of a sudden
0:31:50 > 0:31:53they'd gone from complete independence of the generals
0:31:53 > 0:31:56to a manipulation by the War Office and politicians,
0:31:56 > 0:32:01as all of a sudden instead of being able to take a message to London
0:32:01 > 0:32:03and getting it back within months, it was within minutes.
0:32:03 > 0:32:06Another drawback from the generals' point of view
0:32:06 > 0:32:10was that the press was now able to use those telegraph cables
0:32:10 > 0:32:15to keep the public informed about how badly the war was being run.
0:32:15 > 0:32:18It was the first time as well that the military
0:32:18 > 0:32:20actually laid their own undersea cable.
0:32:20 > 0:32:24By the end of the war they'd already laid 21 miles of cable
0:32:24 > 0:32:26and they had eight telegraph offices.
0:32:26 > 0:32:29At the Battle of the Somme, they laid 50,000 miles.
0:32:29 > 0:32:32So although 21 miles sounds an incredible feat then,
0:32:32 > 0:32:35it was superseded by some astonishing feats later on.
0:32:35 > 0:32:38That cable was bravely supplied by the Royal Engineers,
0:32:38 > 0:32:44who by the time of the First World War had become the Royal Engineers Signal Service,
0:32:44 > 0:32:47getting the message through by any possible means.
0:32:47 > 0:32:52- This is Pigeon 2709 and it is the real artefact.- A real pigeon?- A real pigeon.- Wow!
0:32:52 > 0:32:55It's took a message on 3rd October, 1917,
0:32:55 > 0:32:59from the front line to brigade headquarters starting off at 1.30 in the afternoon
0:32:59 > 0:33:02and didn't get there until 10.35 the next day.
0:33:02 > 0:33:05So it was something like 21 hours in flight.
0:33:05 > 0:33:08We believe what happened is it got shot, as you can see,
0:33:08 > 0:33:12but it somehow managed to get that message through and then died on arrival.
0:33:12 > 0:33:15- Did it have a name at all?- No, it was just known as Pigeon 2709.
0:33:15 > 0:33:19But this is the kind of message that they would use.
0:33:19 > 0:33:22So this is actually a real pigeon-carrier message carrier.
0:33:22 > 0:33:26And what you'll find is inside there's a little message there.
0:33:26 > 0:33:29So successful were pigeons like our feathered friend
0:33:29 > 0:33:34that by the end of the war there were about 22,000 of them in the British Army
0:33:34 > 0:33:37and they carried on making quite a contribution.
0:33:37 > 0:33:39The first message of the success of D-Day
0:33:39 > 0:33:43wasn't sent by electronic means but was taken by pigeon.
0:33:43 > 0:33:45Talking of state-of-the-art communications,
0:33:45 > 0:33:48yesterday Johnny and Charles acquired a pair of field telephones
0:33:48 > 0:33:50that would easily fit in here.
0:33:50 > 0:33:54So what better opportunity to find out more about them.
0:33:55 > 0:33:59These two are Second World War variance. They're called the Tele F.
0:33:59 > 0:34:02Came in late 1945 the MK II.
0:34:02 > 0:34:07I've no doubt these were mainly used in the European campaign post D-Day.
0:34:07 > 0:34:11- And you've got one almost identical in here.- There's one almost identical in your cabinet.
0:34:11 > 0:34:14- I'm quite excited.- That's right. That one was actually used during D-Day.
0:34:14 > 0:34:17- So they've got great historical significance.- Yes.
0:34:17 > 0:34:22- But as with anything... the value is dependent upon on the condition and the provenance.- Uh-huh.
0:34:22 > 0:34:25If they happened to be Montgomery's personal radios,
0:34:25 > 0:34:27they would be extraordinarily valuable.
0:34:27 > 0:34:30They still have a value and these are in relatively good condition.
0:34:30 > 0:34:34- What are they worth?- I would say the value for each
0:34:34 > 0:34:36can be from £20 up to about £50.
0:34:36 > 0:34:39Well, that'll have them looking forward to the auction.
0:34:39 > 0:34:42But first there's a chance to acquire a valuable new skill.
0:34:42 > 0:34:46One of the other forms that has always been around for many, many years,
0:34:46 > 0:34:48was used both in the First and Second World War
0:34:48 > 0:34:50are visual communications using flags.
0:34:50 > 0:34:53We've got a man out here on the field
0:34:53 > 0:34:55and you've got a little check card there
0:34:55 > 0:34:58and he's going to send you a message via semaphore.
0:34:58 > 0:35:00- Good luck, everybody.- What's that? Is that L?
0:35:00 > 0:35:02That's a J to start you off.
0:35:02 > 0:35:04You send that signal back to say you've read it.
0:35:04 > 0:35:07And, remember, it's reversed.
0:35:07 > 0:35:10- Now he'll start his message. - There we go.
0:35:10 > 0:35:13B-A-N...
0:35:13 > 0:35:15- "Ban."- A.- A.
0:35:15 > 0:35:18- N-A. Banana! Hooray! - Banana. We got it.
0:35:18 > 0:35:22Oh, dear. Now they're having a go. Look out!
0:35:22 > 0:35:24OK, that means, "Let's go."
0:35:24 > 0:35:26One of you's wrong!
0:35:27 > 0:35:29Sorry, that way! B.
0:35:29 > 0:35:31- No!- Sorry, A! Sorry.
0:35:31 > 0:35:33These two are never going to be quite on the same page, are they?
0:35:33 > 0:35:35A.
0:35:35 > 0:35:37N. Um...
0:35:37 > 0:35:39- A.- What's Z?- Er...
0:35:41 > 0:35:42Z's...
0:35:42 > 0:35:45- Z's that.- Right, got it now.- OK.
0:35:45 > 0:35:46Z.
0:35:47 > 0:35:49- A.- That's it! What was that?
0:35:49 > 0:35:50Bonanza!
0:35:50 > 0:35:52- Abanaza!- Oh!
0:35:52 > 0:35:53Well done. Got you!
0:35:53 > 0:35:57But while Johnny and Charles are having words in a field...
0:35:57 > 0:36:02John and Phil already have their shop tactics finely honed.
0:36:02 > 0:36:04Shall we split up or shall we just keep on working together?
0:36:04 > 0:36:06- What do you think.- Well, I think...
0:36:06 > 0:36:08I would like to think that working together
0:36:08 > 0:36:10has been a winning combo so far.
0:36:10 > 0:36:12Yeah, we've been a good team so far, haven't we?
0:36:12 > 0:36:15Our route's about to track back down south,
0:36:15 > 0:36:18towards the seaside once more, and Bournemouth.
0:36:19 > 0:36:23Especially rich in literary associations, is Bournemouth.
0:36:23 > 0:36:28Romantic poet Shelley LITERALLY left his heart there.
0:36:28 > 0:36:29Tolkien holidayed here
0:36:29 > 0:36:32and Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Jekyll And Hyde
0:36:32 > 0:36:34whilst staying in the town.
0:36:34 > 0:36:37Now, what's the story of Molly's Den, I wonder?
0:36:37 > 0:36:40- Goodness me.- This place is massive, isn't it?- Vast, isn't it?
0:36:40 > 0:36:45Yes, it's a bit of an epic, I'd say - packed with all sorts!
0:36:45 > 0:36:48- Just goes on and on, this place. - It does, doesn't it?
0:36:48 > 0:36:49They said they'd stay together
0:36:49 > 0:36:52but it turns out this team has a third member.
0:36:52 > 0:36:56My wife, who is not a professional expert like Phil,
0:36:56 > 0:36:58but she likes to do her antique collecting,
0:36:58 > 0:37:00she gave a bit of a list before I left home.
0:37:00 > 0:37:02And so she said things like,
0:37:02 > 0:37:05"Look out for silver spoons that have got good hallmarks on them.
0:37:05 > 0:37:07"Some named sports things.
0:37:07 > 0:37:09"Nothing with bumps or chips in it.
0:37:09 > 0:37:13"Nothing Victorian," she said. "Go for Art Nouveau or Deco."
0:37:13 > 0:37:17So I got quite a list here to work on, a little shopping list.
0:37:17 > 0:37:20Sage advice, eh? Perhaps we should have booked Mrs Craven, then.
0:37:20 > 0:37:22Still, at least Phil has his uses.
0:37:22 > 0:37:25- It's so nice, isn't it?- It's lovely. - And it's £45.
0:37:25 > 0:37:27Do you know what? I'm older than that is.
0:37:27 > 0:37:29- It might be...three weeks old?- Mm.
0:37:29 > 0:37:34- Oh.- Possibly four.- Oh, no. Oh, no! - I did say that, but...
0:37:34 > 0:37:36We're going to find an antique.
0:37:36 > 0:37:37That IS the point, after all.
0:37:39 > 0:37:42Now, what about our leading semaphore duo?
0:37:42 > 0:37:44In Blandford Forum with over £200 left,
0:37:44 > 0:37:46and hot to shop.
0:37:46 > 0:37:49At least, I think that's what it means.
0:37:49 > 0:37:51Wow! Look at this! Ho-ho!
0:37:51 > 0:37:54- Oh, very nice. Very nice.- It has...
0:37:54 > 0:37:55HE SNIFFS
0:37:55 > 0:37:58- ..a smell of pine, hasn't it? - Smell of pine?- Yes.- Yes.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01That's the smell of antiques in the afternoon, gentlemen.
0:38:01 > 0:38:03That's quite nice, Johnny.
0:38:03 > 0:38:06The reason I like this - can you see it's got like an orange peel effect?
0:38:06 > 0:38:08Yes.
0:38:08 > 0:38:11And the orange peel effect is created by the salt glaze,
0:38:11 > 0:38:13that is laid on to a stoneware body.
0:38:13 > 0:38:16And this is based on a Bellarmine. And it's ovoid form...
0:38:16 > 0:38:18- You think it's that age?- Um...
0:38:18 > 0:38:21I think it's quite early but not overly old.
0:38:21 > 0:38:24But you did buy jugs yesterday, Charles.
0:38:24 > 0:38:27It's got a few chips. You know, it's got some age.
0:38:27 > 0:38:29And you know how you said to me yesterday,
0:38:29 > 0:38:31- there weren't that many things older than you?- Yeah?- This one is.
0:38:31 > 0:38:33- It is, yes. - You're in good condition, mate.
0:38:33 > 0:38:35JOHNNY CHUCKLES
0:38:35 > 0:38:38- Hello, sir.- Oh!- Good afternoon.- How are you?- Pleased to meet you.- Hello.
0:38:38 > 0:38:42- I'm Johnny.- Johnny.- This is Charles. - Charles.- Charles.- And you are?
0:38:42 > 0:38:45- Tony Hunt.- Tony, hello.- Nice to meet you. You're more than welcome.
0:38:45 > 0:38:48- What's that under there? - It's an old, painted pine box.
0:38:48 > 0:38:51- May we pull it out, Tony?- Yeah, course you can.- Would you mind?
0:38:51 > 0:38:53No, we'll have to lift that off...
0:38:53 > 0:38:55- I'll have a look at this in a minute.- May we lift your end up?
0:38:55 > 0:38:57- Course you can.- Is it not a...?
0:38:57 > 0:38:59Is that not a croquet chest or something?
0:38:59 > 0:39:02- No, it's bigger than a croquet one. - It's too big, isn't it? Too big.
0:39:02 > 0:39:04- And it was lockable at one time. - Yeah.
0:39:04 > 0:39:06It's quite early.
0:39:06 > 0:39:08The label, we can't quite make out a date
0:39:08 > 0:39:12or whether it was some sort of travelling trunk,
0:39:12 > 0:39:14- maybe overseas or...- Yeah.
0:39:14 > 0:39:16Oh, I can just see... Can you see that? It says GNR.
0:39:16 > 0:39:17GNR?
0:39:17 > 0:39:20- Great Northern Railway.- Correct.
0:39:20 > 0:39:23- So I think it's perhaps of railwayana interest.- Yes?
0:39:23 > 0:39:26- But that's quite good.- Yeah? - I quite like that.
0:39:26 > 0:39:30- Charles is taking over here a bit, I think.- How much would it be?
0:39:30 > 0:39:34- Put it down.- How about if I said £20?
0:39:34 > 0:39:35What is it worth, Johnny?
0:39:35 > 0:39:38- I'm not keen on it. So I would say, for me, a fiver.- Yeah.
0:39:38 > 0:39:39Oh, crikey me.
0:39:39 > 0:39:41Would you take £10 for it?
0:39:41 > 0:39:45- Why not? Why not?- Whoo! - Shall we buy it?
0:39:45 > 0:39:48- No. No, I don't think so.- I'd like to buy it, Johnny.- Oh, right.
0:39:48 > 0:39:51- Yeah, yeah.- Right. We're having our first tiff.- We are.
0:39:51 > 0:39:55Come on, you two, think like a team. No "I" and all that.
0:39:55 > 0:39:59What about this, look? Now this, I think, is absolutely beautiful.
0:39:59 > 0:40:01And I don't know what it is
0:40:01 > 0:40:04- but that's a clamp for a table or a bench, right?- Yes.
0:40:04 > 0:40:07And that goes on there. That... You feed...
0:40:07 > 0:40:11- Either sausages come out of there or...- Oranges.- Oranges?- Oranges.
0:40:11 > 0:40:14Oranges wouldn't come out of there. It's not big enough.
0:40:14 > 0:40:17- I think it's as it says on the actual cast iron.- Marmalade.
0:40:17 > 0:40:19"The Universal Marmalade Cutter."
0:40:19 > 0:40:21You've got radar eyes, you have.
0:40:21 > 0:40:24He keeps them PEELED, certainly, Johnny!
0:40:24 > 0:40:26So you'd quarter the oranges first?
0:40:26 > 0:40:28Right, got you. You do it that way.
0:40:28 > 0:40:32Then perhaps have a piece of wood about the same size to bung them in,
0:40:32 > 0:40:35to keep that... And then this goes... What happens to this?
0:40:35 > 0:40:38- So that...- That just slides across to slice it off.- Oh, it slices.
0:40:38 > 0:40:42- Have we got price on this? Have we got...?- 25 on this.- 25 on that.
0:40:42 > 0:40:43HE INHALES SHARPLY
0:40:43 > 0:40:48- Would you take 15 for it? - How about if we said 30 for the two?
0:40:48 > 0:40:49I love the box.
0:40:49 > 0:40:52We can't put those in the same lot, they're so unlike each other.
0:40:52 > 0:40:55- They are. They are.- And I think we might have too many lots.
0:40:55 > 0:40:58Let's leave those two scratching their heads
0:40:58 > 0:41:00and see how the opposition are faring.
0:41:00 > 0:41:01Here I is.
0:41:01 > 0:41:04- I just found that down there. - Oh, I saw that earlier.
0:41:04 > 0:41:07It's early 19th century. Moulded half columns.
0:41:07 > 0:41:09These are called bell-push mouldings.
0:41:09 > 0:41:12Because they're like a bell push.
0:41:12 > 0:41:15That, at auction, is going to make...30-50 quid.
0:41:15 > 0:41:16- How much is on that?- 48.
0:41:16 > 0:41:19It's a bit of brown furniture.
0:41:19 > 0:41:21- Yeah, I was told, "No brown furniture."- Well, the point...
0:41:21 > 0:41:23And, "No Victorian furniture."
0:41:23 > 0:41:26Have a look on that list again. Did it say mirrors?
0:41:26 > 0:41:28What does the list say?
0:41:28 > 0:41:31- Mirrors?- No, doesn't say mirrors. - She's not on the phone, is she?
0:41:31 > 0:41:33- We can phone her, could we?- No.
0:41:33 > 0:41:35- Just ask what she thinks about mirrors?- Well...
0:41:35 > 0:41:38- Or should we just take a risk on it? - We'll take a risk.- OK.
0:41:38 > 0:41:40So...£48, Beverley. What...?
0:41:40 > 0:41:42What will you accept on this one?
0:41:42 > 0:41:45Um, just give us a second, I'll come back to you, John.
0:41:45 > 0:41:47- We'll continue to have a look, all right?- Yes.
0:41:47 > 0:41:49- OK.- Can I leave that there? - Yeah, I'll take it. Thank you.
0:41:49 > 0:41:51- Don't let anybody take it, will you? - No.
0:41:51 > 0:41:53Very civilised.
0:41:53 > 0:41:56Any news on Johnny and Charles's dilemma?
0:41:56 > 0:41:57CHARLES: Shall we buy the box?
0:41:57 > 0:42:01If you... Look, you are the boss in the end. I've only got the money.
0:42:01 > 0:42:03I'm your money-turnover man and I'm going to say,
0:42:03 > 0:42:05- "We'll buy the box," OK?- Yeah.
0:42:05 > 0:42:08Shake the man's hand. Shake his hand. Thanks a lot.
0:42:08 > 0:42:12So, one box for £10, but what'll go with it?
0:42:12 > 0:42:14Johnny wants the marmalade cutter for £20,
0:42:14 > 0:42:18but Charles prefers the cider jug for the same price.
0:42:18 > 0:42:21Johnny's taking a lot of convincing, though.
0:42:21 > 0:42:23I would love to buy the jug.
0:42:23 > 0:42:26If it's about making money, I think that'll give us another yield,
0:42:26 > 0:42:28but it's just trying to...
0:42:28 > 0:42:31- Would it really? - Yes, it would.- The jug.- Yeah.
0:42:31 > 0:42:34- So we're not having the other two? - We'll take the box and the jug.
0:42:34 > 0:42:36We're taking the box and the jug?
0:42:36 > 0:42:38And make a little liquorice all-sort of lots for the auction.
0:42:38 > 0:42:41- We're not making marmalade, we have to buy marmalade.- Correct.
0:42:41 > 0:42:43I'm looking at you and I can't believe what you're saying.
0:42:43 > 0:42:46I can't believe what you're doing with our money.
0:42:46 > 0:42:50- So that's an attractive jug?- Yeah. - And that's an attractive box?- Yes.
0:42:50 > 0:42:51- Really?- And we go, go, go.
0:42:51 > 0:42:54I think this is all about to kick off.
0:42:54 > 0:42:56Begins with S, but it's not smart. It's...
0:42:56 > 0:42:58HE MOUTHS
0:42:58 > 0:43:00What did you say? Stupendous?
0:43:00 > 0:43:03The marmalade cutter will make money. It will make money.
0:43:03 > 0:43:06- I would definitely take the jug and the box.- Right.
0:43:06 > 0:43:07Have you got boxing gloves?
0:43:07 > 0:43:09Steady on, Johnny.
0:43:09 > 0:43:11I don't think I can agree to this,
0:43:11 > 0:43:15because when you put the two together, you will devalue both.
0:43:15 > 0:43:18That box we've bought and I think it will triple its price,
0:43:18 > 0:43:20I think it'll make £30 plus. All day long.
0:43:20 > 0:43:23So the marmalade cutter and the box.
0:43:23 > 0:43:26- Yeah.- Marmalade cutter and the box going once, going twice...
0:43:26 > 0:43:28- But not the jug.- But not the jug.
0:43:28 > 0:43:32I don't want it. Go on, I'll take it, because you're the man.
0:43:32 > 0:43:34- Thank you very much.- We'll take it.
0:43:34 > 0:43:38- Here's one for you. Two for you. Three for you.- Thank you very much.
0:43:38 > 0:43:41- Thanks a lot.- Thanks for keeping out of it, that was very good.
0:43:42 > 0:43:46Compromise pulled off, but what a fuss over £20, eh?
0:43:50 > 0:43:52Back in Bournemouth,
0:43:52 > 0:43:54John and Phil have got a deal for £25 on their mirror.
0:43:54 > 0:43:56Best price, £25.
0:43:56 > 0:43:59- 25?- You're an angel.- Will you go for that?- Yeah, absolutely.
0:43:59 > 0:44:04Plus they found a cribbage set with the ticket price of £35 and this...
0:44:04 > 0:44:08The only reason why I like the mandolin is because I am of a certain age,
0:44:08 > 0:44:12Mike Oldfield, Tubular Bells, mandolin!
0:44:12 > 0:44:15I can't play it. How much is that?
0:44:15 > 0:44:18That is...
0:44:18 > 0:44:24- £55. Circa- 1900. This looks like it's sat in mahogany.
0:44:24 > 0:44:27- I mean, I wouldn't want to go and make that for 50 quid, would you?- No.
0:44:29 > 0:44:31These things are by and large Neapolitan.
0:44:31 > 0:44:34And how do they go at auction? This kind of instrument?
0:44:34 > 0:44:37I actually sold a mandolin last week for nearly £1,500.
0:44:37 > 0:44:40- Oh, really? We'll buy this one then. - But it wasn't that one.
0:44:40 > 0:44:43So what's it to be? These two are so of one mind
0:44:43 > 0:44:45that Phil's let John do the deal.
0:44:45 > 0:44:49I'm torn between these two, so what's the best price on both?
0:44:49 > 0:44:51OK, we can do 35 on the mandolin.
0:44:51 > 0:44:55- That's down 20. - And 20 on the crib set.
0:44:55 > 0:44:57Much as a like the cribbage sets,
0:44:57 > 0:45:00I think that this is probably going to sell better in the auction.
0:45:02 > 0:45:05- That is the very lowest, is it? - Yes, I'm afraid it is.
0:45:05 > 0:45:10OK, you've got a deal, 35. Plus I'll take the mirror, as well,
0:45:10 > 0:45:15- and that was 25. So... - 25 and 35.- Makes 60.- £60.
0:45:15 > 0:45:18- £60. There we are.- Thank you very much.- Thank you very much.
0:45:18 > 0:45:20Deal's done.
0:45:20 > 0:45:21I'll take my mandolin and go play.
0:45:21 > 0:45:24Not yet, John. No swimming, either.
0:45:24 > 0:45:27With the last deal done, it's time to see what's been bought.
0:45:27 > 0:45:32Three, two, one, up and away, look at that.
0:45:32 > 0:45:34John Craven, look at that.
0:45:34 > 0:45:36- What is it?- This is a chest.
0:45:36 > 0:45:40It was a railway chest and we think it's a lovely chest,
0:45:40 > 0:45:45- and we think it's a bargain. - Great Northern Railway. It was £10.
0:45:45 > 0:45:48- Cheap.- 10 quid, wow. - This is wonderful.
0:45:48 > 0:45:51This is an eight-prong hedge trimmer which you can do that...
0:45:51 > 0:45:55- That's clever.- ..or you can do like that. Isn't that lovely?
0:45:55 > 0:45:57To go with that, because it's part of the same lot
0:45:57 > 0:45:59is another slicer...
0:45:59 > 0:46:02Cutting devices in one lot, sharp thinking.
0:46:02 > 0:46:05That is for what?
0:46:05 > 0:46:07- That's for slicing beans.- Incorrect.
0:46:07 > 0:46:09- Close, but incorrect. - A marmalade slicer.
0:46:09 > 0:46:13Marmalade, that's what it is. Gordon Ramsay would snap that up.
0:46:13 > 0:46:16We do like these jugs, because they are beautiful.
0:46:16 > 0:46:19- I think they're awful. - John Craven, look at the jugs.
0:46:19 > 0:46:22He's not like this on Countryfile.
0:46:22 > 0:46:23These are Bretby, John -
0:46:23 > 0:46:261930s, Art Deco, look at the exterior feel about them.
0:46:26 > 0:46:30They've got that country look, they've got the bees and...
0:46:30 > 0:46:34- Silver buttons? - Yes, but about George III.
0:46:34 > 0:46:37- They are quite early ones... - That's George II.
0:46:37 > 0:46:40- Along with this, and you know what that is...- Cigarette lighter.
0:46:40 > 0:46:43Sharkskin. That is sharkskin.
0:46:43 > 0:46:46How can that be connected with some Georgian silver buttons?
0:46:46 > 0:46:49We bought him at the same time.
0:46:49 > 0:46:51Don't look for logic in it, chaps.
0:46:51 > 0:46:53Now, your turn.
0:46:53 > 0:46:55Three, two, one, go.
0:46:55 > 0:46:58- Oh, wow.- Hey-ho, how about all that?
0:46:58 > 0:47:02- This is a grain measure. - A grain measure.
0:47:02 > 0:47:04A grain measure from about 1880.
0:47:04 > 0:47:08Our mirror, which is William IV Regency, bell-push mouldings.
0:47:08 > 0:47:11- CHARLES:- Has a great colour, Phil, love the pilasters, as well.
0:47:11 > 0:47:13- 25 quid.- Cheap.
0:47:13 > 0:47:17- There's an Arts And Crafts panel there.- Oh, wow.- Which was £30.
0:47:17 > 0:47:21- That is beautiful.- CHARLES: She is just...- Oh, that is gorgeous.
0:47:21 > 0:47:23And this is probably the most unusual thing of the lot.
0:47:23 > 0:47:26This is from a 1930s seaplane.
0:47:26 > 0:47:29- Wow.- And it is a little shelf to put your drinks on,
0:47:29 > 0:47:31by the side of your chair.
0:47:31 > 0:47:33That's a propeller from the seaplane
0:47:33 > 0:47:35and all these little bits are from the cowlings of the seaplane.
0:47:35 > 0:47:39- It cost you how much? PHIL:- 80 quid.- What a wonderful buy.
0:47:39 > 0:47:42There is, however, one more item, just have a look at this, then.
0:47:42 > 0:47:45Because we bought these two staddle-stone bases here.
0:47:45 > 0:47:48- Oh, they're nice.- Portland, stand that high.- JOHN: In a farmyard.
0:47:48 > 0:47:51They must be... I mean, they went out with modern farming.
0:47:51 > 0:47:54- How much, Philip?- 75 quid the two. - I think you've done very well
0:47:54 > 0:47:57and I think we've all together bought some good things.
0:47:57 > 0:48:00Absolutely. Nothing predictable, really.
0:48:00 > 0:48:02But what did they really think?
0:48:02 > 0:48:06There's not a lot of stuff on their little table that I would like.
0:48:06 > 0:48:09I loved that little propeller stand, don't you?
0:48:09 > 0:48:11- The hedge trimmer, that was fun. - Fun, aren't they?
0:48:11 > 0:48:16But overall I would rather have our money invested in our items,
0:48:16 > 0:48:18than their money invested in theirs.
0:48:18 > 0:48:21Who am I behind? Team Ball.
0:48:21 > 0:48:23I think that's great.
0:48:23 > 0:48:27And I think we're going to slaughter them at the auction.
0:48:27 > 0:48:30Yeah! After starting out in Hampshire at Ringwood,
0:48:30 > 0:48:33our celebrities and experts will now motor up to Oxfordshire
0:48:33 > 0:48:35for an auction at Watlington.
0:48:35 > 0:48:37Big day, Johnny. How you feeling?
0:48:37 > 0:48:40I think we might make three or four pounds.
0:48:40 > 0:48:43Maybe add a couple of noughts on that.
0:48:43 > 0:48:45Oh, that'd be lovely, we'd do it.
0:48:45 > 0:48:47Look at this region we're driving through now.
0:48:47 > 0:48:49Those stone ornaments are made
0:48:49 > 0:48:52for maybe an entrance to a nice front,
0:48:52 > 0:48:55made for a gateway like here, wonderful.
0:48:55 > 0:48:58- Or they're great ram-raiding posts. - What?!
0:48:58 > 0:48:59Thanks, Charles.
0:48:59 > 0:49:02Welcome to Jones And Jacob of Watlington,
0:49:02 > 0:49:04where we're online this morning.
0:49:04 > 0:49:06Tension mounts.
0:49:06 > 0:49:08I wonder what auctioneer Simon Jones
0:49:08 > 0:49:10makes of their rather large collection.
0:49:10 > 0:49:14There's the staddle stone bases. Now, they are just remarkable.
0:49:14 > 0:49:16They're a bit big and it would've been nice to have had four,
0:49:16 > 0:49:18so you could have propped the whole barn up,
0:49:18 > 0:49:20rather than just half a barn.
0:49:20 > 0:49:22Then there's also the nice set of early silver buttons
0:49:22 > 0:49:24and the shagreen lighter.
0:49:24 > 0:49:27People like that sort of thing, so we should do quite well with those.
0:49:27 > 0:49:31There's a lovely table made out of bits of an old flying boat,
0:49:31 > 0:49:32which are really interesting.
0:49:32 > 0:49:35Only wish we knew which sort of flying boat it was.
0:49:35 > 0:49:37Johnny and Charles bought six auction lots
0:49:37 > 0:49:39for a total of just £195.
0:49:39 > 0:49:43While John and Phil spent £275 on their six lots.
0:49:45 > 0:49:47This is quite a place, isn't it?
0:49:47 > 0:49:49Please take your seats, fellas.
0:49:49 > 0:49:51Oh, this is comfy.
0:49:53 > 0:49:57- Might never get up.- This beats a hard-back chair, doesn't it?
0:49:57 > 0:50:02We've just popped in to see what's going gone. Ta-dah!
0:50:02 > 0:50:05On that note, let's start with Johnny's Bretby jugs.
0:50:05 > 0:50:09- £40-£60, estimate.- And they cost us 35. That's a good start.- Ssh!
0:50:10 > 0:50:12Sorry! And they were very cheap!
0:50:12 > 0:50:14What can we say for those? £40 or £50?
0:50:14 > 0:50:1830 to start me. £30, £20, the Bretby.
0:50:18 > 0:50:23- 15 to start. Dear, oh, dear, you are a tight lot.- There are two!
0:50:23 > 0:50:26Yes, we have got two. £30. £20.
0:50:26 > 0:50:2810, then, to go. Oh, dear.
0:50:28 > 0:50:30Somebody must buy them for 10. They've got to go.
0:50:30 > 0:50:32I can't go down any lower. Five, then, to go..
0:50:32 > 0:50:34Oh, yes, he can.
0:50:34 > 0:50:37- I don't like them. - Eight, £10, at eight pounds, then.
0:50:37 > 0:50:41HE BANGS GAVEL Oh, no. I'm sorry.
0:50:41 > 0:50:43Not an auspicious start for those two.
0:50:43 > 0:50:46I don't know what you think, John, but that's really sad, isn't it?
0:50:46 > 0:50:48Well, that's a bad start, isn't it?
0:50:48 > 0:50:50Depends on your perspective, it's quite a good start for us.
0:50:50 > 0:50:52It's good for us.
0:50:52 > 0:50:54Perhaps their little Steiff critters
0:50:54 > 0:50:56will wipe that smile off Phil's face.
0:50:56 > 0:50:58£50?
0:50:58 > 0:51:0030 then, start me for the pieces.
0:51:00 > 0:51:0120 to go.
0:51:01 > 0:51:03- Steiff.- 15.
0:51:03 > 0:51:0615, I'm bid, 18 anywhere?
0:51:06 > 0:51:0918. 20? 20, I'm bid. 22?
0:51:09 > 0:51:11At £20, then, you all happy at 20?
0:51:11 > 0:51:14Nobody seems to want Steiff for £20 then all done at 20.
0:51:14 > 0:51:18- Cheap at twice the price.- We've been done. He's right, we've been done.
0:51:18 > 0:51:20You've been done very well, though, Johnny.
0:51:20 > 0:51:22They don't seem all that bothered.
0:51:22 > 0:51:26I thought Watlington would have been more discerning.
0:51:26 > 0:51:28- Precisely. That's what they are! - Probably.
0:51:29 > 0:51:32John and Phil's turn. Mandolin.
0:51:32 > 0:51:33£50?
0:51:33 > 0:51:3530 to start me?
0:51:35 > 0:51:38£30, I'm bid, 32 anywhere?
0:51:38 > 0:51:4232, 34. 36?
0:51:42 > 0:51:46£34, then. You all happy at £34?
0:51:46 > 0:51:49- That's a loss.- All done at 34. - Oh, dear.
0:51:50 > 0:51:53Not quite as bad as the previous losses, though.
0:51:53 > 0:51:56Next, will one of John's country lots appeal?
0:51:56 > 0:51:58£30, £40 for it?
0:51:58 > 0:52:0120 start me, then.
0:52:01 > 0:52:0315, I'm bid. 18 anywhere?
0:52:03 > 0:52:05£15, you all happy at 15?
0:52:05 > 0:52:07All done then at 15.
0:52:07 > 0:52:12- Goodness me, I don't believe it. - I believe it!
0:52:12 > 0:52:18Blimey, John and Phil have lost less so far, but they've staked £80 more.
0:52:18 > 0:52:20You know, in the car, this morning,
0:52:20 > 0:52:22- this was all about the highs and lows.- Yes.
0:52:22 > 0:52:26- Can I just ask when will the highs be coming?- Never.- Oh, right.
0:52:26 > 0:52:30Time for some items Johnny was especially passionate about.
0:52:30 > 0:52:32Let's get back in the game, Johnny Ball.
0:52:32 > 0:52:35- Let's gets back in the game, OK? - Don't tell them it's us.
0:52:35 > 0:52:38Most celebrities aren't shy about that, Johnny.
0:52:38 > 0:52:42What can we save for those? £30-£40? 20 to start?
0:52:42 > 0:52:46£20, I am bid, 22 anywhere, before I got to the phone?
0:52:46 > 0:52:49Coming to you now at 22.
0:52:49 > 0:52:5124 with me.
0:52:51 > 0:52:5326. 28.
0:52:53 > 0:52:5530 with you.
0:52:55 > 0:52:57£30, it's on the telephone,
0:52:57 > 0:53:00it's against you all in the room at £30. All done.
0:53:00 > 0:53:01HE BANGS GAVEL
0:53:01 > 0:53:04Good buy. I mean, goodbye.
0:53:04 > 0:53:08On the bright side, it's their smallest loss yet. Ha!
0:53:08 > 0:53:10Anyway, what happens on this programme is that we go out
0:53:10 > 0:53:14and buy things and make money at an auction, that's the way it works.
0:53:14 > 0:53:15How come it's not working?
0:53:15 > 0:53:18We got the first bit all right.
0:53:18 > 0:53:20John's quite excited about his discovery,
0:53:20 > 0:53:23perhaps a bit overexcited.
0:53:23 > 0:53:24Hang on, John, this isn't it.
0:53:24 > 0:53:26- At 250. - HE BANGS GAVEL
0:53:26 > 0:53:31- Wow! Well done. - No, it's not us, though.
0:53:31 > 0:53:34- CHARLES: "Well done." - Was that not ours?
0:53:34 > 0:53:37Oh, I thought that was ours!
0:53:39 > 0:53:41Oh, here it comes now. Now for reality.
0:53:41 > 0:53:42What shall I say for that?
0:53:42 > 0:53:47- 80 or £90?- CUSTOMER:- 90. - 90, I'm bid.- Get in.
0:53:47 > 0:53:48£90, then. 95,
0:53:48 > 0:53:51100, 110, 120,
0:53:51 > 0:53:53130, 140?
0:53:53 > 0:53:57130 then. Behind me at 130. All done at 130.
0:53:57 > 0:53:59Well, that's something, isn't it?
0:53:59 > 0:54:03- A result.- Not quite as good as your 250, John, but it will do.- Yes!
0:54:03 > 0:54:07It certainly will. A proper profit at last!
0:54:07 > 0:54:10This fire screen's one of John's, too. Stand by.
0:54:10 > 0:54:12£40, £50 for this?
0:54:13 > 0:54:15Dear, oh, dear. You are a tight lot.
0:54:15 > 0:54:1730 then to start me.
0:54:17 > 0:54:1930, I'm bid. 32, 34?
0:54:19 > 0:54:22At £32, then. 34 anywhere?
0:54:22 > 0:54:24- At £32, all done at £32. - Profit, isn't it?
0:54:24 > 0:54:28Maybe so, but John and Phil are still in the lead
0:54:28 > 0:54:32and it's about time that Johnny and Charles made a good call.
0:54:32 > 0:54:34A complete original.
0:54:34 > 0:54:36You could have them in the drawing room
0:54:36 > 0:54:38- to call Mrs Hanson, couldn't you? - Absolutely.
0:54:38 > 0:54:41£40 for them.
0:54:41 > 0:54:4320, then, to start me.
0:54:43 > 0:54:45£20 I'm bid. 22 anywhere?
0:54:45 > 0:54:47You all happy at 20?
0:54:47 > 0:54:49All done at 20 for the two telephones.
0:54:49 > 0:54:5022, 24?
0:54:50 > 0:54:53£22, then, standing by the door.
0:54:53 > 0:54:56All done at 22, I've already got mine. At £22.
0:54:56 > 0:54:59HE BANGS GAVEL
0:54:59 > 0:55:03Whatever Watlington wants, our chaps cannot supply it it seems.
0:55:03 > 0:55:05What is all this doing for your reputations?
0:55:05 > 0:55:08- We never had a reputation! - What reputation?!
0:55:11 > 0:55:14He's seen this programme before.
0:55:14 > 0:55:17It was purchased against Mrs Craven's advice,
0:55:17 > 0:55:19but can the mirror succeed?
0:55:19 > 0:55:21I'm a bit anxious.
0:55:21 > 0:55:24- It'll be fine.- What, you mean like all the other things were fine?
0:55:24 > 0:55:27This is solid. This is a solid Victorian antique.
0:55:27 > 0:55:28Hold it up a bit, love.
0:55:28 > 0:55:30It ought to make £60.
0:55:30 > 0:55:32- 90, I'm bid, 95?- Brilliant.
0:55:32 > 0:55:36£90, then, with Alan at £90 for the wall mirror.
0:55:36 > 0:55:39All done at 90, with Alan.
0:55:42 > 0:55:46Yeah, big hand, Phil, an expert comes up trumps.
0:55:46 > 0:55:50Now, Johnny wasn't keen, but Charles insisted they bought this box.
0:55:50 > 0:55:5220 then to start me.
0:55:52 > 0:55:57Dear, oh, dear. Nobody into railway et ceteras? 15 to go?
0:55:57 > 0:56:00- Got to sell it.- Oh, it's painful. - 15. Somebody must buy it for 15.
0:56:00 > 0:56:02Who likes to buy unusual things?
0:56:02 > 0:56:04This is nice and unusual.
0:56:04 > 0:56:06- Zilch. Zilch.- 15 to go?
0:56:06 > 0:56:0810 then to go?
0:56:08 > 0:56:1110, I'm am bid. 12 anywhere? £10.
0:56:11 > 0:56:13You all happy at 10?
0:56:13 > 0:56:15Highly disappointed in the settee, I'll wager.
0:56:15 > 0:56:18All done at 10.
0:56:18 > 0:56:20You more or less broke even.
0:56:20 > 0:56:22Yup! It's a minor triumph, really.
0:56:22 > 0:56:27I'm disappointed, Johnny, I'm sorry about this. Look at me. Look at me!
0:56:27 > 0:56:29- Look at me!- No!
0:56:29 > 0:56:31Well, look at those, then.
0:56:31 > 0:56:33John and Phil fell in love with them
0:56:33 > 0:56:36and if they don't make a loss, they'll almost certainly have won.
0:56:36 > 0:56:38Could you hold them up, please?
0:56:38 > 0:56:42Imogen didn't have quite enough Shreddies for that this morning.
0:56:42 > 0:56:45- 80 or £90, start me for them? - CUSTOMER: 85.- Brilliant!
0:56:45 > 0:56:4790, 95 with you. 95, I'm bid.
0:56:47 > 0:56:50100? 100. 110?
0:56:50 > 0:56:52At £100, then. You all done at one?
0:56:52 > 0:56:54All done at one.
0:56:54 > 0:56:57- HE BANGS GAVEL - Well done.
0:56:57 > 0:57:00They'd grace any stone...henge, I'd say.
0:57:00 > 0:57:03Now for Johnny in Charles' lighter and buttons.
0:57:03 > 0:57:04Can they finally turn a profit?
0:57:04 > 0:57:07- You should double your money, shouldn't you?- I hope so.
0:57:07 > 0:57:10We need a good ending. We need a happy ending.
0:57:10 > 0:57:11I'm taking bets here.
0:57:11 > 0:57:13End on a high. Come on.
0:57:15 > 0:57:1640 then to start me.
0:57:16 > 0:57:1830 to go.
0:57:19 > 0:57:22- 20 then.- £20, I am bid, 22 anywhere?
0:57:22 > 0:57:24You all happy at 20?
0:57:24 > 0:57:25All done at 20 for the four buttons.
0:57:25 > 0:57:29- Oh, my gosh.- All done 20.
0:57:29 > 0:57:33So, with that last staggering disappointment,
0:57:33 > 0:57:34we'll take our leave.
0:57:34 > 0:57:36I think the result is pretty clear.
0:57:38 > 0:57:42Johnny and Charles began with £400 and, after paying auction costs,
0:57:42 > 0:57:48they made a loss of £104.80 leaving them with £295.20.
0:57:48 > 0:57:53Whilst John and Phil, who also started with £400,
0:57:53 > 0:57:59made, after paying auction costs, a profit of £53.82.
0:57:59 > 0:58:04So they are today's top team with £453.82.
0:58:04 > 0:58:06All profits go to Children In Need.
0:58:06 > 0:58:10- You win some, you lose some, don't you?- No, I lose them all.
0:58:10 > 0:58:13- Johnny, great to see you again. - It was great fun.
0:58:13 > 0:58:17- Smashing.- Thank you, John.- Never enjoyed wasting money so much.
0:58:17 > 0:58:20- We've still got this car for a little while.- We have.
0:58:20 > 0:58:23- CHARLES: Drive carefully. - Well, I can't promise that.
0:58:23 > 0:58:27That was quite an event, wasn't it?
0:58:27 > 0:58:30- We really enjoyed the trip, didn't we?- I loved it.
0:58:30 > 0:58:32And the car. I mean, this is just so...
0:58:32 > 0:58:34- It was worth it for this alone. - Yeah.