0:00:02 > 0:00:04- The nation's favourite celebrities...- Ooh, I like that.
0:00:04 > 0:00:06..paired up with an expert...
0:00:06 > 0:00:09- Ooh, we've had some fun, haven't we?- ..and a classic car.
0:00:09 > 0:00:10It feels as if it could go quite fast.
0:00:10 > 0:00:13Their mission - to scour Britain for antiques.
0:00:13 > 0:00:15- LOW TONE - Yes!- Fantastic.
0:00:15 > 0:00:17- Do that in slow-mo.- The aim -
0:00:17 > 0:00:20- to make the biggest profit at auction.- Come on, boys!
0:00:20 > 0:00:23- But it's no easy ride.- Ta-da!
0:00:23 > 0:00:26- Who will find a hidden gem? - Oh, sell me!
0:00:26 > 0:00:29- Who will take the biggest risks? - Go away, darling.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32Will anybody follow expert advice?
0:00:32 > 0:00:34I'm trying to spend money here.
0:00:34 > 0:00:36There will be worthy winners...
0:00:36 > 0:00:38- Yes!- ..and valiant losers.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40Put your pedal to the metal.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43This is the Celebrity Antiques Road Trip.
0:00:46 > 0:00:47Yeah!
0:00:51 > 0:00:54Today, we'll be chortling around Kent in the company of one of
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Britain's foremost light entertainers.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58- Look, we're heading towards Sandwich.- Oh, yeah?
0:00:58 > 0:01:02And just up there, look, Ham. And there's Sandwich. Ham sandwich.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04I love that! Ham sandwich.
0:01:04 > 0:01:06Do you reckon there's another village called Cheese?
0:01:06 > 0:01:08- Cheese, Tomato.- And Pickle.
0:01:08 > 0:01:09THEY LAUGH
0:01:09 > 0:01:10Yeah, I like those.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13The man in the golden Rolls is the one and only Vic Reeves,
0:01:13 > 0:01:15Real name, Jim Moir,
0:01:15 > 0:01:17in the company of his lovely wife, Nancy Sorrell.
0:01:17 > 0:01:22Well, I do know a little bit what I'm talking about.
0:01:22 > 0:01:24I might sometimes be a few years out.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27- I'm really good at ageing things. - Yeah, I know.- I'm spot-on.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30I'm going to go into the shop and say, "That's 1932..."
0:01:30 > 0:01:33You always do that. Whenever we go out, you do that.
0:01:33 > 0:01:35- You age everything. - I know, I'm the ager.
0:01:35 > 0:01:39- The ager!- Yeah. Let's make a drama about that!
0:01:39 > 0:01:42A bloke who can age everything. You see those bollards there?
0:01:42 > 0:01:46- They're '80s. - Yeah, you're right. 1989.
0:01:46 > 0:01:49Jim and his comedic partner, Bob Mortimer...
0:01:49 > 0:01:51It's a beauty!
0:01:51 > 0:01:54..have been one of our finest double acts for over 25 years...
0:01:54 > 0:01:57- This is ridiculous!- Quite.
0:01:57 > 0:02:01..singing, acting and even chat show hosting along the way.
0:02:01 > 0:02:02LAUGHTER
0:02:02 > 0:02:06But today, Jim will be competing against his better half,
0:02:06 > 0:02:08because after starting out as a top model,
0:02:08 > 0:02:12Nancy's gone on to become an actress and a TV presenter.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16Isn't this a really lovely show? What a brilliant adventure.
0:02:16 > 0:02:18Where we go and buy antiques.
0:02:18 > 0:02:20Well, there's certainly going to be a lot less
0:02:20 > 0:02:24jungle and wildlife than an earlier celeb couple outing.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27There's still got to be a winner, though.
0:02:27 > 0:02:31You know me, I'm the least competitive person in the world.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34- I'm going to beat you! I'm going to beat you!- Are you?
0:02:34 > 0:02:37Well, sure to have a big influence on the outcome will be
0:02:37 > 0:02:40our experts, auctioneers Charlie Ross and Thomas Plant.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Who's going to win?
0:02:42 > 0:02:43It's always a problem for me, Thomas,
0:02:43 > 0:02:47cos I don't have this natural, um, competitiveness.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50- Really?- No. I LOVE coming second.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52THOMAS LAUGHS
0:02:52 > 0:02:56Lordy. Please manage your expectations, Nancy and Jim.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00- I'm hoping Lovejoy. That's what I want.- Lovejoy!
0:03:00 > 0:03:03- Or someone who looks and acts like Ian McShane.- Ian McShane.- Yeah.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06He was an antiques expert and a detective. Was that...?
0:03:06 > 0:03:09- Yeah, so I want someone who can help me solve a crime.- Yeah.
0:03:09 > 0:03:11Is there going to be a crime, Jim?
0:03:11 > 0:03:13Well, we can make that happen!
0:03:13 > 0:03:14THEY LAUGH
0:03:17 > 0:03:20After starting out in Sandwich, our celebrities and experts will
0:03:20 > 0:03:23enjoy a thoroughly Kentish ramble, before heading towards
0:03:23 > 0:03:27the capital for an auction in the suburb of Southgate.
0:03:27 > 0:03:31But right now, it's time to meet the gents in the Austin Healey.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34- Well, hello!- Hello!- What brings you down here?- Our experts.
0:03:34 > 0:03:36- Hello!- Lovely to meet you. - Nice to meet you.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39- JIM:- How do you do? - What's your name?- Thomas. - Lovely to meet you.
0:03:39 > 0:03:42- Nancy, nice to meet you.- Charlie. - Charlie.- Hello, Charlie.- Thomas.
0:03:42 > 0:03:46- Thomas, how do you do? How are you? - THOMAS:- I love your car.
0:03:46 > 0:03:50- Gorgeous.- It's nice, isn't it? A 1977 Roller. - We like to travel in style.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53- And that's...- That's beautiful, too. - In an Austin Healey.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56- I used to have one.- THOMAS:- Did you? Yeah, but I didn't have a...
0:03:56 > 0:03:59- So did I.- Well...- Did you? You're in the club, you're in the club.
0:03:59 > 0:04:03- Who are we teamed...?- Well, you've got to go together. Do you know why?
0:04:03 > 0:04:05Sorrell and Plant.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08- Eh.- Sorrell and Plant. - I love it! Love it!
0:04:08 > 0:04:09- JIM:- Good luck.
0:04:09 > 0:04:14Now, what, apart from solving a murder mystery, is Jim looking for?
0:04:14 > 0:04:18If I see something that you could maybe put some flowers in,
0:04:18 > 0:04:20- a top hat, something like that... - CHARLIE LAUGHS
0:04:20 > 0:04:22Do you know what I did buy recently?
0:04:22 > 0:04:25I got a brass mould of a doll's leg and I put
0:04:25 > 0:04:29a couple of little flowers in it, it looks very nice.
0:04:29 > 0:04:30Does it?
0:04:30 > 0:04:33- So, I could get...- You're obviously an imaginative sort of bloke, Jim.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35I want a Murano clown.
0:04:35 > 0:04:36If you buy a Murano clown,
0:04:36 > 0:04:39I promise you, and I give you my word,
0:04:39 > 0:04:40I will drop it.
0:04:40 > 0:04:44- How about a fish?- Yes, I will drop that on top of the clown.
0:04:44 > 0:04:49- Don't forget Jim's special power. - I'm very good at ageing things.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52- Can you age that? - Well, it's mock Tudor.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55We should have a bit of a competition and see if, see who's the closest.
0:04:55 > 0:04:56CLUNKING SOUND
0:04:56 > 0:04:58THEY LAUGH
0:04:58 > 0:05:02Jim, I think you've just left the exhaust behind.
0:05:02 > 0:05:07Welcome to Sandwich, the Cinque port where, allegedly, in 1255,
0:05:07 > 0:05:10an unnamed pachyderm became one of the first elephants
0:05:10 > 0:05:12to stomp on British soil.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14Do you think there's anything curious in there?
0:05:14 > 0:05:17Makes a change from all those Sandwich shops.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19- TIM LAUGHS - I'm drawn to this, straight away.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21I think the casket's French,
0:05:21 > 0:05:23although it's got a picture of Eastbourne on it.
0:05:23 > 0:05:27- That could be used for many things, that.- Yes.- Jewellery, teabags...
0:05:27 > 0:05:29- Teabags!- And all sorts of... - THEY LAUGH
0:05:29 > 0:05:33- How much do you reckon for that? - I reckon it would sell for 30 quid.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36- Because the ticket...- I can't see the ticket.- No, it's, erm...
0:05:36 > 0:05:38Do you recon you can peer underneath it?
0:05:38 > 0:05:40THEY LAUGH
0:05:40 > 0:05:43- No.- What do you think it's going to say? 20 quid?
0:05:43 > 0:05:45- If it's just 20 quid, we'll buy it. - All right, then.
0:05:45 > 0:05:48- Well, let's get on with it, then. - I like it very much.- In you go.
0:05:48 > 0:05:52- Morning!- How are you?- Good, thank you. How are you?- I'm Charlie.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55- And you are?- I'm Shirley. - I'm Jim...- This is Jim.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58- Hello, Jim.- How are you? - Fine, thank you.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01- So, we've come to buy something. - Yes, we're going to clear you out.
0:06:01 > 0:06:02Oh, good.
0:06:02 > 0:06:06I think that might be quite a tad more than your £400 budget, Charlie.
0:06:06 > 0:06:08Promising start, though.
0:06:08 > 0:06:11How long's it been in your window? Years probably, hasn't it?
0:06:11 > 0:06:14- No, about a week. - Come on, look at me.- A week.- A week!
0:06:14 > 0:06:17- That's a standard answer...- It's been in the shop a little while.
0:06:17 > 0:06:20Ah, £28 on the ticket. Anything else we ought to know?
0:06:23 > 0:06:25- I think you might have to... - JIM LAUGHS
0:06:25 > 0:06:27It's not easy through glasses.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29It is if you know what you're doing.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31Steady, madam.
0:06:31 > 0:06:33- SHIRLEY LAUGHS - It's worse.
0:06:33 > 0:06:35- It's worse?- No, I can't see a thing. - Come on...
0:06:35 > 0:06:39- It's late Victorian or Edwardian. - See if you can spot yourself on it.
0:06:39 > 0:06:40Thank you very much, Jim.
0:06:40 > 0:06:41He's a charmer.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45- Eastbourne... STV, something or other.- Yes.
0:06:45 > 0:06:48- What, Scottish Television? - Yeah, I think that's what it says.
0:06:48 > 0:06:52Not in Edwardian Eastbourne, surely. On the shortlist, though.
0:06:52 > 0:06:54- I'm going to buy that. - What about this? Look, some wombats.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57They promised curiosities, Jim.
0:06:58 > 0:07:00I like those thrupenny bits.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03- See those little thrupenny bits? - Absolutely. Made into a...
0:07:03 > 0:07:05- Brooch.- Brooch. - Brooch, isn't it?- It is.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07That's nicely done.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11What I want to know is, was that made much, much later?
0:07:11 > 0:07:13Or was it made of the period?
0:07:13 > 0:07:14How can you tell?
0:07:14 > 0:07:18Look at the clip, look at the clasp. That's quite old, that clasp.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20That's not been done yesterday. You see, what...
0:07:20 > 0:07:22probably is relevant, Jim,
0:07:22 > 0:07:25is what Shirley's paid for these things.
0:07:25 > 0:07:29If something like that has cost a fiver, she'd sell it for ten.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31- If it's cost 20 quid, she won't. - Well, let's ask her.
0:07:31 > 0:07:34- What did you pay for this, Shirley. - None of your business.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36THEY LAUGH
0:07:36 > 0:07:39Well said, Shirl! Now, Vic, meet...
0:07:39 > 0:07:41Vic. TIM LAUGHS
0:07:41 > 0:07:43Doesn't get any more attractive, does she? But it's quite fun.
0:07:45 > 0:07:51- Have to be very cheeky. How much is Her Majesty?- £75.
0:07:52 > 0:07:53THEY LAUGH
0:07:53 > 0:07:56- Not amused.- You're on a roll, aren't you, Jim?- Yes, I'm down...
0:07:56 > 0:07:58What about these Murano...chickens?
0:07:58 > 0:08:01What did I say, if you bought a bit of Murano, Jim?
0:08:01 > 0:08:03What did I say if you bought...?
0:08:03 > 0:08:05THEY LAUGH
0:08:05 > 0:08:09- Look.- Yeah? - An Australian who likes Guinness.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11Carlton Ware. Yeah, good maker.
0:08:11 > 0:08:15- AUSTRALIAN ACCENT:- That's been on a bar somewhere. I think you're right.
0:08:15 > 0:08:16Singing kooka manura!
0:08:16 > 0:08:18This man might buy anything.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21- What's this? - Victorian barge ware teapot.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24- I like that.- There's a real problem with that, Jim.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27One, it's gone out of fashion, but look at that.
0:08:27 > 0:08:31- What is it? Oh, it's... Yeah. - It's been bust.
0:08:31 > 0:08:32- That's nice, that.- You like that?
0:08:32 > 0:08:35You see, we could find someone called Mrs Parker.
0:08:35 > 0:08:37If we could invite Mrs Parker to the auction,
0:08:37 > 0:08:38we could make a lot of money out of this.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40What about if Mrs Parker was there?
0:08:40 > 0:08:42- I mean, there's got to be someone called Parker.- Yeah.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45- Oh, it's damaged as well.- Is it? - Oh, blimey.- There you go.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49- It's cracked down there. - Well, actually, you know,
0:08:49 > 0:08:53Mrs Parker's going to want that. And Mr Parker even more.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56- Do you want to know what that would make at auction?- Ten quid.- Exactly.
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Non-Parker.
0:08:58 > 0:09:00- Yeah, and 500 to a Parker.- Yeah.
0:09:00 > 0:09:04- It's a gamble, isn't it?- Could we buy your jug for a fiver, darling?
0:09:04 > 0:09:07- £5, no.- Ten.- Do you think that's not...?- That's...
0:09:07 > 0:09:11Jim, will you slow down?! What's it got on the ticket?
0:09:11 > 0:09:12£10.
0:09:12 > 0:09:13CHARLIE LAUGHS
0:09:13 > 0:09:16Hang on, let me have a look. Oh, yes, £10.
0:09:16 > 0:09:21£23, actually. Naughty. I think Jim likes it, in any case.
0:09:21 > 0:09:22I'm going to put it over here anyway,
0:09:22 > 0:09:27- cos I'm going to... Regardless of you, I'm going to do it.- OK.
0:09:27 > 0:09:31We've somehow arrived at three items. Total ticket price, £79.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34I'm going to make Shirley an offer. And she might show me the door.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38I think you would make a profit if you bought them for 30 quid.
0:09:38 > 0:09:39What about 45?
0:09:39 > 0:09:41Well, yeah, what about 45?
0:09:42 > 0:09:47I can see, Jim, that you're on Shirley's side and not mine. 35.
0:09:48 > 0:09:52- No.- No... - 40.- 40 sounds all right, doesn't it?
0:09:52 > 0:09:55- Let it lie, Charlie.- It's your game, mate.- Let's have a go at it.- Yeah.
0:09:55 > 0:10:00- It's your game, mate. Who am I to argue? You've got 40 quid.- Yeah.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03- First buy's bagged.- Thank you. - Marvellous.- Thank you.- Marvellous.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06- Come on, Jim. Pick up Mrs Parker. - Mrs Parker, here we come.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08Quite an assortment, too.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11Now, while they go looking for their next shop,
0:10:11 > 0:10:13whither Nancy and Thomas?
0:10:13 > 0:10:16- I feel like I've known you a long time already.- Really?
0:10:16 > 0:10:20- Yeah, you're just...so nice.- Well, that's very sweet of you to say!
0:10:20 > 0:10:23- You are, you are. - Ah, beautifully bonded.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25They're about to take a trip to the resort of Deal.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28- You're not related to Robert? - No, I wish. No...- No.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31- Musical talent has passed me by. - NANCY LAUGHS
0:10:31 > 0:10:34- You're a good singer, aren't you? - Yeah, I sing and I love singing.
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Jim's a musician, isn't he?
0:10:36 > 0:10:40Yeah, he plays guitar. I don't know why I'm not in a band with Jim.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42- Be like... - The Carpenters! The new Carpenters.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46# Just put me at the top of the world... #
0:10:46 > 0:10:50Although it has no actual harbour, the town, which is just 25 miles
0:10:50 > 0:10:54from the coast of France, does provide a sheltered anchorage.
0:10:54 > 0:10:58- Thank you.- Thank you, Nancy. - Ooh, lovely.- Such a gent.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01All of which means that Deal has played a very important role
0:11:01 > 0:11:03in our maritime history.
0:11:03 > 0:11:08- Hello.- Hello.- Hi, nice to meet you. - Hello, Tom.- Hello. What's your name?
0:11:08 > 0:11:10I'm Steve, and welcome to the Deal Time Ball Tower.
0:11:10 > 0:11:13- Nice to meet you, Steve. - Thank you very much.- Wow.
0:11:13 > 0:11:17The time ball on the roof, which still works, by the way,
0:11:17 > 0:11:22was in operation from 1855 to 1927, supplying a Greenwich Mean Time
0:11:22 > 0:11:26signal to vessels as they set off on their voyages.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28Most people, as you're probably aware,
0:11:28 > 0:11:31couldn't afford clocks or watches in those days.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33- And I do love a watch. - You do like a watch.
0:11:33 > 0:11:35So it was public buildings, basically,
0:11:35 > 0:11:38that people used to tell them what the time was.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40And what happened before 1855?
0:11:40 > 0:11:45- There wasn't a set time, there was local time.- Yeah.
0:11:45 > 0:11:50So, because Deal is east of London, we're about seven minutes
0:11:50 > 0:11:54ahead of them, so we're noon seven minutes before they are.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56Before that, on this very spot,
0:11:56 > 0:11:59there was, from the late 18th century,
0:11:59 > 0:12:01another small miracle of communication -
0:12:01 > 0:12:03a shutter telegraph system.
0:12:03 > 0:12:07There were a series of these shuttered telegraphs,
0:12:07 > 0:12:11all the way from Deal to the Admiralty in London.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14There's about 14 of these stations and, obviously,
0:12:14 > 0:12:17the threat was a Napoleonic invasion.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21Now, it was possible, we've been told, to send a message
0:12:21 > 0:12:26from here, using this system, to London and back in two minutes.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28- NANCY GASPS - Really?- Whoa!
0:12:28 > 0:12:31We've got a model with some letters and numbers here,
0:12:31 > 0:12:34- and it alters the shutters...- Ah!
0:12:34 > 0:12:38- Maybe you could have a go typing your name in...- Exciting, exciting.
0:12:38 > 0:12:39Here I go.
0:12:39 > 0:12:44- Look at them move.- Ooh, yeah, look at that.- Horizontal...
0:12:44 > 0:12:47- Or flat.- Or flat.- And it was the various combinations of...
0:12:47 > 0:12:49- Oh, would spell out a letter?- Yes.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51- A bit like Morse code, but in a different way.- That's right.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54You'd think they'd just need one, the big one that said,
0:12:54 > 0:12:56- "The French are coming." - Yeah.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59Several years later, the tower was built to send one simple
0:12:59 > 0:13:03message in the opposite direction, a daily time check.
0:13:05 > 0:13:06Ooh, this is lovely.
0:13:06 > 0:13:08Look at all these clocks.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11Because oceangoing ships were equipped then
0:13:11 > 0:13:14with manual chronometers, they needed to navigate using
0:13:14 > 0:13:18the north-south lines of longitude, and exactly the correct time
0:13:18 > 0:13:21was crucial in establishing an accurate position.
0:13:21 > 0:13:26How far around the Earth you are was calculated in those days
0:13:26 > 0:13:30by comparing local noon to noon at Greenwich.
0:13:30 > 0:13:36If you're one hour ahead, you're one 24th of the way around the world.
0:13:36 > 0:13:40The error gets bigger the closer to the equator that you get.
0:13:40 > 0:13:44Just to give you an example, if you're one second out,
0:13:44 > 0:13:47you're 17 miles off the equator.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50So, every day at 1pm,
0:13:50 > 0:13:53sometimes as many as 1,000 ships would gather offshore
0:13:53 > 0:13:55to receive the time from Greenwich,
0:13:55 > 0:13:59and although it was eventually made obsolete by the advent of the BBC,
0:13:59 > 0:14:03the Deal time ball is still something you can set your watch by.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05I'm never going to turn away.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07- Here it is!- Yeah!
0:14:09 > 0:14:12It's one of the iconic buildings of Deal. So...
0:14:12 > 0:14:14I think it's an iconic building of Great Britain.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17Let me shake you by the hand - and thank you very much.
0:14:17 > 0:14:18Yeah! Thank you very much.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22- And I do hope for all the success in beating your husband.- Yes!
0:14:22 > 0:14:26But while they've been spending a great 'deal' of time in Deal -
0:14:26 > 0:14:28huh! -
0:14:28 > 0:14:31Jim and Charlie have made their way further up the Kent coast
0:14:31 > 0:14:34and towards the Royal Harbour of Ramsgate.
0:14:36 > 0:14:40Sure to be an antique shop or two around here.
0:14:40 > 0:14:41We've got to get that bargain.
0:14:41 > 0:14:44That mysterious bargain that's lurking...
0:14:44 > 0:14:45Find a mysterious bargain, absolutely.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48Are there any bargains anywhere, really, any more?
0:14:48 > 0:14:52If you have a very, very specialist knowledge in something,
0:14:52 > 0:14:54- you stand a chance. - Have you ever done that?
0:14:54 > 0:14:58I found a Tiffany window in a sale once.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02I've got a window at home, which I got for 40 quid
0:15:02 > 0:15:05- from the 50/50 Club, which was Ivor Novello's club...- Oh, really?
0:15:05 > 0:15:09- ..in the West End. - Come on, less chat, more shop.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12- Look at this.- This'll do us. - Petticoat Lane.
0:15:12 > 0:15:17- They call it a city of paraphernalia.- Hello.- Hi, there!
0:15:17 > 0:15:19- My name's Kaz, how are you doing? - Kaz, Charlie.- Hi, Charlie.
0:15:19 > 0:15:21Are you the proprietor?
0:15:21 > 0:15:23I'm one of the traders, I'm happy to help you today.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26Well, what we want is the best bargain that you've got.
0:15:26 > 0:15:28The best bargains are to be had all over the store.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32So, if you'd like to go to Fleet Street, Coventry Street, Euston Road
0:15:32 > 0:15:35or Oxford Street, you'll find bargains galore.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38And what about if you pass Go?
0:15:38 > 0:15:40Proper antiques.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43Charlie seems happy enough. How about Jim?
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Look at this. If I showed that to Charlie,
0:15:45 > 0:15:48he'd think I was insane, but I really like it.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50Well, you're the boss. What's Charlie found already?
0:15:50 > 0:15:55Well, it looks like Newlyn to me. From the art school, Newlyn...
0:15:55 > 0:15:57copper... If it is...
0:15:57 > 0:16:01it will be marked, almost certainly.
0:16:01 > 0:16:02Bear with me, viewers.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05It is. Look.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07Newlyn.
0:16:07 > 0:16:10The Cornish fishing village which became the site of an
0:16:10 > 0:16:13artistic colony towards the end of the 19th century.
0:16:13 > 0:16:15It's priced at £90.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17It would probably need to be bought for 40 or £50,
0:16:17 > 0:16:19but it's a good thing.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22Those two may be enjoying a bit of a 'monopoly',
0:16:22 > 0:16:23but not for much longer,
0:16:23 > 0:16:26because Nancy and Thomas are heading for the very same shop.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29Are you quite clued up on antiques, then?
0:16:29 > 0:16:32Since I've met Jim, I'm now absolutely...
0:16:32 > 0:16:37just into them so much. I mean, our house is pretty much a museum.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40- Is it?- Yeah! - But who's going to come out on top?
0:16:40 > 0:16:44- And Thomas, I don't win anything, ever.- All right.- So, you know...
0:16:44 > 0:16:46No pressure, then.
0:16:46 > 0:16:50It would just be nice when they say we are the winners
0:16:50 > 0:16:53Well, first you'll have to park the spirit of ecstasy.
0:16:53 > 0:16:56- We're going to rock this.- You know it makes sense.- Yeah, absolutely.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59- Let's go! - She's definitely ready to shop.
0:16:59 > 0:17:00I can hardly to keep up.
0:17:00 > 0:17:04- Oh, my word, there's so many antiques.- Hello, I'm Thomas.- Hello.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06- Thomas, nice to meet you. - Hi. Nice to meet you, Nancy.- Hello.
0:17:06 > 0:17:09- Nice to meet you. - What's your name?- Zak.- Hi, Zak.
0:17:09 > 0:17:10- Nice to meet you, guys. - Nice to meet you.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12So, Zak, are you an antiques expert?
0:17:12 > 0:17:15I wouldn't say I'm an expert, but I know a little bit.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19The others are lurking somewhere, but there's plenty of elbow room.
0:17:19 > 0:17:23My first impression is that it's massive in here, and there's a lot.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26- There is a lot, isn't there? - And its, eurgh! It's a bit scary.
0:17:26 > 0:17:30So, my plan, and I think, this sometimes works, have a look,
0:17:30 > 0:17:32- don't pick up every single thing you see...- Mm.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35..but if you like something, we'll go and have a look at it.
0:17:35 > 0:17:38- OK, let's do it, let's do it. - And there he is.
0:17:38 > 0:17:40A Mountie that revolves.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:42 > 0:17:45And plays a little tune. I can put that on the bonnet of my car.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Just as well Charlie's not around.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50It looks like it might be luminous.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57- No, it's not. I'm not interested. - Crikey.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59How about Plant and Sorrell?
0:17:59 > 0:18:02- What about this, Nancy? - Oh, I love this.- It's a sort of...
0:18:02 > 0:18:06Look at these lovely, sort of, in size clover leaves.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09- Look at the clover leaves. - It's beautiful. Really beautiful.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12- What year would you say? - I think it's Edwardian.
0:18:12 > 0:18:15- So the price is down here, and it says "Music table..."- Mm.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18- £17.- What?- Yeah.
0:18:18 > 0:18:19- Is that it?- That's it.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21- Are you joking?- No, I'm not joking.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24- We'd have, like, tonnes of change left.- Not 'arf!
0:18:24 > 0:18:28And now, what will Jim make of that?
0:18:28 > 0:18:30- Have you heard of the Newlyn School? - Yeah, that's...
0:18:30 > 0:18:33- That is Newlyn School. - Nosy parkers.
0:18:33 > 0:18:35What would you do with it?
0:18:35 > 0:18:38Well, exactly. I think it's too big. That's a very good question...
0:18:38 > 0:18:41- Put it in the middle of the table... - Because...- Put nuts on it.
0:18:41 > 0:18:42- A lot of nuts.- Mmm, Brazils.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45The Newlyn School started when the fishing industry started
0:18:45 > 0:18:47getting a bit dodgy, in about 1890.
0:18:47 > 0:18:50And they had to employ the fishermen,
0:18:50 > 0:18:52and they taught them to beat copper,
0:18:52 > 0:18:54and they made a lot of copper...
0:18:54 > 0:18:58Some of my family in St Ives, some relation, fishermen, ended up
0:18:58 > 0:19:02painting and using his boathouse to sell his paintings from.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05- Because there was more people there looking at this at art school.- Yeah.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08- Same as Newlyn. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11It can't be long before someone buys something. Can it?
0:19:11 > 0:19:15I think with the £400 we'll be pretty close to spending it all.
0:19:15 > 0:19:16Why not?
0:19:16 > 0:19:18You know? And then we can make the profit of getting
0:19:18 > 0:19:20lots more money back.
0:19:20 > 0:19:21That's the spirit.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24- What do you think of that bangle? That bracelet?- Wow, it's amazing.
0:19:24 > 0:19:28It says antique silver. It probably is going to be Indian.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30- So it's like a cuff.- Mm.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32- So, what year is this? - So you wear it that way.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35I think it's probably...1930s?
0:19:35 > 0:19:37Yeah, it's amazing.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39What have you got on there? Have you got...?
0:19:39 > 0:19:40What gods have you got?
0:19:40 > 0:19:42- You've got a Buddha there.- Mm.
0:19:42 > 0:19:47You've got some deity on a horse - or on a cow, sorry.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50- Quite cool, isn't it?- It is. - It's a good-looking thing.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53- Can I take it off?- Yeah. - Cos... A more detailed look.
0:19:53 > 0:19:56- I've got my torch there. Can you see it?- Brilliant.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58- The holes in it?- Oh, yeah.
0:19:58 > 0:20:01Which might affect what you think.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04But it's age, it's got some age to it.
0:20:04 > 0:20:05So what's that got to be, do you know?
0:20:05 > 0:20:08- The price?- Yeah, it's 58.- 58.
0:20:08 > 0:20:12- Do you know the dealer? Is the dealer around?- He's not.
0:20:12 > 0:20:13But he tends to be quite lenient.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16I could be cheeky and ask for 30.
0:20:16 > 0:20:19I think that might be pushing it a bit far, yeah.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21I'd say probably the lowest
0:20:21 > 0:20:25he's going to want to go to on that would be 45.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28- Oh, really?- Not 40?- Probably meet at 40, yeah.- It is cool.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31What you think that would go for?
0:20:31 > 0:20:34I think, at 40 quid, I mean, that is worth giving at go.
0:20:34 > 0:20:36It could make £40-£60.
0:20:36 > 0:20:41- Because it's a nice bit of antique silver.- Yeah, it looks unusual.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44- Do you like that?- I do like that. - We could go for that.
0:20:44 > 0:20:46Nancy's almost off the mark
0:20:46 > 0:20:48and Jim and Charlie are just about on the same page.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50Well, more or less.
0:20:50 > 0:20:55- Oh-ho, look at this. I love that. - It sure is cool.
0:20:55 > 0:20:59Jim, you have a look through there. Tell me who you can see.
0:20:59 > 0:21:01Oh, wow! Oh!
0:21:01 > 0:21:05- It's Blondin!- Has he fallen off? - Actually, it says "Dixon".
0:21:05 > 0:21:08Did someone else do it? I thought it was just Blondin who did it.
0:21:08 > 0:21:11Dixon's the man that made the picture.
0:21:11 > 0:21:14- No, it says Dixon crossing the Niagara.- What?
0:21:14 > 0:21:18- Look at it, at the bottom. - "Dixon Crossing Niagara on a rope."
0:21:18 > 0:21:19Who's Dixon?
0:21:19 > 0:21:24Funambulist Samuel J Dixon crossed in 1890,
0:21:24 > 0:21:27a bit later than Blondin, but he did it in style.
0:21:27 > 0:21:29Hey, look, he's spinning a little circle.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32He's got a sort of hula hoop on his ankles. That's absolutely amazing.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35- The tourists are admiring the view. - Yeah.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37The ferry, the Queen Of The Mist, or whatever she's called.
0:21:37 > 0:21:42Oh, look at that. Can I put it in the machine?
0:21:43 > 0:21:47Well, it's mainly just pictures of Niagara Falls and people
0:21:47 > 0:21:48relaxing and looking at it.
0:21:48 > 0:21:51Brian May's very interested in these things, isn't he?
0:21:51 > 0:21:53- Is he?- Yeah, he's got a book out with them.
0:21:53 > 0:21:56I'll tell you what I do like, the fact that it's in its original box,
0:21:56 > 0:21:59which is made to look like a volume, which is lovely,
0:21:59 > 0:22:02and the book with it. So it is complete.
0:22:02 > 0:22:05What's that? A little history of the Niagara Falls?
0:22:05 > 0:22:08- It's a little accompanying... - It's a map.- It's a map.
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Well, it's a nice little thing altogether, isn't it?
0:22:11 > 0:22:14- How much is it?- 149.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Crikey, where did you get that price from?
0:22:16 > 0:22:19- The machine is worth 30 quid.- Yeah.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21And those pictures, wholesale,
0:22:21 > 0:22:26are worth two quid each, there's about 18 of them... 36, 46, 66 quid.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29- You want to offer 50, don't you? - He's not going to have that, is he?
0:22:29 > 0:22:32- How do you know? - Guys, you don't ask you don't get.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Yes, well, you call the dealer then, Caz.
0:22:35 > 0:22:37The others have just about bought a bangle
0:22:37 > 0:22:40and now they're back at that music table.
0:22:40 > 0:22:43- Zach?- Yeah?- There's this table here we saw a lot earlier.
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Lovely, we like it.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49- Do you know, it's 17 quid. - So...- Bargain.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Can we offer you a tenner for it?
0:22:51 > 0:22:56Oh, that seems like a steal as it is, doesn't it? That's a bit cheeky.
0:22:56 > 0:23:01- Oh, come on, Zach.- Look at Nancy. - All right then.- All right then?
0:23:01 > 0:23:05- All right.- So that's 50 quid.- Yeah. - For that and this, yeah?- OK, fine.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08- Good man.- Yes, thank you very much, thank you.- No worries.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10Good start, you two.
0:23:10 > 0:23:12- Brilliant.- Two items. Let's go.- Let's go.
0:23:12 > 0:23:16Meanwhile, Charlie is teetering on the precipice. So to speak.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18I, to be perfectly frank with you,
0:23:18 > 0:23:21I think, if it makes 75 quid at auction I'd have to buy it for
0:23:21 > 0:23:24slightly less which probably is not going to excite you.
0:23:24 > 0:23:28Do you know, I think you are a complete and utter gentleman.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30- Sounds promising. - Cheers, bye.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37Well, I offered him 50 quid and he didn't put the phone down.
0:23:37 > 0:23:41- And I've done a deal at 60. - That sounds... That's perfect.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43- It's quite a deal, Charlie. - That's nice, isn't it?
0:23:43 > 0:23:45- Yeah, we are the winners.- We are!
0:23:45 > 0:23:49- We are the champions. - As Brian May might say.
0:23:49 > 0:23:50Thank you very much.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52Thank you very much, we'll come back for the item later.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54- Absolutely. - Will you have it wrapped?
0:23:54 > 0:23:57- I will have it wrapped.- Thank you. - With a bow.- Good day.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00Yes, it has been rather, well done, now let's call it a day.
0:24:00 > 0:24:02Nighty-night.
0:24:06 > 0:24:08Next day, Jim's ears must be burning.
0:24:08 > 0:24:12- He's a terribly talented man, isn't he?- Yep.- Unbelievable.
0:24:12 > 0:24:16Plays instruments, writes scripts, performs,
0:24:16 > 0:24:19I got the impression there's really nothing he can't do.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22Don't forget guessing the age of things.
0:24:22 > 0:24:24- Over there looks like a Victorian painting.- It does.
0:24:24 > 0:24:28- You know those cows in the marsh? - Yeah, what was that? Pre-Raphaelite?
0:24:28 > 0:24:32They used to hang about a lot around here. In that field.
0:24:32 > 0:24:33SHE LAUGHS
0:24:33 > 0:24:37All of them! You get Millet, Ormond Hunt, all of them,
0:24:37 > 0:24:39they're all hanging about in that field.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42Yesterday, Nancy and Thomas purchased just a silver
0:24:42 > 0:24:43bracelet and a music table.
0:24:45 > 0:24:46All right then.
0:24:46 > 0:24:50Meaning they still have £350 to spend.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54Whilst Jim and Charlie picked up a box from Eastbourne,
0:24:54 > 0:24:58a thrupenny brooch, a stereoscopic viewer and slides
0:24:58 > 0:25:00and a barge ware jug...
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Mrs Parker's going to want that.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05..leaving exactly £300 available for further purchases.
0:25:05 > 0:25:09- Silver is rubbish. Kind of rubbish. - What?- Something is a bit...
0:25:09 > 0:25:13- Do people like to buy rubbish, do they?- Do you like tightrope walking?
0:25:13 > 0:25:15Do I? Yeah, I do it everyday.
0:25:15 > 0:25:17Now, remember Jim's Lovejoy fantasy?
0:25:17 > 0:25:20This would make a suitably moody location.
0:25:20 > 0:25:22So what are we going to do, then?
0:25:22 > 0:25:24We're going to spend that 300 quid we've got... Oh!
0:25:24 > 0:25:26That money we've got left.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30- Yeah. That £3.- £300!
0:25:30 > 0:25:33- I'm very excited, we did very well yesterday.- Did you?
0:25:33 > 0:25:36- Well, we've bought two and we spent a fraction.- Amazing.
0:25:36 > 0:25:38We'll buy something sensational.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41- See you later.- Goodbye. - Have a lovely day.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46Later, they'll be motoring up to London for that Southgate auction.
0:25:46 > 0:25:50But our next stop is the Kent village of Chilham
0:25:50 > 0:25:55and to a shop that local lad Jim frequented once or twice before.
0:25:55 > 0:25:58So, 300 quid left, we're going to go to Bagham Barn
0:25:58 > 0:26:01and were going to get some bargains in Bagham Barn.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04What sort of items have they got in Bagham Barn?
0:26:04 > 0:26:06There's some good stuff, you're going to like it in there,
0:26:06 > 0:26:09there's some proper antiques.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12There's some very nice ladies working there.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14- Oh, yeah!- Oh, you said that with a bit of gusto.
0:26:14 > 0:26:17- Oh, well, I did.- And I think they might be amenable to your charms.
0:26:17 > 0:26:19CHARLIE LAUGHS
0:26:19 > 0:26:21That, or Jim's athleticism.
0:26:21 > 0:26:23JIM LAUGHS
0:26:23 > 0:26:25That's how to get out of a car elegantly.
0:26:25 > 0:26:26I hope there's no chafing.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29It's not getting any easier, is it, to be honest?
0:26:29 > 0:26:30How dare you.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32THEY LAUGH
0:26:32 > 0:26:35- It's Peggy, isn't it?- It is. - How are you, my dear?
0:26:35 > 0:26:37All very convivial.
0:26:37 > 0:26:39Plus, just as Jim promised,
0:26:39 > 0:26:43something interesting and some unusual objects.
0:26:43 > 0:26:48Here's something up your sleeve. Victorian skirt lifter.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51- What? That, there? - Just above the ankle, yeah.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53So you'd have to bend down and you just... What? And show it off?
0:26:53 > 0:26:55Just give them a bit of ankle. Have you ever seen one?
0:26:55 > 0:26:57- No, I've never even heard of one. - Rare.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00I could lift my trouser leg and show my sock off
0:27:00 > 0:27:03because, of course, once upon a time that was something shocking.
0:27:03 > 0:27:05Absolutely. Not today.
0:27:05 > 0:27:06I think what you do,
0:27:06 > 0:27:09- it's when you're walking through puddles and mud.- Really?
0:27:09 > 0:27:15To keep your skirt up. You see? You do that...and clip it.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17- You see it clips?- Yeah. - Nicely clips,
0:27:17 > 0:27:19train up and walk through the puddle.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21No, you can't do it with trousers.
0:27:21 > 0:27:22Oh, you want a bet?
0:27:22 > 0:27:25THEY LAUGH
0:27:26 > 0:27:29- Well, that's extraordinary. - Skirt-lifter.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Well, I don't now if I want that but it's a nice bit of history.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34- I'd buy that for 20 quid.- Would you?
0:27:34 > 0:27:36- What is it, 85?- Yeah.- Mmm.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39- OK, let's have a look through here. - He's not impressed with the skirt-lifter.
0:27:39 > 0:27:43But they may be back. Now, what about our other pairing?
0:27:43 > 0:27:44Whoops, close.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48Still deep in the Kent countryside
0:27:48 > 0:27:52but making their way towards the north coast at Faversham.
0:27:52 > 0:27:53What's the jungle like?
0:27:53 > 0:27:55It was an experience.
0:27:55 > 0:27:56Yeah?
0:27:56 > 0:27:59I think I was worried about camping, to be honest.
0:27:59 > 0:28:00- No!- Yeah.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02I do not camp.
0:28:02 > 0:28:06You are going to the most dangerous part of the jungle,
0:28:06 > 0:28:08where there are spiders, there are snakes...
0:28:08 > 0:28:10I wasn't bothered at all.
0:28:10 > 0:28:12No? Well, how long did you last in the jungle?
0:28:12 > 0:28:14Well, Jim came in,
0:28:14 > 0:28:18and sadly no-one took to us, so they chucked us out.
0:28:18 > 0:28:23- No!- Who needs the jungle when you have the Garden of England, anyway.
0:28:23 > 0:28:25Plenty of fine towns, too.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28Like Faversham, a medieval treat with a long history
0:28:28 > 0:28:32that includes brewing and gunpowder manufacturer.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34- Hello.- Hiya.- Hi, I'm Nancy.
0:28:34 > 0:28:36- Hi, Nancy. I'm Conon.- Nice to meet you.- Hello again.
0:28:36 > 0:28:39- Hello again, Thomas. - I've met Conon before.- OK.
0:28:39 > 0:28:42He's met his mum, Ann, as well. Hello, Ann.
0:28:42 > 0:28:45They've had this establishment in a restored Elizabethan building for
0:28:45 > 0:28:48- a number of years now.- I've got a good feeling about this shop.
0:28:48 > 0:28:49- Have you?- Yeah.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52Remember, she still has £350 left...
0:28:52 > 0:28:54Here we go. Love it!
0:28:54 > 0:28:56..and thinks that with Thomas's help,
0:28:56 > 0:28:59she's really quite likely to spend most of it.
0:28:59 > 0:29:02- Own it, come on, own it. Work it. - It's a bit tight.
0:29:02 > 0:29:05You've got to show it all off, you see. A bit of this, a bit of that.
0:29:05 > 0:29:08Yeah. Own it.
0:29:08 > 0:29:12I think that's leasing at best. Show us again, Nancy.
0:29:12 > 0:29:15That's better. Ooh, such a pro.
0:29:15 > 0:29:18- Now, how are things going over at the barn?- Draw near.
0:29:18 > 0:29:22- I will. Oh.- An Art Deco chair, do you like it?
0:29:22 > 0:29:24That's very Deco, isn't it?
0:29:24 > 0:29:28- I can see me sitting in this in my conservatory.- Does it recline?
0:29:28 > 0:29:29Yeah, watch.
0:29:29 > 0:29:34- Oh!- I think they might finally be in accord on this one.
0:29:34 > 0:29:37- Oh, I quite like that. - Yeah, an afternoon snooze.
0:29:37 > 0:29:39It is, it's a good snoozer.
0:29:39 > 0:29:41- 395.- Is it worth it?
0:29:41 > 0:29:43What would it make at auction?
0:29:43 > 0:29:45- What would it make?- £150.
0:29:45 > 0:29:48That doesn't sound very promising. Anything else, Jim?
0:29:48 > 0:29:50- That is nice, isn't it? - That's sensational.
0:29:50 > 0:29:52This looks Scandinavian.
0:29:52 > 0:29:55- I've never seen anything quite like that.- Nor have I.
0:29:55 > 0:29:56- Do want to know all about it?- Yeah.
0:29:56 > 0:30:03Circa 1970s, by Graham Peterkin furniture, maker and designer of...
0:30:04 > 0:30:07- What?- New South Wales, Australia.- Australia?
0:30:07 > 0:30:11- Well, let's take a look underneath it, then.- Can you find a label?
0:30:11 > 0:30:14There's nothing there. There's a couple of little unusual legs.
0:30:14 > 0:30:16- Oh, they are unusual.- Skis.
0:30:16 > 0:30:19It's 295, it's cheaper than your chair.
0:30:19 > 0:30:22- Do you think we'd make a profit? - I think it's very saleable.
0:30:22 > 0:30:24- I think that's quite a rare thing. - I like that.
0:30:24 > 0:30:26Shall we call Peggy over?
0:30:26 > 0:30:28- Go and get her.- Yes, Your Majesty.
0:30:31 > 0:30:35Meanwhile, back in Faversham, things are hotting up.
0:30:35 > 0:30:37- Look at that.- Ooh, that's nice. - Do you see what that is?
0:30:37 > 0:30:41It's a cigarette lighter. They are pieces of iconic design.
0:30:41 > 0:30:43- Can we have a look, Ann, please? Thank you.- Thank you, Ann.
0:30:43 > 0:30:46Thank you. We could go the whole hog, there's a pipe there.
0:30:46 > 0:30:48- The calabash.- Love that. - You like the pipe, do you?
0:30:48 > 0:30:51Ooh, look at that.
0:30:51 > 0:30:53- Look at the lighter first.- Yes.
0:30:53 > 0:30:55This is called a tall boy.
0:30:55 > 0:30:58It looks like a building, like, in New York.
0:30:58 > 0:31:00Exactly, that's what it was kind of mimicking, wasn't it?
0:31:00 > 0:31:04- It needs a flint and it needs some gas.- Would it still be able to work?
0:31:04 > 0:31:07- Yeah.- I think the ashtray goes with it.
0:31:07 > 0:31:09I think it would have to be 65, wouldn't it, Conon?
0:31:09 > 0:31:13- 65 would do it, I'd imagine. - So, that's solid silver?
0:31:13 > 0:31:14- Sterling silver.- That's really good.
0:31:14 > 0:31:17But this is... Nurse's prize-giving?
0:31:17 > 0:31:19I love the fact that you give a nurse prize-giving...
0:31:19 > 0:31:21- BOTH:- An ashtray!
0:31:21 > 0:31:24- Yeah, here's a lighter and an ashtray.- It was 1966.
0:31:24 > 0:31:26Different times.
0:31:26 > 0:31:30- Now, what about the pipe?- Oh, I love this pipe. Come on.- The calabash.
0:31:31 > 0:31:34Sherlock Holmes, eat your heart out.
0:31:34 > 0:31:35Watson, what's happening?
0:31:35 > 0:31:37He was always saying that.
0:31:37 > 0:31:39That is, erm...
0:31:40 > 0:31:43Good at adding up, too, just like our Thomas.
0:31:43 > 0:31:45Are you working out maths?
0:31:45 > 0:31:46I'm working out...yeah.
0:31:46 > 0:31:49I'm, like, standing here.
0:31:49 > 0:31:51- You said you were good at maths. - No, no...
0:31:51 > 0:31:53- He's trying to date it. - I'm trying to date it.
0:31:53 > 0:31:56- I thought you were working out... - No, I'm trying to date it...
0:31:56 > 0:31:58It's a date letter K and it's a small K
0:31:58 > 0:32:01and it's got the little anchor mark there.
0:32:01 > 0:32:03Can you see that little anchor?
0:32:03 > 0:32:05- Yes, I can.- So, that's Birmingham.
0:32:05 > 0:32:10Now, Birmingham started in 1900 with a small case A...
0:32:10 > 0:32:11and that's a K.
0:32:11 > 0:32:16- So, 1900 is A.- Yeah.
0:32:16 > 0:32:19But they didn't use certain letters cos they looked like the same.
0:32:19 > 0:32:23- So, it's 1909.- That's the year.
0:32:23 > 0:32:25The calabash, and that's a gourd,
0:32:25 > 0:32:28- so that's a natural thing. - I really like that.- Yeah.
0:32:28 > 0:32:32But it's... Come on, it's £95.
0:32:32 > 0:32:33Oh, that's a lot of money.
0:32:33 > 0:32:35She's getting the hang of this.
0:32:35 > 0:32:37Could there be a deal for all three, though?
0:32:37 > 0:32:39Let me have a little work-out on paper
0:32:39 > 0:32:41- cos my maths isn't fantastic. - Is it? OK.- And...
0:32:41 > 0:32:43All three for 120.
0:32:43 > 0:32:45All three for 120?
0:32:45 > 0:32:47Go and have more of a browse and I'll try and work out
0:32:47 > 0:32:50- if I can get anywhere near that for you.- Thank you very much.
0:32:50 > 0:32:53But while Conon calculates,
0:32:53 > 0:32:55the sums have already been done at the barn,
0:32:55 > 0:32:59with the price down to £210 on that Australian coffee table
0:32:59 > 0:33:03and the skirt-lifter now part of the negotiation with Peggy.
0:33:03 > 0:33:06- Look out, Peggy.- So, we're going to do a deal, aren't we?
0:33:06 > 0:33:09I'm going to try to. 210's the best we're going to get on that.
0:33:09 > 0:33:10- And the skirt-lifter?- Yeah.
0:33:10 > 0:33:12So, what we going to offer Peggy?
0:33:12 > 0:33:17- I wanted the two for 210 but that's immovable.- Yeah.
0:33:17 > 0:33:20215 for the two.
0:33:20 > 0:33:21What, you mean £5?
0:33:21 > 0:33:23Well, I wasn't trying to think of it that way, Jim.
0:33:23 > 0:33:26- (Say 225.)- (220.)
0:33:26 > 0:33:28220.
0:33:28 > 0:33:29No.
0:33:29 > 0:33:32- That was quick. - I'd let you buy it for £40.
0:33:32 > 0:33:34Which would take us to 250.
0:33:34 > 0:33:37Yes, but I think at £40 we'd lose money on it.
0:33:37 > 0:33:39- Can we have it for 30 quid? - Could you ring them?- Yes.
0:33:39 > 0:33:44That's very sweet of you. £20 - I've doubled my offer.
0:33:44 > 0:33:45Oh, have you gone down to 20 now?
0:33:45 > 0:33:48You can see why I'm not in this business.
0:33:48 > 0:33:51Come on, Peggy, do your best.
0:33:51 > 0:33:54Charlie and Jim have offered £20.
0:33:54 > 0:33:58Would you consider 20?
0:33:58 > 0:34:02OK. Thank you, that is very kind, very generous.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05- £20, it's yours. - JIM LAUGHS
0:34:05 > 0:34:08Finally, they've parted with some big money.
0:34:08 > 0:34:10- Wonderful.- Bye, Peggy.- Bye-bye.
0:34:10 > 0:34:12See you soon.
0:34:12 > 0:34:13Come on, boss.
0:34:13 > 0:34:17But while the pair in the Healey have just about shopped up...
0:34:19 > 0:34:21..our big rollers are just taking off.
0:34:21 > 0:34:24- Oh, I like this here. - See what I mean?
0:34:24 > 0:34:27You've got a tin-plate biplane, which is missing its propeller.
0:34:27 > 0:34:30- And a Schuco little... - Oh, my God, that is so cute.
0:34:30 > 0:34:32They are sweet, they are sweet.
0:34:32 > 0:34:36The Schuco and it's the telesteering car so this is the wheel which would
0:34:36 > 0:34:39have attached to a wire, which would have gone into the top of the car.
0:34:39 > 0:34:43- And it's still in its original box as well.- Still... Which is poor.
0:34:43 > 0:34:47- It is poor but, you know.- The box is poor.- But it's still got this.
0:34:47 > 0:34:48Its instructions.
0:34:48 > 0:34:53I love this. I mean, what child - or adult - doesn't love this?
0:34:53 > 0:34:55- Yeah, but it's missing its propeller.- Oh.
0:34:55 > 0:34:58With all these toys, they've been played with. Shall we ask?
0:34:58 > 0:34:59- Yeah.- We may as well ask.- Yes.
0:34:59 > 0:35:01- Bring it to the counter. - Yeah.- What's that?
0:35:01 > 0:35:05- Oh, you've got it!- A propeller for a plane.- You've got it.- Yay!
0:35:05 > 0:35:07Thank you.
0:35:07 > 0:35:11- Ooh, it looks a lot better now.- That was like magic.- It was, well done.
0:35:11 > 0:35:13OK, so then there were five.
0:35:13 > 0:35:15- Talk turkey with Conon.- Yeah, OK.
0:35:15 > 0:35:18- Yeah?- Yes, let's talk.
0:35:18 > 0:35:20- I can't let that go for less than £40.- OK, all right...
0:35:20 > 0:35:24And this has got the same ticket, so I can do the same with that.
0:35:24 > 0:35:26It's 80 quid for those two.
0:35:26 > 0:35:33And those I wanted to get close to 120, but 135.
0:35:33 > 0:35:36- So, we're at 215.- 215? Oh. Really?- Yeah, that is...
0:35:36 > 0:35:41- Can we go down to 200?- I'm not going to get down to 200.- 210.
0:35:42 > 0:35:47As it's you, I will just lose that extra fiver and I'll go to 210.
0:35:47 > 0:35:51- Do want to go for it?- Yes, I do. Thank you very much.- Thank you.
0:35:51 > 0:35:53So, three lots in all.
0:35:53 > 0:35:57Lighter and ashtray for £60, the pipe for 70 and the toys for 80.
0:35:57 > 0:35:59Thank you, bye.
0:35:59 > 0:36:01Well, she did have a feeling.
0:36:01 > 0:36:04And on that subject, how are we, fellas?
0:36:04 > 0:36:07# Dizzy, my head is turning... #
0:36:07 > 0:36:10- Is that a cover of somebody else's or is that...? - It was a Tommy Roe song, 1969.
0:36:10 > 0:36:12A Tommy Roe song, which I really liked.
0:36:12 > 0:36:14In a comedy way or in a straight way?
0:36:14 > 0:36:16We were like proper pop stars cos when I used to do
0:36:16 > 0:36:19the Big Night Out, we used to open the show with I'd sing a song.
0:36:19 > 0:36:23Three top three hits, number one and two number threes,
0:36:23 > 0:36:26but I've never had a number two.
0:36:26 > 0:36:29Our pop star and his amateur crooner chum are taking
0:36:29 > 0:36:33a short break from the shopping in Canterbury,
0:36:33 > 0:36:35where, just to the north of the cathedral city,
0:36:35 > 0:36:37at the University of Kent,
0:36:37 > 0:36:40they've come to view a unique collection of cartoons.
0:36:42 > 0:36:45- How do you do? I'm Jim. - Hello, Nick.- Hi, Charlie.
0:36:45 > 0:36:47Welcome to the University of Kent.
0:36:47 > 0:36:50- Thank you.- Come and see the British Cartoon Archive.- Let's have a look.
0:36:50 > 0:36:54The University is the home of 150,000 pioneering works
0:36:54 > 0:36:59by artists who haven't always been held in the highest regard.
0:36:59 > 0:37:02We focus on political cartoons and that's a wee bit
0:37:02 > 0:37:05- more respectable than...- Than the Beano.- Than the Beano, yeah.
0:37:05 > 0:37:08When was the first political cartoon?
0:37:08 > 0:37:11The first political cartoons really are in the 18th century,
0:37:11 > 0:37:13late 18th century.
0:37:13 > 0:37:17So then, you were able to print a small number of large
0:37:17 > 0:37:20single image cartoons, which weren't in publications,
0:37:20 > 0:37:22they were sold separately.
0:37:22 > 0:37:23And then in the 19th century,
0:37:23 > 0:37:27they come into magazines and then later on into newspapers.
0:37:27 > 0:37:30What sort of effect did these cartoons have on the public?
0:37:30 > 0:37:31It undermines everyone,
0:37:31 > 0:37:33and I think that's the interesting thing about it.
0:37:33 > 0:37:38It's this kind of oblong in the paper into which the politicians
0:37:38 > 0:37:41are dragged from the serious parts of the stories
0:37:41 > 0:37:43in the rest of the paper and they're kind of treated appallingly
0:37:43 > 0:37:45in this privileged space,
0:37:45 > 0:37:47so the cartoonists make them seem human,
0:37:47 > 0:37:51they make them seem infantile, they show them doing ridiculous things.
0:37:51 > 0:37:53So do any of the cartoonists ever get attacked?
0:37:53 > 0:37:55The politicians don't seem to like them but they never tell them
0:37:55 > 0:37:59to their face because it's a sign of weakness in a democracy
0:37:59 > 0:38:01that you kind of feel these things.
0:38:01 > 0:38:04It's very interesting that a lot of cartoonists complain about
0:38:04 > 0:38:08the fact that however viciously they attack somebody,
0:38:08 > 0:38:11that politician will want the original drawing.
0:38:11 > 0:38:15Well, happily, there's still plenty that the powerful haven't got
0:38:15 > 0:38:18their mitts on, including several genuine innovators.
0:38:18 > 0:38:21Nick, whose work have we got here?
0:38:21 > 0:38:24Well, these are cartoons by William Kerridge Haselden
0:38:24 > 0:38:26and Haselden was the first staff cartoonist
0:38:26 > 0:38:28on a British national paper.
0:38:28 > 0:38:32He joins the Daily Mirror at the end of 1903
0:38:32 > 0:38:36and continues working for the next 30-odd years.
0:38:36 > 0:38:40And we've got Big And Little Willie, which is...who are these two, then?
0:38:40 > 0:38:41Well, that's the Kaiser,
0:38:41 > 0:38:43Kaiser Wilhelm, who's Big Willie,
0:38:43 > 0:38:46and that's the crown prince, who's Little Willie.
0:38:46 > 0:38:49And he's turned him into like a knock-kneed idiot.
0:38:49 > 0:38:52That's right. He's turned him into a figure of fun.
0:38:52 > 0:38:56This is a typically British cartoonist's response to these
0:38:56 > 0:38:59figures of threat and hate and fear,
0:38:59 > 0:39:02that you make them into childlike figures who don't have
0:39:02 > 0:39:05the power to frighten or threaten.
0:39:05 > 0:39:09Is there anything specific about his style of cartooning?
0:39:09 > 0:39:12The way that he breaks up the story into several frames.
0:39:12 > 0:39:16During the war, he was really doing mainly about six different frames,
0:39:16 > 0:39:18which tell a story as it goes along.
0:39:18 > 0:39:20So, he was the first person to do that?
0:39:20 > 0:39:23He was the first person to do it in a British newspaper
0:39:23 > 0:39:26and also because he has these long-running characters,
0:39:26 > 0:39:30he's often claimed to be the originator of the strip cartoon.
0:39:30 > 0:39:33The archive also boasts several works by an artist who wasn't
0:39:33 > 0:39:35particularly interested in the elite.
0:39:35 > 0:39:39This is part of our Carl Giles collection.
0:39:39 > 0:39:42Carl Giles was a very popular cartoonist
0:39:42 > 0:39:46who joined the Sunday Express in 1943.
0:39:46 > 0:39:50At the end of 1944, he got a job as a war cartoonist
0:39:50 > 0:39:53and he actually went on trips to the front
0:39:53 > 0:39:58that lasted two or three weeks, cartooning among the soldiers.
0:39:58 > 0:40:01So, he actually went on the battlefield...
0:40:01 > 0:40:04- He was on the battlefield. - ..and did sketches.- Yes, yes.
0:40:04 > 0:40:07If we look at that one in the middle there, there's a German missile -
0:40:07 > 0:40:09would you call it a shell? - plopped in between them
0:40:09 > 0:40:12- and they're quite happy about it, so it suggests... - It's failed to go off.
0:40:12 > 0:40:15In a propaganda way, it's suggesting that the Germans
0:40:15 > 0:40:17- aren't really that competent. - THEY LAUGH
0:40:17 > 0:40:20Yes, it also suggests that the press,
0:40:20 > 0:40:21they're in there with the soldiers
0:40:21 > 0:40:25and Giles was a cartoonist of the ordinary man.
0:40:25 > 0:40:29He's very much in this British tradition where great events
0:40:29 > 0:40:33are seen not in terms of great figures but are seen in terms
0:40:33 > 0:40:36of the effect on the ordinary person,
0:40:36 > 0:40:37the ordinary newspaper reader,
0:40:37 > 0:40:41and so here, the focus of this isn't the war,
0:40:41 > 0:40:43but is the ordinary man.
0:40:43 > 0:40:45- He's taking it to the people. - Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
0:40:45 > 0:40:47Mightier than the sword.
0:40:49 > 0:40:51Now, somewhere in the Kent countryside,
0:40:51 > 0:40:53Nancy and Thomas are still ploughing on,
0:40:53 > 0:40:58taking our trip down to the little village of Barham.
0:40:58 > 0:40:59Looks lovely, it's so pretty, isn't it? It is.
0:40:59 > 0:41:01Are you excited?
0:41:01 > 0:41:02I'm excited.
0:41:02 > 0:41:06- That's what we like.- Hello. - Hiya.- Hi, Nancy.- I'm Christian.
0:41:06 > 0:41:08- Nice to meet you, Christian. - Nice to meet you.
0:41:08 > 0:41:11- Hi, Christian.- Hi, Thomas, nice to see you again. - Nice to see you.
0:41:11 > 0:41:13- This is great.- Take your pick.
0:41:13 > 0:41:16Well, after that very successful shop earlier,
0:41:16 > 0:41:18they don't really need an awful lot.
0:41:18 > 0:41:19Oh, they're so heavy.
0:41:19 > 0:41:21But that won't stop them looking.
0:41:21 > 0:41:24- Hello. - THEY LAUGH
0:41:24 > 0:41:28- It's like us, isn't it? - Yeah, that is us. There we are.
0:41:28 > 0:41:31"Ooh, where are the antiques?" I'm loving the outfits.
0:41:31 > 0:41:33It's a good story, that, isn't it?
0:41:33 > 0:41:37Remember, they still have £140.
0:41:37 > 0:41:39- This is nice.- You like that, do you?
0:41:39 > 0:41:42Oh, yeah, look at that.
0:41:42 > 0:41:44It's Chinese. It's cloisonne.
0:41:44 > 0:41:46So, it's cells of brass
0:41:46 > 0:41:51and then beads have been placed in here and then it's been fired
0:41:51 > 0:41:56and these have melted in and then polished and it leaves a picture.
0:41:56 > 0:42:00- That's very clever.- It's cool, isn't it? How old do you think it is?
0:42:00 > 0:42:02- 100 years?- Yeah, 100 years old.
0:42:02 > 0:42:06- It's about late 19th, early 20th-century.- Really?
0:42:06 > 0:42:08- These could... - Very pretty and lovely colours.
0:42:08 > 0:42:11- Something we should consider? - I'd definitely consider it.
0:42:11 > 0:42:14So, is Nancy in charge of negotiations?
0:42:14 > 0:42:16It's £75.
0:42:16 > 0:42:21- We don't want to be paying more than 40 for it.- Really?- Mm-hm.
0:42:21 > 0:42:23- I think you've got the chance.- OK.
0:42:23 > 0:42:25- You've got a chance.- OK, I'll try. - Yeah?- Yeah, I'm going to try.
0:42:25 > 0:42:29- Christian?- How are you getting on? - Really well.
0:42:29 > 0:42:33- Well, we saw this... - Mm-hm?- ..and, um...
0:42:33 > 0:42:37I'll get it, I'll pick it up. And we love it. I love it.
0:42:37 > 0:42:42- So, I would like to buy it. - Mm-hm, OK.
0:42:42 > 0:42:45- Standby.- Um, just... - SHE LAUGHS
0:42:45 > 0:42:48- (What is your best offer?) - Yeah, what is your best offer?
0:42:48 > 0:42:52How does...60 get you?
0:42:52 > 0:42:54Can we go lower? Well, OBVIOUSLY lower!
0:42:54 > 0:42:58- Well, we can go higher, if you like. - Jim would.- What about 55?
0:42:58 > 0:43:00Can I push you a little bit more?
0:43:00 > 0:43:02- 50.- 45?
0:43:03 > 0:43:05- Please? - LAUGHTER
0:43:05 > 0:43:08- As it's you...- Really? - Yeah, go on, then.
0:43:08 > 0:43:10- Aw, thank you very much. - Let's do it for 45.
0:43:10 > 0:43:12Pretty close to your target, Nancy.
0:43:12 > 0:43:13- She's the perfect haggler. - THEY LAUGH
0:43:13 > 0:43:15Thank you. Thank you, Christian.
0:43:15 > 0:43:18- Thank you very much, guys. - Bye!- Bye-bye.- See you, bye!
0:43:18 > 0:43:21- And with that final purchase... - I love it.- ..let's have a long,
0:43:21 > 0:43:25hard look at the substantial piles our teams have accumulated.
0:43:25 > 0:43:28- Are you ready? - BOTH: Ta-da!
0:43:28 > 0:43:32- Ooh, like it, like it! - Ooh, I'm so excited!- Like it!
0:43:32 > 0:43:34- Look!- I know! - Don't like it, like it.
0:43:34 > 0:43:37I spotted it! I did my Watson impression.
0:43:37 > 0:43:39- It is...- Elementary, my dear.
0:43:39 > 0:43:41I was fairly good at haggling, wasn't I?
0:43:41 > 0:43:42You are amazing at haggling!
0:43:42 > 0:43:45- The Schuco car...- Yes. - ..the calabash pipe,
0:43:45 > 0:43:50- the lighter, the plane.- Yes? - It cost us all £210.- 210.
0:43:50 > 0:43:53- Aw, le stealez, no? - Aw, so good!
0:43:53 > 0:43:56- Lovely Indian bracelet...- Very lovely.- ..which is very wearable.
0:43:56 > 0:44:00- Yes, that was...- That was 40. - 40, yes.- 40?! Yeah.- £40.- Not 4?
0:44:00 > 0:44:03- Shut up! 40. - NANCY AND CHARLIE LAUGH
0:44:03 > 0:44:06- And the archaic Chinese cloisonne vase.- Beautiful.- Yes.
0:44:06 > 0:44:09- I think these four...- Yes! - ..are fabulous.- I like that.
0:44:09 > 0:44:11What's that wheel on the car?
0:44:11 > 0:44:13- It's one of these driving... - Oh, like that?- Yeah.
0:44:13 > 0:44:15- A cable comes up.- It's so cute! Isn't that cute?- Really?
0:44:15 > 0:44:18- I think you've done extremely well. - Brilliant.- We've bought well.
0:44:18 > 0:44:21- Very good.- Yeah, good. - Well, do you want to see ours?
0:44:21 > 0:44:22- Yes!- We'd love to see it. - Reveal all!
0:44:22 > 0:44:25- Excited!- We're doing a double reveal, aren't we?- Yeah.
0:44:25 > 0:44:27- I'll do the top and you reveal your bottom.- You do your bottom.
0:44:27 > 0:44:29- GIGGLING - I beg your pardon?!
0:44:29 > 0:44:31One, two, three...
0:44:31 > 0:44:34- Ooh!- Ah, ha-ha, ha-ha!- Aw!
0:44:34 > 0:44:37- Now...- Do you know what that is? - Do you know?- Is it a bottle...?
0:44:37 > 0:44:38- It's a skirt-lifter.- Skirt-lifter.
0:44:38 > 0:44:41- LAUGHTER - What is it?- It's a skirt-lifter.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43It's for lifting your skirt when you're going across a puddle.
0:44:43 > 0:44:46- Yeah.- So you clip it on... - It's a super thing.- No?- It is, yeah.
0:44:46 > 0:44:49- Is it really?- Yeah. - Oh, I need one.- You do, yeah.
0:44:49 > 0:44:52It could be yours, for 150 quid.
0:44:52 > 0:44:55- I'll give you two.- A stereoscope with a picture...- Yeah?
0:44:55 > 0:44:59- ..a 3-D picture of Dixon. - Yeah.- Not the amazing Blonden.
0:44:59 > 0:45:01- Dixon!- Dixon?- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:45:01 > 0:45:03- Across Niagara? - Going across Niagara Falls.- Ah!
0:45:03 > 0:45:07- I love the Art Deco table.- That's lovely.- Do you?- That's lovely.
0:45:07 > 0:45:10- It lifts up.- It lifts up.- Does it? - In a butterfly style.- Oh!
0:45:10 > 0:45:12- Wonderful hinged top.- Gorgeous! - And who is it by?
0:45:12 > 0:45:14- Do you know who it's by? - Is it a Danish thing?
0:45:14 > 0:45:17- No.- No. - It's rarer than a Danish thing.
0:45:17 > 0:45:19- Is it by...?- (What's it called?) - CHARLIE AND JIM LAUGH
0:45:19 > 0:45:21- Who's it by?- Who's it by?
0:45:21 > 0:45:24- He's called...Graham Peterkin.- Yes!
0:45:24 > 0:45:26- LAUGHTER - No, it's not!
0:45:26 > 0:45:29- It's by Graham Peterkin.- It is, it's by Peterkin.- Who's Graham Peterkin?
0:45:29 > 0:45:30- You mean...?- Graham Peterkin!
0:45:30 > 0:45:33You mean to tell me you've never heard of Peterkin from Australia?
0:45:33 > 0:45:36- We paid...- 210. - ..210.- 210?!- 210?!
0:45:36 > 0:45:38- 210!- That's a lot!
0:45:38 > 0:45:40- But finally...- Yes.
0:45:40 > 0:45:42- This is our coup de grace. - Yeah?- Now, this is...
0:45:42 > 0:45:45- It might not look much. - That is not happening!
0:45:45 > 0:45:47"A present to Mrs Parker."
0:45:47 > 0:45:49- What?- To Mrs Parker!
0:45:49 > 0:45:54So, if Mr Parker is in the auction and he's had a row with Mrs Parker,
0:45:54 > 0:45:56- this is going to solve everything.- Yeah.
0:45:56 > 0:45:58- Nancy?- Yeah? - We'd better disappear, cos we need
0:45:58 > 0:46:00- to discuss the Graham Peterkin. - We need to talk about this.
0:46:00 > 0:46:03- You going to do some research? - We'll go.- See you later.
0:46:03 > 0:46:05- I can't believe you've never heard of Peterkin!- Come on, boss!
0:46:05 > 0:46:07See you at the auction! Quick, run! Quick, run!
0:46:07 > 0:46:10TIM: And if that wasn't quite honest enough...
0:46:10 > 0:46:15- Do you want to swap any of their items for any of ours?- No.
0:46:15 > 0:46:17- What do you think of their stuff, then?- I think it's quite good.
0:46:17 > 0:46:20- I love the pipe. - I like that little car.
0:46:20 > 0:46:23- Who was that...?- Graham Peterkin! - Who is that?!
0:46:23 > 0:46:25It's a box! It's just basically a box.
0:46:25 > 0:46:27- But what did you think of that? - I think it's a cool thing.
0:46:27 > 0:46:29- But would you...?- 50 quid. £50.
0:46:29 > 0:46:31That's what it's worth! It's worth £50.
0:46:31 > 0:46:34They're going to make a little bit of money and it's all going
0:46:34 > 0:46:36to come down to...
0:46:36 > 0:46:38- Peter Poppycock! - Ha! Peter Poppycock?!
0:46:40 > 0:46:44After setting off on the Kent coast at Sandwich, they're now on
0:46:44 > 0:46:48their way to an auction in London, at Southgate, for a get-together.
0:46:48 > 0:46:52- I'd like Charlie to be my best friend...- Oh!- ..from now on!
0:46:52 > 0:46:54THEY GIGGLE
0:46:54 > 0:46:57- No, I think we got on really well. - You did!- We had good fun.
0:46:57 > 0:47:01- And I'm going to ask him if he'll be my best friend!- Shall I, um...?
0:47:01 > 0:47:04Would...would Thomas be mine and then we can all go out?
0:47:04 > 0:47:07- We'll go on holiday together! - SHE LAUGHS
0:47:07 > 0:47:10Well, before all that, let's see how the auction goes.
0:47:10 > 0:47:12- Here we are, then.- Hello!
0:47:12 > 0:47:16- Hello, darling.- How are you feeling? - Confident.- Confident?- Yeah, yeah.
0:47:16 > 0:47:19- I think...- We've already won. - Are you confident?- Yeah, of course.
0:47:19 > 0:47:21- Are you?- No, I think... I...I'm very confident.
0:47:21 > 0:47:23- I think we're going to win hands down.- Yeah.
0:47:23 > 0:47:26- Come on, let's go in and have a look at it.- OK, let's go.
0:47:26 > 0:47:28TIM: But hurry! It's about to start.
0:47:28 > 0:47:31First, let's remind ourselves of who spent what.
0:47:31 > 0:47:34Nancy and Thomas spent £305 on six lots,
0:47:34 > 0:47:40whilst Jim and Charlie parted with £330, also on six lots.
0:47:40 > 0:47:44I wonder what auctioneer Andrew Jackson thinks will blaze a trail.
0:47:44 > 0:47:46Music table - yes, quite a nice little thing.
0:47:46 > 0:47:50It's a little out of the ordinary. It might get up to £40.
0:47:50 > 0:47:53The skirt-lifter, I've never seen one.
0:47:53 > 0:47:56I had to be told what it was. If it's a rainy day at Ascot,
0:47:56 > 0:48:00then I suppose it'd be quite useful. Somebody's going to buy it,
0:48:00 > 0:48:03just to have it to show their friends, I would imagine.
0:48:03 > 0:48:06Hammer time approaches, but first, a presentation.
0:48:06 > 0:48:09- I've got a little good luck token for you here.- Have you?
0:48:09 > 0:48:11- NANCY GASPS - A memento of our trip.
0:48:11 > 0:48:14Aw! That's so lovely!
0:48:14 > 0:48:17I want to make two little figurines of you and me in it...
0:48:17 > 0:48:20- LAUGHTER - ..going on holiday.
0:48:20 > 0:48:22Well, Eastbourne's nice at this time of year!
0:48:22 > 0:48:24The teabag repository!
0:48:24 > 0:48:27- Nice, very nice.- Yes. - Velvet patina, worn.
0:48:27 > 0:48:29- It'd look good in my boudoir. - You like that?- Yeah, I do.
0:48:29 > 0:48:31- Have you got a boudoir?- Yeah!
0:48:31 > 0:48:3325 now?
0:48:33 > 0:48:35- 25.- 20 to start me? You won't see another one.
0:48:35 > 0:48:40- "Won't see another one"! No, you won't.- 15, then. 15?
0:48:40 > 0:48:44- 15 bid, thank you.- 15 bid!- 20 now. 15 bid.- We're wiping our face.
0:48:44 > 0:48:48Anywhere at 20 now? All done, then, at 15?
0:48:48 > 0:48:49- GAVEL BANGS - Oh, no! You didn't make any profit?
0:48:49 > 0:48:52- No.- No, we didn't. - Could've been worse!
0:48:52 > 0:48:54TIM: That's a very good way of looking at it, Charlie.
0:48:54 > 0:48:58Someone's bought it whose auntie lives in Eastbourne,
0:48:58 > 0:49:00and it's going to make a marvellous Christmas present.
0:49:00 > 0:49:04- Yeah!- Do you think he's going to put sweeties in the box?
0:49:04 > 0:49:07- No, I think a fiver. - LAUGHTER
0:49:07 > 0:49:09TIM: Now for Nancy's colourful toys!
0:49:09 > 0:49:13- What's the estimate?- 40-60. - Don't laugh!- Don't laugh!
0:49:13 > 0:49:15TIM: Yeah, you never know!
0:49:15 > 0:49:18- 110, thank you, sir. - BOTH: Yes!- What?!
0:49:18 > 0:49:20- NANCY CHEERS - 120...? Ha-ha!
0:49:20 > 0:49:23120 now. 110 I'm bid.
0:49:23 > 0:49:25120 anywhere? 110 here.
0:49:25 > 0:49:27- 110!- 120 now.
0:49:27 > 0:49:30- (I'm so glad we spotted that!) - 120. 130.
0:49:30 > 0:49:31- 140? - Oh, my God!
0:49:31 > 0:49:33- Jim, shall we go to the pub? - 130, then.
0:49:33 > 0:49:36On my left, all done at 130?
0:49:36 > 0:49:40- GAVEL BANGS There we are.- Yay!
0:49:40 > 0:49:42TIM: A very fine start for those two.
0:49:42 > 0:49:45- Nancy spotted it.- Yes!- It was all down to Nancy.- Nancy?- Woohoo!
0:49:45 > 0:49:49- There's more to her than meets the eye.- Absolutely.- Absolutely!
0:49:49 > 0:49:52TIM: Thrupenny bits! Jim and Charlie's brooches next.
0:49:52 > 0:49:54- Thrupenny bits.- Thrupenny bits! - Yeah.- Knowing our luck,
0:49:54 > 0:49:57- it'll make ninepence! - LAUGHTER
0:49:57 > 0:49:59- At 25 now?- Oh, hang on!
0:49:59 > 0:50:0320, then? £20. Pretty little thing.
0:50:03 > 0:50:06- 15?- They're not very keen on our thrupenny bits.- No.
0:50:06 > 0:50:0810? £10? It's got to be worth 10, surely?
0:50:08 > 0:50:10Thrupenny bit, ladies and gentlemen!
0:50:10 > 0:50:13At £10, sir. Thank you very much. I nearly said 5, but you bid 10.
0:50:13 > 0:50:15- We're only losing a bit, Jim! - £10 bid. At 15, then?
0:50:15 > 0:50:18- £10 here, on my left. - That's good.
0:50:18 > 0:50:21All done, then? Unopposed at 10.
0:50:21 > 0:50:22- GAVEL BANGS - You went down!- Yeah, we went down.
0:50:22 > 0:50:25- Again!- Again.- It does happen. It does happen quite a lot.
0:50:25 > 0:50:28- It does. What's happening next? - THOMAS AND NANCY GIGGLE
0:50:28 > 0:50:31TIM: Nice try, Charlie! Let's talk about it some more.
0:50:31 > 0:50:34- You haven't made any money yet.- No, none at all.- We've lost quite a bit.
0:50:34 > 0:50:38- So you can't go to the pub now? - They're waiting.- We can, you pay.
0:50:38 > 0:50:42TIM: But will their first smoking-themed lot catch fire?
0:50:42 > 0:50:43- This is it.- Ooh, here we go!- Ssh!
0:50:43 > 0:50:4440, sir? 40 bid.
0:50:44 > 0:50:46- 45? - Oh, nice!
0:50:46 > 0:50:48At 40 I'm bid. 5 anywhere?
0:50:48 > 0:50:5045, sir. 50?
0:50:50 > 0:50:52Anywhere at 50 now?
0:50:52 > 0:50:55- 50 now.- Oh, no!- 55, sir?- I don't want you making another profit!
0:50:55 > 0:50:5760. 5?
0:50:57 > 0:51:00- - 70. 5? - We're making...- Oh, no, Jim!
0:51:00 > 0:51:03- - 80? 75. - It's going up and up!- 75, 75, 75.
0:51:03 > 0:51:0680 anywhere? All done, then, at 75?
0:51:06 > 0:51:08- GAVEL BANGS Yes!- Yes!
0:51:08 > 0:51:10TIM: Yes indeed! A tidy profit...
0:51:11 > 0:51:13..with the silver bangle to follow.
0:51:13 > 0:51:16What are they estimated at?
0:51:16 > 0:51:19- 40.- 40? They'll probably make £700. - LAUGHTER
0:51:19 > 0:51:2340 now. £40? 30, then?
0:51:23 > 0:51:25- Oh, dear!- That's going down. - AUCTIONEER:- Quite chunky. £30?
0:51:25 > 0:51:29- He's right, it is chunky. - 20 to start me. £20? 20 bid. 25?
0:51:29 > 0:51:3220 I'm bid. 25, sir? 30?
0:51:32 > 0:51:34- Here we go.- 5?- 700.
0:51:34 > 0:51:3740? 5?
0:51:37 > 0:51:39- 50? - It's nice, cos... Ooh!
0:51:39 > 0:51:42- 45 bid.- 45.- 50 anywhere? - 45 - it's a £5 profit.- 50 now?
0:51:42 > 0:51:46Last time, then, at 45... All done? All done?
0:51:46 > 0:51:48- GAVEL BANGS - We got £5. That's all right.
0:51:48 > 0:51:51No, you haven't. After commission, you've lost money.
0:51:51 > 0:51:53- Only a little.- You've lost LOADS! - LAUGHTER
0:51:53 > 0:51:56TIM: She's right! It hardly bucks the trend.
0:51:56 > 0:52:00But can Jim and Charlie's little skirt-lifter pick up a profit?
0:52:00 > 0:52:03I know ladies don't often use them nowadays, but you could present
0:52:03 > 0:52:06- biscuits in an elegant way with it? - LAUGHTER
0:52:06 > 0:52:09- 30 I'm bid. 35? - Oh, he's bid 30?!- Yeah.
0:52:09 > 0:52:12It does what it says on the tin. At 30 I'm bid.
0:52:12 > 0:52:1335 anywhere? £30 bid.
0:52:13 > 0:52:16- LOUDLY:- Skirt-lifter! - THOMAS LAUGHS SOFTLY
0:52:16 > 0:52:18GIGGLING
0:52:18 > 0:52:21- HE LAUGHS:- 35... At £30, then.
0:52:21 > 0:52:22All done, then, at 30?
0:52:22 > 0:52:25- All done now? - GAVEL BANGS
0:52:25 > 0:52:27- Well done!- Jim, we're in business. - Well done!
0:52:27 > 0:52:30TIM: Yup! Finally in the black! Hurrah!
0:52:30 > 0:52:32Next time we get hold of a skirt-lifter,
0:52:32 > 0:52:35we say it belonged to Florence Nightingale
0:52:35 > 0:52:38- and we add another fiver on it. - CHARLIE LAUGHS
0:52:38 > 0:52:41TIM: Now you're talking, Jim.
0:52:41 > 0:52:44Plus, your stereoscopic viewer and picture's coming up next.
0:52:44 > 0:52:46- Who are you looking for?- Brian May.
0:52:46 > 0:52:49- Yeah. Is he here?- No!
0:52:49 > 0:52:5135, sir? Straight in!
0:52:51 > 0:52:5340, then. 35 I'm bid.
0:52:53 > 0:52:5540? 5 anywhere?
0:52:55 > 0:52:58- 5 now. 40 I'm bid.- Oh, come on! This is worth so much more!
0:52:58 > 0:53:01- And 5.- Yes!- 50?- 50!- 50, sir?
0:53:01 > 0:53:04- We're losing money again, Jim! Can you believe it?- Anywhere at 45?
0:53:04 > 0:53:07Last time, then. 45, to the right.
0:53:07 > 0:53:09- GAVEL BANGS I'm gutted for you!- Are you(?)
0:53:09 > 0:53:12Yeah, you look it! He looks it, doesn't he? You look really gutted!
0:53:12 > 0:53:14I've never seen anybody less gutted in all my life!
0:53:14 > 0:53:18TIM: Unfair, Charlie. Anyway, they have a few risky items themselves.
0:53:18 > 0:53:20Like that pipe!
0:53:20 > 0:53:22- Calabash!- Remember, I did that?
0:53:22 > 0:53:26- You did.- I got really excited again, didn't I?- You didn't actually...
0:53:26 > 0:53:30- put it in, did you?- I think I might. - It's been in somebody else's mouth.
0:53:30 > 0:53:33- I know, and I think I did and I got worried.- No, a bit grim.
0:53:33 > 0:53:34But I haven't been ill.
0:53:34 > 0:53:36I'm just getting brief snippets of this conversation.
0:53:36 > 0:53:39LAUGHTER No... Sorry, Jim, sorry.
0:53:39 > 0:53:42TIM: Will it blow the opposition away or just go up in smoke?
0:53:42 > 0:53:46- You paid 70 for that pipe? - £70?!- £70 for that pipe.
0:53:46 > 0:53:49- Do people want pipes that badly? - CHARLIE LAUGHS
0:53:49 > 0:53:5135?
0:53:51 > 0:53:52- 35!- What?
0:53:52 > 0:53:54Anywhere at 40 now?
0:53:54 > 0:53:56- 40.- Look, there's a gentleman down here.- Ooh, yes!
0:53:56 > 0:53:5845. 50? 50, sir?
0:53:58 > 0:54:01- You like a calabash! - Go on, go a bit more!
0:54:01 > 0:54:04- No?- Go on, Charlie. - No, he's had enough.- Very shy.
0:54:04 > 0:54:08At 45. 50 anywhere now? At 45 bid.
0:54:08 > 0:54:10- Last time, then.- This is a massive loss, Jim.- All right!
0:54:10 > 0:54:13- "Calling bosh" on it.- Oh! GAVEL BANGS
0:54:13 > 0:54:15TIM: Charlie's feeling encouraged.
0:54:15 > 0:54:18But is you-know-who here? Mrs?
0:54:18 > 0:54:22- Have you seen the auctioneer's description?- I know, what is it?
0:54:22 > 0:54:26- "Very badly cracked." - Are there any Mrs Parkers in today?
0:54:26 > 0:54:27- LAUGHTER - No?
0:54:27 > 0:54:30- All right, well, £20? - That's a no, then.
0:54:30 > 0:54:3415? Large ware. Very decorative.
0:54:34 > 0:54:3610? £10?
0:54:36 > 0:54:38- 10 I'm bid, thank you, sir. - Has Mr Parker arrived?
0:54:38 > 0:54:41- LAUGHTER - 15 anywhere? 10 to the left.
0:54:41 > 0:54:44- Mr Parker's butler is bidding on his behalf.- Someone's got it, though!
0:54:44 > 0:54:47- Last time, then, at £10. - GAVEL BANGS
0:54:47 > 0:54:49- 10 quid.- 10 - it's what we paid.
0:54:49 > 0:54:51TIM: They didn't think it through.
0:54:51 > 0:54:54- So you didn't make any...? No. - No, no. Are you surprised?
0:54:54 > 0:54:56GIGGLING
0:54:56 > 0:55:00TIM: Can we expect further profits for the vase? Probably.
0:55:00 > 0:55:02- This is awful!- All right!
0:55:02 > 0:55:05- Cloisonne vase, quality Chinese. - I don't think it's going to do well.
0:55:05 > 0:55:07- At 50, thank you, sir. - 50!- Straight in.
0:55:07 > 0:55:10- What?! - 55? 50 I'm bid.
0:55:10 > 0:55:135 anywhere? Quite an imposing vase. Good size.
0:55:13 > 0:55:16"Imposing"? It's ghastly, it's not imposing!
0:55:16 > 0:55:19£50, then. A maiden bid at 50.
0:55:19 > 0:55:22- It's a lovely vase. - Good man.- 55? Yes!
0:55:22 > 0:55:24- 60? 5?- Go on.
0:55:24 > 0:55:26- One more.- What do you mean, Thomas?
0:55:26 > 0:55:29- - Ha-ha! Go on, go on! - 60 bid. 65?- You behave!
0:55:29 > 0:55:31Sorry, sorry, sorry! CHARLIE LAUGHS
0:55:31 > 0:55:34- At 60, then? All done, then, at 60? - GAVEL BANGS
0:55:34 > 0:55:36- 60! That's great!- What did you pay?
0:55:36 > 0:55:39TIM: It is great! It's a bit one-sided, though,
0:55:39 > 0:55:41even if you're not especially competitive.
0:55:41 > 0:55:44So, at the moment, you've probably got enough
0:55:44 > 0:55:46to put towards a chocolate bar.
0:55:46 > 0:55:48- LAUGHTER - Or a packet of crisps!
0:55:48 > 0:55:52TIM: Now, the auctioneer was very keen on Nancy's music table.
0:55:52 > 0:55:55- Irish interest.- Yeah, that we got for 10 quid.- Yeah.
0:55:55 > 0:55:58- "Irish interest"? - Irish interest.- Irish interest.
0:55:58 > 0:56:00It's got some badly-carved clover leaves on it.
0:56:00 > 0:56:04- At 40 now? 40 on this. - Strange that!- 35?
0:56:04 > 0:56:05- Oh, no! - 30?
0:56:05 > 0:56:07- A fiver would be tons, sir.- Shut up!
0:56:07 > 0:56:1125, then? Start me at 20. £20?
0:56:11 > 0:56:1315? 10?
0:56:13 > 0:56:15Oh, 10! 15, sir?
0:56:15 > 0:56:18- 15. 15 bid. 20 anywhere? - That's all right!
0:56:18 > 0:56:20All done, then, at 15?
0:56:20 > 0:56:22- 1-5 that is. - GAVEL BANGS
0:56:22 > 0:56:24- Brilliant!- We need to...
0:56:24 > 0:56:28TIM: That modest profit merely cements their huge lead.
0:56:28 > 0:56:29Last lot coming up!
0:56:29 > 0:56:33- How much has the coffee table got to make to let us win?- Thousands!
0:56:33 > 0:56:35LAUGHTER
0:56:35 > 0:56:36TIM: Not quite! But it's a lot.
0:56:36 > 0:56:40- 300 now?- Ooh?!- 300 anywhere?
0:56:40 > 0:56:43- 200? 100? - WOMAN: 90?
0:56:43 > 0:56:4590? Well, that's a start.
0:56:45 > 0:56:49- Now, we're going. - 100. 110? 100 bid.
0:56:49 > 0:56:51110 any...? 110.
0:56:51 > 0:56:54120? 1...150?
0:56:54 > 0:56:56150! Jim!
0:56:56 > 0:56:59- Oh, 115! I beg your pardon, sir! I'm sorry.- Aw!
0:56:59 > 0:57:00Steady now.
0:57:00 > 0:57:03120, madam? 130?
0:57:03 > 0:57:05- 120 I am bid.- It's Peterkin!
0:57:05 > 0:57:08- Graham.- 120 here. Anywhere at 130 now?
0:57:08 > 0:57:11- Surely?!- Last time. All done at 120?
0:57:11 > 0:57:13GAVEL BANGS, CHARLIE SIGHS
0:57:13 > 0:57:16- It beat...- Valiant effort. - But that's good, isn't it?
0:57:16 > 0:57:18- No, we lost 90 quid.- Oh! - LAUGHTER
0:57:18 > 0:57:22TIM: And on that note, it's just as well that Jim and Charlie said
0:57:22 > 0:57:24they weren't really bothered about winning.
0:57:24 > 0:57:27This might be strange, but I think we'd better go and work out who
0:57:27 > 0:57:29- the winners and who the losers... - It's touch and go, isn't it?- It is.
0:57:29 > 0:57:32- It's very, very close. - Very touch and go.- Come on.
0:57:32 > 0:57:35- Come on, then.- Can't be much in it, can there?- Very little.- Let's go.
0:57:35 > 0:57:38- We'll need a slide rule for this one.- We do, we do!
0:57:38 > 0:57:43TIM: OK, Jim and Charlie started out with £400 and, after auction costs,
0:57:43 > 0:57:47made a loss - surprise, surprise - of £141.40,
0:57:47 > 0:57:50so they finished up with £258.60.
0:57:51 > 0:57:54While Nancy and Thomas, who also began with 400,
0:57:54 > 0:57:58made a tiny loss, thanks to costs, of £1.60,
0:57:58 > 0:58:03so they are the winners, with £398.40.
0:58:03 > 0:58:07I can't believe it! Four of the finest brains in Britain,
0:58:07 > 0:58:10- with 800 quid, and we've lost... - Well, Charlie, it's been a pleasure.
0:58:10 > 0:58:14- 800, Charlie!- You, the bus stop's over that way. We're in the Roller.
0:58:15 > 0:58:17Do you know what? I love working with you, Jim.
0:58:17 > 0:58:20- Didn't we have a laugh? - Well, I've enjoyed working with you.
0:58:20 > 0:58:23- Yeah, but...- Will you marry me? - SHE LAUGHS
0:58:23 > 0:58:25Again!
0:58:25 > 0:58:27No. Ha-ha!
0:58:27 > 0:58:30- Joke!- I've never been more insulted!
0:58:30 > 0:58:33I think we've all had a LOT of fun!