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Stockport, a good northern industrial town.

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But it doesn't get much more opulent than this.

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This gorgeous beautiful backdrop is Stockport Town Hall,

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it's our venue for today

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and a fitting setting for the splendid items I'm hoping to see on the show.

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Welcome to Flog It!

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We're seven miles outside Manchester in the heart of Stockport,

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which was once centre of the country's hatting industry and exported

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more than 6 million hats a year. Today, it's the local antiques

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we're all interested in.

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The good people of Stockport have turned up in their droves,

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hundreds of them here all laden with antiques and collectables,

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hoping that their little lot will be worth a princely sum at auction.

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And we have to take our hats off

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to our experts as they are already in the queue

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trying to find hidden treasures. Sorting the fakes from the Faberge,

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it's the resplendent Philip Serrell.

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That signature, for me, doesn't look quite right.

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And positively posh, Mark Stacey.

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I look as though I've come from the House of Eliott.

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So, let's get the doors open and get the show under way.

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We found a great selection of objects from our day

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at Stockport, but which of these exquisite items

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makes the most impressive sum at auction?

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Is it the ivory Cantonese cardholder?

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Or the blue and white George V Staffordshire plate? Or maybe...

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the mahogany biplane propeller? Make sure you stay tuned to find out...

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Everyone is safely seated inside. Are you all enjoying ourselves?

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-ALL: Yes.

-Yes, that's what we like.

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It's one thing to have opulence and splendour,

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but of course, this is Flog It!

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And what this lot want to know is, exactly what's it worth?

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So, let's find out, shall we? Here's our first valuation.

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David. You've brought...

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a touch of quality and a touch of the Far East

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in to show us today. Where on earth did you get it from?

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This belonged to my aunt, who passed this on to my father

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in 1984 and since then it's been sitting in a drawer at home.

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-Unappreciated.

-You know of course what it is?

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It's a Chinese card case, a business card case.

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Exactly right, exactly right. It's what we call Cantonese,

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so it would have been carved in China and exported.

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Date wise, you might be shocked, we're looking at around 1870.

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I love the decoration, all this intricate carved...

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gateways and buildings, it's really marvellous,

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-all around the edges there.

-I really appreciate the way it looks,

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I'm amazed at how they can carve so intricately.

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This would have been made for the European market.

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It's not something a Chinese person would have wanted.

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They wouldn't have carried business cards, this was a Western thing.

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You would have had to have been a member of the middle class or more

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to have something like this in your pocket.

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-On one side, it's fully carved...

-That's right.

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..and on the side it's got this little roundel

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-and I've always wondered what that was for.

-Well, imagine,

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-that you were the Duke of Warrington.

-Right.

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And you wanted your cipher and your coat of arms

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or your monogram, that's where they would have carved it.

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You would have shown them your coat of arms or your coronet

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and your initials and they'd carve it in there for you.

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Remarkably, this one isn't carved. I don't know if you've thought about the value.

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I had a look on the internet and I found it might be worth a little bit,

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but I'm not entirely sure.

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I think you're right, I'm going to be cautious, I hope

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and say £200 to £300,

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with a £200 fixed reserve, but it wouldn't surprise me on the day

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if we pushed up to £300 or £400,

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or maybe a bit more. These can do extremely well in the saleroom.

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-So, if you're happy to leave it with us.

-Yes, please.

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We'll put it into the sale. Thank you very much, David.

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Thank you. It's been a pleasure.

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There are strict laws governing the trade of ivory

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but David's allowed to sell this cardholder

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because it predates 1947 and is classified as a worked item.

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Now, from one decorative item to a rather more practical one.

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-Chris, how are you, all right?

-I'm well, Phil, how are you?

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I just love this, I really do. Why have you got a propeller?

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It's my wife, she's a big aviation geek.

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-Really?

-Yeah.

-In what way.

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-She was looking at doing a PPL for a while?

-What's a PPL?

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-Private pilot's licence.

-Right.

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This was my father-in-law's father,

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-who was in the Royal Flying Corps in World War I, I think.

-Yeah.

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Because that's before the Royal Flying Corps

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-became the RAF, didn't it?

-Yes, that's right.

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And my father-in-law, he handed this down to her as a gift.

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Your wife's got a propeller, what exactly did she do with it?

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We just stashed it in a corner of the living room

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and it sat there for a few years.

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They are what I call great study accessories,

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you know, for people who've got the gentleman's study.

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You find a lot of them that are cut off here and here,

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you have barometers or you have clocks

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that are inset into here and they make quite a nice mantel clock.

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I think that ruins them. I think this is just such a fabulous thing.

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What I love about it is, it's such a fantastic piece of sculpture

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and it's got this copper sheath on there

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that protects the leading edge as this goes round and round.

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-These markings here...

-Yeah.

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..R3 and... Is that the way that you crank it to the right?

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The truthful answer is I don't know. It's something... I don't think

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that they're hugely going to affect what it does and what it's worth.

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What will affect it is what it's off

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and that, I don't know. Can we turn it over?

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Very often, you will find...

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impressed into it...

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either a manufacturers' stamp or what it's of,

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-and this is really helpful because there's nothing here at all.

-No.

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Have you done some research on it?

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I was told that it was from either a Tiger Moth or a Gypsy Moth

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and I think the Gypsy Moth preceded the Tiger Moth.

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-Were they 1930s biplanes?

-Yeah, 1930, 1931 biplane.

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If you'd come in with no aspirations or this came into my saleroom,

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if we were clearing a house and found it, I'd probably put this in,

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either with a £500 reserve and a £600-£900 estimate,

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or I'd put £800-£1,200 on it with a £600 reserve,

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that is where I'd come from with it. I'm comfortable with £800-£1,200

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with a reserve of £600, if you want to do that?

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Yeah, possibly, I was thinking probably about £800 reserve.

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Well, if we put £800 - £1,200 as an estimate,

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how do you feel about a £750 reserve on it?

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-Yeah, that's fine.

-OK.

-Yeah.

-We'll have a fixed reserve of £750

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-and an estimate of £800-£1,200, OK?

-Yeah.

-So tell me,

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your wife was interested in getting her PPL,

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did she ever actually qualify as a pilot?

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-No. She didn't actually.

-Oh, wow!

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It was just too expensive, £100 per lesson.

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-So, might this go towards getting her licence?

-Possibly, yeah.

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-That would be fantastic.

-Be a nice story, wouldn't it?

-Yeah.

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I must talk to you because you've got a doggy here.

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-What's your name?

-Stephanie.

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Stephanie, pleased to meet you. Was this yours as a kid?

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-It was my husband's.

-Was it?

-Yes, Jock is almost 80 years old.

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Jock, that's his name, is it? Can I hold Jock?

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Oh, look at Jock! Oh, that's good, look at that!

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It's got his makers label, Merry Thought,

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-this is great, English company, and see that button?

-Yes.

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That predates this before World War II.

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He's one of the firm's first.

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Have you any idea what Jock's worth?

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No idea, maybe £10, it's difficult to tell.

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-I think you're right.

-It's the sentimental...

-Is he worth selling?

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-Who says yes?

-ALL: Yes.

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-Who says no?

-ALL: No.

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There you go, there's the answer.

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He's going to be saved, he's not going under the hammer!

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-The sentimental value outstrips the monetary value.

-Yes.

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Love him, Steph, love him. Take him home.

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Cuddle him up, keep him warm.

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Here at Flog It! we have a whole team

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of experts researching behind-the-scenes and they've been working hard

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to put together background information on Mark's next valuation...

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-Carol. You're quite nervous, aren't you?

-Terrible. I'll try my best.

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Well, thank you for bringing in a very interesting group of medals

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-and a photograph which has been painted.

-Yeah.

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-Tell me a about the history.

-All I can tell you is, a great-uncle of my husband's

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and my husband and my father-in-law went down to his wife's funeral

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probably 30 years ago and then when my father-in-law died,

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18 years ago, that's when my husband acquired it.

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And they've been in a box in the attic.

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Really, they've been on top of the wardrobe in a bag.

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It's never been on show, no.

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-And your husband's happy to sell them?

-He's happy to sell them, yes.

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It's an interesting group of medals and it's lovely to have a personal photograph as well,

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to tie in with them.

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I have got a cheat, I'm afraid. I have my little crib sheet here.

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You don't know anything about this, do you?

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All I know is what I have told you. Yes.

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Well, it is Sergeant A Grice.

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He was in the Durham Light Infantry as a band member.

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He has a war medal, which is a general medal, from 1914 to 1918.

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He has got an India Service, general service medal.

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-1930-1931 bar, which is this one.

-Right.

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He has a good conduct medal as well, plus a long service medal

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and a meritorious medal.

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Now, the meritorious medal you do not get

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unless you have the good service medal and long service medal.

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-Right.

-So he's obviously been a very good soldier in his time.

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He also, believe it or not,

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served in Shanghai in 1927 as part of the Shanghai Defence Force.

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-Oh.

-You might be wondering, Carol, where I got all this information.

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Well, one of my colleagues has done some research and quite simply,

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because we have the information of the Durham Light Infantry

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and his name, just type that into the internet

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and a lot of this came up.

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-Right.

-It is amazing, really, what we can find out these days.

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Marvellous that, yes.

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And I think, all in all, it is quite a nice little group.

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-You have also got two small medals here.

-Right.

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These are the miniatures for these medals.

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When you went to a regimental dinner

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and you had your posh jacket on, you could put these miniature medals on,

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rather than wearing the full...

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So these are dress medals.

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Obviously, these ones are missing.

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Only those two are there, which is a shame.

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-Yes.

-I find it quite a personal thing to value

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because anybody who serves in the Armed Forces

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has been through so much,

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so it's very difficult to come to a monetary value

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-but we have to try and have a guess at it.

-Right, OK.

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-I think we should put something like £300-£400 on them.

-Right.

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-As a group. That is the medals and the picture.

-Right.

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And we will put a reserve of £300 with 10% discretion.

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I hope that, you know,

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-everyone will enjoy them and we will have a good result at the auction.

-Very good. Thank you.

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So that concludes our first set of valuations

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and it is time to take them over to the auction room

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and here is a quick reminder of what we are taking with us.

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That ivory cardholder may not be to everybody's taste

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but there is certainly a market for it.

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I just love this. I really love it.

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Philip hopes Christopher's mahogany propeller will fly under the hammer.

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-Carol...

-And Mark was bowled over by these wonderful war medals.

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We have travelled across the Cheshire countryside

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to sell our items at Adam Partridge saleroom, just outside Macclesfield.

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It's the sale preview day

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and these early birds have come along to view the lots in advance.

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Remember, if you want to bid in an auction,

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you will probably need to register before the sale.

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You might need to bring along some identification

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and then you are good to go.

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I caught up with Adam in a rare quiet moment and asked him

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what he thought about one of our lots.

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Adam, a wonderful atmosphere for auction preview day.

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-I can't wait for tomorrow for the buzz.

-Should be exciting.

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Let us talk about the propeller. It belongs to Christopher and is hanging up over there.

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Yes, we thought it would be noticeable hanging from the ceiling.

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Wonderfully laminated mahogany. We have £800-£1,200.

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Yes, when I saw we had a propeller I thought it was great.

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I sell them really well.

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I have handled loads of them and £400-£600 we normally put on them.

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They usually make £600-£800. I don't know if it will make it.

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The trouble with that one is there are no markings to help

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distinguish what aeroplane it came from

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and I think it is a later one than and World War I propeller.

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I would like to see it sell but I think £800

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is absolutely right on the top of what it is worth.

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-If we get that, yes.

-It is a good price.

-Yes.

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Just asking too much.

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-Yes, I think so. But you never know.

-You never know.

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That is the beauty of an auction.

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If you get two people who fall in love with that and want to buy it, who knows?

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-Who knows? Good luck.

-Thank you.

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We are about to find out if Adam's prediction is right

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because sale day is now upon us.

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Adam Partridge has just taken to the rostrum.

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The bidders are all in their places. Let's get the show on the road.

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It is chocks away!

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We are just about to put the propeller under the hammer.

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Chris, thanks for bringing that in.

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You have put £800-£1,200 on it.

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I had a chat to Adam and he said it might be a little bit punchy

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and he is not sure really if it is from a gypsy moth.

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It could be a tiger moth.

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Without any further history or provenance,

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we can't really build up a picture to build up the value.

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Fingers crossed, we'll just about get it away.

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I think I said at the valuation

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-that in an ideal world I would like to see £600-£900.

-This is quality.

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It is period and it is right.

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We just need to find somebody who wants a propeller on their wall.

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It is going under the hammer now.

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540 is the wooden propeller there. Start me at £800, will you?

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800? £500 then. Always make that.

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500 is bid. 20 here, Sir? 540.

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560, 580, 600,

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620, 640,

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660, 680, 700.

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We're getting there. Getting there.

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740. 760. 780.

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760 is the bid. At £760.

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Any further interest on this at 760?

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The propeller is away now at 760. All done?

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Yes! He has sold it. Only just. £10 over the reserve.

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It had a fixed reserve of £750.

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Look, it's gone. OK. It has gone. I think that is a few flying lessons.

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Well, it begs the question,

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who would buy an old propeller?

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Well, we caught up with the buyer after the sale to find out just that.

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I bought the propeller on behalf of a colleague, actually.

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An ex-RAF colleague. I am RAF myself.

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So we have a great interest in militaria

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and it looked like a very fine propeller.

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Now, remember those war medals?

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Carol, fingers crossed and don't be nervous. We will look after you.

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-OK.

-Auction rooms are very intimidating, aren't they?

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Especially if you're not used to them.

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Move and you might buy something!

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Yes. I hope I don't sneeze!

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We won't be buying your medals

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because I think these will go to a collector.

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You have added something else to the mix, haven't you?

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You have the death certificate.

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-Death and marriage certificates.

-How did you find those?

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-Top of the wardrobe in a bag.

-Did you?

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They asked if we found anything else and we had a look.

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That is really good because that is provenance.

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Provenance puts the value up.

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I am not an expert on medals but you are right.

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The collectors love anything that can trace back to the person.

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-To the First World War.

-Exactly. And add to his life.

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-Fingers crossed we get £300 plus.

-Fingers crossed.

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Lot 501.

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A group of four medals, two World War I medals,

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to Sergeant Grace of the Lancashire Fusiliers.

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A long service and good conduct.

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Two later medals there and interest here starts with me at £300.

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Take 20. £300.

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I'll take 20 next for this group here. At 300.

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Where is 20? 320, 340, 360,

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380, 380 still with me.

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At 380. Any more on this one?

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400, 420, 440. 420 then away. At £420.

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Are you all done? At 420?

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-£420!

-Absolutely brilliant!

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You can't put a value or a price on what those young men

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did for us during the First World War,

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fighting for the country and their lives, you really can't.

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-But we are pleased with that.

-Absolutely brilliant.

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That will have gone to a collector

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-who will keep that whole package together.

-Super.

-Good home.

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There are usually a few different ways you can bid at auction.

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If you can't make it to the sale itself,

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it may be possible to bid live on the internet,

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or on the telephone, or what is called a commission bid, where you

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leave a written price with the staff and they bid on your behalf.

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And don't forget there is a buyer's commission to take into account.

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Here it is 18 percent including VAT.

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What ever you are doing right now,

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don't disappear into the kitchen or put the kettle on.

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Stay tuned because this next item could be a real flyer.

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I have just been joined by David and Mark, our expert.

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Can you guess which item we are talking about?

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It is that Cantonese ivory card case.

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That wonderful, wonderful thing. Condition is very good.

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I love that carved Chinese village scene on it.

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Did Mark explain to you that Chinese artefacts right now,

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because there are so many millionaires in China,

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their economy is booming

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and they are buying back all these wonderful artefacts.

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-He certainly did.

-It is going back there, isn't it?

-You are right.

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And it is so hard to put a value on anything Chinese now.

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-It is good condition.

-We have 200-300 on it, haven't we?

-I know.

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It is a little bit of a come-and-get-me, I think.

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It should make a lot more than that.

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Let us find out. Who is going to buy it?

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Is it on the phone, is it online, or in the room? This is it.

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365 another Canton ivory card case. Start me at £200 again.

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Come on, phones, let us see 200. 200 here. 20 now. At £200. 210, then.

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220. 220. 240?

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260. 280. 300.

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320. 340. 360. 380.

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400. 420.

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440.

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460. 480.

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500.

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520. 540.

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It is just when it will stop, isn't it? We know it is going to do well.

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At 520 on this phone.

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Is there 540 anywhere? 520 on the phone.

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At 520, are you all done now?

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At £520, last chance to bid. We sell then at 520. Thank you.

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-£520. Top end of the estimate.

-And above.

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Well, what I'm going to do with it...

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-I don't collect ivory but I do collect glass.

-OK.

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I have never been able to afford anything really nice,

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just little pieces, so I am hoping to find something.

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Mark will put you in the right direction. He loves glass as well.

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That is great, actually.

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It is nice to put the money into something else.

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Put it back into the trade.

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Well, there you are, that is the end of our first visit to the auction room today.

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We are coming back here later on in the programme.

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I hope you enjoyed that little bit of tension.

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In the sale room there is around 40 or 50 books for sale.

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All different kinds of books, different sizes,

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different values, different genres.

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With collections starting from as little as £15 for half a dozen.

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But, as I found out when we were filming up here,

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books were not always that accessible or affordable.

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Take a look at this.

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In the 17th century, public libraries didn't exist.

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Only a select few,

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such as those studying at Oxford or Cambridge, or the very rich,

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could benefit from using institutional or private libraries.

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Manchester, like many industrial cities of that period,

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had poor living conditions

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and offered very little in the way of education

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for the average working-class family.

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Humphrey Chetham was a very successful

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Manchester textiles merchant who wanted to change all this

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and he believed the way to overcome poverty was to cure ignorance.

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So, in the years leading up to his death,

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he set aside provisions for a charitable trust

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which included a school and five small libraries

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which would be sited in local churches and of course, this,

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his Great Library which has become known to all as Chetham's Library.

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After his death in 1653, the governors appointed by Chetham

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set out to acquire a major collection of books and manuscripts

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that would rival the college libraries of Oxford and Cambridge.

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And they certainly didn't disappoint.

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Founded in 1653,

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Chetham's is the oldest public library in England

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and holds over 100,000 volumes in printed books.

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The book cases, or book presses as they were known back then,

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were all labelled alphabetically so you knew which section you were in.

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And 24 oak boarded stools

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were provided to use as portable seats for the readers

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and they have this lovely S shape cut out of the seats,

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so you can actually pick them up and walk with them.

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It wasn't just seats that were specially designed for the library.

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The chests the books were in were unique too.

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As you can see, all the books are chained up.

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They were like that right up until the middle of the 18th century. Why?

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Well, because books were an expensive commodity.

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And let me give you an idea, OK?

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The books there, they cost £25.

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This wonderful oak cabinet that was made for them,

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in 1655, we know that, it is beautifully carved there,

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well, that cost £9.

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Doesn't sound like a lot of money today, does it?

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But back then the librarian's annual wage was £10.

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So you can see how expensive it was to put that collection together.

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It is incredible to think such extortionately-priced books

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were made available for anyone to enjoy.

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The general public made use of the library over the centuries,

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as well as a couple of notable figures.

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In the summer of 1845,

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Engels and Marx developed the habit of studying together

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here at this very desk in the alcove of the reading room.

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And it is thought that some of the texts in front of me

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influenced their writing of the pamphlet The Communist Manifesto in 1848.

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Nowadays, the library specialises in the history and topography

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of Greater Manchester and Lancashire over the last 350 years.

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Chief Librarian Dr Michael Powell is going to show me

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a couple of examples that give us an insight into the lives of the local people

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during the 18th and 19th century.

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This is a sexton's register.

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This is 18th century.

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The sextons are the people who ring the bell,

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dig the graves and clean churches.

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These are the people who are buried

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and the sextons have been asked

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to do other information, to record the cause of death.

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OK, "fever", things like that.

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So what you've got "weakness", that's TB. That is the biggest killer.

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What they do is put them all out in age.

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You have got a massive number dying before the age of five,

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a few making it into their 60s.

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What does this tell us about the local area?

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It tells us that, really, I think, even in the 18th century -

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and this is before the horrors of Engels

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and Victorian Manchester -

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that if you want a long life, don't live in a city.

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This one is a little bit later

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and this is more horrible when we hit 1832.

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They start to record cholera.

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-This is the first outbreak of cholera in Manchester.

-There is a lot of it.

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There are 900-and-odd names of people within a few months.

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This is going from misery and horror to something more entertaining.

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This is a collection of posters.

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A rather large book, that one.

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This is really taking posters that you get from the streets.

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-Someone has collected all of these?

-From the 1760s.

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-This is one of the posters for a circus.

-That is lovely, isn't it?

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This is remarkable social history.

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And it is all about entertainment and what is available to the people.

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-Yes.

-Are you still adding to the library today?

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Do you buy books for the library?

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Yes, we still buy new books

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on the history of the North West, on the region,

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and we try and fall in gaps every so often, if we can.

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-With period books?

-Yes.

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There are many ancient and valuable books here

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but I have found one that stands out

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because of its rather special former owner.

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This book was purchased in 1674 for eight shillings,

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that is around 40p.

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It is the folio edition

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by fifth-century theologian St Prosper of Aquitaine.

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Now, when it was first purchased,

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it was thought that it wasn't that valuable.

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However, after extensive research,

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it proves it is rather valuable. I can tell you why.

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The clues aren't really inside but on the white doe-skin cover.

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And here, on the front, you have the coat of arms of England and France.

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There is also the "HR".

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This book was bound for Henry VIII.

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So how it came from the Royal Courts

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to the library booksellers we don't know.

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But it is rather special

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and the condition, for its age,

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is absolutely extraordinary.

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At a time when our libraries are under threat,

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it is a real honour to visit one of the finest in the country.

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It is also important to remember

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what a valuable resource our libraries are,

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offering knowledge and entertainment free of charge

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to the people who need it most.

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From one outstanding building to another,

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we are back at Stockport Town Hall It's packed with over 800 people,

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all here to have their items valued.

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But before we get back to the tables,

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I am going to catch up with Sue Lear, from Hat Works Hat Museum,

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and milliner Julia Walker.

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They will tell me more about the town's fascinating heritage.

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Stockport has had a long association with hats,

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dating right back to the 1500s.

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The heyday was the 1800s

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and many factories were working here making hats.

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What I didn't know was

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John Wayne's famous Stetson hat was, more than likely, made in Stockport.

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So, Sue, tell me more about the Stetson.

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We have got pictures here of a lovely group of trimmers in the factory.

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They have got the picture of John Wayne

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and then this is another picture of people wearing the Stetsons

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and this was from another company in Stockport called Lee's Hat Factory.

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-Right, OK.

-So you can see with this how many we did make and sell

0:29:330:29:38

-and ship out to America.

-And shipped to the States.

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And we have one here, look. This is incredible.

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I need to put gloves on because this is part of our collection.

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-That is a big hat, isn't it?

-It is.

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Julia, you are keeping this industry alive today

0:29:500:29:53

using traditional skills and methods.

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-Has it changed much?

-No. No, not much.

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Obviously, manufactured hats are one thing

0:29:580:30:01

but when I make hats, I make everything by hand.

0:30:010:30:04

Talk me through who we have here. What is your name?

0:30:040:30:06

-Jordan.

-Jordan, that looks fabulous. Tell me about Jordan's hat.

0:30:060:30:10

Jordan is wearing the market charter hat

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which was made for The Hat Works ten-year anniversary competition.

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That is lovely. There is a lot of history on your head.

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-And what is your name?

-Alice.

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I think what this looks like, my interpretation is,

0:30:220:30:24

like the funnel of SS Great Britain and the big wheels of industry.

0:30:240:30:29

-Is that right?

-Yes.

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It was a competition based on steam and Victoriana.

0:30:310:30:34

That is the keyword.

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Pre-electricity and obviously the colours are all sepia photographs.

0:30:360:30:41

-And what is your name?

-Ashley.

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That was commissioned by The Hat Works for the anniversary

0:30:430:30:45

of 300 years of Ascot.

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-How fabulous!

-It was on display at Hat Works.

-Well, Julia, thank you.

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Sue, and of course, our lovely models there.

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Thank you so much for turning out today.

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That is what Stockport is all about.

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And as Flog It! is finding out, it is also about wonderful antiques

0:31:000:31:03

and collectables and this one fits in rather nicely

0:31:030:31:06

with that propeller we saw earlier.

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-Ron, how are you?

-OK.

-Good friend of yours?

-Yes.

-Go out often together?

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Now and again.

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It is clearly Sir Francis Chichester and I can tell that

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because it says here, "Sir Francis Chichester".

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And he was the man who navigated Gypsy Moth around the world.

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-That is right, single-handed.

-It is a bronze model.

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-Bronze, yes.

-It is by a man called John Worsley, isn't it?

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And it was made in 1979.

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We can see that here. It is number nine from a limited edition.

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-When did you buy it?

-I bought it in a shop in Greenwich, London.

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-Big maritime collection.

-Yes.

-Why did you buy it?

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I went down to see Gypsy Moth. I had read the book

0:31:490:31:51

and when I saw that, I thought it was brilliant.

0:31:510:31:54

-So I decided to buy it.

-And, Ron, how long ago was that?

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20 years it was.

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-What did you pay for it?

-£500.

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-I am anxious about the estimate, right?

-Yes.

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Because you paid 500.

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I know that one sold for 1,100.

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In an ideal world, I would like to put £600-£900 as an estimate

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and a reserve of 500 but that is not going to suit you, is it?

0:32:160:32:19

-No, it is too low, that.

-Too low.

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If we put 800 to 1,200 as an estimate...

0:32:220:32:26

and we say to Adam, "The reserve is £800,

0:32:260:32:29

"but you have 10% discretion if you need it"?

0:32:290:32:32

-OK.

-OK?

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The beauty of this business is,

0:32:330:32:36

I don't know if it will sell for you or not.

0:32:360:32:37

There's other things I've seen today

0:32:370:32:39

I can be 100% sure they'll sell.

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With old Sir Francis here, I'm not sure.

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I'm not sure.

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He might be bought in at around the 500/550 mark.

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Or he might go and make £1,200.

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It will be a real voyage of discovery for both of us.

0:32:520:32:56

HE LAUGHS

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Now, I've been on a bit of an adventure myself

0:32:570:33:00

and had a good look around all the items in the ballroom here today,

0:33:000:33:03

but there's something in particular that's caught my eye.

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Kerry, what have we in here?

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Railway posters.

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-Do you collect railway posters?

-No.

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So how did you come by these?

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We was having the loft boarded down,

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and Steven

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brought 'em down in a plastic bag,

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and he said,

0:33:230:33:24

"I think that's a bit of the wallpaper."

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I just left 'em and then I got round to 'em about an hour earlier,

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and I just peeked in.

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-How many have you got?

-About 40.

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-But they're not railway posters, are they?

-All of them, yeah.

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-All of them railway posters?!

-Yeah.

0:33:370:33:40

My gosh!

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These have got ships on.

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Ships?

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The condition is exceptional on this one.

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Yeah. Nice straight lines.

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I just like that one,

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cos of the straight lines.

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-I don't know how old it is.

-Very nice.

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It's iconic, isn't it?

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It really is.

0:33:570:33:59

Kerry, these are fabulous. What a lucky find.

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The interesting thing is, a lot of these graphic illustrators

0:34:020:34:06

have become well-known and collectable artists

0:34:060:34:08

in their own right,

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as time's moved on.

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So, we'll source

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what artist is responsible for what posters, as well.

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Just looking at these, even if we're looking at £30 to £50,

0:34:170:34:21

maybe £60 to £70 for some of them,

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I'm sure some of the images

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will be highly sought-after,

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and will be worth maybe £100 each.

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Ooh! Do you think the condition's...?

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Condition does let them down a little bit.

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Obviously, collectors are really fussy,

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but I'm sure, once these are rolled out and pressed,

0:34:350:34:38

under a good press...

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and framed,

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I think we'll let Adam Partridge put a valuation on these.

0:34:420:34:45

He knows his market,

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and I'm sure he's going to find it, as well.

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Railway posters first appeared in the mid 19th century,

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but few contained images -

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just information to help publicise train travel.

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Then improvements in the printing process

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meant illustrated ones started being produced around 1890.

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Production continued to peak until around the 1960s,

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as trains continued to be the most popular form of transport.

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The most collectable posters

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usually feature more than one subject -

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like this one that promotes train travel, the beach

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and Teignmouth, which we saw go under the hammer in 2008...

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for £300.

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Yeah, we're on the right tracks there.

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And if the poster is rare and in great condition.

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it can fetch thousands, like this example, which sold for a whopping

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£6,200.

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I can't wait to see how Kerry's do.

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Time to squeeze in just one more valuation

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before we return to the auction room.

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John, hello.

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-Pleased to meet you.

-Nice to meet you, too!

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I'm thrilled...

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to meet your plate.

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It ticks all the boxes for me, John.

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I love this type of pottery.

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It's Staffordshire, transfer-printed, blue and white.

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-It commemorates Caroline...

-Yes.

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..The wife of George IV.

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It would have been made in a mould.

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Then the transfer print would have been put on.

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It says there,

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"Her Majesty, Queen Caroline of England."

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And yet, she was never "Her Majesty", was she?

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-Never crowned, was she?

-No.

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They didn't get on, did they?

0:36:190:36:21

No, he actually locked her out of the Abbey

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during his coronation.

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He did. He wouldn't let her in the Abbey,

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and that gained her

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wonderful support with the British public.

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I think this is probably when this was made.

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There would have been, I think,

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one with George IV on it, as well,

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looking as prim and proper as he usually does.

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But I have to say...

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there's another connection on a lighter note.

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She's wearing the most fantastic hat, there.

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As you are, John.

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Why are you wearing such a lovely hat?

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Because I've been a hat manufacturer all my life.

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-No, really?

-Yes.

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In Manchester.

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-No, Denton.

-Denton?

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-Yes.

-Is this one of yours?

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Yes.

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Back to your plate. How long have you had it? Where did it come from?

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50 or 60 years.

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It was my grandmother's plate,

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and, er...

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my auntie was putting it in the dustbin,

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and my mother picked it out.

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Thank goodness she did!

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A few years ago,

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2004/2005,

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at auction, these plates would have made

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£250/£300.

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They would have retailed for probably £500 or more.

0:37:300:37:34

-But we're in a different marketplace now.

-Yeah.

0:37:340:37:36

If we're putting it in for sale now,

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we'd be looking at £120 to £150.

0:37:380:37:41

-Well, that's OK.

-Is that all right?

-Yes.

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Maybe a collector would go for it.

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We'll put a reserve, of course.

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I think we should put a reserve at 120.

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Is that all right?

0:37:490:37:51

That's OK with me.

0:37:510:37:53

OK, we'll put a fixed reserve.

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And let's hope someone who buys it

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will appreciate it and want to put it in a collection

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of other plates.

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So we're off to the saleroom for the very last time,

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and here's what we're taking with us.

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It's rather unusual, but let's hope that Francis Chichester bust

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turns some heads in the saleroom.

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Fingers crossed, it's full stream ahead

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for Kerry's vintage railway posters.

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And John's charming Staffordshire plate

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is sure to attract the bidders.

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We've travelled back over to the auction house,

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where the seller's commission rate is 15%,

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including VAT.

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All manner of items are being sold here today,

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but now it's time to concentrate on our Flog It! lots,

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because our next one is up right now.

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Going under the hammer right now, a lovely bit of blue and white.

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It's a Staffordshire plate. It belongs to John,

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who has also brought his hat along.

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-Did you make that hat?

-Yes.

-You were a hatter, weren't you?

-Yeah.

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Very nice, as well.

0:39:040:39:05

Why are you selling your Staffordshire plate?

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Erm, well...

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it's one that I got from my grandmother,

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and my wife wasn't very keen on it,

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and when Flog It! was on, said, "What about taking your old plate -

0:39:180:39:22

-"see what it's worth?"

-See what Mark says.

0:39:220:39:24

I loved it.

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Will we get the top end?

0:39:260:39:27

I would love to think we'd get over the top end.

0:39:270:39:30

It's a rare plate.

0:39:300:39:31

Fingers crossed,

0:39:310:39:33

it could just fly away.

0:39:330:39:34

-Here we go.

-I hope so.

0:39:340:39:36

Plate 22, now,

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is an early Staffordshire pottery commemorative plate,

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for Her Majesty, Queen Caroline.

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I'm bid 100, 110, 130,

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140, take 150.

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-At 140.

-He's got 140.

0:39:470:39:49

150, 160.

0:39:490:39:51

-Sounds very good.

-Sounds good.

0:39:510:39:53

Anyone else want this? Now selling at £160.

0:39:530:39:56

At one 160, within estimate

0:39:560:39:59

and away now, at £160...

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Thank you.

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£160.

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-I think that's a reasonable price in today's market actually.

-Yeah.

-I do.

0:40:030:40:07

-I don't think I'll order my Aston Martin yet!

-No!

0:40:070:40:10

I've just been joined by Ron and Philip.

0:40:150:40:17

Going under the hammer now,

0:40:170:40:18

we've got that wonderful bronze bust of Sir Francis Chichester.

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-We've got £800-1,200 on this.

-Yep.

0:40:220:40:24

Our reserve was really governed by what you wanted to place on it.

0:40:240:40:28

It's the one lot that might have just benefited from a really specialist knowledgeable sale.

0:40:280:40:32

-Like selling on the Isle of Wight in Cowes Week or something in an auction there maybe.

-That's right.

0:40:320:40:37

Let's find out what the bidders think.

0:40:370:40:39

Hopefully as Philip said, someone's on the internet or the phone.

0:40:390:40:42

205 is the John Worsley bronze bust of the famous sailor

0:40:420:40:47

and aviator, Sir Francis Chichester.

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The first person to sail single-handed around the world,

0:40:490:40:52

we have a bronze bust of him.

0:40:520:40:54

Have we got any Francis Chichester fans in?

0:40:540:40:56

Start me where, £800? Start me, £800, please.

0:40:560:41:01

600.

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400.

0:41:040:41:05

-Any interest at 400?

-I think we're about to hit some very stormy water.

0:41:070:41:10

-Mm.

-Yes.

0:41:100:41:11

£300?

0:41:130:41:15

£200?

0:41:150:41:17

Yeah, no interest at £200?

0:41:200:41:22

I think rather optimistic, that one. It's passed on.

0:41:220:41:25

-We moved on, lot 206.

-Sorry about that, Ron.

0:41:250:41:28

-OK, well, that's how it goes. Try again.

-Yep.

0:41:280:41:31

-Sell it by the sea somewhere. We're a bit landlocked here.

-OK.

0:41:310:41:35

What a shame, but I think Philip's right.

0:41:350:41:38

On this occasion it should benefit from a specialist sale

0:41:380:41:41

and no harm done because we protected it with a reserve.

0:41:410:41:45

Now, remember that super railway poster collection

0:41:450:41:48

that Kerry found discarded in her loft?

0:41:480:41:50

I left it up to Adam as we suggested at the valuation day.

0:41:520:41:55

He split them into lots of different lots.

0:41:550:41:57

Groups of five, maybe groups of four.

0:41:570:41:59

Different variations, like I said, on valuations.

0:41:590:42:02

There's quite a few £80-120s, quite a few 30-40s, quite a few £20-30s.

0:42:020:42:09

-Right.

-He also endorsed what I said.

0:42:090:42:11

-We're aren't talking high hundreds.

-No.

-You know that.

-Yep.

-Which is good.

0:42:110:42:15

-I think we could top £1,000, I'm hoping we just go over that.

-Fingers crossed.

0:42:150:42:21

Adam's selling all 40 today but it's that Liverpool to Belfast poster that I'm most interested in.

0:42:210:42:27

It's been grouped together with three similar ones

0:42:270:42:31

and Adam's given them an estimate of £80-120 collectively.

0:42:310:42:34

Four more posters there. Liverpool ones there. All Liverpool-related.

0:42:340:42:40

I'm bid 130, 140, 150. At 160, I'll take 170.

0:42:400:42:44

-160 for these.

-This is going to be great.

-I love this one.

0:42:440:42:47

190, 200, 210. 220, 230, 240, 250.

0:42:470:42:51

260, 270, 280, 290. 320 here, 340. Your bid at 340 this time.

0:42:510:42:58

At 340, it's in the room, 340. All done at 340?

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-GAVEL BANGS

-Thank you.

0:43:020:43:04

Give us high-five already. Look at that.

0:43:040:43:06

And it looks like we're heading towards a great result here today

0:43:080:43:12

as Adam sells the rest of the collection.

0:43:120:43:15

Yes! The hammer's gone down. Gosh, good for you!

0:43:160:43:21

-Thank you so much for bringing them in.

-It's fine.

-£2,305.

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That's the grand total. What a way to end the show!

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That's what we love, wonderful surprises. I hope you've enjoyed it.

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All credit to Adam Partridge and our experts.

0:43:310:43:33

We've had a fabulous time here.

0:43:330:43:34

Keep watching, there's more surprises to come, but from us,

0:43:340:43:37

-well, it's goodbye, isn't it?

-Goodbye.

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