0:00:07 > 0:00:11Edinburgh, a city brimming with history and culture.
0:00:14 > 0:00:18With a list of literary giants as long as the Royal Mile,
0:00:18 > 0:00:20it's no wonder Edinburgh was named
0:00:20 > 0:00:24the world's first City Of Literature in 2004.
0:00:24 > 0:00:27And at its very centre is the world's largest monument
0:00:27 > 0:00:31to a writer - Sir Walter Scott.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34And, Great Scott! It is huge.
0:00:36 > 0:00:39And he was a great Scot. Welcome to Flog It!
0:01:02 > 0:01:05Edinburgh has an incredible literary legacy.
0:01:05 > 0:01:08Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson
0:01:08 > 0:01:12and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were all Edinburgh-born,
0:01:12 > 0:01:15and were, no doubt, influenced by the landscape and the character
0:01:15 > 0:01:19of the city which was known for its smog, as "Auld Reekie."
0:01:20 > 0:01:23And later we'll be finding out what inspired
0:01:23 > 0:01:27Robert Louis Stevenson's famous work, Jekyll And Hyde.
0:01:28 > 0:01:30But first, welcome to Hopetoun House, our stunning
0:01:30 > 0:01:33and unique valuation day location,
0:01:33 > 0:01:34just outside of Edinburgh.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37Well, the writing's definitely on the wall - that's for sure.
0:01:37 > 0:01:40Hundreds of people have turned up here, today,
0:01:40 > 0:01:42to have their antiques and collectables valued.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45Now, somebody here in this massive queue has got something
0:01:45 > 0:01:48that's worth a small fortune. It's our experts' job to find it,
0:01:48 > 0:01:51and, hopefully, they'll be going home with a bob or two.
0:01:51 > 0:01:54A touch of rain couldn't keep these hardy Scots away,
0:01:54 > 0:01:57and even our experts are braving the weather.
0:01:57 > 0:02:00- What have you got?- Go away!
0:02:00 > 0:02:02I'm sick of you already! It's only the morning.
0:02:04 > 0:02:07They're the authors of today's story.
0:02:07 > 0:02:10The ever articulate James Lewis...
0:02:10 > 0:02:12That is fantastic!
0:02:14 > 0:02:17..and the well-versed Adam Partridge.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19"Among the heathy hills and ragged woods,
0:02:19 > 0:02:21"the roaring Fyres pours his moosy floods,
0:02:21 > 0:02:24"till full he dashes on the rocky mounds,
0:02:24 > 0:02:27"where, thro' a shapeless breach, his stream resounds."
0:02:27 > 0:02:31Do you know, I'd stick to the day job if I was you, Adam!
0:02:31 > 0:02:33Well, their valuations will be put to the test
0:02:33 > 0:02:36when the items go under the hammer at auction.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39And now it's time to put pen to paper,
0:02:39 > 0:02:41as we ask that all-important question, which is...
0:02:41 > 0:02:44What's it worth?!
0:02:44 > 0:02:46I think we've kept everyone waiting long enough,
0:02:46 > 0:02:50so let's open the doors and invite everyone into the warm.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54On today's show, two musical items from a bygone era.
0:02:56 > 0:03:00The delicate tinkle of a 19th-century music box...
0:03:00 > 0:03:02TWINKLING MUSIC
0:03:04 > 0:03:07..and the less refined bellow of a concertina.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15But can you guess which hits the high note at auction?
0:03:15 > 0:03:171,200...
0:03:18 > 0:03:19..and 50.
0:03:21 > 0:03:24Well, this magnificent ballroom here at Hopetoun House
0:03:24 > 0:03:26was designed at the height of the Victorian period,
0:03:26 > 0:03:30when the aristocracy used to love to dance and throw big balls,
0:03:30 > 0:03:32and what a party you could have here.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35This room measures 28 metres by ten metres.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37That is vast. And today,
0:03:37 > 0:03:39well, we're using it for an altogether different purpose,
0:03:39 > 0:03:41but we have filled it with hundreds of people,
0:03:41 > 0:03:44laden with antiques and collectables. So let's get started
0:03:44 > 0:03:47with the valuing and hand the proceedings over to Adam Partridge.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53He's found an item that befits our surroundings.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56Gordon and Liz. Thank you for coming along.
0:03:56 > 0:03:59- Not at all.- I was delighted to see this object.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02This is the sort of thing that would, perhaps, 100 years
0:04:02 > 0:04:05after it was made, might have been used as an entertaining item
0:04:05 > 0:04:06in the parlours, do you think?
0:04:06 > 0:04:10- That's right. I'm sure it was.- It's a late 19th-century musical box.
0:04:10 > 0:04:14With this rosewood lid, inlaid with a drum and a trumpet,
0:04:14 > 0:04:17to give you the idea, of course, of what's inside.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20And there it is, there. Can you tell me how you came to own it, first of all?
0:04:20 > 0:04:23My mother bought it when I was a child, from the Red Cross shop
0:04:23 > 0:04:25- for 15 shillings. - Was that a lot then?
0:04:25 > 0:04:28- Probably quite a lot.- A dozen loaves of bread.- A dozen loaves of bread.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30Do you have childhood memories of this, then?
0:04:30 > 0:04:34- Was it played, or was it something you have to stay away from?- No, no.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37- We could play it.- And how about presently, now, in your home?
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Is it still out and used, or where does it live at the moment?
0:04:40 > 0:04:44It's only played occasionally when I dust it, but it needs a good home.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47Well, good. There are a lot of collectors for this type of thing.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50- Yeah.- Musical boxes and mechanical music, in general,
0:04:50 > 0:04:53are keenly sought after, and there are lots of different models,
0:04:53 > 0:04:56in the same way as, I suppose, you get a basic car
0:04:56 > 0:04:59and a very flashy car, with all the different features on it.
0:04:59 > 0:05:01- Yes.- You'd get that with a musical box.
0:05:01 > 0:05:04These were made at the end of the 19th century,
0:05:04 > 0:05:07late 19th century, and the movements were Swiss-made.
0:05:07 > 0:05:10And this is a fairly humble model, really.
0:05:10 > 0:05:14- But a nice one, nevertheless. Is it working?- Oh, yes, it works.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17It looks in pretty good order, in general.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19All the teeth are present.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21Which isn't bad for over 100 years, is it?
0:05:21 > 0:05:24The only thing it's missing, though, would have been a glazed cover.
0:05:24 > 0:05:28I think it had one when we first, when Mum first bought it.
0:05:28 > 0:05:31But where the cover has gone - the mists of time has taken it,
0:05:31 > 0:05:34- I think.- Oh, well. Any idea on value?
0:05:34 > 0:05:37I had it valued about 20-odd years ago.
0:05:38 > 0:05:40- And it was then about £200.- Yeah.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43I would think 2-300 would be a sensible estimate.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46- That sounds fine.- Probably, your reserve should be £200.- Fine.
0:05:46 > 0:05:50I think it'll make towards the 300, or maybe even a touch more.
0:05:50 > 0:05:53Whatever it makes, it'll be more than we had this morning.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56- Well, absolutely. That's the spirit. So can we have a play?- Yes.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00I think that's an Italian...
0:06:00 > 0:06:02TWINKLY MUSIC PLAYS
0:06:10 > 0:06:11- There we are.- Bravo.
0:06:11 > 0:06:14Well, thank you very much for bringing it along.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17- Thank you very much, indeed.- And I hope we hear the tune of success
0:06:17 > 0:06:19- at the auction.- Yes.
0:06:21 > 0:06:25James has also got his hands on a piece of early entertainment.
0:06:26 > 0:06:31Eleanor, there are certain things that are just archetypal antiques.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34Things that you see very rarely,
0:06:34 > 0:06:36but the public have seen so often.
0:06:36 > 0:06:39But the interesting thing with this is it's going to appeal
0:06:39 > 0:06:43to two very different groups of people.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45It's going to appeal to the child,
0:06:45 > 0:06:48- who's going to enjoy the images... - Yes.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51..but also the scientific brain,
0:06:51 > 0:06:54- who's going to want to understand how it works.- Yeah.
0:06:54 > 0:06:58And it almost comes under the same category as a globe,
0:06:58 > 0:07:01or a microscope, that sort of thing.
0:07:01 > 0:07:03What do you know about it?
0:07:03 > 0:07:06Well, I know it's called a zoetrope.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09As children, we used to
0:07:09 > 0:07:12sit and very carefully watch
0:07:12 > 0:07:14the moving pictures.
0:07:14 > 0:07:17It came from my grandmother's family.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20I don't know where she got it from.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23It didn't come out very often. It was kept in the attic.
0:07:23 > 0:07:28My grandfather brought it down very carefully, unravelled the slides,
0:07:28 > 0:07:32and we sat round the old big table in the kitchen
0:07:32 > 0:07:34with our eyes glued.
0:07:34 > 0:07:38It is a very interesting bit of entertainment history,
0:07:38 > 0:07:40but also scientific history.
0:07:40 > 0:07:44The idea that you can look through an aperture
0:07:44 > 0:07:47and swivel a picture and change it,
0:07:47 > 0:07:50is one that dates back generations.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52I don't know if you ever did this at school,
0:07:52 > 0:07:55but paint a little picture on the corner of your jotter
0:07:55 > 0:07:57or your sketchbook at school.
0:07:57 > 0:07:59- And flick through.- Flick the pages.
0:07:59 > 0:08:03If we look through the side here, and then turn,
0:08:03 > 0:08:07the whole picture starts to form.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10And we see here a horse leaping over a hedge,
0:08:10 > 0:08:14and of course it helps to date this
0:08:14 > 0:08:16by the fact that the horse is
0:08:16 > 0:08:19a classic early 19th-century horse.
0:08:19 > 0:08:25Of course, the horse's stride is totally wrong.
0:08:25 > 0:08:30This is how we thought a horse would walk before, with two front legs
0:08:30 > 0:08:34going forward first, followed by the two back legs, a bit like a rabbit.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37Of course, the right front goes with the back left.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41If you look at the base of it, it's a turned section of mahogany.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44- Was this part always made of tin? - Normally made of tin.
0:08:44 > 0:08:46This is slightly buckled.
0:08:46 > 0:08:50I've seen them made from card, as well, the later ones,
0:08:50 > 0:08:53but they very rarely last in the way that this has.
0:08:53 > 0:08:59And here, we have various types of paper band -
0:08:59 > 0:09:01we've got the circus,
0:09:01 > 0:09:04that would be attractive to a child.
0:09:04 > 0:09:07The great thing about this is that you have a mass of them,
0:09:07 > 0:09:09- you've got loads of them.- Yeah.
0:09:09 > 0:09:10OK, some of them are tired,
0:09:10 > 0:09:14but others are in relatively good condition.
0:09:14 > 0:09:16OK, we need to come up with a price.
0:09:16 > 0:09:21I would like to put £5-£800 on it with a reserve
0:09:21 > 0:09:23of 500 firm.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25OK, that's lovely, thank you very much.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28Well, I look forward to seeing it at the auction
0:09:28 > 0:09:30and I think it's going to do very well.
0:09:30 > 0:09:31Thank you so much.
0:09:33 > 0:09:34What a great piece of history,
0:09:34 > 0:09:37and it shows just how far technology has come.
0:09:39 > 0:09:43Now, while the valuations are still in full swing in the ballroom,
0:09:43 > 0:09:47I wanted to sneak a peek inside our stunning venue.
0:09:47 > 0:09:51Hopetoun House was one of the first of its kind to be
0:09:51 > 0:09:53built in Scotland and is one of the finest
0:09:53 > 0:09:57examples of 18th-century architecture in Britain.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59There are some unique pieces of furniture that
0:09:59 > 0:10:03capture 18th-century Scottish workmanship and a slice of history.
0:10:05 > 0:10:09Now, this room was furnished by the noted rococo cabinet-maker
0:10:09 > 0:10:13and upholsterer James Cullen, who designed these magnificent
0:10:13 > 0:10:17gilt console tables between the two peers here on this wall.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20He also supplied this magnificent pair of commodes,
0:10:20 > 0:10:22in the French style.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25They look incredibly important and were designed obviously to
0:10:25 > 0:10:30show off wealth and the skill of the cabinet-maker who made these.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33Veneered in the most wonderful figured flame mahogany,
0:10:33 > 0:10:36these date to around the mid-18th century when furniture was
0:10:36 > 0:10:39designed not just to be practical,
0:10:39 > 0:10:41but also decorative and beautiful.
0:10:41 > 0:10:44And boy, do these smack of that.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47Interestingly enough, what you think are the doors at the front
0:10:47 > 0:10:51on this wonderful serpentine shape are not doors -
0:10:51 > 0:10:54it's just a panel with the cross of St Andrew, look.
0:10:54 > 0:10:59Inlaid in veneer in mahogany across the grain in a chevron fashion
0:10:59 > 0:11:03which we call cross-veneered.
0:11:03 > 0:11:07Now, look at this - here are the doors on the side of the commode.
0:11:07 > 0:11:10As that opens up, it's as good today as it was
0:11:10 > 0:11:13when it was first made in around 1750.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16Now, I wonder if our experts can find anything like this
0:11:16 > 0:11:18back over in the ballroom. Let's join them.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23Well, it may not be a mahogany veneered commode, but Adam has
0:11:23 > 0:11:26found something that is hugely popular and beautiful to boot.
0:11:28 > 0:11:32- Sally, we see lots of Moorcroft on this programme.- Yeah.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35In fact, very rarely does a show pass without an example
0:11:35 > 0:11:39coming across, but I couldn't help noticing this one because it's
0:11:39 > 0:11:43quite a nice distinctive shape, and it's quite a large piece.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45Now, how did you come to own this?
0:11:45 > 0:11:49Well, I did have a next-door neighbour, an elderly lady,
0:11:49 > 0:11:51and she died.
0:11:51 > 0:11:55Her daughter-in-law came up because they had to sell the house,
0:11:55 > 0:11:59so I was helping them out and we came across this Moorcroft dish.
0:11:59 > 0:12:03She said, "I've got no use for it, would you like it?"
0:12:03 > 0:12:07And I thought, well, I love Moorcroft, so yes, I'll take it. That's great.
0:12:07 > 0:12:10- Absolutely.- I tried to do research,
0:12:10 > 0:12:13or even to get to know what the design was.
0:12:13 > 0:12:16I couldn't see a dish like this on the internet.
0:12:16 > 0:12:20OK. The shape is quite an unusual... That lipped bowl.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24It's quite nice, but it's tube-lined, as they always are,
0:12:24 > 0:12:28with the anemone design on this green ground.
0:12:28 > 0:12:33Commercially, it's not the top end of Moorcroft.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35The vases always sell better than bowls, for a start,
0:12:35 > 0:12:38because they display better in a cabinet.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41This green ground isn't as popular perhaps as the blue
0:12:41 > 0:12:45and the red flambe grounds, but is a very pleasing thing.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47And it's decorated around the outside.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51- Shall we do the old flip over and see what's underneath?- Yes, please.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54Fascinating to know about it a little bit.
0:12:54 > 0:12:58Yes, and you've got the blue signature there of Walter Moorcroft,
0:12:58 > 0:13:04- which dates this probably to the end of the 1940s or so.- Oh, is it?
0:13:04 > 0:13:07I asked you why you've decided to sell it - presumably, it's out
0:13:07 > 0:13:10in Sally's house looking wonderful, full of fruit, overflowing.
0:13:10 > 0:13:15No, it isn't. I have it wrapped up and packed away in a drawer.
0:13:15 > 0:13:19- Oh, stop it!- I don't have a place to display it and it's really pretty.
0:13:19 > 0:13:24The only time I really get to enjoy it is to have a quiet moment
0:13:24 > 0:13:26where I take it out, have a look at it,
0:13:26 > 0:13:29wrap it up and go, "Well, one of these days..."
0:13:29 > 0:13:31Maybe somebody else would enjoy it.
0:13:31 > 0:13:35- Not tempted to have it on the sideboard?- No, because...
0:13:35 > 0:13:38Good, too late now! We're selling it - off to auction!
0:13:40 > 0:13:44- Any idea on the value?- Um, no.
0:13:44 > 0:13:49- I think most probably about 200, £300.- Very good. Very good.
0:13:49 > 0:13:52You've done your research. You're obviously an intelligent lady.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55I think you're right, it's going to make about £300,
0:13:55 > 0:13:57hopefully a touch more.
0:13:57 > 0:14:00I would suggest 250 to 350 for the estimate
0:14:00 > 0:14:06- and my bet is it will make £340. - Ooh, that would be nice.
0:14:06 > 0:14:09- Don't hold me to it! But thanks for coming.- Oh, you're welcome.
0:14:09 > 0:14:14- I've really enjoyed it. And I found a little bit out about it.- Good!
0:14:14 > 0:14:16- Well, I've enjoyed talking to you.- OK, thanks!
0:14:16 > 0:14:21A very precise prediction of £340 and, yes, Adam,
0:14:21 > 0:14:23we will hold you to it!
0:14:25 > 0:14:30So, that's our first three items in the bag and ready to go to auction.
0:14:30 > 0:14:32We have the delicate-sounding musical box.
0:14:32 > 0:14:35Will anyone find a place for it in their home?
0:14:38 > 0:14:40This zoetrope is a classic antique,
0:14:40 > 0:14:44but will anybody want to pay £500 for it?
0:14:46 > 0:14:52And Adam is confident this Moorcroft bowl will sell for exactly £340.
0:14:52 > 0:14:56Well, let's see if he's right as we travel west to Glasgow
0:14:56 > 0:14:59and the Great Western Auction House.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02And it's nice to be welcomed by a friendly face - Anita Manning!
0:15:04 > 0:15:08- What's it like being up on that rostrum?- It's absolutely wonderful!
0:15:08 > 0:15:12- It's home territory for me. It's where I feel comfortable.- Do you?
0:15:12 > 0:15:15Yes, I like to give them a show, to make it an event!
0:15:15 > 0:15:17Save me time, then, in at 200.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20Lovely wee thing, there. Are you bidding?
0:15:20 > 0:15:2250 on the floor. Fresh bidder.
0:15:22 > 0:15:26With me at 30. 260. 220 with me!
0:15:26 > 0:15:29You've been auctioneering now for most of your life, haven't you?
0:15:29 > 0:15:33- Were you the first lady auctioneer in Scotland?- One of the first.
0:15:33 > 0:15:3925 years ago, I stood on the rostrum for the very first time.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42I had 400 lots to sell and I know that
0:15:42 > 0:15:46when auctioneers start off, they're given 10 or 20.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48- But you had 400. - Straight in at 400.
0:15:48 > 0:15:52As soon as I started, within ten lots,
0:15:52 > 0:15:54I knew...
0:15:54 > 0:15:56- this is the job for me!- This is it!
0:15:56 > 0:15:59- Any advance on 180? 180.- Hey, look -
0:15:59 > 0:16:01have great fun on there later, OK?
0:16:01 > 0:16:03- Yes.- Good luck.- Thank you.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08Remember, at every auction house,
0:16:08 > 0:16:09there's commission to pay.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12Here, it's 18% and first to the fore,
0:16:12 > 0:16:15it's the ever popular Moorcroft bowl.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17Going under the hammer right now, one of the most famous
0:16:17 > 0:16:20names in pottery - a bit of Moorcroft and it belongs to Sally.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22It's a gorgeous bowl.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25At the valuation day, Adam had an exact...
0:16:25 > 0:16:31An exact, I must say, not an approximate, but an exact valuation.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34I'm going to look stupid again, aren't I?!
0:16:34 > 0:16:35- 340.- 340.
0:16:35 > 0:16:40- I might want to review that slightly!- 2 to 3(!)
0:16:40 > 0:16:44Why are you selling it? Because for me, it's a keeper.
0:16:44 > 0:16:47Well, I don't have a place to put it, I don't use it,
0:16:47 > 0:16:49I just wrap it up and put it in my drawer.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52It's the old Flog It! story - it lives in a drawer!
0:16:52 > 0:16:55- But also, a bowl of this size, Paul...- Fruit?
0:16:55 > 0:16:58Yeah, I know, but it's easier to have a vase than a bowl.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01- Right now, we're trying to sell this one. Here we go.- It's beautiful.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Let's hope so.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05It's the anemone pattern.
0:17:05 > 0:17:07Can we say 400? 300?
0:17:07 > 0:17:10Will you start me at £200? 200 bid.
0:17:10 > 0:17:12With you, madam, at 200.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15Any advance on 200? 210.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17220. 230. 240.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21Any advance on £240?
0:17:21 > 0:17:24- Any advance on 240...?- Oh, no, I've lost, Paul.
0:17:24 > 0:17:26All done at 240.
0:17:26 > 0:17:29100 quid out!
0:17:29 > 0:17:32It sold, though, within estimate, OK?
0:17:32 > 0:17:34That was good.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37It's not a good day at the office for Adam! He's a perfectionist!
0:17:37 > 0:17:40Hey, you're happy. Within estimate.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45It's not easy putting a value on antiques, Adam,
0:17:45 > 0:17:47so we'll let you off this time.
0:17:47 > 0:17:50Let's see if he does better on the musical box.
0:17:51 > 0:17:55Right, Liz and Gordon! We're going to make sweet music, all of us.
0:17:55 > 0:18:00Adam is here. Eight airs, I believe, this musical box, top of the range.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03There's a huge interest in mechanical music of all sorts, so...
0:18:03 > 0:18:05We're interested to find that you've
0:18:05 > 0:18:08decided it comes from Switzerland, because we just assumed...
0:18:08 > 0:18:13- Yes, quality!- Well engineered, like Swiss watches and movements.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Victorian mechanics, as well.
0:18:15 > 0:18:19So let's hope we strike the right note with this lot - the bidders.
0:18:19 > 0:18:20It's all down to them right now
0:18:20 > 0:18:23as we hand things over to Anita Manning.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26Can we say £300?
0:18:26 > 0:18:29200? 200?
0:18:29 > 0:18:33I have bids on the books. 200 bid.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36It's with you, sir, at £200.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38220 here?
0:18:38 > 0:18:40250. 280.
0:18:40 > 0:18:43280 on the books.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46Any advance on 280?
0:18:46 > 0:18:49- 300, fresh bidder.- Come on.- 320.
0:18:49 > 0:18:51It's on the books at 320.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53That's better, I like that.
0:18:53 > 0:18:55Any advance on 320?
0:18:55 > 0:18:58All done at 320, 320.
0:18:58 > 0:19:03- Didn't go for a song!- No, it didn't! We'll leave you with that, ouch!
0:19:03 > 0:19:05That's a lovely one! "It didn't go for a song!"
0:19:07 > 0:19:11Adam has redeemed himself and his musical box made over the estimate.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16Let's hope the zoetrope gets the bidders watching.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20Invented in 1853 by mathematician William George Horner
0:19:20 > 0:19:23we have the zoetrope going under the hammer and it belongs to Eleanor,
0:19:23 > 0:19:27who's standing right next to me with our expert, James.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30Now, for me, this was the best thing at the valuation day.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33I love it! It's early telly!
0:19:33 > 0:19:35That was what it was all about, wasn't it?
0:19:35 > 0:19:40- It was!- I bet, as a young girl, you enjoyed this.- We did, yes.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42Yes, lots of use. Condition is slightly against it,
0:19:42 > 0:19:48but where can you find another with all of the pictures and diagrams?
0:19:48 > 0:19:51- There's a lot there. - Yes, I mean it's SO rare.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54Well, we've got a fixed reserve at £550.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57Hopefully, we will sell it beyond that. Here we go.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59It's a mid-19th century zoetrope.
0:19:59 > 0:20:02We have 23
0:20:02 > 0:20:06coloured printed circular discs,
0:20:06 > 0:20:11so you have the full home entertainment kit there!
0:20:12 > 0:20:17£1,000. 1,000. 500.
0:20:17 > 0:20:20Will you start me at £400?
0:20:20 > 0:20:22400. 400 bid.
0:20:22 > 0:20:25Any advance on 400?
0:20:25 > 0:20:28450. 500.
0:20:28 > 0:20:31550. £600.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34650. £700.
0:20:34 > 0:20:35700.
0:20:37 > 0:20:38750.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42- It's going in the room.- £750.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45Any advance on 750?
0:20:45 > 0:20:47All done at 750.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49750.
0:20:49 > 0:20:54- Yes! Eleanor, we did it! £750. - Gosh!- Well, I'm happy.
0:20:54 > 0:20:58I was a bit worried there, for a moment!
0:20:58 > 0:21:02- Thought I'd be taking it home with me!- Condition was against it.
0:21:02 > 0:21:06- Nevertheless, it's a good price. - Thank you very much.
0:21:11 > 0:21:12Well, there we are -
0:21:12 > 0:21:15that concludes our first visit to the sale room today.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Don't go away, because we're coming back here later on.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20Now, if I said somebody was a bit Jekyll and Hyde,
0:21:20 > 0:21:22you would know what I was going on about, wouldn't you?
0:21:22 > 0:21:25The characters are so well recognised, their names
0:21:25 > 0:21:28and what they represent become part of modern parlance.
0:21:28 > 0:21:31But what I wanted to know was where did the inspiration for such
0:21:31 > 0:21:34a sinister tale come from?
0:21:34 > 0:21:38Well, to find out, I went back to Edinburgh, to the 19th century.
0:22:05 > 0:22:07It's one of the best-known stories in literature.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Published in 1886,
0:22:09 > 0:22:12The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
0:22:12 > 0:22:15tells the story of Jekyll's experiments with a potion
0:22:15 > 0:22:19that transforms him into the darker side of his personality,
0:22:19 > 0:22:20Mr Hyde.
0:22:25 > 0:22:28The author Robert Louis Stevenson exposed the human battle
0:22:28 > 0:22:32between good and evil, a concept that excited a Victorian audience.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35But what was it about this beautiful city that inspired him
0:22:35 > 0:22:39to write such a sinister story?
0:22:40 > 0:22:43When Robert Louis Stevenson was growing up in the mid-19th century,
0:22:43 > 0:22:46Edinburgh was a city of two sides.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50The Old Town is ramshackled and poor,
0:22:50 > 0:22:52dirty and full of sinful behaviour.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57The New Town, sophisticated, ordered,
0:22:57 > 0:23:00and the urges of the upper class restrained
0:23:00 > 0:23:02by the principles of the day.
0:23:04 > 0:23:09So where did our young author place himself in this scene?
0:23:09 > 0:23:11Stevenson was born in the Old Town,
0:23:11 > 0:23:13but moved to the New Town by the time he was six years old.
0:23:13 > 0:23:18He experienced first-hand the two different faces of Edinburgh.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21The city was divided - the good side and the bad.
0:23:22 > 0:23:25A fitting inspiration for a character who is both good
0:23:25 > 0:23:27and evil in one man.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32Award-winning author Ian Rankin has lived
0:23:32 > 0:23:34most of his life in the city
0:23:34 > 0:23:36and alongside Robert Louis Stevenson
0:23:36 > 0:23:40has created a hugely successful character full of conflict
0:23:40 > 0:23:43and contradiction - Inspector Rebus.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48He knows more than most about Edinburgh's two sides
0:23:48 > 0:23:51and what effect it had on Stevenson's writing.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55Stevenson grew up in this family of engineers,
0:23:55 > 0:23:57he grew up in a rational environment,
0:23:57 > 0:24:00but he was attracted to the Old Town, he was attracted to the chaos.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03He was attracted to the vagabonds and the ladies of the night
0:24:03 > 0:24:06who would be there and he would tiptoe out of his house
0:24:06 > 0:24:09as a teenager and tiptoe up the hill towards chaos.
0:24:09 > 0:24:11And so I think that whole thing about the Old Town, the New Town,
0:24:11 > 0:24:14the rational, the irrational, was there in the back of his mind
0:24:14 > 0:24:15throughout his life.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19It wasn't just his physical surrounding
0:24:19 > 0:24:21that influenced Stevenson's writing.
0:24:21 > 0:24:24His physical condition also played a part.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27He was plagued with ill health as a child,
0:24:27 > 0:24:29but in his adult life,
0:24:29 > 0:24:32his fevered nightmares proved inspirational.
0:24:43 > 0:24:47The story of Jekyll and Hyde came to Stevenson in a dream.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51It's thought the strong medication he took for his illness
0:24:51 > 0:24:55gave him hallucinations that illuminated a darker world.
0:24:55 > 0:25:01The entire novella was written from his sick bed in under six days.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04This wasn't the first time Stevenson had written about good and evil
0:25:04 > 0:25:06existing in one man.
0:25:06 > 0:25:10As a young chap he wrote a play based on a real-life 18th century
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Edinburgh gentlemen, Deacon Brodie.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18Deacon Brodie was a respectable cabinet maker
0:25:18 > 0:25:21and a well-regarded society man by day,
0:25:21 > 0:25:25but by night he was a sinister thief with a criminal mind.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Brodie was a gambler and an adulterer.
0:25:29 > 0:25:33He raided his clients' houses to fund his gambling habit.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36He kept up his double life for nearly 20 years,
0:25:36 > 0:25:38but he was eventually caught and hung on the very gallows
0:25:38 > 0:25:40he had himself designed.
0:25:42 > 0:25:46But how did this impact on the young Robert Louis Stevenson?
0:25:46 > 0:25:50Stevenson's nursemaid Cummy would tell him the story of this guy who
0:25:50 > 0:25:53was one thing by day, a gentleman, and another thing entirely by night.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56And again, we think that might've lodged itself
0:25:56 > 0:25:58in Stevenson's subconscious and later on when he wanted
0:25:58 > 0:26:02to write about the nature of evil, he actually had a template,
0:26:02 > 0:26:04he had a guy in his head who had really existed,
0:26:04 > 0:26:06and so he decided to write Jekyll and Hyde.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14The interesting thing about Jekyll and Hyde is that
0:26:14 > 0:26:15it's about a scientist,
0:26:15 > 0:26:18it's about a man who's actually...
0:26:18 > 0:26:19He's a man on the side of good,
0:26:19 > 0:26:23he's using these experiments to try and find out more about human nature
0:26:23 > 0:26:25and people were fascinated by science
0:26:25 > 0:26:27and were fascinated by criminology.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32Victorian Britain was experiencing rapid change,
0:26:32 > 0:26:38experimenting with technology and medicine in ways never seen before.
0:26:38 > 0:26:40Jekyll and Hyde excited their curiosity
0:26:40 > 0:26:42and reflected their concerns.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47Victorian Britain was a place that kept its vices very well hidden
0:26:47 > 0:26:50and there would be sort of prostitutes round every corner
0:26:50 > 0:26:52but it was all kind of hidden away, it was genteel on the surface.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55What Stevenson was talking about was the kind of difference
0:26:55 > 0:26:57between the surface, what we present to the world
0:26:57 > 0:27:01and what's going on inside our heads, our kind of baser instincts.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05And that's an idea that resonates with people today,
0:27:05 > 0:27:08making the intriguing story of Jekyll and Hyde
0:27:08 > 0:27:10a timeless classic and one that's influenced
0:27:10 > 0:27:13prestigious modern authors, like Ian Rankin.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19Stevenson was fascinated by the question of good and evil,
0:27:19 > 0:27:21why human beings continue to do bad things to each other
0:27:21 > 0:27:24and that's something that you find throughout crime fiction
0:27:24 > 0:27:26and certainly throughout my books.
0:27:27 > 0:27:31Jekyll and Hyde deals with the conflict between good and evil.
0:27:31 > 0:27:35The two sides of human nature, the split in the split personality
0:27:35 > 0:27:38and when you hear about Stevenson's own experiences
0:27:38 > 0:27:43here in Edinburgh, it seems it was a book he was destined to write.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Back at the valuation day at Hopetoun House,
0:27:51 > 0:27:54James has found a very special musical instrument.
0:27:56 > 0:27:57Gordon, as a valuer,
0:27:57 > 0:28:01as soon as you see a leather box
0:28:01 > 0:28:03that's had some tooling
0:28:03 > 0:28:06and gilt originally around the border there,
0:28:06 > 0:28:09you know there's something of real quality.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11You know what's in there, I know what's in there,
0:28:11 > 0:28:15it's a concertina of the most fabulous quality.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18We've got the maker's mark,
0:28:18 > 0:28:20Wheatstone & Co.
0:28:20 > 0:28:22So, tell me, do you play?
0:28:22 > 0:28:25- No, I don't play. - Can you make a noise?
0:28:25 > 0:28:28- I can make a noise.- Go on, go for it. Let's see how good you are.
0:28:28 > 0:28:30Not at all.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33CONCERTINA SQUEAKILY PLAYS
0:28:36 > 0:28:38I told you I couldn't play.
0:28:38 > 0:28:40APPLAUSE
0:28:40 > 0:28:43You're very easy to please.
0:28:43 > 0:28:46It is the god of concertinas, Wheatstone.
0:28:46 > 0:28:50They're the best makers. They started around 1850.
0:28:50 > 0:28:55On each end we should have a pierced, in this case,
0:28:55 > 0:28:59wooden end board, ebony in this case.
0:28:59 > 0:29:01You also find them in rosewood,
0:29:01 > 0:29:04you also find them in chrome or polished steel.
0:29:04 > 0:29:09And at the end here, 26542 is the serial number
0:29:09 > 0:29:11that gives you an idea of when it was made.
0:29:11 > 0:29:14I cheated earlier and I asked one of the off-screen valuers
0:29:14 > 0:29:18to look it up for me and he said it's about 1885 to 1890.
0:29:18 > 0:29:23The value in these things is always dependent on the number of buttons,
0:29:23 > 0:29:26and we've got 48, which is great, which is good news.
0:29:26 > 0:29:30I always think as soon as one of these arrives in the saleroom,
0:29:30 > 0:29:32if it's in good order,
0:29:32 > 0:29:36it is about the easiest thing to sell in the world.
0:29:36 > 0:29:38It is an auctioneer's dream, but...
0:29:40 > 0:29:43..it's clearly not your dream, so why are you selling it?
0:29:43 > 0:29:48Well, it was my great-uncle's. He did play it, and when he died,
0:29:48 > 0:29:52it passed to my father, they were downsizing and it...
0:29:52 > 0:29:53He said did I want it?
0:29:53 > 0:29:56And I said, "Yes, it's a really nice thing, so I'll take it."
0:29:56 > 0:29:58But all it's done is sit up in the loft
0:29:58 > 0:30:02- for the last kind of ten or 12 years.- Really?- Yeah.
0:30:02 > 0:30:07Most of its value lies in its modern-day demand for somebody who
0:30:07 > 0:30:11would actually still want to play it because it's in such good order
0:30:11 > 0:30:15and at the moment the biggest market for these is in Celtic bands,
0:30:15 > 0:30:18but there are plenty of collectors for them, as well.
0:30:18 > 0:30:20- I'm going to give you two values. - OK.
0:30:20 > 0:30:23- One is what I think it'll actually sell for.- OK.
0:30:23 > 0:30:26But the other one is the estimate that I think we should put on
0:30:26 > 0:30:31- to encourage the right interest to end up at that figure.- OK.
0:30:31 > 0:30:36- So I think an auction estimate should be £500-700.- OK.
0:30:37 > 0:30:40But I think it'll make over 1,000.
0:30:40 > 0:30:43- I'm hoping.- OK. - Fingers crossed.- Good.
0:30:43 > 0:30:45- It's a good thing. - That's good, yeah.
0:30:45 > 0:30:47If anything ever was a guaranteed seller,
0:30:47 > 0:30:50without putting the curse on it...
0:30:50 > 0:30:53It'll probably end up not selling now I've said that,
0:30:53 > 0:30:56- but that is as much as a guaranteed sale as you'll ever get.- OK.
0:30:56 > 0:31:00- And a reserve of 500?- Reserve of 500.- OK, that's fine.- Brilliant.
0:31:00 > 0:31:04You heard it here first. James says it's a guaranteed sale,
0:31:04 > 0:31:06so keep watching to find out if he's right.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08This is what I love doing at a valuation day -
0:31:08 > 0:31:10mixing it up amongst all the people.
0:31:10 > 0:31:14Now, you can't come to Scotland and talk about literature
0:31:14 > 0:31:17without mentioning the notorious Robbie Burns.
0:31:17 > 0:31:20So how notorious were his poems?
0:31:20 > 0:31:21Let's find out, shall we?
0:31:21 > 0:31:24Anyone here...? Can anyone recite a bit of Robbie Burns?
0:31:24 > 0:31:26- Just a verse or two. Anyone?- Yeah.
0:31:26 > 0:31:31Can you? Go on, then. Nice and loud. Ready? Listen, everyone. Here we go.
0:31:31 > 0:31:32OK. Tam O'Shanter.
0:31:32 > 0:31:35"When chapman billies leave the street
0:31:35 > 0:31:37"And drouthy neebors, neebors meet
0:31:37 > 0:31:39"As market-days are wearing late
0:31:39 > 0:31:41"An' folk begin to tak the gate
0:31:41 > 0:31:43"We sit bousing at the nappy
0:31:43 > 0:31:46"Getting fou and unco' happy."
0:31:46 > 0:31:48Bousing at the nappy!
0:31:48 > 0:31:50Well done! I love it.
0:31:50 > 0:31:54It just goes to show the poems of Robbie Burns still live on today.
0:31:56 > 0:31:58And there are a wealth of collectables in homage
0:31:58 > 0:32:00to the great man.
0:32:00 > 0:32:03Now Adam's found a glove box that's never seen the inside of a car.
0:32:05 > 0:32:08Well, picture the day when this was a ballroom full of very
0:32:08 > 0:32:12elegant people having a dance and the ladies would've been wearing...
0:32:12 > 0:32:14Their gloves, yes.
0:32:14 > 0:32:16..very fancy evening gloves and things like that
0:32:16 > 0:32:20and they would've stored their gloves in a box just like that -
0:32:20 > 0:32:23perhaps in this very box, which is made locally.
0:32:23 > 0:32:26- Yes.- In the town of Mauchline. - Yes, that's right.
0:32:26 > 0:32:28So, Pat, thank you very much for bringing it.
0:32:28 > 0:32:31Tell me, where did you get it from, what do you know about it?
0:32:31 > 0:32:33Well, I don't know much about it.
0:32:33 > 0:32:37- It was my aunt's, so I inherited it a couple of years ago.- OK.
0:32:37 > 0:32:40- Would it be Victorian?- Yeah, Victorian or maybe slightly later.
0:32:40 > 0:32:43Turn of the century, 1900s or so, most likely.
0:32:43 > 0:32:46Although Mauchline Ware was made from the early 19th century
0:32:46 > 0:32:49- right up until the 1930s, I think.- Was it?
0:32:49 > 0:32:51So judging by the construction and the type of decoration,
0:32:51 > 0:32:54- 1900s or thereabouts. - That age, yeah.
0:32:54 > 0:32:56- You know people like little boxes. - Well, they do, yes.
0:32:56 > 0:32:58A lot of collectors of boxes
0:32:58 > 0:33:00and a lot of collectors of Mauchline Ware, of course,
0:33:00 > 0:33:04relatively locally made, South Ayrshire, in the town of Mauchline.
0:33:04 > 0:33:07- Do you use it at all?- No.- No?
0:33:07 > 0:33:09I think someone's been using it for pencils.
0:33:09 > 0:33:12There we are, simple box inside and it does actually...
0:33:12 > 0:33:15You can see remnants of pencil storage in there.
0:33:15 > 0:33:19- But it's just a decorative box, isn't it?- It's a very nice thing,
0:33:19 > 0:33:23made from sycamore, as they always are, and, in fact, I think
0:33:23 > 0:33:27it says it here, "made of wood which grew on the banks of the Doon."
0:33:27 > 0:33:32- Of the Doon.- And we've got three famous Scottish landmarks on here,
0:33:32 > 0:33:38Burns' monument, Burns' cottage and Alloway Kirk.
0:33:38 > 0:33:41- Do you know much about Alloway Kirk? - No, I've been to the cottage.
0:33:41 > 0:33:42Years ago, when I was young.
0:33:42 > 0:33:45I believe also that a lot of them were decorated by children,
0:33:45 > 0:33:49- because it's a fairly simple transfer print.- That's right.
0:33:49 > 0:33:51So why have you decided to sell it?
0:33:51 > 0:33:54Just because I don't do anything with it, it just sits on the top.
0:33:54 > 0:33:55- It's in the way.- Yeah.
0:33:55 > 0:33:58- My estimate would be something like £30-50.- Yeah.
0:33:58 > 0:34:00Does that fit in with your expectations?
0:34:00 > 0:34:02Yes, that fits in OK, no problem.
0:34:02 > 0:34:04Are you going to trust in the auction system
0:34:04 > 0:34:05and let it go to the highest bidder
0:34:05 > 0:34:07or do you want to put a reserve on it?
0:34:07 > 0:34:10- No reserve, yeah, just hope for the best.- No reserve, let it go.
0:34:10 > 0:34:13Well, thanks. That's very good. Thanks for bringing it along.
0:34:13 > 0:34:15- Thank you very much.- Pleasure.
0:34:18 > 0:34:21Now, if you've got any unwanted antiques and collectables
0:34:21 > 0:34:23you want to flog, we'd like to do it for you
0:34:23 > 0:34:25and this is where your journey starts -
0:34:25 > 0:34:28a valuation day very much like this one.
0:34:28 > 0:34:30Details of up-and-coming dates and venues
0:34:30 > 0:34:32you can find on our BBC website,
0:34:32 > 0:34:35or check the details in your local press because, fingers crossed,
0:34:35 > 0:34:38we're coming to an area near you soon.
0:34:38 > 0:34:40Dust 'em down and bring 'em in.
0:34:45 > 0:34:48- Pearl, you're a brave lady.- Ooh.
0:34:48 > 0:34:52- Transporting mercury in a barometer. - I know.
0:34:52 > 0:34:56Though the good news is you clearly know how to move a barometer.
0:34:56 > 0:34:59Do you know, the first time I ever handled a barometer in a sale room,
0:34:59 > 0:35:02I was a porter, I was 19 years old,
0:35:02 > 0:35:06- first thing I did was put it flat. - Right.- Big mistake.- Yes.
0:35:06 > 0:35:08Mercury went everywhere
0:35:08 > 0:35:14but this is a really lovely piece of 19th-century interior furnishings.
0:35:14 > 0:35:17- Known as a stick barometer for obvious reasons.- Yeah.
0:35:17 > 0:35:20Barometers come in three various forms -
0:35:20 > 0:35:24the most valuable is the signpost barometer.
0:35:24 > 0:35:26The most common are the wheel barometers
0:35:26 > 0:35:29and those at the moment are very unfashionable
0:35:29 > 0:35:32and they're selling for as little as £100.
0:35:32 > 0:35:34These are somewhere in the middle,
0:35:34 > 0:35:39this one towards - much, much closer towards - the wheel barometer.
0:35:39 > 0:35:41Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
0:35:41 > 0:35:45But what we've got is a glass tube
0:35:45 > 0:35:51and then that goes right the way down into the mercury reservoir here
0:35:51 > 0:35:53and you can see that that compresses there,
0:35:53 > 0:35:56- you can see there's...- Yeah. - Pressure can be applied
0:35:56 > 0:36:00and as the atmospheric pressure changes,
0:36:00 > 0:36:04the mercury rises up the tube
0:36:04 > 0:36:07and comes to a temperature gauge here at the top.
0:36:07 > 0:36:10And in very, very fine weather,
0:36:10 > 0:36:14it raises, and in cold weather,
0:36:14 > 0:36:15it falls.
0:36:15 > 0:36:17The case itself is mahogany,
0:36:17 > 0:36:22but it does have a feel that it has been somewhere unloved.
0:36:22 > 0:36:26- Yes, yes. Neglected. - So why is it neglected?
0:36:26 > 0:36:30Well, we found it, it was lying in the back of a wardrobe in the house.
0:36:30 > 0:36:35- Really?- I mean, a chappie did offer us £50 for it, but...- I bet he did!
0:36:35 > 0:36:37But it was a curious thing, we haven't seen one before,
0:36:37 > 0:36:42we thought, well, we will just go and see. Get some information on it.
0:36:42 > 0:36:44Well, that is certainly a cheeky offer.
0:36:44 > 0:36:48Judging by its style, I would say it is a British maker.
0:36:48 > 0:36:50Very, very plain.
0:36:51 > 0:36:54Now, in terms of value,
0:36:54 > 0:37:00I would put an estimate of £180-£250 on it.
0:37:00 > 0:37:04- And I would like to see a reserve of about £180.- OK.
0:37:04 > 0:37:07- Yes.- But I think it would certainly make that.
0:37:07 > 0:37:11- I am hoping it will make top end. It is a good thing.- Yeah.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14- And thank you for bringing it in. - Thank you.
0:37:14 > 0:37:18And well done for not selling it to the man for £50!
0:37:18 > 0:37:21Antiques go in and out of fashion
0:37:21 > 0:37:24and barometers are not as popular as they once were.
0:37:24 > 0:37:26Will it make the £180 reserve?
0:37:26 > 0:37:28Find out in just a minute.
0:37:31 > 0:37:33The concertina is of the highest quality.
0:37:33 > 0:37:37James thinks it is a sure thing. But could he be proved wrong?
0:37:40 > 0:37:42The Mauchline Ware box is fit for a scholar.
0:37:42 > 0:37:46Will there be any Robert Burns fans willing to bid?
0:37:48 > 0:37:51And an item that has been replaced by technology, the barometer.
0:37:51 > 0:37:54The pressure is on to see if it will sell.
0:38:02 > 0:38:03400.
0:38:03 > 0:38:06And it's back over to Anita for the last time.
0:38:06 > 0:38:09Well, we couldn't come to Scotland and make a Flog It! show
0:38:09 > 0:38:11without featuring a bit of Mauchline Ware, let's face it!
0:38:11 > 0:38:15It would go against the grain. We've seen it before and we'll see many more in the future.
0:38:15 > 0:38:18This bit belongs to Patricia and she is right next to me.
0:38:18 > 0:38:21I like the images. The Burns Monument and the little cottage.
0:38:21 > 0:38:24Not a lot of money, £30-£50, but it's going to do it.
0:38:24 > 0:38:26Yeah, of course it will. It's its market level
0:38:26 > 0:38:27and we put it through without reserve,
0:38:27 > 0:38:29because where better to sell something local?
0:38:29 > 0:38:33Let's put this value to the test. I am sure it will find a buyer here.
0:38:33 > 0:38:35This is it.
0:38:35 > 0:38:37Scottish item, ladies and gentlemen.
0:38:37 > 0:38:41One of our charming Mauchline Ware pieces.
0:38:41 > 0:38:44A glove box here, with three views.
0:38:44 > 0:38:49We have Burns Monument, Alloway Kirk and Burns' cottage, of course.
0:38:49 > 0:38:52Can we say £50?
0:38:52 > 0:38:54£50 for the Mauchline? £50?
0:38:54 > 0:38:57£30. Start me at £20.
0:38:57 > 0:38:5920, 30, 40,
0:38:59 > 0:39:01£40.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03With you, sir, at 40.
0:39:03 > 0:39:04Any advance on £40?
0:39:04 > 0:39:07All done at £40? £40.
0:39:07 > 0:39:10- £40, mid-estimate. Well done, Adam. - That's fine, yeah.
0:39:10 > 0:39:12- That's a good result, isn't it? - Yeah, fine.
0:39:12 > 0:39:14- Thank you for bringing that in. - Thanks very much.
0:39:14 > 0:39:16Bit of local interest.
0:39:16 > 0:39:18110... 120, 130,
0:39:18 > 0:39:19140...
0:39:19 > 0:39:23Are you out? 140.
0:39:23 > 0:39:24Well, so far, so good.
0:39:24 > 0:39:27And I tell you what, things are really flying out today.
0:39:27 > 0:39:29And it is getting so hot in here.
0:39:29 > 0:39:31And I know that, because we have a stick barometer
0:39:31 > 0:39:33and I have just read it. And it belongs to Pearl.
0:39:33 > 0:39:36- I reckon this is going to fly out of the room.- Well, hopefully, yes.
0:39:36 > 0:39:38I reckon everyone needs one of these.
0:39:38 > 0:39:40I don't think they are accurate,
0:39:40 > 0:39:43- but they look fabulous, don't they? - They do.- If it's hot. Look at this.
0:39:43 > 0:39:47Oh, wow! I told you it's getting hot in here.
0:39:47 > 0:39:48They're really the in thing.
0:39:48 > 0:39:52- What are they called? - Hot glasses.- Hot glasses.
0:39:52 > 0:39:54Because it is getting hot in here.
0:39:54 > 0:39:56- Aren't they just fantastic? - They are brilliant!
0:39:56 > 0:39:59- Well, keep them on, James.- Sorry... Anyway, moving on!
0:39:59 > 0:40:0219th-century mahogany case stick barometer,
0:40:02 > 0:40:06with the inset ivory scale.
0:40:06 > 0:40:10Can we say 300? 200? Start me at £100.
0:40:10 > 0:40:12£100 on the barometer?
0:40:12 > 0:40:14100? 100.
0:40:14 > 0:40:16100 bid.
0:40:16 > 0:40:19Any advance on £100?
0:40:19 > 0:40:22Any advance on 100? 110, 120.
0:40:22 > 0:40:24Any advance on £120?
0:40:24 > 0:40:28Any advance on 120?
0:40:28 > 0:40:30Any advance on 120? 120?
0:40:31 > 0:40:33- Not sold.- Aargh!
0:40:33 > 0:40:35- Oh!- It is suddenly cooling down.
0:40:39 > 0:40:42I have got to take it all the way home again! SHE LAUGHS
0:40:42 > 0:40:45- Give it some love. - Yes, it is going to have to be...
0:40:45 > 0:40:47It is just so insane, isn't it?
0:40:47 > 0:40:51That that stick barometer would have made £500 just ten years ago.
0:40:51 > 0:40:54- Stick it on the wall for another five or ten years.- Exactly.
0:40:54 > 0:40:57- And see what happens?- Exactly. Good luck.- OK. Thank you.
0:40:57 > 0:40:59- Thank you very much.- Goodbye.
0:40:59 > 0:41:02Fashions come and go, so maybe Pearl will have more luck
0:41:02 > 0:41:05selling her barometer in a few years' time.
0:41:08 > 0:41:11Right, now it is time to squeeze some money out of the bidders.
0:41:11 > 0:41:14We have Gordon's Wheatstone & Co concertina.
0:41:14 > 0:41:17We have seen them on the show before. Did you ever play it at all?
0:41:17 > 0:41:20- No. No.- No, just inherited it?- Just inherited it from my great-uncle.
0:41:20 > 0:41:23Condition is good and that is what it is all about.
0:41:23 > 0:41:26If the bellows are all split and worn, there are problems,
0:41:26 > 0:41:27but it is all there.
0:41:27 > 0:41:30- Definite.- Let's find out what it makes, shall we? Here we go.
0:41:30 > 0:41:34The ebony Wheatstone octagonal six-bellow concertina.
0:41:34 > 0:41:37- I have bids in the books, ladies and gentlemen.- That is good.
0:41:37 > 0:41:40And I can start the bidding at...
0:41:40 > 0:41:42- £450.- Oh!
0:41:42 > 0:41:46- We wouldn't sell it for that!- 450.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48450 on the book.
0:41:48 > 0:41:51Any advance on 450?
0:41:51 > 0:41:54- 500?- She's playing with them.- 550.
0:41:54 > 0:41:57600. 650.
0:41:57 > 0:42:00700, 750.
0:42:00 > 0:42:02800, 850,
0:42:02 > 0:42:05900, 950.
0:42:05 > 0:42:11- 1,000, 1,050.- Ooh...
0:42:11 > 0:42:131,100. And 50.
0:42:13 > 0:42:15- We might do the 12 now.- Oh, oh, oh.
0:42:17 > 0:42:181,200.
0:42:20 > 0:42:21And 50.
0:42:23 > 0:42:261,300. The book is out.
0:42:26 > 0:42:30It's on the phone. At £1,300.
0:42:30 > 0:42:35Is there any advance on 1,300?
0:42:35 > 0:42:37Any advance on 1,300?
0:42:37 > 0:42:391,300.
0:42:39 > 0:42:42- Brilliant. - APPLAUSE
0:42:42 > 0:42:46- Well done.- Well done.- Somebody will be going out busking tonight!
0:42:46 > 0:42:48- That is a good result, isn't it? - A very good result, yes.
0:42:48 > 0:42:52- Enjoy that money.- Absolutely. Yes. - Thanks for bringing it in.- Yes, thank you.
0:42:52 > 0:42:54150, 160, 170, 180...
0:42:54 > 0:42:56Well, that is it from Anita's saleroom.
0:42:56 > 0:42:58Lots of lucky folk go home with heavier pockets
0:42:58 > 0:43:02and Pearl gets to enjoy her barometer for another year!
0:43:04 > 0:43:05See you next time on Flog It!