0:00:34 > 0:00:38Ipswich is the oldest Anglo-Saxon town in the UK
0:00:38 > 0:00:40that has always been inhabited.
0:00:40 > 0:00:45It has got a wonderful hotchpotch of buildings from every era - Elizabethan through to Art Deco.
0:00:45 > 0:00:49It's also got this fantastic, newly modernised waterfront area
0:00:49 > 0:00:52which is adding a new architectural dimension.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54And also bringing in thousands of visitors.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59And there's no stopping our visitors to the Corn Exchange today.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01They have brought along all sorts of antiques
0:01:01 > 0:01:06for our experts Adam Partridge and James Lewis to value.
0:01:06 > 0:01:10First up, it's a very special book with Adam.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14- Hi, Chris.- Hello.- So you've got this autograph album here.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18We're going to have a look through it. Is it your album?
0:01:18 > 0:01:22- Or how did you come to buy it? - It is mine. I didn't buy it.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25My father was the mayor of the London borough of Havering
0:01:25 > 0:01:28in 1970, when I was a teenager.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31So, while he was doing his year of office,
0:01:31 > 0:01:36I either took the autograph book round with me on my travels, or he took it for me,
0:01:36 > 0:01:39and anyone of interest that he met while he was out and about,
0:01:39 > 0:01:41he got their autograph, or I did.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44So it's a collection of the year, basically, when he was in office.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46- From 1970.- 1970.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50That's given us a good picture of the profile of the album.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52I suppose we've got some interesting people in there.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55- Yes.- Let's have a look.
0:01:55 > 0:02:00- Jackie Oliver.- Jackie Oliver was a well-known racing driver.
0:02:00 > 0:02:04During the year my father was the mayor of Havering, they opened a new ring road
0:02:04 > 0:02:09and Jackie Oliver actually broke the ribbon that opened the ring road with his racing car.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12He drove round the new ring road.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16- So "To all the girls at the..." - "County High School." When I was at school, you see.
0:02:16 > 0:02:20There's Ronnie Corbett. Terry Venables.
0:02:20 > 0:02:25- Ron Boyce. Is that football? - Football. A lot of footballers in here. My dad was a big West Ham fan.
0:02:25 > 0:02:28- Right. There's Bobby and Mrs Ferguson.- That's right.
0:02:28 > 0:02:33- Then we go through... There's Jimmy Greaves.- Yes.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36- Now the important one is a bit further...here.- There.
0:02:36 > 0:02:40- That's Douglas Bader. - Douglas Bader, that's right.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43During the year that my father was mayor, he got invited
0:02:43 > 0:02:47to a lot of charity events, one of which was a Cheshire Homes do.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49The Leonard Cheshire homes.
0:02:49 > 0:02:55Douglas Bader was obviously present at the time so he got his autograph while he was there.
0:02:55 > 0:02:59- I think that's of local interest as well because he was a local man, Douglas Bader.- I believe so.
0:02:59 > 0:03:04I know that I remember, as a child, seeing the films on the telly, and obviously, he is a famous man.
0:03:04 > 0:03:08I remember reading Reach for the Sky, the autobiography.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12- And there was a film as well, wasn't there?- That's right. Kenneth Moore.- I read it as a child.
0:03:12 > 0:03:16- It was inspirational, really. A great story.- Incredible man.
0:03:16 > 0:03:21Absolutely. Maybe this is a good area to be selling a Douglas Bader autograph.
0:03:21 > 0:03:25Let me ask you - why did you bring this collection of autographs in?
0:03:25 > 0:03:28It resembles your childhood, doesn't it?
0:03:28 > 0:03:33To be honest, for the last 20-odd out of the 30 years
0:03:33 > 0:03:38it's just been sitting in a box in a spare bedroom gathering dust. It seems such a waste.
0:03:38 > 0:03:43They are tricky things, autographs. I've got a few myself, of sport, like cricket and stuff like that.
0:03:43 > 0:03:47- They're nice to own, but you never look at them, do you? - No. And it's personal taste.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50They don't display very well. They just sit in a cupboard.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53I've got the memories of the year, regardless of the books.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57- I've always got that to look back on, whatever happens. - Happy to sell it?- Yes, I am.
0:03:57 > 0:04:01There's not a lot of financial value associated with this.
0:04:01 > 0:04:05But we are selling it in the right area, so it should find its true value.
0:04:05 > 0:04:10I would be thinking an auction estimate of £30-£50...
0:04:10 > 0:04:13- That's fine. Better than sitting in a box at home.- Absolutely.
0:04:22 > 0:04:27Here we have a classic 18th-century English porcelain teapot
0:04:27 > 0:04:31influenced and inspired by the pieces that were brought over
0:04:31 > 0:04:35from China at the same period. Do you know anything about it?
0:04:35 > 0:04:38I just always thought it was something which was from Lowestoft.
0:04:38 > 0:04:44And we are a Suffolk family and we did have connections with Lowestoft.
0:04:44 > 0:04:48- Brilliant.- Obviously, not that far back.- Absolutely bang on.
0:04:48 > 0:04:53It's got all the right elements for a Lowestoft teapot.
0:04:53 > 0:04:55This wonderful, curved, elongated spout,
0:04:55 > 0:04:59this iron-red scrolling panel, the iron-red border.
0:04:59 > 0:05:03And if you turn it over
0:05:03 > 0:05:06it's got this oxidisation on the foot rim as well.
0:05:06 > 0:05:08The body is quite brown.
0:05:08 > 0:05:13This is 1770, right bang in the middle of Lowestoft's production.
0:05:13 > 0:05:17It was in 1757 when a gentleman called Hewlin Luson,
0:05:17 > 0:05:22who was an estate owner, an estate called the Gunton Estate.
0:05:22 > 0:05:27He discovered a porcelain clay and he tried making porcelain from that.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31He failed, and just six months later, the Lowestoft porcelain factory
0:05:31 > 0:05:37was established by another couple of gentlemen and the factory continued until 1799.
0:05:37 > 0:05:42So it was one of the most well-known and well-respected of the 18th-century porcelain factories.
0:05:42 > 0:05:47And Lowestoft is really sought-after everywhere but nowhere more so than here, in its home.
0:05:47 > 0:05:51And if you've got a bit of Lowestoft porcelain, this is where you want to be selling it.
0:05:51 > 0:05:57- Is this something that you have treasured?- It has been in the family for as long as I can remember.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00My grandfather was an auctioneer, and my mother used to go round to
0:06:00 > 0:06:04all the old houses when they were being pulled down in the '50s.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07So she has always been round collecting bits and bobs.
0:06:07 > 0:06:11So we've got lots of treasures we've collected over the years.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13But there's nobody here really wants to have it now.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15They prefer the furniture we have.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18- OK.- It would be nice to have a new home for it.
0:06:18 > 0:06:20Now, it's got a few problems.
0:06:20 > 0:06:22I'm sure you're aware of it.
0:06:22 > 0:06:27You know the old tradition where your mother would say, "Don't forget to warm the pot, dear"?
0:06:27 > 0:06:30Well, that comes from this reason.
0:06:30 > 0:06:35If you put hot water into one of these porcelain teapots, the bottom of the teapot dropped out.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37That's what's happened here.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40You've got a crack that goes all the way around the outside,
0:06:40 > 0:06:45and the whole of this base has been out, and it has been put back and stapled, in the 19th century.
0:06:45 > 0:06:49This is a classic Victorian way of repairing porcelain.
0:06:49 > 0:06:54This tells us that, even in the Victorian period, this was a sought-after piece.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56People were collecting it even then.
0:06:56 > 0:06:59So that does affect its value. But it's got good points, too.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02The colours are vibrant. The colours aren't worn.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04All the way up to the neck of the spout.
0:07:06 > 0:07:11And also, on the cover as well, these alternating scrawling floral panels.
0:07:11 > 0:07:16So although the body itself has been cracked, the cover is in one piece.
0:07:16 > 0:07:20So what's it worth? 100 to 150. Something like that.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23So if we put that in a sale, is that all right?
0:07:23 > 0:07:27It would be lovely because what I would like to do is recycle the money from the teapot,
0:07:27 > 0:07:30to pay for a chair, a Victorian chair which I am doing up.
0:07:30 > 0:07:33So we would be very grateful for that.
0:07:33 > 0:07:36- Are you going to upholster it yourself?- Yes. Hopefully.
0:07:36 > 0:07:38I'll be able to get a nice fabric for it.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49- Rose, I'm Adam.- Hello. - Very nice to see you.
0:07:49 > 0:07:52We do see a lot of Clarice Cliff on this programme.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56but I chose to do this object because of its unusual shape,
0:07:56 > 0:07:59this very small, flared cup that you don't often see,
0:07:59 > 0:08:01and this is a great pattern.
0:08:01 > 0:08:05First of all, let's hear how you came to own it, please.
0:08:05 > 0:08:09Well, I was helping my father to clear out his Victorian dresser
0:08:09 > 0:08:13and he just said, "Don't want any of that - they can all go."
0:08:13 > 0:08:17I put it into a box to go to the charity shop. Threw this on top,
0:08:17 > 0:08:20drove home, didn't think anything about it.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23It had some cocktail sticks with the names of sandwiches on the top.
0:08:23 > 0:08:28And I thought they'd be wonderful to use in the office when I do lunches.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30So I washed the pot and the sticks,
0:08:30 > 0:08:33- turned the pot over, like that...- To dry.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36..to dry on a tea cloth and saw the bottom.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38I didn't read it completely.
0:08:38 > 0:08:40I just saw the word, "Cliff".
0:08:40 > 0:08:45- And I thought, hang on, This may be Clarice Cliff.- Absolutely. Yeah.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48And it's known as the melons pattern.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51There was a range of Picasso fruit patterns,
0:08:51 > 0:08:54this abstraction of the fruit pattern.
0:08:54 > 0:08:59This is melons here, of course, and it is from the Fantasque range.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01That's not the name of the pattern. It's the range.
0:09:01 > 0:09:06- So have you an idea what it might be worth?- We think somewhere...
0:09:06 > 0:09:08between £100-£200.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11- We're not certain. - You're absolutely bang on.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13It's quite tricky to value,
0:09:13 > 0:09:17because of the shape being a relatively unknown quantity
0:09:17 > 0:09:21but if we put a reserve of 100 and an estimate of 120-180 on it,
0:09:21 > 0:09:27we should hopefully get closer to 200 than 100, which would be good, wouldn't it?
0:09:27 > 0:09:29That would be nice, yes. Thank you.
0:09:35 > 0:09:39Patricia, this is a really pretty little diamond crescent brooch.
0:09:39 > 0:09:43It is the sort of jewellery that doesn't actually date.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45If we look at the diamonds,
0:09:45 > 0:09:48these are modern, brilliant-cut stones.
0:09:48 > 0:09:54If this had been 19th century, they may well have been old-cut or rose-cut stones.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57And this mount
0:09:57 > 0:09:59is a 9 carat mount and we have
0:09:59 > 0:10:02a modern, 9 carat hallmark on the edge there.
0:10:02 > 0:10:09So this tells us it's about 1975, 1977. Somewhere around there.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11- As recent as that?- Yes.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14And the other tell-tale sign - you can't use this as a guarantee
0:10:14 > 0:10:17but it's a pretty good indicator of age.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20It's got what is called a roller clasp.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23Occasionally, pins and mounts are broken off
0:10:23 > 0:10:25and they're replaced in the late 20th century.
0:10:25 > 0:10:29This is a roller clip here on the edge
0:10:29 > 0:10:32and that was only used in 20th-century jewellery.
0:10:32 > 0:10:36It's a pretty thing. What's the history of it?
0:10:36 > 0:10:37Is it a family piece?
0:10:37 > 0:10:40Not at all.
0:10:40 > 0:10:47It belongs to an animal welfare society called SESAW, a little local organisation.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51And it was donated to them
0:10:51 > 0:10:53a year or so ago.
0:10:53 > 0:10:55- And, um...- OK.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57And they knew what they were giving?
0:10:57 > 0:11:00I think it was in with a lot of other things.
0:11:00 > 0:11:04- Was it?- Yes. Someone went through and said, "That looks nice.
0:11:04 > 0:11:06"Let's see if it's worth anything."
0:11:06 > 0:11:11People tend to have a particular brooch that goes with a particular outfit
0:11:11 > 0:11:17and these coats and jackets hang in the wardrobe and they have these wonderful diamond brooches on them.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20People whip the clothes out the wardrobe,
0:11:20 > 0:11:23stick them in bin bags, and send them to the charity shop.
0:11:23 > 0:11:27And then the charity shop goes through the coats and the clothes
0:11:27 > 0:11:30and they find these wonderful diamond brooches on clothing.
0:11:30 > 0:11:33So often people don't actually know what they've given.
0:11:33 > 0:11:39- But it's a good find. So we're raising funds for animals in need? - Yes, absolutely.
0:11:39 > 0:11:41Tell me about the charity.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46It's SESAW - Suffolk and Essex Small Animal Welfare.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49And they're based at Leavenheath.
0:11:49 > 0:11:54My daughter first started volunteering and I just go along with her.
0:11:54 > 0:11:58So I've got to get it right otherwise the charity will lose.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00- Yes, please. - These sort of diamond brooches,
0:12:00 > 0:12:05they can either be valued as a brooch itself, but also for its component parts -
0:12:05 > 0:12:09its gold value and its diamond breakage value.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12So even if it's not wanted as a brooch, the diamonds have a value.
0:12:12 > 0:12:17So I'm going to put a value of £150-£250 on it,
0:12:17 > 0:12:22recommend a reserve of 150, and I think it's going to do jolly well.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25- Lovely.- That's going to buy a few cans of cat food, isn't it?
0:12:25 > 0:12:27It certainly will. And some!
0:12:27 > 0:12:30That was a real gem of an item.
0:12:30 > 0:12:35I'm off to find out more about a man with a taste for the finer things in life.
0:12:41 > 0:12:45The first Lord Fairhaven spent his early years in America
0:12:45 > 0:12:48before his family returned to England in 1912.
0:12:48 > 0:12:53He bought Anglesey Abbey and set about furnishing the former Augustinian Priory
0:12:53 > 0:12:58with a valuable collection of furniture, books and decorative items.
0:13:03 > 0:13:07And he was so popular with the local antique dealers
0:13:07 > 0:13:10that whenever they saw Lord Fairhaven coming towards them
0:13:10 > 0:13:13they used to rub their hands with glee and had smiles on their faces,
0:13:13 > 0:13:18so naturally, the house is full of the most exquisite artefacts.
0:13:18 > 0:13:22To tell me about more about them we have got the house manager, Philip Warner.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25Hello, Philip. Thanks for taking time out to talk to us.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28Where do we start? Because he had the most wonderful eye.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30- He wasn't a collector, he was a connoisseur.- That's correct.
0:13:30 > 0:13:35In 1926, the first Lord Fairhaven bought this whole estate at auction.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39What he had purchased was a blank canvas upon which he could recreate his own vision of home.
0:13:39 > 0:13:43- So it didn't look like this at all? - Not all of it, no.
0:13:43 > 0:13:49This wonderful room we are standing in now was the only survivor of the Augustinian Priory.
0:13:49 > 0:13:53But, even in here, Lord Fairhaven has actually added to the medieval nature
0:13:53 > 0:13:58and turned what was a monastic day room into his Gothic, medieval vaulted dining room.
0:13:58 > 0:14:02If you imagine it as the backdrop for his entertaining,
0:14:02 > 0:14:05for guests coming up from London for the weekend.
0:14:05 > 0:14:09You've got Newmarket down the road where they can go and have a flutter on the gee-gees.
0:14:09 > 0:14:13You have got all flat Fenland where you can go and shoot pheasant,
0:14:13 > 0:14:17and all the country pursuits. This is what this house was conceived as,
0:14:17 > 0:14:20a sort of six star hotel, if you like.
0:14:20 > 0:14:24- I love the fireplace.- That's right. The fireplace is his addition.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27- This looks like it's been here for centuries.- It does.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30Part of this Augustinian Priory, maybe. But in actual fact
0:14:30 > 0:14:34the fireplace was bought on the London art market in about 1929.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37These kinds of things were being sold off as architectural salvage
0:14:37 > 0:14:40as big country houses were going into decline.
0:14:40 > 0:14:44We think that he inherited a lot of his eye for antiques and the arts
0:14:44 > 0:14:46through his mother's side of the family.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49His mother was a American millionairess, Cara Rodgers.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53Her father was one of the first presidents of the Esso Corporation,
0:14:53 > 0:14:57rather a wealthy person in the 1900s.
0:14:57 > 0:15:00And really, he was being inspired by her collecting set,
0:15:00 > 0:15:03mixing with the Rockefellers and the Vanderbilts
0:15:03 > 0:15:06in these grand, turn-of-the-century country houses.
0:15:06 > 0:15:10He was buying from the top London names - Sotheby's, Christie's,
0:15:10 > 0:15:12he was going to the London auction sales.
0:15:12 > 0:15:17He even had certain people like David Black and Sons, silver dealers,
0:15:17 > 0:15:21he would have them keep an eye on the market and advise him.
0:15:21 > 0:15:25To put a collection or many collections together like this,
0:15:25 > 0:15:28and make them cross-pollinate, is very, very skilful.
0:15:28 > 0:15:33He collected things from all around the world, different time periods, and put them together.
0:15:33 > 0:15:37There was no particular rhyme or reason to what objects he would collect.
0:15:37 > 0:15:40He wasn't particularly interested
0:15:40 > 0:15:44- in a timescale or collecting... - A purist thing.
0:15:44 > 0:15:49He was actually... He was simply buying things that he liked.
0:15:49 > 0:15:54And what you get at Anglesey is 40 years of one man collecting art and antiques,
0:15:54 > 0:15:58arranging them at his leisure, and living amongst these treasures.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00And he obviously had an eye for a bargain.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02This charger is a spectacular piece.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05Yes, this piece we have got records for.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08We know that Lord Fairhaven purchased it in the 1950s.
0:16:08 > 0:16:10We know that he paid £500 for this.
0:16:10 > 0:16:13- Gosh, that was a bargain!- Exactly.
0:16:13 > 0:16:18He was buying at a time when these large, rather ostentatious objects
0:16:18 > 0:16:21were not quite in fashion, in the post-war period,
0:16:21 > 0:16:25and he did not have many competitors in the auction room.
0:16:25 > 0:16:30It's called the shield of Achilles, and it depicts scenes taken from Homer's The Iliad.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32It is one of only four in the world,
0:16:32 > 0:16:37the original being made for the king, or prince regent, the future George IV.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40What do you think that's worth today, then?
0:16:40 > 0:16:44It's hard to give an exact price, now but certainly, back in the '80s,
0:16:44 > 0:16:47one of the four came up for auction and it fetched nearly half a million.
0:16:47 > 0:16:51So his £500 has multiplied a good number of times.
0:17:13 > 0:17:15There's a couple of things that have caught my eye
0:17:15 > 0:17:19that I would like to point out to you, here in the Long Gallery.
0:17:19 > 0:17:24Let's start with this one. It is a small hall bench, and it is designed by William Kent.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27Possibly one of England's greatest architects.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30He was doing a grand tour of Europe in the early 1700s,
0:17:30 > 0:17:33100 years before anybody else was doing it.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36He brought back so many classical ideas
0:17:36 > 0:17:42and introduced them into his own furniture and buildings back here in England.
0:17:42 > 0:17:46This is built of Cuban mahogany in round about 1720.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50It's got a lovely, dark, nutty hue to it. The patina is gorgeous.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53But so is the detail, the carving.
0:17:53 > 0:17:57This finial is carved out of one piece of mahogany.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00And something like this in auction
0:18:00 > 0:18:04would be worth round about 60, possibly £80,000.
0:18:04 > 0:18:06I was very lucky to be sitting on that.
0:18:06 > 0:18:08It is a piece for the purist.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11Interestingly enough, just six feet away,
0:18:11 > 0:18:14there is something that is completely wrong, but it's not.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17As an interior designer, it's completely right.
0:18:17 > 0:18:21It really does work well with this piece back here.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24It is a 20th-century bronze casting of an eagle
0:18:24 > 0:18:27which would have been on top of a pediment outside a building,
0:18:27 > 0:18:30and it's got a small piece of 20th-century marble
0:18:30 > 0:18:36just laid across the wings and the head, which creates an interesting hall table.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38There's the American influence,
0:18:38 > 0:18:42and there's the diversity of this collecting genius.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47In his will, Lord Fairhaven asked that the house and his furniture
0:18:47 > 0:18:51be preserved and kept as representative of an age
0:18:51 > 0:18:54and a way of life that was quickly passing.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57and after his death in 1966, the National Trust
0:18:57 > 0:19:02took on the task of keeping Anglesey Abbey open for all of us to enjoy.
0:19:03 > 0:19:06Lord Fairhaven made a point of only buying antiques
0:19:06 > 0:19:10that gave him pleasure, things he loved, that put a smile on his face.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12He didn't buy fashion items.
0:19:12 > 0:19:16Which is a really good tip when investing in antiques.
0:19:16 > 0:19:20Buy something that's not in fashion and it won't cost you as much.
0:19:20 > 0:19:25Hopefully, in 10 or 20 years' time, it will pay good dividends on your investment.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Today's auction comes from Diss in Norfolk.
0:19:30 > 0:19:34We're at Thomas Gaze and Sons. Our auctioneer is Alan Smith.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38Before he gets going, let's remind ourselves of our items.
0:19:40 > 0:19:43We're selling the autograph book belonging to Chris.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47A typical Lowestoft teapot.
0:19:47 > 0:19:50An unusual flared Clarice Cliff cup.
0:19:50 > 0:19:54And a diamond brooch that could turn out to be the cat's whiskers.
0:20:03 > 0:20:07While we've been to plenty of auction rooms in our time
0:20:07 > 0:20:10on Flog It! but today is a milstone.
0:20:10 > 0:20:15It's a general sell and it really is general.
0:20:15 > 0:20:16Look at this!
0:20:16 > 0:20:18Architectural salvage is big business.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20Something for the garden but
0:20:20 > 0:20:22this has to be a first for me.
0:20:22 > 0:20:26I've never seen lampposts for sale in an aution room before.
0:20:26 > 0:20:31Believe it or not, somebody is going to buy this and walk off with it.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33What are they going to do with it?!
0:20:33 > 0:20:36I'm sure our items will be put to good use.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39Let's go inside and catch up with the bidding.
0:20:40 > 0:20:43Chris, it's nearly the moment we're going to sell your autograph book.
0:20:43 > 0:20:47- I know.- It's from the the 1970s. All credit to your dad for getting these.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50Lots of big names in there. Adam went through them.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53Little names as well - Ronnie Corbett.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55I fed him that.
0:20:57 > 0:21:01- Yes. There are some great footballers in there as well.- Yes.
0:21:01 > 0:21:03It is such a hard thing to value.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05It really is a hard thing to value.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07It is.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10The Douglas Bader one should be worth £20 on its own.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13It's not in the catalogue, which is a bit disappointing.
0:21:13 > 0:21:17They have omitted it. They have named the footballers.
0:21:17 > 0:21:21Football and TV personalities, but not actually Douglas Bader.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23There weren't that many in there.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25You would have thought they could have mentioned it, but never mind.
0:21:25 > 0:21:28We got a valuation of £30 to £50.
0:21:28 > 0:21:33Let's hope we get the top end. That's what we've come for. Good luck, Adam. Good luck, Chris.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35This is it. It's going under the hammer.
0:21:35 > 0:21:41Number 209 is the autograph album, fully catalogued for you.
0:21:41 > 0:21:45- But with the addition that Douglas Bader is in there as well.- Ah!
0:21:45 > 0:21:49It's a wonderful collection of autographs.
0:21:49 > 0:21:53Start me at £12. £12, showing here.
0:21:53 > 0:21:5615, 18, 20, 22,
0:21:56 > 0:22:00- 25, 28, 30.- Wow!- We've done it.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04- 38, 40 bid, 42, 45, 48, 50.- Terrific!
0:22:04 > 0:22:07Downstairs is £50.
0:22:07 > 0:22:10£50 - where is 5?
0:22:10 > 0:22:1455, fresh bid. 60, we have,
0:22:14 > 0:22:16- 65 is there.- This is good!
0:22:16 > 0:22:20Gallery is now £65, and where is my 70?
0:22:20 > 0:22:21At £65, gallery now.
0:22:21 > 0:22:23At 65, will sell.
0:22:23 > 0:22:27Yes! 65 quid! That is a sold sound.
0:22:27 > 0:22:31What are you going to put £65 towards?
0:22:31 > 0:22:34Hopefully I'm going to go out and treat myself to something nice,
0:22:34 > 0:22:37take the family for a meal or put it towards a meal.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40- Some new clothes for yourself? - Possibly, yes.
0:22:40 > 0:22:44Enjoy it - whatever you do, enjoy it. Thank you for coming in.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47That was a good result. I am pleased he mentioned Douglas Bader.
0:22:47 > 0:22:51- I think it was Terry Venables and the footballers that did it. - You think so?
0:22:51 > 0:22:54I think it was a good result anyway.
0:22:54 > 0:22:55You like me now, eh?
0:23:03 > 0:23:07Right, my favourite item of the day, in fact, of the whole sale.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09It is Liz's Lowestoft teapot.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12It is absolutely stunning - third quarter of the 18th century.
0:23:12 > 0:23:17We filmed at Lowestoft, and I've even made a bit of pottery up there.
0:23:17 > 0:23:22Wonderful memories. When I saw this I showed it to the auctioneer and we both fell in love with it.
0:23:22 > 0:23:26- If this was in good condition, £600 to £800.- Fantastic.
0:23:26 > 0:23:28Fantastic shape, fantastic shaped spout.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30It's got everything going for it.
0:23:30 > 0:23:33- Lovely.- What are you hoping to put the money towards?
0:23:33 > 0:23:38- It's going towards some re-upholstery for chairs I have bought at auction.- Well, good luck.
0:23:38 > 0:23:40- Thank you very much. - Going under the hammer now.
0:23:40 > 0:23:43Number 293, a lovely piece.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46It's local, it's 18th-century Lowestoft.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48We love to have it in the rooms, here.
0:23:48 > 0:23:51Starting bottom end of estimate, £90.
0:23:51 > 0:23:52£90, we start.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56100, 120, 140, 160,
0:23:58 > 0:24:00180, 200. At £200, I'm bid.
0:24:00 > 0:24:05At £200. I will take 10 if it happens. We have the £200 now.
0:24:05 > 0:24:07It is a lovely Lowestoft piece.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10At a bid of £200.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12Well, we did it. That's good.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15It's an in-between sort of sum.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17I'm delighted with that. Very pleased.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20You can get your upholstery sorted out now.
0:24:20 > 0:24:24- Something else to spend money on. That's lovely. Thank you very much. - Thank you. Well done.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28What a great result for Liz and the Lowestoft teapot.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30It makes top end.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32Now it's auctioneer Elizabeth Talbot's turn
0:24:32 > 0:24:38to step up to the rostrum to sell Roz's Clarice Cliff pot.
0:24:38 > 0:24:42It wouldn't be Flog It, would it, without Clarice Cliff?
0:24:42 > 0:24:44And Roz has brought a lovely bit along.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47120-180 is what we want.
0:24:47 > 0:24:52There is a lot of Clarice Cliff here, so hopefully, the collectors are going to be out in force,
0:24:52 > 0:24:56- bidding against each other, put the price up. How about that? - Hope so. Yes.
0:24:56 > 0:25:01And what will you put the money towards if we get this £200?
0:25:01 > 0:25:07Well, really I ought to give it to my dad because it was his pot that I took away, yes.
0:25:07 > 0:25:12But it will probably go towards some new light fittings, things like that.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14- You're not a big Clarice Cliff fan, are you?- No.
0:25:14 > 0:25:18- You'd like to see this one go, wouldn't you?- Yes. Definitely.
0:25:18 > 0:25:22- Is this a good pot? - It's a good pattern, an unusual but pedestrian shape.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25- I think this is it, now. - OK, good luck. This is it.
0:25:25 > 0:25:29Lot 461. We have the Clarice Cliff Fantasque melons pattern beaker.
0:25:29 > 0:25:34The pattern suits the shape nicely and on this, I start at just £55.
0:25:34 > 0:25:39At £55, the Clarice Cliff is 55, now, 60 got.
0:25:39 > 0:25:4360, 5, 70, 5, 80, 5, 85 with me.
0:25:43 > 0:25:4590, new bidder. 95.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47100, and I'm out.
0:25:47 > 0:25:49It's now 100 in the room. At 100.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52A good buy at 100. Where's 10?
0:25:52 > 0:25:57At £100, to my left, at 100...
0:25:57 > 0:25:59Elizabeth put the hammer down.
0:25:59 > 0:26:01- Got the lower end.- Yes.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04- Light fittings?- Yes.- Where are the light fittings going?
0:26:04 > 0:26:06In an apartment I bought in Austria.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08You've got an apartment in Austria?
0:26:08 > 0:26:13- Yes.- As a holiday home?- No, it's going to become a permanent retirement home.- Is it?
0:26:13 > 0:26:17You're moving from Norfolk and you're going to Austria? How lovely.
0:26:22 > 0:26:27All you ladies out there, we've got a 9-carat diamond brooch that belongs to Patricia.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30- It was donated to the charity.- Yes.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32And the charity is?
0:26:32 > 0:26:34- SESAW! - And who have we been joined by?
0:26:34 > 0:26:36I am Rosie, chairman of SESAW.
0:26:36 > 0:26:40- Tell us all about SESAW then. - We're an animal rehoming centre.
0:26:40 > 0:26:45And we rehome anything from chickens to llamas, pigs, cats, dogs...
0:26:45 > 0:26:48Lots of lovely animals that need homes,
0:26:48 > 0:26:51all being looked after with TLC. Right, we need top money for this.
0:26:51 > 0:26:56We need £150-£250, hopefully, and we're going to find out. It's going under the hammer, now.
0:26:56 > 0:27:039-carat gold, 17 graduated stones and I'm looking for £200.
0:27:03 > 0:27:07Or £100, if you like.
0:27:07 > 0:27:10£80, I'm bid. Don't be shy on this one.
0:27:10 > 0:27:1285, 90, 5, 100.
0:27:12 > 0:27:16110, 120, and £120 I'm bid now.
0:27:16 > 0:27:21Where's that? 120 is the bid, 130, 140,
0:27:21 > 0:27:23150 is the middle bid.
0:27:23 > 0:27:26150 is now, and where is 60?
0:27:26 > 0:27:29150 will be the price.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32- The hammer has gone down.- Wow!
0:27:32 > 0:27:36- £150.- That's fantastic.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39- What are you getting?- I think it's going towards a new kennel.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42We've so many dogs, we're running out of kennel space.
0:27:42 > 0:27:45It'll go towards perhaps building a new kennel.
0:27:45 > 0:27:49Good luck to you two. And good luck to SESAW. What a worthy cause. Love animals.
0:27:56 > 0:28:01Sadly we've come to the end of our day here at the auction rooms in Diss. All credit to our experts.
0:28:01 > 0:28:05They've done a great job. And I think everybody has gone home happy.
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