0:00:35 > 0:00:39So why have all these people here, these lovely people, come to Yeovil
0:00:39 > 0:00:42to queue up on a freezing cold Sunday morning,
0:00:42 > 0:00:45all laden with bags and boxes containing family heirlooms,
0:00:45 > 0:00:47treasures and charity shop bargains?
0:00:47 > 0:00:50Well, there can only be one answer.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54They're all hoping to find out that their treasures are worth lots of money.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57Some of them might even make a profit at auction later.
0:00:57 > 0:01:01Our two experts today are Michael Baggott and James Lewis,
0:01:01 > 0:01:02the two heavyweight experts,
0:01:02 > 0:01:06and boy, do these guys know their stuff. They're red hot.
0:01:06 > 0:01:10The great thing about Flog It! is you never know what's going to turn up, do you?
0:01:10 > 0:01:12- You don't, no. Today an Argyle.- Wow.
0:01:12 > 0:01:15It's not my sort of thing. It's really for Michael.
0:01:15 > 0:01:18- Marvellous. What do you think? Teapot? No?- Mmm. Looks like it.
0:01:18 > 0:01:22- It's for keeping your gravy warm. - Is that what it is?!- Marvellous.
0:01:22 > 0:01:23Very rare with a medallion.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26Wow. Well, there you go. Well, it's now 9.30.
0:01:26 > 0:01:27We better not make a meal of it.
0:01:27 > 0:01:30Let's get the doors open, and get the show on the road.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41Chris, this little gem that you've brought along,
0:01:41 > 0:01:43what can you tell me about it?
0:01:43 > 0:01:44Well, very little, really.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47I've always collected miniature scent bottles,
0:01:47 > 0:01:50and this I have no idea whether I bought it,
0:01:50 > 0:01:53or whether it was given to me, I honestly don't know.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56But it just sits in the cupboard with the others, and I love it.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59- It crept into the house unnoticed. - It did, really.
0:01:59 > 0:02:04Well, I mean, the joy of this thing is really the outside of the case.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06If we have a look here, it's tortoiseshell,
0:02:06 > 0:02:08which is actually turtle shell,
0:02:08 > 0:02:11and the Georgians absolutely loved inlaying it.
0:02:11 > 0:02:13So they'd pierce this out and then you'd inlay
0:02:13 > 0:02:17all this silverwork and then it's all been bright cut afterwards.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20So you've got swags and festoons.
0:02:20 > 0:02:21Um, the top's a little bit dull.
0:02:21 > 0:02:26- Yes.- I wonder if maybe that's a later replacement.- Right.
0:02:26 > 0:02:31- Cos it does seem to have come off there and you'd expect something a little bit grander.- Yes.
0:02:31 > 0:02:36But there's a surprise when we open it because I have seen many, many
0:02:36 > 0:02:40of these little cases and they don't have their bottles in.
0:02:40 > 0:02:45If they do, they don't have their stoppers or they're cracked.
0:02:45 > 0:02:48Now as far as I can see, that's all original.
0:02:48 > 0:02:52That's a little 18th-century cut-glass scent bottle
0:02:52 > 0:02:55that has survived in its original case.
0:02:55 > 0:02:59If you pop it back in here, it's not the tightest fit in the world.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01- These are made for travelling.- Yes.
0:03:01 > 0:03:05In coaches, along the street, it's protected in this little box.
0:03:05 > 0:03:08So again, this usually takes a few knocks and damages.
0:03:08 > 0:03:11I've given the game away really with the date of it.
0:03:11 > 0:03:16It is a little 18th-century piece and it could date anywhere from
0:03:16 > 0:03:21- 1785, 1790...- Gosh, that old? - ..up to about 1810.- Really?
0:03:21 > 0:03:24And they made a lot of these in Birmingham.
0:03:24 > 0:03:28Birmingham produced these in quite large numbers.
0:03:28 > 0:03:33- As it just arrived at your house, I can't say what did you pay for it.- I honestly can't remember.
0:03:33 > 0:03:37- I just... I really don't know. - Any ideas what it's worth then?
0:03:37 > 0:03:40Haven't a clue. Not a clue.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42With its original bottle
0:03:42 > 0:03:45and because it's in relatively nice condition,
0:03:45 > 0:03:48we should put it into auction with maybe £100 to £150 on it.
0:03:48 > 0:03:52- Really?- Fixed reserve of £100.
0:03:52 > 0:03:56I could see two or three people fighting for that because it's a good old
0:03:56 > 0:03:58proper antique, which I love to see.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01So would you be happy to put in the auction at that?
0:04:01 > 0:04:03- Reluctantly, I think. - Reluctantly.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07Hopefully someone will start a new collection with this? You never know.
0:04:10 > 0:04:13Dave, what an amazing collection of theatre,
0:04:13 > 0:04:19the risque sort of theatre-land from the 1920s right through to the '50s.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21They're not yours. Whose were they?
0:04:21 > 0:04:23Well, they were Val's uncle's actually.
0:04:23 > 0:04:28- OK.- Um, he died some 20 years ago. Val was the next living relative
0:04:28 > 0:04:34- and when we cleared the house out, we looked in the attic and we found these.- Hidden away.- Hidden away.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36- A sordid past.- A sordid past.
0:04:36 > 0:04:39But you know the thing is these things were...
0:04:39 > 0:04:42OK, they were a little bit risque at their time,
0:04:42 > 0:04:47we had women protesting outside the Windmill Club and the Folies Bergere and the Moulin Rouge,
0:04:47 > 0:04:49it was really controversial.
0:04:49 > 0:04:51- Yes.- And whenever we get something
0:04:51 > 0:04:55at auction that is revolutionary in its time,
0:04:55 > 0:05:00- a little bit risque, they are really sought after today, because they're a collector's item.- Yes.
0:05:00 > 0:05:03But they're interesting for the historical context as well.
0:05:03 > 0:05:06So tell me about your uncle, the man who collected these.
0:05:06 > 0:05:11All right. He was born in 1898 and, um, was an electrician to trade
0:05:11 > 0:05:15but always had quite an interest in photography...
0:05:15 > 0:05:20- OK.- ..and particularly the female form, I have to say, yeah.
0:05:20 > 0:05:26And I remember he used to go to the baths at Morecambe and actually photograph bathing beauties.
0:05:26 > 0:05:30- All secretly from behind a bush or...?- Oh, no, no. No, no.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34And his photographs were actually displayed in front of the baths.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36Ah, wonderful.
0:05:36 > 0:05:40- So I suppose if he was born in 1898, the earliest one that we have is 1927...- Yes.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44- ..in his late twenties, is when his interest started?- I presume so.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47If you look through the magazines it's not difficult
0:05:47 > 0:05:51- to see why his interest was, was generated from that.- Yes. - But they really are...
0:05:51 > 0:05:54We've got here at the far end, we've got the Windmill Club.
0:05:54 > 0:05:59That was the British equivalent of the Moulin Rouge I suppose.
0:05:59 > 0:06:02But of course the most famous is the Folies Bergere.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05Now if we have a look at this one here, wonderful, wonderful condition -
0:06:05 > 0:06:08it's even got its original tissue paper over the top.
0:06:08 > 0:06:14And here we have this great front cover. And if we open it up... she is unveiled to her full glory.
0:06:14 > 0:06:15There she is.
0:06:15 > 0:06:20And if we go all the way through, this one is particularly interesting because of one person.
0:06:20 > 0:06:23There she is...Josephine Baker.
0:06:23 > 0:06:30She was one of the first ever black strip dancers, or naked dancers, at the Folies Bergere.
0:06:30 > 0:06:35She was very well known and has gone down in history as one of the best ever.
0:06:35 > 0:06:41And really, you know, it's hard to believe how exotic it would have been seen to see
0:06:41 > 0:06:47a black lady naked and that is what we're seeing. And, historically, that is why this is quite important.
0:06:47 > 0:06:51And this magazine is full really of all the different theatre shots.
0:06:51 > 0:06:55There we are, again Josephine Baker, there she is...
0:06:55 > 0:06:59There we go. I mean, I-I, valuing this sort of thing is very, very difficult.
0:06:59 > 0:07:03- I mean we've got hundreds. - Yes.- Some of them are worth less than a pound.
0:07:03 > 0:07:06That has to be worth something like £30-40 on its own,
0:07:06 > 0:07:10and I hope that someone with a passion for theatre history will go for these.
0:07:10 > 0:07:14I think we ought to put a conservative but realistic estimate on them
0:07:14 > 0:07:17and we need to protect them with a reserve as well.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21So if we put an estimate of £100 to £150 on them, would that be OK for you?
0:07:21 > 0:07:25- With a reserve of about £100? - I think so.- That's fine. - That would be fine.
0:07:25 > 0:07:28- We shouldn't let them go for any less than that.- Oh, no.
0:07:28 > 0:07:32- Thank you for bringing them in. - Thank you.- I've learnt a lot.
0:07:39 > 0:07:43Pete, nice little pot. Where did you get your nice little pot from?
0:07:43 > 0:07:48From a place called Sherbourne, about five miles away from here.
0:07:48 > 0:07:52I know it well. Lots of antiques shops in Sherbourne.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54Did you buy it in one of those?
0:07:54 > 0:07:57Yeah. Well, a bric-a-brac shop I would call it.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00- Bric-a-brac?- Yeah.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03- Not, not an expensive, um, antique shop then?- No.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07- Was it expensive then, in this bric-a-brac shop? - It cost me a few pounds.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09A few pounds?
0:08:09 > 0:08:13- About 5, actually.- £5? £5, right. This never happens to me.
0:08:13 > 0:08:17I go round bric-a-brac shops and I don't... You know what I find?
0:08:17 > 0:08:19- Yeah?- Bric-a-brac. I don't find things like this.
0:08:19 > 0:08:26It looks ostensibly, when you look at it, a bit of Chinese porcelain from the 18th century.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28But, of course, Chinese porcelain
0:08:28 > 0:08:31was so fashionable in the 18th century,
0:08:31 > 0:08:36all the English manufacturers were fighting one another to produce similar wares.
0:08:36 > 0:08:40- Yeah.- Now, as with all porcelain, there should be a mark on it
0:08:40 > 0:08:45to help us out and there we go, we've a little S.
0:08:45 > 0:08:50Anyone who knows anything about 18th-century blue and white knows that a little S means Salopian
0:08:50 > 0:08:55which is Latin for Shropshire which means that it is from Caughley.
0:08:55 > 0:09:01- The Caughley factory which was set up as a rival to Worcester by Thomas Turner.- Yeah.
0:09:01 > 0:09:03And this also has a distinct feature -
0:09:03 > 0:09:10this gilt decoration that Turner did and also, more confusingly, you see pieces of genuine Chinese ceramic
0:09:10 > 0:09:13- with this later gilt border which is English as well.- Right.
0:09:13 > 0:09:17And it's a little tea canister. And the cover's there, you know,
0:09:17 > 0:09:19in the bric-a-brac shop...
0:09:19 > 0:09:21- It's amazing, isn't it? - And there are no...
0:09:21 > 0:09:25There is one little chip on it so that, I mean frankly, that's amazing.
0:09:25 > 0:09:27230 years old.
0:09:27 > 0:09:31Bit of proper genuine antique English porcelain. For a fiver!
0:09:31 > 0:09:33Um, you did extraordinarily well.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37- The shame is that at auction they aren't a fortune...- No.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40..because they were produced in relatively large numbers.
0:09:40 > 0:09:44The only fault apart from the chip is some wear to the gilding.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47- Yeah.- Still, we could do you a fair return on your fiver.- Yeah?
0:09:47 > 0:09:53- I think if we popped it into auction at £60 to £90.- Really? Yeah.
0:09:53 > 0:09:57- So that's a clear £50 profit when it sells.- Thank you very much.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59- So you'd be happy to do it? - Very happy.
0:09:59 > 0:10:03- Fabulous. Well, we'll pop it in the auction for you and do our best.- Yeah.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14John, whenever I'm looking down the Flog It! queues,
0:10:14 > 0:10:18I'm always searching for something unusual, something slightly different
0:10:18 > 0:10:23and I have to say I found something so unusual that I've never seen one before here.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26- Right.- So I'm going to sort of take this in a slightly different way.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29I'm going to ask you first, what do you know about it?
0:10:29 > 0:10:34Well, I had it about 1975 and I've always had it.
0:10:34 > 0:10:38I've got a little bar at home and I always hang it inside the door
0:10:38 > 0:10:45and a lot of people come and look at it, and always ask me what it is and I'd say,
0:10:45 > 0:10:48"I used to use it for self-defence,"
0:10:48 > 0:10:54and they used to laugh about it. And I hung it there and hung it there
0:10:54 > 0:10:56and then when I was watching Flog It!
0:10:56 > 0:10:59I thought, "Well, I'm going to take it along."
0:10:59 > 0:11:01- And where did it come from? - Well, I don't know.
0:11:01 > 0:11:05Either in the family somewhere or... I'm not really sure.
0:11:05 > 0:11:10Well, I think it is the most fantastic thing I've seen all day.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14I'm flying by the seat of my pants to a degree
0:11:14 > 0:11:17but I'll tell you what I think it is.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20I think it's from New Zealand and I think it's a hunting club.
0:11:20 > 0:11:26Tribal art is such a specialist field.
0:11:26 > 0:11:30All I know is that about 15 years ago, when I first started as a valuer,
0:11:30 > 0:11:36there was a chap who'd come to the valuation days with a shopping trolley and that shopping trolley
0:11:36 > 0:11:39used to be full of absolute rubbish week after week after week.
0:11:39 > 0:11:45But one day he came with a Maori paddle and the decoration on the Maori paddle
0:11:45 > 0:11:51was very similar to this. I am sure that this dogtooth decoration and this hatched decoration
0:11:51 > 0:11:56is classic Maori. Wonderful. Really is beautifully carved.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59- And it's so heavy, isn't it?- Yeah.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02- So I think that's either a hunting club or a war club.- Yeah.
0:12:02 > 0:12:06I love it. I'll go away today and I'll do some research into this
0:12:06 > 0:12:09and see if I can find out more.
0:12:09 > 0:12:15- But if it is, and it's an early one, it could be a really good thing. - Right.
0:12:15 > 0:12:20- Now I've never done this before but I'm not going to put a value on it. - No? Right.- I'm going to fudge it.
0:12:20 > 0:12:26I'm gonna say that without question it's worth 300 to 500, but it may well be worth more.
0:12:26 > 0:12:31- Mm-hm.- And hopefully by the time the auction day comes, we might have a pleasant surprise for you
0:12:31 > 0:12:35because I love it. Do you want to sell it?
0:12:35 > 0:12:39- Yeah, I will sell it, yeah.- Thank you so much for bringing it in.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42I know I haven't been able to tell you much about it and I feel a buffoon
0:12:42 > 0:12:46not being able to tell you much. I loved it so much I wanted to do it.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48- Do you mind?- No. That's fine. - Fantastic.
0:12:56 > 0:13:00Exmoor straddles the counties of Somerset and Devon.
0:13:00 > 0:13:03It's a wild and barren place, especially in the winter months.
0:13:03 > 0:13:08But there's one animal that has adapted perfectly to this beautiful but harsh landscape -
0:13:08 > 0:13:10and that's the Exmoor pony.
0:13:10 > 0:13:16This is the only moorland pony in Britain that can be called truly prehistoric.
0:13:16 > 0:13:21Exmoors have been roaming this area for 100,000 years and they remain
0:13:21 > 0:13:28largely unchanged from their Ice Age ancestors with their barrel-shaped bodies and their wide heads.
0:13:28 > 0:13:33Today, I'm lucky enough to be getting a bit more of an insight into this fascinating breed
0:13:33 > 0:13:36I'm here with Dawn Williams from the Exmoor Pony Society. Hi, Dawn.
0:13:36 > 0:13:41- Hello.- Thanks for meeting me and showing me around this beautiful bit of landscape.
0:13:41 > 0:13:43- It's stunning!- It's wonderful.
0:13:43 > 0:13:49- I can see a couple of ponies. Any chance of getting closer?- Let's go and meet the herd.- I'll follow you.
0:13:50 > 0:13:52What herd is this called?
0:13:52 > 0:13:56This is the Hawkwell Herd, one of the founding herds of Exmoor ponies.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00What about breeding here, how many ponies do you think they breed each year?
0:14:00 > 0:14:05Well, this year on Exmoor, in total,
0:14:05 > 0:14:11there were 180 foals born but about 60 of those were born on Exmoor itself,
0:14:11 > 0:14:15so not very many. Various things have happened to them over the years to deplete them.
0:14:15 > 0:14:20During the Second World War, some of them were stolen for meat, some of them were used,
0:14:20 > 0:14:25unfortunately, for target practice and the breed ended up with
0:14:25 > 0:14:29only 50 ponies and 4 stallions existing in the world.
0:14:29 > 0:14:34So the breeders got together, the Exmoor Pony Society worked very hard
0:14:34 > 0:14:41and now it's been a conscious effort to build up such a tiny gene pool to the number of ponies there are today.
0:14:41 > 0:14:47They're still considered to be endangered but there are now about 2,700 ponies in the world
0:14:47 > 0:14:49so this is a huge, you know, achievement.
0:14:49 > 0:14:53- If we could just go in this direction a little bit.- OK. - We need to zigzag
0:14:53 > 0:14:59and just go really slowly. OK, if we just pause here for a moment.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02- You can see that mare over there is grazing...- Mm-hm.
0:15:02 > 0:15:08..and she's got her back to us so you know she's showing that she doesn't find us a threat.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11In days gone by, what were they used for?
0:15:11 > 0:15:15Well, Exmoor ponies were actually the pillar of Exmoor society.
0:15:15 > 0:15:20This is a very harsh and steep terrain, it's a beautiful National Park.
0:15:20 > 0:15:25Because of its deep coombs and because of the weather conditions
0:15:25 > 0:15:29and the fact it was the last place in England to have metal roads,
0:15:29 > 0:15:33- for a long time it was a very inhospitable place.- So you needed a pony to get about.- You did.
0:15:33 > 0:15:37These ponies were used for harrowing fields,
0:15:37 > 0:15:42even when they used bigger horses, the ponies were used for the steep-sided fields and for the edges.
0:15:42 > 0:15:47They did the post rounds, they took children to school, they took supplies to and from market,
0:15:47 > 0:15:51they were used for everything and they enabled the community
0:15:51 > 0:15:56to communicate, particularly during the winter.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59They were very important. That's Hawkwell Great Gatsby,
0:15:59 > 0:16:01the stallion out with the mares at the moment.
0:16:01 > 0:16:04But they're slowly getting closer, they're curious.
0:16:04 > 0:16:08- He's curious, isn't he? Shall we try and get a bit closer.- Yes.
0:16:08 > 0:16:12Why do they rely on humans to look after them if they've sort of
0:16:12 > 0:16:16been around for 100,000 years and can withstand this kind of terrain?
0:16:16 > 0:16:21- Why do they need our help?- Well, it's largely because the land is now owned.
0:16:21 > 0:16:26Exmoor is a unique National Park but it is actually not very big and because there are so many people,
0:16:26 > 0:16:29- the ponies haven't got these great wild areas to roam.- Oh, I see.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33- Now, if we just pause here...- Yes. - ..and let Gatsby take us in.
0:16:33 > 0:16:37Oh, he's lovely. I could hang around all day and watch this herd
0:16:37 > 0:16:40but I'd like to take an even closer look.
0:16:40 > 0:16:44- You said you've got three at home. - Yes, I have.- Shall we go and take a look?- Yes, let's do that.
0:16:52 > 0:16:56- I love your place. So this is where all the schooling's done.- Yes.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59And that is some dog. What is it?
0:16:59 > 0:17:01Yeah this is... Suky! Come here, Suky.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06Come on. Good boy. This is a Bergamasco from the Italian Alps.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08Gosh.
0:17:08 > 0:17:12- Looks like Dougal from The Magic Roundabout.- His nickname is Dougal.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15Now you stay there while we go in the school.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17- Good boy.- Stay.
0:17:17 > 0:17:21What's the first thing you do when you get the ponies back here? What would you do with them?
0:17:21 > 0:17:27Well, when they come straight off the moor they obviously haven't had any human contact or very little.
0:17:27 > 0:17:31They may just have seen their, their herd owner, so they are very shy,
0:17:31 > 0:17:36very unused to human contact and with Exmoors, we need to socialise them.
0:17:36 > 0:17:39- Right, so it's a bonding process. Very much so. Lots of love.- Yes.
0:17:39 > 0:17:42About six months to a year I suppose?
0:17:42 > 0:17:45Some of the ponies come to it within a few days,
0:17:45 > 0:17:48and you can put a head collar on and accept you touching them all over.
0:17:48 > 0:17:52Some of them take a long time and a lot of patience but it's worth persevering.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55OK, show me, show me one of the schooling disciplines.
0:17:55 > 0:17:59OK, well, I'll ask the ponies to move off and then it's just
0:17:59 > 0:18:04a process of getting them to accept that, from a distance, I'm asking to move their feet.
0:18:04 > 0:18:10And what you'll do is get them to run around on one rein, in one direction and then turn them?
0:18:10 > 0:18:13- Yes.- And then make sure that they turn the right way and go back.
0:18:13 > 0:18:17- Yes, that's the idea.- OK. All right.
0:18:17 > 0:18:22And they should always turn obviously, when they do turn, turn towards the fence.
0:18:22 > 0:18:27Yes, sometimes they'll turn in if they're watching you and sometimes they'll turn away.
0:18:27 > 0:18:33I love the mane, I love the long hair. Ha-ha-ha. And the feathers on the feet.
0:18:33 > 0:18:37- Good boys.- Oh, they turned beautifully then.- Come on.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39How long did it take you to achieve that?
0:18:39 > 0:18:46Once they'd actually accepted me, you know, touching them and putting head collars on... Hoo hoo hoo,
0:18:46 > 0:18:48hoo hoo...
0:18:50 > 0:18:52We're turning the other way now.
0:18:52 > 0:18:58Good boys. Then, and once there's trust between you then this, this actually comes very quickly.
0:18:58 > 0:19:02- Give me my hand back.- And that's the reward really, isn't it?
0:19:02 > 0:19:04And you can see they're built for working.
0:19:04 > 0:19:07They're built for surviving. They're very intelligent
0:19:07 > 0:19:10and they need that to exist on the moor and survive.
0:19:10 > 0:19:14Dawn, thank you so much, so much for showing me
0:19:14 > 0:19:17these wonderful ponies and telling me about their history.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20- I'm going to look at them in a different light now.- Good.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31We saw items from far and wide at our valuation day in Yeovil,
0:19:31 > 0:19:35but now it's time to pack up and head to the auction.
0:19:35 > 0:19:39Michael's hoping for the sweet smell of success with Christine's Georgian scent bottle.
0:19:39 > 0:19:45Will the bidders be tempted by the theatre magazines and the charms of the beauties within?
0:19:45 > 0:19:51I'm sure Pete's pretty little tea canister is going to prove popular with the china collectors.
0:19:51 > 0:19:56And finally, if there's any trouble, the tribal club is just the thing to bring the bidders into line.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04Today's auction comes from Bearne's in Exeter.
0:20:04 > 0:20:08The man with the local knowledge wielding the gavel is auctioneer, Nick Sainty.
0:20:08 > 0:20:13First up, we're hoping the smell of money is in the air.
0:20:17 > 0:20:19I absolutely love this next lot.
0:20:19 > 0:20:23It belongs to Christine. It's an 18th-century scent bottle.
0:20:23 > 0:20:28£100 to £150. I wouldn't be selling it, Christine, if I was you.
0:20:28 > 0:20:29- Really?- Mmm. Why, why?
0:20:29 > 0:20:32- I know it's tiny and you don't look at it any more...- I don't, no.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34..but it's just so beautiful.
0:20:34 > 0:20:38Neither of the boys want it. So, let's sell it, let's flog it.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42I spotted this, I spotted this at the valuation day and I thought, oh, I love it, I want to talk
0:20:42 > 0:20:47about it, I just want to muse over it and touch it but I didn't feel qualified to.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50And I asked Michael and he said "Oh, I love it, let me do it, so..."
0:20:50 > 0:20:53- Let me do it, give it to me. - There you go, take it away.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55After a tug of love.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58It's a lovely thing, I mean it's tortoiseshell,
0:20:58 > 0:21:01which you can't get any more, it's a finite material now.
0:21:01 > 0:21:06- The work that's gone into it is tremendous but the lovely thing is the bottle's there...- Yes.
0:21:06 > 0:21:10and it's in perfect condition. That will hopefully make the difference today.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13Well, it'll help pay for the car park fine.
0:21:13 > 0:21:17- Oh, what, today? You've got a car park fine? - Don't know yet. Might have.
0:21:17 > 0:21:21Oh, dear. I know parking is a big problem anywhere now in any city
0:21:21 > 0:21:24isn't it, it really is, especially around auction houses.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26We'll get you away as soon as possible!
0:21:26 > 0:21:30The George III tortoiseshell and pique scent bottle, cased.
0:21:30 > 0:21:32Interest here, a number of commission bids.
0:21:32 > 0:21:34Away here then 180, 190,
0:21:34 > 0:21:40200, £210 is bid, we've reached a bid of £210. 220 will you?
0:21:40 > 0:21:42It's with me at 220. 230.
0:21:42 > 0:21:47240. The book is out. With you, sir at £240. 50 will you?
0:21:47 > 0:21:52Book's out, it's in the room then. We're selling at £240.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54Fantastic. £240.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57That's the fine paid and a bit for yourself.
0:21:57 > 0:22:01- Yes.- I wish they could all be as easy as that.- It is marvellous, wasn't it?- Phew.
0:22:01 > 0:22:05They're not all that easy because they're not all that wonderful quality.
0:22:05 > 0:22:09No. Quality always sells. What's the money going to go towards, Christine?
0:22:09 > 0:22:13Well, genuinely I've not looked at the car, there may well be a ticket on it.
0:22:13 > 0:22:15It might be for that but one of my Great Danes
0:22:15 > 0:22:20- has chewed up one of his beds so I think he needs another bed so... - It's a big bed as well.
0:22:20 > 0:22:22- It's a big bed.- It's a big dog!
0:22:26 > 0:22:30This lot will put a big smile on your face, can you remember it?
0:22:30 > 0:22:34It was the theatre magazines, the saucy French ones belonging to Val and David.
0:22:34 > 0:22:39They put a smile on our faces and I had a chat with Nick, the auctioneer,
0:22:39 > 0:22:41and they put a big grin on his face. I love them.
0:22:41 > 0:22:47He was dubious and thought they'd struggle but interior designers could do something with them.
0:22:47 > 0:22:52- It's a question of whether they want it, isn't it? If they want it, they pay for it.- Yes.
0:22:52 > 0:22:57- It must have put a smile on your face when you found them in the attic.- It did, yes, that's right.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00- Especially his. - Especially my face. Yeah.
0:23:00 > 0:23:03I'd hang on to one if I was you then. Just keep the best one.
0:23:03 > 0:23:09- Of course I wasn't allowed to look at them. That's why they're in good condition.- Ha ha(!)
0:23:09 > 0:23:12- A collection of theatre magazines. - Good luck.
0:23:12 > 0:23:16I'm sure you've looked through these and studied them carefully.
0:23:16 > 0:23:20There is some interest here and we start the bidding at...
0:23:20 > 0:23:25100, 120, 130,
0:23:25 > 0:23:28140 is bid. Commission bid of £140.
0:23:28 > 0:23:3150 will you? Commission bid of 140 and 50, will you?
0:23:31 > 0:23:34It's with me on the book at £140.
0:23:34 > 0:23:35And 50, will you?
0:23:35 > 0:23:37Are you all done?
0:23:37 > 0:23:41Do you want to take a second look? No?
0:23:41 > 0:23:44It's on the book then and we're selling at £140.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47Yes, hammer's gone down. Great. Good valuation.
0:23:47 > 0:23:48- Brilliant.- Brave man.
0:23:48 > 0:23:52- £140. Happy? - Yes, lovely, that's great.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56- What are you going to do with that? - Well, we're going to China later in the year.- Are you?
0:23:56 > 0:23:59- Have you been before?- No. - Oh, what a wonderful trip.
0:23:59 > 0:24:03- That's somewhere I'd love to go. - Yes.- I really would.- It will go towards that.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09Peter is with me right now and he's hoping to do some trading up.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12We've got that lovely little tea canister.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14Michael's put a valuation of 60 to 90.
0:24:14 > 0:24:18- Yes.- 70 to 90?- 60 to 90. - 60 to 90.- Little bit of discretion on the reserve.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20OK, OK.
0:24:20 > 0:24:22But this was purchased for a fiver.
0:24:22 > 0:24:27- £5.- How long ago?- About 2 months ago.- So you are trading up. Oooh.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30Well, that's the way to go, trade up, don't trade down.
0:24:30 > 0:24:35We can't possibly lose on this one. Why do you want to flog it? Did you buy it to sell or...?
0:24:35 > 0:24:39I bought it because I like the pattern on it. We put it on the windowsill,
0:24:39 > 0:24:43we've got two cats and the cats were going to knock it off so I thought...
0:24:43 > 0:24:45- Protect your investment?- Yep.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47- Make a bit of money.- Yep. - He's gonna do it, isn't he?
0:24:47 > 0:24:49- He must do.- He must do!- He must do.
0:24:49 > 0:24:54It's 18th century, it's in perfect condition and it's a tea caddy.
0:24:54 > 0:24:58Now those are three very good points and when you think of £50,
0:24:58 > 0:25:03- what can you buy for £50?- Not a lot. - You certainly can't buy one of those...- Not a period tea caddy.
0:25:03 > 0:25:07Hopefully everyone will think that and their hands will shoot up in the air.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10Fingers crossed, it's under the hammer now.
0:25:10 > 0:25:14The Caughley tea canister in the temple pattern. Interest here.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17Commission bid 48. 50, 55,
0:25:17 > 0:25:20£60 pounds is bid, commission bid is £60. 5 will you?
0:25:20 > 0:25:235. 70. 5.
0:25:23 > 0:25:2680. 5. 90. 5.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28- It's so popular.- 100.
0:25:28 > 0:25:32And 5. My bid is 110. 15 will you?
0:25:32 > 0:25:36The book's out. With you then at £115.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39- 20 new place. 130.- Fresh legs in the room.- Seated bidder
0:25:39 > 0:25:41at £120. 30 will you?
0:25:41 > 0:25:43We're all done, the book's out.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46I'm selling then, the seated bidder at £120.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49- Great.- Gone, the hammer's gone down.
0:25:49 > 0:25:50- £120.- Fantastic.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54- Brilliant.- We'll take that.- We will indeed.- And I'm sure you will.
0:25:54 > 0:25:58- What are you going to do with the £120?- My other half's having an operation on her hand
0:25:58 > 0:26:04- so I'm treating her to a weekend away.- Convalescing somewhere.- Yep. - Lovely.- Somewhere in the country.
0:26:04 > 0:26:05Ah, how lovely.
0:26:11 > 0:26:14This lot is for all the academics, it's a bit of tribal art.
0:26:14 > 0:26:18It belongs to John, with a value of £300 to £500.
0:26:18 > 0:26:23- Mmm.- At the valuation day, James had a look at it and he thought it was Maori but he couldn't be sure.
0:26:23 > 0:26:28The auctioneer's done more research on it and he's discovered that it's Tongan.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Hopefully there's going to be interest on this.
0:26:30 > 0:26:32Why have you decided to sell this?
0:26:32 > 0:26:35- Well...- Because this is your security, isn't it?
0:26:35 > 0:26:41Yes, and after that I brought it back to see you to tell me what it was
0:26:41 > 0:26:45really and wasn't really sure and I would like to send it back
0:26:45 > 0:26:48to New Zealand, whoever buys it.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51I'm pretty sure it's going to go back home, that's for sure,
0:26:51 > 0:26:54because this has been picked up on the internet
0:26:54 > 0:26:59and there's a lot of overseas buyers that always buy tribal art and it's lovely.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01It is a wonderful thing.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05Now as you say, I wasn't sure that it was Maori but it's that area, isn't it?
0:27:05 > 0:27:08- Yes.- All these Polynesian islands, that sort of area.
0:27:08 > 0:27:13And the good thing about it is it's so crisp and that's how the academics like it.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16- Anyway, ready for this?- Yeah. - Shall we flog it?- Yeah.- Here it is.
0:27:16 > 0:27:17The late 19th century...
0:27:17 > 0:27:20We catalogued it as Maori, but it is Tongan,
0:27:20 > 0:27:23with zigzag and geometric decoration. There's some interest here,
0:27:23 > 0:27:25a number of commission bids.
0:27:25 > 0:27:29£440, £460, £480 is bid.
0:27:29 > 0:27:33- That's good. That's straight in at the top end.- 500, will you?
0:27:33 > 0:27:35Commission bid of 480.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38500, sir. 520. 540.
0:27:38 > 0:27:40That's us out.
0:27:40 > 0:27:44It's in the room at £540.
0:27:44 > 0:27:48560. 580. 600.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50And 20. 640.
0:27:50 > 0:27:55660. It's a nod of the head, distant, then.
0:27:55 > 0:28:00640 closest, it's with you at £640 and we're selling, closest to me then
0:28:00 > 0:28:03at £640.
0:28:03 > 0:28:07- Yes!- Yes!- Fantastic. Are you happy with that?
0:28:07 > 0:28:10- Yes, very well. - Over the moon with that.- Brilliant.
0:28:10 > 0:28:14Oh, what a minefield it is but I know that will go back to where it came from.
0:28:14 > 0:28:18- It's part of their heritage and they want to treasure things like that. - Right.
0:28:18 > 0:28:23Thank you. That was the most wonderful thing and we have thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
0:28:23 > 0:28:28I hope you've enjoyed watching the show. So from Bearne's in Exeter until the next time, it's cheerio.
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