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This is Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, the show that pitches TV's best loved antiques experts | 0:00:02 | 0:00:07 | |
against each other in an all out battle for profit | 0:00:07 | 0:00:10 | |
and gives you the inside view on the secrets of the trade. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:12 | |
All right, thank you very much. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
Coming up - our dealers show you the basics of ruthless haggling. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:19 | |
-Five. -Seven. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:21 | |
Five. Can't pay any more than five. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:24 | |
How the antiques game often calls for some serious muscle. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:27 | |
You could use it as a bench press if nothing else. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:31 | |
And how even the very best can still get it wrong. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:36 | |
Things are not looking good here. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
Today's epic clash pitches the best dressed dealers in the business against each other, | 0:00:55 | 0:01:00 | |
as Charlie The Charmer Ross takes on The Man From Morecambe, Paul Hayes. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:05 | |
They'll be wheeling and dealing as if their lives depended on it | 0:01:05 | 0:01:09 | |
to see who can make the biggest profit from buying and selling antiques. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:13 | |
This is going to be a blazing battle of north versus south. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
It's Lancashire's cheeriest blue-eyed boy... | 0:01:16 | 0:01:21 | |
Come on mate, keep your chin up. You've got a few hours left yet. | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
..against the Home Counties favourite super smoothy. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:28 | |
Thank you, my dear. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
Oh, that's made my day. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:33 | |
Today's dealers have up to £250 of their own money to spend. | 0:01:33 | 0:01:36 | |
Their mission over a week of challenges is to make the most profit, | 0:01:36 | 0:01:40 | |
which will go to charity. | 0:01:40 | 0:01:41 | |
Today, Charlie and Paul have up to £250 of their own money to spend | 0:01:44 | 0:01:50 | |
with any profit they make going to their favourite charities. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:54 | |
Their battleground is the giant car boot bonanza at Denham in Buckinghamshire | 0:01:54 | 0:01:58 | |
where hundreds of seasoned traders have pitched up to offer their wares. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:03 | |
Making money is the name of the game, but who will spot the bargains | 0:02:03 | 0:02:08 | |
amongst the bric-a-brac and end up with the most profitable booty? | 0:02:08 | 0:02:12 | |
For Charlie Ross and Paul Hayes, its time to jump on the dealing merry-go-round. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:18 | |
Here we are, Charlie, at a car boot sale in Uxbridge. Are you looking forward to it? | 0:02:18 | 0:02:23 | |
Absolutely. How much have we got to spend? | 0:02:23 | 0:02:25 | |
-£250. -£250. | 0:02:25 | 0:02:27 | |
You're a favourite of car boot sales, aren't you? | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
I've only ever been to one and I have to say I didn't enjoy it. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
-What's your strategy today? -My strategy is to run up and down here, | 0:02:32 | 0:02:35 | |
past the dog food, past the cat food and try and find something that's pre-1900. | 0:02:35 | 0:02:40 | |
Wel may you scoff, | 0:02:40 | 0:02:41 | |
but there are a lot of people here that do this as a living. | 0:02:41 | 0:02:44 | |
This is how I started out. The rents are very cheap, | 0:02:44 | 0:02:46 | |
you can park your car, open your boot and away you go. | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
And look where it's got you. | 0:02:49 | 0:02:50 | |
Exactly. On a merry-go-round with you. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:53 | |
-What's your strategy? -It's to try and pick through | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
a lot of the stalls. I want to find the regular dealers. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:58 | |
They are the people I can talk to and get good discount. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
Our dizzy dealers step out onto Buckinghamshire's field of dreams and | 0:03:06 | 0:03:10 | |
at first glance, you might think this contest is a big of a mismatch. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:15 | |
Paul started his dealing career in the car boot trenches, so the golden boy is in his element today. | 0:03:15 | 0:03:21 | |
All right, anything nice on? Thanks a lot, lads. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:24 | |
-Have a good one. -Cheers. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:26 | |
Do you think Charlie has fallen on hard times? | 0:03:26 | 0:03:28 | |
I'm sure he was wearing that yesterday. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:30 | |
Charlie is a dealing veteran who has made his name as an auctioneer, | 0:03:30 | 0:03:34 | |
so he's more used to operating at the higher end of the business. | 0:03:34 | 0:03:39 | |
The poor fellow has just got one previous experience of a car boot sale | 0:03:39 | 0:03:43 | |
under his belt and it sounds like he's a fish out of water. | 0:03:43 | 0:03:47 | |
I don't know where to start here, really. | 0:03:47 | 0:03:49 | |
I think it's a question of zipping up and down, up and down, past the belts, past the England shirts | 0:03:49 | 0:03:55 | |
and try and find a table with some old things on. | 0:03:55 | 0:03:59 | |
Well, don't feel too sorry for our car boot novice. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:01 | |
Behind the old school good manners, the charmer is a profit predator. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:06 | |
He said he's looking for pre-1900 antiques | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
but that razor sharp eye will pick out anything that looks like it could make money. | 0:04:11 | 0:04:16 | |
A-ha, one fishing rod. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
Even people that don't fish collect fishing rods. | 0:04:20 | 0:04:23 | |
-It's from the 1950s. -Yes. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:25 | |
-It's as old as me. -Yours for £50. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:30 | |
Is it £50? Blimey. Knock me down with a feather. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:35 | |
Collectors pay a lot of money for good fishing rods. | 0:04:35 | 0:04:38 | |
I'm sure they do but, you know something, if I bought that, | 0:04:38 | 0:04:41 | |
the trouble is I don't know what I'm doing. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:43 | |
So, what's it worth, do you think? And don't say 50 quid. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
I would take £20 for that. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:48 | |
You'd take £20. You're coming down, 50 to 20 in one easy move. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:51 | |
I thought I'd wind you up a bit. | 0:04:51 | 0:04:53 | |
I thought you were. I thought, "50 quid?" I thought, "Blimey." | 0:04:53 | 0:04:56 | |
Once I put my hand in my pocket and show you the colour of my money, could I buy that for a tenner, sir? | 0:04:56 | 0:05:03 | |
-No. -Oh, please, sir. -£20. | 0:05:03 | 0:05:04 | |
But, I could sell it for £20, couldn't I? | 0:05:04 | 0:05:07 | |
-You could sell if for £30. -I don't think I could. | 0:05:07 | 0:05:10 | |
I think I could sell it for £20. | 0:05:10 | 0:05:12 | |
A crisp £10 note. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:13 | |
-Go on, sir. -You're a man. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:16 | |
Operating on pure killer instinct, | 0:05:16 | 0:05:19 | |
our car boot innocent reels in today's first catch for a tenner. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:23 | |
His opposition, car boot veteran Paul, is pounding the aisles. | 0:05:23 | 0:05:28 | |
He knows there's potential profit to be made at every turn. | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
I was chatting to a gentleman just then. | 0:05:31 | 0:05:34 | |
He says he'd been around here really early | 0:05:34 | 0:05:37 | |
and he managed to buy an item for £1 and he's sold it since for £50. | 0:05:37 | 0:05:41 | |
So, he's already £49 up. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:42 | |
We were still in bed. | 0:05:42 | 0:05:44 | |
Charlie is casting off all caution and really warming to the anything goes nature of car booting. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:52 | |
He spots a passerby carrying something he likes the look of and he's straight in there. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:57 | |
-Did you buy that earlier? -I did. | 0:05:57 | 0:05:59 | |
What time did you buy that? | 0:05:59 | 0:06:01 | |
I bought that at about six o'clock. | 0:06:01 | 0:06:03 | |
Six o'clock? No wonder you got that. Can I have a quick look at it? | 0:06:03 | 0:06:07 | |
-Course you can. -Let me put down my rod. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:09 | |
I did notice that if you undo this, | 0:06:09 | 0:06:12 | |
there is a little steam engine in it. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:15 | |
A steam engine in it? | 0:06:15 | 0:06:17 | |
Hey, look at that! Hey, what's it been made out of? | 0:06:17 | 0:06:21 | |
An old sign or something. | 0:06:21 | 0:06:23 | |
It's been made out of an old advertising sign. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:25 | |
You can see the writing on the inside. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:28 | |
Did you buy it to restore it, or to flog it? | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
To flog it. I saw a profit in it. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:33 | |
-Did you? -Yeah. -I suppose you only paid a fiver for it, did you? | 0:06:33 | 0:06:36 | |
A little bit more than that, but not much more. | 0:06:36 | 0:06:39 | |
Good Lord. So, how much do you want for it? | 0:06:39 | 0:06:42 | |
It's got to be £25. | 0:06:42 | 0:06:44 | |
-I can see that £25. -You old profit monger. | 0:06:44 | 0:06:47 | |
Absolutely. That's what I'm here for. | 0:06:47 | 0:06:49 | |
I suppose it is. £20. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:51 | |
£25, no less. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:53 | |
-£22. -Not a penny less. -£23. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:56 | |
Hey, we know why we're here. | 0:06:56 | 0:06:58 | |
We know a bargain when we see one. That's £25. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:01 | |
I tell you what, that is £25 worth. | 0:07:01 | 0:07:03 | |
-All day long. -All day long. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:05 | |
I'll have it, sir. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:06 | |
The Charmer is sailing away with his second purchase of the day. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:12 | |
Rank outsider Charlie's now got two buys in his booty bag, | 0:07:12 | 0:07:16 | |
whilst The Man From Morecambe has been busy working out where he should pounce first. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:20 | |
Do you know what? I've just seen a stall here selling nothing but books. I love old books. | 0:07:20 | 0:07:26 | |
I can see on the stall already, there are some nice leather-bound examples, | 0:07:26 | 0:07:30 | |
so I'm going to have a look to see what we can find. | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
Oh, eat your heart out, Charlie. It's The Man From Morecambe | 0:07:33 | 0:07:37 | |
who's the first to home in on some pre-1900 purchases. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
Paul wants to snap up these two 18th century volumes right away | 0:07:40 | 0:07:44 | |
and he's straight in there with an offer of £40. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:49 | |
I can't go as low as £40 on that. | 0:07:49 | 0:07:50 | |
You can't? Meet me halfway? | 0:07:50 | 0:07:52 | |
-Halfway. £42. -£42. Right, shall we shake on that? | 0:07:52 | 0:07:56 | |
Nice to see you, mate. Thank you. | 0:07:56 | 0:07:58 | |
Now, I'll tell you what these are. | 0:07:58 | 0:08:00 | |
We've got two great historical books here on the area of Bath. | 0:08:00 | 0:08:04 | |
These are original books that were produced in 1788 and tell the story about society in Bath at that time. | 0:08:04 | 0:08:10 | |
Don't forget, it would only really be the members of the gentry | 0:08:10 | 0:08:13 | |
that would go to Bath, who would bathe in the Roman waters | 0:08:13 | 0:08:16 | |
and it was very much the place to be at that time. | 0:08:16 | 0:08:18 | |
I think for £42, there's definitely food for thought there. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:22 | |
Our audacious blue-eyed boy pips Charlie at his own game. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:27 | |
But it seems all that strategy stuff has gone right out of the window | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
for the Charmer, because all he's thinking about is profit. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:34 | |
I'm not certain I'm sticking to my strategy. | 0:08:34 | 0:08:36 | |
I haven't seen anything pre-1900 yet, so therefore I haven't been able to buy anything pre-1900. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:41 | |
But, I've bought that, which I love, and that, | 0:08:41 | 0:08:44 | |
which I hope I'm going to love, or the profit I hope I'm going to love. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:48 | |
For a fish out of water, Charlie has made a cracking start | 0:08:48 | 0:08:52 | |
but his rival is putting in the yards with piercing eyes primed. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:56 | |
I've spotted something from a distance here. | 0:08:56 | 0:08:58 | |
There's one thing I'd love to know more about and that's rugs and carpets. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:02 | |
There's a massive collecting field for it but you've got to know | 0:09:02 | 0:09:05 | |
what you're doing. It's always good to ask the stallholder. | 0:09:05 | 0:09:08 | |
-Are you all right? -All right. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:10 | |
Nice to meet you. What can you tell me about this fellow? | 0:09:10 | 0:09:13 | |
-Do you know where it's from? -Yeah, very much so. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:16 | |
It's from Afghanistan. It's Beluchi and I brought it back from Peshawar, the Khyber Pass, in the 1980s. | 0:09:16 | 0:09:22 | |
And what do these represent? Because normally it's the garden of paradise. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:26 | |
When the nomadic tribes go through, they saw the Russian tanks | 0:09:26 | 0:09:31 | |
that had invaded Afghanistan at that particular time. | 0:09:31 | 0:09:34 | |
-So, these would have been depicting the Russian invasion that was happening at that time? -Russian. | 0:09:34 | 0:09:39 | |
And they put the story of the whole invasion in the actual carpet. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:43 | |
-All handmade. -And how much are you looking for that today, now it's got a story with it? -Around £100. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:49 | |
I think that's worth £100 if it were an older one. But I think 25 years old, that's quite steep, isn't it? | 0:09:49 | 0:09:54 | |
I do have to ask you this - is that your best price or can you do something? | 0:09:54 | 0:10:00 | |
-I could...do £80. -£80. -£80. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:04 | |
£80 isn't a bad start, | 0:10:04 | 0:10:05 | |
but the eagle-eyed Man From Morecambe has spotted | 0:10:05 | 0:10:08 | |
something that he thinks could get the price down even further. | 0:10:08 | 0:10:12 | |
£50 - I'll take it off your hands, with the mothball, moth-eaten, | 0:10:12 | 0:10:15 | |
-and we'll shake on that and I'll bring you a cup of tea. -£60. | 0:10:15 | 0:10:18 | |
£50 and it's a firm offer and I bet it's the only offer you've had today. | 0:10:18 | 0:10:22 | |
Go on. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:25 | |
Thank you very much. | 0:10:25 | 0:10:27 | |
Oh, he can be tough when he wants to be. Paul snaps up his second deal of the day. | 0:10:27 | 0:10:32 | |
Bombastic Charlie is just as tenacious when it comes to getting those prices down. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:38 | |
-Are you open to offers? -I am. | 0:10:38 | 0:10:40 | |
Even from rude men from like me? | 0:10:40 | 0:10:42 | |
Even from rude men like you. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:44 | |
It's got a Philips screw in the bottom. It can't be Victorian or Edwardian, but it's quite fun. | 0:10:44 | 0:10:50 | |
The Leeway registered fire truck. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:53 | |
Its quite fun. Give you a couple of quid for it. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:56 | |
-Bit more. -Three. Last offer. | 0:10:56 | 0:10:58 | |
-Bit more. -Oh, madam, you're so hard. | 0:10:58 | 0:11:01 | |
I'll do it for a tenner. | 0:11:01 | 0:11:02 | |
I'm going to make you one last offer, put it down and run away. Fiver. | 0:11:02 | 0:11:06 | |
-Seven and it's yours. -Five. -Seven. | 0:11:06 | 0:11:08 | |
Five. Can't pay any more than five. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
-Go on then, take it, then. -Oh, madam, you're such a star. | 0:11:11 | 0:11:14 | |
I'll peel out a crisp fiver for you. | 0:11:14 | 0:11:17 | |
Tough as nails, these boys. | 0:11:17 | 0:11:19 | |
Charlie's really chugging away and Billy the fire engine is his third bargain buy of the day. | 0:11:19 | 0:11:25 | |
With the clock ticking, our duelling dealers need to press on. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:29 | |
Charlie's off hunting down the next unsuspecting car booter | 0:11:29 | 0:11:33 | |
whilst The Man From Morecambe is battling away from his third buy, | 0:11:33 | 0:11:38 | |
an original oil painting of a pub. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:40 | |
Do you know where it is, the Devonshire Arms? | 0:11:40 | 0:11:42 | |
-No. -No idea at all? -No. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:44 | |
The blue-eyed boy sniffs potential profit here, and the painting's his for a tenner. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:49 | |
That's lovely. All the best, nice to meet you. | 0:11:49 | 0:11:53 | |
I don't know if there's a psychic connection here, but the Charmer has also honed in on a painting | 0:11:53 | 0:11:59 | |
and at last is getting closer to bagging something antique. | 0:11:59 | 0:12:02 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:12:02 | 0:12:05 | |
As a very bad golfer, I can relate to this. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:09 | |
Here we've got the comic situation | 0:12:09 | 0:12:11 | |
of a ball going down a ravine and one chap asking the other, "What shall I take for this?" | 0:12:11 | 0:12:17 | |
Well, you can't imagine any sort of club being able | 0:12:17 | 0:12:20 | |
to get the ball out of there. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:22 | |
But it's a links course. Might even be a play on somewhere like St Andrews. | 0:12:22 | 0:12:26 | |
But I think it's of fun and I think this is definitely old. | 0:12:26 | 0:12:31 | |
Not 19th century, but it's got some age. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:34 | |
It's in a reasonably old frame and I'm going to enquire the price on it, | 0:12:34 | 0:12:40 | |
because I think I could sell this. | 0:12:40 | 0:12:43 | |
Charlie snaps up his comedy golfers for just a fiver. A hole in one. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:49 | |
Now, its time to compare how our brave boys are spending. | 0:12:49 | 0:12:52 | |
Charlie and Paul both started the day | 0:12:52 | 0:12:55 | |
with a budget of £250 | 0:12:55 | 0:12:56 | |
of their own money. | 0:12:56 | 0:12:58 | |
So far, Charlie's bought | 0:12:58 | 0:13:00 | |
four items and spent £45, | 0:13:00 | 0:13:02 | |
leaving over £200 still in his kitty. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:05 | |
Paul's bought just three items | 0:13:05 | 0:13:08 | |
and spent £102, | 0:13:08 | 0:13:09 | |
so he's got just under | 0:13:09 | 0:13:11 | |
£150 still to spend. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:13 | |
But, there's plenty of car boot drama | 0:13:13 | 0:13:15 | |
still to come. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:16 | |
By the middle of the day, our field of dreams has become a hot bed of frenetic buying and selling. | 0:13:20 | 0:13:25 | |
And every second that passes, there's less and less gear on offer, | 0:13:25 | 0:13:29 | |
so our duelling dealers have got to hunt even harder | 0:13:29 | 0:13:33 | |
for the quality items. | 0:13:33 | 0:13:34 | |
What I've seen a lot of here today are damaged items and damaged items | 0:13:34 | 0:13:38 | |
are generally difficult to sell on, so try and buy things perfect if you can. | 0:13:38 | 0:13:42 | |
Unwittingly, the Charmer's treading in his rival's footsteps as he chases his next purchase... | 0:13:42 | 0:13:48 | |
Quite a bit of potential here. | 0:13:48 | 0:13:50 | |
..discovering the same well travelled fellow who sold Paul his Afghan rug. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:54 | |
But Charlie's spotted something extraordinary that Paul completely missed. | 0:13:54 | 0:13:59 | |
I honestly don't know what it was for. | 0:13:59 | 0:14:01 | |
It would make a cracking bread basket, wouldn't it? | 0:14:01 | 0:14:04 | |
It's a shame it's not English, | 0:14:04 | 0:14:05 | |
but it wouldn't look like that if it was, would it? | 0:14:05 | 0:14:09 | |
It's inlaid with some quite interesting woods | 0:14:10 | 0:14:13 | |
and I can't really tell whether that is ivory or whether its bone, but I'm going to ask the price. | 0:14:13 | 0:14:19 | |
Sir, how much is your basket? | 0:14:19 | 0:14:21 | |
My Anglo-Indian porcupine... | 0:14:21 | 0:14:23 | |
-It is Indian, I thought it was. -That's what I believe. | 0:14:23 | 0:14:26 | |
I'm sure you're right. Can I buy it for £20, sir? | 0:14:26 | 0:14:28 | |
-No, I couldn't do it for that. -Are you sure? | 0:14:28 | 0:14:31 | |
I might do it for £30. | 0:14:31 | 0:14:33 | |
I have to say, I do like it. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:34 | |
I will make you one last offer, sir. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:37 | |
£25 cash. | 0:14:37 | 0:14:41 | |
-Done. -You're a wonderful man. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:43 | |
Charlie notches up his fifth purchase of the day | 0:14:43 | 0:14:47 | |
and grabs his sixth from the same stall - | 0:14:47 | 0:14:50 | |
a post war floppy doll for just £2. | 0:14:50 | 0:14:54 | |
The Man From Morecambe's still got a whopping £150 rattling about in his pocket and he's racing around | 0:14:54 | 0:15:01 | |
trying to spot the items with the most profit in them. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
First, a set of the oriental game Mah-jongg in near spanking condition. | 0:15:05 | 0:15:10 | |
Can I say a straight £20. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:12 | |
-Certainly. -Are you sure? -Yeah, I'm sure. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:15 | |
That's lovely, thank you very much. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:17 | |
And Paul is on a roll. At another stall, he pounces | 0:15:17 | 0:15:20 | |
on a pair of intricately decorated ashtrays, paying just £2 for them. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:25 | |
Now, what I've got here is one of my favourite items. | 0:15:25 | 0:15:28 | |
This is called cloisonne enamel. | 0:15:28 | 0:15:30 | |
What would happen, you would cast the basic shape from a brass or in some case a bronze, | 0:15:30 | 0:15:36 | |
and then the artist would solder the surface with a little wire, | 0:15:36 | 0:15:41 | |
and those wires produce cloisonnes, | 0:15:41 | 0:15:43 | |
which is French for compartment. | 0:15:43 | 0:15:45 | |
So, these little compartments then are filled with a glass paste | 0:15:45 | 0:15:48 | |
and that glass paste is built up with all this wonderful colour | 0:15:48 | 0:15:51 | |
and that's the end result. This was made in China. | 0:15:51 | 0:15:54 | |
These are quite modern, probably 20 to 30 years old, | 0:15:54 | 0:15:57 | |
but aren't they absolutely beautiful? | 0:15:57 | 0:15:59 | |
Wonderful quality and for a pound a piece, a bargain, I think. | 0:15:59 | 0:16:03 | |
Paul is as pleased as punch and Charlie's feeling pretty chipper, too. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:08 | |
With a nice slice of cake to stoke his fires, he's on the hunt for his very own car boot holy grail. | 0:16:08 | 0:16:15 | |
Hello, sir. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:18 | |
Do you know, I've been looking for something that's 19th century all day | 0:16:18 | 0:16:22 | |
and I haven't found anything till now. | 0:16:22 | 0:16:25 | |
That's the first real antique I've seen. | 0:16:25 | 0:16:28 | |
The only thing is, is it restorable? | 0:16:28 | 0:16:31 | |
I think everything's restorable but it's a question of | 0:16:31 | 0:16:34 | |
whether or not it can be done for the money. | 0:16:34 | 0:16:38 | |
Charlie goes straight in with the old restoration cost sob story. Cunning. | 0:16:38 | 0:16:43 | |
Is it unbelievably cheap in this condition? | 0:16:43 | 0:16:46 | |
-It is. -Is it a fiver? | 0:16:46 | 0:16:47 | |
No, it's a bit more than that, its £50. | 0:16:47 | 0:16:49 | |
-What? -£50. -5-0? -That's the one. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:53 | |
Oh, blast. If I have a look, there might be something... Oh! | 0:16:53 | 0:16:56 | |
-How much is this one? -That's a tenner. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:59 | |
I'm not surprised. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:00 | |
Why don't you go £40 and we'll chuck the other box in for you? | 0:17:00 | 0:17:03 | |
£40 for the two? | 0:17:03 | 0:17:05 | |
-Yes. -Sold. | 0:17:05 | 0:17:07 | |
Great work from the Charmer. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:09 | |
He almost choked on his cake in his rush. | 0:17:09 | 0:17:11 | |
£40 for the two antique rosewood boxes and Charlie's finally fulfilled his 19th century buying strategy. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:19 | |
It just shouted at me. I was trying to work out whether it's inlaid | 0:17:19 | 0:17:24 | |
or whether perhaps it was transfer printed, but it's inlaid. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:27 | |
Look at the workmanship. And I would say, despite the condition, | 0:17:27 | 0:17:30 | |
this is the nicest thing I've seen here today. | 0:17:30 | 0:17:33 | |
Yes, Charlie's over the moon and now Paul's really got his work cut out. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:38 | |
The traders are starting to leave in droves and The Man From Morecambe has still got half his money left. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:45 | |
If you just have a look all around here, look at that! All these people are going home now. | 0:17:45 | 0:17:50 | |
Charlie Ross is here somewhere and I'm sure he's bought a bargain or two. | 0:17:50 | 0:17:54 | |
Come on, Paul, seize the day. | 0:17:54 | 0:17:55 | |
Charlie is still buying. | 0:17:55 | 0:17:57 | |
The suave southern gent is even prepared to trade on his fame if it bags him a bargain. | 0:17:57 | 0:18:02 | |
-Give me your autograph and £35. -£35 and my autograph, done. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:07 | |
What am I going to do with these? | 0:18:07 | 0:18:09 | |
If ever a man completely lost his marbles and did away | 0:18:09 | 0:18:13 | |
with any strategy of all this 19th century nonsense, it's this. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:18 | |
This lady is so delightful, she has sold me | 0:18:18 | 0:18:21 | |
some modern knives. | 0:18:21 | 0:18:23 | |
What am I doing? | 0:18:23 | 0:18:25 | |
Yes, well you might ask, Charlie. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:28 | |
Your seller seems delighted with £35 and your autograph. What a lucky lady. | 0:18:28 | 0:18:33 | |
SHE TOOTS HER HORN | 0:18:33 | 0:18:35 | |
With time running out, poor old Paul is getting desperate. | 0:18:35 | 0:18:39 | |
This is absolutely mad. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:41 | |
Obviously, everyone has packed up early here today. | 0:18:41 | 0:18:44 | |
That's what happens - if you take enough money, | 0:18:44 | 0:18:46 | |
you've had enough, you've still got the rest of the day. | 0:18:46 | 0:18:49 | |
But there might be some bargains to be had, you never know. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:53 | |
Hello, there. Anything left? | 0:18:53 | 0:18:55 | |
-Not a lot. -Not a lot. | 0:18:55 | 0:18:57 | |
Silver plated teapot there, can that be a fiver? | 0:18:57 | 0:19:00 | |
-At this late stage of the game, Paul is taking no prisoners. -Seven. | 0:19:00 | 0:19:04 | |
I'm offering a fiver, I've got to dash. If you don't want it... | 0:19:04 | 0:19:07 | |
Yeah, go on. | 0:19:07 | 0:19:09 | |
Are you sure? I'll have that for a fiver. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
-Nice coffee pot. -Even when he's under the cosh, our Morecambe maestro sure knows his silver. | 0:19:11 | 0:19:16 | |
People often ask me, how do you tell a solid silver item from a silver plated item? | 0:19:16 | 0:19:21 | |
Well, there are three types of silver plate. One is on copper, one is EPNS, which is on nickel, | 0:19:21 | 0:19:26 | |
and one is Britannia metal, which is like a lead substance. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:29 | |
And to tell which one it is, if you just breathe on the surface. | 0:19:29 | 0:19:33 | |
Look for an exposed area like this. | 0:19:33 | 0:19:35 | |
You can see it shows through a bit of yellow where the engraving is and if you look on the top here | 0:19:35 | 0:19:40 | |
the yellow is coming through on the top. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:42 | |
I know that's EPNS, electro-plated nickel silver. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:46 | |
If that shows through a red colour, that's Sheffield plate, which is a bit better | 0:19:46 | 0:19:49 | |
and a lead colour is Britannia metal, which is a bit worse. | 0:19:49 | 0:19:53 | |
So, this is a middle of the range nice quality item. | 0:19:53 | 0:19:55 | |
With today's car boot sale breathing its last, | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
it's now a case of pounce on anything that looks profitable. | 0:20:04 | 0:20:07 | |
Charlie snaps up a watercolour of a lakeside scene. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:11 | |
I'm so desperate to use my money. Here comes £15. | 0:20:11 | 0:20:15 | |
And follows it up with a watercolour of Warwick Castle, | 0:20:15 | 0:20:19 | |
originally priced at £150. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:22 | |
I'll give you £60 cash now. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:24 | |
Its closing down time and everything must go. | 0:20:24 | 0:20:27 | |
Paul's last ditch attempt for glory is purchasing a... | 0:20:27 | 0:20:30 | |
well, I'm not even sure he knows what it is. | 0:20:30 | 0:20:32 | |
Are you going to take it? | 0:20:32 | 0:20:34 | |
-Take it for a fiver. -Go on, then. -Is that all right with you? -Yep. | 0:20:34 | 0:20:37 | |
-Thank you. I don't know what it is. Do you? -No. Still don't know. -All right. | 0:20:37 | 0:20:42 | |
There we go - a career-defining moment. | 0:20:42 | 0:20:44 | |
The Man From Morecambe becomes the proud owner of a metal box with some dials on it. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:50 | |
I think for a fiver, it was a bargain. But the hardest job we've got is getting it home. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:54 | |
Oh, its heavy. He didn't tell me that, did he? | 0:20:54 | 0:20:57 | |
Oh, dear! You could use it as a bench press, if nothing else. | 0:21:01 | 0:21:05 | |
Our duelling duos breathless car boot bonanza is over. | 0:21:05 | 0:21:10 | |
So how have our mighty profit seekers fared on their quest? | 0:21:10 | 0:21:14 | |
Charlie and Paul started out with £250 apiece. | 0:21:14 | 0:21:18 | |
Paul ended the day with seven items | 0:21:18 | 0:21:21 | |
in his swag bag and spent | 0:21:21 | 0:21:23 | |
a modest total of £134. | 0:21:23 | 0:21:25 | |
Charlie bought ten items | 0:21:26 | 0:21:29 | |
and spent a lot more - £222, in fact. | 0:21:29 | 0:21:32 | |
But it's the dealer who makes | 0:21:32 | 0:21:34 | |
the most profit | 0:21:34 | 0:21:35 | |
who will emerge the victor. | 0:21:35 | 0:21:38 | |
Before they go their separate ways to start selling, | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
our brave boys grab the chance to compare their purchases. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:45 | |
-Well, well, well. -Charlie, how are you? | 0:21:45 | 0:21:48 | |
-I'm very well. I've brought you a present. -Oh, thank you very much. | 0:21:48 | 0:21:51 | |
-A rhubarb plant. -Why a rhubarb plant? | 0:21:51 | 0:21:53 | |
-Oh, I can't possibly imagine. -So, what have you bought then? | 0:21:53 | 0:21:57 | |
I bought a fishing rod - | 0:21:57 | 0:21:58 | |
it's all right - but I did manage to get into the 19th century for a couple of things. | 0:21:58 | 0:22:02 | |
I bought a really nice - | 0:22:02 | 0:22:03 | |
well, I think it's really nice - writing slope. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:06 | |
-Do you know, I saw that? -Did you? | 0:22:06 | 0:22:08 | |
I can't believe I didn't buy it and you ended buying it. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:11 | |
But that is, I think, my favourite buy - the boat. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:14 | |
I wasn't expecting that. All right - selling time. | 0:22:14 | 0:22:17 | |
-Good luck, Charlie. -Good luck, I'll see you when you've flogged it all. | 0:22:17 | 0:22:21 | |
Now Charlie The Charmer and Paul, The Man From Morecambe, | 0:22:21 | 0:22:24 | |
must make as much profit as they can | 0:22:24 | 0:22:26 | |
on all the items they've bought here at the boot sale. | 0:22:26 | 0:22:30 | |
As well as his boat and 19th century boxes, | 0:22:30 | 0:22:33 | |
Charlie must sell a fishing rod, | 0:22:33 | 0:22:36 | |
Billy the fire engine, | 0:22:36 | 0:22:38 | |
a golfing picture, | 0:22:38 | 0:22:40 | |
this Indian porcupine basket, | 0:22:40 | 0:22:43 | |
a 1950s advertising doll, | 0:22:43 | 0:22:46 | |
some kitchen knives, | 0:22:46 | 0:22:49 | |
a watercolour of Warwick Castle | 0:22:49 | 0:22:51 | |
and a painting of a lakeside scene. | 0:22:51 | 0:22:54 | |
As well as his enamelled ashtrays, | 0:22:54 | 0:22:57 | |
Paul must sell two antique books about Bath, | 0:22:57 | 0:23:01 | |
an Afghan rug, | 0:23:01 | 0:23:03 | |
this painting of a pub, | 0:23:03 | 0:23:05 | |
a Mah-jongg set, | 0:23:05 | 0:23:07 | |
this silver-plated coffee pot | 0:23:07 | 0:23:09 | |
and the mysterious metal box. | 0:23:09 | 0:23:12 | |
Having bagged all their car boot booty, our mighty maestros now face an even greater challenge. | 0:23:17 | 0:23:22 | |
They've got to sell the lot, | 0:23:22 | 0:23:24 | |
with the aim of making as much profit as they possibly can | 0:23:24 | 0:23:27 | |
and all of that money will be going to their chosen charities. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:30 | |
They'll both be pulling out all the stops to find buyers for their items, putting together deals on the phone | 0:23:30 | 0:23:36 | |
and by email. But until the cold hard cash has changed hands, no deal is truly sealed. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:42 | |
The Charmer claimed he was a fish out of water at the car boot, | 0:23:45 | 0:23:49 | |
but that didn't stop him snapping up ten items. | 0:23:49 | 0:23:52 | |
Back at Ross HQ, he's showing off his fishing rod and he reckons | 0:23:52 | 0:23:56 | |
he might have hooked the perfect buyer. | 0:23:56 | 0:23:58 | |
Do you know who I'm going to attempt to sell this to? | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
-George? -HE LAUGHS | 0:24:01 | 0:24:04 | |
George Lamb, fine cricketer and regular fisherman in Scotland. | 0:24:04 | 0:24:08 | |
I've told him I'm coming and bringing him a very, very special rod. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:12 | |
-I mean, I know nothing about rods. -Is it special? | 0:24:12 | 0:24:15 | |
I haven't got a clue. It might be worth a fiver. | 0:24:15 | 0:24:18 | |
-We said we'd be with George at ten o'clock, didn't we? -We'd better get cracking. | 0:24:18 | 0:24:22 | |
Well, it's lucky someone's keeping this show on the road. | 0:24:22 | 0:24:26 | |
Time for the Charmer to snap into action. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
Now, one man who's always up with the larks | 0:24:29 | 0:24:31 | |
is our champion of the north, Paul Hayes. | 0:24:31 | 0:24:34 | |
MUSIC: "Wake Up, Boo" by The Boo Radleys | 0:24:34 | 0:24:37 | |
He's hoping that the owner of a traditional seaside toy shop, | 0:24:40 | 0:24:44 | |
who's also a keen antique toy collector, | 0:24:44 | 0:24:49 | |
will be tempted by the Mah-jongg set he bought for £20. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:53 | |
If I was to ask you £50 for that set, how would you feel about it? | 0:24:53 | 0:24:57 | |
-A little bit steep. -Right. -Maybe a little bit lower. | 0:24:57 | 0:25:00 | |
OK. So where would you see that, what would you be happy with? | 0:25:00 | 0:25:03 | |
Probably about £40. I'd give you £40 for it. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:06 | |
£45, or am I pushing my luck? | 0:25:06 | 0:25:08 | |
Pushing your luck. £40's my limit, really. | 0:25:08 | 0:25:10 | |
That's what I love about coming up to Morecambe - straight talking. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:14 | |
-It's got to be £40? -£40. -That's it? | 0:25:14 | 0:25:15 | |
Right, I think we'll shake on that. | 0:25:15 | 0:25:17 | |
-Thank you. -You'll have hours of fun with that. | 0:25:17 | 0:25:20 | |
-I'm sure I will. -That's a tasty bit of business from our Paul, | 0:25:20 | 0:25:23 | |
but it's not the first time he's turned a profit on the Morecambe promenade. | 0:25:23 | 0:25:27 | |
The scoop is that our blue-eyed boy used to run a successful ice cream stand only yards from this very spot. | 0:25:27 | 0:25:33 | |
But, beating the Charmer? Now, that would be something to blow your cornet about. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:38 | |
That's not a bad mark up. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:40 | |
I don't know how you're getting on, Charlie, | 0:25:40 | 0:25:42 | |
but I'm doing what it says on the tin, putting my money where my mouth is. | 0:25:42 | 0:25:46 | |
The sun is shining down on Paul, but for how long? | 0:25:46 | 0:25:50 | |
Charlie has tracked down his first potential customer. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:55 | |
And George, a keen collector of fishing memorabilia, | 0:25:56 | 0:26:01 | |
is about to come face to face with our ravenous profit predator. | 0:26:01 | 0:26:06 | |
Caught anything, George? | 0:26:09 | 0:26:10 | |
-Not yet, Charlie. How nice to see you. -How long have you been here? | 0:26:10 | 0:26:14 | |
Oh, about half an hour, something like that. Had a couple of offers, but... | 0:26:14 | 0:26:20 | |
Have you? Well, have a go at that. | 0:26:20 | 0:26:23 | |
I was prepared. This is definitely a Rafael Nadal bicep job. | 0:26:23 | 0:26:29 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:26:29 | 0:26:32 | |
-You're using two hands. -Precisely. Because you can see, if you were going to cast like that all day, | 0:26:32 | 0:26:38 | |
-muscles would begin to protest. We're not as strong as our forefathers. -No. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:44 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:26:44 | 0:26:46 | |
-What do you think of it as a rod? -What is interesting is, | 0:26:46 | 0:26:49 | |
if I put it on the ground, you'll see what I mean. | 0:26:49 | 0:26:51 | |
There's no reason why that rod shouldn't be straight, but it isn't. | 0:26:51 | 0:26:55 | |
Oh, not good. George has noticed that all is not what it should be with the rod. | 0:26:55 | 0:27:00 | |
Come on, Charlie, reel him back in. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:02 | |
Anyway, cutting to the chase, would you be interested in buying it? | 0:27:02 | 0:27:06 | |
Well, I hope you would, you said you might be. | 0:27:06 | 0:27:09 | |
Well, I am, because I think it's such a bit of history. | 0:27:09 | 0:27:13 | |
Well, I'm going to ask you a price, George. I have not got the first idea. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:18 | |
You'll either snatch my hand off or laugh | 0:27:18 | 0:27:21 | |
and I would like to charge you £35 for it. | 0:27:21 | 0:27:28 | |
Charlie, I think £25. | 0:27:28 | 0:27:31 | |
-Do you? -Yes. -What about splitting the difference and making it £30. | 0:27:31 | 0:27:34 | |
-Done. -Done. I think that's great. | 0:27:34 | 0:27:36 | |
Well, how could we ever have doubted you, Charlie? | 0:27:36 | 0:27:39 | |
The profit poacher trebles his money | 0:27:39 | 0:27:42 | |
on his first sale - what a start. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:44 | |
I don't know anything about fishing, but I do know a good rod when I see one. Mr Hayes, another profit. | 0:27:44 | 0:27:50 | |
Next, Charlie heads east to the historic market town of Woburn, | 0:27:50 | 0:27:55 | |
where he seals another cracking deal | 0:27:55 | 0:27:57 | |
for his porcupine basket | 0:27:57 | 0:27:58 | |
with one of his contacts. | 0:27:58 | 0:28:02 | |
-£70. -Go on, then, let's leave it at that. Cheers. | 0:28:02 | 0:28:05 | |
Yes, the Charmer is on a roll. But if he rules the south, up north there is only one king. | 0:28:05 | 0:28:11 | |
Mr Morecambe has pitched up in Sheffield, | 0:28:11 | 0:28:14 | |
where he's persuaded a specialist dealer | 0:28:14 | 0:28:16 | |
to take a look at his Afghan rug. | 0:28:16 | 0:28:19 | |
Would you consider stocking something like this? | 0:28:19 | 0:28:22 | |
Absolutely. The one thing dealers would normally look at is how finely a rug is woven. | 0:28:22 | 0:28:27 | |
-OK. -For instance, if you look at the back of the rug, | 0:28:27 | 0:28:31 | |
that is, you can see how many knots be square inch, as it were. | 0:28:31 | 0:28:34 | |
If I show you, if you look at the difference between the two. | 0:28:34 | 0:28:38 | |
-This is a lot finer. -Absolutely. | 0:28:38 | 0:28:40 | |
There's a lot more work that's gone into that as opposed to this one. | 0:28:40 | 0:28:44 | |
The other slight problem on this rug are the areas which | 0:28:44 | 0:28:48 | |
have moth damage. You can see there's some here, some there | 0:28:48 | 0:28:52 | |
and there's various parts of the rug that I've noticed. | 0:28:52 | 0:28:55 | |
It's basically moth laying eggs on that and once they hatch, | 0:28:55 | 0:28:58 | |
it's the larvae that actually eat the wool around that area. | 0:28:58 | 0:29:01 | |
So, we would need to spend a few hours repairing this, basically, | 0:29:01 | 0:29:06 | |
but I am sure we could come to some sort of deal. How much would you like for it? | 0:29:06 | 0:29:10 | |
I was hoping for about £100. Is that a fair price or...? | 0:29:10 | 0:29:15 | |
It's a reasonable price but, as I say, we do have to put a little bit of effort into it. Shall we say £75. | 0:29:15 | 0:29:22 | |
Shall we say £75? | 0:29:22 | 0:29:23 | |
-Well, do you know, I feel like I've learnt something here today. Shall we shake on £80? -Go on, then. | 0:29:23 | 0:29:29 | |
Paul knows exactly when to push for more. | 0:29:29 | 0:29:31 | |
£80 for his Afghan rug lands him a £30 profit. | 0:29:31 | 0:29:37 | |
His next stop is just down the road in sunny Morecambe. | 0:29:37 | 0:29:40 | |
I've come to sell that wonderful bit of electronic equipment that I bought. | 0:29:40 | 0:29:45 | |
I've done my research. The Mole Major was developed by Peter Mole | 0:29:45 | 0:29:50 | |
and they were massive manufacturers of film lighting. | 0:29:50 | 0:29:53 | |
So, this has actually been used on the set of a major Hollywood movie. Isn't that amazing? | 0:29:53 | 0:30:00 | |
And I thought, who do I know that's in the film and television industry? My mate, Martin. | 0:30:00 | 0:30:04 | |
Martin trains stunt performers for films and television. | 0:30:07 | 0:30:10 | |
Paul knows that he's always on the lookout for old film props. | 0:30:10 | 0:30:15 | |
-Shall we do that at £25? -£20. -You won't regret it. | 0:30:17 | 0:30:20 | |
That's the best thing you've bought all day. | 0:30:20 | 0:30:23 | |
£25 is five times | 0:30:23 | 0:30:25 | |
what our car boot maestro | 0:30:25 | 0:30:27 | |
forked out at Denham. | 0:30:27 | 0:30:28 | |
Paul is dashing all over the country in search of victory, but Charlie is taking things a little easier. | 0:30:30 | 0:30:38 | |
-I made you a cup of tea, because I know you're not really a coffee man, are you? -Thank you. | 0:30:38 | 0:30:42 | |
He thinks that his painting of Warwick Castle will make the most profit | 0:30:42 | 0:30:47 | |
at an auction house in Warwickshire | 0:30:47 | 0:30:49 | |
and he's asked his old friend and fellow auctioneer David to put it into one of his sales. | 0:30:49 | 0:30:53 | |
Success will depend on getting access to the right type of buyer. | 0:30:53 | 0:30:58 | |
Private buyer will buy this rather than...? | 0:30:58 | 0:31:00 | |
Sure, sure. Private buyer. Of course, I can't say, but... . | 0:31:00 | 0:31:04 | |
No, but you get plenty of private people coming to your sales. | 0:31:04 | 0:31:07 | |
-Very much so. -Good. | 0:31:07 | 0:31:09 | |
Because always with a private buyer, you're knocking out the dealer's profit, if you like, aren't you? | 0:31:09 | 0:31:14 | |
Sure. Well, I mean, as we always say, if you are a private, | 0:31:14 | 0:31:17 | |
if you go to a sale and identify who the dealers are, and if you bid one more bid than the dealer, | 0:31:17 | 0:31:24 | |
you are getting something more cheaply than you would get it if you were buying it from that dealer. | 0:31:24 | 0:31:29 | |
-By the time he's added his profit margin, VAT and paid his rent and all the rest of it. -Sure. | 0:31:29 | 0:31:35 | |
Good. We'll get the form then, David, give you a signature. | 0:31:35 | 0:31:41 | |
Happy with his lot, Charlie gets his painting into the sale without even | 0:31:41 | 0:31:45 | |
leaving his back garden. That charms works wonders. | 0:31:45 | 0:31:48 | |
With two items sold, | 0:31:50 | 0:31:52 | |
Charlie has generated £65 of profit. | 0:31:52 | 0:31:55 | |
Paul has sold three pieces | 0:31:55 | 0:31:57 | |
and made £70 worth of profit, | 0:31:57 | 0:31:59 | |
so this epic battle | 0:31:59 | 0:32:01 | |
is still too close to call. | 0:32:01 | 0:32:03 | |
Charlie and Paul are now wrestling for the advantage. | 0:32:08 | 0:32:11 | |
Just one killer deal could seal the competition. | 0:32:11 | 0:32:15 | |
Paul's renowned detective skills have led him to a pub in Derbyshire. Its name - The Devonshire Arms. | 0:32:17 | 0:32:23 | |
The very same pub, he hopes, that's featured in the painting that he bought at the car boot. | 0:32:23 | 0:32:27 | |
Let's have a look. I did see some red-roofed buildings that way. | 0:32:30 | 0:32:34 | |
-Is there more this side? -Yes. | 0:32:34 | 0:32:36 | |
His plan is simple - to prove to the landlord beyond a reasonable doubt | 0:32:36 | 0:32:41 | |
that the subject of the painting is his pub, then go in for a hard sell. | 0:32:41 | 0:32:45 | |
So, if you have a look here, I think that gabled-ended sort of barn there | 0:32:49 | 0:32:54 | |
looks like that that's one, isn't it? | 0:32:54 | 0:32:56 | |
Yeah, it was a farm before it became a pub and that was the group of buildings | 0:32:56 | 0:33:02 | |
-that serviced the farmstead. -Right. So this building has been totally changed, then? | 0:33:02 | 0:33:07 | |
Yeah, this is a totally different building to what that was. | 0:33:07 | 0:33:12 | |
-I think the footprint looks more or less similar to what we've got. -Yeah, it certainly does. | 0:33:12 | 0:33:18 | |
The landlord seems convinced by Paul's top notch detective work, but will our very own | 0:33:18 | 0:33:24 | |
antique super-sleuth be able to convince him to part with his money? | 0:33:24 | 0:33:28 | |
If I was to ask you £60, how does that sound? Is that about what you were thinking? | 0:33:28 | 0:33:32 | |
I was going to say £40. | 0:33:32 | 0:33:33 | |
You were going to say £40? That's how you reckon it, is it? | 0:33:33 | 0:33:36 | |
Can we meet in the middle? A round £50? | 0:33:36 | 0:33:39 | |
-Yeah, that's all right. -Case closed. £50. | 0:33:39 | 0:33:41 | |
That's another deal that nets our Paul more than 500% profit | 0:33:41 | 0:33:45 | |
and the hardest working man in antiques | 0:33:45 | 0:33:48 | |
takes another great leap forward. | 0:33:48 | 0:33:50 | |
Now, speaking of hard work... | 0:33:52 | 0:33:54 | |
So far, the Charmer has been fishing, he's had a chum round for tea and now he's cruising the golf course. | 0:33:58 | 0:34:06 | |
But don't doubt Charlie's motivation. He might look laid back, but he means business. | 0:34:06 | 0:34:11 | |
He's here to visit Pete, a well known music producer and collector of antiques who also loves his golf. | 0:34:11 | 0:34:18 | |
Over to you, Charmer. | 0:34:18 | 0:34:20 | |
Your putting is still good, isn't it? | 0:34:20 | 0:34:22 | |
I'm the best and then I woke up. | 0:34:22 | 0:34:25 | |
-How are you? -I'm very well, indeed. -Beautiful. | 0:34:26 | 0:34:29 | |
Now, you know I said I had a print? | 0:34:29 | 0:34:31 | |
-Yes. -Which I thought you might like. Want to have a look at it? | 0:34:31 | 0:34:34 | |
-I'd love to. -Come and sit under the tree. | 0:34:34 | 0:34:37 | |
There you are, you and me. | 0:34:37 | 0:34:39 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:34:39 | 0:34:41 | |
No, he's got hair. | 0:34:41 | 0:34:44 | |
Peering down a ravine, the ball stuck in the ravine, look at that. | 0:34:44 | 0:34:48 | |
-Oh, blimey. -What shall I take for this? | 0:34:48 | 0:34:50 | |
A couple of whiskies, I think. | 0:34:50 | 0:34:53 | |
-That is brilliant. -Is it something I could sell you? | 0:34:53 | 0:34:56 | |
Yeah, very much so. I like that very much indeed. | 0:34:56 | 0:34:58 | |
It would go on your wall. | 0:34:58 | 0:35:01 | |
-Oh, absolutely. -I'd like £30 for it. -£30? | 0:35:01 | 0:35:06 | |
-Yes. -Well, do you know what? I was expecting you to say more. | 0:35:06 | 0:35:10 | |
What a turn up - Charlie's buyer sounds like he was ready to part with even more money. | 0:35:10 | 0:35:15 | |
But ever the gentleman, the Charmer is happy | 0:35:15 | 0:35:17 | |
to settle on just six times | 0:35:17 | 0:35:19 | |
what he paid for the picture. Good work. | 0:35:19 | 0:35:22 | |
What a clash of selling styles we've got here. | 0:35:25 | 0:35:27 | |
Whilst the Charmer barely breaks a sweat sealing his deals, | 0:35:27 | 0:35:30 | |
The Man From Morecambe is popping up all over the place. | 0:35:30 | 0:35:34 | |
Defending the slimmest of leads, Paul is in Frome in Somerset to try and sell his coffee pot. | 0:35:36 | 0:35:42 | |
But why has our northern lad come here to sell his wares? | 0:35:42 | 0:35:45 | |
Well, the clue is in the name. | 0:35:45 | 0:35:47 | |
-Space on the shelf, definitely. -Shall we shake on that, then? | 0:35:47 | 0:35:51 | |
We certainly will. £15. Lovely. Thank you, Paul. | 0:35:51 | 0:35:53 | |
Thank you, nice to meet you. Any chance of a cup of tea while I'm here? | 0:35:53 | 0:35:57 | |
Of course! Oh, no, coffee, surely. | 0:35:57 | 0:35:59 | |
Paul notches up a £10 profit | 0:36:01 | 0:36:03 | |
and then he's back on the road. | 0:36:03 | 0:36:06 | |
In Oxfordshire, the Charmer isn't going anywhere. He's on babysitting duties. | 0:36:06 | 0:36:12 | |
But our doting granddaddy is itching to find out how his painting of Warwick Castle performed at auction. | 0:36:12 | 0:36:18 | |
Remember, Charlie needs to make more than £60 to make a profit. | 0:36:18 | 0:36:22 | |
I've got my assistant on my knee here, David, | 0:36:22 | 0:36:25 | |
and its proving rather difficult, I have to say, at the moment. | 0:36:25 | 0:36:28 | |
Things are not looking good here. | 0:36:29 | 0:36:32 | |
Sold for £48. | 0:36:32 | 0:36:34 | |
HE SIGHS | 0:36:34 | 0:36:36 | |
HE ALSO SIGHS | 0:36:36 | 0:36:38 | |
Ouch! £48 with auction costs added - | 0:36:38 | 0:36:41 | |
that's a total loss of nearly £20. | 0:36:41 | 0:36:43 | |
No wonder team Ross are unimpressed. | 0:36:43 | 0:36:47 | |
But there is brighter news for Charlie | 0:36:47 | 0:36:49 | |
when his chef's knives deliver a £20 profit | 0:36:49 | 0:36:53 | |
and the two rosewood boxes | 0:36:53 | 0:36:55 | |
make just under £10 to add to his pot. | 0:36:55 | 0:36:58 | |
Paul's profit purple patch hits the skids when he fails to find | 0:36:58 | 0:37:02 | |
a buyer for his two cloisonne ashtrays, | 0:37:02 | 0:37:04 | |
but he seems to have worked out | 0:37:04 | 0:37:06 | |
a cunning new selling strategy. | 0:37:06 | 0:37:08 | |
After finding a buyer for his coffee pot at a coffee shop, | 0:37:08 | 0:37:11 | |
where do you think he's going to sell his old books about Bath? | 0:37:11 | 0:37:15 | |
Genius. | 0:37:17 | 0:37:19 | |
As far as I can gather, this is a form of book, like a satirical play, really, | 0:37:19 | 0:37:25 | |
on the characters at the time, but I did notice we have | 0:37:25 | 0:37:29 | |
two beautifully written pages here of names. | 0:37:29 | 0:37:33 | |
Now, what do these names actually represent here? | 0:37:33 | 0:37:36 | |
Well, we're thinking that this book, Bath Characters, which is sketches | 0:37:36 | 0:37:43 | |
of the times, sketches of people in Bath and happenings in Bath, | 0:37:43 | 0:37:49 | |
and probably a previous owner has gone to the trouble of finding out who a lot | 0:37:49 | 0:37:55 | |
of the people were and has written their names down. | 0:37:55 | 0:37:59 | |
So, the characters that they're based on | 0:37:59 | 0:38:01 | |
would have been given fictitious names but maybe these are the real people | 0:38:01 | 0:38:05 | |
-they are actually based on? -I think that's probably what it is. | 0:38:05 | 0:38:08 | |
-Obviously you're interested in buying them. -I'd buy them... | 0:38:08 | 0:38:12 | |
An antique's worth is often based on its rarity, | 0:38:14 | 0:38:18 | |
so could these beautifully handwritten notes in Paul's Bath books | 0:38:18 | 0:38:23 | |
be decisive in today's competition? | 0:38:23 | 0:38:25 | |
Charlie has popped over to his next door neighbour, John, for his next potential sale | 0:38:25 | 0:38:30 | |
and it's no surprise that this retired engineer | 0:38:30 | 0:38:32 | |
and enthusiastic restorer is thrilled by Charlie's handmade toy | 0:38:32 | 0:38:36 | |
and he has an interesting take on where the boat may have come from. | 0:38:36 | 0:38:41 | |
-So, you think it might have been made by a German? -If you think about it, Charlie, | 0:38:41 | 0:38:45 | |
it might have been made by a guy who'd got time on his hands, | 0:38:45 | 0:38:49 | |
very little raw material and if you think about a submariner | 0:38:49 | 0:38:54 | |
waiting for destroyers to come by and take a pop at him... | 0:38:54 | 0:38:59 | |
He would have been looking at a destroyer. | 0:38:59 | 0:39:01 | |
-That's right. -Through the periscope or whatever. | 0:39:01 | 0:39:03 | |
So, you could be interested in it. You are interested in it, I can tell you are. | 0:39:03 | 0:39:08 | |
And Charlie was right. | 0:39:08 | 0:39:10 | |
But even though he nearly doubles his money | 0:39:12 | 0:39:15 | |
on the boat and 35p profit | 0:39:15 | 0:39:17 | |
from the sale of his cuddly toy | 0:39:17 | 0:39:19 | |
and no profit at all | 0:39:19 | 0:39:20 | |
from his fire engine, | 0:39:20 | 0:39:21 | |
means it won't be enough to beat Paul, | 0:39:21 | 0:39:24 | |
who makes a profit of £23 from his antique books. | 0:39:24 | 0:39:28 | |
Shall we shake on that, then? | 0:39:28 | 0:39:30 | |
-OK. -Thank you very much. | 0:39:30 | 0:39:33 | |
So, it's Charlie Ross who's in the last chance saloon. | 0:39:33 | 0:39:37 | |
Suddenly our laid back Charmer is moving very fast indeed. | 0:39:37 | 0:39:40 | |
And while a mad dash to the local car park isn't very Charlie, | 0:39:40 | 0:39:44 | |
he's ready to sell anywhere just to pip Paul at the post. | 0:39:44 | 0:39:47 | |
-Are you ready for this? -I'm ready for an odd picture. | 0:39:47 | 0:39:50 | |
-It's upside down. -Oh, it is! -THEY LAUGH | 0:39:50 | 0:39:55 | |
It's probably just about 19th century, do you think? | 0:39:56 | 0:39:59 | |
I'd probably say maybe just over the 1900 mark, but then again I'm buying and you're selling. | 0:39:59 | 0:40:05 | |
That's absolutely right. Try me with a cash offer. | 0:40:05 | 0:40:08 | |
The pressure is building on the usually unflappable Charmer. | 0:40:08 | 0:40:13 | |
Charlie spent nearly | 0:40:13 | 0:40:15 | |
all of his £250 budget | 0:40:15 | 0:40:16 | |
at the car boot but with just | 0:40:16 | 0:40:18 | |
one sale left, his chances of victory | 0:40:18 | 0:40:20 | |
are hanging in the balance. | 0:40:20 | 0:40:22 | |
Paul invested just £134 | 0:40:22 | 0:40:25 | |
of his £250, but his seven buys | 0:40:25 | 0:40:28 | |
have performed well. | 0:40:28 | 0:40:31 | |
All of the profit that Charlie and Paul have made from today's challenge | 0:40:31 | 0:40:34 | |
will be going to a charity of their choice. | 0:40:34 | 0:40:36 | |
So, without further ado, | 0:40:36 | 0:40:38 | |
it is time to find out which of them has made the most cash | 0:40:38 | 0:40:41 | |
and who is today's Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is champion. | 0:40:41 | 0:40:45 | |
Good to see you, welcome back. | 0:40:47 | 0:40:49 | |
So, what did you think of the car boot sale, then? | 0:40:49 | 0:40:52 | |
-Oh, I had a result at the car boot sale. -Did you really? | 0:40:52 | 0:40:54 | |
Yeah. Do you remember seeing my watercolour of Warwick Castle? | 0:40:54 | 0:40:57 | |
-I really liked that. -Yeah, it was good. Do you know what it sold for? -Go on. | 0:40:57 | 0:41:02 | |
-£43. -You're joking. | 0:41:02 | 0:41:03 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:41:03 | 0:41:06 | |
I really liked the look of it. I did well with the nice rug, the Afghan rug. | 0:41:06 | 0:41:09 | |
Oh, yeah, that was interesting - it had tanks on it. | 0:41:09 | 0:41:12 | |
I learnt all about the symbolism, about rugs in general. | 0:41:12 | 0:41:15 | |
Fascinating. There's a whole subject there to be learnt. | 0:41:15 | 0:41:18 | |
I must say, when you said it was 18th century and I saw a tank on it, | 0:41:18 | 0:41:21 | |
-I thought, "I'm not sure about that." -Medieval tanks. | 0:41:21 | 0:41:24 | |
Anyway, shall we have a go? | 0:41:24 | 0:41:26 | |
-You count it down. -One, two, three. | 0:41:26 | 0:41:28 | |
Whee. | 0:41:28 | 0:41:30 | |
-Oh, no, you've done me. -£20. | 0:41:30 | 0:41:34 | |
I worked out the maths wrongly here. I'm sure I beat you. | 0:41:34 | 0:41:38 | |
Do you know what, if you'd have knocked that painting down by £20 more you might have had a chance. | 0:41:38 | 0:41:43 | |
Never mind. How about the next car boot sale? | 0:41:43 | 0:41:46 | |
So, it's a narrow victory for Paul. Why? Because Charlie's trip to the car park | 0:41:46 | 0:41:51 | |
didn't quite deliver him the profit he was after. | 0:41:51 | 0:41:54 | |
-£16. -Yeah, £16, I'll have a chance. | 0:41:54 | 0:41:58 | |
£16 on the watercolour | 0:41:58 | 0:41:59 | |
gives poor old Charlie a profit of just £1. | 0:41:59 | 0:42:03 | |
But it was a first class performance from today's Put Your Money champion, Paul, The Man From Morecambe, Hayes. | 0:42:03 | 0:42:10 | |
There we are! A victory for Mr Morecambe! Charlie The Charmer Ross | 0:42:10 | 0:42:14 | |
has maybe lost a little bit of his charm. | 0:42:14 | 0:42:16 | |
But I've done very well and made some good profit for my charity | 0:42:16 | 0:42:19 | |
and learnt a lot about Afghan rugs in the process. | 0:42:19 | 0:42:22 | |
As for the Charmer, well, there's always next time. | 0:42:22 | 0:42:26 | |
Paul Hayes, master of the boot fair. | 0:42:26 | 0:42:29 | |
But I didn't do badly and my charity has made a few bob. | 0:42:29 | 0:42:34 | |
But it's not all over yet, Mr Morecambe. | 0:42:34 | 0:42:38 | |
Yes, that's the spirit. Charlie has the chance to gain revenge tomorrow | 0:42:38 | 0:42:44 | |
when he and Paul will be battling it out at a Belgian antiques market. | 0:42:44 | 0:42:48 | |
Quality, quality, quality, that's what you're looking for. | 0:42:48 | 0:42:51 | |
If I could sell it for three times the price, I'd come back and take you out to dinner. | 0:42:51 | 0:42:56 | |
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