Oswestry 6 Bargain Hunt

Today, there's a special buzz in the air here in Oswestry,

and it's not because we've got a fair

simply stuffed with treasures.

BUZZING

Oh! That's better.

It's because we've got a one-hour-long special edition

that's sure to fly by.

Who writes this stuff? Let's go bargain hunting! Yeah!

Unlike the proverbial leopard, who never changes his spots,

today, we are changing the rules...slightly.

I'm asking the experts to find not one,

but two bonus buys, which they'll then show me,

I'll give them an opinion,

but will the teams decide to take one, or the other, or none,

and who will be right and who will be wrong?

Ooh, what excitement.

Let's take an eagle-eyed peek as to what's coming up.

The Reds reveal some little-GNOME facts.

-And can be used for an anchor.

-Well, it'd certainly stop the ship.

-And our Blue expert divulges his trade secrets.

-But what is it?

-Put a candle in there, perhaps.

-OK, well, make it up, then.

This is what I do. Fantastic. OK, it's a pen stand.

You put it on your desk and you bung pens in it.

That's all to come, but first, let's meet the teams.

On today's show, we have two pairs of pals

who have a world of difference.

One pair very much like to have their feet on the ground,

the other pair adore going under the water, deep diving.

For the Reds, we have Greg and Tony,

and for the Blues, we have Mick and Paul.

-Hello, everyone.

-ALL: Hello.

-So, you're best buddies, you two.

-Yep.

-And how did you meet, Greg?

We met about 30 years ago,

when we became both members of the same scuba diving club in Rotherham.

Then you started popping in the water other places.

Yeah, a lot of driving in the North Sea. We're really wreckers, Tim.

-Are you? What does that mean?

-Diving shipwrecks.

Your day job was more of a job that followed Yes Minister, wasn't it?

It was indeed, Tim.

I was a senior civil servant for nearly 30 years.

Now, Tony, you used to run your own marine salvage business.

-Humber Salvage, yeah.

-Did quite well, did you, with the...?

-Yeah, it was great.

-Yeah? What sort of things do you bring up?

Ship's lamps, compasses.

-Propellers.

-Propellers.

-Yeah?

-Condensers.

-What about these bottles?

-Oh, the whisky.

Well, actually, I've still got a couple in my shed.

It was a wreck that went down about 100 years ago in the Clyde,

called the Wallachia, and it was carrying...

it was going to the West Indies with whisky, general cargo,

and we found the wreck about 30 years ago

and started diving it, and we took a load of whisky off it,

supposed to be worth a fortune.

We decided to save it. You know, as time goes on, it'll make money.

But one New Year's Eve, we opened a bottle

and all the lads were round with their glasses, ready to drink it.

The colour was right and everything.

-Tasted absolutely terrible.

-Foul.

-Did it really?

-Yeah, it was awful.

-Well, what a shame.

-Best to leave that alone, I think.

So, how easy is it going to be for you to go out there today

and find some bargains on Bargain Hunt?

-Looking forward to it, aren't we?

-Yeah.

It's something that we feel we'll... we'll make a full fist of.

Well, I think you're going to do very well. Now for the Blues.

Now, Mick, tell us about the marathons, cos that's what you do.

Yes. I like to run marathons. I've recently run my hundredth marathon.

-Have you, really?

-Mm.

-Cor, you'll be worn out.

-Yes!

Did you start out six feet tall?

Have they ground you down? No, seriously, fantastic news.

-Have you had a tradition of running all your life?

-No.

No, I was never...never athletic as a child particularly,

but as time went on and my waistband expanded,

I felt the need to take up some exercise before it got too late.

Stop looking at me like that.

LAUGHTER

How sweet. You're now chairman of your running club.

Yes, I am. I'm chairman of Sandbach Striders running club,

-and that's where me and Paul first met.

-Very nice too.

-And it says here you're a mature student.

-Yes, I am.

Why this change of career, then?

Well, I used to be a teacher and I worked as a teacher of boys

with emotional and behavioural difficulties for many years,

and it got to the point where, one morning,

I woke up and realised that, actually,

I didn't much like computers - I taught computers -

and I didn't actually much like children.

That's a very, very honest admission

coming from a teacher who's been doing it for a decade or two!

Anyway, so that was it, then.

-You had this kind of blinding moment.

-I did.

Your conversion on the road, so as to speak. And then what did you do?

So, then I resigned and decided to follow my heart,

rather than my head, and enrolled back in university,

and I'm now doing an MA in the History of Art.

Now, Paul, you're a runner also.

So, tell us about the Marathon du Medoc.

Well, Tim, that's one of the 11 marathons I've run so far this year.

-This year?

-This year, and it's in France, in the Medoc region,

and normally on a marathon,

every time you get a little bit thirsty, you'll get water.

The Marathon du Medoc is run through the chateaux of France,

-so they replace the water with lovely red wine.

-No!

Which is absolutely gorgeous.

The idea is that you finish

as close to the cut-off time of 6 hours 30 as you possibly can.

-Michael managed 6 hours, 29 and 30 seconds.

-Really?

I was 20 minutes too early.

I must have missed a wine stop somewhere,

which, that's not like me.

-Quite. So, how many stops are there, then?

-24.

You get 24 glasses of wine

while you trot your way through all these wine fields?!

Oh, no, you're in fancy dress.

This year's theme was space, so I was dressed as an alien,

and to be honest with you,

the locals bring a little bit of wine out for you as well,

so you never get thirsty, so there is more than 24.

You need to be decanted over the line.

-That's just before the wine party at the end.

-Well, how brilliant.

When you're not running marathons, though,

-you run up and down hospital wards.

-Indeed.

I work for liaison psychiatry.

I'm currently a dementia specialist attached to a local hospital.

-And such a worthwhile job.

-Thank you.

To ease people through that difficult period in their lives.

-Absolutely.

-Now, you two clearly have incredible amounts of stamina.

-Have you got a plan for today's shopping?

-Fast.

-Fast.

-You're going to spend the lot? Bow!

-Well, yes.

-Zap! Pow!

THEY LAUGH

-Yes?

-We'll finish in record time.

You'll finish in record time! That's what I like to hear.

-Now, here's your £300. 300 smackers.

-Thank you.

-You know the rules.

Your experts await, and off you go, and very, very, very good luck.

Gosh, this is going to be zippy.

So, who are our experts today?

Well, the clue is in the title. Yes, it's Jonathan Pratt with the Reds.

And shaking things up for the Blues, it's David Harper.

And don't forget, the experts will be really up against it today,

as later on, they will have to find not one, but two bonus buys,

and I'll be telling them, but not the contestants,

which one I think will make the most profit at auction.

But first, what are our teams going to buy?

What we should do is look for dive gear. What do you reckon?

Do you think we'll find any in a place like this?

Absolutely. People are always selling...

You never, ever know, do you?

So, this is what we'd normally do to warm up, then, boys?

-I normally warm up with a cup of coffee.

-Excellent.

Paul, what about you?

Well, I always think the first 20 miles is best to warm up with.

First 20 miles? I normally think the first 22 miles. Hands on hips.

OK, 60 minutes, Mick. What are we going to go and do?

-We're going to go and Bargain Hunt.

-We are. Come on. Let's go.

Jonathan, do you dive?

I don't. I dive off a high board, that's about it.

-No, no, we're talking serious underwater scuba stuff.

-No, never.

-Would you like to learn?

-Yeah, why not?

-OK, we'll sort it.

-Greg, take his number.

-Yeah, we can put you in deep water.

-Yeah, yeah.

I think, with all this shopping this morning,

I'm going to be in deep water.

So, what kind of things do we like, then, Paul, apart from star jumping?

-Well, I think I like toys, toy cars, nostalgia.

-Yeah.

Good. Yeah. Mick, what about you?

-I just like items that are decorative, that are pretty.

-Yeah.

-That's nice. That's just very pretty. Nice colours.

-Yeah.

-This has got a nice weight to it.

-Yeah.

-The colours are very vibrant.

-There's no obvious chips or marks that I can see.

-No, OK. It's...

I think it's a pressed glass.

-Hm.

-It's not of the best quality in the world,

but it's got what we call the look.

It doesn't float my boat.

-It doesn't?

-If I was honest.

-I wouldn't run with that.

-You wouldn't?

-No.

Are you vetoing it?

-Yeah, I...

-OK.

-OK.

So, that's a diss on the dish, then.

Now, our divers have jumped straight in and found a marine relic.

-45 quid.

-How odd is that? The first thing you spot...

I don't think there's a profit in that.

Not at that price, but I'm sure you could talk to the gentleman.

-It needs to be about 5 quid.

-No, no, about 15?

-10. 10. 10.

-You'll have to be braver than me to do it.

-Greg, get in there.

Go in there.

Excuse me, sir.

-Yeah?

-What would be a reasonable price on the diving helmet?

Give us 25, there you are. I know you're going to make a profit.

-You'll make a profit on that.

-What about 20?

-Go on, then. For you. For you.

-Thank you very much.

-OK.

-Thank you very much.

-Yeah.

-Diver's signal for "OK".

-Yeah, absolutely.

-Return the signal.

-Oh, yes, yeah, yeah, course. Yeah.

Uh-oh. Jonathan thinks they're going down with that one.

Oh, those Blues haven't moved very far,

but now Paul's got a glint in his eye.

What's the French horse bottle? What's that?

Oh, right, OK. A French horse.

-WOMAN:

-It's a bottle.

-It's a bottle?

-It's to hide your liquor in.

-Wahey!

-Wahey! I'm liking that.

-I got that in France, so it's...

You bought it in France?

It's got "St Clare", I think, on the back of the horse.

Oh, I see. OK. OK.

Depose, which basically means "registration mark", doesn't it?

Like copyright, that kind of thing.

It's quirky, it's different, and I can tell you,

I've never seen that design in...

What would you call it?

Would you possibly dare call it a decanter?

Would you dare call it that? It's not an antique. It's not quality.

No-one ever is going to just dream about owning something like that,

like you might a Lalique horse head.

-But it's so wild and wacky...

-Yes.

-..and naff, it's fab.

-What's the price?

-£18.

-18? What do you think?

Over to you two. £18.

-What's that going to make in an auction?

-Mmm, indeed.

-What would you pay for this, Paul?

-I would pay 15!

In auction, on a funny day, with a nice crowd, a bit of fun,

a bit of, you know, joviality, that might make 30 quid.

Can we get it for 15?

-Yeah.

-Yeah, brilliant. OK, do it.

-Great stuff. Thank you.

-Thank you very much.

Well, there was no horsing around there.

Both teams have now bought their first items

and have only just left the starting gates.

Will these Reds strike it lucky for a second time

with this match holder?

It's probably... It's probably for match...

It's a matchbook.

Where's the mark on that? That's a capital F, but it's going to be...

It's Birmingham, capital F.

-A, B, C, D, E, F. It's 25... 1930.

-1930s.

There's a lot of choice in this sort of market.

But you want to find something that's slightly different

to make more money.

-If you had a jazzy sort of '20s style about it...

-Yeah. Yeah.

..you know, it's going to be more interesting

than a plain engine-turned one.

-Right.

-Where's...where's Greg?

-Diving on his own. As usual.

-Really? Does he...

-He does.

-..go AWOL?

-He goes off.

-You're supposed to stay together, the man goes.

-Poor Tony.

Have you lost your diving buddy?

Well, the Blues have spotted something that could rein him in.

-Those things are called horse hames.

-What do you do with it, then?

-Do you want me to demonstrate?

-Yeah.

-You're a horse.

-Yeah, OK.

-You're going to probably like this. You're the horse. Turn round.

-OK.

I don't know. Turn round, that's it, yeah.

-And it goes something like that, right...

-Oh, right. OK.

-..and attaches to you, horsey.

-OK.

And then it attaches to me, cos I'm the driver.

-You're the horse.

-OK.

-You're doing all the work.

-Yeah.

And I'm sat on the back of the car,

drinking out of your horse decanter, lovely, soothing whisky.

See what I mean?

-So, they're quite collectable.

-Right, OK.

-Yeah. And look.

I mean, they are fantastic quality. Foundry marks.

Country of origin marks on manufactured goods

can be useful today for dating purposes.

In 1891, the McKinley Tariff act in America

required the country of manufacture to be marked, and in 1914,

an amendment required the prefix "made in" to be added.

We pretty much know by rule of thumb that these things weren't made

any time before the end of the First World War,

so would be described as early to mid-20th century,

even though they actually look Georgian,

18th-century, in their design.

I think perhaps they could do some good business at auction.

-Shall I get a price on them?

-Let's get a price.

OK, let me see this lady. Would you come and chat to us? Hello.

-Hello, nice to see you.

-Hello.

-Hi there.

-The horsey hames things.

-Yes.

-Yes. What sort of price are they?

-38.

-38.

There's some age to them. They're nice decorative items.

-What price could you do them for, for us?

-Go on.

-30.

-If we smile nicely.

-30. That would be my best.

-Shall we go for it?

-Let's go for it.

-Thank you very much indeed.

-All right, thanks, David.

-Thank you very much.

-Thank you very much.

-There you go, good.

Hold your horses, boys. What's all this horsey stuff?

-So, we've got a horse's head.

-Horse's head.

We've got some horse's hames. We need a body.

Well, that should spur you on. Huh!

Now, has that Greg resurfaced yet?

-He's here.

-Here he is, look.

-I told you.

-Can't leave metal alone.

Jonathan... Jonathan, Tony, what do you think?

Is this what you look for?

-You go down in the water, and if it shines...

-Copper and brass.

-It's probably an artisan piece, cos it's hand-beaten.

-Exactly.

There's a lot of this,

-which I think Tim would dismissively call a shed work.

-Shed work!

At the end of the 19th century, there was a lot of brass...

People didn't have the TV and radio to keep themselves occupied.

They all painted, stitched and sewed,

and there was a lot of metalware,

and the metalware was very fashionable at that part,

with the Arts and Crafts, you know,

the Arts and Crafts movement, and this is English Arts and Crafts.

It's a bit knocked around.

I think they've probably had it on the side

-and they've been dropping car keys or money, and...

-Yeah!

..and it's all been dropping down on there,

so that's, you know, that's... that's not brilliant.

-You know, that's condition. But this is all very nice.

-Yeah.

You know, with the heart motif.

The heart motif is another Arts and Crafts motif.

There's a chap called Voysey, and in his furniture,

he always had pierced heart motifs. Nice Arts and Crafts touch.

And then that's obviously... It's English Art Nouveau.

-There's a tiny little signature on the egg somewhere.

-There we are.

-Yeah.

-JS&S, which is... something Sankey and Sons.

That's what the lady said.

-This is nice quality, and it's a signed piece.

-Yeah. It's on at 45.

-What do you think?

-I think it's a good buy.

-I would say there's profit in it.

-Fabulous. We'll go with that, then.

-Go on. Do your best.

-I'll go and do my best.

So, what's the diving term when you're jumping off the boat?

-What do you say?

-Don't push me.

Jonathan, I'd bail out while you still can, eh?

-Hiya.

-Hi.

-I've just...

-Hello.

-Hello there.

-I've just picked this up on your stall. I really like it.

-Mm-hm.

You know, it's really appealing, I think.

And what I like about it is, it's Art Nouveau, which I like.

-It's obviously hand-beaten.

-Yeah.

-You've got it on at 45.

-Mm.

-What's the very...

-Bargain!

-What's the very, very best price you can do it for me at?

-Boss.

30?

Could I be really cheeky and ask for 28?

You can be as cheeky as you like, but, you know...

28?

-28.

-Go on, then.

-That gives us a chance.

-Much obliged to you, sir.

-Thank you. Thanks very much.

-Thank you.

-What's happened, Greg?

-Have you done it?

-Yeah.

-So...

-The lady kindly did it for 28.

Thank you very much. You're welcome.

Well done, Greg. You beat the price down. Tres bon.

Brilliant. Well done.

Now, I've been having a shufti, and it's amazing what you can find.

What fun is this?

A suitable place to hang my latest acquisition,

which happens to be a cartoon.

Do you like that?

This cartoon, which is an original pen and ink,

is signed Marc, M-A-R-C, which is the signature

for a celebrated journalist and cartoonist

from the 1950s and '60s, Marc Boxer,

the man who married Anna Ford.

He famously founded The Sunday Times colour supplement,

the first colour supplement in any Sunday newspaper, in 1962.

And apart from his journalistic expertise,

this man was a serious cartoonist.

Indeed, he favoured the single frame cartoon,

not a series of cells which sometimes go to make up a cartoon,

but a single frame that would give you a social commentary,

and the social commentary that he particularly liked to portray

were all those trendy people who lived in NW1.

Hence on this cartoon

the sign attached to the railings outside a house

which says, "NW1" and a street.

And, most amusingly, we have an image of a desiccated old girl,

she's about 87, looking out of the window, looking rather smug,

because there's a plaque outside her house,

like those blue plaques

that celebrate where famous people lived in London.

This particular plaque says, "Bertrand Russell slept here".

He didn't live there. He just went there once to sleep.

Perhaps with her. Because that's the joke.

Bertrand Russell, who was Britain's greatest philosopher,

some would argue, of the 20th century.

The man who took it upon himself to march to Aldermaston

in Ban the Bomb marches in the '50s and '60s.

He was also extremely highly sexed,

and famously in the '30s declared that,

"Free love should be available to all and sundry."

And he signed a deal with his first wife.

She produced several children by several men

and he was perfectly cool with that.

Similarly, he put himself about a bit,

marrying four times,

and that's the joke in this particular cartoon,

because did he, didn't he?

Well, he might have done, and she's looking very happy.

Anyway, the next big joke is... buying and collecting cartoons.

You can buy the printed version, and there are lots of them about,

because they were reproduced hundreds of thousands of times.

But the originals, like this, which is pen and ink...

Marc Boxer actually drew this particular cartoon.

It then went to the newspaper

and was reproduced many, many, many times.

But for original cartoons, there are collectors out there, big time.

Look it up and you'll find that these single-cell chappies

sell for in excess of £375.

Therefore, when you find one like this

in a place like this for £45,

it becomes more than a joke.

Now, what on earth have the Blues found?

-What do you think about that, guys?

-That's interesting.

-It's very odd.

-What is it?

-Well, ex... That's what we're trying to get to grips with.

-Put a candle in there, perhaps?

-OK, well, make it up. This is what I do.

Fantastic. OK, it's a pen stand.

You put it on your desk and you bung pens in it. That would work.

-Would it work for you?

-Yeah, yeah, yeah.

-There you go.

That's what it is. A pen stand or a brush stand for an artist.

-Ah!

-Ah!

-Yeah? I actually, bizarrely, really like it.

I don't think it's aesthetically pleasing enough.

OK. You've got no taste or style!

OK, David, back to the drawing board.

So, Greg, Tony, what's next on the agenda?

-He's here! He is here!

-A gnome.

-A gnome.

-Yeah, yeah.

-Quirky and inexpensive.

-And can be used for an anchor.

Well, it'd certainly stop the ship. Could...

-Could you do him for a tenner?

-WOMAN: Oh, no!

-We'll give him a good GNOME!

-There's pigs flying out there.

He is quite... He's actually quite nicely modelled, actually.

It's a lovely model.

-He's got a little bit of the old verdigris on him.

-Yep.

Well, look, he's a bit of fun, isn't he?

And it gives you more money for your...

For 20 quid, it would be a great little buy.

-What's the best possible price you'll do him for?

-£30.

-Sorry?

-£30.

-20?

-30.

-And would you carry it out for us at 30?

-I'll carry it out for you.

-25 quid and you'd have to take him back.

We're doing you a favour for taking it for £25, cos you'll be...

-I know that. Go on, you can...

-See?

-You can have him for 25 quid.

-Go!

-Is that it?

-Why not?

-We're done!

Make GNOME mistake. They've bought it.

That's you lot done and finished well before time.

Now the Blues have decided to take a look outside.

Now, that is a bit of me, chaps. I've got to say.

-Do you like it, first of all?

-I do like it.

Paul? I know it hasn't got any horses on it, but...

-It's interesting, certainly.

-Now, what does that mean?

When people say, "Mm, that's interesting,"

-often they don't like it.

-No, it means it's...

-caught my eye.

-OK.

-Whether I would...have something like that myself...

-OK. OK.

..but we're not here for myself, we're here to...

We're here to make some money, guys, remember that.

So, it's ebonised wood.

It's probably like a beech wood,

and it's been stained dark to make it look much posher and more ebony,

and it's a Japanese fire screen,

because our fascination with the Orient

has been with us for centuries.

This was made in the 1920s as a decorative thing.

It was never particularly expensive, mass-produced in Japan for us,

not for the Japanese market.

But imagine opening that up in your nice 1920s town house,

when it was really shiny and new.

It's very dull and the lacquer has really died down,

but with some good clear beeswax and ten minutes of hard graft,

that thing will come alive.

Can I just go and get a price for it while you two chat about it?

So, Mick, Paul, what do you really think?

-I'm not sure about that, Mick.

-It does look nice.

I'm sure my wife would love that in our bedroom!

So, what on earth are you talking about?

-We were talking about where we'd put it.

-Right.

No, no, where you're going to put it is in an auction.

I think you might be thinking you're on the wrong show.

THEY LAUGH

You're not decorating your homes, right?

How much is it? How much do you think we can buy it for?

-The absolute bottom line. I've been given the price.

-I think...

-I think £30.

-Ohh. Oh, interesting. Paul?

-£20, I suppose.

Really? Really? You're hard. You're hard. It's a bit more.

-You're closer, so a point to you there, Mick. £35.

-35?

-And that's it.

Personally, I think it's a cracking buy, I really do. Come on. £35.

-How could you replace that for £35?

-I think that's a nice piece, Paul.

-I think we should consider that.

-OK. OK. Well...

I've gone with the horses, so we gambled on the horses.

-You want to take a punt on it, mate, let's...

-Let's go for it.

-Let's go for it.

-Shall we do it?

-Let's go for it.

-We're done.

Three pieces in the bag. And different pieces as well.

Some better than others, obviously. But anyway, there you go!

Time's up! Let's check out what the Red team bought, eh?

Just stick with me.

Greg and Tony dived straight in

with this miniature copper diver's helmet,

and plummeted the price to £20.

Then they dug out this copper Art Nouveau tray for £28.

And finally, they hope to give this garden gnome a new home,

so they forked out £25 to get it.

Well, Greg, To-To, how did you get on?

-Fine, enjoyed it, thank you very much.

-Did you?

-And you spent a bundle, right?

-Absolutely.

-Yeah.

-How much?

-Greg.

-The grand total of £73.

-£73. I'd like £227 leftover lolly.

-Where's that, then?

-I thought you had it.

-You had it.

-No, I thought you had it.

-I must have it.

-Well, I expect you have.

-This is a pathetic amount of money that you spent.

-Yes.

-Anyway, which is your favourite piece?

-My money's on the gnome.

-Is it?

-Yes. A big concrete gnome.

-And which piece is going to bring the biggest profit?

-The Newlyn tray.

-The Newlyn tray.

-It's not Newlyn.

-It's... It's...

-He says quickly! It's not Newlyn.

Greg has immediately seen it

as several thousand pounds-worth of Cornish Arts and Crafts.

-It's what I think you call shed art.

-OK.

-And it's good quality shed art.

-OK, it's good quality shed art.

-It's good quality shed art.

Now, JP, I'm going to give you that enormous wodge of money, right?

-You like this bit, don't you?

-I do love it.

-Yeah.

-It's a challenge.

What are you going to spend your money on?

-Well, I've got a few things in mind.

-Have you?

-Yeah, you know.

I mean, it may be... I maybe give them...

stick a bit of femininity in their direction, I don't know.

Now, JP, here is your special £100 bonus buy wodge,

for you, as an additional challenge, JP,

to find an additional bonus buy

which, if you'd be kind enough to bring it back to me

to have a natter about, we'll do a bit later on.

-Wonderful.

-Lovely. Good luck, chaps. Go and have a cup of tea.

Meanwhile, why don't we check out what the Blue team bought, eh?

They de-canted across to this horsey drink bottle and paid £15.

On the nose. Then they reined in these steel horse hames for £30.

And for their final item,

they were divided on this Japanese folding screen,

but hedged their bets and got it for £35.

-Well, chaps, this has been fun, hasn't it?

-Oh, yes.

I mean, some people would pay a huge fortune

to have an hour with David Harper almost alone...so I'm told.

-Even more for not with me.

-Yes.

-Yes.

No, no, that's not true. OK, which is your favourite piece?

Oh, I think it would have to be the horse decanter,

-the horse head decanter.

-Oh, yeah, beautiful.

-And do you agree with that, Paul?

-Absolutely.

-You're going to love it, Tim.

-OK, love it, love it.

And which piece is going to bring the biggest profit?

Um...

Well, I think the...riding...

-the other horsey...

-The horse hames.

You have high hopes for the hames?

-High hope for hames!

-Hi-ho for the hames! Good, good.

Well, that's those predictions, anyway,

-and you spent in toto, how much?

-£80.

-Is that all?

-That is a tiny, tiny...

-Austerity. Austerity.

..bottom-clenchingly small amount, if you don't mind my saying so.

Anyway, I'd like £220, please. 220? Thank you. £220.

I trust you, I won't even count it.

-I'm going to hand it straight over to David.

-Quite a wedge, Tim.

Oh, it is, but you like a wedge, don't you?

In fact, what I'm going to do today on this special occasion

-is add to your wedge. This is an extra wedge.

-Right.

-This is the special bonus buy £100...

-Marvellous.

..right, for you to go and find that special bonus buy,

in addition to the other one.

Then you come back and chat about it with me,

and then, ultimately, the boys get the pick of the crop.

-Tim, I'm in heaven.

-Are you?

-Yes.

-Seventh heaven, I hope.

Both of our experts are on the hunt for their bonus buys.

Remember, JP has £227 of leftover lolly

for the normal team bonus buy and £100 for his special bonus buy.

So, JP, what are you thinking?

They like their metal, they're very masculine,

and I'm going to go along with the same theme.

Urrrgh.

These, OK?

These are brass chocks for the Midland Red buses

from about the 1940s. They're very cool.

I don't know what you'd use them for,

but I think the boys will love them.

I think they're quite a novelty.

They make good doorstops, or whatever you like.

-I'd like 95 for the pair.

-You won't say 80?

-No. No. There's no profit in it for me.

-Five?

-No.

-You going to do it, JP?

90 it is, then. Thank you very much.

Now, JP, never mind the bus chocks.

It's time to find your special bonus buy.

For my second purchase, got £100 to spend, and I've got an idea. Um...

It's a bit of silver.

It's not too expensive, but I think it's quite a nice novelty

and I think the guys are going to love it.

There we are.

The nice thing is that it's not terribly expensive.

And so with my £100, I'm going to buy this,

and I do believe the gentleman is happy to accept £30 for it.

-That's fine, thank you.

-And that is what I'm going to pay.

I've found a hidden corner in the fair, away from the contestants,

so let's have a peek.

Well, JP, you've been busy.

-This is the team's bonus buy, yes?

-Yes, it is. Yes. What are they, Tim?

Well, I did see them, actually,

-when I was having my little scratch around.

-Uh-huh.

-And I have to admit to being intrigued.

-Yeah.

Because I've never seen bronze chocks, and I see Midland Red,

so it's to do with the bus company, I thinks to myself,

-and then I walked on. You clearly didn't.

-This I thought...

It sort of conjures up that sort of image of, you know, 1940s,

you know, where you've got your omnibus driving around,

and I just like the idea of them sort of at the end of the day

shoving these chocks under the wheels

to stop the thing rolling down the hill

when they go off for their sandwiches.

Now you have to tell me how much you paid.

-Well, they only cost £45 each.

-So, that means £90 for the two.

-It does, yeah. Yeah.

-Yeah.

-It does.

-OK, so that's the team's bonus buy.

-Yes.

-Now, the special bonus buy is this thing for wallpapering, is it?

Yes! Yes. Not quite entirely sure what it's for.

I think it's sort of like a blotter.

-Oh, right.

-It's stamped "sterling".

Very Victorian-looking handle, you know.

-I think it's obviously a desk item.

-Yes. Is it American, then?

-That's what I think, yes.

-Yes.

-It's all about the price.

It's an unusual object. I only paid 30 quid for it.

It's an intriguing thing, isn't it, for £30?

I think, personally, it's a desk item, I think it's a bit of fun.

Yes. And I think I'd go with you. It's absorbent.

You don't want a standard blotter.

You want an unusual blotter to mop up all that wet ink

when you just signed away the family inheritance.

-Exactly.

-You put that little roller over it.

-Which one do you prefer?

-Which one do I prefer?

By a long shot, I prefer the absorbent roller.

No, seriously, I think these are so speccy,

you might just get lucky, but I think it will be a jammy day

to get much of a profit on £90,

but the internet might help you out there.

Much more certain is that as a roller blotter,

a rare American roller blotter.

I think you could get a profit on that.

Meanwhile, why don't we check out how poor David Harper's getting on?

He's still looking for his two bonus buys.

For the first one, the team bonus buy,

he was left with £220 of leftover lolly, and what's this?

He's gone back to something the team looked at earlier.

Right, I've got you before you close up for the night,

-and the work of art is still there.

-Yeah.

-Thank you. 25?

-Yes.

-Perfect.

Thank you very much indeed. You're an absolute gentleman.

And talking about gentlemen, Mick and Paul didn't quite love

this thing as much as I love it, but I don't care.

It's my bonus buy, and I think they're going to get

the shock of their lives and I can't wait for them to see it.

OK, you've made your point.

So what about bonus buy number two, the special £100 bonus buy?

Right, I'm going to show you something that I've never bought before,

and if I'm honest, I didn't really know they existed. It is a...

..sheep-shearing machine!

How they get a sheep in there, I have no idea.

Well, David Harper, you do have a taste for the obscure, don't you?

-Hmm. The oddities.

-OK, fine. Now, this is the team's bonus buy.

-Yes.

Which is a tube. There's the tube like that,

and in the bottom of it it's got welded in some copper bits of pipe,

and then round the outside of the tube, we've got old snakey here.

-That's a casting.

-Yeah.

And this thing is solid, it's heavy,

several pounds of bronze there.

-Give us the theory on that.

-Well, it's got age.

It reminds me of something from the Arts and Crafts period,

totally handmade. Tim, I bet you there's only one of those in the world.

I hope there only is!

-I knew it!

-Seriously, matey,

this is a bit of leftover metal that somebody's had a go at, isn't it?

-Quite possibly.

-I mean, it has a touch of the Orient to me.

-It does.

-I think some old ship's blown ashore, it's been scrapped,

it's been cut up,

and somebody's made some decorative objects out of it.

I think it's done at the time of the Raj

and somebody's brought it back, and that explains why it is

such a marine-grade solid beautifully cast bronze thing.

And then they've added this snake to it.

Probably for spills or something like that.

It doesn't really matter. Just a decorative thing.

-All I know is that you had £220. What did you spend on this?

-£25.

-Did you?

-Yes.

-Well, that's fair enough, isn't it?

It's intriguing for £25. Now, we've got the special bonus buy, the SBB.

-And I remember these when I was a kid.

-No!

-I do.

You'd go to the farrier to have your pony shod,

-and he'd say, "Do you want me to deal with its mane and tail?"

-Right.

And he had one of these things,

with a length of coily old wire around it,

which took the motive power from that, it then came along to

this socket job, and then he'd do Snowball's tail, or Snowball's mane.

That's right. Or, if you were a sheep farmer,

-you would take your sheep in and it be sheep-sheared.

-Exactly.

Sheep-sheared, exactly right.

-And those things would give it a number one or number two.

-Exactly.

-Now, the number one question is, how much?

-Well, I paid £40 for it.

-How much did you spend on this?

-25.

-£25 on that.

-I have to make a prediction now.

-Please do.

My prediction is that your sheep-shearer will do considerably

better than your bronze pot, and if I was advising anybody

to do anything about anything,

I would definitely go with the sheep-shearer.

-That's got legs.

-Really?

-Yes.

-Well, well, well, thank you, Tim.

-Not at all.

-Not very many legs, but more legs than that.

-It might drop one off as well.

On that happy note, I'm going to trot off right now to Cornwall.

We're going to a divine house on the banks of the Tamar,

where there may be one or two that sheep about.

There's been a dwelling here at Cotehele in Cornwall

since medieval times, but since acquiring it, the Edgecumbe family,

from the end of the 15th and through the 16th century,

had developed it into the fine residence that we see today.

Not only that, over the centuries they filled it with fine furniture,

and that is what we are here to have a look at today.

One of the charming things about Cotehele is the fact that

the Edgecumbe family have owned it for such a very long period of time.

They owned other grander, larger properties elsewhere,

but they never threw anything away,

or at least, anything that was at all interesting they sent here.

As far as furniture's concerned,

this chair is absolutely fascinating.

It's something called a thrown chair,

not because necessarily a king or a queen sat on it as a throne,

but because to turn a piece of wood was referred to once upon a time

as throwing it,

and this type of chair became known thereafter as a thrown chair.

Each of these turned elements would have been turned by a bodger,

a man who took from a coppice lengths of green timber,

and with a foot-powered treadle lathe he turned that green timber,

creating lots of short lengths of elaborately turned timber which,

when put together, can create this type of thrown chair.

This chair could have been made in Europe or in Britain,

any time between about 1400 and 1650.

It's got serious condition issues.

The thing over the centuries

has been repaired left, right and centre.

That skirting is holding the three legs together.

All these unturned lengths of timber throughout are all crudely nailed

into the original turned members to keep it from falling apart.

I would not recommend sitting on that chair today.

Does that table, included in a Scotch whisky advert in 1927,

remind you of anything? Could it be this table?

Well, you're right. It is.

The Scotch whisky company featured this table

and the hallway here at Cotehele in their advertising campaign in 1927,

because they were so fascinated by this table,

which turns out not to be only a table.

It's also a chair.

Commonly known as a chair table, it is metamorphic.

It changes from one thing to another.

But my favourite, favourite chair in this house is this fellow.

He is part of a set of nine chairs

which have survived at Cotehele,

with their original, very cracked and clapped-out leather covering,

which makes them even more charming and desirable,

a saddle-shaped padded back,

dating them to around 1740, something like that,

with this most unusual feature of a hinged seat that rises like that,

and underneath, a folding frame,

which enables you to fold those sturdy little legs away,

and if you were on campaign or about to head off to auction,

you could cart the chair with you.

Talking of campaigns, why don't we head off to the auction

and see how those Reds and Blues are carrying on the battle?

SHIP'S HORN BLOWS

We've travelled to the Merseyside city of Liverpool for the auction.

Well, Adam Partridge is the name of the business,

and Adam Partridge is the name of the auctioneer.

Adam, it's extremely nice to be in Liverpool with you.

-Thank you, Tim, it's nice to see you again. Welcome to Liverpool.

-Thank you very much.

Kicking on for Greg and Tony on the Reds,

their first object is this deep-sea diver's helmet.

I wouldn't want to go very deep in this.

-No, well, it wouldn't fit over my big head, would it?

-Nor mine!

It's a completely decorative item, but I like their thinking,

because of course, Liverpool's a famous maritime city,

and they've obviously seen that we do a maritime sale -

sadly it's not this one, but we do get lots of maritime interest.

I'm hoping that might be all right.

How much might I have to pay in your sale today?

-I would put an estimate of £20-£40.

-OK, £20 paid, so that's OK.

Moving on with the oval copper tray. How do you rate that?

I've seen and sold lots of similar things by the same manufacturer.

They were obviously quite prolific in the way they embossed them

and churned them out in large quantities.

It's a look that's quite popular.

I put 15 to 20, but I won't be surprised if it might make 30 quid.

Well, it needs to, because they paid £28.

Well, there's every chance of a small profit.

How do you feel about my bearded friend here?

-I'm not a fan of gnomes, really.

-Are you not?

-No.

-OK, fine.

This is a particularly fine one,

because it's in composition stone, which means concrete.

I thought I'd call it composite stone to be kind to it, rather than saying concrete gnome.

Composite stone sounds a bit posh.

Whereas concrete sounds dead ordinary,

as if it's been churned out of a mould, which is what it has been.

-Do you know what "gnome" stands for?

-I would love you to tell me.

It means "guarding naturally over Mother Earth".

-That is what gnome stands for.

-I never knew it was an acronym.

Yep, that's exactly what it is.

-I shall tell everybody I meet about that.

-Exactly.

Having picked up that pearl of wisdom, what's it worth,

-this concrete gnome?

-I think we'll put £15-£20,

-hopefully it will make 20 quid.

-OK, £25 is paid.

So this is all small bucks, frankly. They only paid £73.

-They've not taken many risks, have they?

-They certainly haven't.

That's their strategy. That's what they have done, but right now, we're going to go

and have a look at their bonus buys, because there's two of them.

Well, this is exciting, chaps, because bonus buy time comes

and we have two of them. Jonathan, please reveal all.

-Here we go.

-Here we go.

-Ooh!

-Look at that! We have a team bonus buy first.

-I used to ride on this to school.

-How did I know? Obviously, I knew.

-To-To, do you like them?

-Fine. Yeah.

-I spent £90 on them.

-£90?!

-£90.

-What are they made out of?

-Bronze.

-Ooh! Metal theft.

-I think we should go with this. I like this.

Hang on a minute,

because we've got a special £100 bonus buy on offer too.

With my £100, I bought this little object here,

and it's a silver-handled, stamped sterling, little desk blotter,

so you would...when you're writing.

-To stop smudging.

-Exactly. That cost me £30.

-And when was it made, Jonathan?

-Er...it's about 100 years old.

It's stamped sterling, probably American.

And that's the thing to grip, chaps, because American silver doesn't

have a hallmark on it, therefore it doesn't have a date letter.

Where would you be on it?

-I'd like to think there's £10 or £15 in it.

-Ah!

-I like that.

OK, chaps, now, you don't have to pick either of these bonus buys,

because you might decide you've got so much profit at that moment,

you don't need either of them, but you can only pick one,

and that choice will be put to you

after the sale of your first three items.

Right now, why don't we find out what the auctioneer

thinks about Jonathan's bonus buys?

OK, Adam, here we've got the two bonus buys.

There's a pair of these chocks.

I've never seen bronze bus chocks. Come on! Have you?

-No, I don't think I have.

-Well, there we are,

in all honesty they've got to be as rare as a hen's tooth.

They are quite rare, but does that translate to value? I don't know.

How much do you rate them?

I would put £50-£80 estimate because I would have thought

they must be worth that, but it's a hard one to predict.

-Now, the special bonus buy is this roller jobby.

-Yes.

It's a sterling handle rather than a hallmarked handle.

So if it was American they might have lots of these roller blotters.

-They might be quite common over there.

-Now, how much?

-£20-£30.

£30 paid.

Anyway, I had to make a prediction as to which one is likely to bring

the biggest profit and I predicted that that one would, but of course I

won't be telling the team which one I thought they should be going for.

That's it for the Reds, and now for the Blues.

They've got this plastic cup, moulded glass.

It's not of great age, it's not a great wonderful thing, is it?

-I was quite kind in putting £20-£30 estimate.

-OK, £15 paid.

Well, I think it might just be all right.

What about the hames?

The hames are more of a rural country lot.

Of course, we're the city here.

I think typically £20-£40 for a pair of hames.

£30 paid, so not to worry about that.

Then we've got this so-called Meiji fourfold lacquer screen,

which I have to say is one of the worst-quality Japanese fire

screens I have ever seen.

I'm glad you said that, because it saved me saying it.

I was quite kind in saying late Meiji,

trying to add a bit of gloss to it.

-What did it cost?

-It cost £35.

-My estimate was £20-£40.

-What do you think of that?

-I think it's very generous.

I think you could be struggling for a £10 note, quite frankly.

Yeah, yeah, although it flatters on a photograph, Tim,

so it might just get away online.

I have a funny feeling they're going to need their bonus buys,

both of them, so let's go and have a look.

Bonus buy time.

-£220 of team's bonus buy money went to David Harper.

-Yeah.

And it's under there, right, Dave?

It's under there, guys and you two are going to love it. Beyond belief.

THEY LAUGH

How much of our money did you waste... I mean, er...

HE LAUGHS

£25, the best £25 I've spent in about three minutes.

-£25 worth of purchase, yeah?

-Yeah.

You clearly are very under-impressed by that. Yes?

THEY LAUGH

-And will only take it in extremis, I bet you.

-Yes.

-Yes.

Well, you're lucky today, because there are two bonus buys

and the £100 special bonus buy's underneath here

-and I'm going to reveal it.

-I do like that.

-This is interesting.

How are you on sheep shearing, Paul?

-An old expertise of mine back in the city.

-Really?

But it's a funky thing. It's a really good quality piece,

made in England, made to last forever.

Probably early 20th century.

-Knocking on the door of 100 years old.

-How much did you spend?

-£40.

-Right, OK, OK.

-David, how much do you think it will make at auction?

You know what, surprisingly I've never bought a sheep shearing

piece of kit before in my life, so I've no experience at all

so I'm going to guess if someone brought that into me I'd say,

"Mm, very interesting, let's put £40-£60 on it as a bit of a guide

-"and you might be surprised."

-OK, chaps, well, those are your choices.

When the moment comes after the sale of your first three items

you will be asked to pick one or other of these.

You don't have to take either of them,

but you can only take one when the moment comes. But right now,

for the audience at home,

let's find out what the auctioneer thinks about Dave's bonus buys.

So, Adam, the team bonus buy is this piece of pipe,

with the serpent around it. What's your estimate on that?

-Um, £20-£40, I think that was kind.

-OK, £25 paid.

And the special bonus buy is the shearer, which is looking

particularly attractive. What's your estimate on that?

-A good agricultural buy, I've gone £30-£50.

-OK, £40 paid.

And interestingly the shearer was my prediction as to

which of the two is going to bring the most profit.

Well, I won't be telling the team which one I think will make

-the most money. Are you taking the sale today?

-Of course I am.

We're in safe hands.

140 online. 140 online now. No, I didn't think so.

35, no. 100 bid.

-£60.

-How are you feeling, all right?

-Fine.

-Fine.

-You're not feeling nervous, To-To?

-Absolutely not.

First up then is your miniature deep sea diver's helmet

and here it comes.

There we are, always popular in this maritime city of Liverpool.

Any collectors of miniature diver's helmets bid me

£20 please, 20 bid.

-At £20 on the second row now, at £20 the diver's helmet.

-Go on!

-At £20, five, and 30 now.

-Look, you're in profit.

-No, it's £30.

Where will you find another today?

-At £30 on the second row, at £30 I'm selling now.

-Nice auctioneering.

Have you all finished then? £30 and away.

That's good, well done, plus £10, we're very pleased with that.

The Art Nouveau copper tray by JS&S. We've seen these a few times.

Nice little embossed copper tray, there it is there.

And I'm bidding 10, 15, 20 here.

At £20 I'm bid, at 20, is there five now?

At 25 and 30 and five and 40 and five. At £40 here.

And five online, at £45, we're online and selling now. £45.

£40. Bought for 28.

-Selling online at 45.

-£45 online, this is brilliant stuff.

That's two off 30 and that means you're plus 17.

-Our banker lot's coming up now.

-It's coming.

-He cometh.

And start me £10, £10 the garden gnome. We all want one.

£10, here we are, at £10, where's 50?

10 is on the second row, worth a little more, isn't it?

-At £10 down here.

-Come on!

£10 only, at £10 on the gnome, are you all done then, at a tenner?

-On the gnome.

-Oh, no.

-At £10.

-Come on, I'll carry it out!

-Maiden bid of a tenner.

-Oh, no!

-At £10.

-I can't bear it.

-OK, £10, £10 is minus £15.

-There's our gavels gone.

No, you're plus £12, no worries on that.

Are you going to go with one or the other of the bonus buys?

Are you going to go with the team's bonus buy, which is

the bus chocks, or are you going to go with the special bonus buy,

which is the blotter, or are you going to go with neither?

-I'm not that keen on the Midland Red after all.

-You're not?

Look, we've got six pounds. We've got six pounds each.

-You're not going with the special bonus buy?

-No.

You're not going with that? In fact you're not going with any bonus buy?

-Tim, we're not.

-The decision's made, we're going with nothing.

The first of the bonus buys, the team bonus buys,

-coming up now and here it comes.

-We're going to get the chocks away.

What are we going to say for those? £50 for them. £50 for the chocks.

£30, the bus chocks, they've got to be sold.

30, bid me £30, at the back I have 30 bid,

at £30, take five, at £30,

five the bid, 35 now, 40 if you want, 40 bid at the back now,

£40. Is that it? At £40.

£40 the chocks, they're going then at £40 only.

OK, minus £50.

Now, here comes the blotter.

There it is at the front there with a silver handle. And bid me

£20 for this.

10 bid, at £10, at 15 next, 15 seated,

15, 20 online, at £20 online, 20,

any advance on 20?

Keep going.

A fiver down here, 25 the bid, at 25, second row and away then at 25.

Anyone else? At £25 we're down here and done at 25.

-No profit on that.

-Nearly, JP, nearly.

-£25 is minus five pounds.

My prediction was that the desk blotter would make the most profit.

Well, in fact, it made the least loss.

You have preserved your £12, your six pounds each, and that

could be a winning score, so don't say a word to the Blues, all right?

-No.

-Not a word.

-OK, team, do you know how the Reds got on?

-No.

-No.

First up is going to be the novelty horse's head decanter,

and here it comes.

There we are. The clear glass decanter, the horse's head.

Will you bid me £20 for it? £20 the decanter, 20, bid me a tenner.

Horse's head, we're down here at 10.

At £10, I'll take 15 next, at £10 only, £10 it is for the horse's head.

-Go on.

-Any further then, 15.

-Oh, yes.

15 bid, 20, 20 bid and five, seen another one, sir?

It's £20 on my right now,

at £20 it is. At £20, at £20, we're selling then at £20.

£20 is plus five pounds. I'm about to start eating my words, I think.

There we are, the horse hames there, bid me what, £20 for them?

-I've got 10 only bid.

-Come on, come on.

10, 15 anywhere now? At £10, the hames at 10.

Any advance on the horse hames at 10? 15, thank you,

15 in the room now, £15 takes out my bid already.

-You'd get more for scrap, surely.

-Selling at £15.

-Look out.

-All done.

-£15 now.

-£15 is minus £15,

which means overall you're minus £10. Now, not so hot.

Now, here comes the screen.

There we are, the Japanese screen there, inset with lacquered panels,

a folding screen, and I'm bid here 30 and £35. Any advance on this?

At 35 the screen, £35, are you all done on this now?

-40, 40 bid, five, 45, still with me.

-That's in profit.

-Come on, come on.

-£45, are you all done, 45?

-£45.

£45, they need glasses, that's all I can say. That is plus £10.

-Such a good feeling.

-Do you know what that means?

Do you know all that good feeling?

-It means you have won absolutely nothing.

-Brilliant!

What are we going to do then about these bonus buys, all of them?

It's a difficult decision.

Listen, no score could be a winning score, you know

-this programme, right? You could win with having no score.

-Yeah.

You could win, but do you fancy the length of bronze tube with

the dents in it? Or do you fancy the sheep shearing

piece of kit which probably doesn't work?

Let's go for them, we haven't got any money anyway.

It might be a winning score though, quickly, what are you going to do?

-Let's go.

-Let's go what?

-Let's go for it, let's go for it.

What, the dented pipe? The dented pipe.

The dented pipe it is, and here it comes.

This curious pen holder or something, cylindrical pipe

with a snake. Um, wasn't sure how to describe it.

I don't think I've seen another. Bid me £20. £20 for this.

£10. Have a look at that, 10 bid. At £10 on the second row.

Someone has bid on it. Come on.

-£10 only bid, at 10 I'm selling for 10.

-No, no, no.

-No, no, no.

-On the second row.

-It's bronze, it's bronze, Adam.

-All done, a tenner.

-It's done so badly!

-Minus £15.

-Can't believe it!

-A bronze pipe.

-You didn't go with the sheep shearers.

-Here come the sheep shearers.

-OK.

There we go, with the blade and attachments, what do we say for that?

£30 for it. £20.

-10 then. 10 online.

-10!

15 bid, at £15 then in the room at 15 I'm afraid. At £15, a snip at £15.

Ha-ha-ha! Yes, it's his joke.

-At £15.

-Demonstrate it.

-Yeah!

LAUGHTER

I would if you had any hair.

LAUGHTER

Any advance on £15? I can say that, I'm not far behind.

I'm selling in the room at £15, I'll take 20 anywhere else though.

At £15 only.

Minus £25. And my prediction was that the sheep shearer was going to

make the most profit and it finished up by making the most losses.

-And in fact your overall score now is minus £15, OK?

-Still good.

Now, that could be a winning score,

so say not a word to the Reds and we'll review everything in a moment.

Well, well, well,

what an interesting Liverpudlian day we've had today, haven't we? Yes.

It's been great. Have you been chatting to each other at all? No?

-I have to reveal that today's runners-up are the Blues.

-ALL:

-Oh.

Not by much. I have to say, it's been an unlucky contest for you.

You started off with a profit of a fiver,

you made another profit on that horrible, horrible screen

and that led to a wiped face and then you took a bonus buy,

-one of the offering, that lost you £15.

-LAUGHTER

Have you had a good time?

-We've had a fantastic time.

-Yeah, it could have gone either way.

-The victors today, you go home with £12.

-Folding stuff.

Like I say, not much between them, £12. Greg, are you happy with that?

-Absolutely ecstatic.

-I'm not surprised.

A couple of good profits to start off with, then that

-gnome let you down.

-Yes, the gnome cameth.

The gnome cameth and it tooketh away your chance of a golden gavel,

-so that was that.

-Exactly.

But very cleverly you didn't go with the bonus buy.

Neither of the bonus buys in the special programme made any profit.

You could have taken the bonus buy like they did

and lost £50 or five pounds, but you didn't.

As it is, you stuck in there and I admire you for that.

Anyway, we've had great fun.

-Join us soon for some more bargain hunting, yes?

-ALL:

-Yes!