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On today's programme, we've got a pair of identical twins.

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Which could be confusing! Morning.

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Or twice as much fun. Morning!

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So, let's go Bargain Hunting, and find out.

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The Peterborough festival of antiques

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is one of the largest in the country.

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In fact, it's positively enormous.

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I just hope that our teams don't get lost.

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The only thing David Barby is losing is his patience...

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I find this very difficult.

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..with identical twins, Malc and Mel.

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£29, you have more... Think in terms of something a bit more valuable - £100, something like that.

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Blue team, Heather and Angela, are being kept in check.

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We keep these especially for the contestants, what happens is

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when one is misbehaving, Tim gets one of these and takes a swipe at them!

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And there are tears and laughter at the auction, but which team will win the day?

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Here you are, everyone, hello.

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-Hello.

-Lovely to see you.

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Now, Malc, have you ever used being a twin to your advantage?

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Once or twice.

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One memorable occasion, we were doing a Mr And Mrs competition.

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Mel had been up on stage answering the questions with his wife.

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And when it came for the turn when he should have

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gone back on stage to reveal all, we swapped places in the background, so I'd heard all of the questions.

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And I went back on there and gave all the right answers, or so I think, but he says

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-I got one of them wrong.

-He got at least one wrong.

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Did he? Even though he was there to listen to the original.

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I had had a drink, though.

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Yes, quite! Do you think being twins will give you an advantage shopping today?

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I think so.

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We're looking for book ends.

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That might create a bit of confusion, if we come walking at the dealer from both ways.

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Yes, quite. That is a good idea!

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Cover up your name. There we go, look at that!

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Yes!

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That's a first time on Bargain Hunt.

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It certainly is.

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Very good luck, chaps.

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Now, girls, where did you two meet, you two hell raisers?

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In the maternity hospital in Leicester when we had our sons together.

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We were in for a week, and we laughed from the minute we met until the minute we went out.

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What was so funny?

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We just really hit it off. We got on really, really well.

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-And we didn't want to go home.

-Now, Angela, you're into your music?

-Yes.

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Is there anything that I might have heard of?

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In the '70s, I was a teeny bopper. I met Marc Bolan, once.

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Oh, yes, I've heard of him.

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Have you? From T-Rex. I like ska music as well.

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-Ska music?

-I still go to...

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What is ska music?

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It's the Beat, the Specials, Madness.

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So I've been to some recent gigs.

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Specials...Madness...

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And you've also recently seen Neville Staple?

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-Yes, he's out of the Specials.

-Is he?

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He would be, wouldn't he? And, Ranking Roger?

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Yes, the Beat, yes....

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Oh, yes, I know them well (!) Good, lovely.

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Now, Heather, you're very good at finding a bargain, love?

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-Yes.

-Tell us about it.

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I once was very interested in an Art Deco cocktail cabinet where I worked.

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I was the only person who liked it.

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Nobody else liked it. Then finally, my boss said if you would like it, you can have it if you pay to have

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it taken home.

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So I paid £5 to a driver and sold it a few years later on the internet for £975.

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-Well, that's just magical, isn't it?

-Yes.

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I think you're going to do very well. Now, it's the money moment.

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£300 apiece, there's your 300 smackers.

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You know the rules - your experts await and off you go and very, very good luck.

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Malc and Mel, I can read, see.

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Seeing double for the Reds, it's David Barby.

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Causing hearts to flutter for the Blues,

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Thomas Plant.

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So, what are the rules of the game? Let me explain.

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Each team gets £300 and an hour's shop for three items.

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It couldn't be simpler, so, it's time to send them off.

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-Twins always intrigue me to see if you have exactly the same tastes, do you?

-Not really, no.

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I think going for something quirky, a little bit different.

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Something quirky, get it at a good price, make some money.

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-That's good, what about you, Mel?

-Small silver.

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A bit of silver, something like that.

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Oh, dear, both teams are after the same thing, could be trouble ahead!

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-What is that?

-Actually, these are props from

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Bargain Hunt, we keep these especially for the contestants.

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What happens is, when one of them is misbehaving, Tim gets one of these and takes a swipe at them.

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To get them back into line.

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Put it down.

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Good, look at that coffin? That's a bit weird.

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After we've finished with you with the clubs, you get put in there.

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# Stop your messing around... #

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Yeah, stop your messing around, Blues, the Reds are on the case!

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That's quite pretty, Dave.

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It is pretty, pretty.

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1920.

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That is pretty and people do collect coffee cans.

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That's a sort of afterthought if you've got

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-very little money left and you've got to come back for something.

-Yeah.

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This one here is interesting.

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-You've heard of the Wemyss factory?

-Yeah.

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This is the concern that took over Wemyss

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when it got into, not difficulties, but closed its operations down.

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This one here of the plums and the leaves is typical Wemyss.

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This is quite nice, it's a little muffin dish.

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What's the price for that?

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That's £38.

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I think that's quite nice for £38.

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It seems to be perfect.

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-Excuse me, what's the very best you can do on this?

-£25.

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Be as it's them, go on, then.

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We call him the road accident. He is always knocking people down!

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I know him! Yeah, OK.

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-That's £20.

-I think we should go for that.

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At £20, I can see we are going to make a profit there.

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Yeah, there is some money there.

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It's nice, something you can still use if you wanted to, for butter in the morning.

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If you have breakfast and sit down...

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Civilised people.

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A very civilised buy, David, but the Blues have something on which to

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bring you your breakfast in bed. I say!

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Very nice, interesting design.

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-I like that.

-Arts & Crafts. How much is the tray?

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-£150.

-Is that your best?

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I'd do it for a straight £130. Yeah!

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Right. How much do you think it would make at auction?

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Between £120 and £180. You've got a possibility of making a profit.

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It's quite a good design on there.

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-Yeah.

-What do you think?

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-I quite like the pattern on it.

-The only thing about Arts & Crafts,

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which I will warn you about, it is the most fickle market.

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One day everyone's after it, the next day they're not, that is the thing,

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but there is a constant collectorship for it.

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-How much did you say it was?

-£130, he said. That was the best price.

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-If you say £120.

-I'd do £125.

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There you are. £125.

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-You want to do it?

-Yeah.

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OK. Are you happy?

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You're not convinced. I can see it!

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I can see you're totally not convinced.

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-I wouldn't have it in my house, but I think Arts & Crafts, somebody would like that.

-Yep. OK.

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-It's not a bad thing.

-That's fine.

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-Go for it?

-That's our first purchase.

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Brilliant, and a big one as well. I like that.

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Why don't you have a look at one each, seeing as you're twins.

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-They are blue earthenware feathered plates.

-How much are they?

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-I will do them at £130.

-Earl Grey.

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These are worthy of consideration.

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£29, you've got more, think in terms of something a little more valuable, 100, something like that

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It's not going too well, actually.

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I'm not getting any great comeback, what they like, what they're looking for.

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They are just wandering around, picking up anything,

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without having any idea of what they're looking for.

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I'm getting no input from you, no direction, what you're looking for.

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Come on, boys!

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Were 20 minutes in, we have only one object.

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We've got nothing else in view.

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Right. OK. So we need to...

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You need something quirky. I'm just looking at that cabinet over there.

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I can see from here a small silver figure.

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It's the cat and the fiddle.

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-Can we have a look at that?

-Thank you.

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-Now, this is what my quirky thing...

-Is it quirky enough for you?

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Well, it hits both. It's quirky and it's silver, so yeah.

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Well, that's good.

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It is silver, I assume?

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Yes, it's an import mark.

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This was probably produced in Holland.

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Then the import mark for London which is 1899. I think that's rather nice.

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It hits silver, cats, music, even nursery rhymes.

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What's the price? It's £48.

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Right, do we need to...

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I think we need to negotiate.

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The very best I could do would be £40.

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-£40, no less?

-No less.

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How much do you think it would make at auction?

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I can see a profit margin, possibly of £10-15.

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I wouldn't have thought any more. The stall holder is being quite generous in the reduction.

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-Shall we go for it?

-Let's go for it.

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Excellent, right, pussy, you're going to find a new home.

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Do you want to collect something?

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You've got £30 in your pocket and you've come to Peterborough

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and you're going to make a start at collecting sporting memorabilia.

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You could kick off with these three jokers.

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Here we've got three pucker leather-covered cricket balls,

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each of which are stamped Hobbs, Jack Hobbs.

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Possibly England's greatest batsman,

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the man who between 1900 and 1930-odd

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scored 190-odd centuries.

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And I suppose, after he retired he lent his name

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to the cricket ball manufacturers, hence we've got his name stamped beautifully on these balls today.

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If you want to buy

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a top-class Test cricket ball today, new, it will cost you £70.

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These three, £10.

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And with your second £10 note you could have bought this...

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It's not a cricket ball, at least not a cricket ball as we would define a cricket ball today.

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It's too big. It's too light, but it has a lovely feel to it.

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It probably dates from about 1820 to 1850.

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What did it cost?

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It cost £10.

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But by far the most exciting and potentially profitable

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old ball that I've been able to spot in the fair today

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is this fellow, a perfectly round golf ball.

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It's made of rubber. If I squeeze it, it moves under my thumb.

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This dates from around about 1850 or 1860.

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Some of these can be worth as much as £10-15,000.

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Now we started off this morning with £30 to invest.

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We spent £10 on the three cricket balls.

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We spent £10 on the old leather ball

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and this little ball we've just spent £8 on.

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It's all a lot of old balls, really, isn't it?

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Now, girls, what have you got your hands on?

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That could be our little...

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-Gosh!

-Whoops!

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What do you think of that, Thomas? It looks like Clarice Cliff, but it's not.

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-Absolutely, but it's of the period.

-Yeah.

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Parrot & Co., biscuit barrel Burslem, £40.

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Chromed top, the chrome looks in not bad condition.

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Could do with a little bit of a polish.

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The flowers are losing a little bit of their colour.

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I suppose it is a biscuit barrel and you get biscuit barrel collectors, you get Art Deco collectors.

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-I quite like that.

-I do.

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-What's the very best?

-What's the best on that?

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-The best is £30 on that one.

-Do you think we would make anything?

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A bit less and you've got a chance.

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-What do you think about 20.

-No, I couldn't do it for 20.

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25 would be the absolute best.

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-What do you think?

-Well, it's a possibility, isn't it?

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-Time is marching on.

-OK.

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-Are those your lamps there?

-Yeah.

-Can I have a look at the lamps?

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Ah, they've spotted something else.

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What's Thomas found?

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-They do.

-They look nice.

-That is common or garden.

-Is it?

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Yeah.

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Woof! Hey, you, throw the ball.

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Do you think they're miner's lamps because of the area?

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-Yes, miner's lamps always do well at Charles Hanson's.

-Really?

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-It's a smart buy.

-How much is that one?

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That's £85 on that one.

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-What is the best price?

-That is the best on that one.

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You could get the miner's lamp and the biscuit barrel.

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You've got enough money for those things if you wanted.

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-Yeah.

-It could be quite interesting.

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I have no idea what these things go for.

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Woof, go on!

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-Tickle me tummy.

-How old is that one?

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I would say about 1910, 1920.

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-It's got a bit of age, then.

-What to you think, Thomas?

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I'm quite keen.

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-All right, then.

-What about that?

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-I like that.

-I love that.

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Yeah. How much did you say that was?

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-£25.

-And how much is that, again?

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-£85.

-So, that's £110.

-110, yeah.

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-Could you do £100 for both.

-No, I can't. I've dropped them both.

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OK. We have to try.

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I know. I have to try myself.

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I know. What do you think then, Thomas? Shall we go for it?

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Do you want to go for it? We'll take a risk.

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Yeah, let's take a risk.

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-Yeah?

-It's not our money!

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Actually, it's 110 of our money, girls, but anyway you're done.

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David, meanwhile has taken the Reds into the big hall.

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This is a huge pavilion.

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If you go off on your own, make certain you can see me.

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Good advice, David.

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Where are the chaps?

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Where have they gone?

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I find this very difficult.

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20 minutes, that's not a lot, is it?

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Erm, let's see if I can get you excited in here.

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A piece of American silver in the form of a retriever dog.

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That's quite nice, how much is that?

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Can you see that?

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Yeah, you've the dog interest there.

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I used to have a stand at Crufts,

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this sort of thing would sell extremely well there.

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-Do you like that?

-I do like this, yeah.

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-OK.

-Are you ready.

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-Best price?

-40 quid.

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I'm not haggling with you, 40 quid.

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You tell 'em, mate!

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It is sterling. It is stamped on the back, but it's definitely American.

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But it's a nice model of a dog.

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I like the dog.

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It's just if it has the size appeal.

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They say small is beautiful.

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It's a toss-up between that and those plates that you saw.

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-I don't think you will make a profit on the plates.

-No.

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We have to make a decision here and now.

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-We have to trot with the dog, haven't we?

-Trot with the dog!

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-30 seconds to go.

-Yes or no?

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-Yes, we buy.

-We buy.

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We'll go for it.

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Time's up, then, the shopping is over.

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Now our two experts can take any leftover lolly and shop for their team's bonus buy.

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These could boost or bust any profits at auction.

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But first, let's remind ourselves of what the Reds bought.

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Mel and Malc plumped for the muffin dish at £20.

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Then they found the silver novelty cat for 40.

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Finally they bought the silver American napkin clip, also for £40.

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What a relief. We've finished in that huge aquarium of places.

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It was so hot. Sticky.

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-Sticky?

-Sticky.

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Not half as sticky as you lot are going to find it.

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-You only spent £100, right?

-Only £100.

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Only 100, that is so miserable. We give you £300, you're twins, right?

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-Yeah.

-You were supposed to mirror each other. That is £50 each.

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Anyway, I would like £200 of leftover lolly, please, Malc.

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-There we go.

-£200, David, this is the most positive moment for you all day, isn't it?

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Absolutely, yes! I am going to see if I can find a pair of things.

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I can't imagine what.

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-A matching pair!

-A matching pair.

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Well, no better person to find a matching pair than David Barby.

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Why don't we, however, check out what the Blues have bought?

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Heather and Angela went for this Arts & Crafts copper tray at £125.

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They settled on an Art Deco biscuit barrel for 25.

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Their final buy was a miner's lamp for 85.

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-You've taken a big risk today?

-We have, a very big risk.

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Are you nervous about it?

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-Yes!

-So am I!

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I think you're very smooth.

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-I think your shopping was very smooth.

-It was smooth.

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You're happy, aren't you?

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-Yes.

-We are.

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Angela is sounding a bit shifty.

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How much did you spend all round, then?

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-235 was it?

-Yeah.

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I'd like, please, £65 of leftover lolly.

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You've got that? Straight up. Have you got a plan, Tom.

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I have got a plan, I just have to work them down on the price.

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-Well, nobody better at hammering it down than you, Thomas. Good luck, girls.

-Thank you.

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For the rest of us, we're heading off 60 miles south-west or east-ish

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to Canons Ashby... At least, I think that's where it is!

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And, of course, the correct direction is south-west

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to this Elizabethan manor house in Northamptonshire.

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But however you get here, the trip will be worth it.

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The Dryden family lived here for over 500 years from the 1550s and they were quite an artistic bunch.

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Edward Dryden asked his cousin, Elizabeth Creed,

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to decorate this room and what an extraordinary job she's done.

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We're not talking about one or two rolls of flock wallpaper.

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No, these paint effects are called trompe l'oeil,

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a trick of the eye.

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Has your eye been fooled by that cornice that looks just as

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if it is out of carved marble or moulded plaster?

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Very effective, isn't it?

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Actually, it's simply a single plank of wood

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that's been nailed up on an angle, but so cleverly is the paint effect

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that it gives you all those shadow lines and makes you think that it's real.

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Clever, isn't it?

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Particularly when you consider that Elizabeth Creed was around 70 years of age when she did it,

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perhaps assisted a bit by her daughter.

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Some would say that this room is sparsely furnished, but quite frankly in the early 18th Century

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they didn't have that much furniture but here they've made up for it with some spectacular quality.

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The National Trust rate this set of chairs as some of the finest pieces in the house.

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These are exceptionally good quality on account of the materials and carving.

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The Flemish designer, Daniel Marot,

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who first envisaged this arrangement of a carved top rail and a very tall

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and spindly back did so in the 1660s, in the low countries and this

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is an English interpretation dating from about 1700.

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What I love about them is this very intricate carving.

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If I spin it around like that and you look at the back, the back is almost as big a tour de force

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as the front because out of a single piece of walnut,

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this carver has pierced that single plank not once,

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not twice, but about 50 or 60 times,

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so that your eye is not deceived when you look at it from the front.

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In other words, you look at that leaf and it

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looks like a perfectly defined leaf.

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That is only because what he's done is to cut away behind that leaf

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to taper the timber behind,

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so that it looks so crisp and outstanding when you look at it from the front.

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But if we scroll forward just 16 or 17 years, another whole suite of furniture was

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commissioned for this house, which looks on the face of it, perhaps a little dull and uninteresting.

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But if I give you a reveal and take off this dust cover,

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you get to see the absolute beauty of this set.

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The thing that hits you is the quality of the needlework.

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It's so bright, it's so clean.

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How can this possibly date from 1716 or 1717?

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It's because, of course, the family have covered them up, using those dust covers

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and being very careful with them because they were great treasures.

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You can see the same idea with the very tall tapering back, except, of course, this is close upholstered.

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We've then got this lovely padded seat that incorporates, along with the back, bits of Chinese porcelain.

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These blue and white pots are not there by accident,

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they represent the most expensive imports from the east. And then sprays of stylised and exotic

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flowers and foliage sum up all that is good about taste in this period.

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Amazing when you think these things were ordered for use in this house

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and they remain here nearly 300 years later.

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The big question today is, of course, will our teams have any time to sit around over at the auction?

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Well, we're in for a treat today, we've come to Derbyshire, Hanson's sale rooms in Mackworth,

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just outside Derby, to be with the great man, Charles Hanson.

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-Thank you, Tim.

-Lovely to see you. Our Red team, Mel and Malc, they are difficult to tell apart,

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but one or other of them went with this Wemyss Bovey Tracey, so-called Wemyss Bovey Tracey.

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But if it's Wemyss, why does it say "Plichta" on it?

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Jan Plichta, who was Czech, he bought the chain Neville Wemyss in the early 1930s.

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So, it's close to Wemyss but not what I call proper Scottish Wemyss?

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No, it's basically following the tradition on at a later date, post 1930.

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So, what's this little muffin dish worth?

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Plichta has a good following, between 20-30, on a good day it might make £40.

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-That's brilliant. They only paid £20 for it.

-Good.

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Next is this wacky cat musician, but made of solid silver and imported around 1889.

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Yes, it's a great toy.

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It's a novel toy. Extremely sweet.

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It is silver, has the import marks in.

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-It's in good condition.

-What's your estimate?

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Our guide price is between 30-50, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it double up.

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-Really? Gosh. Well, they only paid £40, so that's exciting.

-Yes.

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The last item is so minute, you can hardly see it there lurking,

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but the little silver clip.

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-Yes.

-It is nicely done, raised with a little setter sporting dog?

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It is. It's got the great sporting interest behind it. It's neat.

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I think it is second core to the 20th Century, it's what it's worth, it's nice.

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Between 20-30, it might make £35.

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-OK, well, they paid £40.

-OK.

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Overall they spent £100 on the three pieces, whether or not they'll need

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the bonus buy, I'm not quite sure, but let's have a look at it anyway.

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£100 is all you spent, which is pretty miserable.

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You gave David £200 to go and find his bonus buy, has he blown the lot?

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-David?

-Almost, except for £5.

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Blimey.

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-I bought this.

-Oh, dear.

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I have to question myself why on earth did I buy Clarice Cliff, but it was there on the stand.

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It just beckoned me.

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-It's an unusual piece.

-It is unusual. It is called My Garden.

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You get a variety of colouring in these.

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It was the appeal of the purples, the blues, the oranges.

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I thought it was quite devastating.

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-Is it a wall plaque.

-It's a wall plaque.

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Imagine going into a house of the 1930s, plain white walls or should I

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say magnolia? And this on the wall, quite stunning. Quite stunning.

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-Do you like it?

-I like it, yes.

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-Would you pay £195 for it?

-Probably not.

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I would be doubtful. I would hang it on my wall, it is nice.

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Do you think it would make anything.

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I'm not certain, at the end of the day,

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whether we might break even, but it depends if there's people out there keen on Clarice Cliff.

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I think it's on the wobble at the moment.

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The point is, you don't have to decide now. You decide after the sale of your first three items.

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You may be so desperate after the sale of your first three items you will clutch at any straw.

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On the other hand, you may be comfortably ahead and decide to reject it. That is your choice.

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Now, for the viewers at home, let's find out what the auctioneer thinks about David's plaque.

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Well, Charles, this is bright and breezy, isn't it?

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-It is.

-Summer flowers.

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-Beautiful.

-How gorgeous.

-Yes.

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Would you want to own it?

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I quite like Clarice, she was so forward thinking for her times.

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In that great '30's depression she was blossoming

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-in this sort of production and technique and I like it.

-You like it?

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-I like it.

-How much do you like it?

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I like it so much, I would value this today at sale between £70-100.

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-How much?

-On a really, really good day, the wind blowing across Derbyshire, £120.

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-Top end?

-Top end.

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David Barby paid £195.

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-That takes your breath away, doesn't it?

-Yes, it does.

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So, this is a big risk strategy for our team to go with this, isn't it?

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Anyway, that's it for the Reds. Now for the Blues.

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Their first item is the copper tray.

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I don't know how you're finding it, but I'm disappointed, usually, at how much these things bring.

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-These Arts & Crafts bits of copper.

-I quite agree with you.

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Whilst we can be dismissive of copper kettles, warming pans, this should be doing better.

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How much do you think it's going to do?

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Between £50-80.

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Putting your most optimistic hat on, £125 they paid.

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So, I'm forecasting a whopping great loss. I think you're quite right.

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That's difficult. What about the biscuit barrel?

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Again, we look at it and we think Crocus pattern, Clarice, 1928, 1932 with a chrome top.

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It is not, it's actually a Parrot & Co factory.

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-Parrot?

-There were two brothers called Charles and Arthur.

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-Were there?

-And they founded a factory.

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What you don't know, Charles, is nothing short of miraculous?

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-It's called homework.

-OK. Well, good for you for doing the homework.

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It looks to me, decidedly like something that might have come from Woolworths.

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Which it may have done in the '30s and it's pretty.

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And it was cheap in the 1930s.

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-It was cheap. But it takes you back to that period.

-If you want to go back to that period!

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-£10-15.

-There's a lot of people that would pay £10-15 not to be in that period.

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Anyway, they didn't pay too much at £25, I think they'll be fine.

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However, their last item, the miner's lamp is another question, Charles.

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Because, it's genuine, right?

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-It is, agreed.

-It is presumably Welsh.

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Yes, agreed.

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Quite a long way from Wales here, aren't we?

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Well, they are a part of our history, but they are two-a-penny.

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I will say it's market value will be between £30-40.

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-£85 paid.

-On a good day £30-40.

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Yes. So on a bad day, maybe £15-20.

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-I hope not.

-Yeah, I hope not too.

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Oh, dear, there's going to be a great falling out here.

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I've a funny feeling they definitely need their bonus buy, so let's have a look at it.

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Now, Tom, you seem to have selected something large for our bonus buy.

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You girls spent £235, £65 went to Thomas and he's bought something enormous.

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Oh, my life!

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OK, I spent all the money on what I would say was a scratch-built model river boat

0:31:230:31:29

with a very nice engine in there, look at that lovely engine.

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Probably made in the 1940s by some keen river boat enthusiast.

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It's a rather handsome boat. I thought for £65, to buy something like this, I thought it's reasonable.

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-Think of the man hours which went into this.

-And the love.

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The love, absolutely! It is rather delightful.

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-There is a huge fascination with model boats.

-Is there?

-Yeah.

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Particularly for boys!

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Which is why Heather and Ange are looking a little bit iffy about this, Tom?

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Girls, the antiques business, I'll probably

0:32:050:32:08

get shot down in flames for this, is mainly populated by men and people who collect boats are mainly male.

0:32:080:32:15

So, I think we've a good chance with this.

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-So, £65?

-£65.

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-It was marked up at a lot more.

-What sort of profit?

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I would have thought in a good toy sale, these things go for between £80-120.

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There you have it.

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That's the honest answer from Thomas. It's slightly up in the air.

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-You may or may not need to pick the boat.

-I think we will.

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Right now, let's find out what the auctioneer thinks about the river craft.

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There we go Charles, something for your nautical section.

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Right up your street, this.

0:32:490:32:52

I can see you at the helm now.

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One of those little caps, covered in scrambled eggs.

0:32:540:32:57

This looks like shed work to me?

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It's quite crude.

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Crude is a good word for it, Charles.

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But, it was one man's reward for hard work.

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He'd probably got a very grateful son.

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He couldn't afford to go to Gamages and buy the real thing, so he simply built it in his shed.

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Realistically, my guide price would be between £30-40.

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Thomas paid £65.

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He wants to weigh anchor with his team and head off across the Channel in this.

0:33:240:33:29

-You're in charge of the auction today?

-I shall do my best.

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I shall fly high, fly low.

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-OK.

-OK, captain.

-Very good.

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How are you feeling about your lots, Heather, are you quite confident?

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-Not confident at all.

-What about you, Ange?

0:33:460:33:49

-Not really, no.

-What do you mean, "Not really"?

0:33:490:33:51

Are you feeling a bit nervy?

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Feeling a bit anxious.

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First up is your tray, here it comes.

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We go to a very fine Arts & Crafts twin-handle tray.

0:33:590:34:04

I'm bid £20 for this. 20 I'm bid.

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-Oh, Lordy!

-Do I see 2 now?

0:34:070:34:10

Look at the tray, it's very fine. 2, 5, 8, 30 I'm bid. At £32, sir.

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Come on, I'm out, do I see 5 now?

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I look for 5, come on.

0:34:150:34:17

-At £32 for an Arts & Crafts tray... 5, 40.

-Go on, 40.

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45!

0:34:220:34:25

45, sir. 45 and 50, madam. 50 now?

0:34:250:34:30

No, her head's hidden.

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I can't see her.

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45, you're in, sir. Fair warning all done, we sell at 45.

0:34:330:34:38

That is not as bad as I first thought.

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I think that is minus 80.

0:34:410:34:44

A very fine biscuit barrel

0:34:440:34:46

with a chrome-plated mounted cover and handle.

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It's neat and tidy, but I am bid £5 for it.

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-Well done, girls.

-£5, do I see 8? 10, 12 and I'm out.

0:34:530:34:57

At 12, I've got 10, do I see 12, sir.

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15, 18. Come on, come on. 18 now.

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Once, twice, three times, we say sell to a lady.

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£18, so that's minus 7.

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-Now the miner's lamp.

-There we are 206, there it is.

0:35:100:35:13

A nice lamp, do I see 20, please? 18? 22, 5. I've got 8 and 30.

0:35:130:35:19

I'm out, do I see 2? Come on, 30, I'll take 2 now.

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He's got a long way to go.

0:35:230:35:25

30, I'll take 2, 5.

0:35:250:35:26

5, 8. One more. Look at me.

0:35:260:35:30

Look at me. 38, 40. 45, madam?

0:35:300:35:34

45, you've come so far. 45, 50.

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-50, you're almost there, 5.

-Come on.

0:35:370:35:42

55, why not? 60.

0:35:420:35:43

-It could be yours.

-Go on.

-Go on.

0:35:430:35:47

Go on, sir, why not? Your daughter says yes. OK, we'll leave it.

0:35:470:35:51

60, I'll take 5.

0:35:510:35:53

Fair warning, all done. 60 on the second row, we say sell to you, sir.

0:35:530:35:57

-Well, that's brilliant.

-60.

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That is minus £25.

0:36:020:36:04

-I have to say...

-That is better than I thought.

-Yeah, it started at 18.

0:36:040:36:09

Let me give you the numbers, so that is minus 112.

0:36:090:36:13

What are you going to do about the bonus buy, this old boat?

0:36:140:36:17

-We'll have the bonus buy.

-You've had everything else.

0:36:170:36:20

Yes, why not?! Let's go for it.

0:36:200:36:22

You've had everything else, you might as well have this as well.

0:36:220:36:25

There we are, it's a scratch-built model.

0:36:270:36:30

Shed-built.

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Shed built!

0:36:310:36:33

Where do we start? I'm bid £10 for it.

0:36:330:36:37

Do I see 12?

0:36:370:36:39

-I simply don't believe it.

-Come on, look at it, £10.

0:36:390:36:42

Do I see 12? Now, on a stand as well.

0:36:420:36:44

Do I see £12, surely? £10, 12, I'm out. Do I see 15?

0:36:440:36:49

Come on, 15, 18. 20, 5.

0:36:490:36:53

30? No, he says.

0:36:530:36:55

At 25, I'll take 8. Fair warning, all done, we say sale at £25.

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Minus £40 on that.

0:37:000:37:02

That's made it even worse.

0:37:020:37:04

It's made it £152 losses.

0:37:040:37:07

That is serious.

0:37:070:37:10

This has not been our most successful outing, has it?

0:37:100:37:13

-No, not really.

-We'll shut up about this. Don't say a thing to the Reds.

0:37:130:37:17

-We won't.

-We daren't!

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You daren't, no.

0:37:180:37:20

Now, M and M, this is the exciting moment.

0:37:310:37:35

-Yes.

-Very much so.

0:37:350:37:37

How are you feeling?

0:37:370:37:39

Slightly confident.

0:37:390:37:41

What about you, Malc?

0:37:410:37:43

Yes. Two out of three, I think.

0:37:430:37:45

I think, overall, I'm very confident for you. I hope you do really well.

0:37:450:37:50

The first piece coming up is the muffin or butter dish. Here it comes.

0:37:500:37:54

A very nice early 20th-Century Wemyss,

0:37:540:37:58

Plichta butter or muffin dish and cover.

0:37:580:38:01

£15 I'm bid. Do I see 18 now?

0:38:010:38:04

-At £15, come on! At £15.

-Come on.

0:38:040:38:07

18, 20, 22.

0:38:070:38:09

I'm out, do I see 5? Come on.

0:38:090:38:11

At £20, one more it could be yours.

0:38:110:38:14

Fair warning, we're selling to you, sir.

0:38:140:38:16

At £22, all out...

0:38:160:38:19

£22. That is disappointing there.

0:38:190:38:22

-Better than a loss.

-Yeah.

-Now the cat.

0:38:220:38:24

Interesting late Victorian silver miniature cat

0:38:240:38:29

on a high-backed chair, playing the violin.

0:38:290:38:32

Plays a good tune.

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I am bid 40, do I see 2 now?

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-You paid 40.

-I have 40, I'll take 2. 40, I'll take 2, come on.

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Oh, come on!

0:38:420:38:44

40, I'll take 2, surely. Where's 2 now?

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2, 5, 8, sir, and I'm out at 48.

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-Do I see 50? Come on.

-It's worth more than that.

0:38:490:38:52

-Do I see 50 now?

-Come on, come on.

0:38:520:38:53

Let's see £50, surely.

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Fair warning to you, sir, we say sell at £48, the gavel falls.

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£48, it's plus £8. It's profit.

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We're making a tenner.

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-It ought to be more.

-Here's the dodgy one.

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There it is, 184, a sterling silver, perhaps American,

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oval napkin clip, embossed with a retriever.

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I am bid straight in at £25.

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-Oh, good.

-It really is well cast. 25, do I see 8 now? Come on!

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At £25, where is 8?

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At £25, do I see 8 now?

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32, madam in green. I'm out, you're in.

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£32. Do I see 5, now? Come on!

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At £32, fair warning, once, twice, it's going to go at £32.

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-All done. Yours, ma'am.

-Minus 8.

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Well, I'm afraid that wipes out your £8 profit,

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but you did have an earlier £2 profit so you are plus 2.

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We're in profit.

0:39:490:39:50

We're in profit.

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This is very difficult, because you are £2 in the bank.

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Are you going to go with the My Garden multi-coloured plaque which cost David £195?

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He was very...

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He pushed it well, didn't he?

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..hopeful with that.

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Are you going to park your £2 in the bank or are you going to risk it?

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-I think we'll stick with the £2.

-That's a pound each!

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And go home happy.

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Are you going to do that?

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We're going to reject it.

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Well, it's all strategy.

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It could all look silly when it makes £300 in about two seconds' time.

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-Your decision is to stick? Yes?

-Yes, we'll stick.

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We're not going with the bonus buy, but we're going to sell it anyway, here it comes.

0:40:330:40:36

The Clarice Cliff

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circular pottery, My Garden.

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It's unusual.

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For unusual, it wins.

0:40:430:40:45

It's in good condition.

0:40:450:40:47

It is quite a rarity. I am bid £40.

0:40:470:40:50

Oh dear!

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-It sounds like a lynching.

-£40, I'll take 5 now.

0:40:520:40:55

It's Clarice Cliff at her very best. Do I see 5? Come on! 45, 55.

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65...

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No, the man there's just conked out at 65.

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60, I'm bid, do I see 5 now? You're all here, but no hands.

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-Then at £60, the gavel falls, all out.

-I don't believe this.

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Once, twice and three times, it's gone.

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That is minus £135.

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I think you did well to preserve your £2.

0:41:210:41:24

Good decision.

0:41:250:41:27

Well, rarely have I presented a programme where the teams are so completely poles apart.

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-Now, have you been chatting at all?

-No.

-You have no idea of the scale of this stuff?

0:41:430:41:48

Well, I have to reveal that the Blues have done really, really badly.

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I mean, you have lost on every single item that you touched, all right?

0:41:530:41:57

You went with the bonus buy, expecting great things from our river boat champion here.

0:41:590:42:05

-Yeah.

-Even that failed you.

0:42:050:42:07

-I'm afraid overall you are minus £152.

-Oh, dear, as much as that?

0:42:070:42:11

Which, as you only spent £235, is seriously going some, all right!

0:42:110:42:17

But it doesn't matter, does it?

0:42:170:42:18

-No. We enjoyed it.

-You enjoyed it.

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My gosh, have we enjoyed having you on the programme!

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You have been just the greatest fun, but, boys, you are the winners by taking home £2.

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THEY LAUGH

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As I can't tell you apart, I will give you one each.

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There you go, that is entirely fair, I think.

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-A good amount to end up with.

-It's a very nice amount to end up with.

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If you'd only won £1, I would have had to give you two 50ps.

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Anyway, congratulations, I'm glad you didn't go with your bonus buy.

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We have had great fun on Bargain Hunt.

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Join us soon for some more Bargain Hunting, yes?

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Yes!

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