Hungerford 14 Bargain Hunt

Today, we're in the Royal County of Berkshire.

Here in Hungerford, we're positively surrounded by regal reminders!

Ha! Let's go bargain hunting! Yeah.

Hungerford has hosted many a monarch.

Elizabeth I, Charles I, James I have all stayed here.

And William of Orange was once offered

the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in one of Hungerford's pubs!

Ha! But what about today?

Will the reds reign supreme?

Will the blues become King and Queen?

Here's a quick squint at some right royal antics!

'It's a military operation on today's show.

'The reds fall for a sailor - as you do!'

-I'd rather go with the sailor!

-Would you really?

'The blues go mad about medals.'

I bet he was well pleased to go from one theatre to the next(!)

'Let's meet the teams.'

So, on today's programme for the reds, we have good friends Marion and Kate.

For the blues, we have daughter and father combo, Grace and Glen.

-Hello, everyone.

-(ALL) Hello.

Now, Marion, how did you two become friends?

Well, I met Kate when we were on an art trail.

I was going on an art trail with my friend and there was Kate with all her beautiful paintings.

-You spotted one of her paintings.

-Yes, I did.

-What was that of?

-A naked man.

-Was it?

-Yes.

-You liked it, did you?

-I did. I bought it for myself, my 60th birthday.

I thought, if I can't buy a naked man at 60, when can I?

That's a bad job, isn't it? And you do a bit of knitting?

-I do, Tim.

-Tell us about that.

-We do yarn-bombing, Tim.

-You do WHAT?

-Yarn bombing.

-Whatever's yarn bombing?

It's wrapping the world in woolly wonderness, Tim. We...

LAUGHS We find areas of urban,

that aren't very nice, and we knit things to cover them up.

-I thought what I would do...

-Yes?

-..I'd yarn-bomb you.

-I've never yarn-bombed a person before.

-Have you not?

I've yarn-bombed you and made that for you.

-You never have?

-I did.

-Well, I'll stick it in there now.

-There you go.

Let's just bung it in. Thank you very much. I'll wear it with pride.

-Now, Kate, you work part time in a jewellery shop.

-Yes.

-You're also an artist.

-Yes.

-We heard about that!

-There are some abstract scenes?

-Yes. Abstract landscapes, mainly.

Mainly, it's to do with travelling through the landscape.

-You don't look at the landscape hoping you can wrap it in wool?

-No.

Wool is just another medium. It's just changing the way I look at things again.

How do you think you are going to work together?

-Brilliantly.

-We're probably going to fight.

-You're going to fight?

-Oh, yeah. Knitting makes you aggressive.

Well, you keep your needles to yourselves today, girls.

We can't stand the cost of any industrial injuries.

Now, Grace, Glen, are you quaking in your boots?

-A little bit now!

-Have you ever done any knitting, Glen?

-Er... No.

-I don't think so.

-Could be your day today.

Now, Gracie, you are studying for a degree in dental therapy.

I am, yeah, over in Cardiff University.

-Don't ask how I got into it, it's a bit weird.

-How did you get into it?

When I was younger, I really liked going to the dentist.

-I quite liked the smell of it and I liked the stickers.

-Oh...

And also, I like all the gory things!

So, extractions and all the blood, it's great.

-Is it?

-Yeah. Brilliant.

Any other interests?

-Me and my mum used to be part of several amateur dramatic societies in the local area.

-Yeah.

We decided they weren't putting on the shows we wanted to do

-and they weren't giving us the main parts, which is a bit of an issue.

-Yeah.

-So you went independent?

-We did, indeed. Set up our own group.

-Grabbed all the good parts for yourselves.

-Exactly, and gave the rest to people we liked.

-So it's worked out well.

-It sounds like fun. Good luck with that.

Now, Glen, it says here you're not a great fan of musicals but you're very fond of the bottle.

I DO like my wine. Yeah.

I sort of started drinking and... Heavily!

..and going to classes in the '80s, when it wasn't fashionable for young people to drink wine.

When you get a bit of an education and you learn how to taste them, you begin to develop a palate.

-You used to work as a gardener for Margaret Thatcher in 10 Downing Street?

-Well, yeah.

It was a bit frustrating. Whenever you did any work, like mowing,

then the window would come up and someone would shout out,

there was a meeting going on and you had to keep the noise down.

So you'd sort of walk with the mower and make a mower noise, quietly.

-LAUGHS

-Now, what's your tactic today?

We're hoping to spend as much money as we possibly can

-so we don't upset you and face your rant.

-How nice!

No, it doesn't upset me. Honestly. I just think, "You've got the 300. Spend it!"

-We're really going to try our best.

-Lovely. That is the correct ambition.

So, speaking of money, here comes the £300. There's your 300.

You know the rules, your experts await, and off you go!

And very, very, very good luck.

'They're in for a treat today!

'Giving the reds their marching orders, we salute you:

'And lighting the way for the blues, it's the sparky:'

Marion, Kate, how excited are you?

-So excited.

-Very.

-Really?

-Yeah.

So is there a plan and a strategy?

-Just want to buy things!

-Nice things.

Right, a father and daughter team. What are you looking for?

-Something a bit different, that we haven't seen on Bargain Hunt before.

-Oh, ho, ho, ho!

-You want to spend all the money?

-Everything!

-Every single bit?

But we need to make sure we get the right prices.

Come in here.

-You lead the way. Let's get these bargains bought.

-OK.

'I like the sound of that, Colin, because you've only got 60 minutes.

'And the blues are off to a flying start.'

Just had a look at that vintage aircraft. Well, vintage!

Big fellow, isn't it?

In the spirit of that trench art Spitfire pilots used to make,

little brooches out of brass.

1930s-design plane, by the looks of it, that sort of era.

-Do you think it would appeal to collectors?

-I think it would.

-It's very much a novelty item.

-Or Spitfire pilots.

'Let's get the arcade assistant, Alex, to open the cabinet.'

-The aeroplane, what age do you think that is?

-Second World War.

Aviation was the big thing, Battle of Britain and all that.

There were lots of people with time between missions

that made these things.

It's a way of whiling away your time, wasn't it?

There was lots of brass and metal around and people did these things.

It's quite crude, the sort of thing you'd love to pick up for 15 quid.

But at 50 quid, it seems a LOT of money.

-Do you know if they'd take £20?

-I'll give her a call. >

-See what I can do for you.

-Thanks a lot.

'Let's hope Alex can bring the price down to Earth, blues.

'Meanwhile, have the reds gone tribal on us?'

-That's nice. That's a bit unusual.

-That carving?

-Yeah. I love her.

-She's beautiful.

-You do?

-I do.

-Hm.

-A bit like me every morning.

Would you like to know how much money is on that?

-Yeah.

-It's going to be a lot.

You're now the valuers. What would you bid for something like that?

I would go about 50 quid, but I don't know.

I'd go for 150. I think she's gorgeous!

-Really?

-Yeah.

-So if I told you that I've seen a sign in the cabinet

-that says everything in there...

-LAUGHTER

£5.50.

-Ah!

-Bargain!

-Bargain! And we didn't even see it.

-No.

If you can get it for a fiver, I would say it ticks all the boxes.

You both smiled when you saw it. You both fell in love with it.

You both think it's of high value.

'Let's see what arcade assistant Rita has to say.'

Hello, hello.

Now, there's something in here that's obviously priced at £5.50.

I've got my two valuers with me and they're also our chief negotiators.

So it's up to you, girls.

I wondered whether £5.50 was your best offer on the little primal lady,

or whether you could do it for four?

-I could do it for five.

-Five?

-Yes.

-Shall we do it for five?

-Well, I'm happy with that.

-That'd be lovely. Thank you.

'Well done, reds. One bargain under your belt in less than nine minutes,

'and Colin's got a happy team.'

-Thanks for that.

-That's no problem. The pleasure was all yours!

LAUGHTER

'The blues will have to wait for news on their World War II plane.

'Meanwhile, they've dug up two sets of medals.'

We've got a set of World War medals, including Africa Star.

-Good nick.

-They're not bad at all.

'The Africa Star was awarded

'to those who fought in campaigns in north and east Africa, but hang on,

'one of these bars includes an Italy star as well.'

He was a busy boy, wasn't he?

I bet he was well pleased to go from one theatre to the next(!)

JAMES LAUGHS I bet he thought he was going home after Africa.

'Glen's in his element here.'

Are you quite keen on military history?

I just sort of know... It's being brought up at that sort of time.

It was only 15 years after the end of the Second World War.

-Children, there must have been lots of relics of the war as well.

-Yeah.

Where I lived in the East End of London,

where my grandparents lived, near the docks, there were bomb sites,

houses that had just been obliterated, even in the 1970s.

'Gosh, Glen's gone all nostalgic.'

-Out of the two, that would be the better one.

-Yes.

'Good choice, James. He's gone for both the Africa and Italy Stars.'

-I'd be looking to sort of... I mean, no more than 60, really.

-Yeah.

For those.

-Shall we make a bid for those?

-Yeah.

'A-herm! Haven't you forgotten somebody, boys?'

Grace, how are you doing?

I'm trying to find something prettier than your boys' war stuff.

It's not going well at the moment.

We looked at a brass aircraft and campaign medals.

-I'm being left out here.

-We need a feminine touch.

-I need something bright pink and covered in jewels!

'You might want something pink, but you also need to buy three items.

'The reds are already ahead and something shiny's caught their eye.'

-Do you like that?

-I do like that. I think it's a really good thing.

What's going on inside is the real question.

-There's two locks on the cabinet.

-Good sign.

Thank you. So, how do we get in?

A button on the front. Let's hope that springs a surprise.

-Ah.

-There's nothing in it!

-Oh.

-I thought there might be a nice...

-Does that pull out?

-Right.

Any idea what's going on here?

'You're such a tease, Colin!'

Very small bookshelf!

A very small bookshelf, indeed!

You would have in this side coals. You've got heat coming out of here.

You would lay across the top - curling tongs.

-So your handle on the not-heated side.

-Oh!

Then you would do your curling and whatever else you need to do.

It is sort of incomplete,

-because you need a bit more kit on this side.

-Yeah.

Is that unusual or something you come across quite often?

You don't see them very often, so it is an unusual item.

-Now, at £150, it's a long, long way from where we need to be.

-Yeah.

Um... If there is any flex on it,

we would need to be down the £80, £90 mark.

Rita, would you be able to assist us on this?

Now, it's got a bit of a hefty price tag on it.

It's marked at 150. Is there anything that can be done?

He would do that for 85.

Right.

-Could we think about it?

-You can definitely think about it.

Would you be able to pop that to one side for us?

-Of course.

-We've got a bit of time left.

-We'd like to revisit it if we could.

-Of course. I'll put it by.

Thank you very much for your help. That's got the cogs turning!

-Yes.

-It has, yes.

-Find another item.

-Did you say the cogs curling?

-I might have done!

'Well, we nearly got a second bargain,

'but the blues have yet to buy their first one - and guess what?

'The boys have spotted a third set of World War II medals.'

These are in good condition. We've got another set of medals.

Exactly the same set, but slightly tattier, the ribbons, at £48.

'Yet another set with an Africa and an Italy Star.

'Glen has spotted a crucial difference.'

-Is that a rose?

-It does look like a Tudor rose.

Doesn't it?

The oak leaf was "mentioned in dispatches" for the First World War.

What they denoted for the Second World War was the rose.

It may have been for one of the big battles - El Alamein, Tobruk.

'So the rose means the owner of these medals was mentioned in dispatches,

'a special honour for an act of bravery.'

-If we knew who owned these - medals are all about the person.

-Yeah.

-They can be traced back.

-It'd be worth three times the amount.

-Can we make up a name?

-JAMES LAUGHS

Little Charlie Brooks?

It'll be somebody who was mentioned in dispatches during the African campaigns,

but there were quite a few!

'You can't make up a name but you can try to get a good price. Alex is your man.'

What we'd like to do is 35 on the group there.

-If we say 30, then the person on the other end can say 35.

-Great.

Yeah, I think 50's our max on this.

So, 30 and 50.

-Yeah. OK.

-Thanking you.

'Let's hope that deal comes off, blues.

'£50 for the set of medals with the dispatches rose

'and £30 for the set without.

'While they wait for that and a price for the brass plane, what's happened to the reds?

'They're still chasing that elusive second item.'

This looks like it could be in our league.

-It's got a chip there.

-It's got a chip, a bit of a chip there.

And it's got a bit of a break there.

But if you take all of that into consideration,

if you could buy something like that for maybe £30, £40,

you've still got profit in that.

-What sort of money are they looking for?

-Er... 55.

Yeah, just a bit keen.

'They're not looking bowled-over, Colin.'

-I don't like that.

-It's too chipped for me.

-Too chipped for you. OK. Fine.

-I'm sorry.

-No.

I can only guide you towards these things.

I'd rather have the silver.

-Fine.

-The silver...?

-Silver thing.

-Oh, yeah. I want that, anyway.

-I want that, anyway. The one down there?

-You do want that?

-Yeah.

That's on my list in my head.

'So, that's a no to the bowl, but a yes to the silver curling tongs box.

'A decision at last, but will the price be right?'

-We want to go for the silver.

-What was your best price?

-85.

-85?

-85.

-OK.

-Can you batter her down five?

-Could we make it 80?

-Go on, then.

-Oooh!

-Thank you for that!

'£80 it is. Well done, reds.

'The blues get news on their World War II medals and the brass plane.'

The plane, I can't do any less than 40 on the plane.

-OK. What do you think?

-Not really.

-No.

-No.

-OK, forget the plane.

-The set of medals with the rose, I haven't heard back about.

-OK.

The second set that you wanted for 30, we can do for 30.

-Well, I reckon...

-Shall we secure those?

I think we should. >

Let's go over the road and see if we can find another two items.

If you can keep trying for us on that "mentioned in dispatches".

Good. Thanks a lot.

'Decision made. First item bought, and about time, too.'

That'd be the ideal plate for me!

Wine-tasting ceremony, master of wine.

'There's just 20 minutes left on the clock, teams.'

That is uber-trendy!

That is real Miami 1950s.

Or Las Vegas '50s.

-More Miami Vice!

-Look at the shape of it!

Then you've got these Venetian... this fabulous Venetian column.

-That's a beautiful object.

-What do you think they're asking for it?

-I would say 150. What have they got?

-£69.

£69. I think that's a lovely item.

-Do you like that?

-I think it's quite cool.

What do we have to get that down to to make a profit?

I think it's got a real chic-ness about it.

If we could get that for 40, that would be fabulous.

It's an unusual item, but I don't want to lead you, Grace.

No, I like it. It's a little bit more girlie than the war stuff.

'Good. I see new light in Grace's eyes.

'15 minutes left and the reds are making a dash back to the arcade.

'The blues are decoyed by a duck.'

-What's it?

-Decoys are a big thing in America.

Has that bit been fixed or just a mark in the wood?

-It's been bashed, I think, hasn't it?

-Mm.

-Oh, and again!

-LAUGHS

-You can see how it happens.

-Careful, they might BILL us.

-Hey!

'I make the jokes round here.'

It's not a bad price, 23 quid for something that's hand-crafted.

Yeah, right. Let's keep looking round. Time is not on our side.

'You said it, James, and you still have two items to buy.

'The reds have one eye on the clock and the other on a handsome sailor.'

# All the nice girls love a sailor... #

Ooh, he's lovely!

'Does she mean the sailor or the Art Deco clock with photo frame?'

-How much?

-It's £58.

-I quite like it. You like it?

-My dad was in the navy.

-We're running out of time.

-I wouldn't say I LOVE it.

-But in cases of desperation...

-Yes.

-And we've only got three minutes.

-Not a lot of money spent, is it?

-Well, it's not, but...

-I'd rather go with the sailor.

-LAUGHING:

-What do you think to the Art Deco clock?

It's OK. I'd rather go with a sailor, any day.

ALL LAUGH

'You can't have one without the other, Marion.'

-Let's get one of the people in to give us some guidance.

-Yes.

'While the reds wait for Rita,

'the blues need to haggle over the decoy duck and glass standard lamp.'

She'll come down a little bit on the duck.

She'll come down a bit more than I thought on the lamp.

-What's on the lamp?

-55 from 69.

-55.

-From 69.

-To 55. Yup.

And the decoy duck they'll do for 20.

20. OK.

I'll go and see "mentioned in dispatches" and we'll make a decision!

-Right.

-A winning one, please.

-LAUGHING:

-Always.

'While James gets a price on the medals with the dispatches rose,

'the reds are closing a deal on the Art Deco clock and picture frame.'

Hello. The very, very best is £50.

Ooh, that's painful, isn't it?

-She won't go £1 lower.

-Are we going to have it at £50?

-We're going to have to.

-MARION: Can I keep the photograph?

-MARION LAUGHS

-Oh, no.

'That was close! Just 30 seconds to go, but they've done it!

'Congratulations, reds.

'And back from the front line, it's James with a price on the second set of medals.'

Good news, bad news.

-So..."mentioned in dispatches", a similar campaign group that we've already bought...

-Yeah.

The best they can do, it was priced at 85, best they can do is 70.

It makes a big difference having that "mentioned in dispatches".

Makes it more special. Regrettably, we can't pin it to a person.

So, that's it. We've got three options.

We've got to buy two more items. We've got three options.

-We've got campaign medals, duck...

-And the lamp stand.

-What one would you drop?

-Probably the duck.

I'm dropping the duck - like you did, earlier!

Exactly! Funnily enough, I'm dropping the duck.

-So we've decided?

-Yes.

-Good. I think that's a great decision.

Three items bought, three nice items.

We've got a glamorous item for Grace.

Campaign medals for you. Campaign medals for me.

Well done. Come on, let's go.

CLOCK STRIKES

Time's up. Let's check out what the red team bought, eh?

'The reds paid just £5 for this carved wooden figure.

'Then they splashed out £80 on this silver curling tongs box.

'And finally, for £50, they chose this Art Deco clock and frame,

'as the last few seconds ticked away.'

-That was quite exciting.

-That was very exciting.

-Incredibly exciting! Well done, girls.

-Thank you.

Which is your favourite piece, Kate?

I like the little silver item that we've got.

-What about you, Marion?

-I like the sailor.

-Do you? You would!

ALL LAUGH

-Is sailor going to bring the biggest profit?

-No.

-No. What is?

-The statuette thing.

-Do you agree, Kate?

-I hope so. She was a bargain.

-What did you spend all-round?

-We spent 135.

Good. 135. 165 leftover lolly, please.

Thank you. 165. Quick as you like, straight over to Colin Young,

-the past master of the art of finding a good bonus buy.

-Well...!

Well! I just hope history repeats itself -

the ones that make profits, rather than the ones that make losses!

Good luck with that. Meanwhile, we're going to check out what the blue team bought.

'The blues started with this group of World War II medals.

'This 1950s standard lamp with a spiral glass stem set them back:

'Putting all their eggs in one basket,

'they grabbed a second group of World War II medals,

'but with a dispatches rose.'

-Well, team, was that good?

-Yeah. Brilliant.

-Very good.

Which is your favourite piece?

I am going to go against what people would think

and say I really like the medals - the posher, more expensive ones.

-That's your favourite piece? That IS unusual.

-I really like them.

-What about you, Dad?

-I think the same one, "mentioned in dispatches".

-And which is going to bring the biggest profit?

-I think that again.

Or maybe the other set of medals.

How much did you spend all-round?

-155.

-That's a good amount.

-Not bad.

-£145 of leftover lolly, please.

That's very "graceful" of you. Thank you, 145.

James Braxton, your challenge.

What are you going to do with that, James?

Find something that's going to get us an even bigger profit.

Well, that is a fine ambition to have harboured in your bosom.

Meanwhile, we're heading off to look at something that I spotted earlier

that you could term a proper box of delights.

As they say, you should never tell a book by its cover.

The same thing can apply sometimes with little bits of furniture.

On the face of it, this is a pretty standard form.

It's made of rosewood

and it's got some modest little brass inlaid lines

and a rather beautiful flush-fitted handle in the top.

That's the first indication that this box is a bit special

and a bit unusual.

We open it up, though,

you can see that it doesn't contain the standard tea caddy

with two divisions and a mixing bowl.

Nor is it a standard dressing case.

It's got this feature which I've never seen in a fitted box before,

which is a rising tray,

sadly missing a few compartments,

but still with this lid that originally was fitted about here.

And underneath that is the writing compartment,

a couple of inkwells and a pen tray.

And behind that, we've got some velvet plush covered blocks,

and then some more compartments for other fittings.

The back panel has got a travelling mirror in it.

If I undo the two flaps like that,

it reveals its greatest secret.

Which is...

..ha! A trade label.

Look at that. It says...

..And I guess, without researching Mr Starkey's dates,

it probably dates from between 1820 and 1840.

Now, to find an extremely rare American travelling box like this

in an arcade in Hungerford is a thrill.

I spend hours poking around these places

hoping, just occasionally, to have a eureka moment like this.

Now, rosewood travelling boxes in Britain are not rare things to find.

In fact, if you found one of this quality and it was fully fitted

and nicely presented,

I suppose it might be worth as much as £400.

But if it's American,

and if it was sold in America,

nicely presented with these few minor repairs and so forth,

it would be likely to bring the top end of 2,500!

And that, to you or me, is as close as a whisker to £1,800.

Why is this a eureka moment?

Because, up the road in the arcade,

you could have bought this thing for... Wait for it.

..£40.

£40? £1,800?

That is what you call a bargain.

But sitting here in this shop,

one has to glance at the wall to see the power of American collectables.

Because this is a Union Flag from the Civil War period.

Now, the Civil War took place between about 1861 and 1865.

This thing can be dated to around 1863 because of the number of stars.

There are 34 stars, and that dates it to before 1863.

So, it's a special historic American object.

And its price?

Well, it could be yours for 8,000.

God bless America.

'But the big question is, will our teams earn their stars and stripes

'at the auction?'

What a treat this is! We've trotted to Lawrences in Crewkerne

to be with Richard Kay, my old mate, how are ya?

-Hello, Tim. Welcome back.

-Lovely to see you.

Now, I want you to think fertility.

I want you to think fine African ethnographic object

and then look at this.

It's not tribal and would never have been used for any rite or ritual,

which is the implication of tribal art.

It's been made for the airport market, not even very well made.

-Well, that's got that out.

-Sorry to say.

It cost a £5 note and frankly should have stayed where it was.

-If we get a fiver for it, I'll be pleasantly surprised.

-Yes.

-I don't think it has any intrinsic value.

-OK. That's it.

-Now, the silver-cased iron box.

-Yes.

-For whizzing up your hair-do.

Well, incomplete, sadly.

It would have had tongs in it

and a little methylated spirits burner to warm the tongs up.

I think that it is amazing that ladies in 1902 or whatever

travelled with all these inflammables about their person,

so that at night they could rig up a silver-cased box

to heat up rods to curl their hair.

There's an awful lot of craftsmanship gone into that.

-Sadly, it's incomplete.

-So that makes it not terribly commercial.

I think it's £10 or £20.

That's positively scorching - £80 they paid.

-Ooh! That, er...

-Feeling singed?

-I am.

-That straightens my hair.

-Or makes mine curl.

What about this Art Deco Algerian onyx and marble

-combo timepiece-postcard holder?

-It's very much of its period.

-And with that photograph of this unknown sailor...

-Jack Tar!

..you know, it shrieks 1930s, 1940s.

This is the war-time period, definitely.

-30 to 40, I'd have thought.

-£50 paid.

They're going to need their bonus buy, so let's have a look at it.

-Now, Maid Marion...

-Hello.

-Kate.

You spent £135. You gave Colin 165. I'll help you here, Colin.

Whip that rag off. Yes!

-Ooh!

-Do we like, ladies?

-Yes.

-Interested.

-Interested.

-Yeah.

-But not necessarily like.

-A lot of polishing involved.

-Tell us more.

-Yes.

A really good-looking piece. It sits very well.

Once it's on the floor beside a fireplace,

you can imagine it in its right environment.

-Mm-hm.

-Very nice. Would it have logs and things?

Logs and things. You can have coal in there, a whole variety of things.

It's a fleur de lys pattern that's embossed on there.

Very Art Nouveau style with this concave side.

Date-wise, you're probably looking about 1910,

I would hazard a guess, just post-1900.

-So, bottom line...

-How much?

-Bottom line is how much?

-Well, OK, £70 paid.

-Oh!

-Yeah.

It was a good purchase, in my opinion, and I will put my reputation on the line.

-Oooh!

-But that's only because I haven't got one!

ALL LAUGH

That's the information. You've got your prediction.

-Might make a small profit.

-Yeah.

Meanwhile, for the audience at home, let's find out

what the auctioneer thinks about Colin's purdonium - coal bucket to you and me.

Very good, Richard. That's an object to warm the cockles of your heart.

And I think it would do exactly what it's meant to do,

which is hold a good quantity of coal in a stylish way.

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

-I think it's good enough to be worth £50 to £70.

-OK, £70 was paid, so that's perfectly reasonable.

-That's good.

That's it for the poor old reds.

Now we move on to the first lot of medals.

They've put a lot of eggs into one basket here.

It's a shame that there isn't more information about them.

People buy medals not for the metalware,

but for the history, the recipient and the valour that went with it.

-OK. What's your estimate?

-Well, £25 to £40.

-OK.

-Well, they paid £30.

-That's fair enough.

-We may get a surprise.

Their second item is going to be the standard lamp,

which looks like a bit of 1950s to me.

Yeah, '50s. The base is clearly '50s, yeah.

With a rather inappropriate shade on it as well.

-So it might be £20 or £30.

-OK, fine. £55 paid.

Their third item, the second group of medals,

the only difference that I can spot

is that it's got this dispatch rose business on one of the silks.

It's got that additional feature. How much for that?

Much the same sort of figure, to be honest.

It might just be slightly more appealing to buy, so £30 or £40.

Well, it was more appealing to buy cos our lot paid £70.

I'm not sure the difference is justified

by simply the presence of that little tiny rose on the ribbon.

They're going to need their bonus buy big time. Let's go and have a look at it.

Well, team, this is exciting, isn't it?

You gave James Braxton £145.

What has the maestro spent the £145 on?

-James, reveal all.

-I'll reveal.

Quite a goodly amount - £100.

It's a sort of rudie-nudie lady here.

It's a car mascot.

-So, 1920s, '30s.

-Cool!

-Glamorous lady.

-What do you think it's made of?

-I think it's...

-Bronze and chrome.

-I think it's bronze and chrome.

I think I'm right in saying you get mascots for certain marks of car,

which immediately make them recognisable,

but between the wars, that sort of mascot was made

not for a particular type of car, just as an accessory.

So you'd go to an accessory shop in 1930,

simply buy a pretty girl and shove it on the front of any old car.

So it becomes a sort of accessory mascot rather than a brand mascot.

-I like it.

-You do?

-Yes. It's something a bit different.

-We did see another car mascot, but it wasn't like that. Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Do you like it, Glen?

-Yeah, I quite like that.

Let's see whether the auctioneer is similarly taken by James's mascot.

There we go, Richard.

Well, a car mascot, clearly.

Quite a stylish figure.

Sort of reinterpreting the idea of the Spirit of Ecstasy

from the bonnets of numerous Rolls-Royces.

Not, apparently, signed or named

as being the work of anyone in particular,

but quite a nice little piece.

I think they're rather nice things, car mascots, don't you?

-I do.

-As a collectable.

-Whether or not anyone who buys that

would risk putting it on the bonnet of their car, I don't know.

So how much do you think it's worth?

I would have thought we would be expecting £40 to £60 for it.

I think the person who buys it will be very pleased to have it.

£100 was paid by James Braxton as his bonus buy.

-I think your estimate's a bit of a tease.

-Do you?

I think we'll be surprised, that it'll bump along a bit.

Let's hope, like this lady, it jumps to an impressive price.

Thank you very much.

Now, tell me, how are you feeling, Maid Marion?

-I'm a bit worried about the sailor.

-Why are you worried about him?

I reckon the only way we'll make a profit

is if we got somebody from Portsmouth and they recognised their dad!

-Really?

-Yeah.

-They say that every sailor has a...

-Yes.

..friend in every port! There could be several children knocking around.

There you go! One from Southampton!

The silver tong heating box, I've been very rude about that.

The tribal figure, I've been very, very rude about.

-If all else fails, you've got the coal bin to fall back on, which you like.

-Yes.

-I do like that, yes.

-You're just going to have to cross everything.

The first item that comes up is your fertility figure. Here it comes.

Lot 305 is a tribal art carved wooden fertility figure.

£5 for it?

£5 anywhere? £2 anywhere?

£2 is bid. At two. Four now. Six. Eight.

Ten. 12.

I'm selling at 12. 15 now.

£15 on my right. I'm selling at 15. At £15...

-LAUGHS

-Tripled the money!

-That's good.

-So you get your apology.

-I'll pay, Tim.

-Marvellous thing.

Marvellous! Here it comes.

Bids here start me at £40. £40. 45. 50.

Five. At £55 now. At £55.

I'm selling. It's in the room. Clears my book at 55.

Last time at £55.

That's five short of 60. That's minus 25.

That means you are minus £15 currently, girls!

Now, this is your big hope, the timepiece.

..I start this at £25.

£25 is bid. At £25.

At 25, absentee bid. 30 now, and I'm out. I'll sell in the room.

At 30 now. At 30, if you're all done.

At £30, last time.

£30 is minus £20.

Minus 20, which is overall, minus 35.

-So, now, the coal box.

-Yes.

-How do you fancy that?

-In for a penny.

-Are you going to do it?

-Yes. Gamble.

-Fine, we're going with the coal box.

Lot 311 is an Arts & Crafts embossed coal box.

Bids start me here at 30. 35. £40 is bid.

45. 50. 55 and I'm out.

60. 65. 70. Five.

-Well done, Colin.

-80. Five. 90. >

£90 to my left. I'm selling in the room at £90.

Against you elsewhere. At 90, then, for the last time.

CHEERING/LAUGHTER

-Ooh, sorry.

-Brilliant!

So sorry.

-Sorry.

-It's all right. It's £20.

-The man's very clever, isn't he?

-Oh, come here!

Pleasure. Pleasure.

Plus £20. Which reduces the losses to only minus 15, which is bad luck.

Ooh! That's all right.

-And minus 15...

-Could be a winning score.

-What's that you said?

Could be a winning score! ALL LAUGH

-OK, G-G, how are you feeling?

-Relatively confident.

-Nervous.

-Do you know how the reds got on?

-No.

-No.

Good. Now, you've done this double whammy with these medals.

As we know, James, in these sales, anything connected with World War II and medals seems to do very well.

So, fair enough.

-And if all doesn't go terribly well, you've got the mascot.

-Yeah.

-Our lovely lady.

-We've already chartered a plane home for that.

Brilliant. First up is the first group of medals, including the Italian and African Star.

Lot 326 is a group of five medals, World War II medal group.

Lot 326. £20 for those?

£20 is bid. At £20. I'll sell at 20.

-It's an opening bid of £20. 25 now.

-No!

No? £25. It's in front of me to my left at 25.

I'm selling at £25. Last time, then, at 25.

That's minus £5.

That does not bode well for the second group, but let's see.

Next up is the lamp standard.

With Venetian glass stem. £10 starts me here.

£10 is bid. At £10. At £10. I'll sell at ten.

-No!

-It's an opening bid of ten... >

I can't bear it. He only had a bid of ten. £15.

..20. £20. Lady's bid at £20.

I'm selling at £20. Last time, then, at 20. All done?

-We were robbed on that.

-Yeah.

-Minus 40, overall.

Now, here come the other medals.

Lot 328, another group of five World War II medals.

Shall we say 20 again? £20 is bid. Tempt you again, sir? 25 now.

30. No. £30. It's to my right this time, at £30. >

Selling at £30...

£30 is minus £40.

Which is minus £80.

Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear.

Let's see how much more we can lose on the bonus buy!

-Minus £80 could be a winning score.

-No, we'll go for it.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

We're going with the bonus buy and here it comes.

Start me here at 30 on this one, if you will. £30 for this?

At £30. 20, then..?

-Oh, come on!

-You're joking!

25, now.

It's on my left. Lady's bid at 25.

I'm selling at 25. 30 in the doorway...

-£30.

-That's a bargain.

Somebody's got a good bargain.

..£40. It's still in the doorway. I'm selling at £40. At 40, then...

£40 equals minus £60.

-I'm so sorry.

-That's all right.

-We're just too trusting.

That's our problem.

Minus 140 is the total score. That might be a winning score.

-Might be.

-Don't say a word to the reds.

Perfect. Thank you.

Well, this is exciting, isn't it?

Spectacular losses all round, but tremendous fun!

-Been chatting about the scale of the losses?

-No!

I have to say that one team has made a whopper.

-That happens to be the blues.

-GROANS/LAUGHTER

£140 worth of losses, which is going some, isn't it?

-Yes.

-We did well there, I think!

-Minus £140 is not the record for Bargain Hunt losses.

-Ah!

Thanks for cheering us up!

You've done rather well, in the scale of the programme.

-Hope you had a nice time.

-Lovely.

-We've loved having you on the show.

But the winners today, who've managed to win by only losing £15, are the reds.

BOTH: Yes!

-Helped by Colin Young's bonus buy.

-Yes, thank you.

-Which is lovely.

-I was very rude about your tribal art.

-You were!

-She came through.

Which I still maintain is as I described it,

but nevertheless, it made a £10 profit.

-So, graciously...

-Bad taste will always come through!

-LAUGHTER

-Well, I don't know, but anyway, it did its business.

So, minus £15 is all you're down.

-Congratulations for winning Bargain Hunt today!

-Yay!

Join us soon for some more bargain hunting, yes?

ALL: Yes!

I know, you're thinking, "I could have done better than that!"

Well, what's stopping you?

If you think you can spot a bargain, go to our BBC website and apply.

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