VO: The nation's favorite celebrities... Wow.
VO: ..paired up with an expert... Ow.
Ow.
Get it sorted.
VO: ..and a classic car.
She's beautiful.
We're steaming.
VO: Their mission - to scour Britain for antiques.
Is that antique?
I'll take it.
I'll take it.
I'll take it.
VO: The aim, to make the biggest profit at auction.
(GAVEL) VO: But it's no easy ride...
There's a dog chasing us!
VO: Who will find a hidden gem?
I love that.
VO: Who will take the biggest risk?
Ah!
VO: Will anybody follow expert advice?
Yeah, uh, OK, I know what that means.
Woo-hoo!
VO: There will be worthy winners...
Yes!
VO: ..and valiant losers.
Disaster.
VO: Put your pedal to the metal.
Let's go shopping.
Woo-hoo!
VO: This is the Celebrity Antiques Road Trip!
VO: Nice!
VO: Today's moneymakers are better known for their welly wearing than their super shopping.
See these shoes?
I'd never wear those on Countryfile.
This is my excuse to wear impractical footwear!
VO: Yes, ditching those wellies today, it's Charlotte Smith and Tom Heap from Sunday tea time treat, Countryfile.
TOM: You look great!
Look over there, honestly.
I'm going for a 1950s film star look.
VO: Hollywood chic indeed!
VO: From piglets to pollution, this agricultural pair tackle rural affairs every week like no one else on the telly.
TOM: So, competitive?
See, I don't think I am that competitive, no.
But then, I might be.
Are you competitive?
Yeah, a strategy is already forming in there.
A strategy?
It's like a game of chess, I started ages ago working out how you're going down.
VO: Our rural aficionados are more than ready to take on the challenge, it seems.
I have to say, I think it's yours to lose and any time you want to get it in gear is fine as well.
So how much do you actually know, then, about antiques?
Oh, I really don't know anything about antiques.
VO: Oh dear, well, luckily, help is at hand.
VO: They've got two eagle-eyed antiques experts to guide them, auctioneers James Braxton and Phil Serrell.
James, this is living the dream for me.
Why, Phil?
Well, I've got a great British sports car and you as my chauffeur.
JAMES: Gentleman Jim.
PHIL: Yeah.
At your service.
VO: They're clearly enjoying the B roads of Berkshire in a 1969 MGC Roadster.
I think Tom and I, he is a country buy, I am a country buy, I think we should work together.
VO: Yeah.
Well that's that sorted out, then.
Tom and Charlotte's fate has been decided.
They're cruising around today in a Triumph TR4A.
But I just want something that is fun, that's got, you know, a bit of a story behind it.
You think about resale, resale value.
Yeah, so you sound like you are speaking with a bit of knowledge here, come on.
Well, yes, my first job when I was about 14, I think, a Saturday job, was in an antiques center.
VO: Unfair advantage?
We'll have to see.
But look, it's raining.
Oh no!
I think we're gonna have to put the rooves up, you know.
Definitely gonna have to.
VO: Here they come.
Hey, look at this.
Ah, very good!
PHIL: I'll get the door.
Tom, how are you?
Oh, very good.
PHIL: Charlotte, how are you?
CHARLOTTE: Fine!
I've got a man to open the door for me.
Very good.
It's my sole role, my sole role.
You've got the optimistic sunhat.
I know, I know.
We've gotta put the roof up, don't we?
Is that right?
Sorry.
Hooplah!
There we go.
You have to be a sort of yogic master to get in.
(LAUGHS) We're off!
Good stuff!
VO: So both teams are out of the starting gate.
Tally ho!
So how long have you known Tom?
I've sort of known him for years and years and years.
He really makes me laugh.
He's a... Because you don't often see it, really, but he's really funny.
Cuz he can look quite forbidding and serious.
Serious, serious, ah.
Yeah, he's very funny.
VO: They don't call him the Grim Heaper for nothing!
Oh, looks like Tom and Phil have taken the roof back down.
Make up your minds, boys!
What about Charlotte, do you think, is she...?
Well, she said her first job was in an antique shop, age 14, so she's had let's say at least a decade's worth of experience.
VO: Cheeky!
So are you an antique fan?
I like, you know, some old things, I like things imbued with history, but as to knowledge of what they really are or what they're really worth, I'm sorry, I'm not your man.
No, no, that probably makes two of us.
Charlotte, why are you on this lovely Antiques Road Trip?
It is my mum's favorite TV program.
Oh!
So I haven't told her.
You haven't?
No.
So somewhere... No!
Somewhere in Leicestershire a little old lady just fell off a sofa.
(LAUGHS) I can tell you that Master James will be pulling every stunt in the book... Is that right?
to make sure that we come second.
By any means necessary, that's his motto, is it?
Fair or foul.
I think it's really competitive, though.
Because I asked him and he said I'm not competitive but honestly he will be in this to win it.
VO: Looks like we've got a fight... VO: ..on our hands with this pair!
Eversley, Hampshire is our first port of call, before our eventual journey to the auction house in wonderful Winchester.
VO: Eversley is a picturesque village on the Hampshire-Berkshire border.
The word Eversley means "Wild Boar Clearing".
Look, there's the boar.
Right.
PHIL: Whoa, there we go, up and at 'em!
VO: £400 to play with, and Eversley Barn Antiques to play in.
Quickly.
VO: OK, let's get down to business, then.
Building's an antique.
Absolutely.
The lectern.
You could deliver a passionate address from there.
(CHUCKLES) Got to give it a go.
Oh, it's got Russian stars on it.
How do I look?
VO: Very dashing!
Yeah, I'll have that.
Oh, there's a hat.
No.
It turns out I have a big head.
What a surprise.
VO: Must be from all those investigations.
How's today going, Tom?
I've already seen quite a few things to buy.
I think I could get five things in here alone.
But I'm trying to keep my powder dry and my money in my pocket.
VO: But you're here to shop, Tom!
Get cracking!
What's this underneath here?
Oh, I like that.
No, Tom.
Carriage lamp.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Stand and deliver.
PHIL: Ah, ah, ah, where's the other one?
Ah, dunno.
Maybe I'll go and have a look.
You'd have a pair of them, wouldn't you?
Left and right, it'd be like port and starboard on a ship.
Yeah, you'd have a pair of them.
Oh, come on.
Oh, look, it's red!
It is like port and starboard on a ship.
It's got a red light.
Tom, now, concentrate... TOM: It's even got a real light!
PHIL: Tom, concentrate.
TOM: Headlight, real light.
PHIL: Yeah, Tom, Tom... TOM: You could mount it on the TR.
..Tom, Tom, Grim Reaper.
No.
TOM: You could hold it.
PHIL: I am now the Grim Reaper.
You could hold it for all I... No.
How much is it?
85 quid.
No, Tom.
Tom, this is your program, it's your choice, you can buy whatever you like as long as it's not that.
(LAUGHS) VO: Step away from the lamp, Tom.
Talking my language over here.
We're in map world, map heaven.
You've got two of them, haven't you?
Oh, I didn't see that one.
London to Land's End in Cornwall.
TOM: Oh!
PHIL: What?
Well, that's got a different one on the other side.
PHIL: Well, that's the back page of the book.
As you know, I like maps.
But I haven't seen them ever.... Where's it of, Tom?
..kind of put together before in this way.
Bagshot, Southampton Water, Winchester.
Well, it's quite near here.
Winchester.
That's where the auction is!
VO: Ah, they could be on to a winner with local buyers.
These maps are hand-colored.
Nice.
Price?
£48.
Not much per inch.
I like this a lot.
PHIL: Do you?
TOM: I do.
But what... How old do you think this original map was, when was this a map in a book?
Let's have a look.
I'm guessing early part of the 19th century.
Shall we think about that?
That's... That's definitely on the pondering list.
At the top, I reckon.
Well, let's leave it there.
I think that's really good, well done.
VO: While they ponder, let's catch up with the other team.
What are you looking for, Charlotte, when we do these antiques?
Well, in an ideal world, I'd just buy jewelry, because I am increasingly magpie like.
Yeah.
And if it glitters or if it's pretty, I just love jewelry.
Shiny!
Yeah, it's pathetic.
But realistically, I'm going to try and buy things that I think will sell and have got space for a bit of a markup.
Because lots of things don't have space for a markup, do they?
No.
My mum used to say "It's on its price, that.
It's on its price!"
On its price, yeah.
VO: Sounds like James could actually learn a thing or two from Charlotte.
(HORN) Excellent.
Shall we go shopping then?
Yes, let's!
VO: OK, let's!
VO: Charlotte and James have motored the MG to Bracknell.
VO: Leaving the rolling hills of Berkshire behind them, they've headed into town and The Old Grain Barn.
JAMES: Here we are, look.
Oh, we could have a tractor!
A lovely tractor.
VO: That'll never fit in the back of the MG.
If I can just... Just... Do you need a hand, my dear?
(LAUGHS) VO: Beautifully done, James.
JAMES: I think slightly smaller people, weren't they?
In we hop.
Thank you very much.
I want the tractor.
Gosh, there's so much of it.
Where do you start?
It's all chains, rings... Costume jewelry, yeah?
Maybe we should look at bigger things.
We need bigger things.
VO: Good!
Straight in with a game plan.
There's a slight feeling of not knowing where to start.
Well, don't be intimidated by it.
Just keep looking and something after a while will leap out at you.
CHARLOTTE: How about a dog?
Dog.
Yeah.
These Staffordshire spaniels.
No mark.
It would have to have... No mark, no.
..a mark to be something, wouldn't it?
They would've been produced, you know, when Victorians were building their houses.
I don't know whether they were given as fair things, maybe they came from fairs.
Really?
But they were put on everybody's mantelpieces.
Yeah.
So it's a goldfish, really.
It's not a dog, it's a goldfish.
It is, it is.
VO: Look at the cracks!
I know.
VO: That dog's had its day.
Meanwhile, over in Eversley, the search continues.
But Tom and Phil appear to have split up.
Ferdinand the Bull.
I remember this!
VO: Tom's found an old friend.
That's so beautifully illustrated.
El toro ferocio Fernandino.
Fernindano, sorry.
I'll get the pronunciation right one day.
VO: This ever popular Spanish book was first published in 1936 and was made into an animated movie last year.
How much?
£8.
Well, Phil's not here to keep an eye on me.
It's only eight quid.
I'm going to have it.
VO: Steady Tom, a whole eight pounds?
At last.
A purchase!
Ole!
How are you getting on, Tom?
I've got this book, Phil, I just...
It's like a bolt from my childhood, it's fantastic.
Really?
Yeah.
Look at the pictures.
Oh, they're cool, aren't they?
You're gonna buy that, are you?
Yeah, I'm getting this, whether you like it or not.
Well, I'll tell you what, let me pick up this roadmap.
Let's go and talk to the lady, shall we?
Yeah, let's do it.
I like that.
TOM: Hi, Hilary.
HILARY: Oh, hello.
Could have spent a lifetime in here.
You've got some amazing things.
Pretty full, yeah.
Oh, absolutely.
Full of nice things.
Real, real treasure trove.
Full of lovely things.
Yeah, I like this myself.
Yeah, we've got a couple of things.
Um, we'll start with this book.
I just love it and no worries, I'm gonna give you the asking price bang on, eight quid.
Oh, that's good.
It's sold.
I know he's having, he's having...
He haggles.
..a bit of a fit at the thought of that, but there we go.
However, this.
Now then.
VO: Ticket price £48.
Really, 48?
I was thinking kind of more mid 20s, was where I was coming in here.
What can I do?
30... 30?
Two or three?
Oh, dear me!
Go on, 30.
TOM: 30, 30!
HILARY: £30.
Everyone loves a wad of cash.
VO: Bully for you, Tom.
I think you've done well.
VO: These won't take up much room in the boot and still leaves them with £362 to play with.
PHIL: Head for the open road.
Where to now then, Tom?
VO: While they work out where they're going, let's see if Charlotte has found any treasures yet.
If you were to describe that in two words, what two words would you choose?
CHARLOTTE: Nasty color.
Nasty color?
Mm.
I'd say Liberace Hideous.
(LAUGHS) But...
But there's something about it.
There's something glorious in its hideousness.
Is it old?
Is it old, though?
No.
I don't think so.
And I would have thought that would come from Italy.
It's so bad it's good.
Imagine a glitzy cake shop, or what do people always like?
Those... You'd need a big cake.
What do they have, those funny, um... Multicolored almondy things?
VO: Macaroons!
Macaroons!
Oh yes, it would be great, it would, yeah.
Imagine a pyramid of macaroons.
VO: It may not be everyone's cup of tea but these tables were all the rage in Italy, late last century.
Dare we, can we... Is it heavy?
I don't know.
Let's find out.
Lift it up.
Oh, it's heavier than I thought it would be.
It's always a good sign.
It's a sign of quality.
And it's got a maker's name here.
CHARLOTTE: Lorenzon Juve, Juvie?
Italy, you were right.
Italy.
CHARLOTTE: Proper heavy, isn't it?
How much is it?
JAMES: It is proper heavy.
Glorious cake stand, question mark.
£32.
CHARLOTTE: You need a glorious cake.
I must say, if you liked it, you'd spend 50 to 70 pounds on it, wouldn't you?
CHARLOTTE: OK, shall we think about it?
We'll think about it.
Anyway, it's a good start, isn't it?
Yeah, I like it.
We... We've, we've found something.
That's a nice beret.
Lovely blue one.
VO: Never mind James and Charlotte, here's Frank and Betty!
Ooh.
That's a bit tight, that one.
Do you need a smaller head?
A smaller head.
VO: Some mothers really do 'ave em.
Right.
I think we should buy that table, the hideous table.
JAMES: Really?
CHARLOTTE: Yeah.
Stuart?
Yes.
Can I come and show you a hideous table?
Certainly.
See, it is hideous, but I think it's good hideous.
£32.
JAMES: £32.
It's a great item, isn't it?
Bring it on.
It's unusual.
Let's just buy it.
Sorry, I've only got twenties.
VO: No haggling?
Oh, she's off to a bold start.
My man will carry this, Stuart.
Yes, thank you.
Lead on, lead on my lady.
Oh, nice weight!
Very nice weight.
CHARLOTTE: Don't drop it!
JAMES: Please don't drop it.
CHARLOTTE: Please don't drop it!
VO: No, don't.
But it definitely won't fit in the tiny boot of the MG. Onwards.
Onwards and upwards.
You know, good decisions are made in the delivery.
You can always trust a delivery driver.
Really?
I didn't go for the packing option.
(LAUGHS) I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
JAMES: Nothing will go wrong!
VO: Thank goodness.
Off they go, then!
VO: Now, Tom and Phil are headed to the village of Sonning Common, on the edge of the Chiltern Hills.
VO: Our two are off to visit a local wood that was once home not to badgers, but to bodgers, skilled local craftsmen who both lived and worked deep in the forest.
Because of the plentiful supply of wood in the Chilterns, chair making became a large scale industry in the region.
And these bodgers solely made chair legs for use in the area's famous Windsor chairs.
Do you know why it's called a Windsor chair specifically?
Presumably not because it catches the draft and makes you sore?
VO: Wind-sore.
(LAUGHS) Never look beyond the obvious.
They're made in Windsor.
Or High Wycombe area.
And all Windsor chairs are different to any other chair in that all the timber meets in the seat.
OK.
So the back, the legs, meet at the seat.
If you think of a normal chair, the back comes all the way down to form the legs.
Yep.
I just love that sort of thing where a bit of native timber is used to make a chair.
VO: Our pair have arrived deep in the Sonning Copse ancient woodland, to meet someone who keeps this ancient skill alive, carpenter Alistair Phillips.
TOM: A man hard at work in the woods.
Very impressive.
You must be Alistair.
Yes.
I'm Tom.
Nice to see you.
I should really know the answer to this, but what type of trees are these?
This is a beech.
There's hundreds of them in this area.
And in the Chilterns as a whole, it's the predominant tree in the Chiltern woodlands.
TOM: I mean, there are loads of these woods.
There's Burnham Beeches just outside London, aren't there?
I mean, it really is a feature of this area.
I think it stems from...
Historically that the beech was used very extensively for furniture making.
It was used to make firewood, tent pegs, and so historically woodland management favored this tree.
And at the height of this industry, when people were making all these things, how would it work?
Were there kind of big factories or people in the woods, like you?
Well, yes, so my machine predates the industrial age of getting machinery into the woods.
And so rather than driving your traction engine in and dragging the tree out and taking it to a factory, workers would bring their machinery to the woods, cut the tree down and just work it up into the finished items or the finished components next to their workshop.
And the people who did that were known as bodgers.
So is that where we get the phrase bodging?
That's where bodgers originated, yes.
Not meaning a bodge job, but just meaning making a part of a component that was going to become a large piece of furniture.
So being a bodger was a career, something to be proud of?
Exactly.
PHIL: So just like that?
VO: Nobody really knows where the term comes from but it's specific to these Chiltern craftsmen.
Chair making became a large scale industry in the area.
And bodgers specialized in solely making chair legs on foot-powered lathes just like this one.
Let's hope our two apprentices are bodgers rather than bodge jobbers.
PHIL: This is the more skillful role.
I think it's made for me, Tom.
ALISTAIR: If we're gonna get a chair made, we're gonna have to get some other parts prepared.
TOM: Right.
So, Tom, would you be able to start making, roughing out a blank for me?
I could, what does that involve?
Does it involve those bits there?
Yes.
We are going to split that down with this rather large axe and what we'd like to do is ideally aim to split that down roughly in half.
OK. VO: On your marks, get set, bodge!
VO: Not bad.
Would look a bit like one of these.
OK. VO: But here's what you're aspiring to, a finished chair.
I mean, that's called a Windsor chair, is that because it came so much from this area?
Yes, this particular style is called the Windsor, but there are chairs made with elm seats and beech legs in other parts of the country.
TOM: So, if I see an old Windsor chair in an auction, is there a reasonable chance that it could have been made by, you know, someone like you, albeit in a few generations ago, in a wood like this, on a tool like this?
Absolutely.
If it looks like that, and particularly with this splat in the middle, then that's quite a good indication that it is an old, traditional Windsor.
Wow.
That looks extremely skillful and yet it would be made by what is called a bodger.
Yes.
PHIL: Alistair, I think this has been really really brilliant, thank you.
Thank you!
And next time I'm sitting in a chair like that I'll know all the work that went into it, and the tradition behind it.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
PHIL: Cheers.
ALISTAIR: Thank you.
TOM: I will give you that.
ALISTAIR: I'll take that back.
Do you think we should go and look for a Windsor chair now?
I think we should.
VO: I hope their furniture finding skills are better than their chair making skills.
Chippendale certainly had nothing to worry about here.
Although bodgers are few and far between today, their significance lives on in the enduring popularity of the Windsor chair design.
VO: With some purchases already under their belt, James and Charlotte are enjoying a ride through the Buckinghamshire countryside.
When I get on the road very early in the morning, I love Farming Today.
Yeah.
I do that, I present four programs a week of that.
Really?
Which is an absolute joy.
Yeah.
It really is a joy because basically I spend my life in places like this... Yeah.
..talking to people about their businesses.
VO: Well, that's handy for this road trip, then!
Maybe I shouldn't buy things I like too much because then I won't want to sell them at all.
We should buy with our heads, not our hearts.
Really?
So, that's... Do you ever do that?
No, never.
No.
I only buy what, what I'd like to own myself.
I don't...
But don't you end up like...
..I think that's very reasonable.
But don't you end up with, you know, just stuff in your house?
You do.
Yeah, but it's good, isn't it?
Stuff!
Stuff!
VO: Stuff!
VO: Let's see if they can find any stuff near Slough, in the village of Burnham.
VO: Once an important trading route, in 1271 a Royal Charter was granted to hold a market and annual fair.
Here we are.
Look at that.
VO: Next stop Burnham Antiques Market.
Tea shop.
Things are looking up, cup of tea!
Nice cake.
Oh, and antiques, look.
(LAUGHS) Antiques first!
VO: No slacking.
Get to it!
JAMES: Is this...?
CHARLOTT: Ah, hello.
SUSAN: Hello, welcome.
Hi, I'm Charlotte.
Hi.
I'm Susan Price.
James.
Hello.
Nice to meet you.
Susie, good to meet you.
VO: There's 30 dealers here with a fine selection of silverware, porcelain and china.
No prizes for guessing where Charlotte's headed.
I see jewelry.
I'm gone.
Yeah, just have a good look round and see if there's anything you want.
What we're after is something of residual value, isn't it?
We want something with gold or silver, if it's jewelry.
JAMES: There's a big bit of silver.
So what's that, a cigarette case?
I would have thought so.
VO: They're in luck.
This petite silver case bears the name Robertson and Sons.
Unusual with the little hanger there.
So what's that for?
Attaching it to a person?
I, I don't know, yes.
Cigarette cases were always put in pockets.
People had very heavy suits, didn't they?
Everything was a lot heavier.
So you could have a heavy silver case and you wouldn't feel it.
CHARLOTTE: Maybe it's a woman's?
JAMES: Maybe it is.
Moira.
Moira.
There's a clue!
JAMES: Moira.
What do you think?
Good weight, isn't it?
Tis.
It's a bit biffed.
The thing with something like this is if it's bashed and it's a bit small, nobody is really going to use that for cigarettes now.
Is it destined for the pot?
Is it gonna be scrapped?
Unless we meet a Moira.
JAMES: Unless you meet a Moira who's still a smoker.
Of small cigarettes.
JAMES: Of small cigarettes!
VO: Any Moiras watching?
Need a cigarette case?
So, I think you're right, I think it's scrap so it can only be worth...
So, that wants to be bought for no more than £25.
OK. Really, to be frank.
Shall we put it on our hmm list?
VO: Ticket price £40.
Are you good at haggling?
Because I'm useless.
JAMES: I'm great at haggling.
Oh, right, good.
OK. JAMES: I like haggling.
Cuz I don't, I get embarrassed.
VO: Right, that's one possible, then.
What have we got there?
Well, two boxes, for a start.
Lovely jubbly, isn't that?
So, look, Mappin & Webb with the earrings.
Mappin & Webb.
And then another outer box, I guess you'd call it.
And then...
This is what we like.
We like a...
This is luxury goods.
It's about name.
We're selling a lifestyle here.
VO: None other than Grace Kelly favored this Sheffield silversmith, holder of the Royal Warrant.
Nobody has to know we bought them second hand.
They could have been bought Knightsbridge, couldn't they?
Mayfair.
There you go.
VO: Yeah, they look smashing, Charlotte.
What's the ticket price on that?
48.
Oh, that would have to be a lot less.
CHARLOTTE: Yeah.
I mean, a lot less.
I think a plan of action, a cunning plan, I think... Why do I feel scared?
I think we offer the good lady, I think we've got to be tough.
VO: Dealer Susie, brace yourself.
And I'm going to be quite rough and tough, I'm afraid, Susie.
Right.
Rough and tough.
Under 50 quid for the two.
So 65, then?
No, 60.
Alright.
Thank you.
VO: That breaks down as the cigarette case for £30 and the pearl and paste earrings also for 30.
There we go.
VO: Safe and sound until auction.
And that's the end of the first day's shopping for both teams.
TOM: Well, that was a good day, I'm getting into this.
It's very very easy, in this business, to be really quite pleased with what you've bought and then go and burn it with the last thing.
And that we don't wanna do.
VO: Sage advice, Mr Serrell.
VO: Sleep tight.
VO: It's the start of a new day.
How's everyone feeling?
Did you have fun yesterday?
Tremendous fun!
It feels kind of weirdly entertaining.
We did a lot more laughing than buying antiques, though.
CHARLOTTE: It's quite hard, isn't it?
Because you've got the money and then you look at things and you...I don't know, you think 'Oh, I don't know!'
Yeah.
So what did you buy?
Well, I'm not gonna tell you precisely but... Come on, give me a clue!
Give me a clue!
None of them are particularly big and all of them involve paper in some way or other.
OK. VO: Yes, Tom's not giving much away.
I've got a lot more shopping to do.
You know, there's quite a lot of wad still in my pocket.
Yeah.
I am still distressingly rich.
VO: Best get spending then, hadn't you?
TOM: Hey.
CHARLOTTE: Morning.
Morning, morning.
JAMES: Very nice car, isn't it?
How are we both?
Are we well?
Morning.
Very well, thank you.
Yeah.
We're waiting with baited breath to see what you've bought and he's waiting to see what we've bought.
Well, the big lorry's coming up for our deliveries, isn't it?
I'm gonna break the ice and I'm gonna get what we bought.
CHARLOTTE: Can you be polite... PHIL: Really?
JAMES: Yeah.
..or at least kind?
So two small items here.
Oh!
That's for that, that's for that.
OK. Name the price, Phil.
How much would you pay for this?
Oh, don't say!
25 quid.
JAMES: Spooky.
PHIL: What did you pay for those?
What'd you pay for those?
30.
OK. We had a rush of generosity to the head.
18 quid.
What did you pay for that?
(LAUGHS) That's cruel.
Come on, cuz it's scrap value.
I paid 30 quid for that.
Yeah.
VO: James and Charlotte also have that table up their sleeves but they're keeping that secret for now.
Their total spend yesterday was £92.
Wanna see some quality lots?
JAMES: Yeah.
Go on.
Tom, I think the time has come for you to unveil quality items.
Not just cheap baubles?
No, no, no, no, no.
I've never heard James called that before, but now you mention it, I like that.
We just got... We just got some old books.
Old books, yeah.
Well, this really is just because it's a book from my youth.
Oh, goodness, I know this.
There you go.
Ferdinand the bull.
Who wanted to sniff flowers rather than fight matadors.
Yes, rather than fight, yes.
Would anyone buy it, though?
Yeah, you.
I have to confess... How much does something like that cost?
That was eight quid.
PHIL: And a road map.
We thought we needed a road map.
JAMES: A nice road map.
And where of?
Well, Winchester.
JAMES: Ooh!
CHARLOTTE: Oh!
Ah!
Very clever.
That's very good.
I think two good buys, aren't they?
Well, we hope so.
VO: Frugal Tom and Phil have spent only £38.
Well, we'd... we'd better get shopping.
Shall we go?
We've all got plenty of money to spend still, haven't we, between us?
JAMES: Right.
Day two is where it counts.
Told you he was competitive.
PHIL: Good luck, my friend.
Good luck, good luck.
Well done, well done.
I shall need it.
You're driving, aren't you?
VO: That was all very civil.
But what do they really think?
I tell you what, your friend Tom is a big spender, isn't he?
(LAUGHS) I know.
Eh?
I know.
I really like the book, though.
I like the book.
But will anybody pay more than, I don't know, £8 which is what, what they gave.
I don't know.
It's lovely.
I haven't got any knowledge to judge those earrings.
They looked fairly... Horrible.
Well, just a little bit dull for me.
But, uh... VO: Tom and Phil are bound for Hertfordshire and Croxley Green with £362... VO: ..to spend and Croxley Antiques and Collectables to explore.
Here we go.
VO: There's no stopping Tom.
Look lively, Phil!
VO: Ah, Tom's on the prowl.
Come on, Phil, there's room for two on this.
Is there room for a big two?
This is where I end up in a big heap on the floor.
VO: That's it!
Cuddle in, Phil!
What do you think?
I quite like this little chair.
I thought you meant the view.
VO: Enough window shopping, back to the antiques.
Anything here that takes your fancy?
That set of four spoons, they're generous.
I like a spoon.
PHIL: You like a spoon.
I think I'm right in saying these could well have been originally soup spoons.
What I just love about these are the hallmarks.
You've got the lion looking sideways or lion passant, and that tells you that it's silver.
And basically, that was put on there so that people knew what they were buying was silver, not just a metal that looked like it was silver.
You've got the leopard's head.
And the leopard's head means that this was assayed in London.
The leopard's head has got a crown on it and it ceased to have a crown on it in 1820.
So 1821 onwards, uncrowned leopard's heads.
So you can sort of...
Earlier silver's got this crowned leopard's head on it.
But there's one last thing that I like about these.
These hallmarks are punched into the metal.
And the metal is fairly soft, so when they punch the hallmark in there's a tendency for this part of the spoon to spread.
And sometimes that distorts or makes the makers mark actually quite tricky and awkward.
But it hasn't done that.
In my book, that is actually more attractive than that.
Because I think those hallmarks are fantastic.
I love all that and I know hallmarks are sort of meat and drink to you guys, but to me it's a real kind of code that you can crack with this stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
It's absolutely brilliant.
VO: £120, the 18th century spoons are in budget and a maybe.
Good spot.
VO: Now, can Phil give Tom a steer on this particular item?
They're a bit grotesque but they make me laugh, they put a smile on my face.
Are they off a... what're they off?
PHIL: I think they're off a cow or something.
TOM: Yeah, some big... PHIL: Longhorn big cow or something.
TOM: Longhorn steer.
PHIL: Yeah.
It would be a John Wayne type cow, wouldn't it?
TOM: Appeals to my inner Dukes of Hazzard.
VO: Those horns originate from the 1930s.
So, I think we should have a look.
Really?
Yeah.
I do, I think they're funny.
Really?
You're not having it, are you?
They don't have a price on them.
In all seriousness, I think those are actually moderately cool.
Moderately cool and utterly naff, yeah.
A bit of both.
There is a very thin line, isn't there, between the two?
No, there is.
There is.
Do you want... Are you interested in them?
Yeah!
Go on.
Shall we take them to the counter?
TOM: Yeah.
PHIL: OK. Have them off the wall, my man.
Could be useful for something.
Which part of "shall we take them to the counter" does he not understand?
VO: The horns once belonged to a buffalo and are unpriced.
Time to speak to the owner, Dave.
PHIL: Spoon man.
TOM: It is a bit the sublime to the ridiculous.
Maybe I could have some cowhorn soup.
Right.
Right, I've got...
I've got 120 on them.
These, I was thinking more like something about 80-ish, and for that, I don't know, something, 60, 70, what about 140 for the two?
I can't go that low.
I will do them for 100 for you.
150 for the pair, come on.
150 for the two.
We're walking out of here.
I'll do it for 150 for you.
150?
Yeah.
You're a good man.
DAVE: Thank you.
TOM: Thank you very much.
Thank you very much indeed.
VO: That Tom's a dab hand at this haggling business.
He's hit a bull's-eye there!
PHIL: Ba-ba, ba-ba!
Do you know what, this could be the successor to the Triumph Stallion, the Triumph Cow.
Very good!
VO: Phil's on fire today, I tell you.
VO: In the meanwhile, Charlotte and James are heading to a duck farm in Bucks.
They're off to Chesham, not far from Aylesbury.
Have you covered ducks in Countryfile?
Yes.
Yes, in various sorts of ways.
Yeah.
But because I tend to do the more newsy things, I've done more duck welfare.
VO: Don't worry, these ducks are free-roaming.
James and Charlotte are at Long Grove Wood Farm, and despite presenting Farming Today, Charlotte seems rather unprepared for the visit.
JAMES: I must say, do you think you've got appropriate footwear?
I am so embarrassed to be coming to a farm, not just in shoes, but in gold shoes.
Gold shoes.
I think...
Awful, isn't it?
No, you're lending glamour to the rural...
I've got some lovely wellies at home.
Have you?
Yeah.
VO: Our two have a date with some very special poultry.
Quintessentially everyone's idea of what a British duck is, and immortalized in Beatrix Potter's Jemima Puddle-Duck story.
This is no ordinary-looking bird.
CHARLOTTE: They're enormous.
They are big, aren't they?
They really are, look at them.
JAMES: They are big.
I suppose, you know, as a table bird, that's a big fellow, isn't it?
It is, it is.
It's like a turkey.
VO: Size does matter!
This is the famous Aylesbury duck.
300 years ago, Aylesbury's close proximity to hungry Londoners meant that the duck supply trade boomed in the area.
Ducks were owned by everyone, roaming free rather than living in farms, and slept in people's homes at nighttime.
Hi!
You must be Richard.
I am Richard.
VO: Richard is the last existing breeder of these beautiful birds.
His family have been breeding pure Aylesburies since the late 1700s.
Aylesburies have always been popular for a reason other than meat.
RICHARD: 50 years ago, the feathers were worth more per pound than the ducks were.
CHARLOTTE: Wow.
Why is that?
It was because after the Second World War there was so many refugees, so much migration within Europe that duvets got destroyed.
The continentals were using duvets way way before it became popular in Great Britain.
Yeah.
So every bit of feather that the feather merchants could lay their hands on was washed and went straight to Europe and the price went up and up.
It was my mum's wages for the year, was the feather money.
But when you consider, they only liked white feathers because they don't show through the eiderdown or duvet.
Oh, I see.
I see.
White feathers tend to be a little bit neutral.
I see.
Colored duck feathers, obviously, show colored.
So white feathers.
Yeah.
See?
Who knew?
And this little chap you see with me, he is now seven weeks and he's still actually got the fur on the back of his neck from when he was yellow.
Huge for seven weeks, isn't it?
Really.
Yeah, that's when he's seven weeks.
Would you like to see what they look like when they are a day old?
Yes please!
Oh, yes please!
Right, let's go and have a look.
Let's put this little chap back.
That's you, mate.
Off you go, then.
VO: In its heyday, local households bred up to a thousand Aylesbury ducks a year.
He looks really indignant, doesn't he?
(QUACKS) Mind the step.
Is this the hatchery?
This is my little hatchery.
Hatchery.
Thank you.
JAMES: I can hear noises.
You should be.
They're actually due tomorrow.
I can hear noises.
They're due tomorrow, this lot?
Yeah, Wednesday, yeah.
CHARLOTTE: Oh, look!
JAMES: Look, there's one!
Little duckling.
Because they bang away, don't they, to make the hole with their... That's right.
Yeah.
..beaks.
RICHARD: He's got his wing out, he's having a bit of a wave at us.
CHARLOTTE: Look at him wiggling around.
JAMES: Look, he's wiggling out, he wants to get out.
JAMES: Come on!
CHARLOTTE: Oh, look!
JAMES: How's that?
CHARLOTTE: Look.
JAMES: That is new life.
RICHARD: Yeah.
CHARLOTTE: That's amazing, isn't it?
VO: He's finally made it out.
Well done!
These days most white ducks hail not from Aylesbury but from Peking in China.
The introduction of the Peking birds over 100 years ago coincided with better transport to market and was the beginning of the end for the Aylesbury.
In the mid 1800s, then, the railway got put through, opened it up, everything flourished.
But then the problem was that too many people got in on it because there was so much money to be made.
And hence when the Peking was introduced in 1870 odd, a lot of people used it just to breed the numbers, not the quality.
And then, one way or another, that was the beginning of the end of it, slightly.
It just became... Cuz your consumer lost confidence.
RICHARD: Exactly.
CHARLOTTE: Yeah.
VO: Once Richard stops, these direct duck descendants from the 1700s will stop too.
CHARLOTTE: What keeps you doing it, Richard, against all odds?
Bloody mindedness, I think, to be quite honest, more than anything.
VO: Let's hope these fine old birds continue for decades to come.
Right, back on the road.
One last retail opportunity for the chaps.
What are we going to do today, then?
What do you think we should do?
We've got to spend, we've got to spend big.
Do you want... Is that what you want?
Money burning a hole in my pocket.
OK. Do you wanna win or do you wanna spend big?
Well, I wanna do both!
OK, fine.
VO: Tom and Phil... VO: ..are winding their way to Wendover in the Vale of Aylesbury.
VO: It's a pretty market town, and, look, there's the town clock, which used to be a jail.
But no time for history, time to get shopping.
Tom and Phil are at the town's Antiques Centre.
PHIL: How sad is this?
This is our last shop.
Oh, wipe a tear away.
Yeah, absolutely.
(CLACKING) Tom, I love these.
You know, one of the things I love about this business is the social history.
So, you know, you look at Downton Abbey or Upstairs Downstairs where you've got a great big lawned area and they didn't have motorized lawnmowers and they used horsepower.
These are horse slippers or shoes that would have gone on the hoof of a horse or pony so that when he was pulling the mowers to mow your beautifully manicured lawn, his horse's hooves didn't sink in.
Now, true, there's only two here so that's half a set.
A two-legged horse.
It was obviously doing it prancing.
A very clever horse.
I think those are really, really cool.
They are quite something, aren't they?
They are.
And they're leather, so they're made out of leather and they're probably, I would think, I don't know, 1890, something like that.
VO: Shame there's not four of them.
Do you like that?
I do.
What's it... what's it all about?
Well, the truthful answer is I haven't got a clue.
VO: It's actually a galvanized industrial bin from Germany.
That, probably some sort of trolley, hooks onto there to move it around.
So, it's steel.
Yeah.
TOM: Oh, it's quite solid, isn't it?
VO: Yeah.
I didn't know you were into heavy metal, Tom!
Wouldn't it be great to have that either as your waste bin or as your wine bottle holder... Yeah.
..as your cellaret.
You could have, you know, quite a groovy party with that as the ice bucket, couldn't you?
PHIL: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
TOM: You opened that up.
Yeah.
I think that's... How much is it?
59?
Shall we have a little chat with Mike?
A chat, I'd say, wouldn't you?
Where's Mike?
Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike!
VO: While they try and find the owner, back in Bucks, the other two have stopped for lunch and James has bumped into an old colleague.
How quaint!
Look who I found.
Now, this is a real... John, do you mind squeezing in?
I'll squeeze along here.
I'll budge up.
Now, this is a doyen of our business, John Bly.
John, how lovely to meet you.
Charlotte Smith.
VO: Debonair John Bly was a stalwart of British antiques shows.
He's been in the biz for 60 years and he has a room full of treasures on the premises.
That's lucky!
I've noticed there's lots of lovely things in here.
There are in here.
And I've got some for sale in the other room, actually.
You haven't!
Yes I have.
Lead on!
Charlotte, come on!
This way.
Lead on, John.
VO: Wait for Charlotte!
James is excited!
Stand by.
JAMES: Excellent.
CHARLOTTE: Oh, look at that.
Look, there's some goodies in there, isn't there?
JOHN: I want you to make a profit if you can.
CHARLOTTE: Yeah.
JAMES: Right.
Um... You're leading us somewhere, I'm getting this feeling.
We're being steered towards... You know, you've got a pair of Imari plates.
CHARLOTTE: Forgive my ignorance, what's Imari?
It's the term given to the porcelain which came out of the Japanese port of Imari.
There were huge kilns all the way around making masses and masses of porcelain that looked like that.
Now, these are very very common, they are not rare at all.
But they're a little bit better than most and not as good as the very finest.
But then there's a pair of them and they're £75.
I mean, they're a marvelous bit of decoration.
CHARLOTTE: I really like them.
JAMES: I like them.
I really like them because they're very attractive.
JAMES: 75 quid.
JOHN: Well, the other... JAMES: You never know... JOHN: The other thing is... ..John might take a... John might... Take a price.
He's...he's a dealer.
John has already offered you his cost price on them.
CHARLOTTE: Has he?
JOHN: Absolutely.
Have you really?
He really has.
VO: Nice try, Charlotte!
I quite like this as well.
Oh, the clock at the bottom?
The clock.
We've got a normal clock, haven't we?
Mantle timepiece here.
But it's lifted... By that.
..by this device, isn't it?
Yeah.
VO: Now, that's a design in the style of Archibald Knox, Liberty's terrific designer in the early 1900s.
Oh, it's quite heavy, weighty.
Does it work, do we think?
That's the timepiece.
I don't know.
Is that not important?
No, no, no, no!
Is it not vital?
No, not when you get to my age.
(LAUGHS) But it's a nice thing.
It is a nice thing.
What could that be, John?
85.
85?
Mm.
I thought that was lower than 85, John.
Did you?
JOHN: Yeah.
JAMES: Oh.
I was going to offer you 40.
No!
Really?
Yeah.
Well... VO: Awkward.
Has James met his match with John?
Let's see how the others are getting on 10 miles away in Wendover.
How are we doing, chaps?
I think that's lovely.
I really do.
TOM: But 59 for what is basically a glorified bin...
I thought that said...
I thought it said 39.
VO: No, definitely 59.
Oh, Phil.
Well, what can you, what can you... What do you suggest?
I dunno, 35?
40?
We can probably work 35, 40ish.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Something else has caught my eye and I'm wondering if we could put the two together... Mmm.
..and we could all be happy.
This.
Well, that's a bit, it's a bit on the side, that.
Ah!
You know your drill.
Oh, come on!
Actually, I've got it, I think you're both being pretty boring.
Ah ha ha, it's getting good here.
VO: Come on, I do the jokes and puns around here.
Back to business, please!
I could just see it being used, I don't know, if someone'd mount it on the trendy industrial bar and make it into a beer pump, or... That's good, I like that.
Do you think the people of Winchester are gonna be queuing up to buy that?
It is a fair point.
I have absolutely no idea but I do like it.
I would think it was quirky and interesting and I think I might be intrigued.
We can package them together, I think that's fair enough.
OK. What are you suggesting?
50 quid.
(SPLUTTERS) I wouldn't have gone there.
He's gonna hate you, but absolutely.
Thank you.
I'm loving that.
No, I'm liking that.
Thank you, Phil.
VO: That's £22 for the drill and 28 on the bin.
Let's just hope someone sees the beauty in them.
Feel how heavy it is.
VO: Meanwhile, Charlotte and James are still hard at it.
Charlotte, we've got some options here in this cabinet, but I've also noticed something yellow is winking at me.
(CHARLOTTE LAUGHS) JAMES: What on earth is that, John?
JOHN: Well, it is hard-paste porcelain, Chinese hard-paste porcelain.
And it is a verriere.
A verriere?
A verriere.
JAMES: Verriere!
It's where you tilted your glass, rested your glass in the water here to wash the glass after use.
Really?
In between, yes, in between sort of courses.
And it is a copy.
It is not old at all.
JAMES: Yeah.
CHARLOTTE: Oh.
It's just...
I knew there'd be a catch.
It's just a very good...
It is a very good copy, that.
Great looking thing.
Yeah.
VO: Such a delight.
It might be modern, but it's a lovely version of a very inventive object.
People use them as planters today.
I, I have to say, I would love that in my house.
As a planter.
I don't even like yellow but I'd love that, I think it's beautiful.
But it's not old, it's not old.
But it's quality of design and quality of materials.
And that embodies both of them.
I gave £45 for it at the market and I think it's great.
You can have it for that.
So are we gonna stick on a slightly porcelain theme?
Yes, we could have this and the plates.
The plates.
Do you want something else?
Yeah.
Shall we go wild?
Well, there's the clock.
John, would you take a lower price?
Would you take 40 on that?
Go on, yes, of course.
40.
40.
Quick, before he changes his mind.
So, 45, 85... Yeah, plus the plates.
..75.
I think we've done quite well.
Hold that, I'll get the money.
Do you think... Get the money, come on.
God, this has become a shopping trip.
Yeah.
Almost need a basket.
We only came for lunch!
VO: (LAUGHS) Talk about killing two birds with one stone!
With those last three items, that's their shopping done for today.
Better get some well-earned rest before auction day.
VO: Sweet dreams!
VO: Morning time, and we're bright and breezy in sunny Winchester, full of history and home to a glorious cathedral.
And enjoying a ride in the sunshine are our pair of auction novices.
CHARLOTTE: Have you been to an auction before, then?
Well, I suspect, like you, mainly of things that walk into the ring on their own.
(LAUGHS) Yeah, there's that.
I have.
I went to one for work doing a piece about selling off all the lost property at Heathrow.
Oh, nice.
And I came home with a glitter ball that's about way big.
(LAUGHS) VO: After setting out in Hampshire, in Eversley, VO: ..and making their way through the Chiltern hills, let's hope Charlotte and Tom aren't scratching their heads next to the river Itchen in sunny Winchester, VO: ..at Bellman's Auctioneers.
Charlotte and James spent £252 on their items, giving them change from their full 400.
James, did you buy these?
Yeah.
They're so yesterday it's not true, isn't it?
They are very yesterday.
They are.
I bought them, you know, pairs, who can resist a pair, eh?
Let me just tell you, Hyacinth Bouquet would have these on her wall.
No she wouldn't, she'd have Crown Derby.
VO: Tom and Phil didn't part with all of their £400 kitty either, spending £238.
And what's the reasoning behind this, Philip?
James, you've either got a young outlook in life... Yeah, yeah.
..or you haven't.
Yeah.
Yeah, quite.
But that, that, that's what us kids want today.
JAMES: Really?
PHIL: Yeah.
But what will you do with the drillbit apart from drill?
It's a piece of modern sculpture.
It's industrial sculpture, honestly.
Is this industrial sculpture?
Sometimes...
But surely that boat, that boat has sailed, hasn't it?
That is more car boot than auction.
James...
I'm not prepared to talk to you anymore.
Car booty!
VO: That's enough of your bickering, chaps!
What does auctioneer Jonathan Pratt, affectionately known around here as JP, think of your dreams?
That wine table is actually rather quirky.
It's got this name on the bottom, Lorenzon Nove and actually Lorenzon, Lorenzon's quite a good family of potters out in just to the north of Venice, in this place called Nove.
And it's got this lovely style about it, it's in nice condition.
It's a bit kitsch but I think it's really good fun.
A galvanized bin and a big drillbit, it's a big bit of machinery.
Obviously Mr Serrell bought it.
People do buy quirky things.
That's pretty quirky.
The Owen and Bowen map, they're always really popular and this is rather clever of whoever bought this to choose, you know, the Alresford, Winchester, that route.
It's not too big, it's easy to place in the house.
Gotta be worth £40-60.
VO: All set for auction, then.
We just need one more thing.
Now, where are they?
These good people.
They're late.
The auction starts shortly.
I just hope the car hasn't broken down.
Oh, here we are, look.
Here we are.
JAMES: Very good, isn't it?
PHIL: Yeah.
CHARLOTTE: Thanks, driver.
JAMES: Very smart.
PHIL: Yeah, absolutely.
Good morning, good morning, good morning!
Good morning!
JAMES: Morning.
TOM: My trusty trainer.
PHIL: Absolutely.
Hello, matey, you alright?
TOM: How're you doing?
PHIL: Hi, lovely, how are you?
Good morning, lovely.
CHARLOTTE: Two!
TOM: Good, thank you.
CHARLOTTE: Hello!
JAMES: How are you?
Very good.
I'm fine, thank you.
Are you ready for victory?
I'm... Ha!
I'm crossing my... Oh, behave!
Let's go and find out, hey?
TOM: Come on!
Go on then.
Go on then, matey.
VO: Here come our gang.
What a picture, all in blue!
With luck, their lots will fetch colorful prices.
It's very good isn't it?
This is it.
I'm scared.
VO: First up is Charlotte's very interesting Italian table.
£35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65.
Aw, look, you're on and winning.
80, 85, 90.
In the doorway at 90 and I'm out now at 90.
There is just no justice, is there?
90, sir.
Do I see five?
Come on Internet now.
It's £90.
With you, sir, at 90?
And I'm going to sell at 90.
All done?
Don't keep nodding at me.
At £90, I'm going to sell.
No, keep nodding!
(GAVEL) Thank you, at 90.
£90?
See, it's so bad it's good.
See, that's how you make money, boys.
VO: Charlotte's certainly smashed it with her first item.
VO: Tom's turn.
It's his bullish title.
Come on, Ferdinand!
I have a bid here of £5.
£5.
Children's story, you've got to feel sorry now, haven't you?
£5 with me, who's going to make 10?
£5, come on, where is £10 now?
Come on!
£5.
£8 on the internet there!
There we go.
Get in there!
Yes.
£8 on the net.
At £8 I'm going to sell to the internet.
Come on, one more bid.
Round it to 10, it's much nicer than eight.
It's £8.
Fair warning, it's going.
(GAVEL) I tried my best.
There we are, £8 on the net.
We didn't lose anything.
No, no, no.
VO: Sadly not such a cash cow.
Still, could have been worse.
VO: Next up, the marvelous Monteith.
Do you know what, if that table's made £90, this could make 3,000.
£30, straight away at £30.
Bring the hammer down JP, bring the hammer down.
35, internet, 40 with me.
40 with me.
45, 50 I have.
Against you 50.
55 on the net now.
It's our lucky day, Charlotte.
Well done.
I love that John Bly.
60 on the phone against you, internet.
65.
JAMES: 60 on the phone!
(LAUGHS) 70, against you, internet, 70.
Stopped now on the net, now at 70.
So it's on the phone at £70.
Any other bids at 70?
Anyone else joining in?
£70, in the front row at 70.
Fair warning?
And selling.
Last chance, internet, at £70.
All done?
(GAVEL) VO: Bloomin'... VO: ..fantastic, Charlotte!
It's another profit, thank you.
Thank you?
Given that table, that's a result for us.
VO: Now, Tom's industrial bin and big drillbit.
At £10 with me, looking for 15, though.
At £10, do I see 15?
It's gotta be worth £15, isn't it?
I'll go and start the car.
Come on, one more bid at 20, then.
It's still at £20.
At 20 and selling.
(GAVEL) It could've been worse.
Yeah, it could've been.
VO: Oh dear, yet to turn a profit, the boys are slipping behind.
VO: Right, now time for the timepiece.
£20, I have.
£20.
Looking for five now.
£20, who's got five?
At £20, any more?
25, 30?
£30, 30.
There you go.
One more.
£30 has it, then.
At £30.
On the book, still, at 30 and I'll sell at 30.
Come on, internet, at £30.
At 30 with me.
Lovely thing, this.
Are you going to go any more?
Just £30.
No!
Commission bid, then, 30, fair warning at 30.
(GAVEL) 30 has it, thank you.
VO: Oh dear.
That's Charlotte's first loss.
VO: Now, anyone in the room fancy some oversized horns?
At £25, looking for 30 now.
At £25, 30, 35.
35, still with me at 35.
Any more at £35?
Come on!
Oh, come on!
In the doorway at 40.
40, 45, still with me at £45.
It worked!
We're not there yet.
Is it not a long way, yet, is it?
No, not there yet.
At £45.
I'm sorry.
Should've brought the rest of the buffalo with you.
At £45.
At £45.
At 45, any more at 45?
(GAVEL) I'll tell you what, it's going well, this, isn't it?
VO: Ouch!
Three losses in a row.
Bad luck.
I feel like I've been gored by those horns.
VO: Up next, Charlotte's earrings and the silver cigarette case.
I don't think we're going to make any money at all on this.
And with commissions here, starting with me at 25.
£25 to start.
£25 to start.
Looking for 30 now.
£25, looking for 30.
I'm gonna be right.
I have a horrible feeling I'm gonna be right.
£45.
£45, any more at £45?
Get the hammer down.
£45, all done at £45 then?
Get the hammer down.
Just sold!
Sold!
Come on, come on!
All done, 45?
(GAVEL) It's gotta go.
VO: Bad for Charlotte.
Brilliant for the boys.
Oh, hard luck.
Oh well.
VO: Next, that Winchester-friendly map.
£20 on commission, £20.
Looking for five, though.
25, 30.
Against you, internet, with me at 30.
35, 40 with me.
Against you, 40.
45, 50 with me.
Against you, 50.
On commission at £50, then.
£50.
That's good.
Any more at £50?
CHARLOTTE: Yeah.
AUCTIONEER: £50, all done?
Last chance, internet.
(GAVEL) £50 has it.
VO: At last, a profit for Tom.
There's hope!
Smidge of a profit.
Tiny bit of money.
That's alright.
VO: Now, Charlotte and James's last lot, the Japanese Imari plates.
I'm worried about these plates.
Why?
Because I think we paid quite a lot of money for them.
We did pay quite a bit of money.
Yeah, I mean we're both really really worried for you.
£10.
12, 15 I have.
Oh, dear.
Oh God.
Get in, get in.
Any other bids at £15?
JAMES: Oh dear.
AUCTIONEER: £15?
Well, that's brought a little smile to my face.
Any more at £15?
Surely worth more.
Come on, £15 with me.
At £15 and selling.
(GAVEL) Oh, I'm so, so sorry, Charlotte.
Yes, what's that expression?
Never hit a man when he's down, kick him, it's easier.
I think most of our profits have been eradicated.
VO: This changes everything!
All to play for!
I'm now beginning to believe in the power of prayer.
VO: Tom's final lot, the set of silver spoons.
I reckon we're gonna get about £130 or 40 for these to stand a chance, that's what I think.
TOM: It all hinges on this lot.
Are we born with a silver spoon in our mouth or not?
I kind of hope we are, really.
Commission here at 60, 70, 80.
90 with me.
90 with me, looking for five now.
95, 100 with me.
110, 120 with me.
OK, come on.
130 internet, now at £130 internet.
Looking for 140, though, any other bids at 140?
Come on in the room.
It's 130, on the internet now at £130.
Come on, come on!
130 has it.
Fair warning, then, it's on the net at 130, all done?
Come on.
(GAVEL) 130 gets it.
VO: It's close!
That might have nailed it for Tom.
JAMES: I think it's gonna be very very close.
Shall we go and work it out?
Yeah.
VO: Let me do the math, then.
Thanks, JP!
VO: Charlotte and James began with £400, but after all auction costs they made a loss of £47.
Their final sum of money is £353.
VO: Tom and Phil started with the same sum.
They too made a loss after costs, of £30.54, leaving them with £369.46.
But as they lost the least, they are today's winners!
(LAUGHS) Really?
PHIL: Get it there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
CHARLOTTE: Congratulations.
JAMES: Congratulations.
PHIL: I'm really surprised!
JAMES: Phil, well done.
Well done!
It was the bin that did it.
Well done, Tom, well done.
It was that bin!
Let me just tell you... Go on.
We're gonna be very gracious in victory.
Fair enough, Tom, well done.
Bye James.
Bye.
Bye, Charlotte.
We head off into the sunset.
Goodbye.
Let's go.
Right.
PHIL: Jim, hard luck, mate, hard luck.
Bye!
I cannot believe, Tom Heap, that you bought a drillbit and won!
I'm practicing my smug face.
Lap it up.
TOM: Basking in the sun and basking in victory.
Oh, man!
Feels good!
Oh no!
VO: Cheerio!
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