(CAR HORN) VOICEOVER (VO): It's the nation's favorite antiques experts... Howdy, li'l lady.

VO: ..behind the wheel of a classic car... Oh yes!

VO: ..and a goal - to scour Britain for antiques.

Looking for some bargains?

VO: The aim... MARGIE: Yay!

VO: ..to make the biggest profit at auction.

But it's no mean feat.

There'll be worthy winners...

Yes!

It is my lucky day!

VO: ..and valiant losers.

I actually can't believe that.

Annoying.

VO: Will it be the high road to glory... Yo, yo, yo!

VO: ..or the slow road to disaster?

This is Antiques Road Trip.

Yeah!

VO: Today we find ourselves out in the woods, en route to one of the most delightful counties.

Isn't Hampshire a lovely place?

It is absolutely beautiful.

And did you know that it's actually the home of Downton Abbey?

Is it?

Downton Abbey was filmed here in a castle.

VO: Yes, they do have quite a few of those.

So it should be all set fair for our experts, Hettie Jago, and by her side, Tim Medhurst, to turn up a treasure or two.

HETTIE: Did you watch it?

TIM: I did.

I didn't.

And there were so many series of it, weren't there, as well?

TIM: There were.

VO: Ah, well, too late now.

And who could possibly experience fear of missing out when they're currently piloting a replica Jaguar through the country lanes.

If you lived in a stately home like that, I reckon you'd be upstairs, wouldn't you?

What, I'd be the lady of the manor?

TIM: Yeah, and I'd be the guy saying, "Would you like your silver polished?"

Yes, please.

VO: At least she asks nicely.

And talking of shiny things, Hettie from Nottingham is an auctioneer and a dealer with top drawer talents, especially when it comes to jewelry and the like.

That smells a little bit too metal-y to be silver.

VO: While Tim, a resident of nearby Dorset, is a dealer who's also rather gifted at sniffing out the loot.

£5 for a piece of bronze that a Roman would have held.

I mean, I find that extraordinary.

VO: So, between the pair of them, most boxes are firmly ticked.

One thing that I'm not hugely knowledgeable about is coins.

I am a big fan of coins.

Yeah?

I am a numismatist.

I love that word.

Yeah, and you don't even need a cream for it, either.

VO: Quite!

Or, much money.

Today, they have another £200 with which to set about acquiring objects for auction in our best of five competition.

I can't believe we're over halfway through our road trip now.

VO: And as for the scores on the doors, well, that's nicely poised with all to play for.

Do you reckon you've peaked yet?

I haven't even started peaking yet.

OK!

VO: Tim Peaks?

Isn't he an astronaut?

Your confidence has given me the motivation to try even harder, because I want to win.

VO: Just what we like to hear.

They were let loose in Lewes, and after taking in several home counties, they're now heading once more for the south and west, with a terrific finish eventually anticipated in Topsham.

I think I could make a numismatist out of you.

HETTIE: Yeah?

TIM: Do you like coins?

Erm, yeah... (IMITATING HETTIE) Erm, yeah.

VO: They're not for everyone.

Today's destination is in Wiltshire, but they start out in the New Forest at Lyndhurst... ..birthplace of ventriloquist Keith Harris.

We're not so sure about where Orville first left the shell, though.

TIM: Come on, Hettie.

What's in the window?

There's lots of interesting things there.

VO: You betcha.

Well, it is the Lyndhurst Antiques Center, after all.

Over 40 dealers represented within here.

They have £200 each to spend, remember.

If you're into millefiori, then this is absolutely the place to be, because this cabinet is full of beautiful millefiori paper weights.

Now, millefiori actually means a thousand flowers in Italian, and immediately I'm drawn to this one, because it's in the form of a jug, which is actually quite unusual.

Mostly you see paper weights.

The art of millefiori was really perfected by the Venetian glass makers in the 15th century, and it became popular from there.

And a lot of this glass is made in Italy.

It's made in Murano.

But also there are some really, really good glass makers in Scotland that produce this sort of glass as well.

HETTIE: This is essentially made up of lots of very fine pieces of glass rod that are melted together, and then they're cut into little sections to create little flowers.

So, a lot of work has gone into this.

VO: Although there are quite a few copies about.

HETTIE: Now I'm going to show you, as an example.

Now, just from looking at the base, you can see it's quite unevenly made.

It's not very nicely cut.

It's not well finished, but also, it's only made up of three different colors.

But as you can see in this real one here, you've got six, seven different colors going on in there.

So you can just tell from the quality.

This has only got £15 on it, which reflects its quality.

This has £50 on the ticket, but I really, really like it.

VO: I think that means she might really, really buy it.

What about Tim?

Oh!

TIM: Look at this little fellow, this little nut.

These are called hediao nuts, and I'm a real fan of these.

And hediao is the sort of Chinese term for nut carving, or pit carving.

And this would have been a little pit from, say, a peach stone.

They were also carved out of olive stones, those sort of things.

VO: In ancient China, they were sometimes worn on a pendant.

TIM: And it is beautifully carved with little faces you can see coming out of the side of this boat, which is carved all over.

And then on the bottom, which is beautiful, is tiny little character marks, which will be some kind of poem.

I can't read it, sadly, but it'd be lovely to know what it says.

What's the price?

Well, all I'm gonna say is at the price of £33 that is going straight in my basket, and I'm just gonna go and see if we can do a little deal on that.

I absolutely love it.

VO: That makes it just about one all, I think.

Jan will be the person to talk to when he's quite ready.

And Jason is here for Hettie's buying requirements.

Now normally, I'm always drawn to silver, but this has very much caught my eye.

It's a stick pin in the form of a fish.

HETTIE: Now, I think it's probably early 20th century, and it would have been worn in your jacket.

It's definitely made of mother of pearl.

It's got that sort of iridescent sheen to it.

It's a really sweet thing.

It only has £29 on the ticket price, which I think is quite a fair price for it.

I keep buying everything to do with animals.

Anything that's in the form of an animal I just love.

I haven't actually bought anything in the form of a fish before, so it's a new one for me.

Hopefully it will make me a bit of money.

VO: Looks a bit briny, I'd say.

I'm gonna leave it there, have a think about it.

It's on my maybe list.

VO: Caught and released for now.

Hettie is awfully fond of buying animal shaped objects, not to mention jewelry, just as Tim has his little peccadilloes.

Oh, one of my favorite things in the entire world is when you come into an antique shop, and there's a coin cabinet.

Because I find a coin cabinet holds so much history inside it.

And in this cabinet, we've got coins ranging from William III in the 17th century, Queen Anne, and I've spotted one that brings back many happy memories here, in this little pouch.

TIM: It's a Victorian crown, which is five shillings, and this one's dated 1900.

The reason this coin has so much affinity to me in particular, is because the Victorian crown was the first coin that got me into coins to start with, which is why I'm here today.

My grandmother showed me a Victorian crown that she kept in her little music box, and she put it into my hand, and I just thought as a seven year old that that was an amazing thing, that a Victorian would have held that 100 years before me.

It was just...connected me with the past in such a way that I then started collecting coins and then antiques.

This one's priced at £50.

I mean, to be honest, because of the condition of it, that's not a bad price.

So this could be my little lucky omen, and I think I could take that on, and it might make a profit.

Hopefully.

VO: They are certainly loving Lyndhurst.

Anything else?

Now, this looks to me like a Ruskin plaque.

Now, Ruskin was a company that was formed in the late 19th century, and it was studio art pottery.

And they were very, very known for their colorful pieces.

HETTIE: So it was jewelry, it was buttons, plaques, but also pottery as well.

VO: Based in Birmingham, and named after the great Victorian writer and critic, John Ruskin.

This is a classic example of Ruskin.

HETTIE: I've just seen on the underside that it is actually stamped as well, which is really good to see.

It's set in what looks like white metal.

I can't see a hallmark on it, but it is probably silver.

It's everything that I love.

I really want to buy it.

It has £68 on the ticket, which I think might be a bit too much for it, but if I can get it down a little bit, I really, really want to take it with me to auction.

I love it.

It has to come with me.

VO: OK. Got a little list.

Hello, Jason.

Oh, hi, Hettie.

I've found three things that I really like.

HETTIE: This, I've fallen in love with.

We've also got the millefiori jug, and also you've got a fish stick pin.

JASON: OK.

It comes to £147 in total for the three.

I know, I'm spending big today.

What could you possibly do for me if I bought all three?

I think if we round it off to 100... £100?

That is more than generous.

OK?

So I really appreciate that, thank you.

VO: Very kind.

Making the jug 40, the plaque 35, and the stick pin 25.

Hey, hand it over.

Thanks.

Lovely to meet you.

Bye, bye.

VO: And so, while Hettie heads off with half of her cash remaining, we'll catch up with her chum still a-shopping.

I always quite like these little cameo brooches, and this particular one is carved out of what's known as lava cameo.

TIM: And in the 18th and 19th century, it was very fashionable to go on your grand tour and bring back a souvenir.

And this would have been from Pompeii, from Mount Vesuvius.

And when the eruption happened at Pompeii, there was a huge expanse of lava, and it created a sort of dense material that you could use to carve items like cameos.

So this is actually quite a historical thing.

VO: Of course, the original deadly event took place in 79AD.

TIM: You've got this classical design of a lady wearing flowers in her hair, and wearing a robe as well.

It's in a brass mount, mounted on the back with this little pin, so you could still wear it as a brooch today, which is lovely, 100 odd years later.

And it's priced at £33, which doesn't sound bad to me.

I think if we can get that down a little bit, I think it would be worth a shot.

VO: So Tim now also has a pile of tiny items he wishes to buy.

TIM: Jan, hello.

Hi.

Hi.

I found three nice little things.

TIM: A little brooch, the little nut... JAN: OK. TIM: ..and the coin.

And they come to the grand total of £116.

Is there anything you can do on the price for me, please?

If we take £10 off each... OK. ..that would bring it to 86.

86.

That sounds like a deal.

Thank you very much.

VO: It does indeed.

28 for the nut, and the same for the brooch, with the crown coming in at 30.

JAN: Great.

TIM: Cheers, Jan. VO: 114 left.

Time to say ta-ra to Tim, and hello to Hettie, en route to her next retail opportunity.

Thoughts, please.

I think so far, I've bought some really nice things, but I'm not sure that I've found that absolute showstopper yet.

HETTIE: Hopefully I will do just that.

VO: 100%.

So, in search of said shop, she's heading to the Hampshire port of Southampton, twinned with other great cities like Busan in South Korea, Trieste in Italy, and Miami in the USA.

(SHIP HORN BLOWS) And Cobwebs is to be found in an area once closely associated with the shipyards.

She still has £100 in hand, of course.

Although a shop bursting with nautically themed items isn't exactly what you'd call her safe haven.

(BELL RINGS) I'm very much in my comfort zone with little collectable things, and I've just spotted some really, really nice belt buckles that I have to have a look at.

These are both in the Navajo style.

HETTIE: Now, the Navajo tribe are currently the biggest tribe in America, and they created these lovely pieces of hand crafted silver.

VO: The Navajo reservation of over 400,000 people includes parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah.

Now, this one's got a bear on it, it's got the claws.

HETTIE: And this one as well, this is set with turquoise, and they started using turquoise around sort of the late 19th century.

I think these are probably both 20th century pieces, but they have £120 on the larger one and £75 on the smaller one.

I think they might be a bit out of my budget, unfortunately.

But I do really like them.

VO: The browsing carries on.

And meanwhile, 20 odd miles to the northwest, Tim's about to reach his next shop in Salisbury, the Wiltshire cathedral city, which inspired some of Constable's greatest paintings, and The Phoenix Emporium.

There he goes.

It's a big place, so he'll need to pace himself.

They do, after all, have the goods of over 100 traders in here.

Fore!

Ha!

VO: Ole!

What did we say about pacing yourself?

Oops.

114 left in his wallet.

I think this is what I would probably class as a real good, usable antique.

TIM: And this Japanese cabinet probably dates, I would say, to around 1900 give or take.

And originally, it would have been either a wall hanging or table top cupboard for keeping all sorts of things in it.

Now you could use it for anything you want to.

It's got beautiful painted decoration of flowers on top of a sort of black lacquer.

VO: When European manufacturers imitated the style, it became known as Japanning.

What I quite like about this particular cupboard as well is the bottom drawer here pulls out, and this one's a false one, so there is a drop in here, and look, inside there's even a little scrap of old paper from probably when it was made.

You could keep all your treasures in there now as well and no one would know.

All your love letters, all your trinkets.

TIM: It's £195, but I think it's nice to own something that's got a story to it.

So what's better than buying an old piece of antique furniture?

Not much, I think.

VO: Oh, well.

When he does find something he can afford, Sophie will be the person to talk to.

TIM: I quite like these sorts of lamps.

I love the shell-shaped shade.

It's sort of harking back to a sort of Edwardian design.

But this one isn't quite as old.

It's a vintage one, copying the Edwardian design.

But still quite a nice lamp, although I was hoping it would have a good spring to it, because that...that's got a bit of a droop to it, hasn't it?

It's gone all floppy.

How much is it?

£80.

I mean, I think that might struggle because of the flop.

VO: Yeah, we've had more than enough of those already on this trip.

TIM: For me, I'll pass it, because of its floppy...floppy top, and also it's got quite a lot of denting around the base.

There's just maybe too much going on that needs fixing.

It's a bit like buying a piece of ceramic that's chipped.

It's always going to affect its value, so I think I'll pass on it, but maybe another time.

See you later, Mr Floppy.

VO: Also Mr Tim, because we're plotting a course back to Southampton, where Hettie decided to go with the salty flow.

He's good, isn't he?

Hello.

VO: See what I mean.

Peter is the master of this particular vessel, by the way.

I'm in a shop that specializes in marine and nautical memorabilia, and this is exactly what I was expecting to find.

This is a propeller, and it's very, very heavy.

I think it's definitely made from bronze, but what I love is the patina to it.

HETTIE: Look at all the, what people might class as damage, but I think it just makes it really beautiful.

A lot of the time I like to buy useful objects.

Would you use this again?

Probably not.

But it's a good interior decorator's piece.

It only has £45 on the ticket.

That's a good price for it.

I'd like to get a bit off if I can, but it's really stylish.

Having said that, I also really like this.

Now, this is a wheel, and it's also incredibly heavy, so it's also definitely bronze.

This would look great on a wall, wouldn't it?

Now this has £75 on the ticket, and that one's got 45 on it.

I like them both, but I've been buying with my heart so far, and my heart's telling me to buy that one.

My head is telling me to buy both.

So I'm gonna go and ask Peter, and see what he can do.

VO: Aye, aye.

Deal dead ahead.

HETTIE: Hello, Peter.

PETER: Hello.

HETTIE: I've found two things that I really, really like in here.

HETTIE: This wheel... PETER: Mm-hm.

..and the propeller that's downstairs.

If I were to buy them both, could you do a sort of deal for me?

It would be 100 for the pair.

OK, so I'm gonna buy the propeller.

What would be your best price on that?

Er, 40.

Could you possibly do 35?

I thought that was coming.

HETTIE: (LAUGHS) Yeah, that's OK.

Brilliant.

I'd love to shake your hand at 35.

Thank you.

VO: Everything ship shape... (TILL RINGS) ..with 65 left.

I really like this.

I think it's gonna propel me towards profit.

VO: Oh, dear.

Meanwhile, in Salisbury, Tim's seeking that certain something with 114 in his pocket.

This has caught my eye straight away, and the main reason for that is because I love this Moorish influence that the early 20th century furniture brings.

TIM: This is sort of inspired by that middle eastern Moorish taste that was so popular, and one of the champions of that was Liberty.

And you can see the influence here with the Middle East, with each section in between the legs, with these arches.

Originally this table would have been either a lamp table, or probably more likely a plant stand.

So you would have had your jardiniere with flowers or leaves pouring over the edge, and it's a real sort of interior designer's piece.

But looking on the inside and at the construction, you can easily see that this dates to the early 20th century.

So it is likely that this probably was retailed by Liberty at some point.

So we're looking at £45, which to me doesn't seem too expensive.

So I think I'm gonna take this plant stand and see if we can do a deal on that.

VO: Moor for less, hey?

Ha ha!

We'll see.

Sophie, hello.

Hi there.

I have found this rather nice Moorish style table.

It's beautiful.

Look, you've got 45 on it.

We can take that down to 40 for you.

Sophie, I hate to do this, but do you think you could manage another fiver off?

OK, we'll do... TIM: Yeah?

SOPHIE: ..35.

Thank you very much.

VO: Deal done.

SOPHIE: Take care.

Bye.

TIM: Cheers, bye.

TIM: Thanks for the table.

VO: All of which leaves him with 79 for tomorrow.

Gotta be collected by Hettie first, though.

Are you OK?

I think it's an early night kind of night.

It's been a lot of shopping.

Yeah, it has been.

Do you have dreams when you sleep?

I do, yeah.

There's one that I vividly remember.

I'd got a call to look at a collection of coins... Yeah.

..and they were so realistic... HETTIE: Yeah.

TIM: ..and I woke up... ..and I just desperately wanted to go back there.

Oh, no!

Well, you know, I'm into coins, so what else would I dream about?

HETTIE: (LAUGHS) Yeah.

VO: Sad but true.

Nighty night.

VO: Next morning, there's only one possible subject of conversation.

How are you?

Did you have any dreams last night about coins?

Do you know what, I had one of those nights where nothing happened.

What about you?

Do you have dreams?

I think I probably do dream, because apparently I laugh in my sleep.

VO: Don't we all?

Ha!

Yesterday's purchases certainly seem to tickle our experts... (BELL RINGS) ..with Hettie acquiring a millefiori jug, a colorful brooch, a bronze propeller, and a novelty stick pin...

I haven't bought anything in the form of a fish before.

VO: ..leaving her £65 to be going on with.

While Tim was equally enthused by his purchase of the Chinese carved nut, a cameo brooch, a Moorish plant stand and a special find...

The Victorian crown was the first coin that got me into coins to start with.

VO: ..meaning he now has £79 in his wallet, and a smile upon his face.

Well, that's why you were laughing at me when I was talking about coins.

You were actually asleep.

VO: The search for dream purchases resumes shortly, but right now, it's back to Salisbury.

Because just a stone's throw from the cathedral is a pub which is as old as the famous spire, and Hettie is here to discover something about its 700 year past from author Ruby Vitorino Moody.

HETTIE: Hello, Ruby.

Hello, Hettie.

HETTIE: It's certainly very snug in here, isn't it?

VO: The Haunch of Venison is the sort of establishment which attracts almost as many lovers of history as it does of beer, because within its grade two listed confines there are an awful lot of stories.

Some of them a little hair raising.

HETTIE: It's quite spooky around here, isn't it?

RUBY: Well, not really surprising, because it's got the reputation of being one of the most haunted pubs in England.

Really?

Yes.

And in fact, where we're standing is where one of the ghosts is most often seen.

RUBY: It's a woman who appears on the stairs, and quite often there's a smell of lavender or freshly turned earth before she appears.

We're right next to the churchyard... HETTIE: Oh, OK!

(LAUGHS) RUBY: ..as well.

So have you seen anything yourself being here?

Ah!

I was sitting downstairs with my brother and my husband one day, and we'd just come in.

There was a sheet of newspaper on the table, and somehow a pint, a full pint, ended up on the floor.

Wow.

And nobody quite knew how.

And I thought it was a bit odd that the newspaper wasn't wet at all.

We bought another pint, and I actually saw it jump off the table.

Wow.

VO: But as well as the presence of some former patrons who refused to obey last orders, the Haunch of Venison can also claim to have hosted a pair of significant historical figures in the secret bar.

Its real name is the cloisters bar, but they call it the secret bar, because the only people that really know about it are the old time regulars.

This is privileged access, then, to a part of the pub that nobody sees.

Two of the lucky people who've seen this bar are Churchill and Eisenhower during World War II, when they reputedly came here to discuss the D-Day landings.

I think Churchill wanted to be the perfect host and show Eisenhower Salisbury and the cathedral.

And what better place to bring him than the Haunch of Venison?

Wow.

So after a hard day's work, they were relaxing right here.

VO: Who knows?

Perhaps the pair even enjoyed a game of cards, although hopefully not as dramatic as in another of the old pub's tales.

HETTIE: What's in here, then?

Ah, go and have a look at that, Hettie.

HETTIE: Oh, that's terrifying!

What is that?

A mummified hand.

A real one?

No.

HETTIE: And what is that doing there?

(LAUGHS) Ah, well, the Salisbury legend is that a stranger came to the town and started a game of cards with the locals here.

And one of them, who was a butcher, because we're right next to Butcher's Row, realized he was cheating, pulled out his meat cleaver, cut off his hand, and threw it into the fire.

Wow!

RUBY: But I don't think that's the story myself.

The real story is that a landlord, who took over in 1903, was doing renovations here, and he opened up the fireplace and he discovered a mummified hand.

And it's quite likely that it was actually a hand of glory, because they used to take the hands of executed criminals and put them in places like a chimney to stop witches coming down.

HETTIE: Oh, really?

RUBY: Yes.

There are some amazing stories to this place, aren't there?

Did I hear a game of cards?

You did indeed.

Hello, Timothy.

As luck would have it...

I think I'll leave you guys to it.

VO: Very wise, Ruby.

What about a classic game of snap?

You go first.

OK.

Here we go.

You ready?

VO: Tense, isn't it?

TIM: Oh, I just turned over two.

Oh, no!

You're cheating, look.

Cut your hand off.

VO: Steady.

HETTIE: Ah!

TIM: Ah, snap!

I went "Ah!

", rather than snap.

VO: That's enough of that excitement.

(CHUCKLES) Time to shuffle off elsewhere now.

Back towards the New Forest.

I'm just going in this direction, and hoping for the best.

I thought you knew where we were going.

I thought you were in charge of directions.

VO: Crikey.

And they were getting along so well until that card game.

The next destination, when found, is the town of Ringwood... ..beside the river Avon, once a famous international motocross venue, where Hettie is revving up to do her first business of the day at this Queen Anne house.

Millers has been here over 40 years, but they started out in Chelsea in 1897.

And Hettie, who began with £200, is currently down to just 65.

This is a very recognizable style of pottery.

HETTIE: The colors, the browns, the oranges, the reds, they're all the sort of colors and tones of pottery that was coming out of West Germany at this point.

So between 1949 and 1990 a lot of examples of this sort of earthenware was produced.

So it says on the ticket German vase circa 1960.

VO: The style is known as fat lava.

HETTIE: And it's that sort of magma, sort of texture.

It's very easily recognizable and really stylish.

And the best thing about West German pottery is that it's actually quite affordable, but it's also very collectable.

Now, this has £58 on the ticket.

So you get a lot of item for your money.

It's a really nice thing.

It's got a good history to it.

Do I want to buy it for £58, though?

I think it will probably go for less at auction.

So I think I'm going to leave it there.

VO: Pot down - ha ha - and move on, while we take in a very nice view.

Who recognizes the most famous part of Shaftesbury?

Well, the very next shop is in the nearby village of Semley.

Here we go.

Oh, that's a lovely bike.

Nice.

VO: Antiques, please, Tim.

Just follow the sign.

£79 still available to spend in Kingsettle Antiques, remember.

Look at me when I'm talking to you!

So, with the goods of over 30 dealers in here, what's it to be?

He's a fun little chap, isn't he?

Look at him.

And he's got all moving limbs as well, look.

TIM: He's playing football.

I have no idea why he would have been made, but he is quite funny, isn't he?

He's got some age as well.

Think he's probably mid 20th century.

I quite like his, um, his painted features.

He looks quite mean.

It's like me at an auction, look, and I'm putting my hand up bidding.

Oh, he's a bit double jointed as well, look.

What is he then, on here?

A folk art mannequin, £45.

He's cut from just plywood, quite thin, isn't it?

And he has got some wear and tear, but I quite like him.

Hours of fun.

There is a bit of a market for creepy and quirky, and I think this chap is probably both of those things.

So he might be one to think about, because in an auction, people do buy random stuff, and he's pretty random.

So I think we should maybe kick along, and maybe see if we can find any other antiques, so I don't have to buy this chap.

VO: Don't they make a lovely couple?

Back to Ringwood now, where his other chum is enjoying all that delightful furniture on display.

This is a really beautiful grain in this wood.

And actually, it's an incredibly attractive table.

Now, it looks like it might fold.

Let me have a look at the ticket.

Now it says "wine tasting table from Burgundy circa 1880".

I think it somehow folds in half.

HETTIE: So let me move this, and have a little look at the way it works.

Now I think if I swivel this round like this and fold it down.

Look at that.

How clever is that?

And I think a problem that we face in modern day life is space, and we want to be saving space.

Now, how fabulous would this be, to be able to fold away your kitchen table?

It's such a usable thing.

I think it's probably cherry wood.

It's got a lovely grain to it.

The only problem is it has £725 on the ticket.

A lovely, lovely thing, but unfortunately, I'm gonna have to leave it there.

VO: Yeah, I don't think Carole would have been impressed with an offer of 65.

Ha ha!

I seem to be obsessed with wanting to hang things on walls that you wouldn't normally find on a wall.

This is a good example of that.

I think that looks really cool.

HETTIE: It's an interesting decorative piece.

Is it usable?

I don't know.

We'll have to have a little look.

VO: Careful.

Gosh, it's quite heavy.

I'm not sure whether that is actually gonna cut anything, but... HETTIE: Oh, hang on a minute.

We have a bit of a woodworm situation in the handle.

That doesn't look very good, does it?

But as a decorative piece, I think it's quite interesting.

It's quite novelty.

It's a statement, isn't it?

VO: Certainly is.

HETTIE: It's only got £32 on the ticket price, and my budget is 65.

I'm struggling in this shop to find anything within my price range, because there's a lot of big items of furniture here.

So I think this might be coming with me.

I'm gonna buy a saw.

VO: You heard the lady.

HETTIE: Hello, Carole.

CAROLE: Hello.

Of all of the beautiful decorative things you have in your shop, and I've chosen this.

CAROLE: Yes.

HETTIE: It's got £32 on it.

CAROLE: Oh, I say.

HETTIE: Is there any movement on that?

Just to be nice, £25.

We'll go with 25.

Thank you very much.

VO: See saw, buy saw.

Well, I hope you make a profit at auction.

HETTIE: Thank you!

Take care.

VO: Shopping done, with £40 left.

Tim, meanwhile, is still looking in Semley.

Oh, look, it's three of my biggest fans.

VO: Ha ha!

Well, in between puns, anyway.

Shopkeeper Bob is going global, so no immediate hurry, and his flat mate is now officially abandoned.

That's quite a nice form of a jug, isn't it?

I quite like that.

It's very classically, I would say, late 18th century in style.

TIM: This is known as pearlware.

And pearlware's characterized by this sort of bluey-white glaze over the top, and it was first introduced by Josiah Wedgwood, who we all know as the Wedgwood factory back in the 18th century.

And from then on, it was used by other factories as well throughout the country.

VO: No ticket price on that one.

What I quite like about English ceramics during the late 18th and 19th century, is we used to copy quite a lot of designs from other popular ceramics at the time.

TIM: So I think the design on this one is in the style of Meissen or Copenhagen, something like that.

It's not a very English design, but the form itself is very English.

This sort of sparrow beak jug and the ear shaped handle.

And it's actually a really nice thing.

It dates to, I would say, around 1790, 1800, so we're talking about a piece of ceramic from 200 odd years ago.

And as I've been looking at it, unfortunately, I can see there has been a knock here, and there is a small hairline crack, but it seems stable.

I wouldn't use it as a jug to hold a liquid, because I'm pretty sure we might have a bit of a leakage here.

But what a beautiful object to look at, and think that someone made that 200 odd years ago.

Now, there is this little rule of thumb of mine, that if it's got some damage then try not to take it to auction.

But I think that this one's so charming, and the fact that I can't see a price ticket on it intrigues me.

So I think it might be worth taking and seeing if we can find a price for that.

VO: Time to talk to Bob.

TIM: Hello.

How are you doing?

BOB: Oh, hi, Tim.

You've found something.

I have.

I've found this lovely little jug, but there's no price.

What do you think?

BOB: The dealer brought it in this morning, it's £25.

TIM: Do you think £20 would be doable?

BOB: I think that's a fair bid.

TIM: Yeah?

BOB & TIM: Thank you very much.

Yeah.

Lovely.

VO: Last hand shaken.

TIM: See you again.

BOB: Have a good day.

VO: Time to go and find his fellow tripper, and head towards the auction.

Well, that's all the shopping done.

We're shopped out.

We are.

We've had a good day, haven't we?

Yeah, it's been really good fun.

It's always good fun, isn't it?

VO: Yes, indeedy.

Shut eye next, please.

Nighty night.

VO: Time to visit yet another magnificent cathedral in Lichfield.

This one has three spires.

They call them the ladies of the vale.

After rummaging through Hampshire and Wiltshire in search of salable goods, they've brought them all the way to Staffordshire at Richard Winterton, where they'll be selling in the room, on the net and on the phone, with Richard himself very much in control.

Sold at 110... (GAVEL) Well, we found it then.

Ah, yes.

If I couldn't have found it, I would have just followed the beacon.

HETTIE: What, my jacket?

TIM: Your jacket.

VO: Almost as bright as her hopes.

Ha!

Although Tim does lead two to one.

Hettie spent £160 on five auction lots.

What's the auctioneer's favorite?

RICHARD: The Ruskin brooch.

We're not far from where Ruskin was made, and there's a lot of collectors very close to here.

So I'm expecting this to do well.

VO: Tim spent a little bit less, 141 for his five lots.

RICHARD: This little carved Chinese nut, with a lovely little poem in it.

So much detail in this.

It's lovely.

VO: Hm, thanks, Richard.

Almost time for the off now.

How exciting.

Yeah, are you excited again?

Always excited.

I love auction day.

VO: She gets first dibs as well with her Italian glassware.

I've personally never seen a millefiori jug before.

So it's a glass jug?

It's a glass jug, millefiori base.

I think it's gonna do well.

£5 bid, £8 bid.

RICHARD: £8 I'm bid.

HETTIE: Eight!

£10 bid, £15 I'm bid, £20 bid...

It's going on.

OK, little bit worried now.

RICHARD: You are out in the room.

I think this might be the last time we see one, as well.

All done, hammer's up.

Sold at £20... RICHARD: £20.

VO: What's the opposite of a double bubble?

Is that why we've never seen another one?

Cuz people don't like them.

Probably.

VO: Tim's turn now.

His miraculous wee nut.

I'm worried about the hediao nut.

It's so sweet, isn't it, and so well carved.

I'm just hoping that everyone just goes nuts for it.

£25 I'm bid.

25, £30... HETTIE: You're in profit.

TIM: It's going on.

£40 I'm bid.

Five I'm bid.

50 I'm bid.

RICHARD: £50 I'm bid, at 50... People are getting stuck in.

At £50, here at 50... 50?

50, 50?

Sold then.

£50... VO: Lichfield loved it.

Good start, Tim.

You can't be disappointed with that.

So, I'm pretty happy.

No, I'm pretty pleased.

Yeah, nice thing.

VO: Hettie's second chance to shine, her shell stick pin.

I don't think it was a fishy buy.

I think it was a pretty good one.

That's a good dad joke.

£5 I'm bid, straight in at five... Only five.

£5 I'm bid.

£7, £8... Oh no, we're going up in pounds.

£9.

£10.

It's swimming now.

I wouldn't say it was swimming.

I'd say it's slowly shuffling along.

£18, £20.

TIM: He's getting there.

RICHARD: £20.

He's fishing for the bids, it's good.

£20...

He's reeling them in.

All done?

Room's out at £20... VO: Turned out to be a bit of a flounder.

You didn't make a net profit, but... That was a good one.

VO: One for lava lovers.

Tim's brooch.

I just love the history behind these.

And I like the thought of somebody going on their Grand Tour and bringing one back as a souvenir.

Yeah.

So, I quite like Grand Tour stuff.

And I quite like a cameo, so... Yeah, yeah.

Good.

£5 I'm bid... Oh, no.

Oh no, no.

At £10 I'm bid.

Are you happy with £10?

15 the room.

15, the room.

£20 the internet.

Keep it going.

Keep going.

£20 I'm bid.

£20, room is out.

Just a little bit more.

Oh, I don't know.

RICHARD: £20 I'm bid.

TIM: Oh, no... Internet has it.

£20, you're out at the back.

All done.

We are sold, £20... VO: Someone's got some antique jewelry for not very much.

My grand tour ends there.

VO: Well, let's see how Hettie fares in the battle of the brooches.

This one's quite subtle.

It's a really nice mount, just sort of beaded... TIM: Hm.

HETTIE: ..outline.

It's just very pretty, very me.

They're very good looking things... HETTIE: They are.

TIM: ..so you'll be alright.

£10 I'm bid.

£10 I'm bid.

Straight in.

Oh dear, it needs to be more than that.

25, £30.

HETTIE: Come on!

RICHARD: £30 I'm bid.

£30.

Oh, more than this.

A little more than this!

TIM: £30, gotta be worth more.

RICHARD: £30 I'm bid.

HETTIE: That's cheap.

£30 on the internet.

Room, you are out.

35.

HETTIE: 35.

TIM: Here's another bid.

HETTIE: Just.

Just.

TIM: Come on, a little bit more.

35, 35, £40.

Aah!

£40 I'm bid.

One more would get you out of trouble.

Yeah.

Sold at £40... VO: Well at least she made a tiny profit.

It's not the end of the world.

No, it's not the end of the world.

TIM: I think it's worth more.

HETTIE: I'll take that.

VO: Tim's silver crown with sentimental associations.

The reason I bought it is one, it is quite good condition, and worth the money.

But also it was the type of coin that first got me into coins.

Oh, really?

So I couldn't just leave it there.

HETTIE: Aw.

TIM: Yeah.

£20 I'm bid.

£20... TIM: £20... HETTIE: 20, straight in.

£20.

£20 I'm bid.

Five, 30.

£30.

Five... New money for old money.

RICHARD: 35...

Yes!

I'm in profit.

RICHARD: 40 TIM: Yes!

RICHARD: 40, on the internet.

You're all out, sold at 40... VO: Clearly, sometimes it pays to buy with your heart.

I feel like I should start buying coins.

You should.

Get into the world of coins, Hettie.

VO: Never mind the new Miss Matics, ha ha, she's also gone a bit nautical this time round.

You do go off-piste.

Yes, it is a bit of a left field sort of purchase.

But I just think it's quite beautiful in its own way.

£5 bid.

£5?

£15 bid.

£20 I'm bid, 25, 30, five... RICHARD: 35 I'm bid on the internet.

I think it's worth more than that, don't you?

TIM: I have no idea.

RICHARD: Hammer's up... £40 I'm bid.

Oh, God!

RICHARD: £40 on the internet.

£40 I'm bid, hammer's up.

Are you finished?

All done.

£40... VO: The good ship Hettie makes moderate progress.

HETTIE: Small victories.

TIM: Yeah.

VO: Tim's Moorish table, possibly his favorite buy?

TIM: I really love this.

HETTIE: I like it.

I think it's very now.

Yeah.

No, it's nice.

I'd put my plant on it.

TIM: Would you?

HETTIE: Yes.

Bit of interest.

£5 I've got... Ooh, straight in.

10 I'm bid, 15, 20, 25.

25!

£25, £30.

£35.

Internet against the internet.

£35... One more would be nice.

Internet's up, room's out... £40, and back again.

OK, you're safe.

£40 I'm bid.

£40 I'm bid... Phew.

Hammer's up.

£40... VO: More profits.

No one's likely to get carried away, though.

We're doing quite well at the £5 profits... TIM: We are.

HETTIE: ..today, aren't we?

VO: Hettie's last lot sees her going even further off piste.

This is another rogue purchase, isn't it?

It is.

What's going on with me?

Are you a saw sort of expert?

Do you know what, probably not an expert, but I do like that sort of thing.

We've got no bids at all coming in.

So I need a bid from the room.

HETTIE: Oh, no!

TIM: No bids?

£5, the internet's come in now.

£5... Oh, look.

Oh, you've just got a bid.

That's lucky.

I was slightly it was gonna go for £1.

RICHARD: Seven.

HETTIE: Oh!

TIM: It's really big, though, isn't it?

£9.

£10 bid.

At 10... To be honest, that's a relief.

RICHARD: £12 I'm bid.

Room is still very quiet... TIM: I think it's the woodworm... Just bracing myself.

Hammer's up.

£12... VO: Which I suppose we have to describe as cut price.

Sorry.

Tim's final offering now, that pearlware jug, as seen.

I think it's very pretty.

Is it in good condition, though?

That's the question.

Well, this is the problem.

It has got a bit damage.

TIM: It's got a bit of a crack.

RICHARD: £5, the room.

Anyone at £5?

£5 the internet comes in.

Oh, good.

£5 internet bid, £6 I'm bid.

Why isn't anyone bidding?

Why is it so...so quiet?

£10 I'm bid.

£10 I'm bid...

It's going up, but just quite slowly.

Slowly.

Internet has it.

Room is out.

RICHARD: £10.

It's all done.

Sold.

£10... Are you OK?

I'm a jug half full kind of guy.

VO: That's the spirit.

Never say die.

Well, there was the rollercoaster of an auction once again.

That actually was, yeah.

I think... TIM: Yeah.

HETTIE: ..you've probably won.

Right, let's go and work it out then.

Come on.

VO: The abacus is poised.

And Hettie, after auction costs, has made quite a big loss, so she ends up with £148.24.

While Tim, also with saleroom fees deducted, made a slightly smaller loss, leaving him with £190.20.

So he is both our victor today, and with just one to go, the overall winner with an unassailable lead.

Well, there we are, Hettie.

Another auction done.

I know, you've got a spring in your step.

I know, but we did both lose a little bit.

We did.

It was a bit painful.

Yeah.

But we both bought nice things, didn't we?

Yeah, we did, but... TIM: So...yeah.

HETTIE: ..onwards and upwards.

I'm looking forward to the next one.

So I'm presuming it's chips again?

How about cheesy nachos?

Do you a like cheesy nacho?

Hm, spicing it up, I like it.

Yeah, cheesy nachos it is.

VO: Fully loaded!

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