- 7/9/2025
Johnny Vegas' Little Shop Of Antiques Season 1 Episode 1
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00:01To millions, Johnny Vegas is known as an award-winning stand-up comedian.
00:05Good evening, Benny Jones!
00:07Much-loved actor.
00:08I've got no range, but distinctive is what I do.
00:12And celebrated artist.
00:17But he's also a collector of vintage.
00:20The odd...
00:21This was once the pilot of a flying badger.
00:23And the extraordinary...
00:25Why I bought this and why I paid for it, I'm taking the fifth.
00:28Now, after years of dreaming, he's turning his hobby into a business.
00:33Oh, wow, it's massive.
00:35By opening his very own vintage and collectible shop.
00:39Oh, now it feels real.
00:42So, with the help of lifelong friend and assistant, Bev...
00:45Well done.
00:46..he's finally parting with some of his collection...
00:49I'm really attached to it.
00:50..and hitting the road...
00:51God, we look like swingers!
00:54..in search of hidden treasures to stop the shop.
00:57Oh!
00:58..buying low...
00:5930 quid!
01:01No, not 60, just go to 70.
01:03Are there any other monstrosities in purchase?
01:06..in the hopes of selling high.
01:07200 quid.
01:09Deal done.
01:10I like it.
01:11But as a first-time dealer...
01:15..has Johnny got what it takes?
01:17Auctions are not a good place for Johnny.
01:19Spank double the budget.
01:20You don't trust me, do you?
01:21No.
01:24It's been a tough week.
01:26..to turn his lifelong passion...
01:27Get in!
01:28There you go, buddy.
01:29Here we go.
01:30..into the business of his dreams.
01:33Do you know what I'm doing?
01:34So, actually going to look at a shop...
01:49..a space...
01:51I know!
01:52..to rent...
01:53..to put things in...
01:56..a business.
01:57Oh.
01:58It's it.
01:59Why'd you pull that face?
02:00No, no, no, no, I'm not, no.
02:01It's really exciting that you've sort of, like,
02:03finally got round to doing what you've been talking about.
02:06You've been collecting for a long, long time.
02:09I remember you were at uni and you were collecting stuff
02:11from charity shops.
02:12I collected when I was up door.
02:14Yeah.
02:15I'd buy the odd plate, I'd buy the odd thing.
02:17I know I've collected more stuff than I possibly need.
02:22And that's...
02:23..now if this is right, then, to start letting go.
02:27And it's an amazing opportunity to have a declutter.
02:31And I don't see...
02:32Which is what you've been talking about doing.
02:34You see, that's...
02:35People like you always use the word declutter.
02:37Declutter.
02:38Yeah.
02:39I see it as emptying my heart.
02:42I really hope this place is right.
02:44I hope it...it works.
02:47After an extensive search,
02:49Bev thinks she's finally found the perfect home
02:51for Johnny's new venture.
02:54Dagfields in Cheshire.
02:56Johnny, welcome to Dagfields.
02:57Cheers.
02:58How are you?
02:59Hi, Laurence.
03:00Lovely to meet you.
03:01This haven for antiques and collectibles enthusiasts
03:03is run by Laurence Bennion.
03:06Wow, this place is vast.
03:08It's quite large.
03:09We've been going for 30 years.
03:10There's 25 craft workshops,
03:12seven giant antiques emporiums
03:14and your shop.
03:16Oh, right.
03:17Oh, okay.
03:18If you're interested.
03:19This used to be the old retro toy shop.
03:21Oh.
03:22Er...
03:24Well, er...
03:25Let's take a look.
03:26Yeah.
03:27Okay.
03:28Welcome.
03:29Oh, wow.
03:30It's massive.
03:31Oh, sorry.
03:32Oh, thank you.
03:33Wow.
03:34It's big.
03:36It's a hanger.
03:37It's a hanger.
03:38I'm actually overwhelmed by the space.
03:42Oh, yeah.
03:43Yeah.
03:44Yeah.
03:45It's really deceiving from outside, isn't it?
03:47But, in a way, there's nothing I have to work with,
03:50which is great.
03:51There's not an existing decor.
03:52Yeah.
03:53That you...
03:54That sort of dictates...
03:55Yeah.
03:56...what I want to do with it.
03:58I love that floor.
04:00Yeah.
04:01Definitely.
04:02That floor sold.
04:03This is floor sold.
04:04How did you know?
04:05With this panel up!
04:06How did you know?
04:07All the way...
04:08Right, give us a lease.
04:10Well, I'll leave you to have a think.
04:12Lovely to meet you.
04:13Yeah.
04:14Cheers.
04:16Can we leave you with a key?
04:17Are we locking up?
04:18Yeah, have a chat.
04:19Drop it off later.
04:20Wonderful.
04:21All right.
04:22See you later.
04:23Thanks, Lauren.
04:24Bye.
04:25It's a blank canvas.
04:26With the concrete, I'd go sort of really, really industrialised shelving.
04:33Corrugated iron under walls up to a point that makes it look like you're in my lock-up
04:37rather than you're in a shop.
04:39Yeah.
04:40Well, that'd be cool.
04:41Just let me digest.
04:42Yeah.
04:43Let you process.
04:45It's a lot, innit?
04:47I think we've found a great place for Johnny.
04:50It's an antiques crowd who are coming to look at antiques and collectibles.
04:54So, best place to be.
04:55I'm kind of worried now about should I have committed this to camera?
04:59This idea?
05:00I should have just kept it to myself and, you know, started going to car boots.
05:06Start small.
05:07Start small things.
05:09I think now it finally feels real to him that he's talked about can he turn a hobby of collecting
05:15into a business and he's sat in there looking at a shop and I think it's like, oh God.
05:21Yeah, it's a lot.
05:22I've collected for years but I've collected for me.
05:25I do go through skips.
05:26I do go into charity shops.
05:28I do love to buy.
05:30I'm as scared as I am excited.
05:33It's totally yin and yang.
05:35I'm better off sticking to being a hoarder than I am a shopkeeper.
05:39But I guess we'll find out.
05:45I'm taking it.
05:46Well, you're cock-a-hoops.
05:56It's a great space.
05:59Well, it works.
06:00We can do a little short-term lease on it.
06:03I know why you love it.
06:04It means it can fill more of my stuff.
06:07A few days later, Johnny signs on the dotted line and it's all systems go with the shop.
06:19Despite feeling under the weather, his first job is to tackle a lifetime of hoarding at home.
06:27I'm just wondering if I can create a business that I can love doing and I'm going to start stocking it with my own stuff
06:32because if I don't let some of my stuff go, I'm just going to go out and buy more things
06:38and they're just going to end up in the house.
06:40I need space.
06:42I was unfairly turned down for a gun licence.
06:45But I take home security very seriously.
06:49And it's got initials in it as well.
06:51Imagine that.
06:52I'm sick of him taking my mallet.
06:54I'm going to put my name on it.
06:56This is a massive day for Johnny, letting go of stuff.
06:59Everything that he sees or he buys means a lot to him.
07:03It's considered.
07:04I've got a feeling he's going to have found it very, very hard.
07:07So I went to art school and I see a lot of beauty in objects.
07:11I studied ceramics.
07:13It makes sense why I could find joy in inanimate objects.
07:17But I think I've been filling a void a little bit.
07:20I don't think it was ever actually used in the kitchen.
07:29Although Gordon Ramsay does have massive hands.
07:32I think a lot of collectors will say, like, you're a custodian.
07:36And I've given safe haven.
07:39Loved him.
07:40Cherished him.
07:41Walked past him every day.
07:43Picked up inspiration from him when I least expected.
07:46Told me a valuable lesson.
07:48How quick woodwork can spread.
07:51I never had a teddy.
07:53When I was younger.
07:55And I think we're always chasing the childhood that was robbed from us.
07:58It's a little Oscar Wilde.
08:00Don't look at me like that.
08:02We talked about this.
08:04It's to say goodbye.
08:06But there's a story in everything.
08:10And it's easier said than done.
08:17Oh, thank God.
08:19He's finally getting rid of the giant knife.
08:21Yeah, there's a lot more than I thought.
08:23It's a really good start.
08:25Tell you what, you've done really well.
08:27I'm surprised you'd have this much out already.
08:30This is a process.
08:32This is stage one.
08:33And then get it in the shop.
08:34There's not enough.
08:35There's not enough for the shop.
08:36No.
08:37But I've got the lock-up.
08:38I'll go and clear through that.
08:40Anyway, look.
08:41Just get all this to the shop before they change my mind.
08:44Nothing's coming back.
08:45Once it's gone, it's gone.
08:49Tonight will be a night of regret.
08:52Just killed up in the corner, walking backwards and forwards going,
08:55Why did I let the big knife go?
08:58And who'll protect me now?
08:59I've lost my larger mallet.
09:01Johnny Vegas has been raiding his lifelong hoard of antiques and collectibles to stock his first ever shop.
09:19Just come to Dagfields with all the stuff that Johnny's sorted from the house.
09:23The shop's all been designed and delivered exactly what he wanted, the shell that he asked for.
09:28And I'm just the van driver picking stuff up while he's at the lock-up.
09:32Right, so this is the lock-up.
09:36It's a cupboard of avoidance and what might have been.
09:39A lot of the stuff in here, it just became unfeasible keeping it at the house.
09:43It was taking up space.
09:44I did not have the time to direct with it, but with the shop, hopefully, the ideas will now come to fruition.
09:50If Aladdin came in here, he'd rub everything.
09:54And Genie or not, he'd be chuffed.
09:56Don't know what else he's going to bring from there, so I hope it's a lot.
09:59I thought there was more in the lock-up than he was actually going to get out the house.
10:02He should look great when he's all set out.
10:04This, I love this.
10:07I'm going to put it in the shop to ride.
10:10The only thing is, the timer's gone, so if you put a toddler on there, they are literally stranded.
10:15And they will eventually vomit.
10:17I absolutely adore these.
10:19They were used on a cruise ship.
10:21They made the women ride them round in a race on the dance floor.
10:24It's like the Grand National meets a wife swap.
10:27You've got to be bold, set your stall out, and in the shop, this is the kind of stuff I love.
10:32And if you're into your horses, or you're into your cruise ships, somebody will love these.
10:37Since getting this storage unit, I've had nine tetanus jams.
10:40That's why I've got no peripheral vision.
10:45What's that?
10:51Oh, that's got ceramics in. God.
10:55Who doesn't want a Marcy Pan Indiana Jones?
10:58Michael's 21 now, and that was his eighth birthday party.
11:02All right, all right.
11:03I accept.
11:04Maybe I have trouble letting go.
11:07These.
11:08God, we've got loads of these.
11:10These are genuine ex-Black Pearl Illuminations.
11:13Really quirky.
11:14It's got the provenance.
11:15They should appeal to a lot of people.
11:17They're something I'm kind of banking on them flying out.
11:21This beauty here is one half of the engine housing off the top of a Puma helicopter, converted to look like a bar from a certain sci-fi film.
11:32I think it'll make a brilliant shop counter.
11:35I think that's it for in here.
11:37A few good pieces to fill out the shopping.
11:40Let's get shifting.
11:41Johnny may have plundered his lock up for stock, but now comes the daunting part.
11:52Oh, yeah.
11:53Better get that.
11:54Over the next few days, he's going to be setting up shop for real.
11:57Now I can't see here, so just guide us.
12:02Bev's doing what I normally do when I'm helping people live.
12:05It's very strange having people move my stuff around like it's stock.
12:13What's going where?
12:14I mean, it just doesn't feel very coherent.
12:18As a shop, I know I'm not a very coherent person.
12:21Is that everything in now, then?
12:22Yeah.
12:23Cool.
12:24I mean, there's not enough here.
12:26I want to go out and start buying to put stuff in.
12:28God, I feel sick about the thought of opening to the public.
12:31It's like taking secret music lessons and then suddenly you've got a concert to play.
12:36I've never sold before and I've never opened a shop before,
12:39so I could be on an absolute hiding to nothing with collectors going,
12:43he's an idiot.
12:44He's just a poor misguided fool.
12:46There's only one way to find out.
12:49Ooh!
12:50Try the guns.
12:52That is not going to annoy customers at all.
12:55Johnny, can you plug it?
12:56I feel a bit nauseous.
12:57I'm going to go and have a mooch.
12:58It's been so full on that I've not had a chance to go see what anybody else is really up to.
13:14OK.
13:15I want to know if, say what I've got here is about as much as other people are putting out,
13:19and work out the kind of quality versus quantity versus...
13:22Right.
13:23...someone who's been in the game for years.
13:25There's a guy up here and I quite like some of the stuff he's got outside the shop.
13:31Oh!
13:32We might as well just lock up now and ask for a wee bit.
13:43Hello!
13:44Hi, Johnny.
13:45How's it going?
13:46I'm up here.
13:47Hi, mate.
13:48Yeah, good to see you.
13:49Antiques restorer and dealer John Eggleston has been running Dusty Gems interiors for the last 16 years.
13:57You've got some...
13:59Oh, cheers.
14:00Can I just buy you out and open this?
14:02Yeah, I can start wrapping it now, that's no problem.
14:04By the luck of this, you've kind of got the kind of shop I want, if I had the knowledge.
14:09But I haven't.
14:10Yeah, French, Spanish border, Thai hand bowl.
14:17That's beautiful.
14:191830s.
14:20So do you do a thing like with this?
14:22Do you have certain things where you'll dress but you'll sell it?
14:25Yeah.
14:26Like for storing stuff on?
14:27Yeah.
14:28A central table like this, in the middle that you can dress it, but it's also for sale.
14:33It's a balancing act, dressing it, but also showing the item underneath.
14:38This is just a thing of beauty.
14:41Chinese wash bowl.
14:42That was in about a million pieces when I found it.
14:45It took me three weeks to put it together.
14:47When you do this for a living, it doesn't matter what period it's from, what style it is,
14:52it's retro Georgian.
14:54If it's got quality, if it's got that look, you love it for what it is.
14:59I was going to wind you up there and go, you could drill through there and put a clock in it.
15:03No, no, you couldn't, no.
15:04You need your hands chopping off if you did that.
15:06I'm looking at my stuff now and one, I'm wondering have I got enough, but two is like,
15:11it's a balance between larger items and the smaller.
15:15You've got to have your large stuff, but you've got to have your pick up and goes,
15:19because those will be your bread and butter every day.
15:22And at the end of the day, it is a business, it is stock.
15:25No matter how beautiful it is, it's got to make its money.
15:28It's got to be worth its place within the shop.
15:30So when you find your stuff, never drop your quality.
15:33Right, well you've left me a lot to think about.
15:35Cheers mate.
15:36And pop round for a brew when you can.
15:38Lovely guy.
15:39Great stock.
15:40I will be pecking his head a lot over the setup.
15:43Everything he said made sense.
15:45It will be interesting to see if he comes in and he likes anything.
15:47But I'll take advice, but from that, buy well, buy better.
16:00The stock from Johnny's own collection, whilst fast, isn't enough to fill a shop.
16:05He'll need to get out buying and he wants to look the parts.
16:09This is proper rag and bone stuff I've been shot at, mate.
16:13It's kind of my lucky coat.
16:14I've bought nice stuff in this.
16:16And I like it.
16:17When I put it on, it's...
16:19This is like my game face.
16:21And to keep up appearances,
16:23Johnny has asked Bev to swap the rental van for something a bit more professional.
16:29Are you serious?
16:36What's the matter?
16:38Understated.
16:39It's like we're driving a high-risk jacket.
16:44I've got some bubble wrap.
16:45How much stuff do you think we're buying?
16:50It looks like we're getting rid of a corpse.
16:53Come on, just get in it.
16:54You've got stuff to buy.
16:56Let's get moving on.
16:57What, I'm in the back?
17:03It's like we're pulling up on a cunt cross.
17:05We're not on holiday.
17:08Can I remind you?
17:11We're not going on holiday.
17:12European road trip.
17:13We're starting out a virgin business.
17:15It's odd now because I've only ever bought to keep.
17:18I know.
17:19Or to trade later down the line.
17:20That's what I was going to say to you.
17:22You're obviously going to have to come into this with a different mindset, aren't you?
17:25Yeah, but without, you don't want to chuck the baby out with the bathwater.
17:29You go, I've still got to buy what I like.
17:31Yeah.
17:32But it's not mine.
17:33You're buying to sell and it's a pop-up.
17:36Yeah.
17:37So we actually, we need more rapid turnover of stock than anybody else.
17:41Mm.
17:42It's an experiment, but it's got to pay its way.
17:46Can you turn your hobby into a little business?
17:48Yeah.
17:49Yeah.
17:50And then Bev leant over and sobbed into the steering wheel.
17:54On John's advice, Johnny's looking for cheaper pick-up-and-go items, known as smalls, at a location he's only been able to access thanks to his work as an actor.
18:05Stockyard North, on the outskirts of Manchester, supplies everything from film and television to weddings and events.
18:13General manager Lucy has been running the show for seven years with the help of warehouse supervisor Rob.
18:20We don't usually sell the items that we have in stock.
18:24However, we did used to have a shop at the back of the warehouse.
18:27So there is a network of antique dealers in the local Manchester area that do know us for that.
18:32I think Johnny will be after some unique pieces to kit out his shop.
18:36Very unusual, very eye-catching.
18:42Go off and look for something.
18:44What, me?
18:45Yeah, go on your own journey of discovery.
18:47Oh, what if I buy the thing that sells first in the shop?
18:51I'm not saying it's going in the shop.
18:53I am literally just trying to throw you off the set and getting you to leave me alone.
18:58Hello.
18:59Hello.
19:00Hiya.
19:01Lucy, nice to meet you.
19:02How's it going?
19:03How are you doing, Rob?
19:04Hi Lucy.
19:05I think when you open a prop store, it's because you just like stuff.
19:08You love stuff and you want it all.
19:10Yeah.
19:11They call it the curse of the collector and that's what it is because that's it.
19:14That next one's never enough because it's the one after and the one after and the one after.
19:17Then you get the completionist.
19:18Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
19:19Every version of that.
19:20I try and kind of keep a lid on it, but I also go, I can't, I'm not going to poke.
19:25If I see something, I love it.
19:27You might have heard this gasp and you might want to, you think you want to start CPR, don't
19:32man.
19:33You go, no, that's just me.
19:34Right, should we do this?
19:35Yeah, let's go through.
19:38With so many items in this warehouse, this will be Johnny's first test to buy as a dealer.
19:44Right, buying for the shop, buying for the shop.
19:47I've no track record.
19:48I'm going from a collector to a salesman.
19:52Is that nice?
19:53No.
19:54So I'm a little bit out with comfort zone.
19:57It's quite an experience to be out for the first time going, what can I make on?
20:01My heart is having to give my head some space to negotiate.
20:10Oh, I like that.
20:12Look at that.
20:13Book seats at once.
20:15Phrases like grotesque dancer.
20:17It's like the new mate.
20:19The comedian who made England laugh.
20:22All of England.
20:25He made them laugh.
20:26They didn't want to laugh.
20:28That's quality.
20:29It's the content on it.
20:30That's what you can sell.
20:35I think actually I should look for something really, really obscure and random.
20:39Oh, I do like this.
20:42Lobster phone.
20:48Crampton, 1957.
20:51I have a strange one.
20:53I kind of admire religious arts fat stuff.
20:56It's like four cars.
20:58Don't say crudely done.
20:59But I think that's the reason I like it.
21:01It was well finished.
21:02I'd have no interest in it.
21:05There's so much stuff I'm not an expert on, so I just have to go on gut feeling.
21:09And that's one of them.
21:11Alas, poor Yorick.
21:13I knew him so well.
21:15Johnny's got to be in here for hours and hours and hours.
21:18I'll just try all the chairs and couches out.
21:21Fruit machines?
21:22No.
21:23I don't want to look like I'm just catering for that man cave market.
21:26You start doubting yourself, going, am I walking past something that's fantastic?
21:30Do I just not have the knowledge?
21:31And then you see something and your instinct kicks in and you go, that's amazing.
21:36And then you go, I do know what I'm doing.
21:39I do.
21:42Johnny has spotted a few items he thinks will be perfect for his pop-up antiques and collectibles shop.
21:48Oh!
21:50Can I live here?
21:52First up, the vintage comedy poster.
21:54But will Lucy and Rob let it go for the right price?
21:58What's the price on it?
22:00£50.
22:04I know what I was hoping for and I've got a price in mind that was realistic.
22:09On his first buying trip as a prospective dealer, Johnny Vegas has spotted some items that could be perfect for his pop-up vintage and collectibles shop.
22:29His first haggle is that vintage comedy poster.
22:34What's the price on it?
22:36£50.
22:37£50.
22:38I know what I was hoping for and I've got a price in mind that was realistic.
22:47Mine was around about the £40 mark.
22:49Yeah, we'd be willing to let that go.
22:57The phrasing on that poster is just...
23:00Oh!
23:01It's manna from heaven.
23:03Is there any chance on God's green earth that that is for sale?
23:09Ideally, I would like probably around £120 for that.
23:15£120, I will take that.
23:17Right, price-wise...
23:24£50.
23:25I was really hoping for £30.
23:28Do you want to meet us in the middle at £40?
23:31Give me £35.
23:33£35, yeah.
23:37Johnny is coming away with a mix of vaudeville memorabilia, classic industrial antique and handmade folk art.
23:45But what about Bev?
23:48Bev!
23:50There's loads of amazing stuff in but something really, really caught my eye.
23:56Oh.
23:58No.
23:59Why? I'd buy that.
24:01It's tat.
24:03Hello?
24:05Jack Lobster, PI.
24:09Are you happy with your purchases?
24:11Yeah, I am actually.
24:12I did get stuff for the shop.
24:13Cool.
24:14I didn't have that phone.
24:15I'd buy the phone if I could just ring you at home on a landline.
24:18Every time you pick it up, you go,
24:20You've got no taste.
24:23With Johnny's first shopping trip done and dusted...
24:27Johnny, fill up the kumquat.
24:29It's time to pack up and head back to the shop.
24:32Look at that.
24:34I'm really, really, really pleased that he's leaving with a full van.
24:38Thanks, Johnny.
24:39Love you and leave you.
24:40See you now.
24:41Thanks for that.
24:43And he seems really, really happy with everything.
24:45Looks like he's got some good stuff.
24:46That's exciting.
24:47Oh, I love that.
24:48It's got a good lean to me.
24:49Since Johnny has never bought to sell before, he's asked neighbouring dealer and antiques
25:04restorer John Eggleston to help price up his latest purchases.
25:10So you've got some new stuff to have a look at?
25:11I've got some new stuff.
25:12It's my first buying trip.
25:14Remember, when we're pricing, we're looking at the cost of what you pay for it.
25:19Then you've got to think, I've got to light this place.
25:21I've got to heat this place.
25:22I've got to cover my time, all my bills.
25:25So you have got to put a profit into it.
25:29Right, so this, scratch made, obviously not mass produced.
25:33My feeling on this is, a parishioner's made this.
25:37It's got a mark on the mark.
25:38Let's have a look.
25:39We always like marks.
25:40Crompton, 19, 1957.
25:43That is a real nice item.
25:45So, how much?
25:46That was, er, 35 quid.
25:49I'd go 80 on it.
25:51Really?
25:52This is a plaster version based on a traditional religious plaque that would have been made
25:57from Seracotta.
25:59Now, this poster.
26:00This is my stand-up background.
26:02The nimble Scott and Grotesque dancer.
26:05I mean, originally this would have been a very thin, almost tissue,
26:09paper.
26:10Yeah.
26:11Thickness.
26:12When I've seen them before, they're really thin, so mounted on this board saved it.
26:15Kind of a miracle it's survived.
26:17But I said, they don't survive.
26:19And especially these small town hall ones, because they've just binned them straight after.
26:22I took paid 40 for it.
26:26I know.
26:27I know.
26:28It just made me, it's one of them pieces on the day.
26:30It filled me with joy.
26:32I'll say 65.
26:33But the thing I like about it, it's got good strung colours.
26:37Whoever loves that like you love it like I love it, they're going to leave it like that
26:42and hang it up from that nail hole like it was.
26:45And it's going to be ski-with on the wall.
26:47Yeah.
26:48That's my career in comedy.
26:49Yeah, ski-with.
26:50Summed up perfectly there.
26:52The popularity of Audible shows started to decline in the 50s in Britain due to the
26:58rise of film and TV, but surviving posters from the period remain highly collectible.
27:03This basket, I...
27:04It's a nice basket.
27:05I love it.
27:06The wheels are the original.
27:08Yeah, it's got everything there.
27:10So a basket like that, nice English mill basket.
27:13Yeah.
27:14It's honest.
27:15What did you pay for it?
27:16120.
27:17I'd have paid 120 for that.
27:19I'd have paid 120 for that.
27:20It's big enough for me to hide in when Bev comes round.
27:23That would go out 250.
27:25Come down to 230 on it, on the sale.
27:29This Victorian mill basket was salvaged from a mill in Yorkshire.
27:32Following the rapid decline in the cotton industry after World War One.
27:37So everything here will turn a profit.
27:40Oh, cheers pal.
27:41I needed that.
27:42First one under my belt.
27:44Yeah, yeah.
27:45And also, one of the words you can do when we're saying about a quick turnover in this
27:50is the SPQR, which is small profit, quick return.
27:54This is what pays your bills every day.
27:57So you're looking for good prices where you can turn it over and make that
28:01SPQR on it.
28:02Right.
28:03For the first buying trip, at least I've got a new bit of advice to take into my second
28:08model.
28:09Yeah, yeah.
28:10And that's going to be exciting.
28:11Superb.
28:12Well, I'm really pleased with that.
28:13I'm relieved more than anything.
28:17I haven't lost any money and any of the purchases.
28:21It's nice to have John because he's very generous with his knowledge, his time.
28:26Small profit, quick return.
28:29Get out there and use that mantra for when you're buying in future.
28:33There was one item, however, that John didn't put a price on.
28:37Bev!
28:44That's yours, I do believe.
28:46I always said morally, like I said morally, I would never play the lottery.
28:58And now you go, why haven't you played the lottery and you could be out every day buying
29:01stuff?
29:02Yeah, it's your dream, innit?
29:03Yeah.
29:04What a dream job.
29:05Bolstered by dealer friend John's positive feedback, Johnny and Bev hit the road again
29:10in search of more stock.
29:13Do you know what's grown on me?
29:14It's actually a really comfortable ride.
29:16Oh, it is a nice ride, innit?
29:17When you're in it, you can't see the colour.
29:21So I utterly relax.
29:23Today, they're off to Warrington to a private warehouse arranged by Johnny's friend, Chris
29:28Brown, who specialises in high-end antiques.
29:32See you later!
29:33It's snug, innit?
29:34It is snug, innit?
29:35Wow, yeah, it's dead root.
29:36Oh, God, we look like swingers.
29:39We look like we've taught Chris into coming away with us.
29:45So how do you know the lads we're going to today?
29:47Karl and Mark.
29:48Karl and Mark, yeah.
29:49So I met Karl when I first started dealing.
29:51Top fella.
29:52Helped me out a lot.
29:55This vast, top secret warehouse is where Karl, along with fellow dealer Mark,
30:01store some of their treasures.
30:04I've been in the game for about 30 odd years.
30:06Mark's been in the game for the last seven or eight years.
30:09We travel about, we buy all sorts.
30:12We're not open to the public.
30:13We've got a good network of trade dealers over the years that we've established.
30:17That's why Johnny and Chris are coming over.
30:22Hiya lads.
30:24It's not my van.
30:25We don't own it.
30:26She rented it.
30:27It was a massive mistake.
30:29Please don't think that this is my taste.
30:31It was ticking out of my hands.
30:33How you doing mate?
30:34Pleased to meet you lads.
30:35I'm trying to see if I can buy and sell as a business.
30:39But already, I'm starting to fall for this stuff that's stock.
30:43Yeah.
30:44Stock.
30:45And I'm just worrying about...
30:47You've got to sell it.
30:48It's a business.
30:49You've got to make money somehow.
30:50No, but I'm not...
30:51I mean, look at...
30:53Did I get out of the car and you go,
30:54there's a businessman.
30:55Look at him in his bright green kumquat.
30:58Are you happy for us to just mooch and...
31:00Go in, help yourself.
31:01If you need any advice, just give us a shout.
31:03He's been in this game for years and he's as excited as me.
31:06He is actually.
31:07He's never seen it tidy.
31:09Oh, God.
31:11This is going to be pricey, innit?
31:13I don't think so.
31:14No, but I mean pricey in a good way.
31:16Advice to Johnny, just buy interesting things.
31:19I won't run with what's current today.
31:21I just stock up on interesting things.
31:23They hold the value.
31:25God, I would not have thought I'd walk in and be drawn to a chub.
31:28That is bizarre.
31:29That's...
31:30Is that like folk art?
31:31That's not a mass producer, is it?
31:33It's like Art Deco, isn't it, that?
31:35That's like the summer...
31:37I just hope that Johnny can remember what John was saying to him.
31:40What is it?
31:41Buy small and just, like, keep that profit turning over.
31:45No, I'll tell you what I do like.
31:47That is so gnarly.
31:48Oh, yeah, I like that.
31:49That's lovely, that, innit?
31:52Flip it round, let's have a look.
31:55Yeah, that's dead right, that, isn't it?
31:57Yeah.
31:58That's lived a life.
31:59Yeah, yeah, you want it to look like that, 100%.
32:02That's more modern than it looks.
32:04I think, like, 70s.
32:06Johnny has a great eye for things.
32:07He goes off on tangents sometimes and he likes some of the things that I don't, but eats to their own.
32:14You know what's lacking in my life?
32:16A piss poor painting of an otter catching something.
32:20I want to know what it's yelping at.
32:22That's my husband you've got there.
32:24Shut up!
32:26Kids need shoes.
32:27What the hell is that?
32:33Let's have a look at it.
32:35That is...
32:39It's so wrong.
32:41Is it signed?
32:44I've seen if there's anything on the back.
32:45I think that says, Bras of the World.
32:48It does not!
32:49Oh, no, Miss World.
32:51Who let him do it?
32:53I'm guessing it's a he.
32:54It doesn't strike me as a feminist piece.
32:57This is a day that Bev hands her a notice and then when she goes,
33:00I am not putting that in a van and you go, I don't blame you.
33:03It's brighter than the van.
33:05Bev?
33:06Yeah?
33:07I need your opinion on something.
33:08It's Miss World but not as you know it.
33:12Miss World but not as you know it!
33:13I love it!
33:17I love it!
33:18Do you?
33:20It's awful, isn't it?
33:21Yeah, but it's not offensive, it's fun.
33:24I love it!
33:25Are they all the same size?
33:27I'm not offended anyway as a woman, I'd have that.
33:30Well, let's keep mooching.
33:32I'm fascinated with this.
33:34Has it got a name on it on the back or anything written on it?
33:36It's got a...
33:39Go on, what does it say?
33:41It's a John Gielgud.
33:42Honestly?
33:43Let's have a look.
33:44I'm not, I'm not bothering you.
33:45Oh, wow.
33:46Cool.
33:47Can't believe the name.
33:48I can't wait to find out what film this is from.
33:50When it was made, I want to know the provenance because I need to.
33:55I need to know.
33:56You know when you hold it and you go,
33:57God, I'm getting shivers.
33:59Yeah.
34:00I'm getting propped.
34:01This is like...
34:03Have you just come away with that today?
34:05Yeah.
34:06Obviously you're impressed by the name.
34:07That's going to affect the price probably.
34:09I'm going to have to pay up for that.
34:11But do you know what?
34:12That will bring people in.
34:14Sometimes you have to shut off the accountant and listen to the passion.
34:18But what will Johnny's passion cost him?
34:22Sir John Gielgud.
34:23Well, you tell me your price.
34:24I don't know how to price it.
34:40In an antiques and collectibles warehouse in Warrington,
34:43Johnny has come face to face with one of his heroes.
34:47Sir John Gielgud.
34:48Yeah.
34:49Oh, my God.
34:50It's phenomenal.
34:51Yeah, it is, isn't it?
34:52Yeah.
34:53I'm not going to insult you by throwing out a price.
34:56I don't know how to price it.
34:57I'll do you that one at 220 quid.
35:04Come here, you.
35:05Wow.
35:08This is a proper sort of what's-in-the-lifetime find, isn't it?
35:13That has made me weak.
35:16My month, my year.
35:17This in the shop now sets out, this is what we do.
35:22Right.
35:23It caught my attention.
35:24It's actually 1930s.
35:26It obviously needs full recover, full restoration.
35:28What would you look for from that?
35:29Oh, 30 quid.
35:31Have it.
35:32I love the will sign.
35:3380 pound.
35:34Seriously.
35:35Seriously.
35:36Do you know what?
35:37If I had a womb, I'd carry your kids for you.
35:39Done.
35:40That is beautiful, huh?
35:41Right.
35:42This is the most inappropriately wonderful.
35:43It was actually painted by a famous reporter from the Manchester
35:49Even News.
35:50It was not.
35:51It's got the information on the back.
35:52What, the artist?
35:53Yeah.
35:54It's all there.
35:55Van Goof.
35:56Van Goof.
35:57Yeah.
35:58Oh, yeah.
35:59We hadn't noticed that, have we?
36:00Yeah.
36:01Robert Nankalas, is it?
36:02Yeah.
36:03Nankalas, Manchester.
36:04Winter 68.
36:05What price?
36:06Erm.
36:07It could be £150.
36:08£150.
36:09Brilliant.
36:10Thank you for this introduction.
36:11No problem, mate.
36:12It's been the Manchester Even News.
36:13It's been the Manchester Even News.
36:14It was not.
36:15It's been the Manchester Even News.
36:16It was not.
36:17Got the information on the back.
36:18What, the artist?
36:19Yeah.
36:20It's all there.
36:21Van Goof.
36:22Yeah.
36:23Oh, yeah.
36:24We hadn't noticed that, have we?
36:25Yeah.
36:26Robert Nankalas, is it?
36:27Yeah.
36:28Nankalas, Manchester.
36:29Winter 68.
36:30What price?
36:31Erm.
36:32No problem, mate.
36:33We'll pay you in a minute.
36:34It's been a good day.
36:35It's been a good day.
36:37I spent more money today than I was planning to spend, but you know what?
36:41Where are you going to find another?
36:43You have one chance.
36:44Step up.
36:45Get to the hockey.
36:47Do the deal.
36:48Bullseye.
36:55After a successful first buying trip, Johnny's now keen for fellow antiques dealer John
37:01to cast an expert eye over his latest hole.
37:04I realise furniture's my thing.
37:07I can see.
37:08Just...
37:09Don't judge me on this, mate.
37:14Yeah, definitely.
37:15Ooh, man.
37:16John, I'm in a bad boy.
37:18That's the bad boy seat.
37:20God, it really hurts.
37:22Tell me you didn't pay much for that one.
37:24I paid three quid for that one.
37:25I paid three quid for that.
37:26No, we're not going to...
37:27I just saw...
37:28We're not going to...
37:29I just saw carving away...
37:30Carving money!
37:31No, we're not going to make...
37:32You're not going to make it back on that one, mate.
37:33And I can't physically...
37:34I don't...
37:35I don't...
37:36Just pry me out.
37:37Johnny!
37:38Embarrassing me with my friends!
37:39There we go.
37:40This is not the positive start Johnny was hoping for.
37:43What about the sign?
37:44It's gnarly.
37:45We like gnarly.
37:46It's gnarly, gnarly, gnarly.
37:47That's bad gnarly.
37:48But that looks like it could be good gnarly.
37:49But all the information's still there.
37:50At least I know it's an original.
37:51You wouldn't fake it at that.
37:52No, no.
37:53I paid 80 on that.
37:54You're going to probably do about 120, 130 on that.
37:55That's fine.
37:56That's good.
37:57That's good.
37:58That's good.
37:59That's good.
38:00That's good.
38:01That's good.
38:02That's good.
38:03Yeah.
38:04Yeah.
38:05Yeah.
38:06Yeah.
38:07Yeah.
38:08Yeah.
38:09Yeah.
38:10Yeah.
38:11Yeah.
38:12That's good.
38:13I'm happy with that.
38:14This enamel sign by Bristolian tobacco company Wills dates back to the 1930s.
38:21Johnny's clawing things back with the sign.
38:23So what about a more modern piece?
38:26Have a look at this.
38:28It's Miss World.
38:30It's a love of every country.
38:32It's dreadfully, horrendously fabulous.
38:38How much did you pay on that one?
38:40I paid 150.
38:41Yeah.
38:42I think that's about what you'll get back on that one.
38:44I don't think there's any more in that one.
38:47Really?
38:48No.
38:49Hopefully, John will be more impressed by Johnny's next purchase.
38:56This plaster cast head comes from the warehouse of famous Hollywood makeup artist, Chris Tucker,
39:02who also created the iconic Elephant Man, who also created the iconic Elephant Man.
39:07It's a one-off.
39:08It's what the makeup artist did for a film.
39:11Yeah.
39:12And I've looked.
39:13The only film I can find it in, I think it's from The Haunting.
39:15I paid 220 for a John Gielgud, but I think it's, as an iconic actor.
39:20I think that'll do three.
39:21Easy.
39:22You can try it a little bit higher, but I think comfortably that would do three.
39:26Yeah.
39:27He hates the picture, but he's trying to put a bright smile on it.
39:37I think it's so kitsch, it's out of his wheelhouse, but I know people who are going to find that
39:43hilarious.
39:44I know comedy.
39:46While Johnny might make a small profit on the enamel sign and the Gielgud mask,
39:50he's in danger of losing money on the Art Deco chair and the Miss World painting.
39:56I don't want to be friends with John anymore.
39:58It didn't go as well as last time.
40:09It's the day before the grand opening of his pop-up shop.
40:13I like this one.
40:15It's not like that film, is it Maleficent?
40:18Johnny has commissioned a professional sign writer to paint the all-important sign for
40:22his shop, while he and Bev busy themselves with the finishing touches.
40:29We'll try it under that table if not, she's going out there.
40:31All right.
40:35No, we're not opening you quite yet.
40:38I'm just grappling with a fairy under a table.
40:43Have a look.
40:44Yeah.
40:45Plus, it can look a bit far more fresh.
40:47Oh, yeah.
40:48Yeah.
40:49It's a nice sign, that, innit?
40:50This now looks like a really nice run.
40:56Everything has been placed somewhere specifically because everything's beautiful and everything
41:00deserves its chance to shine.
41:01It's a lock-up with heart.
41:03That's my new ethos.
41:04That's my new ethos.
41:05I lock-up with hearts, plural.
41:10Think about what you just said.
41:11With the shop now ready to welcome Johnny's first customers, there's one final job to do.
41:21We designed something that's cumbersome.
41:23You did.
41:24You ready?
41:25Right.
41:26What are we doing?
41:27Are we all coming up on the same side?
41:28One.
41:29No, I thought.
41:30Right.
41:31Here we go.
41:32Come on.
41:34Wouldn't it be great now if we took these out and the front of the shop fell off and just went round you like Harry Lloyd?
41:50Oh, that looks great.
41:51Oh, now it feels real.
41:52Does it?
41:53Yeah.
41:54I think it's a good insight into I'll source stuff from anywhere.
42:11Yeah.
42:12I think it is definitely a representation of what you've got in the shop.
42:15Well, does it?
42:16Does it really warn people that I have a live crocodile?
42:19Oh, well done.
42:22It's actually a what if has become a, well, you've done it.
42:28And now I'm doubling down.
42:30I've put my money on the table and going, I think I can sell stuff for a living.
42:34And I think you can't be more clear of your intentions than when you put a sign up and say, here it is, it's vintage Vegas.
42:41I just hope it doesn't fall flat on its face.
42:44But for now, in for the penny, in for the pound.
42:48Vintage Vegas is opening for business.
42:51I can call myself vintage because I'm over 50.
42:56A certain element of my body has gone great.
43:00I'm hungry.
43:01Oh, he's excited.
43:02It's going to be a massive anticlima.
43:03Opening day and he's a bag of nerves.
43:05Have a look round.
43:06Ask questions.
43:07I honestly don't think I've ever felt so vulnerable.
43:10You've not.
43:11I've done it.
43:12Haven't you bought a lamp?
43:13Oh, yeah.
43:14Don't you feel like a deal?
43:15I always.
43:16Are you making all your little mates?
43:17Did I die like that?
43:18This is like, lucky ever.
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