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Salvage Hunters (2011) Season 20 Episode 2- Buy What You Like
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00:00On Salvage Hunters...
00:02Wow!
00:03..what every true gent needs for his bathroom...
00:06Leave your nice, expensive razor on top of there
00:09and you feel like king of the castle.
00:11..a masterclass in hard bargaining...
00:13500.
00:15I'm not impressed.
00:16..and a mirror with the power to grant wishes.
00:19I'll cut my legs. No, no, don't take it away. Cut my legs.
00:22I've got normal-sized legs.
00:24Drew Pritchard is one of Britain's leading antique
00:29and decorative salvage dealers.
00:31Oh, my word, I love this stuff.
00:33Joined on the road by queen of the haggle and quickflit, Vicki Knott...
00:37How much are they?
00:38100 pair in the pit.
00:39I was going to bed you 70.
00:40Well, thanks for your film, but you're not all right.
00:42..and lover of all things weathered and wonderful, Alistair Dryborough.
00:46What about the triumph? Have you seen that, Drew?
00:48Ooh!
00:49Ooh!
00:50Come on, let's go and have a fight over it.
00:52Drew is sharing the knowledge.
00:54That's got a fair bit of acer. It's horsehair in there.
00:56And that's a nice bit of old timber.
00:58And expertise.
00:59What a thing.
01:00You know why they're so deep? Why they're so long?
01:03Top hats.
01:04He's gained over the past three decades.
01:07Would 400 quid buy both hats?
01:09No!
01:11I've got to try.
01:13Right, Alistair, today we're off to meet a fella that I have wanted to meet for years.
01:26Right.
01:27Dick Craven, Craven's motorbike collection.
01:29OK.
01:30He's been collecting for decades.
01:32Yep.
01:33He races and collects and he's got all sorts in the barn there, about three miles outside York.
01:39He's got a museum at his house and the outbuildings on like a farm at his house, right?
01:43Yeah.
01:44I don't like motorbikes though.
01:46Well, shall I drop you off?
01:48Where do you want leaving?
01:50It's the signage I think you'll want, right?
01:52Good, good.
01:53There is a hell of a lot of signage there.
01:55Brilliant.
01:57Alongside Drew's passion for country house furniture and folk art is a love of industrial design and vintage signage.
02:04And to build his renowned signature mix, he buys with just one rule in mind.
02:09There are no rules, so buy what you like.
02:13Today, he and Al are travelling 160 miles northeast into Yorkshire to visit a collector he knows shares at least one of his lifelong passions.
02:23I've been trying to get into here, honestly, for about five or six years.
02:29Really?
02:30And he's never been ready to sell.
02:32OK.
02:33And recently, he contacted us and said, I'm ready, I want to start getting rid of stuff.
02:37And is everything for sale?
02:39It looks like everything's for sale.
02:41Brilliant.
02:42A few miles outside of York, the village of Stockton-on-the-Forest is home to an extraordinary private museum.
02:51The Craven Collection of Classic Bikes.
02:57It's a remarkable hoard of classic motorbikes, vintage signs and rare motoring memorabilia.
03:03All rescued by former motorbike racing champ, Dick Craven.
03:07I started racing when I was 21 and then I built a sprint bike to go sprinting.
03:20I entered my first sprint up at South Shields and won it.
03:25And so then, ever since then, I've just kept on going quicker and quicker and quicker.
03:31Well, it was a pig farm when I bought it.
03:34So I got rid of all the pig pens and I kept buying bikes because I thought they were all disappearing.
03:39I'll have about, oh, 205 motorbikes in here.
03:43Vincents, Triumphs, BSAs, you name it.
03:46Well, I've started selling stuff off because I'm not getting any younger.
03:50I'm 81 now, which that isn't good.
03:53I would say it's virtually all for sale.
03:57There's some things maybe I wouldn't, but I don't know.
04:00I'd say virtually all of it.
04:02Yeah, at a price.
04:05Hello.
04:06How are we then?
04:07Dick.
04:08You found us?
04:09Yes, how are you, mate?
04:10Good. How are you?
04:11Very good.
04:12How are you doing, Dick? You all right?
04:13All right.
04:14Thank you for having us.
04:15No problem.
04:16I have been wanting to come here for years, as you know.
04:17Yeah, you've kept trying.
04:18I know.
04:19Can we have a look inside?
04:20I can't wait.
04:21Have you got this far?
04:22I'd love to.
04:23Yeah, yeah.
04:24I'd love to.
04:25Wow.
04:26This is good.
04:27Oh, my good God.
04:28Look at that.
04:29Whoa!
04:30I'll take that.
04:31That's wonderful.
04:32How big a pocket have you got?
04:33Let me try and work it out.
04:34What have you done to the engine?
04:35Nothing, really.
04:36I'll guess.
04:3740?
04:38Well, you're in that area.
04:40I was brought up around these.
04:42My father had a collection of, at one point there was 91 or 92 bikes.
04:45Yeah, yeah.
04:46In the house.
04:47And there was an International Norton on our kitchen table for two years.
04:50Yeah.
04:51How long have you been doing this, Dick?
04:53I've been doing it for 40 years.
04:55Right.
04:56With the view of opening a museum.
04:58It's just an out-of-control hobby, really.
05:00It's not me living.
05:02I mean, cars for a living.
05:03I thought it would be good, and then I walked through the door, and within the first one,
05:08two, three, four, five, eight bikes, I thought, this is brilliant.
05:13It's not just a bit good, it's fabulous.
05:15So how many bikes have you got here in total, then?
05:17Well, there's over 200, anyway.
05:18Over 200.
05:19Oh, that.
05:20I bought that off a lad, and he says, I shouldn't have sold you, and he wanted it back again.
05:26I'm not surprised.
05:27I would, too.
05:28What's it valued at, really?
05:29Truthfully, I'd say seven and a half.
05:31Oh, well, OK.
05:32That's really buyable.
05:33That's a lovely bike to own.
05:34So when did it get you?
05:35Do you know that moment when you went, I just love this?
05:39I'd buy any bike.
05:41Why, though?
05:42I always want to talk to collectors and stuff.
05:44I just...
05:45Why?
05:46Because I thought it was going for scrap.
05:47You couldn't bear to see it.
05:48They were just disappearing, yeah.
05:49So you think, once they've gone, they've never come back, will they?
05:52They've gone.
05:53Most of them look like, with an afternoon's work, they'd run.
05:56Oh, everything in here, there's only ten bikes out of all the lot that won't run.
06:01Really?
06:02Yeah.
06:03What I've done here is he's got real rarities here and very desirable bikes.
06:08But he also has a huge collection of basically what I would call the commuter bikes, the shopper bikes.
06:15The run-of-the-mill 250 to 500 single cylinder stuff that got Britain moving through the late 40s, early 50s.
06:22He's got a lot of that, stuff that would have been binned off and thrown away.
06:25But good collections are about passion.
06:28And like I said, the passion is very, very clear.
06:31Not motorbike related, Dick.
06:34Would that be for sale?
06:36I suppose so.
06:37Yeah.
06:38If I'm honest with you, I'm not into motorbikes at all, but I love signs.
06:43And when you come to somewhere like this, you know, there isn't one or two signs here.
06:47There's a couple of hundred.
06:49It's just mind-blowing.
06:51What would you want for that, then?
06:52You tell me.
06:53If it's enough, I'll sell it.
06:55And if it didn't, I wouldn't.
06:56One-fifty.
06:57One-fifty.
06:58One-fifty.
06:59One-fifty.
07:00A couple would be better, wouldn't it?
07:03No?
07:04Um...
07:06One-seventy.
07:07One-seventy.
07:08One-seventy.
07:09It's got to be one-seventy-five, then, isn't it?
07:13Come on, then.
07:15Come on.
07:17They're signs.
07:18People like food-related signs, drink-related signs, motoring signs.
07:23They're the most fashionable.
07:24There's £100 left in that sign.
07:26I've had a good start.
07:28Wow.
07:29More signs, Dick.
07:31That big Dunlop.
07:34You won't be selling that big Dunlop, will you?
07:36Depends on the price.
07:37Yeah?
07:38Have you got a price?
07:39No.
07:40No.
07:41I like them both.
07:42I like the Triumph and the Dunlop.
07:44Do you want me to bid you?
07:45Give us a bid.
07:46I don't think it'll be enough.
07:48500.
07:49I'm not impressed.
07:51No?
07:52Where are you, then?
07:53I don't know.
07:54I'd say 700.
07:55And what about the Triumph?
07:56Triumph?
07:57That's more still, innit?
07:59That's got to be a grand, innit?
08:01Uh, Dick's a character.
08:03Really like him.
08:04Um...
08:05He knows the score.
08:06OK?
08:08He knows what things are worth.
08:10I think he just wanted me to commit first.
08:13Which is fine.
08:15So, 700 would buy that, would it?
08:18It would, yeah.
08:19OK.
08:20And the Triumph one is for sale?
08:21The Triumph one, yeah.
08:22But it wouldn't be a grand, wouldn't it, that?
08:24Mm.
08:25You want that?
08:26Bloody hell.
08:27Thank you very much.
08:28And I'll have the Dunlop.
08:29Oh, bloody hell.
08:30You've got a big gap on your wall now.
08:31I bloody have, yeah.
08:32The sign says Triumph Motors and Cycles.
08:36It's incredibly cool.
08:39Great size and a great colour.
08:42And I'm looking at the Triumph sign thinking, buy that, Al.
08:46Buy that one.
08:47That's an absolute belter.
08:48So I say to Al, are you sure you're not buying it?
08:50And he said, no.
08:51I said to Dick, will you take 1,000?
08:52And he goes, yes, and I shake his hand.
08:54What about the, um, over there, the bottles?
08:57The bottles?
08:58Yeah.
08:59Is that for sale?
09:00The oil bottles.
09:01Yeah.
09:02They display, yeah.
09:03Dear me.
09:04I like that.
09:05Go on, where do you see them?
09:06I don't know.
09:07I think you've got more of an idea on that than me, haven't you?
09:09The castor bottles, they're really good.
09:12You've got 25 bottles.
09:14That stand is in amazing condition.
09:17Signage on both sides and on the front, and it's full of bottles.
09:21All castor bottles.
09:23350?
09:24350.
09:25Phew!
09:26Four and a half.
09:28380.
09:31Well, you've got to go for 400 then, ain't you?
09:36You knew I were going to say that.
09:38Motoring collectors, they're after everything.
09:41And to have a stand in that condition, with those strong colours,
09:46with all the bottles in, and the maker's mark, that's quite rare.
09:50That's a really good buy.
09:52Hull City Garage is a bit better.
09:54Yeah.
09:55That's the one I was keeping my eye on.
09:56Really?
09:57That's the one I think, for me, Hull City Garage is a great sign.
10:00I think that's a really, really nice one.
10:02It's a lot earlier than the rest as well.
10:04Yeah, it is, yeah.
10:05Yeah.
10:06What does it say?
10:07Hull City Garage, Beverley Road.
10:08Yeah.
10:09I think that's great.
10:10Yeah.
10:11Would 400 buy that?
10:12Yeah.
10:13Yes, it would.
10:14Yes, it would.
10:15Thank you very much.
10:16There's probably only one of those, isn't there?
10:18Well, that's it.
10:19There's only going to be one.
10:20What about that poster over there?
10:21Look at that.
10:22Have you seen that, Drew?
10:23That BSA poster on the wall over there in the frame?
10:25Ooh.
10:26Ooh.
10:27Hello.
10:28Go on, let's go and have a fight over it.
10:30Yeah, mate.
10:31Let me guess, Dick, if you don't want to sell that one.
10:34Not really, but go on.
10:36There's a frame.
10:37You need to get in there.
10:38Go and have a look at it.
10:40The BSA poster, so it's a printed poster, I think applied to hardboard,
10:45which has just started to bow and wobble with moisture and heat and cold.
10:50It retains a lot of its colour.
10:52I'd say its colour is still 80% there.
10:54Rarity-wise, I think it's the 90%-er.
10:57That is a rare old beast.
10:59Because it wouldn't have survived.
11:01Bit of damp, bit too much sunlight.
11:03They're gone.
11:05What price have you got on that, Dick?
11:06No, you tell me.
11:08$4.50.
11:09$4.50.
11:10Well, he said $4.50, thinking,
11:14well, he's going to go and say $5, isn't he?
11:16That's your logic.
11:18But if I said $6, it'd be better.
11:22$5.50.
11:23$5.50.
11:24$6.50.
11:25$6.50.
11:26$6.50.
11:27$6.50.
11:28$6.50.
11:29$6.50.
11:30$6.50.
11:31$6.50.
11:32$6.50.
11:34Drew's taken Al to an extraordinary motorbike and automobilia collection in Yorkshire,
11:39where they're snapping up vintage signs that fit with both their buying tastes.
11:44Deal.
11:45Thanks very much.
11:46And I'll have the Dunlop.
11:47You've got a big gap on your wall now.
11:48I bloody have, yeah.
11:49Al's revved up about a 1950s printed poster, which has somehow survived for three quarters
11:56of a century.
11:58$4.50.
11:59If I had to add $6, it'd be better.
12:01$5.
12:02$6.
12:06$6.
12:11Bloody hell.
12:12It's gone.
12:13It's gone.
12:14I'm going to have an outlet.
12:15I think Al's in the money on that one.
12:17I think it's a discerning buy, and I think it will go to a discerning collector, because
12:23it really shouldn't have survived.
12:25That's nice, too.
12:26What can you tell me about that one?
12:28It came from Scarborough, a garage in Scarborough, that one.
12:30Right.
12:31It's hand-painted.
12:32Yeah.
12:33Can I go up there?
12:34Yeah.
12:35I'd say wood.
12:36Yeah.
12:37What's it say?
12:38We'll charge the something starter battery.
12:40Yeah.
12:41I suppose so.
12:42$3.50.
12:43$3.50.
12:44No.
12:45Go a bit better.
12:46Four?
12:47Four and a half.
12:48Four and a half would be better.
12:49I should have gone to five.
12:50No, I wouldn't have paid five.
12:51Yep.
12:52That's good.
12:53It's just been made up by somebody.
12:54Yeah, yeah, yeah.
12:55I think these hold more interest going forward.
12:56Once you've got, right, all of the enamels, you've got the mobile, you've got the
13:10mobile, you've got this, you've got that.
13:11You've got all the standard ones you can get.
13:12Yeah.
13:13You've got the rarest.
13:14You want something different.
13:15Where do you go next?
13:16Yeah.
13:17You go to the handmade stuff, the weird, the early.
13:19Yeah.
13:20And I think that's where that wins.
13:22Another sign, the battery charging sign.
13:24This is a piece of folk art.
13:25A piece of 1950s folk art.
13:27The sign writer's name is on the bottom.
13:29It was done here in York.
13:31The colour's good on it.
13:32It's a good thing, that.
13:33I love folk art, I love signs.
13:36That's them both there in one piece.
13:39Dick, talk to me about this.
13:44This is wonderful.
13:46That's everything that I like wrapped up in one thing.
13:48I've spent an hour or two on that.
13:50That's the quickest bike there is, I'd say, in the country, running on methanol of a quarter of a mile, unsupercharged.
13:58What's it doing a quartering?
14:01It's doing a quartering, 10.64.
14:03Oh, my God, really?
14:04Yeah.
14:05That is quick.
14:06133 mile an hour.
14:08That's a quarter mile in just over ten seconds.
14:11That is really, really quick.
14:13These are serious times.
14:14I know.
14:15We're looking at Ferrari, Porsche Turbo territory.
14:18Really?
14:19That's beating a Porsche Turbo.
14:21Yeah, yeah.
14:22Just, but it's beating it on a quarter mile.
14:23Yeah, yeah.
14:24I am staggered.
14:25So when did you do that time?
14:26Is that still the fastest one of these non-supercharged bikes?
14:29I don't think them records will ever get beaten.
14:32Don't think they'll ever get beaten.
14:34Because Vincents have got to be worth that much now that people don't use them like I'm using them.
14:40They say, oh, I don't really have that.
14:42What's the engine worth?
14:43The engine must be 20-odd grand, won't it, without a doubt.
14:47It's just wonderful.
14:48I love everything about that.
14:50Dick, he's my new hero.
14:56When you see that race bike and talk to him about his racing, and then when you know what it takes to do a ten-second quarter mile, you have a whole different level of respect for somebody.
15:07To do it in a car is quite something.
15:09To do it on a bike, you know, that takes, you know, he's the boy.
15:17He really is.
15:18And then he has this incredible collection of bikes.
15:20He loves everything that he's doing.
15:23He's 81 years old.
15:25He is the living, breathing, real deal petrol head.
15:30And he is that.
15:31He is that golden, oily nugget.
15:33Fabulous.
15:34I'm very, very, very happy to have met him.
15:37You don't get to go to museums and buy like Drew myself did.
15:42It doesn't happen.
15:43So to come here, it's been pretty special.
15:46Everything I've bought, I'm really happy with.
15:49So, yeah, you don't get days like this very often, but when they come up, it's mind-blowing.
15:58Right, Dick.
15:59Thank you, mate.
16:00Very good, yeah.
16:01Very good.
16:02See you.
16:03Thank you very much.
16:04Yeah, very good.
16:06No problem.
16:07Take care.
16:08So, in the end, how many signs did you buy?
16:11Yeah, I lost count.
16:12But you've got to do it, haven't you?
16:13When they're there, in that quantity, and that topic, motoring, you've got to do it.
16:18You've got to do it.
16:19Never going to go wrong.
16:20You've got to do it.
16:21The triumph sign, I'm like, that's the best one in here.
16:23Mm.
16:24I know.
16:25So I don't understand, because I stood back.
16:27I was like, let me go, off you go, you know, fill your boots.
16:30I was sleeping a bit on that one.
16:31I was sort of thinking about the Dunlop one.
16:33I even asked you, I said, do you want it?
16:34And you went, no.
16:35We all make mistakes, Drew.
16:36Maybe I'll buy it off you.
16:37Not yet, you won't.
16:39It's a great first day's buying, but the ride isn't over.
16:43The boys are crossing country, heading for the south coast.
16:47They've been invited to a new antiques venture, whose free-thinking creators share Drew's
16:52buy-what-you-like philosophy.
16:54So, we're down in Torquay.
16:57Lovely.
16:58Beautiful.
16:59Cliffs, sea, hotels.
17:01And we're here to see two guys, Marcus and Scott, who have started Mascot Antiques.
17:09OK.
17:10Can't find much about them online, can't find a website, can't find them on any selling platform.
17:14Nothing at all.
17:15Which could be a good thing.
17:16Which is a good thing.
17:17Yeah.
17:18Very good thing for us.
17:19It was in the early 19th century that the Devon coastal village of Torquay became popular
17:27as a health resort for the wealthy, thanks to its mild climate and fresh air.
17:32Today, there's a new attraction in town.
17:34A highly eclectic high street antique shop, lovingly put together over the last 18 months
17:39by Marcos Covella, whose background is in retail, and husband Scott Bristol, former corporate executive
17:45and lifelong antiques collector.
17:49I think Marcos has got much more of a natural interior design eye.
17:59So, he's much better at colours and forms and shape.
18:02Whereas I'm sort of more on the slightly more traditional antique side.
18:06So, I like mahogany furniture and more period antiques.
18:10And I like mixing.
18:12Yeah, and he likes mixing.
18:13So, I think that the two of our eyes combine when we buy.
18:16I mean, for us personally, we've been buying almost like for ourselves.
18:20So, would we have this thing in our house?
18:22Whatever it is, whatever value it is, whatever state it is, would we have it in the house?
18:26I mean, we've always found Drew to be very knowledgeable and amazing eye, of course.
18:31Yes.
18:32So, we're just really interested to see how he reacts to our shop today.
18:36And hopefully learn something from him as well.
18:37Yeah, of course.
18:42Hello.
18:43Hello there.
18:44Welcome.
18:45Nice to meet you.
18:46Drew.
18:47How are you?
18:48Morning.
18:49Hello, Marcos.
18:50How are you?
18:51Welcome to Marcos Cove.
18:53This is like a feast for the eyes, isn't it?
18:54Thank you very much.
18:55Thank you very much.
18:56Blimey.
18:57We've been here just over a year, actually.
18:58Is that all?
18:59Yeah, yeah.
19:00You've done this in a year?
19:01Yeah, absolutely, yeah.
19:02So, when we bought it, it was quite a wreck.
19:03So, it's been quite a journey for us, really, hasn't it?
19:06It's a great shop.
19:07Labour of love.
19:08Big window space.
19:09Yeah.
19:10Big windows.
19:11Can't go wrong.
19:12It's our form of advertising.
19:13There's a lot of traffic stops there at the traffic lights.
19:15They just look naturally.
19:16That's it.
19:17It's really nice.
19:18I like it.
19:19It's immediately...
19:20It's really friendly.
19:21It's a proper, real, on-the-street antique shop.
19:26You've got everything from industrial through to Art Nouveau
19:29to African tribal art and everything in between.
19:33And it sort of works, yeah.
19:36That's nice, too.
19:37Who made that?
19:39I think it's Italian, Marcus, this one.
19:41It is signed.
19:42Is it Italian?
19:43We haven't looked it for a while.
19:44So, I imagine it's the late cinema, early 70s.
19:48Super cool.
19:49Great.
19:50Obviously Italian.
19:51I think mid-60s, I'd say.
19:53Stylistically, it is.
19:55Very, very chic.
19:57What are you asking for that, Chups?
19:59For you, Drew, that could be 250.
20:02It's nice, because it's of the period, but also it'll fit into any sort of interior, really.
20:07Full salesman mode there.
20:08Thank you very much.
20:09I'll take it.
20:10Thank you very much.
20:11I was ready to buy that if he wasn't.
20:13250, as is, I think is a good price.
20:16It needs fiddling with.
20:18It needs to rewire.
20:20I'll always budget 100 quid a lamp.
20:22Now, people will say, oh, I can restore a lamp for 20 quid.
20:24Yeah, you can.
20:25Yeah, you can.
20:26It's just, but you haven't done it right.
20:27100 pound will do it right.
20:28So, I'll be into it for 350, and it's definitely worth 500.
20:33550.
20:34So, yes, it's worth doing.
20:36Just love it anyway.
20:37It's great.
20:38What's with this little dog in this glass cabinet here?
20:41I think it's 50s or something for 60s.
20:45Oh, he's fun.
20:47That was what I looked like first thing in the morning when I just put my glasses on.
20:51It's quite light, isn't it?
20:53Yeah.
20:54How much is he?
20:55I think it was 40 pounds.
20:5840 pounds, yeah.
20:5940 pounds.
21:00Yeah.
21:01It's a fun little thing.
21:03It is.
21:04Yeah, I really like that.
21:05It's a little pug with a switch on it, so its eye is illuminated.
21:09I think it's a good thing, that.
21:11Dogs are always popular.
21:12Pugs are popular.
21:14It just makes you smile.
21:16I'd like to have a look in here.
21:18Yeah.
21:19Well, I'm welcome.
21:20Help myself.
21:21That's nice.
21:22These are fun.
21:23Yeah.
21:24Do you want to take off the stand so we can show you?
21:27It goes...
21:28Yeah, please.
21:29Yeah.
21:30Oh, sorry.
21:31It goes horizontal.
21:34The back twister.
21:36It's a rotating sort of macular thing on it.
21:39Oh, that's great.
21:41Yeah.
21:42Brilliant, isn't it?
21:43Will it make me look tall and thin?
21:44No.
21:45Yes!
21:46Oh, that's what normal people look like.
21:47I'll cut my legs.
21:48No, no, don't take it away.
21:49We're going to charge you for this.
21:51I've got normal sized legs.
21:53This convex mirror probably hung in a genteel early 19th century shop.
21:58Perhaps our staff could keep an eye on browsing customers.
22:01The skillfully constructed mechanism on the back means it can be hung in both landscape and portrait style.
22:07And it's working smoothly despite two centuries of age.
22:10Highly unusual and original, Al may be able to sell it for around £750.
22:15We've got, um, £450 in that.
22:25The boys are in Torquay, where Drew's impressed by the fearless buying decisions of two novice dealers.
22:31Have you done this in a year?
22:32Yeah, absolutely, yeah.
22:33Al's reflecting on whether to buy a highly original 19th century shop mirror.
22:38We've got, um, £450 in that.
22:42We can be quite general for that.
22:44We can go to about £350, I think.
22:46Can you?
22:47Yeah.
22:48Got to have it for that.
22:49Got to.
22:50Thank you very much.
22:51It's totally original.
22:52There's money to be made in that.
22:54A hundred percent.
22:55It's a very good buy and it's a nice thing.
22:58You don't get a lot of them.
23:00Very happy.
23:01What are these?
23:02I like the paintings, huh?
23:03They've got royal plugs.
23:04Yeah, that actually came in yesterday, Martin, from our picture store.
23:07It's a nice thing.
23:08Do you want to see it?
23:09We can get it down.
23:10Yeah, I'd like to see it down.
23:11Yeah, sure.
23:12It's been cleaned, actually, and stabilised.
23:14Um, yeah.
23:15Right.
23:16There we are.
23:18So is it a town scene?
23:19I didn't see.
23:20Yeah.
23:21Albert Harold Palmer, 1911 to 1985.
23:23Yeah.
23:24How much is it?
23:31That's only £150.
23:33There we are.
23:34Thank you very much.
23:35Brilliant.
23:36Yeah, it's rookie.
23:37I like that.
23:38Fell in love.
23:39Wonderful little painting.
23:41And it's just of a butcher shop frontage and street scene.
23:45It's totally unabashed in its styling.
23:47He's really picked his style and he has fully immersed himself in it.
23:52And the colour palette is excellent.
23:54The scale is fantastic, you know, to everything going for it.
23:59This expressive painting is by Northamptonshire-born artist and teacher, Albert Palmer,
24:05who trained at the Royal College of Art, and whose work was on several occasions accepted
24:10into the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition.
24:13After he died, around 300 of his oil paintings were bequeathed to the Royal Society of Arts.
24:19Although not widely recognisable, Drew thinks this painting has immediate appeal
24:23and could be worth around £300.
24:30Yeah, Drew, come down to our basement.
24:32We don't normally have people down here.
24:34This is where we store and sort of lightly clean up stuff.
24:38This is great!
24:39Where did this come from?
24:42We brought that privately, didn't we, about eight, nine years ago.
24:46Eight, nine years ago?
24:47It's been at home in the loft, actually.
24:48We literally just brought it down.
24:49It's why it's so dusty.
24:50Oh, really?
24:51Yeah.
24:52But it is an original military campaign...
24:54It is. ...etagere, isn't it?
24:56Yes, it is.
24:57Down in the basement, underneath the stairs, there's a campaign washstand.
25:00Three-tier mahogany, gilt, brass and steel.
25:03I'm like, man, that's a really good one.
25:08I like it.
25:10What do you want for that?
25:11Erm, we can do that for £400, actually.
25:14Mm-hm.
25:15Yeah, yeah, yeah.
25:16Yeah?
25:17For sure.
25:18Thank you very much.
25:19Thank you very much.
25:20Cheers.
25:22That's fun.
25:25Hildebrand.
25:26Yeah.
25:27Then there's another lamp, Hildebrand, now, which is one of the better makers.
25:32Great quality.
25:33Again, not really, really rare, but a huge nod to the Bauhaus.
25:38Huge nod to the Bauhaus with a lot of their production.
25:41On the upper scale of quality, in the top 5% design-wise, and I like them.
25:50Not often do I say things definitely need restoration, but that definitely needs restoration.
25:55But it's a nice one.
25:56Yeah.
25:57But it's the price of a restored one.
25:59Yeah.
26:00So what's currently on it?
26:01325.
26:02Yeah.
26:03No, you're right, that's the price restored one.
26:04Erm...
26:05It's this that worries me.
26:07You see that it's bent over like that, right?
26:10Mm-hm.
26:11That could be problematic, because these are very thin.
26:14Mm-hm.
26:15And if that's...
26:16It can snap, can it?
26:18Yeah.
26:19Yeah.
26:20Well, I mean, to give you a chance, and you've bought quite a lot of stuff ready, we can
26:24do that 150 for it to go.
26:26Yeah, that's a...
26:27Yeah?
26:28That's the right price, that's great, yeah.
26:29Yeah.
26:30Sure.
26:31Thank you very much.
26:32Thank you very much.
26:33Price-wise, 150, 100-ish to spend on it.
26:35Again, let's keep that as a round figure.
26:37Is there a profit in it?
26:38Yes, but not lots.
26:40Where do you get this from?
26:42That's a good question.
26:44We've picked this up probably about seven, eight years ago.
26:47I think it came from a fair, actually.
26:49Now, there's lanterns, and there's lanterns, and lanterns, and this is in the top tier.
26:54It's cast bronze.
26:56Then it's been painted, and it's just...
26:58The paint has gone just a great colour.
27:01OK, so all the glass has been changed for old plastic, but it doesn't look terrible.
27:05It will have to come out.
27:07The lamp itself...
27:09That's a great find.
27:13The pain in the backside to restore these, but they're good.
27:16Yeah.
27:17They're nice things, but they are a pain.
27:18It's a nice colour, isn't it?
27:19Yeah.
27:20Reducree's very good on it.
27:21Colour is good.
27:22Yeah.
27:23What do you want for that?
27:24That could be 200 pounds.
27:26150?
27:28170.
27:30Thank you very much.
27:31Thank you, mate.
27:34Yeah.
27:35It's got enough going for it, hasn't it?
27:36Yeah.
27:37Yeah.
27:38It's a great thing, this.
27:40Extremely original.
27:42Large scale.
27:43It is everything I'm looking for all of the time.
27:48And it's right there in front of me.
27:52OK.
27:53All right.
27:54I'll tell you what, I'm sort of done.
27:55Yeah.
27:56I'll have a quick squiz around upstairs.
27:57We'll change, give you some money.
27:59And then if we could have a hand packing some stuff up.
28:02Of course.
28:03Yeah.
28:04Perfect.
28:07That's great.
28:08Wonderful.
28:09I've had a great day today.
28:11I've bought loads of things.
28:12But, you know, this business is very much a life.
28:16And, you know, I love people who come into it and just get it and immerse themselves in
28:21it and just go for it and enjoy it.
28:22And this is what these guys are doing.
28:24Great prices.
28:25Good stock.
28:26Lots of unrestored pieces, which I really like.
28:29And the depth to it.
28:31And it's fun.
28:32They're fun things.
28:34They're the sort of thing you take home and you go, I love that.
28:37Well, we're always happy for a sale.
28:40And I think we sell some nice stuff and original stuff.
28:45It's not really about the financial side.
28:47It's about, you know, that sort of affirmation of our eye and knowledge and all the work
28:54we've put into the business over the last year.
28:56Yeah.
28:57And it was nice, for example, for the mirror, they, you know, even Drew, the guy has seen
29:02everything, yeah?
29:03I've never seen one, like, with the mechanism of being...
29:06It was quite interesting.
29:07Just we got something they haven't seen.
29:09Both haven't seen yet.
29:10Thank you very much, Chuck.
29:12Much appreciated.
29:13Thank you very much.
29:14My pleasure.
29:15And hopefully see you again.
29:16Yeah, definitely.
29:17Cheers.
29:18Don't come back, eh?
29:19Thank you, guys.
29:20Take care.
29:21See you soon.
29:22Bye-bye.
29:27The buying was good.
29:29We bought loads.
29:30I could have bought...
29:31Honestly, I think I could have bought more.
29:32I mean, it was properly good things for me, but the prices were right.
29:36Very, very good.
29:37And they're doing it their way.
29:39That's the important thing.
29:41Yeah.
29:42Where everybody...
29:43In a sea of people just looking at Instagram and going,
29:45I'll do what they're doing.
29:46They're doing it their own way.
29:47Yeah.
29:48A different way.
29:49Completely their own way.
29:50Yeah.
29:51Not on social media much.
29:52Not interested.
29:53No.
29:54Just doing their own thing.
29:55Really good day.
29:56A cracking day.
29:57Worth the miles.
29:58Worth the miles.
29:59The boys are on the road again, and this time they're heading nearly 230 miles up to the
30:12northeast, where there's a great opportunity to source more of the rare and desirable items
30:17Drew and Al like to buy.
30:19So, we're up in Newcastle.
30:22Yes.
30:23And we're off to Anderson and Garland.
30:25Very well known and extremely well respected auction house.
30:29Okay.
30:30I've bought numerous things from these boys over the years, been around forever, and today
30:35they are auctioning a pal of mine, Graham Smith's stock.
30:39He's retiring.
30:40Okay.
30:41What's his style?
30:42Extremely traditional.
30:43Right.
30:44And good quality, ready to go stock.
30:48Okay.
30:49Always good things.
30:50Been there, seen it, done it, got the t-shirt.
30:53You know, one of those boys, been at it for 50 something years now.
30:57Let's give it a go.
31:00Now a western suburb of Newcastle, Westerholt was founded in the 19th century by a group
31:05of visionary designers who wanted to create a garden village, where working people had
31:10their own land for growing food.
31:12And for over a hundred years, it's also been home to one of the largest auction houses
31:16in the UK.
31:17Today, they're auctioning off stock from a retiring antiques dealer, including Victorian,
31:22Oriental, and Central European furniture, along with decorative pieces.
31:27It's all about to go under the hammer of auctioneer Julian Thompson.
31:37So we can trace our roots back to 1840.
31:40Started in 1840 as two firms, merged into one firm in 1914, and we've been Anderson and
31:45Garland ever since.
31:47Specialised in the selling of antiques, fine art, collectibles, silver jewellery, and lots
31:51of other things too.
31:52Today, we're selling the collection of Graham Smith, who is a retiring antiques dealer,
31:59who had a shop just up the road.
32:01So we've got his collection to sell, which we're delighted with.
32:04It's a lovely collection.
32:05Most of it is in showroom condition and ready to go.
32:08We're looking forward to some strong bidding.
32:10Hiya.
32:11Can I register, please?
32:12Of course.
32:13Can I take the surname?
32:14Drybra and Pritchard.
32:15That's for today's sale.
32:16And you've got two parallels, 185 and 219.
32:17Excellent.
32:19And there are two catalogues for the sale.
32:20Brilliant.
32:21Thank you very much.
32:22We just want to head through the doors and the stairs.
32:23Lovely.
32:24Thanks.
32:25Before the auction begins, the boys have made time to look over what's on offer.
32:36We are at Anderson and Garland auctions.
32:39Well respected.
32:40I like them.
32:41I've bought from them in the past.
32:43Today, we're at the auction of a mate of mine, Graham.
32:46And yeah, just come along with a bit of support for him.
32:49And obviously, we'll see if we can bag a few bargains.
32:54Hello, ladies and gentlemen.
32:55Good morning.
32:56And welcome to those of you here in the room.
32:59And there's lots of you online as well.
33:01So welcome to the Graham Smith Antiques, the retirement auction.
33:05So there's one thing that I'm looking at.
33:07There's a mirror over there.
33:08Date-wise, it's really tricky.
33:10I'd put it at $17.20.
33:11They've got it a bit later.
33:13It doesn't really matter.
33:14If that's cheap, I'm having it.
33:17Meanwhile, another carved frame mirror has got Al's attention.
33:21There's one mirror here today that stands out.
33:24It's a little bit cut above the rest for me.
33:26It's 19th century, Chinese, beveled plate.
33:31And it's finely carved.
33:33There's fish.
33:34There's koi carp on it.
33:35There's flowers.
33:36Very well decorated.
33:38It's a work of art.
33:3970.
33:40Hammer is up.
33:41170.
33:43And it's not long before the bidding starts on the Dutch mirror Drew has his eye on.
33:49Next is 3, 4, 5.
33:51The late 18th century Dutch walnut framed wall mirror.
33:5480 pounds for this, please.
33:5580.
33:56Nice easy start for you there.
33:5780 pounds.
33:5980 pounds I have.
34:0180 pounds.
34:0280 pounds.
34:03This 18th century mirror features a highly decorated frame with walnut wood veneer.
34:08The split plate glass is typical of a time when glass manufacturers were unable to produce large sheets.
34:15Although he thinks the lower section has been replaced at a later date,
34:18Drew believes the mirror could still be worth around £550.
34:22But he needs to factor in a buyer's premium of 30% on top of the hammer price.
34:28But £130, £140, thank you.
34:32£140, £150, £160.
34:34In the room at £160, all down at £160.
34:37Hammer up at £160, £170, £180.
34:41Last chance, £180.
34:42All down at £180, £190.
34:48In Newcastle, stock from a veteran dealer and long-term friend of Drew's is being auctioned off.
34:58And an 18th-century walnut-framed wall mirror, which Drew has his eye on, has sparked some strong bidding.
35:06Last chance, £180, all down at £180, £190, £200.
35:12£200 I have in the room, going once, going twice, third and final time, £220.
35:18£250.
35:20In the room at £250 now, £250, all down, £250.
35:25£250, thank you.
35:27Bought for £250.
35:29There's about 30% to go on top of that, so it's not a lot of money.
35:34That's fine, that's OK.
35:35We have this lovely, very intricate Chinese card fretwork red cedar frame wall mirror there.
35:42£80 to start me, please.
35:43Lovely little thing at £80.
35:45Sitting here today, I can see the prices.
35:47Things are fetching good money.
35:50And I know where I want to be on it, but let's wait and see.
35:55£170 now, £180, £190, £220.
35:59At £220 now.
36:01At £220.
36:03£250 coming in.
36:04£250 at £250.
36:05Gentlemen's bid against you, internet.
36:07£250 bid quickly if you want it.
36:09That's £250.
36:10All finished at £250.
36:12£250, thank you.
36:13And that's about £203.
36:15£250, that mirror, in the end.
36:17That's pretty much where I want it to be, because you've got to remember, there's another £75 on top of that again.
36:23So I'm going to have to retail that now.
36:26£500, £600.
36:28But it's worth it.
36:29It's a really nice item.
36:32Next, we've got this four-fold screen there, Lake Victorian.
36:36I've got £20 on it.
36:37£20, I have.
36:38£20.
36:39£5, sir, got to you.
36:40I've got £25 here.
36:41£30 now, sir.
36:42£35.
36:44£40.
36:45£45.
36:46£50.
36:47£5.
36:48£60.
36:49£5.
36:50£70.
36:51£5.
36:52Gentlemen's bid.
36:53£90 coming in now, sir.
36:55£95.
36:56£100.
36:57£110.
36:58£120 now, in the room, at £120.
37:01£130.
37:03£140.
37:05£140.
37:06Third and final time.
37:08£140 and selling.
37:09£140.
37:10That's so lovely.
37:11I bought that for a reason.
37:15I'm rejigging a bit in my warehouse.
37:17I'm changing my look.
37:18I'm getting rid of loads of stuff.
37:20And I've got in my head a look I want to create.
37:23And that's what I bought that for.
37:25It's a divide, but it's also just a great backdrop for photography.
37:30So, I'm not going to sell that yet.
37:34I'm going to use it.
37:35Here we go.
37:36£386 is the Victorian walnut wall or standing mirror there.
37:40Very nice thing.
37:41There's another mirror that attracts me.
37:45It looks like the mirror's sitting on an easel, but it's not.
37:49It's all one piece.
37:50And it's just a little bit different.
37:52And it's quality.
37:53The maker's name on the back.
37:54It's a London maker.
37:56There's just something a little bit different about that.
37:59£50.
38:00£50 bid, sir.
38:01£50.
38:02Gentleman's bid.
38:03The maiden bid of £50, then.
38:05Don't miss out.
38:06Have a look.
38:06£50 all done at £50.
38:08And selling at £50 for the maiden bid of £50 all done.
38:13That was a bit of a sleeper.
38:14I did really well on that one.
38:16We were both speechless.
38:19It just didn't start.
38:21It started off at £50, and I think I got it for £50.
38:25You know, brilliant.
38:27There you go, mate.
38:28There we go.
38:29£556 aesthetic design dressing.
38:31Oh, shaving stand there.
38:33Lovely, unusual piece of furniture, this.
38:35£50, £60, £50, £70.
38:37£70 bid at £75.
38:39£80 bid.
38:40At £80, we're here at £80.
38:42£95.
38:44Looking for £100 now.
38:46They've got it down as a sort of shaving stand.
38:49What I would call it, it's not perfectly this,
38:52but it's a valet stand without the coat hanger.
38:55But it's nice and original, and it's unusual.
38:57At £200 now, at £220 bid, at £250 now, at £280, looking for £300.
39:05£300 here now at £300, looking for £320.
39:09At £300.
39:10Last chance then.
39:12£320 in the room.
39:14At £320 in the room.
39:16Come on, come on.
39:16Last chance.
39:18And £320 in selling.
39:22£320.
39:23It's a useful, interesting piece that's lightweight for a smaller bathroom.
39:31Because it's not a solid, you can see through it, it makes the room feel bigger.
39:34And you can get a couple of nice expensive towels on it, leave you a nice expensive razor on top of there,
39:41and you watch and you feel like King of the Castle.
39:43I think as it stands without anything going on, it's £600.
39:46So there's some money there, there's 150-odd quid there.
39:53Yeah, fab.
39:54Really enjoyed my day at Anderson and Garland, at Graham's auction.
39:57I only bought two things.
39:59Honestly, for me, any day at an auction, I'm happy.
40:03If I buy something or not, I just like being there.
40:06It is strange because they used to scare the bejesus out of me when I first started.
40:10I was very nervous about going to them.
40:12And now I find them one of the most relaxing things you can possibly do.
40:18Happy days, Anderson and Garland?
40:20Yeah, not bad, mate.
40:21I don't go to many auctions.
40:23You should.
40:23If I'm honest with you, I don't.
40:25I'll definitely do more, definitely.
40:27It's a buzz, isn't it?
40:28I love auctions.
40:29I remember the first auction I did and I just made a right mess of it.
40:33And the auctioneer made me look stupid and, you know, just, and I just thought, oh, I hate this.
40:39And I was mad keen to just to buy anything, you know.
40:43And now it's actually one of my very, very, very favourite things to do is to go to an auction.
40:53After another long buying trip, Al is back in West Wales
40:56and the enameled brewery sign he bought from Dick Craven gets some careful cleaning.
41:01Really happy with that.
41:04And within days it's been sold and is heading back to Yorkshire
41:07to be hung at the historic former Tetley Brewery building in Leeds.
41:13Ah, wonderful.
41:15Let's have a look at what this looks like in the flesh.
41:20The sign's been sold for £275 to collector Steve Holt, the founder of a local brewery,
41:28to decorate his business HQ.
41:31Ah, wonderful.
41:32Yeah.
41:34Albion Brewery.
41:35I've been collecting brewery advertising for, dare I say, more than 40 years.
41:41I don't know, there's something about original advertising that just gives a sense of nostalgia
41:50and a lot of the artwork would have been and drawn and in some cases hand-finished.
41:56The Albion Brewery had a number of pubs in Leeds.
41:59It closed in the 20s and was demolished in the 30s.
42:03And it's nice to have an original piece of memorabilia.
42:08There are not many articles or items left from the Albion Brewery.
42:14The new sign is planned to go Pride of Place just near the main entrance door.
42:20So everyone will see it as they come in and leave the building.
42:23And I'm sure it will provoke quite a bit of interest from not just people who are interested in beer,
42:29but local historians as well.
42:32Ah, that's it, Craig.
42:34Perfect.
42:36Lovely, that.
42:36Yeah, excellent.
42:38It's a great reminder to everyone that there was a number of breweries operating in the city 100 years ago.
42:47The sign's gone back to its roots.
42:49It's a great result from a week of great buying.
42:52This week's been a really good week on the road.
42:56It's been up there with one of the best, to be honest with you.
42:59Mascot in Torquay, great guys.
43:01With similar stock to what Drew and myself buy, you know.
43:05Their taste was pretty much like ours.
43:08I bought that brilliant mirror.
43:11That sold pretty quick.
43:13It was such a good, unusual thing.
43:15Dick Craven, the enamel signs, you know, like a kid in the sweet shop.
43:19Couldn't get enough of them.
43:20The Albion sign, that's ended up in a brewery back in Leeds, a collector of signs.
43:27So that's good.
43:27It's gone back to where it belongs.
43:29There's just so many signs there, you know.
43:31I lost track.
43:32I can't even remember how many we bought.
43:34It was a good, good pick, that one.
43:36Really good.
43:37Yeah, great week on the whole.
43:39Great week.
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