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00:00This time at the Auction House, Bake O'Fortune, the designer classic found in a junk shop.
00:08I think for every true liver trunk I might see, I might see five or ten which aren't rides.
00:16The royal icing on the cake, the 40-year-old confection fit for a princess.
00:21Handled with care, Prince Charles and Princess Diana's wedding cake.
00:26And Charles the Undead goes under the hammer.
00:30What's the mallet for?
00:31I think it's putting the stake through the heart.
00:33See, a bit like that. A bit higher.
00:36Oh, it does.
00:3910,000 pounds!
00:4111,000! Sold!
00:44Close to the Derbyshire Dales is one of Britain's busiest auction houses.
00:48Hello, Ireland! Hello, America!
00:50Run by enthusiastic antique specialist Charles Hansen.
00:54Are they Art Nouveau?
00:55He and his army of expert valuers...
00:58That one indicates that it's a true Harry Potter first issue.
01:02...examine thousands of treasures every year.
01:05I'm touching a garment that was worn by Queen Victoria.
01:08This carving is sumptuous.
01:11From the familiar...
01:12Whereabouts do you want this bike going then?
01:14It's amazing, absolutely lovely.
01:16And unusual...
01:17Look at the movement and that!
01:19...to the phenomenal...
01:21This sculpture, this is something quite special.
01:23Every object has a story to tell.
01:27A vampire slain kit.
01:29Oh, my God, Ian, it's amazing!
01:30From surprising revelations...
01:32£30,000 to our mind now.
01:34Antic luggage is really, really collectible.
01:37...to jaw-dropping hammer prices.
01:39£20,000!
01:40There's nothing quite like an auction.
01:53Are you OK there, Richard?
01:53All OK?
01:54Good man, Chief.
01:55It's busy.
01:56Friday afternoon, we've got...
01:57A lot of toys have just come in as well.
02:01So they're all over there OK.
02:03Ever since Charles Hansen fulfilled his childhood dream...
02:07...of opening his own Derbyshire auction house 17 years ago...
02:11Gotta go!
02:12...he and his team of experts...
02:14...have valued nearly a million lots to go under the hammer.
02:17All that £500!
02:20But not every object arrives at the front door.
02:26Sometimes Charles and his team need to take to the road...
02:28...covering over 100,000 miles a year...
02:31...to identify or collect auction gold.
02:34What an amazing find.
02:37I spend a lot of my time, maybe half of my life...
02:40...in my office, that's my car.
02:43Today, Charles has had a promising call from a seller...
02:46...with what he hopes could be a designer classic.
02:49I'm off to see a lady called Melissa.
02:51It's always exciting when you hear those great names...
02:54...Babrige, Cartier.
02:56This time it's Louis Vuitton.
02:58And if it is right, it's worth a lot of money.
03:01But we have to be so careful with forgeries.
03:04We recently found a gold coin on paper.
03:06It was worth £200,000.
03:08The story was great, but it was a fake.
03:10You've got to be so careful.
03:12Otherwise, you can really land yourself in hot water...
03:16...and indeed cause a real problem in business.
03:20To check out if this one's the real deal...
03:23...Charles has driven 150 miles to Teddington in London...
03:27...to cast his eye over this vintage designer travel trunk...
03:31...owned by administrator Melissa.
03:33I will be sad to part with it...
03:35...but where we live now, we don't have the room for it.
03:38We've decided to put it to auction rather than private sale...
03:42...because I wouldn't be confident enough myself...
03:45...with all the detail and the history of the trunk, etc.
03:50Across the world, it's the brand that everybody wants...
03:53...and it's so widely counterfeited, it might not be right.
03:57Could this be the real thing?
04:05Hello, is it Melissa?
04:06It is.
04:06It's Charles Hanson.
04:07Very good to see you.
04:08Come on in.
04:09There we go.
04:11Wow.
04:14How'd you acquire it?
04:16When I was 16, 17...
04:18...my father got offered a job up north.
04:21I didn't want to go.
04:22So we converted our house in Twickenham into two flats.
04:25Yeah.
04:26Had no storage at all.
04:27Yeah.
04:27He went up to a little junk shop and came back with this.
04:32Dad and I are really close.
04:34If he'd see something that he thinks someone would like...
04:37...he will just buy it for them.
04:40And I think he thought she can put her towels and blankets and sheets in there.
04:44So he probably didn't pay a great deal for it?
04:46£12.
04:46Back in whatever year it was?
04:4884.
04:49Wow.
04:50He definitely wasn't looking for a Louis Vuitton one.
04:53I think mainly it fitted under the stairs.
04:56That was the main reason.
04:58What I want to make sure, first and foremost, Melissa, is it's a real McCoy.
05:03Yeah.
05:03I think for every true Louis Vuitton trunk I might see, I might see five or ten which aren't right.
05:09Yeah.
05:09So that's why provenance is so, so important.
05:11We look at the brass work, what we call the brass furniture.
05:15It's all nicely marked.
05:17It's such attention to detail.
05:20Nuts here with Vuitton on.
05:21You just see all the well in the woods as well, where other luggage has stood over it.
05:26You want to see genuine age.
05:29Looking down here, you can see beautiful wear on this metal.
05:32You can't fake that.
05:33No.
05:34That's what we look for, to know it's old and right.
05:37On first impressions, it's, hello.
05:39I think you're original.
05:41This could be a real find.
05:44Oh, my God, look at the interior.
05:45Oh, yeah.
05:47Oh, I'm a bit lost for words, actually.
05:48What I love.
05:50You've got a registration, that's quite important.
05:53Yeah.
05:53You've got the all-important label.
05:56That still reads quite clearly.
05:58Louis Vuitton with the address, which was 149 New Bond Street, London.
06:02Yeah, this comes out, actually.
06:05Oh, look at that.
06:06I mean, look at that for quality.
06:07I'd love to auction it for you and give it a real worldwide ooh-la-la appeal.
06:15What's it worth?
06:17You tell me.
06:18Oh, no.
06:18Do you know, I'm always quite cautious to get a room bidding.
06:21I'd guide it between £3,000 and £5,000.
06:25With the guide, it's a really good condition, really.
06:28It's got a few little minor issues, but they're really quite easy to tidy up.
06:32How's that sound, £3,000 to £5,000?
06:34Sounds absolutely fine.
06:36The guide price is a done deal, but Charles also needs Melissa to sign off the reserve,
06:43the lowest bid she'd be happy to walk away with.
06:46A reserve will be £3,000.
06:48Right.
06:48Would you be happy with that?
06:50I'd like it a little bit higher.
06:52How much?
06:53Four.
06:54OK.
06:56It's catch-22 for any auction house.
06:59If you agree to a client's demand for a steep reserve price,
07:02then you can scare away potential bidders.
07:04And the item may not sell.
07:07Because of the history of it and the family connection with it,
07:11I genuinely wouldn't want to let it go under £4,000.
07:14Melissa's keen to put a reserve on at £4,000, not a penny less.
07:20I'm slightly nervous now because I've got no leeway.
07:24Tough reserve.
07:26Hopefully not a tough sale.
07:28I think £4,000 to £6,000 is punchy.
07:31But importantly, can we do some research?
07:33And I think that will really help just give a provenance to aid its value.
07:37Lovely.
07:38All right.
07:40I think it's a really good price.
07:43But I was taught very young by my father,
07:46you never spend money in your head till it's in the bank.
07:49But, yeah, very nice investment.
07:52I'll see you soon.
07:56Bye.
07:57The story brought from a sort of junk shop.
08:01It's what we call a discovery.
08:03And I really hope it rings true.
08:05It might just be that sleeping giant.
08:08Nice to meet you.
08:16What brings you to Hanson's?
08:17What have you got?
08:19Every week, the auction house holds 200 valuations,
08:23where Joe Public get the lowdown on treasures they're hoping to cash in.
08:27It's a ring that my father was given by an elderly gentleman next door,
08:32and he was over 100 when he died.
08:34But we do know that he fought in the Boer War,
08:36and he was also in India for a long while.
08:39It could be Star Sapphire.
08:42One of the company's go-to specialists is Isabel,
08:46who's been an expert valuer here for 10 years.
08:49It's exciting to see what comes through the door each day
08:53and what characters and what people you meet.
08:56One day, I could be cataloguing some furniture,
08:59the next paintings, jewellery.
09:03Some of the hottest items here are also the weirdest.
09:08My name's Gerry.
09:09Gerry, I'm Isabel. Nice to meet you.
09:10I'm delighted to meet you too.
09:11Have a seat.
09:12I am an ardent monarchist,
09:15and when this unique item came up for sale,
09:18well, I couldn't resist buying it.
09:21I brought something rather special.
09:24I'm intrigued to have a look.
09:25On this tin, it says,
09:28Handle with care.
09:29Prince Charles and Princess Diana's wedding cake.
09:33OK.
09:34It's something completely unusual.
09:37Not just a little slice of cake,
09:40but we have a slab of cake.
09:42Wow, look at that.
09:45When Lady Diana tied the knot
09:47with the then Prince Charles,
09:49it was the wedding of the century.
09:51600,000 well-wishers packed the London streets
09:54to catch a glimpse of the fairytale couple
09:57and that famous dress,
09:59with another 750 million watching worldwide.
10:02We've had other items from Charles and Diana's wedding,
10:07but to have this piece of cake so well-preserved
10:10after 40-odd years is wonderful.
10:14Having sold a slice of toast
10:15from the royal couple's wedding for £230 ten years ago,
10:20Isabel is the perfect valuer for this next royal curiosity.
10:24So tell me a bit about it,
10:26where you acquired it from.
10:27I went to see Princess Diana's wedding dress
10:31last year at Kensington Palace.
10:34Researching the dress,
10:36up popped an auction for this piece of cake.
10:40You have a cake for consumption at reception.
10:44Now you also have what's called the official wedding cakes,
10:47displayed in the breakfast room in Buckingham Palace.
10:51I bought it, I paid £2,200, say,
10:54including the buyer's premium.
10:56With the cake came some documents.
10:59The order of procession.
11:01We have the order of service.
11:04But inside is a pull-out table plan.
11:09Oh, yes.
11:10For the wedding breakfast.
11:11For the actual wedding breakfast.
11:12Wow.
11:14The 120 guests for the lavish meal
11:17included a royal roster of kings and queens,
11:20princes and princesses.
11:21It reads like a list of who's who.
11:24I mean, the cake's over 40 years old
11:26and would you dare to have a bite?
11:28Oh, absolutely.
11:30You would.
11:30After what, I've paid for this.
11:33Having the other items alongside the cake,
11:35the pamphlets,
11:36the wedding breakfast table layout,
11:39will hopefully add value
11:40to the piece of cake on the day.
11:42If we were to go in
11:44at maybe sort of £2,000 to £3,000,
11:47how would you feel about that?
11:49I think you would have to go in higher.
11:53So, obviously, people can have a look online
11:55and see what you paid for it
11:57only last year,
11:58so we do have to factor that in as well.
12:01Yes, of course.
12:01But I think it's a great piece.
12:03We've never sold one just like this
12:05at Hansen's
12:06and with the internet interest,
12:09we can hopefully market it globally.
12:11OK, great.
12:13So, the next step going forward
12:14is verifying where it came from
12:16and also some history
12:18about what cakes would have been there
12:20on the wedding day
12:21and if we can identify this one.
12:34Good morning.
12:35Good morning.
12:36We bought these for auction
12:37to see if you could value them for us, please.
12:40Oh, wow.
12:41The Royal Order of Buffalo.
12:44Were these family items?
12:46Yes, they belonged to your dad, didn't they?
12:49Securing new lots to sell
12:51is the bread and butter
12:52for any auction house.
12:54Royal Clown Derby.
12:55Good condition.
12:57Every week,
12:57over 1,000 curios are put up for sale.
13:01But each auction needs a star of the show
13:03and nothing draws the spotlight.
13:06It's not quite better than a designer label.
13:09Hey, Jules.
13:10Look at this.
13:11Wow.
13:11This is amazing.
13:12Look at the detail here.
13:13You've got these little, you know, screws with the name on.
13:16Every bracket is marked on the corners.
13:19Marked on there as well.
13:21It's so original.
13:24Owning an expert eye for 20th century designers,
13:28Jules has been part of the business for eight years.
13:31It's probably the only job I've ever had
13:35where I go home with a different story every day.
13:38You can look at an item and you think you've seen it
13:41and then it's the more research, the more details come out
13:45or the more you understand about the journey of that item
13:49and how it's become desirable or iconic
13:53or what has made it so special.
13:57Charles wanted to set the trunk's reserve price at £3,000.
14:01But against his better judgement,
14:03he's agreed to sell a Melissa's request
14:05for a much higher reserve of £4,000.
14:08So he needs Jules to help encourage bids
14:11to come in thick and fast.
14:14If we can just give a bit more provenance...
14:17Yeah.
14:17..it will aid value.
14:19On the inside, got the old label,
14:22but really importantly, that number there, 207881.
14:26Yeah.
14:27Knowing Louis Vuitton HQ keeps detailed sales logs,
14:32Jules sent them the trunk's serial number
14:34to verify its authenticity.
14:35They can confirm it is a genuine Louis Vuitton travel trunk,
14:41which is great, and using the reference number,
14:43they've been able to age it for us.
14:45And they've put it between 1909 and 1914.
14:50It was obviously a time when travel was starting to take off.
14:54It just gives more understanding of who might have had it
14:57and the journeys it might have gone on.
15:01Armed with the proof it's a valuable original,
15:03Jules is calling in a contact.
15:05To dig deeper and give the sale price a further boost.
15:09Carl Mornakeji is one of the UK's top vintage furniture sellers,
15:14specialising in designer and antique luggage.
15:18So here it is, Carl.
15:19Oh, wow.
15:20Oh, it's lovely.
15:21It's a real iconic, real eye-catcher.
15:23It's typically Louis Vuitton.
15:26Yeah.
15:26And that can be identified primarily through the canvas that's used.
15:31Frenchman Louis Vuitton founded his fashion house in Paris in 1854,
15:36and its ooh-la-la luggage became the essential accessory for the stylish traveller.
15:41It's iconic woven jacquard fabric gave it a distinctive luxury look,
15:49while the innovative shape of the trunks proved groundbreaking.
15:52Before the 1850s, most trunks were domed or round or humpbacked.
15:59They were covered in leather.
16:00The leather was never waterproof, so they needed the water to run off.
16:05OK, yeah.
16:06But with a waxed canvas, the water would never penetrate the trunks.
16:10Flat means if they're on a train or ocean-going ship,
16:14then they could be stacked really, really easily.
16:16So how did Louis Vuitton really kind of rise to fame
16:19and it becoming such an iconic brand?
16:21He was commissioned by the Empress Eugenie,
16:23who was Napoleon III's wife,
16:25to be her chief packer and trunk maker.
16:28This basically gave him access to the aristocracy.
16:33She was very keen to be seen wearing the best clothes,
16:36wearing the finest jewellery and travelling,
16:39using the world's finest trunks.
16:41So she was one of our first influencers.
16:43She certainly was one of the biggest influencers at the time.
16:46So what do you think the current market is for a piece like this?
16:49Vintage and antique luggages are really, really collectible
16:52and the fact that it's Louis Vuitton
16:54makes it probably one of the most collectible names in luggage.
16:58I would probably value it at maybe £2,500 to £3,000
17:02in the current condition.
17:04Yeah.
17:05Charles could be in trouble here.
17:08He's agreed a £4,000 reserve price
17:10and Carl's valuation doesn't come anywhere close.
17:14Does Carl, the big LV expert, feel it's got a market at that level?
17:18He was suggesting around £2,500,
17:21but I think we could go with him.
17:22Sometimes what the vendor wants is what we try and deliver.
17:26So I might be sweating on the auction day now
17:28because will it make £4,000?
17:31I'm not so sure.
17:33Honestly, I'm like that.
17:34I really would love to see it make £4,000 plus,
17:38but I'm 50-50.
17:46Expert in the unusual,
17:47Isabel is also trying to whet people's appetites
17:50for a rather large slice of cake
17:52from Charles and Diana's wedding.
17:55How you up, lads?
17:56How you up?
17:56You OK?
17:57How about yourself?
17:58Very well.
17:58What's in Izzy's tin?
18:00A piece of cake.
18:01Just like your job.
18:03What do you reckon?
18:04Piece of cake from Charles and Diana's wedding.
18:07Have you checked the sale by, Dave?
18:09I know.
18:09Over 40 years and it's not gone mouldy, Dom.
18:11How cool is that?
18:14Transportation team, Dom and Andy,
18:16are hardly cake connoisseurs,
18:18so Isabel still needs someone to vouch
18:20that her iced fancy is no royal replica.
18:27So, Dave, here we are.
18:28Here's the cake.
18:30Oh, magic.
18:32That's kept well, hasn't it?
18:3340 years old.
18:34Step forward, Royal Navy chef David Avery,
18:37who was hand-picked to bake the official wedding cake
18:40for the then Prince Charles and Lady Di.
18:43It was a recipe my mother had.
18:45It's not written down.
18:47No, all up there.
18:48It's all up there.
18:48Alongside David's centrepiece,
18:5123 other cakes were also baked for the wedding breakfast,
18:55which were later sliced up for the royal staff as a thank you.
18:59Isabel wants to identify which one Gerry's slice came from.
19:05So you've got some photographs here of cakes that were presented...
19:10Presented at the palace, yeah.
19:11And they all have the crests on the front of them.
19:14Yeah.
19:14They had come from the bottom tier of the cake
19:16because it's the official crest.
19:18David's confirmation that this piece of iced artwork is the regulation,
19:23Royal Coat of Arms, is just what Isabel needed.
19:26He really rates the cake and rates its condition,
19:31the colour still on the icing.
19:34There's a lot of collectors for royal memorabilia,
19:36particularly in America, where they go wild for the royal family.
19:42So with the sale being online,
19:44we can market it to our international buyers
19:46and hopefully really capture that American audience.
19:53Thank you, sir, and that's your registration number for today.
19:56And good luck.
19:56Thank you very much.
20:02Not gently.
20:06In the sale room, 300 lots are about to go up for auction,
20:10with Melissa's vintage designer trunk the main attraction.
20:13So, we're all set. Exciting day. We've got a bit of LV, Louis...
20:19Is it Louis? You pronounce it Vuitton. Vuitton, isn't it?
20:22Is that right, Joy? Say again. Vuitton. Is it really?
20:25God. That's going to give you a bit of a worry now. Vuitton. Vuitton.
20:30Vuitton. Vuitton.
20:32Reception team Joy and Anne may well smile,
20:36but they all know how important it is to wow potential bidders.
20:40It's kept very well. It seems to be in very good condition.
20:44Yeah, I could make use of this. Yeah, you could use it, couldn't you?
20:47Put it in my bedroom. You don't need to put some of that stuff on your bedroom floor in.
20:52It's a very nice trunk. It all depends on how much it's going for at the time.
20:57Sometimes you can get a bit carried away. I think it's called auction fever.
21:03Charles is under pressure to get the bidding up to Melissa's £4,000 minimum.
21:08A price he worries is over the odds.
21:11It's a funny old game, because if we don't hit £4,000, we've got a happy seller.
21:15Because we've told our seller we can achieve this.
21:18I'm nervous, but I'm ready to go.
21:20The hopeful buyers here are mainly Derbyshire locals,
21:24but the trunk has also excited interest from much farther afield.
21:28That's encouraging news, as it may mean a specialist buyer with bigger pockets.
21:34Ladies, on the Vuitton trunk, any phone bids?
21:39Yes, we've got two. We've got a French one.
21:42Have we? And an Italian.
21:44It could be Paris versus Rome.
21:46Yes.
21:47Always exciting.
21:48Anne will be bidding on behalf of a British luxury luggage dealer,
21:55currently on business in Italy.
21:57Hello, it's Anne from Hanson's Auctioneers.
22:00I'll be going through to the sale room, ready to bid for you, sir.
22:03When you've got a phone bidder, it can be quite exciting,
22:06because it's being involved and part of the auction.
22:10While Joy is on the phone to another dealer calling in from France.
22:14Miss Hanson's going to be auctioning the trunk himself.
22:18Are you in Paris, sir?
22:20Yes, sir.
22:21Is it looking lovely there today?
22:23You want to do your best for the person who's on the other end of the phone,
22:28and you end up with quite a vested interest in it.
22:32Clarke's Callan aide will be across the internet bids.
22:37Whoever's currently winning the bids,
22:39I've got to make sure I put that across on my platform
22:43so that the buyers at home can see who is winning the race.
22:48While seller Melissa will also be glued to the action online
22:52from her holiday hotel.
22:56Where do we start this wonderful work of art?
22:59by an iconic race designer who goes back to the mid-19th century.
23:05It's labelled, it's marked.
23:07We've done the research through Louis Vuitton,
23:09and here it is to be sold today to the world.
23:12We're live across Europe with phone lines as well.
23:15Hello, France. Hello, Italy.
23:18£2,000 is my opening bid.
23:222002.
23:242003.
23:26It's really up to me to create the atmosphere,
23:29create the interest, to walk it to the reserve.
23:32I'm asking three six, three seven, three eight.
23:37End of the day, we are fixed by a reserve.
23:40If I don't hit £4,000, we don't earn our commission.
23:44I don't like saying, not solved.
23:47Do you want it, madam?
23:49One more might do it.
23:51I'm bid £3,600.
24:05I'll take in the room now £3,700.
24:08Charles Hansen is auctioning seller Melissa's vintage Louis Vuitton trunk.
24:13Do I see £3,700?
24:16And he's struggling to hit the steep reserve price of £4,000.
24:21I'm asking three six, three seven, three eight.
24:25Four.
24:26Bidder's very sharp, actually.
24:28He's upping the price himself above what the auctioneer is saying.
24:32So he's obviously very keen to burn off the other bidder, I think.
24:36I've got £4,000 in Europe.
24:41£4,000!
24:43Huge relief.
24:45Vendor's happy, hit her target.
24:47Now it's really how far these two phone bidders are really going to battle it out.
24:52£4,002.
24:55£4,300.
24:56I'm asking £4,004 now.
24:58£4,400.
25:00£4,500, sir.
25:02£4,005 I'm bidding, ooh la la.
25:05When you know you've got two phone bidders, you can very much really reach out to them emotionally, psychologically.
25:11Come on phone bidder, one more.
25:13£6,002.
25:14£6,003.
25:15£6,004.
25:16£6,004, yes.
25:17£6,003.
25:18£6,004.
25:19£6,004, yes.
25:20I just kept going like a tennis match.
25:24£6,009.
25:25£6,009, sir.
25:26£6,009, sir.
25:27There was no hesitation whatsoever from my bidder.
25:30I just went back with the next bid and immediately they replied.
25:35£6,009, be lucky.
25:37£7,000, sir.
25:39Yes.
25:40Lucky £7,000.
25:41£7,001.
25:42£7,001.
25:43£7,002, madam.
25:45£7,003.
25:46£7,003.
25:47£7,003, sir.
25:49£7,004.
25:50£7,004, sir.
25:51£7,004, sir.
25:52No.
25:53Are you sure, sir?
25:54You've come a long way.
25:55The other phone line is out and we sell this magnificent beton trunk at £7,300.
26:03It's your trunk.
26:05So, congratulations.
26:06Congratulations, sir.
26:07Well done.
26:08£7,000.
26:09Give him a round of applause.
26:10£7,300.
26:11Congratulations.
26:12So, congratulations, sir.
26:13Well done.
26:14That's brilliant.
26:16Bye.
26:17I really thought £4,000.
26:21£7,000 was honestly maybe not achievable, but it kept on going.
26:26£7,000, £3,000 is amazing.
26:29I'm over the moon.
26:30Good work.
26:31Thank you, ladies.
26:32I'm going to give the vendor a call.
26:34Hello?
26:35Is that Melissa?
26:36Charles Hanson.
26:37It was a great price.
26:38Were you pleased?
26:39Oh, over the moon.
26:40Great.
26:41Completely over the moon.
26:42It's amazing.
26:43I was watching it and I was trying to video the laptop screen with my husband.
26:47Yeah.
26:48Yeah.
26:49My hand was shaking because it was like, oh, my God.
26:51Yeah.
26:52It's an auctioneer.
26:53Thank you, Melissa.
26:54When we can find an exciting object, it really makes for a wonderful moment.
26:58All right, Charles.
26:59Thank you for the help, anyway.
27:01Bye, Melissa.
27:02Absolute pleasure.
27:03Talk to you soon.
27:04Bye.
27:05It makes me feel quite emotional, quite proud, so I can puff my chest out and say, Melissa,
27:10we did it.
27:11Lovely spoon.
27:1217th century, silver.
27:13I can see this making £4,600.
27:27The search for those hidden treasures never stops.
27:31Only two years ago, a man came in with a carrier bag with a yellow ground teapot.
27:37He said, Charles, is it worth anything?
27:39This is from research, one of only three known in the world, and it made £400,000.
27:46On the trail of a possible lead, Charles is at the company's Staffordshire sale room,
27:51Bishton Hall, to meet a long-standing business contact, local antiques dealer Ian.
27:57Well, I've got a shop which I run with my son, and we've only just opened sort of six months
28:02ago, but I've been in the business for 35-plus years.
28:05Hi, Charles.
28:06Just take a look at this.
28:07What is it with these crosses on there, crucifixes?
28:11What is it?
28:12Crosses come back, that's a secret lock.
28:15Suspense.
28:16Oh, my God.
28:17A couple walked in the shop one Saturday morning with this religious-looking box, opened it
28:22up.
28:23It was just blowing away, so I thought, wow.
28:25The quality is fantastic.
28:27Lift-out tray.
28:28You've got the pistols, the holy water.
28:31So what have we got?
28:32On the top deck here, we've got the pistols with the barrels.
28:35What are these for here?
28:36These are amazing.
28:37These are little sort of, like, fitted wings.
28:39And then you've got adjustable candlesticks that go on the side.
28:42Is that a Bible down there as well?
28:44Look at that, Ian.
28:45You see, that is really old.
28:46Oh, my God.
28:47Ian's amazing.
28:48Do you know what I'm thinking it might be?
28:51It's, I suppose, what you might call a vampire slain kit.
28:55Goodness gracious me.
28:57The spooky spectre of the blood-sucking vampire has haunted European folktales for hundreds
29:04of years.
29:05But the craze peaked in Victorian Britain when Bram Stoker's Dracula first saw the light
29:10of day in 1897.
29:12What's the mallet for?
29:13I think it's putting the stake through the heart.
29:14See, a bit like that?
29:15A bit higher.
29:16Oh, it does.
29:17I mean, this looks like it's been used, this blinking stake.
29:18Look at the wear on that stake here.
29:19Never mind the stake hammer.
29:20It's the auction hammer price that really matters.
29:21Somebody brought it through the door.
29:22Paid two grand for it.
29:23I'm happy to get sort of three, three and a half grand for it in town.
29:28So you've bought it for 2,000 pounds.
29:29Yes.
29:30That's a lot of money, isn't it?
29:32There's a lot of money.
29:33But you know what?
29:34It's just thought it's a rare thing.
29:35It's just a great, quirky item.
29:36And we thought, have we got the client base, you know, to sort of sell it in the shop?
29:40And what's it?
29:42It's a lot of money, isn't it?
29:43There's a lot of money, but you know what?
29:45It's just a great, quirky item.
29:47And we thought, have we got the client base, you know, to sort of sell it in the shop?
29:52it in the shop you know do we give it to sort of charles hansen because you know he can sell stuff
29:56worldwide market it properly and obviously achieve the highest price for us ian wants
30:01three thousand pounds for his spooky set one thousand more than he paid for it so charles
30:06will need to unearth its history to try and make the value really fly
30:11provenance any history to it well he's got some initials stamped on it i think we did some
30:18research and research who this person was wmh and we can determine who he was this has legs
30:24you see some of these antique fairs and you think yeah they're just fun but this to me is far more
30:30engaging by the fact it's all monogrammed god what a fine it's fantastic it's amazing you just cannot
30:39believe what can come in at a given day in my cell room if we can say this belongs to this man we can
30:47trace it back to the original owner do the research then present it well with a real history
30:54and happening it could run and run it really could
30:57would you like it at 110 now fair warning is going thank you the auction house hosts over 100 sales
31:09a year and today's top lot is the historic slab of royal wedding cake which is causing quite the
31:17sensation i was not expecting to see the the cake so well preserved like the icing it's larger than i
31:24thought it was going to be because i thought it was going to be a piece cut and put in a little box
31:29it's the morning of the auction this morning it's going to be an eventful date jerry is in the house
31:34we need to work out where his reserve is so we can actually have a sale to meet his approval
31:42charles is right to be worried seller jerry has his eye on an ambitious minimum price
31:50it has to be 3000 has to meet that reserve um and there's no auctioneer's leeway in that i know
31:59you paid for it what a year ago 1800 plus the slap the buyer's premium 2200 2200 pounds if i get
32:092008 and i look at you do i sell it or not if we don't sell my company and my colleagues we earn no
32:18money from all that time we've expended in marketing cataloguing research and everything
32:23else so really it's now or never going going going to fire number 3098 right wedding cake up next barry
32:33let's see how it goes clark's aid and barry are across the online bids while joy is on the phone
32:40bidding on behalf of a u.s buyer you said you're on a train still not a lot of tunnels are there
32:47nice to actually bid for somebody somebody else when it's not your money to be honest
32:52this is a charles and dana wedding cake of epic proportions from july 81 i'm bid 2000 pounds
33:04i've bid 2000 pounds straight in i'm asking 21 sir 2002 i'm bid i'm asking 23 sir 2004 bid 25
33:15asking 26 bid 27 asking 28 at 2008 joy gave me a nod at 28 i thought we're in 28 i'm asking 3000
33:26do we see 3000 panic sets in i'm asking 3000 i'm asking 3000
33:34asking 26 bid 27 asking 28 charles hansen is auctioning off a genuine slice of royal wedding
33:54memorabilia but he's struggling to reach seller jerry's tough minimum selling price of 3000 pounds
34:00ordinarily we are there with discretion no discretion it's fixed it's solid i cannot fall one bid below
34:09i'm asking 3000
34:11i'm asking 3000 now are you sure i'm asking 3000 one for the roads fair warning
34:27i looked at jerry he was shaking his head jerry had a very fixed reserve he said charles nothing less
34:35not a pound less unable to reach 3000 pounds charles has to call it quits it's not solved
34:44and failure leaves a bitter taste so close so close so close i'm disappointed for i really hope that
34:53that lady was going to bid 3000 i am disappointed he's missed the boat in my opinion but my goodness me
35:01was so near and that's the frustration
35:10while the post room get busy dispatching the lots that did sell at today's auction
35:15valuers carl and barry are already browsing through what's coming up next for sale
35:20what is it carl it looks like a cantina cutlery ah you're wrong there it's it's actually
35:27a vampire box a vampire slaying kit back in the 80s i used to come back with a load of
35:35love bites but my boys used to say it's vampires but yeah great item should do well
35:41seller ian paid 2 000 pounds for the kit and keen to increase its value charles has been getting his
35:49teeth into its history the initials wmh are engraved on it and charles has discovered that these belong
35:58to lord william malcolm hayley born in 1872 he rose to become the governor of the punjab in british
36:06india during the 1920s it's just amazing this highly intelligent man who was at the height of
36:13society believes in vampires vampires vampires it's like saying i believe in fairies fascinating
36:23now that he's on earth the owner of the creepy kit charles wants to flesh out its history
36:29hey deborah how are you i'm great great to see you how's life gorgeous day for sunshine
36:36should we go to the darker side he's invited cultural anthropologist deborah hyde to shed daylight
36:42on why a member of the british aristocracy would own this ghoulish gadget we've uncovered that the
36:50monogram wmh belongs to a lord hayley who was a peer very important society man he was you know a
36:57serious man educator sophisticated i'm thinking why was he wanting this sort of nonsense which you would
37:03have thought he would have thought that way i think what we're looking at here is a fictional artifact
37:09it's a beautiful object to entertain people with after dinner why do you have candles i think this is
37:14a dramatic element because if you're going to do something dark and dangerous it's far better to do
37:19it by candlelight yeah would you have thought that many of his fellow society hangers-on would have had
37:25similar vampire kits there aren't a huge number of them they do turn up from time to time most of the
37:31kits come from the mid-20th century after hammer horror films when horror as entertainment really took
37:37off thank you so much deborah gives me an idea now more about its historical context and i can't wait to
37:44take it to auction i'm now thinking that lord hayley may have been smoking his ivana cigars in a mist of
37:52smoke the smell of red wine as out came under the table this amazing vampire kit midnight was approaching
38:01and it was time for the vampire stories
38:07mystery solved bloodsuckers beware the tools of the vampire hunter are about to see the light of day
38:14so we've got the wooden stake and the mallet this is the actual gun and you used to have to shoot
38:24them with a silver bullet hopefully we don't have any vampires around our way holding a reserve of
38:30three thousand pounds it's tantalizing devotees of the supernatural from across the world
38:37sometimes in our industry you get those objects which just fly in the press
38:42and this vampire slaying kit really has risen to the occasion we've had press all over the world
38:48in the far east in north america in canada so here's hoping for a bit of international stardom
38:57clark's barry and cal are seeing a promising build-up of interest online
39:03the vampire slayer kit has created a massive buzz there's already been a few bids left on the book
39:09but how well it does well let's find out seller ian can't attend the auction in person but valuer
39:15victoria is going to keep him posted by phone hi ian we're really just hoping that um it goes well
39:25for the vendor to be honest with you he's really excited i'm looking forward to it good morning to you
39:31and hello to our friends online if i can start this important vampire slaying kit with bits of three
39:37thousand three two three five three eight four thousand four two five five in canada there's a real
39:46rush you can feel in the room there's an atmosphere there's a hunger there's a belief that this really
39:51might move five eight six thousand six two it's gone ballistic six five six eight i'm beard seven
40:02thousand seven thousand four seven thousand five and a bit of eight thousand pounds we have this coming
40:09in from the united states from australia canada and the uk eight and a half thousand pounds we're bid
40:16we're live in london i'm asking nine thousand pounds come back in canada nine thousand pounds we've got
40:23you it's bang bang bang bang bang bang bang as quickly as you can type them in the next bid's through
40:29don't miss it for one bid ten thousand pounds wow we've got ten thousand pounds it's a huge frenzy of
40:36interest and there's still phone bids coming in come on work at auctioneer i'm asking ten thousand
40:42five hundred now we are bid ten thousand five hundred for the first time first second time
40:51third time congratulations to our buyer 11 000 11 000 pounds were bids thank you canada
41:01sometimes right at the last second somebody else comes in oh my goodness right let's go again
41:0612 000 pounds 12 12 12 i'm asking 12 and a half thousand now it's at six cents you can just feel
41:14psychologically that the buyer's got more in them to go on more you pause let the room think about it
41:23first second bid 12 500 we're live in canada do i see 13 000 pounds
41:33it's getting creepy 13 000 pounds we're bid 13 i'm asking 13 500 pounds going going at 13 000 pounds
41:49knock up so congratulations yeah there we are 13 000 pounds congratulations he was just really
41:58thrilled actually fantastic i know amazing results it's always really great when they far exceed
42:05expectation i didn't think it would reach that amount at all um i thought maybe five or six if we were
42:13lucky i can't believe it i can't believe it 13 000 pounds 13 000 for a vampire box set incredible i think
42:21what sold there was a whole worldwide exposure with our marketing and research we did two buys battled it
42:28out amazing result that looks good it's not long before the vampire kit is winging its way to hampshire
42:38leaving one very happy seller in well done pleasure great thanks a lot yeah i'm really pleased i think
42:46people react when something's in auction it just gets people more excited also flying out the door
42:51is melissa's louis vuitton trunk the winning bid came from luxury luggage dealer alessio who's now back from
42:58italy ciao alessio ciao fantastic thank you very much there we are now can i say voila what's that in
43:09italian eccoci eccoci eccoci i hope you like it it's a wonderful truck it's a very rare model and once
43:16it's restored it's going to look fantastic all original all original condition 100 years old
43:21i'm feeling excited relieved because it's a good item and i think it will come up very very well once
43:30it's restored i know what's restorable and what's not restorable there's nothing there that would worry
43:35be too much
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