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Salvage Hunters (2011) Season 20 Episode 7- Eclectic Finds
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00:00On Salvage Hunters, striking gothic purity in Suffolk.
00:05The paintwork is dead right. That's really good.
00:08The originality in the painted decoration is utterly pure.
00:12Highly crafted Georgian beauty in Dorset.
00:15I just can't ignore it, it's just too nice.
00:18And in Kent, the importance of knowing an original from a copy.
00:23If that was an original cheer piece, it'd be sort of 30,000, something like that.
00:27I can do that a little bit cheaper. Thank you very much.
00:29Thank you very much.
00:32Drew Pritchard is one of Britain's leading antique and decorative salvage dealers.
00:36Oh my word, I love this stuff.
00:38Joined on the road by queen of the haggle and quick flip, Vicky Knott.
00:42How much are they?
00:43100 per in the pit.
00:44I was going to bed you 70.
00:46Well, thanks for your film, but you're not all right, man.
00:48And lover of all things weathered and wonderful, Alistair Dryborough.
00:51What about the triumph? Have you seen that, Drew?
00:53Ooh!
00:54Come on, let's go and have a fight over it.
00:57Drew is sharing the knowledge.
00:59That's got a fair bit of Asia, it's horsehair in there.
01:01And that's a nice bit of old timber.
01:03And expertise.
01:04What a thing.
01:06You know why they're so deep? Why they're so long?
01:08Top hats.
01:09He's gained over the past three decades.
01:12Would 400 quid buy both pairs?
01:14No!
01:15Ooh!
01:16I've got it to try.
01:27We are going to Bungie.
01:29Bungie?
01:30Bungie in Suffolk.
01:31Bungie.
01:32Bungie, yeah.
01:33Bungie.
01:34Bungie.
01:35We are off to meet a guy you know.
01:37And I've met him once.
01:38Yeah, Carl.
01:39Yeah.
01:40Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:41Big tall fella.
01:42Yep.
01:43The old store?
01:44Old store.
01:45New shop.
01:46New shop.
01:47Only been open a few months.
01:48Four people.
01:49Which I always think is quite wise these days, because of the expense.
01:53If you're starting.
01:54That means you've got to get on with three other people.
01:56I know, I know, I know.
01:57But you know, to get your foothold.
01:59Costs, you know, rates four ways.
02:02Insurance four ways.
02:03Electrics four ways.
02:05Also, you know, nobody's doing a full week.
02:08It's great.
02:09It's a good idea.
02:10What are you laughing at?
02:11It's my worst nightmare.
02:13Nightmare.
02:14There's absolutely no chance that would ever happen.
02:17My way or the highway.
02:18Yeah.
02:20Drew's 30 years in the trade have been distinguished by his varied approach.
02:24Sourcing industrial design and weird and wonderful objects alongside traditional antiques.
02:30Today, he and Vicky are travelling 300 miles to Suffolk.
02:34To visit a new business with the promise of eclectic finds.
02:38This is Bungay.
02:39It's beautiful.
02:40It's so cute.
02:41It used to be full of antique shops.
02:43There's one.
02:44That's still open.
02:45By the way, that's a nice mirror in that window.
02:48Is it?
02:49Yeah.
02:50Now, there used to be six, seven antique shops here.
02:53Was it?
02:54Yeah.
02:55It's a beautiful, beautiful little bit.
02:58Suffolk and Norfolk I always find to be this quiet, gentle, unassuming, soft beauty.
03:07With its Norman stronghold and half-timbered houses, the market town of Bungay has, for centuries, been a centre for local trade.
03:18One new venture is The Old Store, an antique shop with a different take, merging the stock of four different dealers, including Carl Lockwood.
03:31So, The Old Store was set up by myself, three other dealers.
03:35We met as individual dealers in trading with each other and also admiring each other's stock.
03:42What we do here, as opposed to a conventional antique centre, is actually blend of our stock.
03:49We merge and curate into kind of room sets, which are seasonal, they change around.
03:56I've met Drew and Vicky previously through social media.
04:01I'm very much looking forward to welcoming them to the store and to bring them in and to show a fairly mixed and eclectic balance of stock that hopefully will be very interesting for them.
04:12There you go. Cracking sign.
04:15But it looks good, doesn't it?
04:18Hi, Carl.
04:20Hi, Vicky.
04:21Hey, Carl. How are you doing?
04:22Very well, thank you.
04:23Nice to see you.
04:24We've met before.
04:25We have met before.
04:26We have.
04:27Where was it?
04:28So, it would have been Ripley, an antiques fair up near Harrogate.
04:31I remember.
04:32We go back farther than that.
04:33And we do.
04:34Yeah.
04:35We've got a few years under the belt now, so to speak.
04:37What we do in here is we've actually tried something a little bit different and blended, curated and merged our stock.
04:45So, as you walk around in the displays, you will get a mix of all of our stock.
04:50Oh, so it's not like your sort of normal kind of antique centre.
04:55This is your patch, that's their patch.
04:58Definitely not.
04:59I like your shop counter.
05:01Shop counter has got everything in terms of scale, size, form, and it's got crackly paint.
05:08Yeah.
05:09It's very good.
05:10It's great.
05:11Right, cool.
05:12Let's have a look around.
05:13Yeah.
05:14Yeah, by all means.
05:15How this is working and why I think it's a good idea, the benefits are obvious, the first obvious ones.
05:21The costs are quartered.
05:22You know, here, four people, one bill.
05:25It's just easier.
05:26And then the big one is you're bringing all of your different customers together in one place.
05:31That's a really good benefit.
05:33When it gets hard, it's four different views of this business together rarely works.
05:41But here, it seems fairly effortless.
05:44This.
05:45Tell me about this.
05:46So...
05:47Who's selling this?
05:48It's got the person's name on that.
05:49You've...
05:50It's...
05:51William and Herbert.
05:52That's you.
05:53That would be me.
05:54Yeah.
05:55Architectural elements or pieces thereof always have a strong appeal to me.
05:58There was something very, to use the term, scratch built about it, but picked up from a fair midsummer.
06:05Okay.
06:06I like it.
06:07It is a weird one, because the stairs come off.
06:09It's like, why, why?
06:11Why?
06:12Why?
06:13It's...
06:14It's kind of demountable.
06:15Right.
06:16But there was a huge craze, just pre and post war, for making models, scale models of
06:21all sorts of everything.
06:22Right.
06:23But it looks for all the world, doesn't it?
06:24It looks like something from a horse racing type of thing.
06:27But, I mean, honestly, we'll never know.
06:29And there's this wonderful, really naive, 20th century, painted timber, bridge model.
06:36It's just worn nicely.
06:38It's made, oddly, the little ramp, the little, you know, stairs on the side come off.
06:42It's a bit of fun.
06:44This unusual handmade model of a bridge is constructed from pine, and features its original
06:50paint.
06:51So-called scratch built models were often made by hobbyists, or even prisoners of war, and
06:56today are collectible examples of folk art.
06:59The origin of this piece is unknown, adding intrigue to its one-off charm.
07:04To the right buyer, it could be worth around £100.
07:08So you've got 95 quid on it.
07:09What will you take for it?
07:10Best on that trade would be 75.
07:14That's really good of you.
07:15You sure?
07:16There we go.
07:17I'm happy with that.
07:18Thank you very much.
07:19Pleasure.
07:21With my weird collection of bits of stuff like this, I've got loads of stuff like this.
07:24You're literally evil.
07:25We will have.
07:26That's very nice.
07:27I like that.
07:28Can I just get past you into that corner there?
07:30Yeah, what were you looking at?
07:32That.
07:33What?
07:34The candle?
07:35Not the candle.
07:36Painted candlestick.
07:38What is it?
07:40Can I get it out?
07:41Yeah.
07:42Do you have a pair of these?
07:44Sadly not.
07:45Has that top been changed?
07:47It doesn't sit quite right.
07:48It's got this turned stone top on it.
07:58It's interesting.
08:01So this is reformed Gothic.
08:04But it is totally right.
08:07Well, do you know what?
08:08I don't think we're ever going to completely know.
08:10Because I've cleared enough churches to know that, you know, that bit there is right.
08:17Yeah?
08:18But this bit, I fear, has come from something else.
08:21And all the paintwork and all the stencils.
08:23The paintwork is dead right.
08:25That's really good.
08:26Stylistically, these are something that I'm always looking for in any genre, which is purity.
08:31They are Gothic revival, right?
08:34The drip tray for the candle, it might have been added.
08:37But the rest of it and the originality and the painted decoration is utterly pure.
08:43And that's really interesting.
08:46This candlestick may originally have been part of a pair made for a church altar.
08:51Hand painted, the decoration is typical of the polychromatic style used during the late 18th century Gothic revival period,
08:58which evoked the colourful interiors of medieval buildings.
09:04Though missing its original drip tray, Drew thinks this example could be worth around £300.
09:10What have they got it down as?
09:14Painted Candlestick 245.
09:16I'd quite like to buy it, but I don't want to pay that much for it.
09:20Because I'm not so sure about that.
09:22Let me see what...
09:23I think that's been stuck on 245.
09:25I think Ken would probably be just at £195.
09:31OK.
09:32I was hoping it was £150, but honestly £195, I think I'd give it a spin.
09:37Thank you very much.
09:39I'm sure Ken will appreciate that.
09:40Thank you very much.
09:41Yeah, lovely.
09:42What a lovely thing.
09:43I don't think there's much money left in it at all, but I think it'll go to somebody who really appreciates it.
09:46If you want to spend a wonderful weekend, just put into your computer Reformed Gothic and read away.
09:52You will see a purity of form and a purity of thought and design and design language that has rarely been improved on.
10:02My day.
10:03Isn't that nice?
10:04Very rapid.
10:05I really, really like this counter.
10:07Yeah, I know.
10:08I really like the counter.
10:10The shop counter, as soon as I walked in I thought, oh great, that's definitely a bit of me.
10:15There's something really, really charming about them.
10:19And every now and again one turns up and you go, that's really nice.
10:22Will you sell the counter?
10:24Whose is the counter?
10:26The counter belongs to Bud.
10:28It's a lovely, central, welcoming part of our shop.
10:32OK.
10:33However...
10:34Everything's got a price.
10:35Everything has a price.
10:37That would be one we'd naturally have to talk to Bud about.
10:42Bud.
10:44Drew's quite interested in the shop counter and the old store.
10:49Is that something we, collectively, you, would be willing to potentially leave the building?
10:57How much do you want for it Bud?
10:59Stop messing it up.
11:01And that was the bottom line question.
11:03Yeah, would we sell, would you sell the shop counter?
11:06Bud, I'll give you 500 quid for it.
11:09Good for it.
11:10Yeah.
11:11There we go.
11:19In search of the eclectic and oddball, Drew and Vicky are at an antique collective in Suffolk.
11:25I like your shop counter.
11:27Shop counter has got everything.
11:29Where Drew's blindsided everyone with an unexpected bid on something that wasn't for sale.
11:34The shop's counter.
11:36Would we sell, would you sell the shop counter?
11:39Bud, I'll give you 500 quid for it.
11:42Yeah.
11:43OK.
11:44Right.
11:45Sure.
11:46Shall we talk price?
11:47Drew's bid five.
11:50Yeah.
11:51OK.
11:52I'll shake his hand on that.
11:53That's marvellous.
11:54Good man.
11:55Thanks for the time.
11:56Lovely job.
11:57Thanks for your patience.
11:58Cheers, Drew.
11:59Thanks, Bud.
12:00Good, good, good, good, good.
12:01There we go.
12:02Happy days.
12:03Good.
12:04Talk to Bud, he says, yeah, it's for sale, and I'll take your offer at 500 quid.
12:07There you go.
12:08Job done.
12:09I'm getting something almost ready to go.
12:11Not completely, but almost ready to go, which I know I have a market for.
12:15Great.
12:16I'm going to make some money.
12:17Happy days.
12:18That's nice.
12:19That's nice.
12:20That paint pot really is lovely, isn't it?
12:21Yes.
12:22Yeah.
12:23Really nice.
12:24It's great.
12:25That's a traditional house painter's pot.
12:27A lot of them, they were designed to hang off your ladders, so you'd have a hook, right,
12:31through the ladder, and then you'd hang that paint pot.
12:33That's why it has the hoop on it.
12:34Yeah.
12:35It's like a cauldron.
12:36Little cauldron.
12:37I really like this, and I really want to take it, but...
12:40How much is it?
12:41It's 40 quid.
12:42Can you do a wee bit on it, just a bit, just so that I can feel a little bit better.
12:4639.50?
12:47No, that's not enough.
12:49This little paint pot with a plant on it that was sitting beside the till kept whispering
12:55to me, and I thought, I wonder if that's actually for sale or if it's just part of display.
12:59I picked it up and it had a price ticket on it, and I thought, great.
13:02The best thing about it is the paint drips.
13:06Now, they look so perfect that they could be contrived, to be honest.
13:10Oh, look.
13:11Did you say, um...
13:12Did you say 40?
13:1330 quid.
13:1430 quid, Vicky, yeah.
13:15I think that's lovely.
13:16That's certainly doable.
13:18It's a sweet one.
13:19Isn't it pretty?
13:20That's great.
13:21Love that.
13:22Yeah, it's definitely got something about that.
13:24It's nice.
13:25Really nice.
13:26I managed to get it for 30 quid.
13:27Absolutely delighted.
13:29It's one of those things that you...
13:30So tactile and so pretty and so gorgeous, you don't actually want to sell it.
13:34Because you'll never, ever find another one that's exactly the same.
13:39And it's pretty damn perfect.
13:43Honestly, I've really loved the old store.
13:46Small, it can be really beautiful.
13:49It shouldn't work.
13:50There's four people in two rooms.
13:53It shouldn't work, but it really does.
13:55It looks like the hand and eye of one person.
13:58And that is difficult.
14:00Thank you, Carol.
14:01Thank you very much.
14:02It's been a pleasure.
14:03Thank you, mate.
14:04Thanks, Drew.
14:05Take care.
14:06See you later.
14:07It's been a fantastic day that we've had with Drew and Vicky.
14:10Learned much.
14:11And yeah, it's been a really good day with them both.
14:16There you go.
14:17Happy?
14:18Well, yeah.
14:19I'm always happy.
14:20Lovely, lovely shop.
14:22I literally felt like I'd been taken and dropped in the south of France.
14:28I did.
14:29Very nicely curated.
14:30I do think the shop as a retail experience for that type of antique was perfect.
14:40They've nailed it.
14:41They have nailed it.
14:42That is a beautifully put together shop.
14:45And with that one, they'd made it really, really friendly and nice.
14:49Yeah.
14:50It was a nice place to be.
14:52With some offbeat treasures in the van, it's a great start to the week.
14:56Next, Drew and Vicky are travelling southwards into Kent,
14:59where they're meeting a veteran dealer who's known for his sense of fun.
15:05So, today, we're off to sunny Kent and we're away to see a guy called Pasco.
15:11Now, he's got a really cool set-up.
15:13His shop's called Wearums and he's an old-school dealer, been in the trade for a long time,
15:20but I don't think either of us have met him before, so that's always fun, isn't it?
15:26It's good for everybody and anybody in the business to meet other people,
15:31and particularly ones that don't do what you do.
15:33Yeah.
15:34I go and see dealers and I'm like, I have no sort of connection in what they're selling, what I'm selling.
15:40But you learn.
15:41And that is this business.
15:43It's a constant, constant learning.
15:48It never, ever ends.
15:49Looking out over the mouth of the Thames estuary towards the North Sea beyond,
15:54Whitstable in Kent is known for its oysters,
15:57farmed here as far back as Roman times and sold across the world.
16:01Some of the three million harvested each year even contain pearls.
16:05But there are other treasures to be trawled for here, among the highly eclectic wares of a decades-long veteran of the antiques trade.
16:14Welcome to Whitstable.
16:20The shop's called Wareham's, which is actually my Christian name.
16:23It's Wareham Pascoe, better known as Pasco Pascoe in the trade.
16:28I specialise in decorative furniture, not purely antiques.
16:32But my main love is garden, statues, fountains, urns, and anything a bit weird and wonderful.
16:39I do like off-the-wall things. I'm quite renowned for that.
16:43This is my whole world here. I live above the shop.
16:46I'm a bachelor. It's great fun.
16:49Just enjoy it immensely.
16:51The secret is to go out buying, looking for treasure, coming home, looking forward to unloading it, showing it off.
16:59That's the secret.
17:02Hello. Hi, guys. How you doing?
17:04Nice to see you. Drew, how are you?
17:06Nice to meet you. Vicki. Cheers. Lovely day.
17:08God, it's amazing.
17:10What a top spot. It's nice.
17:12It's good here.
17:17What a fab little shop.
17:19So there's plenty to see.
17:21There's some through the back in the garden. Have a look round.
17:25That's lovely. Great space.
17:27You've been here ages, have you?
17:2820 years.
17:29Have you?
17:30Yeah.
17:31Yeah.
17:32Yeah.
17:33I was rich when I started.
17:34Weren't we all?
17:37It's a friendly environment for people to walk in and buy fun antiques, fun old pieces that they can just...
17:45They're not going to cost them a fortune and they're going to enjoy them.
17:48There was a big basket outside that we walked right past.
17:52Which one?
17:53The large one with the lid.
17:55Yeah.
17:56Oh, right.
17:57Not the little one.
17:58Oh, OK.
17:59I just think that's funny because I can stand in it for a photograph.
18:02You can stand in it and buy it for 60 quid.
18:07What about the other one?
18:09That's from France.
18:10It's a grape pickers bin.
18:12That would have to be 130.
18:14This one's a belter.
18:17I like both of them, actually.
18:20I've got a little French one.
18:22Grape hod thing.
18:24Yeah.
18:25It's typically French.
18:26It's sort of lashed together.
18:28Yeah.
18:29What's it got written on it?
18:30It'll have initials, so it'll be the...
18:32FR.
18:33FR.
18:34Like the farmer's initials.
18:36What do you want for it again?
18:38130.
18:39Well, I'll have that one.
18:40Yeah, well done.
18:41Thank you very much.
18:43But you know how I'm always going on about photographs?
18:46See, like, if I'm in the photograph, I can stand in this like this and it's funny.
18:52For 60 quid?
18:54I'll have that.
18:5560 quid.
18:57Do you think that's funny?
18:58Yeah.
18:59I could get you in it as well.
19:01Well, that came from a house in Whitstable.
19:04It's actually very nice.
19:05That's lovely.
19:06Proper country house bit.
19:08Yeah, it's a good thing.
19:09I like it.
19:10I love that as well.
19:11That's way better than mine.
19:12No, I think yours is cool.
19:13That's actually more saleable.
19:14I know, that's why I bought it.
19:15Damn.
19:16I've done it wrong again.
19:17Vicky's got, by far and away, the better deal.
19:22Mine is the sort of generic basket that you'd see in any decorative antique shop.
19:27What Vicky's bought there is more, you would see in a sort of, more of a high-end country house type environment.
19:35Yeah.
19:36I got that very wrong.
19:37Yeah.
19:38Scotland, Scotland one, Wales nil.
19:40You've always been focused on garden stuff predominantly, haven't you?
19:43Yeah, I like garden stuff.
19:44Yeah.
19:45Yeah.
19:46One of my favourites.
19:48Yeah.
19:49He's got no great age, Mr Punch, but he's a nice thing.
19:53He's a copy from a guy called John Cheer.
19:56Yeah.
19:57He made him in the 18th century in lead.
19:59Yeah.
20:00In London.
20:01And Mr Punch, it was a big deal back then.
20:03It was like incredibly fashionable.
20:05If that was an original Cheer piece, it'd be sort of 30,000, something like that.
20:10I could do that a little bit cheaper.
20:12Thank you very much.
20:15That one is a copy and it's not very old.
20:17Let's say 20 to 30 years old, but it's weathered really well.
20:21The original was made by a guy called John Cheer in lead.
20:24And John Cheer is one of the most valuable names in the garden world.
20:30If you get anything that came out of that workshop in London in the 18th century, big bucks.
20:38I mean, massive, massive prices, because it's the best.
20:43It's the very, very best lead work that you will ever see.
20:47The character Pulcinella originates from the Italian theatre tradition Commedia dell'arte.
20:54In Britain, he became known as Mr Punch, an anarchic and anti-authoritarian
20:59often violent comedy puppet.
21:02This statue in stone is a skillful replica of an original by 18th century master sculptor, John Cheer.
21:09Drew thinks it could be worth around 300 pounds.
21:15How much is he?
21:16200 quid.
21:18What a fab little shop.
21:19Where Drew spotted a garden statue with built-in punch, a quality copy of the work of an 18th century master sculptor.
21:31How much is he?
21:32200 quid.
21:33There you go.
21:34Easy, isn't it?
21:35Thank you very much.
21:36Lovely.
21:37He's great, isn't he?
21:38Yeah.
21:39Isn't he fab?
21:40Great-looking thing.
21:41That is a belter.
21:42And it was 200 quid.
21:43There's a lot of profit left in that, because it comes with a great background.
21:48backstory.
21:49It comes with real provenance.
21:50That looks great in here as well.
21:51Fab.
21:52It's nice having little sort of cut off rooms.
21:53Yeah.
21:54And this table, what can you tell me about that?
21:55The table's not old.
21:56No.
21:57The top.
21:58No.
21:59The top.
22:00No.
22:01No.
22:02No.
22:03No.
22:04No.
22:05No.
22:06No.
22:07No.
22:08No.
22:09No.
22:10No.
22:11No.
22:12No.
22:13Yeah.
22:14And this table, what can you tell me about that?
22:15The table's not old.
22:16No.
22:17The top is.
22:18Yeah.
22:19Is it?
22:20And then they've made it up.
22:21Yeah.
22:22Is it?
22:23Yeah.
22:24Just a good coffee table, isn't it?
22:25Good looking, isn't it?
22:26Lovely.
22:27Good size, lovely bit of wood.
22:28Would have to be a thousand pound.
22:31Yeah, OK.
22:32That's enough.
22:33Yeah.
22:34Alright.
22:35And there's a garden out the back, is there?
22:36Yeah.
22:37Well, can I just grab, I've just seen something through here, I'm quite like...
22:39I'll bring it through.
22:40Right-o.
22:41You stay there, relax.
22:42Yes. What do you think of these?
22:49Ooh, they're nice, aren't they? Let's have a look.
22:52I just spotted them in the window there.
22:57What would they have been?
22:58These are the tops of a tabernacle from a...
23:06...er, um...
23:07...Reredos of an Italian church.
23:10Yeah, I know. He's like having one of those sort of encyclopaedia things, but in person.
23:15One of the things we used to do was take church interiors out, and I've lost count of how many we did,
23:21so you would see things like this all the time.
23:23They're not candlesticks, they've been made into candlesticks, but they're actually elements,
23:26and I think they're elements of a late 19th century reredos.
23:30I think they're the two tops of tabernacles from either side.
23:34Meaning behind the back, a reredos is the highly decorated screen which stands behind the altar in a church,
23:42often featuring ornate pillars.
23:44With both Islamic and Gothic influences, these architectural elements have been carefully repurposed,
23:51and if sold in Vicky's shop, could be worth around £175.
23:59How much are they? £100 a pair.
24:01I was going to bid you £70.
24:04Well, thanks for the offer, but you're not all right with that.
24:08£100 a pair of death on them.
24:10I'll give you £10 a back for your cheek. £90.
24:13I'll have them. They're my... Thank you.
24:15It's nice to support a poor person.
24:17I'm Scottish, after all.
24:20This is why I like going out buying my Drew.
24:22You know, he started waxing lyrical all about it.
24:25Imagine them on a lovely big farmhouse table right in the middle.
24:28They'd look great. But equally, they'd look as lovely on a marble fireplace in a gorgeous Georgian house in the middle of Edinburgh.
24:39That's nice, isn't it?
24:40A little bit of...
24:40I love that barn.
24:42What is holding that up?
24:43I really don't know. And every time there's a storm, I come out expecting to see it on the ground.
24:49And it's... I just love it how it is. People say, oh, you should do it up.
24:52No.
24:53No.
24:53It's wonderful, isn't it? Yeah.
24:55Pascoe has this wonderful little yard at the back. Really cute.
24:59And the best barn in Britain. Good luck and spiders. I don't know what is holding that up, but it's just wonderful.
25:07But in amongst all that, it's got loads of garden antiques. French, English, all sorts.
25:11There's some 19th century urns, bronze statues. Yeah, it's all the fun of the fair.
25:16What a chunky horse. What sort of money's in something like that?
25:25$1.50.
25:28Shall we get it out? Yeah, he's going in now. Ready? Yep.
25:34Over in the shrubbery, in the corner, there was what looked like half a sort of weather vane type thing.
25:43And there was a horse's head. So I'm always interested to see, you know, especially if you find something that's been lying about for a while.
25:54Blacksmith made.
25:56I quite like it. Good.
25:58What did you say it was? $1.50.
26:00You're not going to want me to chip here on that, are you? No.
26:04Don't think so. I'll stand here and not do that.
26:09Do you know what? I'm going to have that.
26:10Good girl. Well done. Thank you.
26:13It just has a good kind of fun look about it.
26:16And you know what? One of my customers will take it and they'll put it in their house or they'll put it in their stable or they'll put it in the garden.
26:24Loads of different places to put it somewhere.
26:26And at 150 quid, it was a great buy.
26:30Cracking day with Pasco. We had loads of fun.
26:33Bought something that I really like.
26:35A little punch statue.
26:37It's great. It's just a load of fun for not much money.
26:40That would carry a fairly hefty profit if you wanted it to.
26:43But I can turn that over.
26:44I think it's great and I think it'll photograph really well.
26:48Straight off the bat, I bought this large-scale old country house basket.
26:54Brilliant. In the van.
26:56Then we get inside, I bought a lovely pair of, you know, well they are now candlesticks.
27:02They'll photograph, well, this is it.
27:05This is the ultimate day that you can have in this business.
27:08The van's filling up with some unconventional and eclectic finds.
27:13And before they head back north, Drew and Vicky are making a detour into Dorset.
27:18Vicky's heard of an antique centre which has just reinvented itself.
27:21With the promise of more offbeat objects.
27:24So we're going to go and see Andrew and Sally.
27:28Yeah.
27:28They've just taken over an antique centre and they've given it a bit of a re-jig.
27:36It's literally, they've had the doors open a few weeks.
27:38Yeah, yeah.
27:39So I think they've kind of...
27:43Shushed it up a bit.
27:44Yes.
27:45You know antique centres, the downside to them is pictures that don't get looked after and are abandoned.
27:52Yeah.
27:53I have to say that from looking at what they've done, there's been a real re-jig change about.
28:01They've got a new, fast attitude about it and I'm excited to see what they've done.
28:08Cool.
28:08The historic cobbled streets of the Dorset town of Shaftesbury were once the filming location for the iconic 1970s advert for Hovis Bread.
28:19And these days, bygone times continue to be celebrated at Station Road Antiques,
28:24a 4,700 square foot antique centre where 25 dealers have put their collective creativity under one roof.
28:32It's recently been redesigned in partnership with his sister by former Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineer turned dealer Andy Marks.
28:44I'm a mechanic by trade, so I've always repaired and restored and fixed things.
28:51I started buying and selling a few bits from auction and it turned from a hobby into a business.
28:56This is now my passion.
28:58My style is a little bit wonderful, eclectic, sometimes macabre.
29:04Hopefully we've got something here that he'll enjoy and hasn't seen before.
29:08Hello.
29:09Hi, Drew.
29:10How are you doing?
29:10How are you?
29:11Good to meet you.
29:11Drew.
29:12Hi, Becky.
29:13Hiya.
29:13This is my sister, Sally.
29:14Hi, Sally.
29:15How are you?
29:15Welcome to Station Road Antiques.
29:17Can we have a look inside?
29:18Please do, yeah.
29:19Oh, this is nice.
29:21Excellent.
29:21Glad you like it.
29:22Yeah, I like it.
29:23This doesn't have a normal antique centre feel.
29:26No, no, not at all.
29:27Way better.
29:28It's brilliant.
29:29You walk into the reception area and you go, yeah, this is good.
29:33It's more like walking into a really good pub, you know, or like a sort of nice bar.
29:39It's got a very friendly, cool feel about it.
29:42So they've nailed that bit for sure.
29:45Tell me I do like these.
29:47They're great, aren't they?
29:48Yeah.
29:51Kind of tricky to find those now.
29:53Yeah.
29:54They're out there, but they're crazy money sometimes.
29:56These are, what we do, they're a tollware, so they're a tin, basically, but they're designed
30:01to look like books or a faux book box, but this is for solicitors to be using, barristers,
30:07solicitors, whatever, and they're very hard to get hold of.
30:11What are you asking for those?
30:13Will's file case, 75 quid.
30:15Um, let's just start a quick look.
30:18That one, does that one open?
30:1955 each one.
30:20Yeah.
30:25Highly unusual English ones.
30:26Mm-hmm.
30:29Yes, please.
30:30Thank you very much.
30:31Brilliant.
30:31Love those.
30:33Love them.
30:33I haven't bought any of those for over 10 years.
30:36They're well-priced, 75 quid each.
30:38I get offered them at 55 pounds each.
30:40Well, of course I'm going to buy those.
30:42They are really, really good.
30:44Boom.
30:44Through the door, 30 seconds, bought something.
30:46Good start.
30:47God, that's nice.
30:50Do you like that?
30:50That's really lovely.
30:52It's nice, eh?
30:53Yeah.
30:58Cracking nick as well.
30:59Usually they're all crushed around the base.
31:00But also it's got...
31:01And the rope on it as well.
31:02And it's got proper bit of age wear, isn't it?
31:03That is nice.
31:04Yeah, Edwardian, I think.
31:05Yeah, it's lovely.
31:06So what are they asking for that?
31:07Vicky, are you going to be buying this?
31:09Yeah, I'm thinking about it.
31:11125 quid.
31:13Sometimes it's quite good to put a couple of items together.
31:16So there was a little rhino that caught my eye
31:18and I thought, you know, we'll try and do a little bit of a deal.
31:21You know, I've got a waiting list for rhinos.
31:23You started this.
31:25You started everybody's love of a rhino.
31:28I know.
31:3175.
31:33You can ring her and try and put the two together.
31:34Do you want to ask her about the two?
31:37Let's see what I can do for you.
31:39They just look really good, whatever you do with them.
31:43OK.
31:4490 on the basket.
31:46That's good.
31:47You've got 75 on the rhino.
31:5265.
31:54I'll do this at 90.
31:56OK.
31:56But he can just stay here.
31:58No problem.
31:58There just wasn't enough off the rhino when Andy, you know, gave her a call.
32:05But there was enough off the basket to make it worthwhile for me to buy.
32:08So I was happy.
32:10Nobody wants corner cupboards, but that is a belter.
32:13Absolutely fab.
32:15Original paint to the interior.
32:18Fabulous thing.
32:20There's this wonderful, incredibly original corner cupboard.
32:24It's got all of the different types of decoration on this.
32:27It's got some carving to the front as well, which is highly unusual.
32:30The paint inside is original.
32:31Great thing.
32:32Likely from the early 18th century, this highly original cabinet dates from a period when British
32:39demand for Chinese and Japanese design was at its peak.
32:43A fascination fueled by extraordinary objects of art being brought over by European traders
32:49venturing east.
32:51Inspired by the design of what was called the Orient, this corner cabinet was made in England.
32:56A genre of furniture and design known as chinoiserie.
33:00In rare, untouched condition, Drew thinks it could be worth around £425.
33:10What's he asking?
33:12385.
33:12I'll give Martin a call on that one.
33:15Yeah, so there's just a few things wrong with it.
33:16The handle and the lock and then the hinge.
33:19But apart from that, it's good as gold.
33:20I just can't ignore it.
33:21It's just too nice.
33:23It's come down from 385 to 325.
33:30Always on the lookout for the unusual objects that create his eclectic look, Drew's with
33:39Vicky at a Dorset antique centre with unexpected style.
33:43Oh, this is nice.
33:45Excellent.
33:45Glad you like it.
33:46Yeah, I like it.
33:48And Drew's discovered an early Georgian chinoiserie cabinet with outstanding decoration and condition.
33:54It's come down from 385 to 325.
34:00Yeah, I'll take this one.
34:02Super.
34:02Brilliant.
34:02Thank you very much.
34:03That's great.
34:04Marvellous.
34:05The price is right.
34:06It's great.
34:08The originality really should sell this.
34:11It's fabulous.
34:12Yeah, this is my little bit of madness in here.
34:18Cool.
34:19It's all the stuff I'm not allowed to have at home.
34:22That's why we have a shop.
34:23Indeed.
34:24Buy it, enjoy it, try and make some money on it.
34:28Boys and their toys.
34:31The next thing we find is a wonderful little tin plate Porsche 356 convertible.
34:38It's a belter.
34:39It's in not bad condition.
34:41It's missing its tyres, missing the windscreen, and some of the sections on the inside where the batteries would go.
34:49But it does have the original Petri-type steering wheel on there and the gear change in there, right, which made the car go forwards and backwards.
34:57It's got all the original seats.
34:58It's got the original paint on it.
35:01This toy model dates from the early 1950s, a time when the original Porsche 356 had only just emerged.
35:09A compact sports car with groundbreaking engineering and dreamlike looks, which would help turn a battered post-war Europe towards a happier future.
35:19In extraordinary original condition and with a built-in joy factor, Drew thinks it could be worth around £150.
35:26I've made a schoolboy error there as well.
35:30I've left the old Diglett's price on.
35:32That's not one of my tags.
35:33Isn't it?
35:34Well, they were selling it for £49.
35:35Terrible error.
35:36Are you going to do 10% on it?
35:37Is it going to lose money?
35:38Pretty much, yeah.
35:39We've all been there, mate.
35:40But it's marked.
35:41It's got to be what it is, I guess.
35:42So, £45.
35:43Oh, that was reluctant.
35:44I know.
35:45Live by my mistakes.
35:46It's just a really early model.
35:47And I think this model is called the Daman, so it was made for ladies to drive a particular model.
35:53That's an absolute belter.
35:54Ooh.
35:55Are you happy?
35:56I'm very happy, yeah.
35:57That was my reaction when it came in.
35:58What a thing.
35:59What a thing.
36:00What a thing.
36:01That is bargain of the day, to be perfectly honest with you.
36:03So, he's got his money back, and I've got something really rather wonderful.
36:08We've got something very good, Paul to go in the next one.
36:11He's coming in with a new car.
36:13You're in the next one.
36:15It's not a new car, but it's a new car.
36:18of the day to be perfectly honest with you so he's got his money back and I've
36:22got something really rather wonderful to the people who know there's nothing to
36:27this little sign but it's quite fun could you do me a bit on that yeah I'm
36:31sure we could 45 do 35 on it how about that I'll take that yeah super yeah
36:39thank you I think what's quite tricky nowadays with a lot of these tin signs
36:47or enamel signs is they're so well faked and aged that from a distance sometimes
36:54you can't even tell pick it up and have a good look at it and a good feel don't
36:59ever buy anything like that without actually looking and touching it I really
37:05like these I've never seen them that shape or size make a bit of room for you
37:10I just think they're a great shape it's a scale for me what do you think I think they're fab
37:23really really nice right now I'm not in the market for buying chemist bottles I've got
37:29quite a lot in the shop just now but I could not walk past those big ones the scale the size the
37:37presence of them just made me go yeah we'll have a wee pun at them seven there I could do 200 on the
37:47set it's just under 30 pound each 200 for the lot 200 for the lot yeah perfect thank you no problem I
37:56love them just one of them sitting on a table with some flowers in it will look amazing we don't need
38:04to have them all set up together like some chemist's ball display we'll have just one on a table and it'll
38:11look fantastic it doesn't get any better than this does it the fantastic antique center I've bought some
38:19really good stuff at good prices met Andy and Sally two amazing people there's really not much more that I
38:28could ask for for a day to be quite honest a really really good day here today I love it when somebody
38:36takes something on and really goes for it and gives it the absolute best shot and that's what the guys here
38:41have done they're excited about what they're doing they've got a very very good location it can only get
38:48better a good day was had by all yeah all that antique center needs it's a cake shop a cafe yeah yeah good
39:00coffee that'll do me cake there's good stuff there there's good stuff I like them yeah nice people
39:06back at the shop in Edinburgh Vicky's working with photographer Andrew Ansell to showcase the pieces
39:15she bought from Pasco in Whitstable I'm going to have to hover the inside of this out so it might be
39:22quite fun if I'm just inside it moving okay because we you know how we're trying to get something that
39:34looks fun yeah but not cheesy and fake right right well if we're if we're gonna do it you may as well
39:48just put the attachment on the end so it looks like you're hoovering it otherwise you're just standing
39:52holding a hose like this yes how's that the way we shop nowadays is a lot on our phones on our laptops
40:08and you literally get a split second to get a potential customer a potential client's attention
40:17and what I found is that if I'm in a photograph with an item right off the bat within a second
40:28you can tell the size of an object if there's a person in that photograph actually I quite like that
40:35that's quite cool actually you can definitely see the size of the basket yes definitely Vicky for scale
40:42it's great fun when Andrew comes in he used to photograph the archives up at the museum he's done
40:49photography across the board but when he comes in with me all we have to do is think about how we use
40:58me and photographs and also how we get a consistency across the board for the website so these weren't
41:06candlesticks but somebody's obviously been using them as candlesticks so what I thought I bought
41:16these now you know I don't normally do stuff like this but I wondered if we let them yeah well we'll
41:26see we try it yeah okay you know it is not natural for me to be in front of the camera getting photographed
41:36so I sort of force myself to do it and when I've got somebody like Andrew and who we get all great I hope
41:42that the fun that we have is reflected in the photographs that I get to put up on social media
41:48because at the end of the day life is way too short to do this really seriously and without a bit of fun
41:54okay on the count of three just lean in and blow it out gently okay okay one two three
42:00excellent if you have poor photography customers don't trust what you're doing for a little bit
42:09extra effort and a little bit extra money do you know what it's way better getting somebody in to
42:15do it that's quite fun actually it is good I think that's quite good because it totally shows the size
42:20of the candlesticks it does and the painting right right um so you can do the close-up to that you
42:26don't need me anymore yeah yeah you're you're good to go good good with the new pieces finding their
42:32place among Vicky's eclectic collection it's been another successful week of buying it's all about the
42:38people and it's about who we meet and Pasco at Wareham's he's got the perfect setup you know he lives
42:46above his shop and he's living his best life in a wonderful little seaside town and I picked up those
42:54ecclesiastical candlesticks great quality fantastic lovely little find Station Road Antique Centre was
43:03actually quite an eye-opener for me because they've taken what used to be slightly old-fashioned
43:10and really given it a a real good modern commercial twist and I ended up buying that wonderful set of
43:19large chemist bottles which individually look fantastic but all together are just perfect we
43:28always have bread and butter items that come in and out the shop that we know is going to come in and
43:32go out and sell but you have to drop in little individual quirky bits that just puts your stamp
43:41on what you're offering is and this week it's been perfect for that
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