Salvage Hunters Season 20 Episode 12

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Salvage Hunters Season 20 Episode 12  #RealityRealmUS Reality Realm US

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00:00on all new salvage hunters with almost 60 years combined experience three leading antique and

00:08salvage dealers adjoining forces from West Wales country house connoisseur Alistair

00:14driver loves the traditional sorry I know as it's nice Welsh it's handsome I'm having settle

00:20don't try to sell it to me I'm not trying to sell it you Edinburgh-based dealer Vicky Knott

00:24has an incredible eye for interiors I just think ever easy I just think that's brilliant in London

00:32she can you much here is a devotee of retro design and industrial salvage sourced from all over Europe

00:39these were made by gents of Leicester and it's a general post office one while his brother Jay

00:44restores items back to life there's nothing to rust nothing to go wrong and that's why these last

00:51forever together they're traveling the country on the hunt for the very best antiques and decorative

00:58salvage this time Shere Khan and Jay are treated to a joyride while searching for rare military items

01:12at a World War II museum what year is this one 1943 it's a real bow set you know isn't it yeah

01:19at a Yorkshire textile mill Shere Khan and Vicky can't contain their excitement this is Buffalo

01:27hide it was used because it's three times the thickness of cowhide and at a silversmith's

01:34factory Vicky and Shere Khan are working against the clock they still punch in and out with the

01:39old clock that'd be no good to us wouldn't it Vicky we'd be in trouble constantly based in Edinburgh

01:50Vicky Knott runs a thriving antique shop filled with vintage furniture decorative items and artwork when it

01:57comes to sourcing new stock top of the list are unusual and hard to find items that are rarely

02:03available to the public as a dealer there's lots of different places you can go and buy you can go

02:09to fairs you can go to other dealers you can go to auction houses but for me personally it's getting

02:16the invite into places where nobody else has been and then you can pick up items that I've never seen

02:24another dealer's hands and that's what we want in a search for fresh items new to the market Vicky is

02:34heading to West Yorkshire and a place with a strong connection to the area's industrial past today she's

02:41joined by North London dealer Shere Khan Yamatya he specializes in furniture and lighting salvaged from

02:47old factories so today's location could be an ideal hunting ground we're in Leeds it's an old mill and it

02:57might be up your street because they've done quite a bit of work to the place but they've still got a

03:04couple of buildings that they've not stripped out so we're hoping there's our original pieces from the

03:10mills working days this is very different from me Vicky usually it's me and my brother you've got

03:18your way of trade enough we've got our way of trade so yeah I'm up to learn the only thing is I'm

03:23worried because you've been separated from your brother are you going to be able to cope I will

03:29cope don't worry and look you're driving so I like to be driven around he always drives me around I feel

03:35like I'm driving the queen about Leeds is known as the city built on wall at the peak of production

03:44it's mighty mechanized mills were the largest in the world today the city's great heritage is being

03:51carefully preserved at sunny bank mills which after almost two centuries has been turned into a museum

03:57alongside an arts culture and business center by the sixth generation of its founding family John

04:04Gaunt Sonny Bank mills was started in 1829 by my namesake John Gaunt we've been manufacturing from

04:121829 all the way through to 2008 we bought the raw wool and we processed into yarn and then wove it into

04:19cloth and sold all around the world Sonny Bank mills is one of the last complete mills in the area so we

04:25feel incredibly important to keep the buildings preserved and enhanced for future generations to

04:31celebrate and explore there are areas where we have things that's a surplus to the museum and

04:37archives requirements really and I'd just love some of those to get a good home and be regenerated and

04:42be enjoyed by a whole new audience hiya hi there welcome to sunny bank mills I'm Vicki hi John John

04:49let's go to the archive and have a good look at the history outside of that just looks amazing I

04:56think the thing about old mills especially is they were such an integral part of communities it seems

05:03such a shame when they don't get used anymore and it's lovely to find one that hasn't been ripped apart

05:09and turned into flats welcome to the sunny bank mills museum and archive wow this houses 150 years of

05:20the mills history shows every design made every piece of cloth made since 1829 till 2008 it's got

05:27harder and harder in England to find places like this but this is what I do on a daily I'd go into

05:32workshops factories and just go through the rust and the dust and and just find extraordinary quality

05:39items that have just been forgotten it's interesting going out buying with somebody like Shia Khan who's

05:46got quite a niche that he's strong in you know he buys lighting he buys clocks sort of man stuff so I

05:53think I'll be able to pick up a few you know hints and tips off them so this is a museum which is actually

05:59open to the public that's right Vicky yeah you can come and come visit it but also it's a space where

06:04you can come and work whether it's jewelry you can come and learn to weave and they make beer here

06:09there's a gin distillery it's okay we're not making cloth anymore but we're still making great things and

06:13other people are making great things when I was walking in I saw the they're called looms yeah my

06:19surname actually in an old Turkish ship you much is is the guy who does the weaving oh so you'll feel at

06:25home here yeah well I've got the name holes in the floor so just be careful as you go up it's the

06:34oldest building in the hall mill or even the stairs feel hundreds of years of hobnail boots on these

06:39stairs so this is the mechanic shop everything in here is up for grabs is it yeah well yeah anything

06:47it's old and brown and dusty okay what about the baskets the whole mill was full of these wicked

06:56baskets I mean that's quite a nice one and I'm assuming the numbers are just kind of batch numbers

07:03batch numbers of the of the world of fiber yeah yeah any big wicker basket is a good and it's a quick

07:10seller and the fact that they're a good size they've got lovely writing on them good color and

07:17the best thing is they hide mess and clutter and every single parent on the planet wants them kicking

07:25about the house a basket with a lid it's called a skep a skep yeah yeah and a basket without a lid

07:32it's called a skip oh and that's where the name skip comes from keeping skip yeah oh really yeah

07:37so well these are skeps yeah skip and in textile world they are what are you thinking that you

07:42want for them I'm open to fair offers shall we say 60 quid each yeah I'll be happy with that yeah

07:50right good come a long way perfect so what in here I'm looking at one two three four yeah that's

07:552.40 for them that sounds like a fun brilliant thank you brilliant love them they are actually

08:01from this mill and there's some history to them and there's a provenance as well which makes them

08:08slightly more desirable can I get a wee looky at this table yeah that's a nice bit can we just take

08:17everything that that is a nice table very nice table John what would this have originally been

08:24used for that was probably used to store cloth on just so you didn't have to bend down so low it is

08:30an absolute belter of a table it's fabulous the thing with something like that is you can get all

08:36excited when you first see it being revealed but you need to get it out and you need to get it properly

08:42looked at that is amazing and yeah it was just as good as I hoped it would be I'm trying to work

08:49out whether it's nice it's had some type of papered finish on it looks so nice doesn't it to prepare you

08:56know to like sort of protect the cloth from the wood and it's just sort of worn stop the splinters

09:02and things yeah exactly it's a good thing it is what'd you want for it a good home yeah we'd find a

09:10good home for it yeah I mean it's a heavy bit of kit it's quite substantial isn't it yeah I was

09:16thinking 300. Vicky and Shere Khan are in Leeds visiting a vast form of woolen mill looking at one, two, three, four so that's 240 for them

09:33that sounds like a fun brilliant thank you and Vicky is handling over a work table filled with industrial

09:39history it's a good thing it is what'd you want for it I was thinking 300 300 quid done mine thank you

09:48perfect that's a star boy there Vicky really is I don't know how you managed to spot that that is

09:54I swear I'm I'm surprised I didn't spot it it's really well made it's been beautifully used it's

10:01got fabulous wear on it it used to be used to put cloth on but now it's going to be a coffee table

10:09and it's just perfect you know these things what are these made of it looks like human skin yeah

10:16that's what I was going to say I was going to say lever or like you know lever or goat skin or

10:21something this is this is buffalo hide oh wow and buffalo hide is is used because it's three times

10:27the thickness of cowhide okay much stronger much more solid and these are original Victorian earlier we

10:35use all over the mill when John actually said to us they're the buffalo hides kind of like changed it

10:41all around and they're so nice the ones I like they were the black leather so they've been painted

10:47in black they've got numbers on them they've gone hard even parts of it they've rolled at the bottom

10:51they're just absolutely just amazing give me an idea what you'd want for each one 20 quid 20 20

11:01quid a pop 25 I tell you what if you make it do 25 and we'll both I'll take 10 I'll take 10 of them

11:09yeah yeah I might as well definitely that's yeah that's all right yeah 25 quid brilliant thank you

11:15that's a touch they are just so tactile and useful and beautiful just now they're a little bit

11:24thank you but you know once they're cleaned up they'll photograph great they're brilliant

11:29oh wait a minute what about this is this your bag I would go for them yeah so Benjamin was and

11:37it's nice that they've still got their sign on there you are Benjamins they're a British made

11:41company they used to produce these amazing industrial lights yeah usually they come in green or gray

11:47period wise those Benjamins they're between 1930s and 1950s but the white color is is the rarer one

11:54and white color in such condition is is quite rare as well 120 for the free

12:01I'm happy with that yeah okay in the right place they look yeah they're angled ones like shop front so

12:10when someone looks from the window you've got those lights hanging then the light is showing you the

12:14inside of the shop it's good they look absolutely amazing but yeah there'll be quick turnaround nice

12:20bit of profit in them as well so you'll just get them cleaned up that's it clean we wired and that's it

12:26bulb holder yeah bulb holder bit of work but great brilliant elbow grease Vicky bit of elbow grease

12:32oh god I hate it hate it what's cool being out with Shia Khan today is that you know while we're even

12:39just talking about these three Benjamin lamps I'm learning something you know I'm learning what work

12:45needs done to them how he can turn them around to make a bit of profit out of them and what's the

12:51most interesting thing for me is I know how much he'll now pay for them you seen everything Vicky I

12:57think so yeah one for everything yep you want a cup of tea yeah let's have a bit of Darjeeling now

13:02all of this is an education I've learned about the mill today I've learned stuff from Vicky today I've

13:09seen her decorative eye and amazing to be able to see such a beautiful building and find such beautiful

13:14pieces I've had such a laugh today with Shia Khan honestly we've filled our boots we're making money

13:20we're having a laugh we've been at a really cool interesting place I've got an amazing old table

13:28you know baskets it's just been fantastic from start to finish

13:32done done all done all right John thank you very much for everything today thank you John

13:39that was brilliant really enjoyed that I hope you got something good absolutely yeah thanks a lot

13:43thank you very much it's been a very good day yeah take care bye

13:45happy yeah yeah yeah the buffalo hide oh yeah buffalo hide containers I mean the more you look at them the

13:54more special they seem don't they well I'll tell you what I noticed about them as well is every single

13:59one was different yeah they're gonna go really well yeah when you go into places like this you've got

14:05to like just see through all the dirt and the dust and and just find like like I mean credit to you

14:10that table honestly Vicky that that table it's just one of those pieces you know yeah I think we've

14:18done well today vans full we've got a bit of profit on the back there you go with a van full of great

14:26industrial finds Vicky and Shia Khan are keen to find more rare and unusual items that no other

14:31dealers have in stock they're heading south towards Birmingham and a business that's been run by the

14:37same family for generations where are we off to Vicky so we're so I just coming in at Birmingham okay and

14:44we're gonna head to WB Broadway they are old-school silversmiths silver bullion I have no idea we will

14:54find out that perked your attention sounds a bit of me yeah it's a bit of me apparently they still

15:00manufacture solid silver items in the traditional way okay they've got a few bits and pieces to clear

15:09so lovely I thought it'd be worth a punt nice for more than 250 years Birmingham's jewelry quarter has

15:18been renowned for its gold and silversmiths that legacy lives on at Broadway silver where intricate

15:24silver items are manufactured by hand from start to finish from raw materials to the final product

15:29Christian Broadway is the fourth generation of his family to run the business

15:34my great-great-grandfather formed the business in 1901 we are manufacturing silversmiths which means

15:45we make beautiful products out of sterling silver just solid silver and we make things like drinksware

15:52christening gifts photo frames decanters anything really in sterling silver it is getting harder to

16:00find the skilled labor to manufacture the beautiful items that we make some of them have been here for

16:0540 plus years and they are skilled craftsmen and women there's a lot of stuff that we don't use

16:13stalls cabinets and it would be nice to meet the dealers and see where it goes

16:19morning hiya I'm Vicki hi Vicki I'm Christian hi Christian I'm Christian nice to meet nice to meet you so we

16:28are manufacturing silversmiths well make beautiful things out of sterling silver here's just a few

16:35examples yeah absolutely these are little baby girls Christian airbrushes things like photo frames and

16:41we make it all here on site and like from the hallmark they can tell the carer yourselves that

16:48would identify you as the silversmith that made exactly yeah it's a sign of quality as dealers we're

16:55always looking for items which we wouldn't normally see on our day-to-day outings to buy stock and

17:01factories warehouses manufacturers that's where you can find it and you've always have to keep your eye

17:09open because something that the owner might not rate or might not think it's of any value you might be able to

17:17just take it move it clean it put it in a different environment and all of a sudden you've got a really

17:23good decorative item so as you can see the they still punch in and out with the old clock it's used

17:30every day everybody that works here still they'll punch in that'd be no good to us would it Ricky

17:40we've been in trouble constantly time we get in at work it's nice though isn't it yeah there's no way

17:47we're getting one of them no no no chance can i just ask about this yeah god it's a classic

17:56i've got a few of those they were used predominantly for the spinning and there's some larger ones that

18:05were used for what we do is engine turning but i guess 1900 something like that are they as old as that

18:10there is some age to them they're done properly are you keeping them do you use no we don't use them

18:18no so if i said to you 65 for the shorter ones 70 for the higher ones would you would that be okay

18:24fabulous okay yeah i'd be happy with it fantastic so as soon as i walk in right there on the floor

18:31there's a three-legged stool you know the the legs have been fitted properly the top beautifully aged

18:38they're very sellable people always want them and when you got like a nice bunch of them they become

18:44even more easier to sell these early 20th century stools are typical of the kind found in cities

18:50associated with jewelry metalworking such as birmingham this collection of seven are in need of restoration

18:55but once complete shir khan thinks the small ones could be worth around 175 pounds each

19:01and the larger ones around 195 pounds each

19:09talk to me about these trees because you you've got absolutely masses and stacks of them

19:16they're just carrying trays we're using for decanters to cart stuff around the factory so you're

19:21still using them yeah absolutely so they've got metal trees they're all metal underneath so they're all

19:27metal and why do they have metal bases some of the decanters can be quite heavy to carry around okay

19:33it was just really for strength and durability yeah i've spotted these trays all around this factory

19:41individually they're of some commercial value but see stacked together in a pile they just look

19:51really cool and i thought you know what i want a stack of them do you want to sell some of these

19:56yeah i'm happy to sell these and how much would you want for them age

20:05i don't know i don't know um 10. a 10 or each

20:11hmm and how many can you let go 10 10 would you sell me 25 at a tenner each

20:30in birmingham's jewelry quarter shir khan and vicky are visiting a family-run

20:34century-old silversmith factory where on the hunt for exciting new stock vicky has spotted a stack of

20:41trays steeped in the history of silver craft would you sell me 25 at a tenner each

20:53yeah done fabulous thank you you're talking about a pile of 19th century jeweler's trees

21:04that have been used and worked and have a real history to them and when you stack them in a pile

21:11of 25 in the middle of a big kind of industrial space and you take a photograph of them they are

21:19going to look amazing we move on now to the stamp shop where we press stuff stamp it um it's quite an

21:26interesting process what tony was doing over here he's doing some ladies mirrors

21:30whoa and he'll just make sure he's got the right exact position and now he starts putting the silver

21:38in it's what we're doing we're drafting it down look he goes gently gently and he can start putting

21:45some more force in it now oh so he has to keep working it yeah you just don't do it in one hour

21:54work it work it work it work it work it see it's taking shape

21:57and that's the stamp i am literally watching somebody make a mirror bag from pressed silver

22:09which is the same as one that i've bought and sold that was made a hundred years ago it's the same die

22:17it's the same process and that blows my mind so this is where we press some of the tools out some of

22:24the um the circles the blanks the wine labels all that type of stuff and do you use all these dies

22:32some of them no we don't be quite fun aren't they brandy whiskey these metal stamps or dies we use to

22:42make decorative decanter tanks in pewter metal or even silver they evoke an era in british history

22:47when serving wines and spirits in cut glass decanters rather than bottles was considered a mark of

22:53refinement highly decorative and very collectible vicky thinks they could be worth around 30 pounds each

23:02how much would you need for each of them i suppose if i've got doubles of them

23:06i'd be willing to let them go for i don't know tenner each tenner each if you want to take some

23:15time yeah go through what what you've got for doubles and i'll take what i can for a tenner a bit

23:23fabulous that okay yeah brilliant that's great thank you we've all seen them we've seen the little

23:30plates that you hang around the neck of a decanter so you know what drinks inside it and these are the

23:35dies from them and i think they're quite cute and they're interesting enough to have them sitting

23:41on your desk or on a shelf and it's just as simple as that you know what i think we need to get the

23:46van loaded yep we'll sort out some money thank you we'll get that sorted we'll do a cup of tea as well

23:52vicky you always wanted tea today's been a little bit of a walk down memory lane for me because when i was

24:01younger and my kids were young i used to buy and sell lots of silver purely because i knew that if

24:08my toddlers were running about if they picked it up they wouldn't break it it was more from a practical

24:13sense than anything and i've always been able to handle it and appreciate it and enjoy it but today

24:21what i've been able to do is actually come to a factory to a manufacturer who's making items today

24:31that was made a hundred years ago and for me that is that's worth its weight in gold today's been a joy

24:40it's a mix of a big industrial factory lots of silver all over the place you know precious metals

24:46i love a precious metal so um had an amazing day today the stalls they'll be cleaned they'll be

24:53waxed they'll go straight to the market with me on the weekend probably most of them will sell the

24:58ones that don't sell will go on the website and they won't take long to sell either

25:04christian was a nice guy in it he was great he was really nice guy you know what i find every time

25:10you meet somebody different somebody new you learn more and more and it's just fantastic and did you

25:18hear they can't get staff yeah honestly it bamboozles me that they can't get young kids in there to like

25:26learn these crafts these skills because can you imagine if they don't replace the old boys yeah how are

25:35these skills ever going to be taken forward exactly it's been a successful trip with a haul of items

25:44coming direct from their source ready to find new homes keen to get his finds ready for sale shere khan

25:51heads back to london and the shop he runs with brother jay the factory lights from yorkshire are a

25:58perfect addition to their stock of industrial salvage and vintage furniture but first they need some serious

26:03tlc in jay's workshop finding three the same it's a good find and although they've been used these

26:14ones are in really good nick like the enamel hasn't chipped uh normally we find them with the whole back

26:21or the side the enamels are missing but these ones are all in good nick and what's really good is they're

26:27by a company called benjamin and two of them have still got their original tags first jay carefully

26:34removes the maker's label before he starts to strip the light down removing the bulb holder to check all

26:40the parts are intact and there it is baker light brass copper porcelain there's nothing to rust nothing to go

26:52wrong and that's why these last forever you know they were built to last this all stays original so

26:58we're just going to put an adapter in there so you can put a normal light bulb in

27:04using a chemical stripping agent jay removes the old paint from the upper section of the light

27:10known as the gallery i like doing this it's calming i don't know i enjoy it i don't like doing dishes

27:18though that's what dishwasher was invented for next jay cuts a length of threaded tube to size

27:27so he can attach the gallery to a new ceiling hook that goes in there

27:34that goes in there to hold it the tubular rod i've cut that goes in through there so i'm going to tighten

27:44that onto that so it's going to hold the gallery a new electrical cord is added before jay removes decades

27:56of dirt from the enamel shade with a homebrew mixture of metallated spirits sugar soap and vinegar

28:02right now i'm putting the guts of the light back together

28:16great design simple design the weights all out it's like amazing he then secures the cleaned

28:23shade and bulb holder to the new hook there we go that's in and from here you just tighten it up

28:32so that stops the hooks from anyone pushing it and releasing the catch on there the last thing you

28:41want is a big benjamin falling on your head before reattaching the all-important maker's label

28:49you will never know jobs are good it's all done now let's see if it works

28:55i'm really happy to come out really nice now two more to go the restored lights will soon be ready

29:07for sale with the added value of being sourced direct from their original industrial setting

29:15but for shirkan and jay the search for fresh new stock never ends

29:19and today they're heading north where they've been invited along to an incredible military

29:24collection of items that are rarely up for sale so we're in cambridge here we are going to

29:33bottisham airfield museum we're going to meet jason who's invited us to come and have a look around

29:39this museum this airfield was actually actively used in world war ii had american and british air

29:47force on there at its peak it had 70 planes and 2 000 personnel on this site wow what would be an

29:58absolute find would be some ministry of defense used angle poses oh i mean that's just a dream i'm just

30:05hoping like nice posters yeah like war posters yeah those kind of yeah yeah well you know just like

30:12those public awareness awareness posters some of the graphics on those are absolutely amazing so

30:17yeah any of these things could be there so hopefully we we find some some great stuff

30:26for much of its history bottisham's main features were those of any typical english village

30:31including a pub and a parish church but in 1940 during the early stages of the second world war

30:38a grass airfield was built on agricultural land heralding the arrival of the raf and the mustang

30:44fighter planes of the u.s air force closed down after the war the base has since been turned into a

30:52museum boasting a huge collection of military planes and aviation artifacts a project managed by jason webb

31:01bautisham was a world war ii airfield very busy initially with the raf before moving to the american

31:08air force the airfield closed in 1946 and then the museum really came about from me meeting the americans

31:16at a reunion in 1995. meeting them very much inspired me and the museum started in 2009 and then it's really

31:24got to where it is today we've invited the guys down today really because at the moment we're in a big

31:29fundraising campaign so there are some items within the museum we're willing to sell if we can help

31:34us raise those valuable funds that make sure this museum survives for future generations

31:40hi jason you're all jason shikhan welcome to bartisham airfield museum jay how you doing thanks for

31:46coming this place looks absolutely amazing the jeep i love the team beautiful our dad used to drive

31:52because he was a driver in the air force in turkey because he used to pick up the american pilots as they

31:56landed this jeep would have done exactly the same thing but in 1944 so should we have a look through

32:01yeah let me show you let's go follow me jason you know he looks after the place he's built up the

32:08place and it's turned into a bit of an obsession for him and anyone who's got the enthusiasm to do

32:13something like this they invite you it's always worth coming to have a look so welcome to our original

32:19buildings look at this so in terms of what was being done here there were air force boys going up

32:26and actually engaging enemy and and they were being controlled or helped from here from here

32:31yeah the squadron would have been keeping an eye on what they were doing they were flying fighter

32:35escort missions into germany into france holland and this was the sort of control center this room

32:40that's that's amazing this is the pilots ready room wow where in 1944 the pilots would have

32:49been gathered they'd have been briefed about what missions they were undertaking that day

32:52and really just waited to go out flying so if you can imagine the tension in this room in wartime

32:58been quite incredible those original guns i'm assuming yeah these original 50 caliber machine guns that

33:03would have been fitted to a p-47 thunderbolt wow so four in each wing and this is incredibly rare set

33:09complete set of those guns from one aircraft that crashed down in essex i've read about the spitfire and

33:16hurricane like on spitfire like if you kept the finger on it so that's 60 seconds and yeah you're

33:22out about 40 between 40 and 60 seconds so they had to learn how to do one two three yeah one two three

33:27yeah yeah people glorified the spitfire spitfire was a good plane but it was only back home like the

33:34mustang and the hurricane done most of the damage abroad yeah this really took the war to the germans on

33:38their own front door i'm quite surprised my brother he's got a little bit of knowledge about these

33:43airplanes um it's coming out about hurricanes and and spitfires and yeah don't know where you got

33:50all that information from it's a bit of a surprise when i was 12 went to binging hill show and there

33:56was a hurricane and a spitfire there and then as soon as the engines went on it was something just took

34:04over me and since then i've just loved it so careful mate careful it's gonna pay for them yeah if you

34:12break it you buy it you know the rules that's a Rolls-Royce engine post-war so it's one of the things

34:19that um is actually not so much pertinent to ourselves they're great display pieces there's

34:25these really nice posters they're a standout piece you've got them framed up they all look amazing

34:30if someone asked me the question who are your customers if i showed them that picture that

34:36would give you an idea my customers will go for those every single day of the week do you have

34:40an idea what you want for these um 15 yeah i'll give you 50 for the free yeah yeah done okay thank

34:49you those are done should we carry on sure follow me oh wow look at that so a lot of guys were issued

34:57with these you were able to look up very quickly what sort of aircraft you were dealing with you'd

35:02be able to look at the silhouettes the profiles wow and if there was a german plane and they could

35:06recognize it from the shadows from the silhouette of it yeah they played a really important part yeah

35:10they're all observer corps who were based dotted around london and really reported back what was

35:16happening in terms of german missions etc known as the eyes and ears of the raf the royal observer

35:24corps played a key role in the second world war detecting identifying and tracking enemy aircraft

35:31members used picture cards to memorize plane silhouettes and relayed information on the numbers

35:36and types of german aircraft during the blitz and the battle of britain this pocket-sized reminder

35:42of britain's finest hour carries huge historical significance and could be worth around 150 pounds

35:51growing up in london we were always told about these brave men just normal men like you and me

35:58that would go up onto roofs and using these recognition cards to see if that's a german plane

36:05or if it's a british plane that was their guide that's all they had i'm assuming something like that

36:09wouldn't be for sale potentially we might have another one of those so we might there might be

36:14some duplication that's from 1941 i think and what would you ask for an original one of these um

36:21we're probably looking around to the 50.

36:32in cambridgeshire shir khan and jay are visiting a second world war aviation museum

36:37on the hunt for rare fresh to market items yeah i'll give you 50 for the free yeah yeah done go thank

36:43you shir khan is negotiating a deal on a remarkable wartime survivor a book used to spot enemy planes

36:50during the battle of britain that's from 1941 i think if i shook your hand at 50 would you sell that

36:57one to me no really good bit of history it is it's fantastic i'm very happy with that what about

37:05something like this oh folds out there's a whole be careful to wanna yes don't want to cause any more

37:13damage oh wow okay

37:19is this something you'd be interested in selling yeah we've got another one of those so yeah i think

37:23we could probably part with that what were you asking for this 25.

37:2825. thank you no pleasure thank you very much very nice that will be nicely framed in a double

37:37so it'd be like a double frame so it would be glass on both sides and then someone will be able to look

37:45on both sides of it they'll you know they'll be able to switch it from that side yeah to that side

37:50that's really nice that is a lovely thing that is just a standalone it's it's decorative it's beautiful but

37:57the history behind it you know you you can't replace that so the customer of that suddenly

38:04changes it doesn't necessarily have to be someone that wants to just display it you know the customer

38:09could be someone who's got a you know avid interest in world war ii again that's a customer so the more

38:16avenues of sales you've got the better and uh follow me into the hangar oh my god

38:22wow look at that good god look at that so you've got a p51 mustang which was the main fighter type

38:31based at mottisham it came from the improvement museum at duxford they no longer needed it

38:37and we restored it and repainted it and put it back here where she belongs there's this amazing big

38:44hangar and i didn't realize they've got a full-on mustang aircraft in there what an amazing beast of a

38:53machine but if you can imagine sitting in there for seven hours at a time flying an escort mission

39:01into germany wow 1940s chairs these are actually very handsome chairs yeah the problem is obviously the

39:11levers worn out had to look around the hangar it's got some nice museum pieces in there then he has

39:18these two really nice club chairs they're like a fake leather vinyl seats and someone has decided to

39:24re-upholster the cushions with like a fabric but they're handsome things they are nice club chairs they

39:31are surplus to requirements what's your thoughts my thoughts are they are nice they're very nice what were

39:38you thinking on them jason probably about a hundred pounds the pair maybe i was i was thinking 80 pounds

39:46yeah we'd do 80. yeah yeah okay

39:51thank you yep i think the best thing on these we'll just we'll just clean them i'll just clean them leave

39:55it as it is yeah leave it is very hard to find that original vinyl and then to make it look aged so

40:04they'll probably sell to someone who's gonna do that upholstery yeah i think this is the last

40:09place now jason yeah i think we should have seen everything fantastic okay let's get the van packed

40:14before you go can i offer you a ride in our jeep oh that would be great that would that would be

40:19amazing grand yeah yeah fantastic oh even the sound of is so nice my father he served on an american

40:33airbase in turkey and my father always says the first two words that he learned in english were

40:39follow me and the reason for that was because on the back of his jeep he had written follow me and

40:44the the pilot that had land would follow him so that my father would take him to where the plane

40:48was going to park there probably would have been about 50 of these jeeps on this airfield what year

40:53is this one 1943. wow and it's still kicking oh yeah

41:00it's a real bow shaker though isn't it

41:07jason thank you very much to him he's sold us some

41:10really historical pieces some amazing pieces that we too are going to sell on to people that

41:15are going to really treasure them and coming to places like this jason his name his details will

41:20go into a black book he may find stuff that we will be interested in again and we might find stuff

41:27that he will be interested in getting up next to the mustang being able to touch it and just the

41:34pure glory of it just being next to it and then you see the cockpit it was awesome much appreciated

41:41it was an incredible day today thank you very much for showing us around absolute pleasure it was

41:47lovely it was an honor thank you thank you guys see you again soon i found it a lot of fun today

41:53yeah i am sorry to see some of the bits go but that money is going to help us secure the long-term

41:58future of the museum that was a good day jason's a great guy isn't it jason was a great guy

42:06and i had a lot of fun yeah i didn't know that you uh had a bit of a penchant for

42:12world war ii i don't need to tell you everything it's not that you need to tell me you don't need

42:18to tell me but you just proved you don't know everything i know more than you on world war

42:25two planes on world war ii planes that will give you no benefit in your earning day to day of course

42:32it will of course it will how many times have you bought and sold a plane it's not about how many

42:38times have you bought and sold a plane i'm probably going to sell those and i don't need to know about

42:43planes to sell them i accept again i accept your apology you see how much better than you i am i just

42:48see the road it's time for the boys to head back to their north london shop armed with plenty of

42:56original items each with its own story to tell so another amazing week on the road uh both my brother

43:02and vicky sunnybank mill put some amazing things in there the white benjamin enamels my brother did an

43:10incredible job on those they just look perfect the buffalo hide containers i've never seen them before

43:17people that i sell to definitely haven't seen them before so this week goes to show you how important

43:24it is to be able to go into those places that other dealers other traders don't get access to follow

43:30me into the hangar god why because we get to find very interesting incredible pieces which are fresh to

43:38market they'll be the first time our customers see it they'll be the first time the trade sees it

43:43which make them ever so more desirable

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