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00:00Find the wheel of a classic car.
00:01Here we go.
00:02Woo-hoo-hoo!
00:03And a goal to scar Britain for Antiques.
00:06The aim?
00:07To make the biggest profit at auction.
00:09But it's no mean feat.
00:11There'll be worthy winners...
00:12I can't stop smiling!
00:14...and valiant losers.
00:15Right, I retire.
00:16Will it be the high road to glory?
00:17Oh, look at that!
00:20Or the slow road to disaster?
00:22Oh.
00:23Oh, dear.
00:24This is Antiques Road Trip.
00:28Yeah.
00:30Welcome to another Antiques Gallivant.
00:36Ooh!
00:38Now, we are in the company of greatness.
00:42I've got the money of the God.
00:43I've got the Donny.
00:45Hey, enough said.
00:49It's the fourth leg with snazzy auctioneers Phil Serrell and Tamina Gaffar.
00:54And their 1959 Ford Popular.
00:57So, I want to know, would you describe me as antique, mid-century, or vintage?
01:06Careful.
01:07I'm describing this timeless.
01:09I know what I'd say.
01:11Last time, Tamina found an unusual way to deal with Phil.
01:16To drive out demons, this would be driven into the ground.
01:20And found something squeaky.
01:23Hi, Val.
01:24While Phil was wowed.
01:271950s Julie Bacon.
01:28Oh, look at that.
01:30And broke the mould.
01:32This is going to dispel the myth that Philip Serrell buys big, lumpy, rusty stuff.
01:37But at the auction...
01:38This is halfway point.
01:40Phil's big, lumpy, rusty stuff came good.
01:43Selling at 65.
01:44I thought it might go sour on me.
01:47Oh.
01:47Selling at 55.
01:49Please, are you in it?
01:50Nicely done, Phil.
01:51Giving Phil his second auction triumph.
01:55So, next auction.
01:57What are you going to buy, Phil, with me?
01:59I think I might just go completely out of my comfort zone.
02:04See if there are any, like, bits of wood or metal.
02:09You know, the Phil Serrell tactics.
02:11Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:12Good luck.
02:14This tour kicked off in Liverpool and had a good old romp around Yorkshire and the Midlands.
02:20We'll then pop into Oxfordshire before ending in Cornwall.
02:25Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
02:26OK, Phil, stop rubbing it in.
02:29For this adventure, our revved-up road trippers will shop all the way to Sarencester in Glorestershire.
02:35Having dropped off his chum, we kick off with Philip in the Oxfordshire village of Wardington.
02:42Here he comes to scar this lovely establishment.
02:46Banbury Antique Centre is a one-stop shop for any snooping antiqueur.
02:53With a replenished budget of 200 smackers, let the hunt begin.
02:57See, I just love stuff like this.
03:02This is a great bit of social history.
03:04What do you reckon that is?
03:05So when you're in the army and you got cussed by your sergeant major because your tunic wasn't up to scratch,
03:11you would use this to polish the brass buttons on your tunic.
03:15Just like this, look.
03:16I wondered where my jacket had gone.
03:18Ha!
03:19You put that in there, get your cleaner out, polish your brass buttons,
03:23and this would stop the cleaner going all over your tunic.
03:28I mean, that's the mother of invention, isn't it?
03:30I mean, it's also 20 quid, which probably isn't dear.
03:33But you know what?
03:33I don't think I'm going to make a profit at auction with that.
03:37Keep looking, Philip.
03:38Lovely.
03:39But can I have my jacket back?
03:41Oh, look at that.
03:46So this is a Chad Valley Bagatelle board.
03:50And how do I know that?
03:51Because it says here, Chad Valley Bagatelle.
03:54Oh, sharp as a tack, Arcerol, eh?
03:57So, do you know what?
03:58This is incredibly ageing because I can remember things like this when I was a kid.
04:02I know, hard to believe.
04:03But what you do, look, you pull this little spring bag and it fires the little ball bearings.
04:08Oh, I've got 150.
04:10Hold on, I'll have another go at this.
04:11So, this is me, Don.
04:14I'm here for hours with this.
04:18If in doubt, cheat.
04:20Philip!
04:22Chad Valley was one of the UK's leading toy manufacturers for most of the 20th century
04:27and received a royal warrant in 1938.
04:30Don't you know?
04:32And the great thing about this is it's got the original box.
04:34If you're into games and toys, the original box is always a bit of a bonus.
04:37There's no price tag on it, but I like that.
04:40So, that, for me, is a definite possibility.
04:43It's taking part that is important in this.
04:46It's also all about the winning.
04:49Yep.
04:49Now, let's find Tamina.
04:52She's a little further south in the town of Bicester.
04:56Robinson's Antiques is one of the emporiums located here.
05:00Oh.
05:02Oh, I think it's in the back over there.
05:05Plunder aplenty, eh?
05:07£200 in Tamina's purse.
05:09Let's see what she can spend it on.
05:11Now, you often see lots of rounded Buddha figures,
05:21but this representation of Buddha that's most synonymous with Buddhism
05:26is actually not the original Buddha
05:29who was said to have been around from the 4th, 5th century BC.
05:33That Buddha was what's called Siddhartha Gautama.
05:36Now, this example of Buddha is a later representation,
05:40which is more synonymous with Chinese Buddhism.
05:43And it's a figure called Budai, also known as the laughing Buddha,
05:46sometimes the fat Buddha,
05:48was more prevalent in the 10th century.
05:51There are lots of lovely decorative figures here,
05:54but I'm not sure that they're going to be what I need at auction today.
05:59Very interesting, though.
06:01What else can we find?
06:02Oh, this is a really lovely mid-century unit.
06:08I think it's by a brand called Nathan.
06:10I mean, these were designed to be used.
06:11You still have the grooves to open the cabinet doors.
06:15And it's just so well considered when they were making these.
06:18I don't think they did so expecting them to last quite as long,
06:23but that consideration is just something we don't see in modern furniture nowadays.
06:27And the magnet mechanism still works.
06:30The hinges are good.
06:32It's in very nice condition.
06:34Nathan were the epitome of mid-century furniture.
06:38Offering affordable pieces,
06:39they followed the trend of Scandinavian design.
06:42I call this mid-century.
06:44And whilst you might think, you know, that's specifically the 1950s,
06:48the term mid-century has become more synonymous with this particular style.
06:56And so it could be from the 50s or 60s, maybe even the 1970s,
07:00but this is quintessential mid-century furniture.
07:04It's an unusual bit of furniture.
07:05We don't see many sort of modern corner units.
07:08Everyone still has corners.
07:09But it's not so large and obtrusive
07:12that people couldn't have it in their homes now.
07:15I've got a sticker here, and that says £45.
07:19You know, you can't really get many bits of furniture for £45 nowadays,
07:23let alone something with such lovely history.
07:25I'd love to take this to auction and see how it does.
07:28That's one for the shopping list, then.
07:30Back to Phil in Wardington.
07:32I'm going to try and be clever here.
07:37Oh, not again.
07:38I just want to try and buy a range of different things.
07:42And this is absolutely lovely.
07:43Look, this is hallmark silver in the shape of a clamshell,
07:47and it's a little butter dish, and it's got the little butter knife with it.
07:51Reed and Sons were founded in Newcastle in 1788
07:54and are still on the go today.
07:57And it's got this lovely little box.
07:59And these three, look at those lovely little ball feet.
08:03I mean, I wouldn't think this has ever been used.
08:05Do you know, Phil, I think you're absolutely right.
08:07Often these things were given as wedding presents,
08:10and the presentation cases both protect and preserve perfectly.
08:15So it's all on the tag here, look.
08:16It's hallmark silver, 1926.
08:19Now, that's priced at £55.
08:22That's going to make £30 to £40 at auction.
08:25So I'm going to be trying to buy it for around the £25 mark,
08:29which is a big ask.
08:30But you know what they say?
08:32If you don't ask, you don't get it.
08:34Very true.
08:36Sounds like a hot contender to me.
08:38Let's knit back to Bicester.
08:39I'm not sure what it is about this, I suppose, trinket dish.
08:49Captured my interest.
08:50It's quite a weighty object.
08:52Now, I mean, the tray is actually the figure's dress.
08:56And it's got this almost ginkgo leaf shape to it,
09:00which is really attractive.
09:01The ginkgo leaf was a popular Art Nouveau motif.
09:05The flowing fan shape was considered acceptably organic.
09:10Stylistically, I guess it would be sort of early 20th century.
09:14Now, what could someone use this for today?
09:16Well, it's a lovely trinket dish.
09:19It could hold all manner of small objects.
09:21But it's also a very decorative thing.
09:23Now, let's have a look here.
09:25It's priced at £45.
09:27Oh, gosh.
09:28I wonder if there's a little bit of movement on that price.
09:31I think someone else might find this as attractive as I do.
09:35And it might do OK at auction.
09:37Right.
09:38Let's chat to the man in charge.
09:40Look out.
09:41Ian, hi.
09:42Hi, Tamina.
09:43Now, I've found two lovely things.
09:46I've got this.
09:48And there's a mid-century corner cabinet.
09:51Do you have any movement on those?
09:53I'm sure I can do something for you, yeah.
09:55The corner unit, we could do £35.
09:57OK, lovely, yeah.
09:58Now, this one is the one where, well, the most you could move, please.
10:03Sure.
10:04Because it's the one I'm most unsure about at auction.
10:07As it's you.
10:08£25.
10:09That would be amazing.
10:11So, £35 and £25, that's £60.
10:14Wow.
10:15Good.
10:15Thank you very much.
10:18Ian, you are most kind.
10:20Tamina now has £140 left.
10:24We'll get a courier to take the corner unit
10:26to auction while we waltz to Wardington.
10:37Ceramic vase.
10:40Glass vase.
10:41Blimey, I don't understand that.
10:43Oh, that's interesting.
10:44Look at that.
10:46So, it says here it's a Meiji vase
10:49with Jean-Plevé enamel on bronze.
10:52So, it's a bronze vase.
10:53Meiji period is Japanese.
10:55I don't know the exact dates,
10:56but it's somewhere like 1890 through to about 1910, 1915.
11:01Close enough, Phil.
11:02So, this is a bronze vase.
11:04I actually don't think it's Japanese.
11:06I think it's probably more likely Chinese.
11:09Jean-Plevé is another term for this enamel band around here.
11:12Jean-Plevé in French means flat field,
11:14so when you rub your finger over the enamel,
11:17it is perfectly flat and smooth.
11:19The date's about right.
11:21It's back end of the 19th century in my book.
11:23Any price?
11:25It's priced at £30.
11:27So, there's a bit of damage here, you know,
11:28and that clearly isn't going to help it.
11:30It's got a look, hasn't it?
11:32Yeah?
11:33Come on, let's have a go with that.
11:35He's also got designs
11:36on the unpriced bagatelle game
11:39and the butter dish for £55.
11:41Stand by.
11:42Peter, how are you?
11:43I'm very well, sir.
11:45Yourself?
11:46Yeah, I've enjoyed coming here.
11:47You have some lovely, lovely things.
11:49That's quite kind.
11:50Brace yourself.
11:51Phil's got a figure in mind for all three.
11:54What about a £50 look?
11:56OK, I would settle at £65.
11:58Can I do your £55?
12:01And that's going to hopefully show me a profit at auction.
12:04Well, let me just...
12:05£50 and £5.
12:07I'll take me pot.
12:08I'll show your hand first.
12:10Pleasure to see you.
12:11I've enjoyed it.
12:12I'll take me pot
12:13and I'll go and pick me other two bits up.
12:15Peter, you are a very, very kind man.
12:18That breaks down to £15 for the bagatelle,
12:21£25 for the silver butter dish
12:23and £15 for the vase,
12:25leaving Phil with £145.
12:28Well done.
12:30Together again,
12:31our chums are back in the mighty motor.
12:35It's a glorious countryside, isn't it?
12:37Isn't it lovely?
12:37Do you know, the majority of the flora in this country is foreign.
12:43Really?
12:44Yeah.
12:44Most of it came over during the grand tours and colonial expeditions.
12:50You are a veritable mine of information, aren't you?
12:53She sure is.
12:55Ha-ha!
12:56Our jolly twosome have made it to the Oxfordshire village of Hook, Norton.
13:01Here, in the beautiful Cotswold Hills,
13:05lies a magical portal into Britain's brewing heritage.
13:09Embodying the spirit of Victorian ingenuity,
13:13Hook Norton Brewery is 176 years old.
13:17A sixth-generation family business,
13:20Phil and Tamina are meeting with managing director James Clark,
13:24a brewing guru.
13:26So, James, has it always been in your family?
13:28Yes, I'm very lucky.
13:29It was my great-great-grandfather who moved here as a young man,
13:33initially as a farmer,
13:34growing barley and malting it,
13:36selling it to other local breweries.
13:37Dating from 1849,
13:39the site was purchased as a 52-acre farm
13:43and included a malt house.
13:45The first brew was recorded in November 1856
13:49as triple-X mild.
13:52Scrummy.
13:53James, this is just fantastic, isn't it?
13:56It is, yes, yeah.
13:57The steam engine is the heartbeat of the brewery.
13:59Although we don't use it every day,
14:01it's still very much in working order.
14:02Installed in 1899,
14:04it's believed to be the last steam engine in the country,
14:08still serving its original purpose,
14:10an important survivor from our industrial past.
14:13It was typical of a Victorian building of the time
14:16where you had a central source of motive power
14:19and then you distributed that power throughout the building
14:21through a series of belts and line shafting.
14:24So, this is a power source, effectively?
14:26Yeah.
14:27For the whole building?
14:28The whole brewery.
14:28And it drove the malt mill,
14:30it drove the mixers on the mash turn,
14:31it drove water pumps,
14:32it drove work pumps,
14:34it drove a goods lift and a sack hoist.
14:36This is just brilliant.
14:38I mean, I love all of this.
14:39I think I can guess Phil's next question.
14:42Can I please hear it running?
14:45Ah!
14:45A 25-horsepower engine,
14:47it's easy to see why this
14:49was once the powerhouse of the brewery.
14:52Oh, look at that!
14:56That is brilliant.
14:58Do you know you're right, Phil?
15:00This is a testament to Victorian ingenuity and inventiveness.
15:05Are you going to show me some of the process now?
15:08Yeah, let's turn this off and go and have a look round.
15:10Don't turn it off yet.
15:12While Phil Rovell is in and amongst the antique engineering,
15:17outside there's another source of horsepower
15:19with routes back to the brewery's early days.
15:23Hook Norton has three working shire horses.
15:27Head coachman Nick Carter is on hand
15:30to tell us about these mighty creatures.
15:32Hello, and who's this?
15:34This is Balmoral.
15:35Hi.
15:37So, he's one of our six-year-old shire horses
15:40that we've got working for us here.
15:42We're one of two breweries left in the country
15:44that still use these as working, delivering horses,
15:47which we're very proud of.
15:48We've had horses on site since 1849, from the very start,
15:52and in our peak we had 32 horses here.
15:54Shire horses pulling a beer wagon, or dray,
15:57were once a familiar sight in brewery towns,
16:00but these mighty beasts also had an earlier role as war horses
16:05and were a favourite of a certain Tudor monarch.
16:09Well, originally, they actually started out
16:11as Henry VIII's jousting horses.
16:13They were designed to carry knights in armour into battle
16:17because they needed to be strong, they needed to be sturdy
16:20to carry the weight of a man in armour.
16:22And as well, if you had one of these charging down at you,
16:25you'd soon get out of the way.
16:26At the beginning of the 20th century,
16:28there were a million shire horses working the land in Britain.
16:32Due to mechanisation, today there are less than 230.
16:37How sad.
16:39So the tractor came along and that was their demise, really.
16:42But what we're really fortunate with now
16:44is that people are seeing a resurgence of these,
16:46that actually they're really nimble riding horses,
16:49and they've got a great future in the ridden sphere.
16:51So hopefully numbers will start rising from there up.
16:55We very much hope so.
16:57Back to Serral Paradise.
17:00Within the five floors of the brewery,
17:02hand-crafted beers go through a ten-stage process.
17:06Phil's heading to the fermentation room for stage eight.
17:10What's that?
17:11This is a saccharometer,
17:12and we're going to use this to measure how much sugar we've got.
17:14This is some hooky gold that we brewed today,
17:16and it's had the yeast added,
17:18so we just want to make sure we've got the sugar content right for the fermentation.
17:22It's not beer yet, because it's not alcoholic.
17:24It's not beer? Not alcoholic?
17:25Not yet, not for another week.
17:26What are we doing here?
17:27Well, we're going to make it alcoholic.
17:28Oh, good. Excellent.
17:29Yeah, Phil, calm your jet.
17:32After a week, the sugars from the malt
17:34will be converted into alcohol by the yeast.
17:37If you want a taster, I'm your man.
17:40I will add you to the list.
17:41Hoppy days.
17:42Before we leave, one last treat.
17:46The shires will deliver within a four-mile radius
17:49and, thankfully, lead a gentler life
17:52than their ancestors of yesteryear.
17:54The brewery honours its heritage
17:56by including the shires as essential members of the delivery team.
18:01Thank you, Balmoral and Brigadier.
18:04Before we giddy up, Phil has an important question.
18:08What do you reckon, then?
18:09Car or horse?
18:11Horse.
18:12Horse power, come on, off you go.
18:16From big, gentle beasts to a noisy one,
18:20how about some more Phil musings?
18:23It's all a game.
18:27It's actually a game, Phil.
18:29It's all a game.
18:30Hmm, was that it?
18:31Nighty-night.
18:36Rise and shine.
18:38Phil, I'm glad you're a bit of a style icon.
18:40Why am I a style icon?
18:42Well, you're quite known for your...
18:44Voyage to looks.
18:46Well, that too, of course.
18:48But also your scarves.
18:50I love them.
18:50I love my scarves.
18:52Yeah, I love my scarves.
18:53I love my scarves.
18:54Um, are they holding me together?
18:57Blimey, I hope not.
19:00Yesterday, our man was buying for Britain.
19:03Collecting a bagatelle game,
19:06a silver butter dish and knife,
19:08and a Chinese vase.
19:10Well, that's interesting.
19:11Look at that.
19:11Leaving Phil with 145 smackeroonies.
19:17Tamina scooped up a beloved mid-century corner unit
19:20and an Arnouveau trinket dish.
19:23I think someone else might find this as attractive as I do.
19:28Tamina has 140 pounds remaining.
19:31Now, we're all about the zen.
19:34Sometimes I don't even think it's about winning.
19:37Well, the journey's the thing, isn't it?
19:39Pull the other one, you two.
19:42Tamina has been dropped off by her chum
19:44in the village of Bampton.
19:47Isn't it lovely?
19:49Not only is it featured in the hit TV series Downton Abbey,
19:54it's also home to a thriving brigade of Morris dancers.
19:58And this lovely establishment, Arthur's Attic.
20:01A bevy of antiques bounty awaits.
20:04Now, let's take a swoosh around
20:06and get the goodie detector onto maximum power.
20:12Tamina has a kitty of 140 pounds.
20:16Let the big nosy begin.
20:21It's a nice depiction of Vishnu,
20:25protector of the universe.
20:27I don't think it's a temple ornament
20:29because it doesn't have a hollow base,
20:32as you would expect,
20:33of the more antique pieces
20:35that were kept in temples.
20:37So this would have been more likely
20:39a decorative piece
20:41to be in a domestic setting.
20:43Now, I don't think it actually
20:44has very much age,
20:46even though it's rendered
20:47in a very antiquated style.
20:49And so I don't think it's going to achieve the prices
20:52that an older version would at auction.
20:55So not for me.
20:57But a nice thing.
20:58Indeed.
20:59Let's keep exploring.
21:01I just really like this sugar scuttle.
21:07Well, it's because they were named after coal scuttles.
21:11And this bit here,
21:13just like lumps of coal would be held,
21:15is meant to hold sugar cubes or sugar lumps.
21:19It's just a really nice, like, decorative table piece.
21:22I guess when you've got guests over,
21:24it would be a quirky thing to have
21:26and to talk about anything mapping and web,
21:29it's so well made.
21:31A 19th century invention,
21:33these were popular
21:33around the time of the Great Exhibition in 1851,
21:36when novelty was a big seller,
21:39priced at £45.
21:41So it's not solid silver,
21:43it's silver plate.
21:44It says here it's prince's plate.
21:47Now, that's a mapping and web method
21:48of triple coating silver plates.
21:50So it's slightly higher quality
21:52than sort of standardised silver plate.
21:55And it's complete.
21:56I would imagine that lots of these end up
21:58just like that,
21:59without the scoop attachment,
22:02because they can come off,
22:03so often they would.
22:04I think if I can get it down to the right price,
22:08this would be attractive and interesting enough
22:10at auction to possibly make a profit for me.
22:13While Tamina snuffles further,
22:15let's find Phil,
22:16currently thinking of his tongue.
22:18I'm a great lover of homemade jam,
22:21homemade soup,
22:22homemade chutney.
22:23Brilliant stuff.
22:24The world's a better place for knowing that.
22:28Foodie Phil has gone south-west
22:30to Royal Wotton Basset.
22:33Here comes our antiques gourmand,
22:35hungry for some tasty deals.
22:38Old Bank Antiques is the place for cereal.
22:40On the go since 2015,
22:42this lovely emporium is festooned with a plethora of fancy goods.
22:48Yes,
22:49the resemblance, Phil,
22:50is uncanny.
22:51Phil has 145 pounds.
22:54It's a lovely little more clean egg cup.
22:57I think that was quite sweet.
23:01Apparently,
23:02the other night,
23:03there was a burglary,
23:05and whoever it was left
23:06half a dozen eggs
23:08and a saucepan of boiling water.
23:10The police think it was poachers.
23:12He cracks me up, that man.
23:14So this
23:16would probably be Edwardian.
23:19It's an oat letterbox.
23:20But I love the social history behind this,
23:22because in a large country house,
23:23this would have sat on a table in the hall.
23:27You would write your letter,
23:28you'd bring the envelope down,
23:29and you'd pop it on there,
23:31which would have been a tray
23:32in the hall,
23:34and then the butler or the footman
23:35would have come down at the end of the day
23:37and would have taken these off to the post for you.
23:40I mean,
23:40I think that's absolutely lovely.
23:43And if that's like 30, 40 pounds,
23:45I'm going to snap his hand off.
23:47Crikey.
23:48Right,
23:49that's 195 pounds.
23:51Walk on,
23:52Philip.
23:52While Phil keeps on delving,
23:54let's bounce back to Bampton.
24:02Hmm,
24:03what's this?
24:07This looks like,
24:08well,
24:08I guess a Braille typewriter.
24:11Braille was invented in the 1800s in France,
24:15and it was a pivotal language for the visually impaired.
24:20Louis Braille lost his sight
24:22due to a childhood accident.
24:24This led him to create a tactile writing system
24:28using raised dots.
24:30It was first introduced in 1824.
24:32I think that something like this
24:34could work independently with a sheet.
24:37Now,
24:37there's a bell here as well.
24:39I suppose,
24:40like a standardised typewriter
24:42to tell you when you're nearing the end of the page.
24:46I think that's a really lovely thing.
24:48You know,
24:48it's priced at 45 pounds.
24:51And I think someone who does have an interest
24:53in typography
24:55or inventions from that period
24:59would maybe find this as interesting as I do.
25:03Along with the silver-plated sugar scuttle at 45,
25:07let's pop off and see this lovely lady in the pink.
25:10Lynn, hi.
25:11Oh, hi, Tamina.
25:12I've managed to finally select some things.
25:15I've got the sugar scuttle.
25:18Yes.
25:19And this really unusual brailler.
25:21Well,
25:21they're two different dealers.
25:22OK.
25:24But I think the gentleman would be quite happy at 38 on that one.
25:27OK, lovely.
25:28And on the braille,
25:3035.
25:31That works.
25:32Yeah, so that's 73, perhaps.
25:34That's right.
25:35Lovely.
25:35OK.
25:3670.
25:37Wonderful.
25:38£3.
25:39Thanks very much.
25:40That's wonderful.
25:41Lynn, you are lovely.
25:43Tamina now has £67 remaining.
25:47Guess what?
25:48I'm missing Phil.
25:49Royal Wooten Bassett Beckons.
25:58Let me just tell you,
25:59there is no similarity here at all.
26:01Of course not.
26:02He's got a moustache.
26:09Look at that.
26:10Now,
26:12that looks like a stick, doesn't it?
26:15Well, let me tell you,
26:16this has a purpose and a use.
26:17It's early to mid-19th century,
26:20and it's a sail or a rope maker's fid
26:23or marlin spike.
26:25What you would do is you would bodge,
26:28that's a technical term, by the way,
26:29you bodge this in between the splicing of the rope,
26:32and as you push that in,
26:34it actually, it would open the strands
26:36and let you work it.
26:38And I think that's absolutely lovely.
26:39A fid was an essential bit of kit for a 19th century sailor splicing.
26:45In fact, it was used throughout the age of sail from the 16th century for 300 years.
26:50It's easy to think it could have been something else.
26:53Like my granddad, he was a smallholding farmer,
26:56and he had a thing called a dibber.
26:58I don't know if that's a local term or not.
27:00And with his dibber, he'd make a hole in the ground,
27:02and he'd plant his seeds in there.
27:04A dibber.
27:05Now, that is not definitely 100% not a dibber.
27:08It's a fid or a marlin spike.
27:10This is priced at £60,
27:12but for me, it's a real plain Jane, this.
27:15I think at auction, that's going to be £25, £35 worth.
27:18So I've got to see if the dealer bought it right,
27:20and if he did, see if I can do a deal with him.
27:23But isn't that just lovely?
27:25Indeed it is.
27:26Stand by Steve.
27:28I feel a deal coming on.
27:30Steve, how are you doing? All right?
27:31Phil.
27:32You've got a great shop here.
27:33Thank you very much.
27:34I love that little fid.
27:36Quick look at the ticket.
27:37Absolutely right.
27:37Remind myself, as it's you, Phil, I can do 20.
27:40I'll tell you what, thank you very much indeed.
27:42Let me give you some money quickly.
27:43There we go.
27:44Thank you, Phil.
27:45Thank you very much indeed.
27:45Good luck with it.
27:46Yeah, take care. Thank you.
27:47Good luck with it.
27:48Steve, you are most generous.
27:49Thank you very, very much.
27:51Phil now has £125.
27:57Now, where's our other shopper, Haired, off to?
28:01Our gal has made it to the sunny town of Sirencester,
28:05Dubbed the capital of the Cotswolds,
28:08the home of the Thatch Cottage,
28:10was once the second largest town in Roman Britain.
28:14We're bound for Sirencester Antique Centre.
28:17Housed in a 16th-century timber-framed building,
28:20there are two floors with over 80 dealers
28:23jamming the shelves with goodies.
28:26Lovely.
28:27Wow, the centre is enormous.
28:30It just keeps on going.
28:31Tamina has £67.
28:33Gosh, Phil would love all of this.
28:37Look at this.
28:38It's a wheel.
28:41It's heavy and industrial.
28:43He'd make that into a coffee table.
28:46Well, this is quite beautiful.
28:49It's an inlaid side table.
28:52It's from Liberty's 19th century.
28:55This has a nice bit of Arabic inscription on the top.
28:59There was a real fashion in the 19th century
29:02for Moorish architecture reminiscent of the Islamic Empire
29:06that stretched all the way to Spain,
29:08right up to Cordoba,
29:09where you can still see mosque architecture.
29:12Now they have Gothic cathedrals
29:14inside the same mosques that still exist there.
29:18This particular table has really nice spindles here,
29:23reminiscent of wooden Syrian Levant architecture
29:27that you would have seen on buildings and window frames.
29:30It was £295,
29:32and it's been marked down to £175,
29:36which is still so much out of my budget.
29:39But what a beautiful thing.
29:41It is lovely.
29:43Now, look out.
29:44There's the Cyril.
29:47Phil's in a rush,
29:48because guess what?
29:49He's arrived at the exact same shop as Tamina.
29:54£125 is the sum of money in Phil's wallet.
29:59Guess what my dog's called?
30:01Daphne?
30:03Daphne.
30:05He's such a big softie.
30:08Do you know what?
30:08I love these things.
30:09They tell such a story.
30:10So, this is a First World War death penny,
30:13or death plaque.
30:14This commemorates the life of someone
30:16who was KIA, killed in action.
30:19And if you look closely,
30:21you can just see the initials
30:23of the man who designed this just there.
30:25ECP.
30:25That's Edward Carter Preston.
30:27You've got,
30:27he died for freedom and honour.
30:30Do you know what?
30:30It then dawned on them
30:31that it wasn't just men that were killed in action,
30:34but ladies were as well.
30:35So what they did was snitch
30:37a little lesson at the beginning,
30:39so it became she died for freedom and honour.
30:42Now, the kind of entry-level price
30:44for one of these is about 50 quid for a man.
30:48For a lady, it's probably £500 to £800.
30:51But then you start having add-ons.
30:53So here you've got the medals
30:54and various other paperwork.
30:57The price is £265.
30:59That's kind of way out of my price range.
31:03I mean, for me,
31:04I look at these things
31:06and, you know,
31:07they really bring a lump in my throat.
31:09Me too, Phil.
31:11Now, what's going on here?
31:13Oh, no price on this.
31:16Either priceless or worthless.
31:20What a shame, eh?
31:25Oh, poor old Phil.
31:28Onwards with cheeky Tamina, then.
31:30Well, these are quite nice.
31:36Urkel children-sized rocking chairs.
31:39I've got a dining chair set
31:41of this series for adults.
31:43And it originally came in this darker colour,
31:47which isn't particularly fashionable at the moment.
31:49It's the blonde Urkels,
31:52which are the more pared-down, lighter colour
31:54that are really popular and sought after.
31:57Post-war furniture giant Urkel
31:59didn't just kit us out
32:01with affordable tables and chairs.
32:03Oh, no.
32:04They also made 25,000 tent pegs
32:07every day during World War II.
32:11I'm known for my love of mid-century furniture.
32:15And Urkel was one of the core brands
32:18making furniture at the time.
32:19So these would be around the sort of 1950s period.
32:23So £48 each.
32:24The one that's in not-as-good condition
32:29is the one that has the serial number imprinted
32:32and has the original Urkel sticker,
32:35which would be the most appealing at auction
32:37for a collector or someone who wants it in their home.
32:41So I guess that's the one I'm going to go for.
32:44Right.
32:45Deal incoming.
32:46Stand by.
32:48Brian, hi.
32:48Hello. How are you?
32:49I'm good, thank you.
32:50I've just found this lovely little rocking chair.
32:54£48, remember?
32:57Is there any movement on that?
32:59For you, we could do that at £40.
33:02£40?
33:02Yeah, that might give me a chance at auction.
33:04Yeah, good.
33:05£20 and £40.
33:06Brilliant.
33:08Pleasure.
33:09Thank you again.
33:10Thank you, Brian.
33:11Tamina now has just £27 left unspent in her kitty.
33:16Now, Phil should be about here somewhere.
33:19Oh, yes.
33:19Do you know, you come to a place like this
33:21and it's an absolute TARDIS.
33:23It doesn't look that big from the outside,
33:25but you get in here, it's absolutely mahoosive.
33:27And there's stuff everywhere.
33:30So that expression,
33:31you can't see the wood for the trees, applies here.
33:33Although I do quite like that.
33:36Now, that's a crane, isn't it?
33:38And that's either been a letter opener
33:41or a page turner.
33:43But I think that's probably a page turner.
33:46I'm not really interested in it from there down.
33:49It's the top side of it I quite like.
33:51I think that's actually quite a well-cast little bird.
33:55Date of that, I would think it's probably
33:56the first 10 or 15 years of the 20th century.
34:00The crane was a popular motif of the Art Nouveau movement.
34:04Artists were fascinated with Japanese culture,
34:07where the crane was lauded
34:08as a symbol of good fortune and longevity.
34:12And at £18, I cannot go wrong, can I?
34:16Stick around.
34:17Watch out, Brian.
34:19You have another customer.
34:21Hi, hi, hi.
34:22Hello.
34:23It's unbelievable, this place.
34:25Right, so it's £18 for it, isn't it?
34:27Brilliant.
34:28So there's three.
34:30There's eight.
34:31And there's ten.
34:32Fantastic.
34:33And there's my...
34:34Thank you very much.
34:35Good to see you.
34:36All the best.
34:36Take care now. Bye-bye, bye-bye.
34:39Many thanks, Brian.
34:40Philip comes away with £107 unspent.
34:44The shopping is now done and dusted.
34:47Let me just tell you,
34:48the first rule of the road trip.
34:50Uh-huh.
34:51Buy something easy to carry.
34:52Come on.
34:53Says the man that usually buys big lumps, eh?
34:56The big wheels, however, are moving once more.
35:00It's me chauffeuring you around, Dutch.
35:04How's that working out there?
35:06You were the one who wanted to drive the car.
35:07You tell it.
35:09Best get some shut-eye, eh?
35:10Hit, hit, hooray!
35:15It's auction day!
35:17The thing that bothers me, you know, is that chair of yours.
35:20Yeah.
35:21Hopefully I'm sitting in the profit.
35:23Listen, I do the puns.
35:24Get in here.
35:25Actually, that's supposed to be my job.
35:27After a jolly good rollick around Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire,
35:32our pair have arrived in Grantham in Lincolnshire
35:35for the fourth in a best-of-five auction contest at Golding Young.
35:39Selling to bidders in the room, on the phone
35:43and on the World Wide Web.
35:47The man wielding the gavel is Colin Young himself.
35:51Matty Ty.
35:52Selling at 50.
35:54Thrifty Phil bought five lots for just £93.
35:58Thoughts, please, Colin?
35:59You can't beat a bit of traditional English silver.
36:03And the butter dish ticks every single box.
36:06You just can't avoid wanting to bid for something like that.
36:10Tamina dished out £173 on five lots.
36:15What's your fave, Cole?
36:17The Urcole rocking chair has got a lot going for it.
36:19Number one, it rocks.
36:21Number two, it's quite good condition.
36:23And number three, it's got a label on the bottom.
36:25Everybody just loves a label.
36:28Thank you, Colin.
36:30Are you ready for this?
36:32It's ready for life, I think.
36:33Right, take your seats, you excitable pair.
36:36Here we go, then.
36:38What did you buy?
36:39I can't remember.
36:40400, 420.
36:42Let me help you.
36:43First up, it's Phil's bagatelle game.
36:46It's £15.
36:46Oh, nice.
36:47Not much money to lose.
36:49£850 now.
36:51£850.
36:51£10.
36:53£10.
36:53£10.
36:53£12 bid.
36:55£15 now.
36:56There we go.
36:56£18.
36:57£20.
36:58Flying away.
37:00Bids in the room, then.
37:01Selling at £20.
37:02£20.
37:02£20.
37:03£20.
37:03£20.
37:04A tickle of a profit, to start things off.
37:08I'm probably pleased with that.
37:09I don't know if she should be.
37:10Tamina's turn now, with the mid-century corner unit.
37:14Everyone's got corners.
37:15Yeah, everybody has got corners.
37:16Unless you live in a roundhouse.
37:17Yeah, well.
37:18We have a pound.
37:19Oh.
37:19£1 a bit.
37:20Wow.
37:21Any more now than at one?
37:22It costs more to ship it.
37:23£1.
37:23£1.
37:24£1 a bit.
37:26Wow.
37:27Ouch.
37:28What a complete bargain.
37:30Unbelievable.
37:32It's better than we normally get for them.
37:34Crumbs.
37:36Phil's silver butter dish and knife.
37:38Next.
37:39Let's just hope someone likes their butter.
37:41I have masses of bids, and they're all at £25.
37:45They must know something.
37:47£32, £35, £38.
37:49Selling £38.
37:52Well, it's a little profit, isn't it?
37:53Yeah.
37:53A little profit.
37:54You'd butter believe it.
37:56Well done, Phil.
37:58I like that soft spread butter, don't you?
38:01Yeah, that's reassuring.
38:02Come on, Tamina.
38:04It's her Arnouveau-style trinket dish next.
38:07So what's a trinket?
38:09Anything you want.
38:10Anything that fits in the dish.
38:11Trinket, trunk it.
38:12Anything that goes in a dish is a trinket.
38:14£10, finally bitten.
38:15£10, £12 now then.
38:16£12 bid.
38:17It's very elegant.
38:19£15 bid, £18 surely.
38:20Surely seems to be bidding on a lot of lots.
38:22I don't know who surely is.
38:24Going up 15.
38:29Yeah, best not to dwell.
38:31At least she's happy.
38:33Ouch, killer.
38:34I know.
38:35Filled territory now, the 19th century Chinese vase.
38:41It's so old school, it's not true.
38:43Not unlike myself, really.
38:45Anybody, £10, 10s in the room, 10.
38:4712 bid.
38:4815 bid.
38:4918, late bid.
38:5120.
38:51Doing good now again.
38:53I had hopes it might fly.
38:54And it is, but just not very high.
38:57We go this time there at £20.
39:00That's £1 to £8.
39:01Yes, thank you.
39:02I don't know who you are, but thank you.
39:04Another little tease of a profit for Phil.
39:07That's the thing about this business.
39:09You can have luck, and it can be good luck or bad luck, can't it?
39:12Right.
39:13Let's see if we can sweeten Tamina's profits with the silver-plated sugar scuttle.
39:19It's a sweet little bit of tableware, isn't it?
39:21£20 is bid.
39:22Oh, it's good.
39:22Looking for two now, then, at £22 bid.
39:24Two now, £22 bid.
39:25£25 bid.
39:26£25 bid.
39:26£28, £30, £32 bid.
39:28Going this time, then, at £32, then.
39:32Oh, a little loss there.
39:33That wasn't the high we were looking for.
39:37Best to keep going.
39:39Sugar's bad for you, isn't it?
39:42Precisely, Phil.
39:44The wooden sailor's fid, or marlin, spike, is next.
39:47And they're called fids, or marlin, spike.
39:4920, 28, souring bid, 30.
39:51Or the other term for them is stick.
39:54Is it a stick now?
39:56It's a stick.
39:57Is there a bid of five?
39:58Yes, five.
39:59We have a bid to that very well-known seaside town of Nottinghamshire.
40:03Five bid, six now to a seat.
40:05Going at five.
40:07Blimey.
40:08Bit of a sinking feeling today.
40:11That burnt me, didn't it?
40:13Onwards with Tamina's braille typewriter.
40:16What's that?
40:1755 now, then?
40:1815?
40:19I don't know.
40:20Is that the only joke you've got, Phil?
40:23Yes, 10 finally.
40:2510 pounds is bid.
40:26Oh, lovely.
40:2712 bid.
40:2815 bid.
40:29Creeping there, isn't it?
40:30Very slowly.
40:31I can't get 18.
40:32Let me try 16.
40:33Does that help?
40:34Clearly not.
40:36Not me.
40:3815 pounds.
40:42All done and finished.
40:44Are we?
40:45Pounds.
40:46Are you sure?
40:47Sold at 15.
40:48Oh, dear.
40:49Shame.
40:50Such an interesting item.
40:52Well, that's a blow, isn't it?
40:54This is not going well.
40:56You've had better days.
40:58Phil's brass page-turner now.
41:01I think it's a crane.
41:03Is it a crane?
41:04Or flamingo or a stalk or something like that.
41:07And 10.
41:08Oh, there we go.
41:0912 bid.
41:1015 bid.
41:1118.
41:12The bid's in China.
41:1320.
41:1422 bid.
41:1525 bid.
41:16There we go.
41:17Leg is flying now.
41:18What?
41:1925 bid.
41:20Last call then.
41:21I do the jacks, all right?
41:2228.
41:2328 bid.
41:24All done then.
41:25Selling it.
41:2628 pounds.
41:27One more.
41:28Yeah, go on.
41:29One more.
41:30Nice profit.
41:31Very, very well sold.
41:32Swooped in a nice earner there, Philip.
41:35He's not an auctioneer.
41:36He's a magician.
41:38It's the final lot.
41:40Tamina's Urcole rocking chair.
41:42Rock and roll.
41:4450 pound a bid.
41:4550.
41:46There we go.
41:47Off to the races.
41:4850 bid.
41:4965.
41:5070.
41:5175.
41:5275.
41:5375.
41:5490.
41:55Anybody else surely?
41:5690 pound a bid.
41:5790 bid.
41:585.
41:59I turned up.
42:00Selling then at 95 pounds and done.
42:01Hey!
42:02Finally!
42:03A profit for Tamina.
42:05Well done.
42:06And the biggest one of the day.
42:07Well done you.
42:08That's a good neck to leave on, isn't it?
42:10Yeah.
42:11I'm glad.
42:12It's totting up a figures time.
42:14Tamina began with 200 pounds.
42:16After all auction costs, she's made a loss of 67 pounds and 21 pence.
42:23Phil also began with 200 smackers.
42:26After all sale room costs, Phil has made a smaller loss of 22 pounds and 31 pence.
42:33Making Phil victorious for the third time.
42:36Well done.
42:37Do you know what?
42:38That was a close call for me.
42:39Because your chair nearly romped home with you.
42:41I know.
42:42Didn't it?
42:43That was really, really good.
42:44Yeah.
42:45I just need more chairs.
42:46Another couple of bids and I'd have been absolutely blooming sunk, I think.
42:52Next time with Phil and Tamina, we are antique super sleuths.
42:57Philadelphia.
42:58From that, I can deduce this is American.
43:01Deciphering the clues.
43:02Five pounds and under my budget.
43:04That's all I need.
43:06And avoiding red herrings.
43:08Well, I know not to buy those again, don't I?
43:10Yeah, I know, that bears again, don't I?
43:11I know, I do.
43:17Yeah, I do so.
43:18And now if you saw them, go on.
43:19It's been aç'd or not for two years before your turn.
43:20And today we'll go on.
43:21I tried to keep in development as possible by the end of today.
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