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00:0050 years combined experience, three leading antique and salvage dealers are joining forces.
00:05From West Wales, country house connoisseur Alistair Dreybrough loves the traditional.
00:11It's alright, isn't it? It's nice. Welsh. It's handsome.
00:14Hain. Taverns Vettel. Don't try to sell it to me.
00:16No, I'm not trying to sell it to you.
00:18Edinburgh-based dealer Vicky Knott has an incredible eye for interiors.
00:22I just think A for easy. I just think that's brilliant.
00:26In London, Shere Khan Yamagja is a devotee of retro design and industrial salvage sourced from all over Europe.
00:34These were made by gents of Leicester and it's a general post office one.
00:38While his brother Jay restores items back to life.
00:42There's nothing to rust, nothing to go wrong and that's why these last forever.
00:47Together, they're travelling the country on the hunt for the very best antiques and decorative salvage.
00:56This time, Still Fierce, a hundred-year-old lion in roaring condition.
01:055.30s, usually you get some damage or it's really good.
01:08Stunning Danish design lights up Shere Khan and Vicky's day.
01:13They've got white on the inside, but it's not just painted. It's an actual thin layer of white glass.
01:19And experts' advice on how to clean those dusty vintage pieces.
01:23Probably need a little bit of a dust.
01:25I'll just use my bottom, shall I?
01:34Based in North London, dealer Shere Khan Yamagja and brother Jay have spent nearly 15 years building up a loyal customer base
01:42with a taste for industrial salvage and vintage lighting.
01:45All dealers have their favourite items, you know, their bread and butter items.
01:49With us, it's lighting, especially modern lighting from about the 1930s onwards.
01:55And our client base is a young client base.
01:58We have young, male, new money, hardworking and they have a specific style.
02:05They like the modern lighting, they like mid-century industrial lighting.
02:08So, that's why we're always on the lookout for that kind of thing.
02:12Because, you know, you need to feed your customers, that's how you make your money.
02:18Today, Shere Khan and Jay are up at the crack of dawn to cross London.
02:22Keen to arrive early at a location where literally tens of thousands of vintage objects will be on offer.
02:28Including plenty of the in-demand items they need to find for their customers.
02:34Sunbury Antiques Fair, it's always good.
02:36Always good.
02:37Yeah.
02:37Always good.
02:38Always pick up some lovely bits.
02:39Today, hopefully, will be a busy day.
02:42The weather's good as well.
02:43Yeah.
02:44It's always busy when the weather's good.
02:44As long as the weather's good.
02:45You get a lot of people, even like they'll come last minute.
02:48So, hopefully, we'll pick up some nice pieces.
02:54First opened in 1878, the Kempton Park Racecourse in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey,
03:01is known for the famed King George VI Chase, held every Boxing Day.
03:06But in more recent times, it's been the backdrop for an event that's become legendary in the antiques world.
03:12From modest beginnings over 40 years ago, Sunbury Antiques Fair is these days the largest and longest-running twice-monthly market in the country.
03:22With over 700 sellers shifting everything from artwork to furniture.
03:27And the best pickings are for those who are first out of the gate.
03:33Morning.
03:35You all right?
03:36So, we always come here, especially before a fair, before a show.
03:40We'll come down here, we'll have a look around, sometimes go back with nothing, sometimes fill our boots.
03:45But there are those bread-and-butter things that we always sell.
03:48You know, good lighting, industrial clocks, everything can be bought here.
03:53Ooh, that clock.
03:54That's quite nice, isn't it?
03:56It starts at 6.30.
03:57Being here that early is important, because that's when the good stuff, they just fly out.
04:03They're just gone.
04:08The baker's good on it.
04:09So, there's a Smith's Bakelite clock, wartime or pre-war electric clock.
04:17The Bakelite is just perfect.
04:19It's kind of just lightened up a bit.
04:21The face of the clock has deteriorated perfectly as well.
04:24Smith's were very famous for the first electric clocks.
04:28They're one of England's most famous clocks, train stations, factories, big industrial clocks.
04:33This double-sided clock would probably have hung outside a shop or business.
04:39In the 1930s, Smith's English clocks were producing over 4,000 timepieces a week, and their designs were to be seen in domestic, industrial and public spaces.
04:50So, this clock comes with recognition and nostalgia.
04:54It's high on the bestseller list for Shere Khan, and with a little restoration from Jay, could be worth around £460.
05:01I'll put new mechanism in there.
05:04I like the face.
05:07150?
05:08160.
05:08People that buy them, it kind of like takes them back.
05:14They're a very famous clock, which makes it very saleable.
05:21How much you got in that, mate?
05:2250.
05:23You're good, boy, now.
05:24There's a Dugdills lamp there.
05:25Dugdills is a British company, it's an English company.
05:28They produced some amazing lamps, starting early 1900s, from brass banker's lamps with glass shades to, you know, hardcore industrial lamps.
05:39They were used by aerospace.
05:41You know, they were meant for really hard work, but they just were so aesthetically beautiful.
05:46There's one on the table there, with its original base.
05:49It's perfect.
05:52120?
05:52140 would be the best.
05:56Still got the mark on it as well.
05:57Yeah, go on then.
05:58Yeah, he did a nice one, didn't he?
06:00Thank you, sir.
06:01You've got to know what your customers want, and every time we do them up and we put them online, they really don't hang around for long.
06:08They sell just like that.
06:09Still got its original switch on it, and it's £140.
06:13We shake his hand.
06:14It's a perfect buy, and that is why we come here.
06:16That is why we'll come here week after week.
06:18All right, you're back.
06:29What do you think they're for, lads?
06:30I'm guessing milk or wine.
06:32No.
06:33You don't have milk bottles that high.
06:34Yeah, wine I could see, but Nicholas.
06:36It's oil for two-stroke engines in the 30s, and you had a bottle of oil for every tank full of petrol.
06:43Okay.
06:44So they put a bottle of oil in for every tank?
06:47Yeah, because that's how two-stroke work, because they've got no oil in the sumps.
06:50Really nice.
06:52They're in good condition as well.
06:53What have you got in them?
06:5440 each.
06:56I'm not going to argue with that.
06:57Shake man's hand.
06:58Thank you very much.
06:59Thanks for that.
07:00All right, can we just put them on the back of the van?
07:02Yeah.
07:02And then I need to go around paying everyone, and I'll come.
07:05My secretary will be around.
07:06Secretary.
07:07Look at that.
07:07No respect.
07:08No respect whatsoever.
07:10There's two crates there.
07:12They're really nicely done.
07:13They've got cast aluminium, and it's got the name of the company, Nicholas.
07:17They can go into retail.
07:19They can go into someone's house, and they just look the part.
07:22When it's something to do with automobiles, when it's something to do with cars, motorcycles,
07:27anything like that, you've got those people who become potential customers.
07:35Look at that tiger.
07:36Look at that lion.
07:37Lion.
07:38That's quite nice.
07:40It's all right.
07:40Bit of fun.
07:42Do you like it?
07:42I quite like it.
07:43If you like it.
07:43Let me go and have a look at it.
07:45You all right?
07:50Are the tail soft?
07:51Yeah, it's got like a soft tail to it.
07:56Do you know how old this is?
07:591930s.
07:591930s?
08:00Yeah, the fireside lion.
08:02It's pepe-mache.
08:04Yeah, I'm saying for 1930s, usually, you know, you get some damage.
08:07It's really good.
08:08Yeah, no, he's really lovely.
08:11It is.
08:11It's got a really nice look to it.
08:13Really nice.
08:15Lions, tigers.
08:16I love them.
08:17I love the big cats.
08:18And then you've got a really well-made paper mache one.
08:23And then some age to that.
08:251930s, the lady tells me, no damage.
08:28Absolutely beautiful.
08:29This statue is an early 20th century version of the fireside lion.
08:34In wealthy Georgian and Victorian homes, bronze or stone lions were often placed on either side of the fireplace, echoing the power and status of the British Empire.
08:44This papier-mâché lion has a more playful folk art feel, which would work for a modern or eclectic interior.
08:52Most likely a one-off, Shere Khan thinks it could fetch around 440 pounds.
08:57You're best on that?
09:05140.
09:07140.
09:08The very best.
09:08At a giant antiques fair in Surrey, brothers, Shere Khan and Jay are trawling for the best-selling items their customers are always after.
09:28That one.
09:29Ooh.
09:30And a 1930s papier-mâché fireside beast has stopped Shere Khan in his tracks.
09:37You're best on that?
09:38140.
09:41140.
09:42The very best.
09:44All right, I'm taking it at 140.
09:46Done.
09:47I'm chuffed with that.
09:48Yeah, it's really cool.
09:49Fantastic.
09:50Thank you very much.
09:51That's amazing.
09:52I'm so happy with that.
09:53Things like that, they're so collectible.
09:55People love them.
09:56You know, there's a varied amount of people that will go for that.
09:59And again, it's just one of those things that will just sell.
10:02It's one of our bread and butter items.
10:04You know, good papier-mâché, done properly, always sells.
10:07That's nice.
10:13It's a glass, isn't it?
10:15What do you think?
10:16It's OK.
10:17It's a bit too far gone, but...
10:19Just the cigarette part is gone, but the Abdullah is still there.
10:21Yeah.
10:22That's nice, isn't it?
10:24It's in this original thing.
10:26Oh, nice.
10:27It is nice.
10:28Abdullah cigarettes, they used Turkish, Egyptian, and I think American tobacco as well.
10:35Early 1900s, it was a London-based cigarette company.
10:38It's a bit gone under part where it's the cigarettes, but it's worn out gracefully.
10:43It looks amazing.
10:45You know, we'll get it chained up, hung up, and it will look beautiful.
10:48You're the very best on that.
10:50Uh, 150.
10:51150?
10:52Yeah.
10:57120?
10:58I mean, it's quite rare.
10:59It's an Arabic name.
11:08It's a very popular name in the Middle East, so someone might not even go with the cigarette
11:12advertised.
11:13They might just go with the name.
11:15So you've got a whole new audience base that you can sell to.
11:18Me and my brother, back on familiar ground, another good day.
11:26We always have a good day at Kempton, whether we're buying or selling.
11:29Got some really nice lighting, got some clocks, got an oil canister, crates.
11:34The Abdullah cigarette sign is a little bit special, but I think today the best thing I
11:40bought is that papier-mâché lion.
11:42It's just so lovely.
11:43It's just adorable.
11:45I haven't bought something this good in a long time.
11:47This is one of the first markets we started selling at, about 13, 14 years ago.
11:54And the good thing is, like, a lot of friends we've met over the ways.
11:58We end up meeting them here.
11:59You have a little chat, have a coffee, catch up on old times.
12:02You always have a good day here.
12:08I'm absolutely knackered, man.
12:10Seriously.
12:11No, it's been a good day.
12:12Yeah.
12:12Everything we bought, I'm happy with.
12:13Being here for 6.30, that is the only thing.
12:16But early bird catches the worm, as they say.
12:17That's it.
12:20While Jay heads back to London with a fanload of bestsellers to prep for sale, Shere Khan
12:26has more buying to do.
12:28This time, he's joining forces with Edinburgh-based dealer Vicky Knott, who, over decades, has honed
12:34her instincts for spotting the decorative, but practical pieces she knows her customers
12:39are after.
12:40I think it's getting a balance when you're dealing and having a shop.
12:45You can't really fill it with sort of real kind of left-field buys all the time.
12:51You need to have a balance, and I like to have really good, practical, interesting items
12:57for the home, which keeps the balance.
13:00I don't know if other dealers are like this, but I can just look at something, and I just
13:05go, yeah, that'll be in and out by the end of the day.
13:08It's just an instinct.
13:09It's 25 years of hard graft.
13:13Today, Shere Khan wants to introduce Vicky to a contract in North Yorkshire he thinks
13:20might be a good source for pieces that will appeal to her customers.
13:25Vicky, today we're going to see someone that I've bought and sold with.
13:29His name's Tom.
13:30He's got a company called 8 Man Interiors.
13:34I think I've seen him on Instagram, actually.
13:36Yeah.
13:36Yeah.
13:37He's a young dealer.
13:38He's in his early 20s.
13:40Really nice guy.
13:41So, do you think it's going to be a day that I'll be able to get a few bits of pieces
13:46from him?
13:46Yeah.
13:47Yeah, yeah, yeah.
13:47He's got a lot.
13:47I mean, you know, kind of visually decorative stuff, and personally, I think it could be
13:52more your day than my day today.
13:54Oh, really?
13:54Yeah.
13:55Yeah, yeah, yeah.
13:56And maybe, you know, I'll get some ideas from you as well.
13:58You never know.
13:59We're in North Yorkshire.
14:01We're in the depth.
14:02Yeah, yeah.
14:03Nunnington.
14:03This is a wee bit different for you, isn't it?
14:05For me, this is...
14:07I come from the concrete jungle.
14:09I come from London N17.
14:11This is beautiful for me, honestly.
14:13Do you feel a wee bit like your own holiday?
14:15Yeah, I feel like I'm in a different country.
14:19The quiet village of Nunnington takes its name from a Christian nunnery, built here over
14:25a thousand years ago, likely at the site where the 17th century Nunnington Hall stands today.
14:30More recently, the village has become home to an extraordinary collection of vintage objects
14:35from the UK and beyond.
14:38Ape Man Interiors is the work of Tom Brennan.
14:40I've always been a dealer from an early age selling antiques and decorative items out of my bedroom
14:50at home.
14:51I remember getting told off so much for going and buying useless junk.
14:55But then I later found out that I could sell that useless junk for a profit.
14:59I used to sell anything from cameras to militaria.
15:03Over time, I moved to traditional English antiques, then on to Asian.
15:08I love the quality of some of it, the bright colours, the different materials, how rustic
15:14and worn items are.
15:16I have bought off Shere Khan before, but no, I've never dealt with Vicky, but very excited
15:21too.
15:21Hi, Tom.
15:26Hello, good to meet you.
15:27I'm Vicky.
15:28You all right, Tom?
15:29And good to see you again.
15:30Good to see you again.
15:30How you been?
15:31Yeah, really busy, thanks.
15:32Yeah?
15:33This is the first time I've been to his shop, which looks absolutely amazing.
15:35Welcome.
15:36Yeah, God, this is incredible.
15:38It's like an Aladdin's cave, really.
15:40Yeah.
15:40Is it Chinese, Indian?
15:42So there's a real mixture in here.
15:43We've got Tibetan, Korean, we've got industrial lighting, we've got a bit of French antiques,
15:49but mainly it is India and China.
15:53The shop, it's a mixture of everything.
15:56You know, you've got industrial lights there and you've got fabrics from Africa, and it's
16:00all been put together and created in such a way that it all goes together.
16:05The way Tom has done this, his style is impeccable, it really is.
16:09God, I love that little basket.
16:13Is that one of the fishermen's type weave?
16:15That is known as a flower basket.
16:17Right, OK.
16:18It'll be used for people to sell flowers at markets.
16:21Right.
16:21Hence the shape of it.
16:23It's Chinese, yeah?
16:24It's Chinese.
16:25They're Chinese, yeah.
16:26OK.
16:26Can I model it for you for a minute, Vicky?
16:27So, it'll be like this.
16:29Oh, yeah.
16:30That suits you, actually.
16:31Flowers like that.
16:32Do you like flowers?
16:33And you'll be sitting there and I've come to the gentleman that you're with and I would
16:36say, a flower for the lady.
16:38Really?
16:39Yeah.
16:39And then I'd sell him a flower and he would give it to you.
16:41Lovely.
16:41In Chinese, of course.
16:42A Chinese, yeah.
16:43It's all handmade, all made of reeds, incredibly skilful it takes to produce.
16:49And they last a lifetime.
16:51I think that's quite a cool sort of decorative item, isn't it?
16:54What about age-wise?
16:55Do you know how old this is?
16:56This one, I would say, is about 1880s in that sort of region.
17:02What sort of money's in something like that, Tom?
17:04So, what does it say on the tag?
17:07So, we've got 120 on the tag.
17:09Yeah.
17:09For you, it could be 100.
17:11Right, OK.
17:14Mmm.
17:15I love it, but I don't say much.
17:17Oh, God, there's not much left in that for me, really.
17:21It's the type of thing you want to touch, you want to pick up, you want to look at.
17:24It's got curves, it's got little bits of wire on it.
17:28It's just so gorgeous.
17:29See, I'd like to have it just tipping over the 100, do you know what I mean, in the shop?
17:34Yes, I go with what you mean, so you've got to be enough in it for you.
17:37Yeah.
17:38I could do 80.
17:41Yeah, go on then, I'll take it at 80.
17:43Thank you very much.
17:43We'll get the ball rolling.
17:45In all honesty, there's not that much in it for me once we pay for everything,
17:50but it's just a really pretty item to have in stock.
17:55Have you seen these before?
17:57They're Indian flasks.
17:58Army, aren't they?
18:00Yes.
18:00Yeah, I used to sell them.
18:02Actually, a leftover British army.
18:04Oh, are they?
18:04Produced in India, yeah.
18:06I like the way the enamel's kind of gone on some of them, it looks really nice.
18:10Well, they're surplus, they're leftover, so they would have just been dumped,
18:14and then they're brought back to life over here.
18:16What I love about them is, see, when you have them literally lined up like that,
18:22as an army with flowers, they look amazing, don't they?
18:25They do look nice.
18:25What kind of money are those?
18:26Retail, 15 apiece.
18:28Trade, they can be eight, and that is it.
18:32There's no movement on that.
18:34But I've sold hundreds of them.
18:37Every single one I get, they always go.
18:40You've got nine.
18:41Is that the only nine you've got?
18:41Oh, that's probably the last nine I've got.
18:44I'm going to take those.
18:45Yeah, I think you should.
18:46Make with each, I'll take those, yeah.
18:47Yeah.
18:47Thank you very much.
18:48Not something that I would usually go for, it's not really me, but there was both something
18:54very decorative and very kind of masculine about it.
18:57So, you know what?
19:00I've been travelling around with Vicky, and I think she's kind of rubbed off on me a bit.
19:04I think they kind of suit my style as well.
19:07These enameled water canteens were made in Calcutta by the Bengal Enamel Works Limited, which
19:14opened in 1921.
19:17Made for both British and Indian Army personnel, they're highly decorative and could be worth
19:22around £20 each.
19:23We've not got very far in, have we?
19:28We haven't.
19:30It's a bit of mercury glass here.
19:31I just want to have a look at some.
19:35I think there's another mercury glass piece at the bottom as well, the green one.
19:38Oh, the green one.
19:39Yeah.
19:41Do you want to give me that and you can get that one out, or do you want to just have a...
19:43Just hold on to that one.
19:45So, are these shades British?
19:47Yeah, they're British.
19:47The really famous and really expensive ones of these are the German ones by Zeiss, Icon.
19:53Zeiss, I mean, you'd know, they did the camera lenses.
19:56The camera, yeah, yeah.
19:57Yeah.
19:58This green one is very nice.
20:00I can feel a lot of soul from an old piece of furniture, from an old, like, that green
20:05on ceramics, that green on any piece of old furniture.
20:09Everyone loves it.
20:10That green sells.
20:11When it's aged like that, even better.
20:14What have you got on the green one?
20:15Green one could be 60.
20:17Do you?
20:20Take that.
20:20Thank you very much.
20:22And the silver one?
20:2440.
20:26Thank you very much.
20:27Good.
20:28Those?
20:28Fantastic.
20:30Underneath the outer enamel layer on these glass shades is a silvery paint, which creates
20:36a reflective surface, visible through the glass from the inside.
20:39Although the silvery chemical mercury was not involved, the glass was known as mercury glass
20:45because of the brightness created when light hit the mirror surface inside the shade.
20:49Commonly used for strong lighting needed for shops, warehouses, and even outdoors.
20:54These lampshades have the vintage industrial feel Shere Khan's customers look for, and with
21:00careful restoration, could be worth around £210 each.
21:04Honestly, this place is just so beautiful.
21:09And you haven't even seen the half of it.
21:11Oh, really?
21:11Oh, God.
21:12Tell me about these wee lamps.
21:14They are laboratory lights.
21:16OK.
21:16They actually came out of a university in Guildford.
21:19Right, OK.
21:20There's something just quite nice about them.
21:21So I've got a set of four and one individual.
21:25And they adjust up and down, do they?
21:27Yep, so they go up and down, and then the shade itself can go up and down and twist.
21:32That's why they make a good reading light.
21:33Yeah.
21:34£80 each.
21:35What's the trade on them?
21:37If you wanted the four that match, they could be...
21:42£65 each.
21:46£50 each wouldn't buy them.
21:51At a dazzling antiques collection in North Yorkshire,
22:01Shere Khan and Vicky are on the lookout for crowd-pleasers for their customers.
22:06Honestly, this place is just so beautiful.
22:10And you haven't even seen the half of it.
22:12Oh, really?
22:12Oh, God.
22:13And Vicky's discovered a set of four adjustable laboratory lights,
22:17which could make great reading lamps for a chic bedroom.
22:20£80 each.
22:22What's the trade on them?
22:23They could be...
22:25£65 each.
22:28£50 each wouldn't buy them.
22:32£55 would.
22:34For that matching four?
22:36For those four.
22:37And obviously, if you would like the other one, that could be another £55.
22:42It's nice when they can sell them as a pair.
22:44Well, I'm just thinking bedsides and stuff.
22:47Do you know what I mean?
22:48That's it. Pairs always sell better.
22:49£2.50 for the five?
22:52Because there's not that much in them for me.
22:55Not that much.
22:55I'll do that for you.
22:56Yeah? Brilliant.
22:57I'll have them.
22:58Thank you very much.
23:00The little science lab lights that Vicky found, fantastic.
23:03You know, the way she's rubbing off on me, I found rubbing off on her.
23:06Tom really done her a favour on those.
23:08She's not going to hold on to those for long.
23:10They're going to go very quick.
23:12The enamels look quite nice, aren't they?
23:14The enamels, yeah, all Indian enamels.
23:16There's just something about them.
23:17I don't know what half of them say, but the colour and the picture on them is just right.
23:23I just like the fact that some of these have been repurposed.
23:26So what they've done is they've had an original enamel and then they've thought,
23:29we don't need that anymore, so we'll just use the back.
23:31B.S.C. shoes, look, manufactured in Batanagar.
23:35I'm assuming it means Batanagar Shoe Company.
23:39B.S.C.
23:41I would imagine that, sir.
23:42Yeah.
23:43What kind of money can that one be?
23:45That one could be 60.
23:47And the shoe one?
23:48I would need 80 for the shoe one.
23:51Could we do 120 for both?
23:52I could do 130.
23:56Can I do 130 on this?
23:58Thank you very much.
24:00The Sanskrit writing, graphically, just looks absolutely amazing.
24:04Perfectly worn.
24:05People love them.
24:06I'm very happy with the price.
24:07Tom gave me a deal on those.
24:10Look above your head.
24:11How genius is that?
24:13Rolling pins.
24:14It's just an easy way to display them, and it's got that dramatic effect.
24:18They're cool, aren't they?
24:19Yeah.
24:19I'm sort of looking at these stools a little bit, Tom.
24:22You've got a few of them dotted about.
24:24Those are Chinese, so these ones are known as spring benches.
24:28They would be outside of shops, restaurants,
24:30and people would go outside and get the spring air.
24:32They've got lovely colour, lovely shape.
24:35We get different styles depending on what region they're from.
24:38So these are more simple,
24:40and then we have more heavily carved, more decorative pieces.
24:44Can I get this one out here and get a look at it and get a set on it?
24:48Of course.
24:54You'll probably need a little bit of a dust.
24:56But other than that, it's ready to go.
24:58I'll just use my bottom, shall I?
25:00Give it a polish at the same time.
25:02Every single person needs either a stool or a bench or a small table.
25:07But my customers don't like anything that's too fancy, too ornamental.
25:12And some of the ones that Tom's got here are maybe just too much for them.
25:17What's the trade on that one?
25:2190.
25:21Yeah, I'll have that one.
25:26I reckon that might be the first of many, Tom.
25:29So I was trying to pick something that I loved,
25:35that had a little bit of different flavour to it,
25:38but wouldn't be too far from a customer base.
25:42And I picked one that I think is just in the sweet spot.
25:50Another good day of picking for me and Vicky.
25:52We went in.
25:54I mean, by the time we were even, like, two foot into the door,
25:58her with the basket and me with the hip flasks,
26:01we'd already turned a deal.
26:03Tom, honestly, he was very, very fair to both myself and Vicky,
26:08leaving us plenty of room to make a profit as well.
26:10You know, we've come down here, so he didn't disappoint.
26:13It's been a really good day seeing Shere Khan again
26:16and also meeting Vicky for the first time.
26:18As a dealer, it's always important to meet new people in the trade.
26:22Connections you make normally last a lifetime.
26:25Once you have a good contact, they remain a good contact.
26:30Thanks for that call. Loved it.
26:33Tom's great, eh?
26:34He is. Really nice guy.
26:36For me, which was really strange,
26:38was I kind of slightly stepped into the old...
26:42I don't want to call them industrial,
26:44but slightly more utility.
26:47Yeah. The lights.
26:48The lights.
26:50Yeah, that was me rubbing off on you, wasn't it?
26:51Do you think it was?
26:52Yeah, it was.
26:53But then I went and bought hip flasks to be used as little vases.
26:57Yeah, that I used myself.
27:00From Yorkshire, Shere Khan and Vicky are heading across the Pennines to Lancashire,
27:08where Shere Khan is keen to call on another dealer
27:10he thinks will appeal to both their buying sensibilities and their customers.
27:14So we're off to see Rob from Black Dog Retro Interiors today.
27:21Yeah.
27:22I know him.
27:23There's a couple of fairs I do and I've seen him there.
27:25He drives all the way down from here, down to London.
27:29Does he?
27:29Yeah, good mid-century furniture, you know, really nice kind of seating.
27:34So is that what he specialises in?
27:37Yeah, mid-century furniture.
27:38And he really does know what he's doing.
27:41So he's got this place here I've never been before, but from what I understand,
27:45it's in an old factory or kind of warehouse setting.
27:49Brilliant.
27:49The fortunes of the Preston area were transformed during the Industrial Revolution,
27:59when machine-powered mills were built here to process cheap cotton harvested by enslaved people in the United States.
28:06Today, one of the largest surviving mill buildings is home to independent local businesses.
28:12And since 2023, its vast top floor has been taken over by a specialist in the clean, functional design styles of the mid-20th century, Rob Munt.
28:25Black Dog Retro Interiors started completely by accident.
28:29It was just a bit of a side hustle and it just evolved bigger than my full-time job.
28:34And it's grown every year since.
28:37To start with, with mid-century furniture, I didn't have a clue about it whatsoever.
28:41But the more I was buying it, the more I got interested in it, the design, the materials, and it just caught my eye and interest since then.
28:50The stuff that we buy, being this is 50, 60-year-old, it's not always in the best condition.
28:54So we like to strip it, refinish it, reupholster it, you know, give it a new life in another 50, 60 years.
29:04Oh, look. Wow, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, one of them lives.
29:14You all right, Rob? How are we doing?
29:17You all right? Yeah, not bad.
29:18Vicky, how are you doing? Welcome.
29:20Wow.
29:20It's a big place you've got here. It's absolutely massive.
29:2312,000 square foot.
29:24Whoa.
29:24Is this open to the public?
29:26Yeah, so we've got, obviously, we've got the showroom end and then we've got workshop area around the back.
29:31It's open to the public, but by, at the minute, by appointment, because we do nip in and out all the time.
29:37Yeah, but most of it, it's all online.
29:39If I can get it online fast enough.
29:40I mean, what an absolutely amazing building, total British industrial, the lift, just the build of this place.
29:51He's really done it properly.
29:54Chairs on the walls, dining tables and chairs set up like they would be in a kitchen.
30:00He's done his work.
30:02I'm having a wee look at that bench behind you, because we're doing a little bit of work in the kitchen.
30:07OK.
30:08And I'm needing a little bench.
30:11Well, I found you one.
30:13Yeah, I'm looking at it thinking it might work.
30:15I think that's quite nice.
30:16It's not bad, actually.
30:17Yeah.
30:18We're in a sea of, you know, mid-century furniture, which has been picked and restored with such an expert eye,
30:31yet I'm drawn to a pine bench in the corner.
30:35And it's simply because it's a great size, it's immaculate, and I need one for my kitchen.
30:46In all honesty, I do, but as a commercial piece to come in and out my shop, it's perfect.
30:53It's all solid.
30:53It's all doweled.
30:54It's, you know, there's no screws or anything.
30:57It's a good, got some good age to it.
30:59Nice old pine bench.
31:00What could you do that for me for?
31:04Er, 160 on it.
31:06Er, 120.
31:09120?
31:10Yeah.
31:10Yeah, I'll take that.
31:11Nice one.
31:13First one done.
31:14First one done.
31:15I know what I'm like.
31:16It'll come off the van, it'll get photographed, it'll go on to socials, and it'll sell like that.
31:21And it'll probably never even get measured to go to the house.
31:26These all ready to go, Rob, these?
31:28Yep.
31:29They're Danish as well.
31:30Yeah, home guard.
31:31Yep.
31:32They do a lot of very similar lamps as well.
31:34Yeah.
31:35Yeah.
31:35And they've got, like, white on the inside.
31:38It's kind of like opaline.
31:39Yeah.
31:40In the inside.
31:40But it's not just kind of, like, painted.
31:43It is an actual, kind of, thin layer of white glass.
31:47There's two lights there.
31:49They're Danish.
31:49They're by a company called Home Guard.
31:51They're very desirable things.
31:52You can get them in various colors, like purples, oranges, and yellows.
31:57Just that kind of droplet shape diffuses the light amazingly.
32:00And they have this little, just such a small detail.
32:04It's a little teak top that the cable runs through.
32:07It's just very, very well designed.
32:10You're looking at something from the 60s that even today looks totally modern.
32:15It was a pioneering Danish countess, Henrietta Daniskyold Samso,
32:20who, in 1825, harnessed energy from a local peat bog
32:24to heat the furnaces of a small glass workshop.
32:27By the 20th century, Home Guard had become a Danish-designed powerhouse.
32:33These elegant 1960s teardrop pendant lights are highly saleable.
32:38And, sold as a pair, Shere Khan thinks they could be worth around 800 pounds.
32:45You've got 295 on one and 225 on the other.
32:49Yeah.
32:50What's the very best on those?
32:53400.
32:53400.
32:57Yeah, I'll do this.
33:27400, yeah.
33:28Nice one.
33:29Nice one, Rob.
33:30They're fabulous.
33:31They are.
33:32They're really good-looking things.
33:34Rob gives me a very good price on the pair.
33:36You know, all I can do is shake his hand.
33:42I get a lot of chairs from the Czech Republic.
33:44I'm assuming they come to you upholstered from there, innit?
33:47No.
33:48Oh, they don't?
33:48No.
33:49You've got to do all that here?
33:49Yeah.
33:50Wow.
33:51Depending on how good the finish is, we'll strip them, refinish them.
33:55Wow.
33:55So you're putting a lot of work into these.
33:57Oh, yeah.
33:58Yeah.
33:58So mid-century is very hard.
34:01It's not like selling other vintage or industrial items where you can keep them looking their worn
34:09themselves with mid-century, your customer wants to see it perfect.
34:13So your restorations have to be perfect.
34:16So this area here is?
34:18This is the to-do area.
34:21We all have one of them.
34:22Yeah.
34:23Yeah, but these are the good parts.
34:25These are the parts I like.
34:26Straight away, I see a cream, Herbert Terry, Anglepoise.
34:33It's an early one.
34:34The reason why I know it's an early one, there's no plastic fittings.
34:36It's all metal.
34:40Then he has a small Metek.
34:42I thought at first that it was maybe a re-spray because it's like a pink.
34:46But on further kind of inspection, I think that might be originally pink.
34:51Best on that.
34:55100 quid.
34:56And that one, best on that?
34:5930 quid.
35:01Take my clothes.
35:0230 quid.
35:03Not even going to argue with that price.
35:09But they all look quite similar, but they're all slightly different.
35:13Yeah.
35:14What's this bad boy in here?
35:16It's like the tree root.
35:18We're kind of in a forest of design-led mid-century upholstery.
35:24And sort of stuffed under some cushions.
35:27I could just see this sort of gnarly arm.
35:31It's the ball root.
35:32Yeah.
35:33It's the centre of the...
35:35You know, they make bowls out of them as well.
35:37Yeah.
35:38This one's been painted.
35:38Yeah.
35:39Yeah.
35:39It's been tucked away.
35:42I'm going to get it blasted and...
35:43Yeah.
35:43Can I just say, it doesn't look like it should be here, mixed in with all this other stuff.
35:49I do buy random stuff that just catches my eye as well.
35:53Yeah.
35:54How much is this, Rob?
35:5780 quid.
36:00Yeah.
36:01Yeah?
36:01I will have that.
36:02OK.
36:02Thank you very much.
36:03It's one of those root, stumpy chairs.
36:08And it's sort of carved out of one big hunk of teak or something.
36:13But what I loved about it was somebody chucked a coat of paint over it, left it outside,
36:19and it had that kind of weathered look, like it had just been sitting there unloved.
36:25So these are, again, all projects, Rob?
36:30Yeah.
36:31Everything just needs stripping, refinished.
36:34It's quite a sweet re-thing.
36:35What is it?
36:38I got it from when I was picking up a sideboard.
36:43They had, like, magazines in it and then books and stuff in it.
36:47I don't know if it was someone's made it or if it came like that.
36:51I don't know.
36:52But it was quirky.
36:53When I first looked at it, I thought it was just kind of like a little bookshelf.
36:57But there's also a part in the middle of it for magazines or books.
37:02It's just really well designed, really well made.
37:05It's too well made to be scratch built.
37:07What kind of money is that?
37:0940 quid.
37:10Can't say no to 40 quid on that.
37:12No, you can't.
37:15That's a really nice thing.
37:17The utility there is amazing.
37:19Very well thought about.
37:19This unusual bookcase could be the work of 20th century designer Isocon,
37:26known as the Isocon donkey due to its four legs and angled shelving
37:30that resembled panniers carried by a donkey.
37:34Bookcases like these were later renamed the Penguin donkey,
37:37as the shelves were the same size as the famous orange-colored penguin paperbacks.
37:41Dating from the 1960s, this cool modernist piece should be a great fit for Shere Khan's customers.
37:48And if it is a genuine original, then it could be worth around £500.
37:52I'm just looking at this wee table.
38:00It's an old school desk.
38:01Yeah, what is that?
38:03So it's a kid's desk?
38:04A kid's desk, yeah.
38:07I think it's got a good look and a good shape, I think.
38:13And it doesn't move or anything.
38:15No, it's just as it is.
38:18Quite like the way the legs splay like that.
38:23This is where I have no understanding of how my brain works, to be honest with you.
38:28I have walked past 20, 30, 40, 50 tables today,
38:33but I didn't really see a margin in any of them.
38:36And then I just saw this tapered compass-type leg,
38:41and I thought, that looks quite interesting.
38:43Turns out it's like a little school table,
38:46but it's got a little bit of a look.
38:49How much is it?
38:51£60.
38:52It's not needing any actual work, is it?
38:55It's not.
38:55No, it's solid.
38:58Cosmetic.
39:00Yeah, £60.
39:01I'll have that.
39:04It can be used as a coffee table, it can be used as a stool,
39:07it can sit in a hallway.
39:09For whatever reason it drew me to it,
39:12that's what ultimately will sell it for me.
39:21It's been really good for me to come here,
39:23see Rob in his own natural environment.
39:26Me and Vicky, we both brought some great stuff from Rob today.
39:31My home guard pendant lights, I think they tip the scale.
39:35I think they're great things.
39:36It's been good having Shikhan and Vicky round today,
39:39and I think they've found some good bargains,
39:42and I've made a few sales.
39:43Happy.
39:45Rob, thank you very much, man.
39:46No, thank you.
39:47Thanks for coming.
39:47And it won't be too long till I see you again down in London.
39:50Yeah, a couple of weeks.
39:51Yeah, we'll see you there.
39:52Have a good one.
39:53You too, take care.
39:53See you later, thank you.
40:02In his North London workshop,
40:04Restorer Jay is starting work on the mercury glass lampshade.
40:08Shikhan snaps up at eight man.
40:11All right, first, I'm just going to give him a wipe down,
40:14see how much of the green paint comes off.
40:16This one is a challenge for me.
40:20I've rewired and restored mercury lights before,
40:23but none this far gone.
40:27All right.
40:31Whoa.
40:32It is just coming off with a soft brush.
40:37My brother wants it back up and green again.
40:40I don't think there's going to be any green left there by the end of this.
40:45As the 100-year-old green enamel paint flakes away,
40:49it takes some of the silvery reflective layer underneath with it.
40:53You know that green mercury light?
40:56Yeah.
40:56It's not green.
40:57It's glass.
40:58It's all crumbled off.
40:59Yep.
41:00Wow.
41:01If you spray this, are you just going to have to get this all off?
41:04No, I'm going to leave it.
41:05You're going to leave these little bits.
41:06Yeah.
41:06But still spray silver over.
41:08Yeah.
41:09So there's some of the...
41:10So there's just...
41:11left on there.
41:12So when people look underneath,
41:14they're going to be able to see the old and the new.
41:16The old and the new.
41:17All right.
41:18Yeah, that's what I reckon you should do.
41:19Good luck.
41:23Rather than remove all the old reflected paint,
41:27Jay's plan is to preserve the originality
41:29by sealing what's left of it
41:31under a modern silver-based mirror paint.
41:35Right, the mirror spray is dried now.
41:39All areas covered.
41:40Once we remove that,
41:41you're going to see it's going to have a mirror effect
41:42coming through the glass.
41:46With the reflective surface
41:48originally intended by the designer now restored,
41:51a primer can be applied
41:53before a new coat of enamel paint
41:57in the vintage green shade
41:59Shere Khan knows his customers are looking for.
42:01And that looks OK for now.
42:05I'm going to leave it for a while, let it dry.
42:15I'm pretty happy with the enamel spray
42:17because it's a pretty thick coat.
42:20There's no drips, no nothing,
42:21so it looks really nice.
42:23All right, and then, as you can see,
42:25the original mercury glass,
42:27what was left as I was scraping off,
42:29and then the other bits are all the mirror spray.
42:33I'm happy with that.
42:34Now, getting the light fitting on
42:37and getting it lit up.
42:46I like that.
42:48That is really nice.
42:53With their brilliance restored,
42:55the mercury lamps are ready for sale,
42:57along with the rest of the week's haul of bestsellers.
43:00So, everywhere we went this week,
43:03we came up trumps,
43:04found exactly what we were looking for.
43:06Got some really nice Indian enamel signs from 8-man,
43:10especially the Batangar shoot, factory one.
43:13Then, Sambri Antiques, always delivers.
43:16The lion, that was probably my favourite buy of this week.
43:20Animals in ceramic, animals in paper mache,
43:23metal animals, they just sell.
43:26People love them.
43:26This lion, it's got size, it's got looks.
43:30It won't hang around for long.
43:32So, this week, it's been a lot of items
43:34that will turn over quickly,
43:37and they'll have a really good margin in them.
43:39So, happy.
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