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Salvage Hunters - Season 20 Episode 19
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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 Driverer loves the traditional.
00:11It's all right, isn't it? It's nice. Welsh. It's handsome.
00:14Pine, tavern, settle. 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 know, you get some damage on it, so 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, because, you know, you need to feed your customers.
02:14That'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.
02:33First opened in 1878, the Campton Park Racecourse in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey,
03:00is 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.
03:13From modest beginnings over 40 years ago,
03:16Sunbury 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.
03:26And the best pickings are for those who are first out of the gate.
03:34Morning.
03:35You all right?
03:37So, we always come here, especially, like, before a fair, before a show.
03:41We'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, you know,
03:48good lighting, industrial clocks, everything can be bought here.
03:52Oh, that clock.
03:54That's quite nice, isn't it?
03:55It starts at 6.30.
03:57Being here that early is important,
04:00because that's when the good stuff, they just fly out, they're just gone.
04:08The Bakelite'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.
04:40In the 1930s, Smith's English clocks were producing over 4,000 timepieces a week,
04:46and 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,
04:56and with a little restoration from Jay, could be worth around £460.
05:01I'll put new mechanism in there.
05:04I like the face.
05:07£150?
05:08£160.
05:11People 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?
05:22£50.
05:23You're good, what in that?
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,
05:34from 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,
05:43but they just were so aesthetically beautiful.
05:46There's one on the table there with its original base.
05:49It's perfect.
05:52£120?
05:52£140 would be the best.
05:54You've got to know what your customers want.
06:03And every time we do them up and we put them online,
06:06they really don't hang around for long.
06:08They sell just like that.
06:09It's still got its original switch on it,
06:11and it's £140.
06:13We shake his hand.
06:14It's a perfect buy.
06:15And that is why we come here.
06:16That is why we'll come here week after week.
06:18What do you think they're for, lads?
06:30I'm guessing milk or wine.
06:32No.
06:33You wouldn't have milk bottles that high.
06:34Yeah, wine I could see, but...
06:36It's oil.
06:37Ah.
06:38For two-stroke engines.
06:39OK.
06:39In the 30s.
06:41And you had a bottle of oil for every tank full of petrol.
06:43OK.
06:44So they put a bottle of oil in for every tank?
06:47Yeah, because that's how two-stroke work,
06:48because it's got no oil in the sumps.
06:49Ah.
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.
06:57Shaken my hand.
06:58Thank you very much.
06:59Thanks for that.
07:00All right.
07:01Can we just put them on the back of the van?
07:02Yeah.
07:02And then I need to go around paying everyone.
07:04My secretary will be around.
07:06Secretary.
07:07Look at that.
07:07No respect.
07:09No respect whatsoever.
07:11There's two crates there.
07:12They're really nicely done.
07:13They've got cast aluminium,
07:15and it's got the name of the company, Nicholas.
07:17They can go into retail,
07:19they can go into someone's house,
07:20and they just look the part.
07:22When it's something to do with automobiles,
07:25when it's something to do with cars, motorcycles,
07:27anything like that,
07:28you'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.
07:40A bit of fun.
07:41Do 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.
08:001930s?
08:00Yeah, the fireside lion.
08:02It's pepe-mache.
08:04Yeah, I'm saying for 1930s,
08:06usually you get some damage,
08:07it's really good.
08:08Yeah, no, he's really lovely.
08:10Yeah, yeah, yeah.
08:11It is.
08:11It's got a really nice look to it, really nice.
08:15Lions, tigers, I love them.
08:17I love the big cats.
08:19And then you've got a really well-made paper mache one,
08:23and there's some age to that.
08:251930s, the lady tells me,
08:26no damage.
08:28Absolutely beautiful.
08:29This statue is an early 20th century version
08:32of the fireside lion.
08:34In wealthy Georgian and Victorian homes,
08:37bronze or stone lions were often placed
08:39on either side of the fireplace,
08:42echoing the power and status of the British Empire.
08:45This papier-mache lion has a more playful folk art feel,
08:49which would work for a modern or eclectic interior.
08:52Most likely a one-off,
08:54Shere Khan thinks it could fetch around 440 pounds.
08:57You're best on that?
09:06140.
09:07140.
09:08The very best.
09:18At a giant antiques fair in Surrey,
09:21brothers Shere Khan and Jay
09:23are trawling for the best-selling items
09:25their customers are always after.
09:27That one.
09:29Ooh.
09:31And a 1930s papier-mache fireside beast
09:34has stopped Shere Khan in his tracks.
09:37Your best on that?
09:40140.
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.
09:54They're so collectible.
09:55People love them.
09:56You know,
09:56there's a varied amount of people that will go for that.
09:59And again,
10:00it's just one of those things that will just sell.
10:02It's one of our bread and butter items.
10:04You know,
10:04good papier-mache,
10:05done properly,
10:06always sells.
10:07That's nice.
10:13It's a glass,
10:14isn't it?
10:15What do you think?
10:16It's OK.
10:17It's a bit too far gone,
10:18but...
10:19Just the cigarette part has gone,
10:20but the Abdullah is still there.
10:21Yeah.
10:22That's nice.
10:25It's in this original thing.
10:26Oh, nice.
10:27It is nice.
10:28Abdullah cigarettes,
10:29they used Turkish,
10:32Egyptian,
10:33and I think American tobacco as well.
10:35Early 1900s,
10:36so it was a London-based cigarette company.
10:38It's a bit gone,
10:39under part where it's the cigarettes,
10:41but it's worn out gracefully.
10:44Looks amazing.
10:45You know,
10:45we'll get it chained up,
10:46hung up,
10:47and it will look beautiful.
10:48Your very best on that?
10:50Uh,
10:50150.
10:51150?
10:52Yeah.
10:57120?
10:58I mean,
10:58it's quite rare.
11:02Yeah, OK.
11:03120?
11:03Yeah, 120.
11:04Lovely.
11:05Thank you very much.
11:06It's an Arabic name.
11:08It's a very popular name
11:09in the Middle East,
11:10so someone might not even
11:11go with the cigarette advertised.
11:13They might just go
11:14with the name,
11:15so you've got a whole new
11:16audience base
11:17that you can sell to.
11:21Me and my brother,
11:23back on familiar ground.
11:25Another good day.
11:26We always have a good day
11:27at Kempton,
11:27whether we're buying or selling.
11:29Got some really nice lighting,
11:31got some clocks,
11:32got an oil canister,
11:33crates.
11:34The Abdullah cigarette sign
11:36is a little bit special,
11:37but I think today
11:39the best thing I've bought
11:40is that paper mache lion.
11:42It's just so lovely.
11:43It's just adorable.
11:45I haven't bought something
11:46this good in a long time.
11:47This is one of the first markets
11:49we started selling at
11:51about 13, 14 years ago,
11:53and the good thing is,
11:55like, a lot of friends
11:56we've met over the ways.
11:58We end up meeting them here.
11:59You have a little chat,
12:00have a coffee,
12:00catch 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,
12:13I'm happy with.
12:13Being here for 6.30,
12:14that is the only thing,
12:16but early bird catches the worm,
12:17as they say.
12:17That's it.
12:20While Jay heads back to London
12:22with a vanload of bestsellers
12:24to prep for sale,
12:25Shere Khan has more buying to do.
12:28This time, he's joining forces
12:30with Edinburgh-based dealer
12:31Vicky Knott,
12:32who, over decades,
12:34has honed her instincts
12:35for spotting the decorative
12:36but practical pieces
12:38she knows her customers are after.
12:40I think it's getting a balance
12:42when you're dealing
12:43and having a shop.
12:45You can't really fill it
12:47with sort of real,
12:49kind of left-field buys
12:50all the time.
12:51You need to have a balance,
12:53and I like to have
12:55really good, practical,
12:56interesting items
12:57for the home,
12:58which keeps the balance.
13:00I don't know if other dealers
13:01are like this,
13:02but I can just look at something
13:04and I just go,
13:06yeah, that'll be in and out
13:07by the end of the day.
13:08It's just an instinct.
13:09It's 25 years
13:11of hard graft.
13:15Today, Shere Khan wants
13:17to introduce Vicky
13:18to a contract in North Yorkshire
13:20he thinks might be a good source
13:21for pieces that will appeal
13:23to her customers.
13:25Vicky, today we're going to see
13:26someone that I've bought
13:28and sold with.
13:29His name's Tom.
13:30He's got a company
13:31called 8-Man Interiors.
13:34I think I've seen him
13:35on Instagram, actually.
13:36Yeah.
13:37He's a young dealer.
13:38He's in his early 20s.
13:40Really nice guy.
13:42So do you think
13:42it's going to be a day
13:43that I'll be able to get
13:44a few bits of pieces from him?
13:46Yeah, yeah.
13:47He's got a lot, I mean,
13:48you know, kind of
13:49visually decorative stuff.
13:51Personally, I think
13:52it could be more your day
13:53than my day today.
13:54Oh, really?
13:54Yeah.
13:55Yeah, yeah, yeah.
13:56And maybe, you know,
13:56I'll get some ideas
13:57from you as well.
13:58You never know.
13:59We're in North Yorkshire.
14:01We're in the depths.
14:02Yeah, yeah, Nunnington.
14:03This is a wee bit
14:04different for you, is it?
14:05For me, this is.
14:07I come from
14:08the concrete jungle.
14:09I come from London N17.
14:11This is beautiful for me.
14:12Honestly.
14:13Do you feel a wee bit
14:14like your own holiday?
14:15Yeah, I feel like
14:15I'm in a different country.
14:19The quiet village
14:20of Nunnington
14:21takes its name
14:22from a Christian nunnery
14:24built here
14:24over a thousand years ago,
14:26likely at the site
14:27where the 17th century
14:28Nunnington Hall
14:29stands today.
14:31More recently,
14:32the village has become home
14:33to an extraordinary collection
14:34of vintage objects
14:35from the UK and beyond.
14:38Eight Man Interiors
14:39is the work of Tom Brennan.
14:40I've always been a dealer
14:45from an early age
14:47selling antiques
14:48and decorative items
14:49out of my bedroom at home.
14:51I remember getting
14:52told off so much
14:53for going and buying
14:53useless junk.
14:55But then I later found out
14:56that I could sell
14:57that useless junk
14:58for a profit.
15:00I used to sell anything
15:01from cameras
15:02to military.
15:03Over time,
15:04I moved to traditional
15:05English antiques,
15:06then on to Asian.
15:09I love the quality
15:10of some of it,
15:11the bright colours,
15:12the different materials,
15:13how rustic
15:14and worn items are.
15:16I have bought off
15:17Shere Khan before,
15:18but no,
15:18I've never dealt
15:19with Vicky,
15:20but very excited too.
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
15:33I've been to his shop,
15:34which looks absolutely amazing.
15:35Welcome.
15:36Yeah, God,
15:37this is incredible.
15:38It's like an Aladdin's cave.
15:39Yeah.
15:40Yeah.
15:40Is it Chinese, Indian?
15:42So there's a real mixture
15:43in here.
15:43We've got Tibetan,
15:45Korean,
15:46we've got industrial lighting,
15:48we've got a bit
15:48of French antiques,
15:49but mainly it is India and China.
15:53The shop,
15:53it's a mixture of everything.
15:56You know,
15:56you've got industrial lights there
15:57and you've got fabrics from Africa
15:59and it's all been put together
16:01and created in such a way
16:04that it all goes together.
16:05The way Tom has done this,
16:06his style is impeccable.
16:07It 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.
16:18So it'll be used for people
16:19to sell flowers at markets.
16:21Right.
16:22Hence 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
16:27for 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?
16:33Do you like flowers?
16:33And you'll be sitting there
16:34and I've come to the gentleman
16:35that you're with
16:36and I would say,
16:37a flower for the lady.
16:38Really?
16:39Yeah.
16:39And then I'd sell him a flower
16:40and he would give it to you.
16:41Lovely.
16:41In Chinese, of course.
16:42A Chinese, yeah.
16:43In Chinese.
16:43It's all handmade,
16:45all made of reeds,
16:46incredibly skilful
16:47it takes to produce.
16:49And they last a lifetime.
16:51I think that's quite a cool
16:52sort of decorative item,
16:53isn't it?
16:54What about age-wise?
16:55Do you know how old this is?
16:56This one,
16:58I would say,
16:59is about 1880s
17:00in that sort of region.
17:02What sort of money
17:03is 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,
17:10it could be 100.
17:11Right, OK.
17:14Mmm.
17:15I love it,
17:16but I don't say much.
17:17Oh, God,
17:18there's not much left
17:19in that for me, really.
17:21It's the type of thing
17:22you want to touch,
17:23you want to pick up,
17:23you want to look at.
17:24It's got curves,
17:26it's got little bits of wire on it.
17:28It's just so gorgeous.
17:31See, I'd like to have it
17:32just tipping over the 100.
17:34Do you know what I mean?
17:34In the shop, that's the thing.
17:34Yes, I go what it means.
17:36You've got to be enough in it for you.
17:37Yeah.
17:37I could do 80.
17:41Yeah, go on then,
17:42I'll take it at 80.
17:43Thank you very much.
17:44We'll get the ball rolling.
17:45In all honesty,
17:47there's not that much in it for me
17:49once we pay for everything,
17:51but it's just a really pretty item
17:53to have in stock.
17:55Have you seen these before?
17:57They're Indian flasks.
17:59Army, aren't they?
18:00Yes.
18:00Yeah.
18:01I used to sell them.
18:02Actually, leftover British Army.
18:04Oh, are they?
18:04I like the way the enamel's
18:07kind of gone on some of them.
18:09It looks really nice.
18:10Well, they're surplus.
18:11They're left over.
18:12So they would have just been dumped
18:13and then they're brought back
18:15to life over here.
18:16What I love about them
18:18is see when you have them
18:19literally lined up like that
18:22as an army with flowers,
18:23they 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.
18:30And that is it.
18:32There's no movement on that.
18:34But I've sold hundreds of them.
18:37Every single one I get,
18:38they 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.
18:46Eight with each, I'll take those, yeah.
18:47Thank you very much.
18:48Not something that I would usually go for.
18:51It's not really me,
18:52but there was both something very decorative
18:55and very kind of masculine about it.
18:58So, you know what?
19:00I've been travelling around with Vicky
19:02and I think she's kind of rubbed off on me a bit.
19:04I think they kind of suit my style as well.
19:08These enamelled water canteens
19:10were made in Calcutta
19:11by the Bengal Enamel Works Limited,
19:14which opened in 1921.
19:17Made for both British and Indian army personnel,
19:19they're highly decorative
19:21and could be worth around £20 each.
19:26We'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
19:37at the bottom as well, the green one.
19:38Oh, the green one.
19:39Yeah.
19:41Do you want to give me that
19:42and you can get that one out
19:43or 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
19:50of these are the German ones
19:51by Zeiss, Icon.
19:54Zeiss, I mean, you'd know it.
19:55They 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
20:01from an old piece of furniture,
20:03from an old, like,
20:04that green on ceramics,
20:06that 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.
20:27Quick little dose.
20:28Good.
20:28Fantastic.
20:29Underneath the outer enamel layer
20:32on these glass shades
20:33is a silvery paint,
20:35which creates a reflective surface,
20:37visible through the glass from the inside.
20:39Although the silvery chemical mercury
20:41was not involved,
20:43the glass was known as mercury glass
20:45because of the brightness created
20:47when light hit the mirror surface
20:48inside the shade.
20:50Commonly used for strong lighting
20:51needed for shops, warehouses,
20:53and even outdoors.
20:54These lampshades have the vintage industrial feel
20:57Sheerkan's customers look for
20:58and, with careful restoration,
21:01could be worth around £210 each.
21:05Honestly, 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
21:18in Guildford.
21:19Right, OK.
21:20There's something just quite nice about them.
21:21So I've got a set of four
21:23and one individual.
21:24And they adjust up and down, do they?
21:27Yep, so they go up and down
21:28and then the shade itself
21:29can 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,
21:39they could be...
21:42£65 each.
21:46£50 each wouldn't buy them.
21:54At a dazzling antiques collection
22:00in North Yorkshire,
22:01Shere Khan and Vicky are on the lookout
22:03for 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
22:15of four adjustable laboratory lights,
22:17which could make great reading lamps
22:19for a chic bedroom.
22:21£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,
22:39that 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.
22:47Yeah.
22:47Do you know what I mean?
22:48I see, pairs always sell better.
22:50£250 for the five?
22:51Because there's not that much in them for me.
22:55Not that much.
22:55I'll do that for you.
22:56Yeah?
22:57Brilliant.
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,
23:04I 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.
23:11The enamels, they're 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,
23:20but the colour and the picture on them is just right.
23:23I just like the fact that some of these have been repurposed.
23:25So what they've done is they've had an original enamel
23:28and then they've thought,
23:29we don't need that anymore, so we'll just use the back.
23:31B.S.C. shoes, look.
23:33Manufactured 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?
23:54I could do 130.
23:56Kind of.
23:57Do 130 on us.
23:58Thank you very much.
23:58The 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,
24:16and 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.
24:27They would be outside of shops, restaurants,
24:30and people would go outside and get the spring hair.
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 to 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.
25:45Another good day of picking for me and Vicky.
25:52We went in, I mean, by the time we were even, like,
25:56two 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,
26:07leaving us plenty of room to make a profit as well.
26:10You know, we've come down here, so he didn't disappoint.
26:12I mean, it'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.
26:31Thanks for that call.
26:32Loved it.
26:33Tom's great, eh?
26:34He is.
26:35Really 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.
26:48The lights.
26:49The lights.
26:50Yeah, that was me rubbing off on you, innit?
26:51Do you think it was?
26:52Yeah, it was.
26:53But then I went and bought hip flasks
26:55to be used as little vases.
26:57Yeah.
26:58Yeah.
26:58From Yorkshire,
27:04Shere Khan and Vicky are heading across the Pennines to Lancashire,
27:07where Shere Khan is keen to call on another dealer
27:10he thinks will appeal to both their buying sensibilities
27:13and their customers.
27:16So we're off to see Rob from Black Dog Retro Interiors today.
27:21Yeah.
27:22I know him.
27:23There's a couple of fares 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.
27:30Good mid-century furniture, you know, really nice kind of seating.
27:34So is that what he specialises in?
27:37Yeah, mid-century furniture.
27:39And he really does know what he's doing.
27:41So he's got this place here I've never been before,
27:43but from what I understand,
27:45it's in an old factory or kind of warehouse setting.
27:49Brilliant.
27:50Yeah.
27:50The fortunes of the Preston area
27:56were transformed during the Industrial Revolution,
27:59when machine-powered mills were built here
28:01to process cheap cotton
28:03harvested by enslaved people in the United States.
28:06Today, one of the largest surviving mill buildings
28:09is home to independent local businesses.
28:12And since 2023,
28:14its vast top floor has been taken over
28:16by a specialist in the clean, functional design styles
28:19of the mid-20th century, Rob Mutt.
28:26Black Dog Retro Interiors started completely by accident.
28:29It was just a bit of a side hustle,
28:31and 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,
28:39I didn't have a clue about it whatsoever,
28:41but the more I was buying it,
28:43the more I got interested in it,
28:44the design, the materials,
28:47and it just caught my eye and interests since then.
28:50The stuff that we buy,
28:51being this as 50, 60-year-old,
28:53it's not always in the best condition,
28:55so we like to strip it, refinish it, reupholster it,
28:58you know, give it a new life in another 50, 60 years.
29:04Oh, look!
29:05Oh, wow, yeah, yeah, yeah, one of them lifts.
29:14You all right, Rob?
29:15How are we doing?
29:17You all right?
29:17Yeah, not bad.
29:18Vicky, how are you doing?
29:20Wow.
29:20It's a big place you go, yeah,
29:21it's absolutely massive.
29:2312,000 square foot.
29:24Whoa.
29:25Is this open to the public?
29:26Yeah, so we've got, obviously,
29:27we've got the showroom end,
29:29and then we've got workshop area around the back.
29:31It's open to the public,
29:32but by, at the minute, by appointment,
29:35because 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.
29:41I mean, what an absolutely amazing building.
29:45Total British industrial.
29:48The lift, just the build of this place.
29:51He's really done it properly.
29:54Chairs on the walls,
29:55dining tables and chairs set up
29:58like they would be in a kitchen.
30:00He's done his work.
30:02I'm having a wee look at that bench behind you,
30:05cos 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,
30:22which has been picked and restored
30:26with 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,
30:40it's immaculate,
30:41and I need one for my kitchen.
30:44In all honesty, I do,
30:48but as a commercial piece
30:50to come in and out my shop,
30:51it's perfect.
30:53It's all solid, it'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.
31:01What 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.
31:11First one.
31:13First one done.
31:14First one done.
31:15I know what I'm like.
31:16It'll come off the van,
31:17it'll get photographed,
31:19it'll go on to socials,
31:20and it'll sell like that.
31:22And it'll probably never even get measured
31:25to 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.
31:31They do a lot of very similar lamps as well.
31:34Yeah, yeah, yeah.
31:35And they've got, like, white on the inside.
31:38It's kind of like opaline.
31:39Yeah.
31:40On the inside.
31:40But it's not just kind of, like, painted.
31:43It is an actual...
31:44Like a layer of glass.
31:45...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 colours,
31:54like purples, oranges, and yellows.
31:57Just that kind of droplet shape
31:58diffuses 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
32:12that even today looks totally modern.
32:15It was a pioneering Danish countess,
32:18Henrietta Daniskjold Samso,
32:20who, in 1825,
32:22harnessed energy from a local peat bog
32:24to heat the furnaces of a small glass workshop.
32:28By the 20th century,
32:29Home Guard had become a Danish-designed powerhouse.
32:33These elegant 1960s teardrop pendant lights
32:36are highly saleable.
32:38And, sold as a pair,
32:40Shere Khan thinks they could be worth
32:41around £800.
32:45You've got 295 on one
32:47and 225 on the other.
32:49Yep.
32:50What's the very best on those?
32:51£400.
33:03It's been a week of introducing Vicky
33:05to new contacts
33:06and discovering customer favourites.
33:09And at a stunning mid-century antiques display
33:11in Lancashire,
33:12Shere Khan's found a pair
33:13of Danish-designed glass lampshades
33:16he knows he'll have no problem selling.
33:18What's the very best on those?
33:22£400.
33:26Yeah, I'll do this.
33:27£400, yeah.
33:28Nice one.
33:29Nice one, Rob.
33:30They are 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 upholsters 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,
33:53we'll strip them, refinish them.
33:55Wow, so you're putting a lot of work into these.
33:57Oh, yeah, yeah.
33:58So mid-century is very hard.
34:01It's not like selling other vintage or industrial items
34:05where you can keep them looking their worn selves.
34:09With mid-century,
34:11your customer wants to see it perfect,
34:13so your restorations have to be perfect.
34:15So 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,
34:31Herbert Terry, Anglepoise.
34:33It's an early one.
34:34The reason why I know it's an early one,
34:35there'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
34:45because it's like a pink,
34:46but on further kind of inspection,
34:48I think that might be originally pink.
34:51Best on that?
34:52100 quid.
34:57And that one, best on that?
34:5930 quid.
35:01Take both of those.
35:0230 quid.
35:03Not even going to argue with that price.
35:05But they all look quite similar,
35:11but they're all slightly different.
35:14What's this bad boy in here?
35:16It's like the tree root.
35:18We're kind of in a forest
35:20of design-led mid-century upholstery
35:24and sort of stuffed under some cushions.
35:28I could just see this sort of gnarly arm.
35:30It'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.
35:40It's been tucked away.
35:42I'm going to get it blasted and...
35:43Yeah.
35:43Can I just say,
35:44it doesn't look like it should be here,
35:47mixed in with all this other stuff.
35:49I do buy random stuff
35:52that just catches my eye as well.
35:53Yeah.
35:54How much is this robe?
35:5780 quid.
35:58Yeah.
36:01Yeah.
36:01I will have that.
36:02OK.
36:02Thank you very much.
36:04It's one of those root, stumpy chairs,
36:08and it's sort of carved out
36:09of one big hunk of teak or something.
36:13But what I loved about it
36:15was somebody chucked a coat of paint over it,
36:18left it outside,
36:19and it had that kind of weathered look,
36:22like 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
36:45and then books and stuff in it.
36:47I don't know if it was someone's made it
36:49or if it came like that.
36:51I don't know, but it was quirky.
36:54When I first looked at it,
36:55I thought it was just kind of like a little bookshelf.
36:57But there's also a part in the middle of it
36:59for 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.
37:13That's a really nice thing.
37:17The utility there is amazing.
37:19Very well thought about.
37:21This unusual bookcase
37:23could be the work of 20th-century designer Isacon,
37:26known as the Isacon Donkey
37:28due 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
37:36as the shelves were the same size
37:38as the famous orange-coloured penguin paperbacks.
37:41Dating from the 1960s,
37:43this cool modernist piece
37:45should be a great fit for Shere Khan's customers.
37:48And if it is a genuine original,
37:50then it could be worth around £500.
37:57I'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
38:10and 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
38:21splay like that.
38:23This is where I have no understanding
38:25of 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.
38:51It's not needing any actual work, is it?
38:54It's not.
38:55No, it's solid.
38:58Cosmetic.
38:59Yeah, £60.
39:01I'll have that.
39:03It can be used as a coffee table,
39:06it 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
39:14will sell it for me.
39:16It's been really good for me to come here,
39:23see Rob in his own natural environment.
39:27Me and Vicky, we both brought some great stuff
39:29from Rob today.
39:31My home guard pendant lights,
39:33I 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
39:49till 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
40:06on the mercury glass lampshade.
40:08Shikhan snaps up at eight man.
40:11Right, first,
40:12I'm just going to give him wipe down
40:13see how much of the green paint comes off.
40:17This one is a challenge for me.
40:20I've rewired and restored mercury lights before,
40:23but none this far gone.
40:27Right.
40:27Whoa, it is just coming off with a soft brush.
40:37My brother wants it back up and green again.
40:41I don't think there's going to be any green left 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.
40:52You 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,
41:02are you 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 then some of the...
41:10So there's just...
41:11It's going to be left 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.
41:18That's what I reckon you should do.
41:19Good luck.
41:23Rather than remove all the old reflective 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.
41:36Right.
41:36The 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
41:43coming through the glass.
41:46With the reflective surface
41:48originally intended by the designer now restored,
41:51a primer can be applied.
41:54Before a new coat of enamel paint,
41:57in the vintage green shade
41:59Shere Khan knows his customers are looking for.
42:03Well, that looks okay for now.
42:05I'm going to leave it for a while,
42:07let 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.
42:23And then, as you can see,
42:25the original Merkur grass,
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.
42:35Now, getting the light fitting on
42:37and getting it lit up.
42:39I 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 chute 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
43:36and that will have a really good margin in them.
43:39So, happy.
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