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00:00on all new salvage hunters with almost 60 years combined experience three leading antique and
00:08salvage dealers are joining forces from west wales country house connoisseur alistair driverer
00:14loves the traditional sorry i know it's nice welsh it's handsome pine tavern settle don't try
00:21to sell it to me no i'm not trying to sell it you edinburgh-based dealer vicky knot has an
00:25incredible eye for interiors i just think ever easy i just think that's brilliant in london
00:32shirkan yumakja is a devotee of retro design and industrial salvage sourced from all over europe
00:39these were made by gents of leicester and it's a general post office one while his brother jay
00:45restores items back to life there's nothing to rust nothing to go wrong and that's why these last
00:51forever together they're traveling the country on the hunt for the very best antiques and decorative
00:58salvage
00:58this time still fierce a hundred year old lion in roaring condition
01:095 30s usually they you know you get some damage or it's really good stunning danish design lights
01:15up shirkan and vicky's day they've got white on the inside but it's not just painted it's an actual
01:21like a thin layer of white glass and experts advice on how to clean those dusty vintage pieces
01:28probably need a little bit of a dust i'll just use my bottom shall i
01:31based in north london dealer shirkan yumakja and brother jay have spent nearly 15 years building up a
01:46loyal customer base with a taste for industrial salvage and vintage lighting all dealers have their
01:52favorite items you know their bread and butter items with us it's lighting especially modern lighting
01:57from about the 1930s onwards and our client base is a young client base we have young male new money
02:06hard working and they have a specific style they like the modern lighting they like mid-century
02:12industrial lighting so that's why we're always on the lookout for that kind of thing because you know
02:17you need to feed your customers that's how you make your money
02:20today shirkan and jay are up at the crack of dawn to cross london keen to arrive early at a location
02:29where literally tens of thousands of vintage objects will be on offer including plenty of the
02:35in-demand items they need to find for their customers sunbury antiques fair it's always good yeah
02:42always good always pick up some lovely bits today hopefully will be a busy day the weather's good as well
02:48as long as the weather's good you get a lot of people even like they'll come last minute so hopefully
02:56we pick up some nice pieces first opened in 1878 the kempton park race course in sunbury-on-thames
03:05surrey is known for the famed king george the sixth chase held every boxing day but in more recent
03:12times it's been the backdrop for an event that's become legendary in the antiques world
03:17from modest beginnings over 40 years ago sunbury antiques fair is these days the largest and longest
03:24running twice monthly market in the country with over 700 sellers shifting everything from artwork to
03:31furniture and the best pickings are for those who are first out of the gate
03:35morning yeah so we always come here we all especially like before a fair before a show
03:46we'll come down here we'll have a look around sometimes go back with nothing sometimes fill
03:49our boots but there are those bread and butter things that we always sell you know good light
03:54in industrial clocks everything can be bought here that's quite nice isn't it it starts at 6 30.
04:02being here that early is important because that's when the good stuff they just fly out they're just gone
04:09so there's a smith's baker light clock wartime or pre-war electric clock the baker light is just perfect
04:24it's kind of just lightened up a bit the face of the clock has deteriorated perfectly as well smiths
04:30were very famous for the first electric clocks they're one of england's most famous clocks train
04:36stations factories big industrial clocks this double-sided clock would probably have hung outside
04:43a shop or business in the 1930s smith's english clocks were producing over 4 000 timepieces a week
04:51and their designs were to be seen in domestic industrial and public spaces so this clock comes
04:56with recognition and nostalgia it's high on the bestseller list for shir khan and with a little
05:02restoration from jay could be worth around 460 pounds i'll put new mechanism in there i like the face
05:12150 160. people that buy them it kind of like takes them back they're a very famous clock which makes it
05:21very saleable how much you got there's a dugdills lamp there dugdills is a british company it's an english
05:33company they produced some amazing lamps starting early 1900s from brass bankers lamps with glass shades
05:41to you know hardcore industrial lamps they were used by aerospace you know they were meant for really hard
05:48work but they just were so aesthetically beautiful there's one on the table there with its original
05:53base it's it's perfect 120 140 would be the best
06:02yeah go on then yeah you didn't know this one thank you sir you've got to know what your customers want
06:08and every time we do them up and we put them online they really don't hang around for long they sell
06:13just like that still got its original switch on it and it's 140 pounds we shake his head it's a perfect
06:19buy and and that is why we come here that is why we'll come here week after week
06:34what do you think they're for lads i'm guessing milk or wine no you don't have milk bottles that high
06:39yeah wine i could see but nickel oil ah for two-stroke engines okay in the 30s and you had a bottle of
06:46oil for every tank full of petrol okay so they put a bottle of oil in for every tank yeah because that's
06:52how two-stroke work because it's got no oil in the sumps really nice they're in good condition as well
06:58what you got in them 40 each i'm not gonna argue with that shape man thank you very much thanks for
07:04that all right can we just put them on the back of the van yeah and then i'm only i need to go around
07:09paying everyone my secretary will be around secretary no respect no respect whatsoever there's two crates
07:16there they're really nicely done they've got cast aluminium and it's got the name of the company
07:22nicholas they can go into retail they can go into someone's house and and they just they just look the
07:27part when it's something to do with automobiles when something to do with cars motorcycles anything like
07:32that you've got those people who who become potential customers
07:40that's why you got that line line that's quite nice it's all right a bit of fun
07:47do you like it i quite like it if you like you don't have a look at it you're all right
07:51oh the tail soft yeah it's got like a soft tail to it
08:01do you know how old this is uh 1930s 1930s yeah the fireside line it's uh pepe meshe yeah i'm saying
08:10for 9 30s usually that you know you get some damage or it's really good yeah no he's really
08:15lovely it is it's got a really nice look to it really nice lions tigers i love them i love the big
08:23cats and then you've got a really well made paper mache one and then some age to that 1930s the lady
08:31tells me no damage absolutely beautiful this statue is an early 20th century version of the fireside lion
08:39in wealthy georgian and victorian homes bronze or stone lions were often placed on either side of
08:45the fireplace echoing the power and status of the british empire this papier mache lion has a more
08:52playful folk art feel which would work for a modern or eclectic interior most likely a one-off
08:59shere khan thinks it could fetch around 440 pounds
09:02your best on that 140 140 140 very best
09:24at a giant antiques fair in surrey brothers shere khan and jay are trawling for the best-selling
09:29items their customers are always after that one oh and a 1930s papier mache fireside beast
09:39has stopped shere khan in his tracks your best on that 140 140 140 very best
09:49all right i'm taking it all i'm chuffed with that yeah it's really cool fantastic thank you very much
09:56that that's amazing oh i'm so happy with that things like that they're so collectible people
10:00love them you know there's a varied amount of people that that will go for that and again it's
10:05just one of those things that will just sell it's one of our bread and butter items you know good
10:09paper mache done properly always sells
10:15that's nice
10:16it's a glass what do you think it's okay it's a bit too far gone but just the cigarette part is
10:25gone but the abdullah is still there yeah that's nice and it's in this original thing oh nice it is
10:33nice abdullah cigarettes they used um turkish egyptian and i think american tobacco as well early 1900s
10:41it was a london-based cigarette company it's a bit gone on the part where it's the cigarettes but
10:46it's worn out gracefully um looks amazing you know we'll get it chained up hung up and it will
10:53look beautiful you're very best on that uh 150 150 150 120 i mean it's quite rare
11:04yeah okay 120 yeah lovely thank you very much thank you it's an arabic name it's a very popular name
11:14in the middle east so someone might not even go with the cigarette advertising they might just go
11:19with the name so you've got a whole new audience base that you can sell to
11:27me and my brother back on familiar ground another good day we always have a good day at
11:32kempton whether we're buying or selling got some really nice lighting got some clocks got oil
11:37canister crates the abdullah cigarette sign is a little bit special but i think today the best thing
11:45i bought is that paper mache lion it's just so lovely it's just adorable i haven't bought something this
11:51good in a long time this is one of the first markets we started selling at about 13 14 years ago
11:59and the good thing is like a lot of friends we've met over the ways we end up meeting them here
12:04you have a little chat have a coffee catch up on old times you always have a good day here
12:13i'm absolutely knackered man seriously no it's been a good day yeah everything
12:17we bought i'm happy with being here for 6 30 that is the only thing but early bird catches the worm
12:22that's it while jay heads back to london with a van load of best sellers to prep for sale
12:30shere khan has more buying to do this time he's joining forces with edinburgh-based dealer vicky not
12:37who over decades has honed her instincts for spotting the decorative but practical pieces she knows her
12:44customers are after i think it's getting a balance when you're dealing and having a shop you can't really
12:51fill it with sort of real kind of left field buys all the time you need to have a balance and i like
12:59to have really good practical interesting items for the home which keeps the balance i don't know if
13:06other dealers are like this but i can just look at something and i just go yeah that'll be in and out
13:12by the end of the day it's just an instinct it's 25 years of hard graft
13:20today shere khan wants to introduce vicky to a contract in north yorkshire
13:25he thinks might be a good source for pieces that will appeal to her customers
13:30vicky today we're going to see um someone that i've bought and sold with his name's tom he's got a
13:35company called eight man interiors i think i've seen him on instagram yeah yeah he's a young
13:42dealer he's in his early 20s really nice guy so do you think it's going to be a day that i'll be able
13:49to get a few bits and pieces from him yeah yeah he's got a lot i mean you know kind of uh visually
13:55decorative uh stuff and personally i think it could be more your day than my day today oh really yeah yeah
14:00yeah yeah and maybe you know i'll get some ideas from you as well you never know we're north yorkshire
14:06we're in the depth yeah yeah nunnington this is a bit different for you is it for me this is i come
14:13from the concrete jungle i come from london n17 this is beautiful for me honestly do you feel a wee bit
14:19like your own holiday yeah i feel like i'm in a different country
14:24the quiet village of nunnington takes its name from a christian nunnery
14:29built here openteenth century nunnington hall stands today more recently the village has become
14:35home to an extraordinary collection of vintage objects from the uk and beyond
14:39ape man interiors is the work of tom brennan
14:46i've always been a dealer from an early age selling antiques and decorative items out my bedroom at home
14:53i remember getting told off so much for going and buying useless junk but then i later found out that
14:59i could sell that useless junk for a profit i used to sell anything from cameras to militaria over
15:05time i moved to traditional english antiques then on to asian i love the quality of some of it the
15:13bright colors the different materials how rustic and worn items are i have bought off shir khan before
15:20but no i've never dealt with vicky but very excited too
15:28hi tom hello good to meet you i'm vicky you all right tom and good to see you again see you again
15:32how you been yeah really busy thanks yeah this is the first time i've been to his shop which looks
15:37absolutely amazing welcome yeah god this is incredible it's like an aladdin's cave yeah yeah is it chinese
15:43indian so there's a real mixture in here we've got tibetan korean we've got industrial lighting we've
15:50got a bit of french antiques but mainly it is india and china the shop it's a mixture of everything
15:58you know you've got industrial lights there and you've got fabrics from africa and it's all been put
16:03together and created in such a way that it all goes together the way tom has done this his style is
16:09impeccable it really is god i love that little basket is that one of the fishermen's type weave
16:17that is known as a flower basket right so it'll be used for people to sell flowers out at markets
16:23right hence the shape of it it's uh chinese yeah it's chinese yeah okay can i model it for you for a
16:29minute okay so yeah it'll be like this oh yeah that suits you actually like that do you like do you
16:35be sitting there and i've come come to the gentleman that you're with and i would say
16:39a flower for the lady really yeah and then i'd sell him a flower and he would give it to you
16:43in chinese of course all handmade all made of reeds incredibly skillful yeah it takes to produce
16:51and they last a lifetime i think that's quite a cool sort of decorative item isn't it um what about
16:57age-wise you know how old this is this one i would say is about 1880s in that sort of region what sort
17:04of money's in something like that tom so what does it say on the tag so we've got 120 on the tag yeah
17:11for you it could be 100 right okay
17:17i love it but i don't say much oh god there's not much left in that for me really it's the type of
17:23thing you want to touch you want to pick up you want to look at it's got curves it's got little bits
17:29of wire on it's just so gorgeous see i'd like to have it just tipping over the hundred do you know
17:36what i mean in the shop that means you've got to be enough in it for you yeah i could do 80.
17:43yeah go on then i'll take it at 80. thank you very much we'll get the ball rolling in all honesty
17:49there's not that much in it for me once we pay for everything but it's just a really pretty item to have
17:56in stock have you seen these before they're indian flasks army aren't they yes yeah i used to sell
18:03them actually leftover british army oh are they yeah i like the way the enamels kind of
18:09going on some of them it looks really nice well they're surplus the leftover so they would have
18:14just been dumped and then they're brought back to life over here what i love about them is see when
18:20you have them literally lined up like that as an army with flowers they look amazing don't they
18:27what kind of money are those retail 15 apiece trade they can be eight and that is it there's no
18:34movement yeah but i've i've sold hundreds of them every single one i get they always go
18:42you've got nine is that the only nine you've got oh that's probably the last nine i've got
18:46i'm going to take those yeah i think you should make with these i'll take those yeah yeah thank you
18:50very much not something that i would i would usually go for it's not really me but there was both
18:56something very decorative and very kind of masculine about it um so you know what i've been traveling
19:03around with vicky and i think she's kind of rubbed off on me a bit i think they they kind of suit my style
19:08as well these enameled water these enameled water canteens were made in calcutta by the bengal enamel
19:18works limited which opened in 1921 made for both british and indian army personnel they're highly
19:25decorative and could be worth around 20 pounds each we've not got very far in have we haven't
19:33it's a bit of mercury glass here i just want to have a look at some i think there's another mercury
19:41glass piece at the bottom as well the green one oh the green one yeah do you want to give me that
19:47and you can get that one out or do you want to just hold on to that one so are these are these shades
19:51british yeah they're british the really famous and really expensive ones of these are the german ones
19:56by zeiss icon zeiss i mean you'd know that they did the camera lenses yeah yeah yeah this green one
20:03is very nice i can feel a lot of soul from from an old piece of furniture from an old light
20:09that green on ceramics that green on any piece of old furniture everyone loves it that green sells
20:16and when it's aged like that even better what have you got on the green one green one could be 60
20:22do you take that thank you very much and the silver one 40. thank you very good good those fantastic
20:35underneath the outer enamel layer on these glass shades is a silvery paint which creates a reflective
20:41surface visible through the glass from the inside although the silvery chemical mercury was not
20:47involved the glass was known as mercury glass because of the brightness created when light hit
20:52the mirror surface inside the shade commonly used for strong lighting needed for shops warehouses
20:58and even outdoors these lamp shades have the vintage industrial feels sheer cans customers look
21:03for and with careful restoration could be worth around 210 pounds each honestly this place is just
21:12so beautiful thank you and you haven't even seen the half of it oh really oh god tell me about these
21:18your lamps they are laboratory lights okay they actually came out of a university in guildford right
21:24okay there's something just quite nice about them so i've got a set of four and one individual and
21:30they adjust up and down do they yep so they go up and down and then the shade itself can go up and down
21:36and twist that's why they make a good reading light yeah 80 quid each what's the trade on them
21:41if you wanted before that match they could be 65 each 50 quid each room by them
22:03at a dazzling antique collection in north yorkshire shir khan and vicky are on the lookout for crowd
22:09pleasers for their customers honestly this place is just so beautiful thank you and you haven't even
22:16seen the half of it oh really oh good and vicky's discovered a set of four adjustable laboratory lights
22:22which could make great reading lamps for a chic bedroom 80 quid each what's the trade on them they could
22:29be 65 each 50 quid each wouldn't buy them 55 would for that matching four for those four and obviously
22:42if you would like the the other one that could be another 55. it's nice when they're like they can
22:48sell them as a pair well i'm just thinking bedsides and stuff yeah do you know what i mean that's it
22:53pairs always sell better 250 for the five because there's not that much in them for me i'll do that
23:01for you yeah brilliant i'll have them thank you thank you the little science lab lights that vicky
23:07found fantastic you know the way she's rubbing off on me i found rubbing off on her tom really
23:12done her a favor on those she's not going to hold on to those for long they're going to go very quick
23:17the enamels they're quite nice aren't they enamels yeah all indian enamels there's just something
23:22about them i don't know what half of them say but the color and the picture on them is just right
23:28i just like the fact that some of these have been repurposed so what they've done is they've had an
23:32original enamel and then they thought we don't need that anymore so we'll just use the back
23:36bsc shoes look manufactured in batanagar i'm i'm assuming it means batanagar shoe company bsc
23:46i would imagine that yeah yeah what kind of money can that one be uh that one could be 60
23:52and the shoe one i would need 80 for the shoe one could we do 120 for both
23:59i could do 130. thank you very much the sanskrit writing graphically just looks absolutely amazing
24:09perfectly worn people love them i'm very happy with the price tom gave me a deal on those look above
24:15your head how genius is that rolling pins it's just an easy way to display them and it's got that
24:22dramatic effect they're cool aren't they yeah i'm sort of looking at these stools a little bit tom you've
24:27got a few of them dotted about those are chinese so these ones are known as spring benches they would
24:33be outside of shops restaurants and people would go outside and get the spring air they've got lovely
24:38color a lovely shape we get different styles depending on what region they're from so these
24:43are more simple um and then we have more heavily carved more decorative pieces can i get this one out
24:50here and get a look at it and get a set on it of course
24:59you probably need a little bit of a dust but other than that it's ready to go i'll just use
25:04my bottom shall i give it a polish at the same time every single person needs either a stool
25:10or a bench or a small table but my customers don't like anything that's too fancy too
25:16ornamental and some of the ones that tom's got here are maybe just too much for them what's the trade
25:23on that one 90. yeah i'll have that one thank you i reckon that might be the first of many tom
25:34so i was trying to pick something that i loved that had a little bit of different flavor to it
25:44but wouldn't be too far from a customer base and i picked one that i think is just in the sweet spot
25:55another good day of picking for me and vicky um we went in i mean by the time we were even like
26:01two foot into the door her with the basket and me with the hip flasks we'd already turned a deal
26:07tom honestly he was very very fair to both myself and vicky leaving us plenty of room to make a profit
26:15as well you know we've come down here so he didn't disappoint it's been a really good day seeing sheer
26:20khan again and also meeting vicky for the first time as a dealer it's always important to meet new
26:26people in the trade connections you make normally last a lifetime once you have a good contact they
26:32remain a good contact thanks for that call loved it tom's great he is really nice guy for me which
26:42was really strange was i kind of slightly stepped into the old i don't want to call them industrial but
26:49slightly more utility yeah the lights the lights yeah that was me rubbing off on you
26:56do you think it was yeah it was but then i went on for hip flasks to be used as little vases yeah yeah
27:08from yorkshire shir khan and ricky are heading across the pennines to lancashire where shir khan is
27:13keen to call on another dealer he thinks will appeal to both their buying sensibilities and their customers
27:19so we're off to see rob from black dog retro interiors today yeah i know him there's a couple
27:29of fairs i do and i've seen him there he drives all the way down from here um down to london does he
27:34yeah good mid-century furniture you know really nice kind of seating so is that what he he specializes in
27:42yeah mid-century furniture and and he really does know what he's doing so he's got this place here i've
27:48never been before but from what i understand it's in a old factory or kind of warehouse setting brilliant
27:59the fortunes of the preston area were transformed during the industrial revolution when machine
28:05powered mills were built here to process cheap cotton harvested by enslaved people in the united states
28:11today one of the largest surviving mill buildings is home to independent local businesses and since
28:172023 its vast top floor has been taken over by a specialist in the clean functional design styles
28:25of the mid-20th century rob munt
28:31black dog retro interior started completely by accident it was just a bit of a side hustle and
28:36it just evolved bigger than my full-time job and it's grown every year since to start with with
28:42mid-century furniture i didn't have a clue about it whatsoever but the more i was buying it the more
28:48i got interested in it the design the materials and it just caught my eye and interests since then the
28:55stuff that we buy uh being being this is 50 60 year old it's not always in the best condition so we like to
29:01strip it refinish it reupholster it you know give it a new life in another 50 60 years
29:05oh wow yeah yeah one of them liens
29:19you all right rob how we doing you all right yeah not bad vicky how are you doing wow it's a big place
29:26you've got here it's absolutely massive 12 000 square foot whoa is this open to the public yeah so we've
29:32got obviously we've got the showroom yeah and and then we've got workshop area around the back
29:36it's open to the public but by at the minute by appointment uh because we do nip in and out all
29:41the time yeah but most of it it's all online if i can get it online fast enough
29:47i mean what an absolutely amazing building total british industrial the lift just just the build of this
29:56place he's really done it properly chairs on the walls dining tables and and chairs set up like
30:03they would be in a kitchen yeah he's done he's done his work i'm having a real look at that bench behind
30:08you because we're doing a little bit of work in the kitchen okay and i'm needing a little bench
30:17well i found you one yeah i'm looking at it thinking it might work i think that's quite nice
30:21it's not bad actually we're in a sea of you know mid-century furniture which has been picked
30:30and restored with such an expert eye yet i'm drawn to a pine bench in the corner and it's simply because
30:43it's a great size it's immaculate and i need one for my kitchen
30:49in all honesty i do but as a commercial piece to come in and out my shop it's perfect it's all solid
30:58it's all doweled it's you know there's no screws or anything it's a good got some got some good age
31:03to it nice old pine bench what could you do that for me for uh 160 on it uh 120 120 yeah yeah i'll take
31:16that nice one thank you first one done first one done i know what i'm like it'll come off the van
31:22it'll get photographed it'll go on to socials and it'll sell like that and it'll probably never even
31:29get measured to go to the house these all ready to go rob these yep they're danish as well yeah home
31:35guard yeah they do a lot of very similar lamps as well yeah yeah and they've got like white on the
31:42side it's kind of like opaline yeah in the inside but it's not just kind of like painted it is an
31:48actual like a layer of white glass there's two lights there they niche they're by a company called
31:55home guard they're very desirable things you can get them in various colors like purples um oranges and
32:01yellows just that kind of droplet shape diffuses the light amazingly and they have this little just
32:07such a small detail it's a little teak top that the cable runs through it's just very very well
32:14designed you're looking at something from the 60s that even today looks totally modern it was a
32:21pioneering danish countess henrietta dannis guild samso who in 1825 harnessed energy from a local
32:29peat bog to heat the furnaces of a small glass workshop by the 20th century home guard had become a
32:36danish design powerhouse these elegant 1960s teardrop pendant lights are highly saleable
32:43and sold as a pair shere khan thinks they could be worth around 800 pounds
32:50it's got you've got 295 on one and 225 on the other yeah what's what's the very best on those 400
33:06it's been a week of introducing vicky to new contacts and discovering customer favorites
33:13and as a stunning mid-century antiques display in lancashire jir khan's found a pair of danish
33:19designed glass lampshades he knows he'll have no problem selling what's what's the very best on those
33:25400 yeah i'll do this yeah nice one nice one nice one they're fabulous they are they're really good
33:37looking things rob gives me a very good price on the pair you know all i can do is shake his hand
33:43i get a lot of chairs from the czech republic i'm assuming they they come to you upholstered from
33:52there innit no oh they don't no you gotta do all that here yeah wow depending on how good the finish
33:58is we'll strip them refinish them wow so you're putting a lot of work into these oh yeah yeah
34:04so mid-century is very hard it's not like selling other vintage or industrial items where you can
34:11keep them looking their worn selves with mid-century your customer wants to see it perfect
34:18so your restorations have to be perfect so this area here is this is the to-do area we all have one
34:27of them yeah yeah but these are the good parts these are the parts i like
34:35straight away i see a cream herbert terry angle poise it's an early one reason why i know it's
34:40an early one there's no plastic fittings it's all metal then he has a small metek i thought at first
34:49that it was maybe a re-spray because it's like a pink but on further kind of inspection i think that
34:54might be originally pink best on that
35:00100 quid and that one best on that 30 quid take both of those 30 quid not even going to argue with
35:10that price but they all look quite similar but they're all slightly different what's this bad boy
35:20in here all right so what is it like the tree root we're kind of in a forest of design-led mid-century
35:29upholstery and sort of stuffed under some cushions i could just see this sort of gnarly arm it's the
35:36ball root yeah it's the center yeah you know they make um bowls out of them as well yeah this one's
35:43supposed to be painted yeah yeah it's been tucked away i'm gonna get it blasted and yeah can i just
35:49say it doesn't look like it should be here mixed in with all this other stuff i do buy random stuff
35:56that just catches my eye as well yeah how much is this rope 80 quid
36:03yeah yeah i will have that okay thank you very much it's one of those root stumpy chairs and it's
36:13sort of carved out of one big hunk of teak or something but what i loved about it was somebody
36:21chucked a coat of paint over it left it outside and it had that kind of weathered look like it
36:28had just been sitting there unloved so these are again all projects rob yeah everything just needs
36:37stripping refinished it's quite a sweet wee thing what is it uh i got it from when i was picking up a
36:47sideboard they had like magazines in it and then books and stuff in it i don't know if it was
36:53someone's made it or if it came like that i don't know but it was quirky when i first looked at it
37:00i thought it was just kind of little like a little bookshelf but there's also a part in the middle of
37:04it for magazines or books it's just really well designed really well made it's too well made to be
37:11scratch built what kind of money is that 40 quid i can't say no to 40 quid on that no you can't
37:17that's that's a really nice thing the utility there is amazing very well thought about
37:26this unusual bookcase could be the work of 20th century designer isicon known as the isicon donkey
37:33due to its four legs and angled shelving that resembled panniers carried by a donkey bookcases
37:39like these were later renamed the penguin donkey as the shelves were the same size as the famous orange
37:44colored penguin paperbacks dating from the 1960s this cool modernist piece should be a great fit for
37:51shir khan's customers and if it is a genuine original then it could be worth around 500 pounds
38:03i'm just looking at this wee table it's an old school desk yeah what is that
38:07so it's a kid's desk a kid's desk yeah i think it's got a good look and a good shape i think
38:18and it doesn't move or anything no it's just just as as it is quite like the
38:25the way the legs display like that this is where i have no understanding of how my brain works to be
38:32honest with you i have walked past 20 30 40 50 tables today but i didn't really see a margin in any of
38:40them and then i just saw this tapered compass type leg and i thought that looks quite interesting
38:48turns out it's like a little school table but it's got a little bit of a look how much is it
38:5616 quid it's not needing any actual work is it no no it's solid cosmetic yeah 60 pounds i'll have that
39:07thank you it can be used as a coffee table it can be used as a stool it can sit in a hallway for whatever
39:15reason it drew me to it that's what ultimately will sell it for me it's been really good for me to
39:28come here see rob in his own natural environment me and vicky would both put some great stuff from
39:34rob today my home guard pendant lights i think they tip the scale i think they're great things it's been
39:42good having uh chicago and vicky around today and i think they found some good good bargains and i've
39:47made a few sales happy rob thank you very much man thank you thanks for coming hello won't be too
39:54long till i see you again down london yeah a couple of weeks yeah we'll see you there have a good one
39:57you too take care see you later thank you
40:00in his north london workshop restorer j is starting work on the mercury glass lampshade shir khan snaps
40:14up at eight man all right first i'm just going to give him wipe down see how much of the green paint
40:21comes off this one is a challenge for me i've rewired and restored mercury lights before but none this far
40:30gone all right whoa it is just coming off with a soft brush my brother wants it back up and green again
40:45i don't think there's going to be any green left by the end of this as the 100 year old green enamel
40:53paint flakes away it takes some of the silvery reflective layer underneath with it you know that
40:59green uh mercury light yeah it's not green it's glass it's all crumbled off yep wow if you spray this
41:06are you just going to have to get this all off no i'm going to leave it you're going to leave these
41:10little bits yeah and but still spray silver over yeah so there's some of the so this is left on
41:17there so when people look underneath they're going to be able to see the old and the new hold and the
41:21new all right yeah that's what i reckon you should do good luck
41:29rather than remove all the old reflected paint jay's plan is to preserve the originality
41:34by sealing what's left of it under a modern silver based mirror paint
41:41right the mirror spray is dried now all areas covered once we remove that you're going to see
41:46it's going to have a mirror effect coming through the glass
41:52with the reflective surface originally intended by the designer now restored a primer can be applied
41:58before a new coat of enamel paint in the vintage green shade shere khan knows his customers are looking
42:06for that looks okay for now i'm going to leave it for a while let it dry
42:21i'm pretty happy with the enamel spray because it's a pretty thick coat there's no drips no nothing so it
42:26looks really nice right and then as you can see the original mercury glass what was left as i was
42:33scraping off and then the other bits are all the mirror spray i'm happy with that now getting the
42:41light fitting on and getting it lit up
42:44i like that that is really nice
42:58with their brilliance restored the mercury lamps are ready for sale along with the rest of the week's
43:04haul of best sellers so everywhere we went this week we came up trumps found exactly what we were looking
43:11for got some really nice indian enamel signs from eight man especially the batangar shoot factory one
43:18then sambri antiques always delivers the lion that was probably my favorite vial this week animals in
43:26ceramic animals in paper mache metal animals they they just sell people love them this lion it's got
43:33size it's got looks it won't hang around for long so this week it's been a lot of items that will turn
43:40over quickly and they'll have a really good margin in them so happy
43:52you
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