Antiques Road Trip

VOICEOVER (VO): It's the nation's favorite antiques experts...

Perfect.

Sold.

VO: ..behind the wheel of a classic car... Lovely day for it.

VO: ..and a goal - to scour Britain for antiques.

Every home should have one of these.

VO: The aim?

To make the biggest profit at auction.

But it's no mean feat.

Yes!

VO: There'll be worthy winners... 950... You're gonna make �1,000!

VO: ..and valiant losers.

No!

VO: Will it be the high road to glory... Make me a big profit.

VO: ..or the slow road to disaster?

Are we stuck?

IRITA & RAJ: Yay!

VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip.

VO: Yeah... VO: Ey up!

I'm salivating.

Come on, today's the day.

Do you want a tissue?

(LAUGHS) VO: We're in East Yorkshire, love!

I want to become your... Marcus Aurelius.

Emperor of the Antiques Road Trip.

VO: Okey dokey...

It's the third leg, with auctioneers Glasgow gal Natasha Raskin Sharp and Derby's answer to Gladiator, Charles Hanson.

Ha!

I quite like Vesta.

Yes.

The goddess of the hearth and the home.

You can be goddess of the Riley.

VO: Our regal deities are pootling around in the 1932 Riley Monaco - the oldest automobile to ever feature on the Road Trip.

Manufactured at a time before seat belts were mandatory, don't you know?

And - she is a beauty.

Do you think there's some untapped treasure out there?

I really do!

VO: Last time, despite Charles being Charles...

It's quite dangerous, I think.

What's your name?

Oh!

VO: ..and Natasha's frothy excitement...

I just love tiles.

These are so sweet.

VO: ..there was no messing at the auction.

At �75... (GAVEL) I'll take that!

VO: Especially with Charles' arty find on a bus.

We're all done at 150... (GAVEL) Oh, I can't believe it!

We've become a good pair... in our journey...

Yes.

..and I want to buy a his and hers.

NATASHA (NS): A his and hers?

OK. Well, good luck with that.

VO: The mind boggles!

Let's crack on, shall we?

Natasha started with �200.

After her second sale, she has accrued a little more - �264.94.

Charles had �200, and is Mr Moneybags now, with �434 and 12 pennies.

I want to buy one object at �400.

NS: No, you don't!

CHARLES: I do.

OK, Charles.

Don't tease.

VO: Dream big, Charles!

Their tour began in Northumberland and Newcastle, but today the party continues in East Yorkshire... ..nudging further to the final showdown in Hertfordshire.

I can really smell the Yorkshire air.

Oh, right, yeah!

(SNIFFS) CHARLES: Can you smell it?

NS: No.

All I can smell is the gears.

Actually, that could be the clutch.

NS: (LAUGHS) That could be our clutch.

NS: Sorry.

My mistake!

(COUGHS) VO: Oh, he loves to ham it up!

Our cheeky pals are in East Yorkshire, shopping all the way to Cullingworth in the west.

First stop - Beverley.

VO: Home to the not-surprisingly-titled Beverley Antiques and Collectors Centre.

Look at that.

CHARLES: Hold on.

NS: This must be our stop.

NS: 'Antique Centre.'

CHARLES: What a gorgeous day.

You know when you feel good?

NS: Yeah.

CHARLES: After you.

NS: Oh, ever the gent.

CHARLES: Pleasure, pleasure!

VO: He is!

Now, this place is a veritable maze - 90 cabinets stuffed full over two floors.

Let's release the experts.

(FLOOR CREAKS) That's my knee, creaking a bit.

VO: You should see a doctor, mate!

I hope I'm allowed to go into the drawers.

MAN: (CALLS) Yeah.

CHARLES: Thank you.

That's OK.

Thank you very much.

Just...checking.

Don't want to be, you know, trespassing!

VO: Oh, Charles!

With over �400, he is loaded.

Get that wallet out, boy!

The first-ever antique I bought, when I was eight years old, was when I was on holiday... ..in a caravan.

I took �8 with me and I bought something quite similar to this.

And it was a commemorative saucer celebrating the coronation of King Edward VIII.

I thought, "Wow, I've made a fortune here."

"This is so unusual.

He was never crowned."

But my �8 investment is now worth �2, rather than �8...

But it got me going.

That takes me back.

It's still here.

(DRAWER CLATTERS) VO: Crumbs!

(SOFTLY) Might leave it.

Follow me.

VO: Just look at you now, handsome.

His compadre is hunting for bargains.

She's got just over �260.

Oh, that's quite cool, lined up the back.

You have, first of all, a pepperette.

So, same sort of shape as a sugar sifter, but a pepperette's smaller.

And, according to the label, we're in 1759, so George II is on the throne and spices have been brought over to England and people are making their food more interesting.

VO: It's priced at �89.

But then, according to this label, we are in 1899.

So, here we have them pre-ground, ready for sprinkling.

Here one grinds one's peppercorns.

Love it...

I really like this grinder, I have to say.

It's very sweet.

VO: The French family Peugeot invented the pepper grinder in 1842 before they became renowned for automobiles.

Drive on!

I think this is the more interesting of the two.

Do people collect silver tableware?

They absolutely do.

It's only marked up at �45.

VO: Sounds like a definite maybe.

Now, I spy handsome.

CHARLES: A nice black Morocco case.

That drew my eye, I thought, "This is quite nice."

Within the case is a beautiful Masonic.

You've got the enamel pendant down here with a crown coronet and on the back of the medallion, we can see John Hall was awarded this medallion by Lodge 5199 on 7th October 1936.

And isn't it crazy?

That whole object, silver enamel, could be yours for �20.

I like it.

NS: Charles...this is risky stuff.

CHARLES: Hold on, hold on.

Watch, watch, watch.

NS: (LAUGHS) Watch a pro in action!

CHARLES: Look at that, hey?

NS: I can't watch!

CHARLES: What do we say?

It's going, going... NS: No, no!

It's wobbling, it's wobbling..!

CHARLES: It's alright.

Look.

Going, going... CHARLES: Not gone yet!

NS: Not gone.

OK... NS: (SERIOUSLY) Charles... CHARLES: Yes?

Charles, can I just give you some advice?

CHARLES: Yes.

NS: Don't get cocky.

NS: Don't get cocky, please.

It's wobbling.

CHARLES: Hold on.

NS: Please... You're not going to do it, are you?

(WHISPERS) Too late.

VO: Whoa!

Look at that!

Astonishing!

I thought we were about to have a smashing time!

I've found, almost, his and hers.

There's almost... a drink for Natasha.

Cheers, Tash.

Have a big drink.

And then for Hanson, keep straight, have a smaller drink.

They're just quite sweet, aren't they?

They're little scent bottle jars.

This one, clearly, is hallmarked on here for London about 1902.

That's wonderful cut crystal with a conical stopper.

It has been smashed just there.

But how elegant is that, from the Edwardian times?

It could be yours for �21.

Here's a smaller one, with a bit more embossed decoration on the collar.

That one could be yours for �14.

Not bad, is it, when it comes to buying proper antiques?

Love them.

VO: The his and hers Edwardian scent bottles, and the George V Masonic pendant make a total of �55.

Bruce is the man in charge.

Hi Bruce.

So, if I bought the two together, �55...

I might say any chance of a Brucie Bonus?

BRUCE: 35, the three.

CHARLES: How much?

35 for the three.

CHARLES: Are you being serious?

BRUCE: Yes.

I'm going to say I'll take the lot.

I owe you �35, don't I?

VO: �15 for the George V Masonic pendant and �20 for the his and hers Edwardian scent bottles, leaving him with nearly �400.

We'll catch up with Charlie Boy later.

Meanwhile, back inside... NS: So let me just duck in here... ..and grab this, which is very sweet.

It's a cotton reel stand, undoubtedly Victorian.

Ignore the multicolored threads.

Look at the brown elements.

Proper antique, probably about 1870, 1880, something like that.

It's a smart, practical object.

Sewing is trendy right now.

It's not wildly expensive, at �58.

VO: Stand by...

The shop's other dealer, Peter.

I'm quite interested in this cotton reel stand.

Yeah.

I think it is a practical, and...to me, quite delightful item.

That's marked up at �58.

VO: And the Victorian pepper mill for 45.

So, �103...

I think that I might be offering... ..�65 for the pair.

I was thinking 70.

So...

Were you?

..for �5 I would accept your �65.

NS: Oh, you will?!

PETER: I will.

NS: Amazing.

Well, I'm really grateful.

Thank you so much.

VO: Hey, powerful haggling, Tash!

�30 for the Victorian pepper mill and 35 for the Victorian seamstress' companion.

She has almost �200 left.

NS: Oh, look at that!

VO: Now...after all that shopping, Charles is feeling peckish.

He's traveled to Barton-upon-Humber, in Lincolnshire to discover the roots of a universally loved British staple, beloved by the nation for almost three centuries.

Food historian Peter Brears will tell us all about this golden turret of baked goodness - the Yorkshire pudding!

Way back in 1737, the famous pud recipe first appeared as dripping pudding, in a book called 'The Whole Duty of a Woman'.

Ten years later, the original domestic goddess, Hannah Glasse, coined the term Yorkshire in her smash-hit cookery book 'The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy'.

Why did the Yorkshire pud come about?

What was the need for it?

The main thing about it is it's cheap ingredients, but to make it, you need expensive ingredients.

You need lots of coal, which is expensive, you need roast joints, which is expensive.

And that means it probably originated with the mining communities.

They had free coal and they always had big joints of beef.

VO: As one of the most famous food writers of the time, Hannah Glasse's christening of the dish spread fast, and thus Yorkshire became the new name.

Nigel Brown, chef and proud Yorkshireman, has brought his barbie to whip up a pud recipe, Georgian style.

In goes the batter... ..into the nice hot tray.

And then from there, as the beef is now on the spit roast, down goes the lid, and that's where the magic happens.

So, what happens next?

So, what happens next is all the dripping from the beef will drip into the Yorkshire pudding batter, and then it'll also flavor it.

But as it flavors, the heat from the fire underneath and from the sides will rise the Yorkshire pudding batter up the sides.

VO: No soggy bottoms allowed!

Ha-ha!

On your marks, get set, bake!

CHARLES: Oh!

Look at that!

NIGEL: Lovely piece of beef, and a Yorkshire pudding rising, as we would expect.

VO: Rather than the meat dripping being lost to the fire, the tray with the pudding batter would catch all the flavor and fats to make the dripping pudding a filling starter.

That needs a few more minutes, though.

Taste test later.

My mouth is watering.

Look at that, ooh!

And if you'd like to see the modern way, come with me now.

I'd love to.

VO: Inside Nigel's gastronomic HQ, let's sample Georgian versus 21st century.

CHARLES: Aha, the kitchen!

So, Nige, what's happening here?

While we were cooking the Yorkshire pudding traditionally outside on the barbecue, I put the modern versions in the ovens here.

And, as you can see, just like magic, they've really risen to the heights of a traditional, modern-version Yorkshire pudding.

VO: Far smaller than the original, the present-day creation happened around 100 years ago.

PETER: Busy housewives found it much easier to drop spoonfuls of the batter around and that gave you the Yorkshire puffs, as they're called.

CHARLES: Now, I just can't wait to dig in.

And I think what we ought to do, shall we try the old variant first?

The antique Yorkshire pudding from the 18th century.

I think that you'd find the contrast interesting.

NIGEL: (CHUCKLES) Mm!

And actually, even today, the antique pud certainly has not lost its charm.

Good health!

VO: And what about the 21st-century version?

This is the most dressed-up, and most impressive, almost glamorous Yorkshire pud I've ever seen.

But let's try it, shall we?

Let's do that.

Mm!

Mm!

What I would say is it's as tasty as it looks, and I really mean that.

And with the onions as well, very simple veg, it sits so well.

And we have a great saying in Yorkshire - you don't get owt for nowt!

PETER: (LAUGHS) NIGEL: So, who's paying?

CHARLES: You don't get owt for nowt, no!

And I'll tell you what, this is so simple, but yet so very, very tasty.

VO: I think Charles will be doing the washing up!

This humble pud, that has evolved from the pages of a Georgian cookery book, has stood the test of time.

Here's to another 300 years of the glorious Yorkshire pudding.

One last mouthful and I'll say cheerio.

NS: I'm making sure that I keep Charles in check.

He's always going to make money, just keep him in check.

Don't let him get too smug.

VO: Absolutely.

Natasha has meandered to the village of Skirlaugh, in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

NS: This looks more like it.

(SOFTLY) OK.

I'm just going through these.

There are, as you can see, hundreds, there are hundreds of glasses.

It's probably around 1880 or something like that, the etching.

But I'm just wondering, holding it in my hand, I felt there that the foot is really uneven.

So I'm looking at it.

Yeah, if I hold it up, it's far from perfectly round.

There are some really nice imperfections along this foot.

VO: There's a healthy market for early glassware.

Now, there isn't a price.

NS: Look at this!

This...is 25p.

So how much is Carol going to ask for this glass?

I would hope no more than a pound.

And I think it's going to be mega cheap, so...

..I think I'm sold.

VO: What else?

It's hard to see the wood for the trees with the stainless steel, but there's something that sticks out a mile.

But I'm quite confident that these are...the real McCoy.

'Stelton, stainless, Denmark.'

VO: Stelton were established in 1960, but their association with the leading Danish architect, Arne Jacobsen, king of functionality, cemented their success.

With this pair of candlesticks, what you're tapping into is the mid-century Danish Scandinavian market.

(HIGH-PITCHED) Huge...right now.

These are quite iconic, they were designed to be functional.

So a great name, a great country, a great era, a great price.

Come on, �2.

VO: The box isn't original, so Tash is leaving it behind.

Now, time to talk dosh.

Carol, may I interrupt you?

Yeah.

First of all, I know the price of the candlestick holders.

They are �2.

Let's go with those.

And then this little bit of glass.

I did notice there wasn't really anything more than �1 in that neck of the woods.

NS: What's your price tag?

CAROL: To you, �1?

NS: Are you sure?

CAROL: Absolutely.

Let's do it then, Carol.

That's quick and easy.

VO: And very generous, Carol.

Thank you.

Natasha now has nearly �197.

NS: Last of the big spenders.

NS: We might not make it up this hill.

Lean forward.

CHARLES: Just think, Yorkshire pudding this way.

It's been a long day.

CHARLES: Go!

Push!

CHARLES: Push!

NS: There we go.

For Yorkshire!

CHARLES: Always a drama with Charles.

Nighty night.

VO: Cock-a-doodle-doo!

We're in West Yorkshire.

What is that smell, by the way?

Is that you?

It's not me!

Excuse me, we're surrounded by fields!

VO: Stupid boy.

You really know how to treat a lady.

You take her to a field and then say, "Is that you that stinks?"

It smells like eggs.

Yeah, well, speak for yourself!

VO: It gets worse!

Yesterday, Natasha was a bargainista, picking up a Victorian seamstress's companion, a Victorian pepper mill, a 19th-century crystal wine glass and a pair of Danish, mid-20th-century candleholders...

These are...quite iconic.

VO: ..leaving her with just under �200.

While Charles was thoughtful.

He collected a George V Masonic pendant and the his and hers Edwardian scent bottles.

How elegant is that?

VO: Charles has a smidge under �400.

CHARLES: Look at that in the glove box now.

Have a look.

(HORN HONKS WEAKLY) CHARLES: My honk's gone.

NS: Very glamorous!

Which one is his and which one is hers?

What did you pay?

They cost me �20.

NS: No, they didn't!

CHARLES: They did!

VO: I love 'em.

Their northern sojourn today will be around West Yorkshire.

With Natasha dropped off elsewhere... ..Charles begins in the village of Oulton.

Stand by, Vintage in Oulton.

(HORN) VO: He just loves tooting that horn.

Top of the day.

And there's work to do.

VO: There certainly is.

Which way, Snakey, do I need to go to find the real antiques?

There we go.

Right, I'm going that way.

VO: Unusual.

CHARLES: Come on, Hanson.

So, what I found on this ledge is a really attractive tea set.

And when you first pick up the teapot, you think, "Wow, what great quality."

You've got figures almost in this very... peculiar dancing pose.

There's me...(CHUCKLES) ..and there's Natasha.

It's marked for Furstenberg.

Furstenberg were a really important German factory, who really rivaled Meissen in the 18th century.

Quite complete, ten-piece setting.

Missing one item.

Mental note, I love it.

There's no price tag, and I will see how much it is a bit later.

VO: Nice, Charles.

What else can you find with a kitty of nearly 400 smackers?

Oh, my goodness me.

This here, I love.

You'll see all this sort of almost amber staining on the inside of this bottle.

It's what you call a phial.

And if you were a woman back in, say, the 1780s, you would take your phial to your local perfumer, who would decant scent into your phial to take home.

So it's almost a recyclable transporter of perfume.

But when you can...(SNIFFS) ..smell history, it really puts history into a certain context of what the pungent smells were like back then.

VO: Ticket price of this olfactory assault on the senses is �32.

Put that on the maybe pile and keep sniffing about.

Quite taken by these light fittings.

Look at that, they're hung like that in a 1920's setting, and the glass... ..it's beautifully molded in three sections and they are in a, what you might call, Bauhaus, Germanic, very modern style.

I reckon they're 1920's, and they are a really smart pair of hanging ceiling lights.

Look at that, an almost... spreading base - oops - like a sunburst, and that small, little drop of glass on the base there as well really radiates around.

Beautiful.

VO: These are art deco holophane lighting fixtures.

The glass prisms cleverly provide up light and down light to avoid glare from the bulb.

Could be an auction hottie, this.

They don't have a price.

Now, there's Angie.

She can help Charles with the 18th-century phial, and the unpriced tea set, hopefully.

In terms of the tea set, what could be the very best price on that?

�50?

That's amazing.

VO: And the phial priced at 32?

ANGIE: So we can do 20% on that, 25 will do us lovely, yes.

I'll take it.

VO: Angie needs to call a dealer about the price of the lights.

ANGIE: Hiya, it's Angie, from Vintage in Oulton.

I'm just ringing about the lights that you've got and what the best price is that you could do on them, please?

So, 180 for the pair.

Lovely, thank you very much.

Have a good day.

ANGIE: Bye.

CHARLES: Is that the death?

I'll take another fiver off for you.

CHARLES: How much?

ANGIE: 175.

CHARLES: I like them, and it's a big spend at 175, but I think sometimes you've got to take a chance.

ANGIE: Is that a deal on 175?

CHARLES: We have a hat-trick deal.

ANGIE: Lovely.

CHARLES: Thank you very much.

CHARLES: �250, correct?

ANGIE: Correct.

CHARLES: My cash is almost gone.

VO: Good Lord.

He's spent a packet on his hat-trick of goodies, meaning he has just pennies short of �150 left.

It's amazing.

As I was leaving, they found the actual chain... ..and original light bulb to go with my light.

Let there be light at the auction.

CHARLES: Perfect.

VO: Even better.

VO: Let's leave the illuminated one in his giddy excitement.

Meanwhile, Tash has skipped over to Leeds.

It's a little-known fact that the city, over 125 years ago, was the backdrop for the very first moving images.

The real father of cinematography mysteriously vanished before he could claim his place in history.

Curator John McGoldrick can rewind and tell us all.

Hi, you must be John.

Hi, Natasha.

Welcome to Leeds Industrial Museum.

VO: Many will credit Thomas Edison as the inventor of the very first moving picture.

But right here in Leeds, they have evidence that the title could belong to that of a brilliant inventor, Frenchman Louis Le Prince.

JOHN: He came to settle in Leeds in 1866.

He got an invite back to work with the firm of Whitley Partners, who were brass founders based in the city.

And what kept him here in Leeds?

JOHN: It was love that kept Le Prince in Leeds, and he married the daughter of his boss, which was quite a high-risk strategy.

VO: As a child, Le Prince regularly visited the early pioneer of photography, Louis Daguerre, and developed a keen interest.

But in the 1880s, his obsession moved to the early cinematic technologies with his invention of a 16-lens camera.

Le Prince received a patent for this machine in 1888.

JOHN: It was a successful patent in the sense that he managed to get a patent for it, but it wasn't, ultimately, a successful invention.

It was more of a stepping stone, working towards his ultimate single-lens camera.

VO: The Le Prince single-lens cinecamera, also patented in the same year, would become a ground-breaking device able to capture a moving image.

It really was a kind of leap in the dark for him.

There was nothing else to kind of base his ideas on, so it was very much trial and error.

VO: This camera had the same mechanism to all the moving-image cameras that came thereafter.

A single roll of film moves from one spool to another through a shutter, taking a sequence of images which would then be projected to show the animation.

NS: I've never seen the first-ever film, I believe you're going to show it to me.

JOHN: We've got a copy of it in the cinema, if you'd like a look now.

NS: I'm so looking forward to it.

VO: The museum is home to one of the smallest 1920's cinemas in the world.

Perfect for watching the flicks.

NS: This is a great set-up!

VO: What we're about to see was filmed in 1888 and predates Edison and the Lumiere brothers by half a decade.

So it's a real, sort of, slice of life in two seconds.

NS: So what are the limitations that allow him to make these very short films?

The technology of the time really only allowed...

The mechanical issues with the camera were still unresolved, and the available photosensitive paper could only, sort of, allow a very short exposure.

VO: Roundhay Garden Scene is first.

NS: Oh, right.

Oh gosh.

It is so quick!

One, two, three, four... and then just at the end, a fifth figure comes in.

So are we able to say who we're watching here?

JOHN: It's filmed in the garden of Louis Le Prince's wife's parents' house.

The young man walking out at the front, that's Louis Le Prince's son, Adolphe.

He's after maximum animation, and that was the title of his patent.

It was a machine for capturing animated pictures.

So just anything to, sort of, prove that his technology worked.

He took another film that year, aided by his son Adolphe, from Leeds Bridge.

And you just see a bustling, thriving industrial city, the kind of thing that had never been filmed before.

VO: So, Louis had proven he could successfully capture the action, and he then experimented with projection techniques and was due to hold his first public screening in 1890.

Then he had to go back to France to take care of some business, and he got on a train at Dijon, heading back to Paris, but he was never seen to get off the train at Paris.

He just vanished into thin air.

NS: Just gone?

JOHN: Yeah, just gone.

There are many conspiracy theories about his whereabouts and how he disappeared.

Some of them include rival inventors looking to kind of eliminate him from the picture and possibly steal his ideas.

That's obviously conjecture.

Other theories that he might have wanted to disappear himself, because he was, allegedly, depressed about the lack of progress with his projection ideas.

VO: Although a technical success, he didn't commercially, publicly succeed.

But today, his efforts have not been forgotten.

JOHN: Famous film figures like Martin Scorsese have referenced Le Prince as one of the key pioneers of the industry.

So if Martin Scorsese is passing the word on, then hopefully that will get the word around.

VO: Now, where's our film star hunk Hanson?

The lights are a gamble.

In my box here, drive carefully, Hanson.

VO: Indeed.

Charles is pointing the Riley to the village of Cullingworth, the heart of Bronte country.

Can Charles reach the Wuthering Heights of the trip here?

Who writes this stuff?

CHARLES: Oh!

VO: Gently, Charles.

Antiques at the Mill resides inside this former worsted mill.

There are over 30 dealers selling in here.

Giddy up and get spending, Hanson!

Charles has nearly �150 left.

There's me bat, I used to play a lot of cricket.

A few years ago.

VO: Yeah, I can tell.

This is what you call just breaking in the bat.

Sorry.

Right...

Sorry about that.

VO: Stupid boy.

Ooh!

Look who's just arrived.

Morning, campers!

NS: Oh, I went the wrong way.

Well, that sounds better.

VO: No time to dilly-dally.

Tash has just over �195.

That's silver.

I know it's silver, but it's a mess.

Oh, it's so sad to see!

Holes, dents, tears!

W & H, Walker and Hall, so we have a fine maker.

We're in the first decade of the 20th century.

A dressing table mirror made for travel.

Take it with you, flat-pack.

Take it to your hotel, put it on the table, fix your face, fix your scent, brush your hair and off you go.

VO: Very glam.

It's priced at �18.

Can't believe it.

Mirror, mirror in the Riley, who has got the biggest smiley?

NS: Did you call for me?

CHARLES: It's you!

I can hear you!

I can see you in Snow White, actually.

Um...evil stepmother?

You've got that kind of vibe.

CHARLES: Oh, thanks!

NS: (LAUGHS) VO: They're best friends, really.

Something's caught my eye.

I'm not somebody who wears a lot of jewelry.

If I were, I might be inclined to buy this little casket.

So there's the mark you want to see on an item like this - WMF.

Wurttembergische Metallwarenfabrik.

Ha-ha!

But actually, on this one, it's WMF-B, so the B is letting us know that this is not silver plate.

This is Britannia metal.

So a nice, shiny metal that mimics the appearance of silver, but it's actually mainly made of tin.

I think that mark also helps us to date it, right in the early 20th century.

And this is a good color.

It's a beautiful, deep red.

VO: How much?

NS: �65... �65.

Let's do a deal, hopefully.

VO: Along with the art nouveau mirror, let's find Janet, to try and snap them up.

The first on the list is this hallmarked silver Walker & Hall mirror.

It's very bashed, it's lost its stand, but it's priced at �18.

So, come on, we can't quibble.

NS: Let's go with that.

JANET: No, it is nice.

VO: And what about the art nouveau jewelry casket at 65?

NS: So, I'd like to present them to auction together.

I think a couple of dressing table items is a nice little lot.

So, do you think... ..you would take �40 for it?

JANET: Yes, we would.

NS: Are you sure?

JANET: Yeah.

NS: Fantastic!

That's really kind of you.

Thank you so much.

I think the crowd will go wild.

JANET: Yes.

VO: A total of �58 for the Tash combo lot.

Speaking of wild...

Seriously, this shop's amazing here in Bradford.

Had a big twist with my amazing pair of ceiling lights, but I think it's now time to stick.

Stick, Hanson.

Pull in your mitts.

Let's go to auction.

You've got five things already.

Let's make a memory.

VO: He does love making those.

NS: Right.

Come on, Carlos.

CHARLES: Where are you going?

NS: I'm going in the passenger seat, cuz you are driving.

CHARLES: Am I driving?

NS: Yes, of course you are.

It's quite hilly round here.

NS: I'm exhausted - you must drive.

CHARLES: Come on.

VO: Keep him in line, Tash.

We can have a games night - a historical quiz.

And I can say to you, right, Natasha, which famous queen died in 1694?

VO: Best get some shut-eye.

By the way, it's Mary II.

VO: With a frenzy of excitement, we're gearing up for a watch of the third auction.

Kelham Island Museum stands upon a man-made island over 900 years old.

CHARLES: Wow... You know, it's gritty, isn't it?

CHARLES: This is Sheffield.

NS: Yeah.

It could be, today, The Full Monty of results.

NS: Do me a favor, Charles - keep your hat on!

NS: (LAUGHS) CHARLES: Tasha!

VO: Perish the thought!

Our Road Trip buddies have enjoyed a Yorkshire whirl and now find themselves in the city of Sheffield... ..while their antiques have been dispatched to Evesham in Worcestershire... ..to Littleton Auctions... ..for sale in the room, on the phone, and the web.

The man in command is Martin Homer.

Charles bought five items for the sum of �285.

Any faves?

The George V Masonic medal is of Masonic interest, and I think we'll have a few followers on that particular lot.

VO: Natasha collected five lots for �126.

Thoughts, please, Martin.

The Danish candleholders - we always do well with anything Danish, and they've got a good design, so I think they'll do pretty well.

VO: Back to Kelham Island Museum.

Inside, we have the viewing comfort of the most famous car to be produced in the city, the Sheffield-Simplex.

CHARLES: Wow!

NS: Look at these vehicles!

CHARLES: These are amazing cars.

Amazing!

Look at that color.

They capture almost a birth, don't they, of the motor car.

NS: Right, are you ready for this?

CHARLES: OK. NS: OK, let's just do it.

CHARLES: Shall we call it in?

NS: Nothing to fear.

VO: Not much.

With the magic of technology, let's watch via a tablet.

Let me find clutch control.

Let me find my first gear.

VO: First up is Natasha's combo lot of the art nouveau mirror and jewelry casket.

CHARLES: This, to me, smells of profit.

It should make �100.

I think so.

Hold tight.

Surely �30 to start me.

NS: �30?!

CHARLES: Hello... MARTIN: 35 in the room now.

Slow going.

That's 45, and 50.

At �50.

You want, five, sir?

CHARLES: Bid.

NS: 55?

We're three down.

60 - just in time.

We're at �60.

Once...twice... (GAVEL) ..and away at �60.

VO: �2 is better than nothing.

Ha!

You just cannot put your money on anything.

I thought that would make �100, easily.

CHARLES: Yeah.

VO: Now, it's the George V Masonic pendant for Charles.

I'm not a decorated man.

Are you decorated?

Any medals yourself?

I had a few, you know, Brownie badges.

Where shall we go?

�30.

Start me there, please.

I don't believe it.

�30?

�30, straight in.

Thank you very much.

(WHISPERS) Thank you.

NS: I'm behind you all the way.

CHARLES: Thank you very much.

Do I see five anywhere?

NS: Go on.

MARTIN: Just �30.

It's a humble climb.

(GAVEL) Sold at 30.

VO: Precisely.

Still a good little earner.

I think next time we can both buy a medal together.

Do you know what?

You deserve a medal.

CHARLES: Get outta here!

NS: You do!

VO: Don't encourage him, Tash.

It's your 19th-century crystal wine glass now.

Is a 0 missed off this price or something?

I would like to declare, that was full price.

CHARLES: It was?

BOTH: (LAUGH) There we go.

Bid me, please, on this one.

�20 - start me there.

Oh, my days!

Can you imagine?

Go 15 for it.

Any interest at 10, then?

Fantastic - you've done it!

NS: (LAUGHS) MARTIN: At �10.

Is it 12 anywhere?

Oh, they've paid too much.

MARTIN: At 10.

For �10... (GAVEL) Sold at 10.

From 100p to 1,000p.

Well, listen, I'll take that.

I'll take that.

That is one heavy pocket of profit.

VO: Great return on your bargain buy, eh?

NS: It was nice to set myself the challenge of, "I'm not leaving here without something properly antique."

CHARLES: And you did it.

VO: Charles's his-and-hers Edwardian silver scent bottles.

I wanted to buy something to reflect our relationship.

Yeah, I saw these in the car.

NS: This is the his-and-hers.

CHARLES: Exactly.

Let's go �30, please, for the two.

Go on.

Go on.

Come on.

�20, surely.

Keep going.

Come on, just don't stop.

MARTIN: I've got 20.

CHARLES: Good lad!

OK, OK. That's what you paid!

20.

These are cheap.

They are cheap.

It doesn't matter, because you're worth it.

MARTIN: 22 comes in.

CHARLES: Good lad.

Small profit - come on!

MARTIN: At 22.

25 I've got.

BOTH: Oh!

28?

28 in the room now.

Now 28!

(GAVEL) Sold, 28.

We are on the knife edge, aren't we?

Very nearly, they could've make �15, but they made 28 - that's �8 profit.

VO: He's great at maths.

Well done!

CHARLES: I'm happy.

Small steps towards the auction goal.

I'm very happy.

VO: What about the pair of Danish mid-20th-century candleholders from Tash?

Bid me, please, on these, ladies and gentlemen.

�30 to start me.

�30 for them.

You're going to get it, I can feel it.

Let's go 20 for them, then.

That's what I think they'll make.

CHARLES: You're going to get them.

MARTIN: 15 for them.

The world is not interested.

They're worth all of...

I can't believe it.

10 I'm bid.

Thank you.

CHARLES: I can't believe it.

NS: It's still a profit.

It's still a profit.

12 if you want to go.

At 12.

MARTIN: Is it 15?

NS: Make 20, no problem.

MARTIN: I'm at just �12, ladies and gentlemen, and I'm going to sell.

Fair warned at 12... (GAVEL) �12.

VO: What a bargain for a lucky bidder.

NS: I thought they'd make more.

CHARLES: (LAUGHS) I thought they would make more.

VO: Now we have the Georgian scent phial from Charles.

Well, this is �25.

That's a nonsense.

That's...history in your hands.

Let's go �30.

Start there, please.

Surely...?

30.

I'm straight in.

CHARLES: Thank you very much.

NS: Yes, yes, yes.

It's a small profit.

I'm very happy.

Come on!

I can feel 50 coming up now.

At �50 on Platform 2.

55.

NS: Oh!

MARTIN: 60, we're at now.

At �60.

MARTIN: At 60.

CHARLES: I'm growing!

At �60... (GAVEL) Sold at 60.

VO: Great result, Carlos.

Take a deep breath... ..and smell for victory.

VO: Next, can Tasha's Victorian seamstress's companion make a few bobbins?

I lost a button this morning, Natasha.

This would have been helpful to have sewn it back on again.

Give me �20 for it, please.

CHARLES: And it's worth the silver thimble as well.

MARTIN: 20 I'm bid, thank you.

Room's in at 20.

This will move.

25... �25, �28, �30.

At �30.

Are we done?

NS: No!

CHARLES: Come on!

Fair warning, then, at 30... (GAVEL) Sold at 30.

VO: Ah, shame.

The first loss of the day.

NS: Oh!

CHARLES: I think maybe next time use a sewing machine.

VO: Charles next with the Furstenberg porcelain tea set.

Now, do you know what?

I've got high hopes for this.

Is it all there?

I think it's missing one cup.

Some might say you're one cup short of a full set.

Bid me, please, on this.

�50 for it?

Go on.

It's a really good lot, this.

I really rate this.

At �50.

Do I see five anywhere?

MARTIN: At �50... CHARLES: Oh, no.

Are we done, ladies and gentlemen, at �50?

No!

I can't believe it!

Going once, going twice... (GAVEL) ..and away at �50.

VO: What a lucky winning bidder, eh?

You know when you really rate a lot?

I had secret hopes it might make 150, 250.

Really.

VO: And now for the Victorian pepper mill from Tasha.

CHARLES: The shape's so unusual.

It's like a bellied glass shape.

You think it's for coffee, don't you?

It's really attractive.

Really attractive.

Very, very unusual.

Let's go �20 to start it.

I hope for 50.

MARTIN: 20, straight in.

At �20.

CHARLES: Come on!

They're not very forthcoming.

At �30.

Is it five anywhere?

Keep going.

Keep going.

I'm at �30, going once... (GAVEL) Sold at �30.

VO: Not spicy enough to get lots of moola.

I have never seen one.

I think it was very pretty.

CHARLES: And normally when it's rare, unusual things can really take off.

Not today.

VO: It's the last lot of today, Charles's gamble buy - the pair of holophane hanging lights.

They look very classy, and they look sturdy.

If I get out of jail and they make �100, I'll be quite happy.

MARTIN: Let's start at �100.

NS: Go on.

MARTIN: �170.

MARTIN: �380.

VO: He's out of jail!

NS: What?!

MARTIN: 400, 440... CHARLES: Hello?

MARTIN: 480.

VO: Good Lord!

520.

NS: You've cracked it.

You've cracked it.

You've cracked it!

We're at �700.

Oh, I can't believe it!

This is crazy!

(MAKES HORN NOISE) This is amazing!

MARTIN: 750... VO: Nuts!

�800.

I had no idea they were anything like this.

This is ridiculous.

VO: Ridiculous is the word.

950.

Are they going to make a �1,000?!

1,100.

1,200.

1,300.

VO: Gosh.

Dearo.

MARTIN: �1,400.

CHARLES: This is crazy.

CHARLES: Cra-zy.

NS: Charles Hanson!

VO: Good Lord!

Ha-ha!

At �1,600.

I can't believe this.

MARTIN: Are we all done, then?

CHARLES: Oh!

MARTIN: At �1,600.

Going once, going twice... (GAVEL) ..sold at �1,600.

CHARLES: Oh, Tasha!

NS: Unbelievable!

CHARLES: Oh, thank you.

Oh, Tasha, I've got to stand up and just say, "Yes!"

VO: Bravo, maestro!

The gamble paid off.

Magnificent!

People did tell me you're a legend.

CHARLES: Get out... NS: (LAUGHS) And there is only one word - bravo!

That is amazing!

Memories, Tasha.

We're making memories.

VO: Gee-whiz, we really are!

Natasha began with �264 and 94 pennies, and has made a tiny loss of �9.56.

She now has �255.38.

While Charles kicked off with �434.12.

After a gobsmacking profit - of �1,164.76!

Ha!

- Charles now has a phenomenal �1,598.88.

What a champion, eh?

NS: Unbelievable work.

Incredible.

Take a bow.

The deepest bow.

Oh, what was that?

A Michael Jackson move?

What was that?

I just - Tasha, I love Sheffield.

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