It's the nation's favorite antiques experts!

I think I've found something.

Pretty good, yeah.

Behind the wheel of a classic car.

- Oh!

- Stop it!

And a goal to scour Britain for antiques.

- Ooh!

- I think it's brilliant.

The aim - to make the biggest profit at auction.

- (GAVEL) - But it's no mean feat.

You're some man!

There'll be worthy winners and valiant losers.

- (LAUGHS) - No!

Will it be the high road to glory... ..or the slow road to disaster?

- (GEARS CRUNCH) - Oh, no!

This is the Antiques Road Trip!

VOICEOVER (VO): Yeah!

(AMERICAN ACCENT) Previously on the Antiques Road Trip... Oh, cows, we've got cows and we've got mountains.

It's peak Scotland.

VO: Yes, it's been cows week.

Castles too.

And kilts.

Not sure, really.

VO: As our roving experts Steven Moore and Angus Ashworth have explored the high roads and even the high seas of bonny Scotland.

Makes you good to feel alive, the air and the wind and... Oh, look at that spray!

Angus, from Yorkshire, is an auctioneer, and the more experienced tripper of the pair.

That's how you reverse park a classic!

See what I mean?

While Steven, although no stranger to the camera... How do I look?

..has been making his Road Trip debut.

Oh, yes!

And he's a Geordie.

You can tell by the way he says werewolf.

It's like that 'weer'-wolf film, isn't it, where the 'weer'-wolf comes out?

VO: (CHUCKLES) And let's not forget the third member of the party, their Hillman Super Minx, with automatic gearbox, called Betty.

I'm getting quite attached to Betty, aren't you?

- Yeah, she's lovely.

- Apart from little hiccups.

(BACKFIRES) And there she goes again.

Yeah.

VO: Been a few hiccups at the auctions along the way, too!

Because although Steven was wreathed in smiles while they were north of the border... All out at £550.

(GAVEL) ..Angus enjoyed a comeback when they reached his native county.

Oh, 400 would be nice, wouldn't it?

400 online.

(LAUGHS) (GAVEL) I think I did alright today.

You're back in the game.

I am back in the game.

VO: Steven started off with £200 and currently boasts a very respectable £268.20.

(GAVEL) While Angus, who began with the same sum, has, thanks to his recent triumph, reached the giddy heights of £596.72.

And now that we're fully abreast, let's take a peek at Whitby, where the final instalment will commence.

I like Whitby, it's got that nice seaside vibe, but also a nice bit of history as well.

Yeah.

Famous for Dracula, of course.

- I know, very Gothic!

- Home of the Abbey.

- I know.

- Have you done the steps?

I have done the 199 steps, and prayed to St Hilda.

Aha!

VO: They set out from the Borders, a sort of "Automatic For The Peebles" Ha!

Then headed off to see an awful lot of lowland Scotland.

Next came a sally down towards the more familiar stomping grounds of our two northern gents.

And on this last leg, they end up at one more Scottish saleroom.

Look at that, Steven!

-That's gorgeous!

- I mean, that is just... - That's your view, Mother.

VO: But before they head off to their Dundee destiny, the shopping starts in Whitby.

Which, aside from being Dracula's first taste of Britain, is also very good for fish.

So, what might Steven reel in at the Emporium?

Seems like a nice... plaice!

Ha ha!

Oh, dear.

I love to shop local, and you couldn't get more local than Whitby jet in Whitby.

This hasn't come miles, this has come meters.

It's actually...

It's petrified wood.

It's only found in Whitby.

And I mean, this is £275.

It's still popular.

It's a great industry.

When Queen Victoria lost Prince Albert, everything black became very fashionable.

And of course, black's back again.

VO: Yeah, very goth.

Ooh, right.

Now, when did you last see a copper luster jug with two spouts and two handles?

I've never seen one, and I've seen a lot of jugs!

Copper luster is actually pink, and if you put pink luster on a brown earthenware, it turns out copper.

So, this was a clever way of potteries using cheap brown clay and making it look like something expensive.

I think this is a rare thing.

It's a bespoke thing, and we love a bit of bespoke.

And at £30, and I'm going to see if we can squeeze it a little bit more, and that could be a buy.

VO: Tight lines, everyone!

Susie?

Or is it Susan?

Well, it's Susan.

VO: You charmer!

I hate being called Steve as well, I'm so sorry!

- Do you?

(LAUGHS) - Susan?

Yes?

I've seen this.

And it's £30.

Lovely.

I like the jug but not the price.

Right.

So, how generous is this dealer?

Well, the best I could do it is 27.

You know what, 25 would have been alright, but, actually, 27, I've never seen one, so go on.

- I'm going to take it.

- Good!

- Put it there.

- VO: Jug deal done, we can get an update on the whereabouts of his chum.

And I'm heading to the hills, back into the moorlands.

Watch out for the sheep.

Loads of sheep on here.

They just wander on the moors.

VO: Sounds delightful.

His first shop of the day is wholly in the village of Sleights.

Comes from Old Norse for "flat land", apparently.

He has anything but a flat wallet, of course.

Here we go.

VO: Watch out, Eskdale Antiques!

Hello, are you alright?

I'm alright.

Pleased to meet you, Angus.

- Phil Smith, how you doing?

- I'm very well, thank you.

I'll have a look around.

Lots of nice enamel signs.

I like my enamels.

I do a lot of enamel signs, yeah.

VO: Well, we know Angus does.

He bought one earlier in the trip.

So, what's the plan, Stan?

It's the last leg so, actually, this is the crunch point and, yes, I may have lots of money, but you can't take your eye off the ball.

I'm going to play the game, and I'm going to spend money.

I'm not going to just, you know, sit on my laurels.

Which is risky.

VO: I'm glad to hear it, it might be painful!

(LAUGHS) He likes local too, of course.

We all know Steven did well with his Mouseman horse, but there's lots of other Yorkshire critters and figures.

And this one is by Whittaker.

It's Gnomeman, and he was based in Littlebeck, a tiny little village, literally two miles away from where we are in this shop.

VO: Becoming almost as sought after as Robert "Mouseman" Thompson nowadays, too.

German sort of folklore and legend says that every time an acorn sprouts to grow into an oak tree, a gnome is born to guard that tree for the rest of its life.

So this is very symbolic.

This oak chair has its very own gnome to guard it.

And it's beautiful craftsmanship.

No screws or anything like that, every joint's pegged.

And you know what?

Ticket price, 375, that is not dear.

But the auction's not in Yorkshire, it's in Dundee.

I don't know how well known Gnomeman is in Dundee, so gonna have to leave that there, but beautiful.

VO: Not splashing out just yet, then.

Back to the seaside, where Steven already has his copper luster jug.

Owt else?

Oh, actually, what's that there?

That shiny thing.

Can I have a look at that?

That little shiny gold thing?

Yep, I'll just get it for you.

There you go.

- Is it a cigar cutter?

- It is, yeah.

Oh, yes, it is.

I kind of love this and, I mean, what could be nicer than this?

Trim your cigar, a little spike there to poke the end, and then a gorgeous little penknife.

It's 9 carat gold, it's really smart.

The only thing I don't like is it's £155.

How generous do you think they might be?

I could take that to 140?

Oh, that's not generous!

(LAUGHS) £15?!

So, the best... - We want the bottom price.

- The bottom price, 120.

See, that's so much better!

(LAUGHS) Could you do it for 100?

What about we meet in the middle and do 110?

That's another ten off?

Oh, you're very nice to me.

It's gold.

It's a cigar cutter.

It is so chic.

It is half my money, but you know what, I'm going to take it.

- Great!

- Go on, put it there.

VO: That's about right, Steven.

And 131 left.

- You're welcome!

- I'm off.

VO: And, while he sees a bit more of Whitby... MUSIC: Voodoo Child (Slight Return) By Jimi Hendrix.

..we'll make a "slight return".

(CHUCKLES) That's quite cool, the old flour bin.

Actually, I've done well with these in the past.

It's the flour tin, so big drum there, very decorative.

Vintage metal canister there that would have been full of flour.

Actually, that's quite decorative for a baker's or a shop window, something like that.

VO: Ticket price, £55.

And interestingly... Just seen these.

There's a little pile of these papers here.

They've had some trimming off.

What have we got there?

Tells you where all the views are.

Angus.

Well, Dundee is in the county of Angus and these are all Scottish landscapes.

And what these will be, or what they look to be, is railway carriage prints.

So, you would've been sat in your railway carriage, travelling around the country, and they would have pictures of various scenes from around the country to entice you to travel up to Scotland on the railway and places like that, and they had them for all sorts.

There we go, another one there for Angus.

In fact, these are all where we're going to be selling.

These... are excellent.

VO: Very exciting.

Time to talk to Phil.

I found this nice little flour bin.

- £55 you've got on the ticket.

- Yeah.

And there's all these carriage prints, which are Scottish.

So, what... what are we looking at for a nice local lad like me?

- They can be £5 each.

- OK. - The railway prints.

- Yeah, seven of them.

Seven, 35...

Call it 30 quid, seeing as you're buying a few.

And we've got the tin, so that's... 45 on the flour tin.

So we're looking at 75 for the lot?

OK, yeah.

That's absolutely fine.

Brilliant, I'll take that.

Thank you very much.

- Thank you.

- VO: Nicely done.

- Good luck with those.

- Aye, thanks.

VO: Not exactly the last of the big spenders just yet, though.

He still has over £520 left.

But while he heads off in the Hillman... ..we'll find out what Steven's up to.

Still on the northeast coast, but taking a well-earned break from the shopping-go-round in the beautiful village of Staithes, which has been attracting artists for well over a century, and no wonder.

You must be Rob.

Hi, pleased to meet you.

How do you do?

How are you getting on?

I'm getting on pretty good today.

You don't need to ask why artists come here, because everything about it - the light, the water, the way the houses are kind of confined in the landscape... - Yeah.

It's an artist's dream, really, isn't it?

It is.

All the kind of houses here higgledy-piggledy, built on top of each other.

You've got the North Sea there, it's been a haven for fishermen and artists for all these years, since the original Staithes Art Group.

VO: Rob Shaw is following in the footsteps of the painters who discovered this little fishing community during the late Victorian period.

- Hi, Steven.

- I'm Steven, how do you do?

Good to meet you.

VO: Staithes Group expert, Rosamund Jordan.

It was a little cut-off village, which hardly anyone had a chance to visit before the railway came in 1883.

And the people had lived a particular way of life, a very hard way of life, for centuries.

And I think the artists who actually painted in Staithes were social realists as well.

They didn't just paint pretty pictures - they painted life as it actually was.

So, they had everything they needed to really delve into their subjects.

This is clearly Staithes.

I mean, that... that is the pub across there, but who's this painting by?

It's by Arthur Friedenson, who's, sadly, not really known at all.

I've heard of him.

Well, I'm very, very pleased, good!

The light in the water, he has captured Staithes.

The original is much larger than this.

VO: Leeds-born Arthur Friedenson was, in many ways, a typical member of the colony that settled here between the mid 1880s and the early years of the 20th century, including many that had first been to Paris to experience the huge influence of impressionism.

Wow.

They brought the broad brush techniques and plein air painting back to Britain, to Yorkshire in particular, and Staithes specifically.

So, I think a lot of them probably met in Paris, because they were training there at the same time.

I recognize this because he's a Geordie too, it's Ralph Hedley.

It is indeed, and this is the style he was most known for.

Very tight, formal, Victorian.

Bit chocolate boxy.

Yes, but this picture is also by him, and shows all the aspects of an impressionist painting, using a much larger brush, trying to paint it immediately, capturing a moment.

Looking at something which is very much social realist, rather than something that people would normally expect to hang on the wall.

So, I suppose this is something he's literally walked by and saw on the street?

Yes, the immediacy of the moment, and it's just pure Staithes.

VO: Now, from the capital of the art world to this tiny patch of the northeast.

Let's see if it can have the same effect on Steven's debut daub.

You're gonna need one of these.

OK. You know, I've never done an oil painting in my life.

The thing is about art is you can't get it wrong.

It's my version.

VO: Indeed!

"Every painting is a self-portrait."

One of Wilde's, I think.

So, what I admire about the Staithes Group is they worked very fast, they used a lot of wet paint on top of wet paint.

VO: Nowadays, works by members of the group can fetch anything up to five figures at auction.

I feel I definitely need some green.

VO: Me too.

(CHUCKLES) But, is it worthy of the Staithes tradition?

I think it's a very good start - very much Steven.

That's very diplomatic.

I think you should put your stamp on it, round the bottom corner.

- Oh, OK.

Try with the palette knife.

- There we are.

- Perfect!

It's a messy job, this painting!

But 100-odd years of the Staithes Group, and I'm one of them too.

VO: The boy's a natural, look at that!

(CHUCKLES) Oh, dear.

And if you liked that landscape, take a look at this one... and this.

It's the North York Moors National Park.

Hello!

(TOOTS HORN) Come on, "ewe".

See what I did there?

Because a ewe is a female sheep.

VO: Lordy!

Our farming correspondent is en route to the town of Pickering, where, by the looks of it, Betty the Super Minx will fit right in.

Named after pike and a ring, apparently.

What did I say?

Look at this, they've got the green carpet out for me.

VO: Nice!

Must be in anticipation of his avowed intent to spend big.

Still got well over £500, remember.

Come on, Angus!

Buck up!

Oh, I don't know why, I have a weak spot for little chairs.

And they always seem to sell fairly well, to be honest.

And this one is lovely.

Early 20th century, almost arts and crafts in the little top bits there.

Lovely rexine sort of seat on it there, turned supports.

I've got some young children, maybe that's why I love little chairs so much, they all have little chairs and sit around and eat their tea.

Or, if you haven't got little children, people put teddy bears on them.

What have we got on it?

£95.

It's not bad.

I think that's a little bit better than some.

But I'd want to get a bit of a discount on that.

VO: So, while our man shops on, the chair's owner receives a call from dealer Mark.

Harry...

I keep getting drawn back to these cabinets, because this is where the expensive stuff is.

And I promised to spend big money.

And, if I work out how to open the door, there we go, there's something here that's caught my eye.

But what is it?

It just looks like a fob on a little ring there, so you could have that on a chain, and it looks like gold.

If we look here, there's three ends there, and we've got these little inset sort of stone panels.

Very nice.

You push them down and it's a propelling pencil, three different pencils in there.

VO: Yeah, lovely, described as a "stockbrokers pencil".

And I've just seen a very important name, Samuel Morden.

Top, top silver and goldsmith that made really quirky, interesting pieces.

And he's collected in his own right, never mind what the item is.

People collect Morden bits.

And this is marked 9ct, 9 carat gold.

And actually gold price at the moment's quite high.

VO: Part of the reason why Steven plumped for his little bit of gold earlier, I'm sure.

But this is more than scrap.

This is a beautiful thing, a rare thing.

It's Samuel Morden, and do you know what?

I love it, and I said I was going to blow a load of money.

Ooh!

(CHUCKLES) I know I've got over £500 left, but ticket price 465.

VO: Go on, you can afford it!

Ha!

Well, it will be the biggest spend I've ever done on the Road Trip.

I think I'm going to have to ask the center to ring the dealer, and see if I can get that price down, because that is lovely.

VO: Sure is, and what's more, the chair's been reduced from £95 to 48!

Gosh!

Over to Mark!

Right, then, your Morden pencil that's been sat in the cabinet.

I've got somebody that's very interested.

I'd like to be as near to 300 as possible.

You've got 465 on it at the moment.

350.

350.

Well.

It's a big discount, I can't really complain.

Goodbye, thank you very much.

Bye.

OK. (SPLUTTERS) Hey.

I think, yeah, well... ..you're only young once.

Fortune favors the brave, let's do it.

VO: That's his motto, alright.

Right, here's some cash.

There's one.

- Thank you.

- VO: Keep going.

Two.

I'm a bit light-headed.

(LAUGHS) I've never parted with this much for a single item before on here.

- 300.

- VO: Courage!

There... there's 400.

I best have £2 change.

Thank you very much.

I may need to sit down after this.

See you, thanks.

Safe journey.

Thank you.

VO: Time to go and collect his buddy.

Shall we have something nice for dinner tonight?

We had something rather nice last night.

- Yorkshire royale.

- Mm-hm!

VO: Gourmands, eh?

Nighty night.

Next day, the weather may have changed, but our pair have barely noticed.

I've got roughly around about the £100 mark.

Oh, well.

Well we're almost neck-and-neck, really.

Mm!

Final auction, it's all to play for.

VO: You see?

Far too excited.

Because Angus' big spending on that propelling pencil, flour bin, child's chair, and Scottish carriage prints...

These are all where we are going to be selling.

..has certainly evened things up a bit.

While Steven hardly held back either, hoovering up an unusual jug and a cigar trimmer...

It is so chic.

..and leaves his spending power around the 130 mark.

It's actually in my pocket, if you can reach in and get it.

Do you want me to put my hands in your pocket?

Oh, you could have warmed them!

Oh, very nice!

VO: Later they will be haring off to Dundee, for that exciting last auction.

But the first stop today is in Bishop Auckland.

Close to where Jeremiah Dixon, co-surveyor of the Mason-Dixon Line, was born in 1733.

It's got a castle, too.

Angus would have liked that.

Steven's bagged this one, though.

Antiques On The Green.

Now, just what might supply that trip-winning profit?

An early back scratcher?

Maybe not.

VO: Quite.

Who knows where it's been?

Euch!

The things in this shop are priced at the market level, and I'm not seeing that little sleeper tucked away in the corner.

I need to look in all the corners.

VO: Not forgetting the top shelves.

This is where it all began for me.

I started as a child digging up bottles on Victorian rubbish tips.

And amongst the bottles, if you were really lucky, you would find something like this, a jar which would have had meat or fish extract or paste.

And that's what got me interested in ceramics because I found the bottom of a Keiller's marmalade pot, which was made by Maling in Newcastle.

And so, like a good boy, I went to the library and said, "Have you any books on local pottery?"

And they said yes, and I looked through a book, ..and I suddenly discovered there were dozens of potteries in Newcastle.

So I forgot about the bottles, and I would have loved to have found something like that.

And what a name, The Normal Company.

It is only £10, and actually, this was probably made by CT Maling and Sons in Newcastle.

I can... (SNIFFS) ..almost smell it.

I'm going to put this back, but we'll put it back that way, so it looks nice and dirty.

And no-one will buy it.

I hope.

VO: More tricks of the trade, eh?

I love a bit of ephemera.

It's what we call bits of paper and old books and things, and they are often great bits of local history.

And this...

I mean this is practically a spa day for horses.

Conditioning powders, white oils.

Cleansing drenchers.

Who doesn't like a cleansing drench?

And it's £5.

Pig powders.

Do you think you put water on them and they turn into pigs?

Who knows?

This has probably come out of a periodical.

It's been a little bill issued by Mr Ashley, the chemist, to farmers.

And remember, when this was done, turn of the century, some farmers may have been illiterate.

So these are all the things that you would need to keep your farm clean and tidy.

I think someone would pay £10 for that, wouldn't you?

That's 100% profit.

I'd be as happy as a pig after he's had the spa day.

So I'm going to take it.

VO: So let's leave the pot for another day, and talk to Rebecca.

Rebecca!

What a marvelous till.

Does it work?

It does.

Well I think I might have some money for you.

- Oh, OK!

- I've seen this upstairs.

It's only £5, I'm not going to quibble.

And I've got the right money in my pocket.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Lovely to meet you.

Thanks.

VO: And "till" the next time, we'll be concentrating on where Angus has headed off to.

He's not shopping though, in the North Yorkshire town of Middlesbrough.

Or Ironopolis.

Up the Boro!

He has come to the very last metal foundry in an area that once boasted almost 150 such firms.

It might look a bit like a museum, but William Lane, over 150 years old, is still going strong, thanks to employee-turned-directors like Stuart Duffy.

These docks would have been the beating heart of Middlesbrough.

It would have been, Angus.

It was a... a hive of activity.

You'd have seen coal being exported, iron being exported, earthenware.

There would have been cranes, ships.

Middlesbrough supplied one third of the nation's iron.

And she was a boom town.

VO: It all began back in 1828, when the men behind the Darlington to Stockton railway, built to export Durham coal, decided that the hamlet of Middlesbrough, a little further to the east, would be a much more suitable Teesside site.

It was the railway that actually brought the industry to Middlesbrough.

Well, it was decided that Middlesbrough required an inland dock round about 1839.

And a designer called William Cubitt designed it.

And it was opened in 1842.

And all the industry sort of sprang up around that.

But who was the main firm that really spearheaded this growth?

It was Bolckow and Vaughan, and they founded the first foundry in 1841, over on Vulcan Street.

You can just see it near the Transporter Bridge.

And that's when Middlesbrough's industry really took off, like an industrial firework.

VO: The Lane brothers had also started out in nearby Stockton, but by 1895 they too had set up their foundry here, by which time Bolckow, Vaughan & Company and another firm, Dorman Long, were making Middlesbrough a steel town.

And the steel went round the world.

It supplied not only Lambeth Bridge in London, the Tyne Bridge in Newcastle, but the most important one, and everybody knows, is the Sydney Harbor Bridge, Australia.

So Middlesbrough steel went everywhere.

VO: It certainly did, and although things are pretty quiet on the dock nowadays, as steel production has headed even further east - ha - this foundry, which specializes in restoration, plaques and signs, seems to have weathered the storm.

Another director, Dave Stuart.

- Hi, Dave, is it?

- Yes, it is.

- Angus, are you alright?

- Yes, nice to meet you, Angus.

Have you done any molding before?

No, I haven't, no.

No?

Well, we're going to cast this in bronze today.

Wow!

Ah!

Always nice to get a bit hands-on.

Yup.

You sure you haven't done this before?

(LAUGHS) - Right, that'll do us nicely.

- Yeah.

VO: And now for the ramming.

I'll put the sand in, you do the ramming.

OK. All these tools are traditional.

Yeah.

These tools haven't changed in hundreds of years.

So we've got to turn this over now.

VO: Seems to have turned out nicely.

Our Pride of Scotland plaque.

VO: Casting is next, and don't worry, Angus isn't involved in this bit.

Talk me through this process, Stuart, cos it looks quite fascinating.

What's happening now is we're going to take it from the furnace and we're going to pour the molten metal into your casting mold.

- Excellent.

And you're looking about 1,200 degrees.

I mean when you look at that pot, I mean it's just glowing.

You can feel the heat from here, can't you?

And you can tell these lads have been doing it a long time.

They make it look easy, don't they?

Once it's in action, nobody speaks, but everybody knows what they're doing.

VO: And, when it's all cooled down a bit, and has been what they call "fettled"... And that's it!

This is it, this is your finished product, Angus.

It's a lovely bronze plaque.

It is!

I'm quite impressed with myself on that.

- My next auction's in Scotland.

- Right.

Any chance I could buy that?

Cos it might just be good for the auction.

Right, OK.

I think you'll be looking at maybe about £30.

So that's what they normally are, but obviously, I made it, so you haven't got the labor charge, have you?

Oh, so, shall we say £20?

- 20 quid, yeah, I'll have that!

- Right.

(LAUGHS) Brilliant!

VO: Hardly an antique, but a canny buy, nonetheless.

Thanks so much.

Great, thanks a lot.

Bye.

VO: Up the Boro!

(LAUGHS) Meanwhile, in the middle of a downpour, Steven's about to arrive at their final shop of the trip.

It's the splendid market town of Barnard Castle.

Yep definitely got one.

Got the river Tees, too.

Although I think that Steven might not be doing an awful lot of sightseeing this afternoon.

He wants to get first dibs before his chum turns up.

Still got over 125 left.

This is nice.

It's a little silver buckle.

It is hallmarked just there.

It's probably Birmingham.

Birmingham specialized in making all of these things.

But it's kind of got a bit of a Scottish look, and we're selling in Dundee.

And this would have been to hold maybe a shawl or something, clipped in there.

But later on, somebody's added a pin, so you can wear it as a brooch, and, you know, I love a brooch.

And, what's even better is it's silver and it's £48.

I think there's a deal there.

VO: Buckle up.

Dale?

- Hello there.

- Where are you lurking?

Hello.

- I've seen this... - Mm-hm.

It's nice.

It's Birmingham, I think.

I can't quite see.

I keep losing loupes.

Ah.

I've got a bit of a broken one.

There we go.

It is Birmingham.

I think that's a lower-case B, so that's 19... 1901.

Mm-hm.

Sounds about right.

How generous do you think this person would be?

48, em... go 45?

Couldn't be 40?

40?

We could probably do 40, yeah.

Yeah.

I'm going to take it.

That'd be grand.

- Thank you very much.

- I'll shake your hand.

VO: Quick work.

Just in time too, by the looks of it.

Gene Kelly's turned up.

(CHUCKLES) With about £100 left to spend.

- Hello.

- Aw!

It's the last... Oh, steady on, steady on.

Well, I thought you were, like, running towards me for a man hug.

No.

I was just...

I was just excited, you know?

We're in the last shop, the last buying... You know, this is it.

When I can get a word in edgeways, is the bromance over?

VO: (CHUCKLES) Never mind.

There's always the shopping.

I've spotted something in there, spinning round on the little spinning thing in the cabinet.

It's a bit of military.

So let's have a closer look.

There we go.

That is a Royal Artillery silver and enamel ladies' compact.

The condition's not necessarily that great.

There is a chip out of the enamel there, which is a shame, and it's quite worn on the back.

It's had a lot of use, this.

But it's nice.

Birmingham, 1940.

So it's a war period.

So probably been an officer's wife.

Let's go and see what we can do on that.

Dale?

VO: He's a busy boy today, old Dale.

Hi.

I found this little Royal Artillery compact.

Do you think there's much we can do on the...?

55.

Eh, £50, I'd do that for.

50, yeah.

And that's the best you can do?

- That's a shame, isn't it?

- Is it now?

(LAUGHS) Did you have another price in mind?

45?

45.

I can do 45, yeah.

OK, 45, brilliant.

Thank you.

You're a gent.

VO: And that's his last buy of the trip.

What about Steven?

Sometimes the clue to what something is for is hidden in plain sight in the object.

Now, this isn't a glass, it's far too thin.

I mean, goodness me, you'd hardly get anything in that.

It's decorated on the inside with, like, snow coming down.

That's clue number one.

The other side is a lovely little hand-painted enamel scene of a boy throwing a snowball.

That's clue number two.

This is a snowdrop vase.

So you can imagine, in a cold Victorian house, think of the worst bit of a Charles Dickens novel.

Forget all the roaring fires, it was cold.

So snowdrops, to the Victorians, were much more precious than they are to us.

It was the first heralding of spring.

This would be a little thing of hope.

I've got to ask myself, "Who is going to buy it?"

I mean, are there any snowdrop fanciers out there?

I'm sure there's a Snowdrop society.

VO: There is!

The Galanthus Group.

I just think that's such a charming thing.

And what's even better is, it's £28.

I think that is cheap.

- Dale?

- Hello there.

I shouldn't be saying this to you cos I've kind of fallen in love with this.

What could it be other than the £28?

28.

That could be 25.

I'm not going to argue.

I'll take that at £25.

Lovely.

VO: Now his shopping's complete as well.

Who's for Dundee?

It's still raining.

It is.

Where did you park the car?

You know what?

I can't remember.

It was either that way or that way.

Shall I go that way and you go that way?

OK.

I'll see you in the middle.

Whoever gets the car gets to drive.

VO: I think they could do with that shut-eye.

(SINGS) Oh, we do like to be beside the...Tayside!

(CHUCKLES) Back in Scotland's comic capital, but who's going to end up a Desperate Dan?

After wending out of Whitby, and thoroughly enjoying the northeast corner of England, they've crossed the border once more for a date with Dundee at Curr & Dewar.

Sunny Dundee.

It is.

Very sunny today, isn't it?

Final countdown.

I know.

Should be good.

Winners first.

Oh, great.

That's me, then.

(LAUGHS) VO: (CHUCKLES) Cheeky!

He's in a pole position, but he's spent a lot - £538 on six auction lots.

Well, this is Monte Carlo or bust.

£350 Angus paid for this.

I can kind of see why.

It's a really nice quality thing.

But I just wonder, is it going to make the money?

I hope for his sake that it is.

I don't really.

VO: Well, we'll see.

Steven, as per his slightly more limited budget, parted with £207 for his five lots.

Do you know?

This has to be my favorite item of Steven's and, yes, it's probably his least valuable.

That's just a nice, vintage farming bygone, marked "Derby".

We're in Dundee, not Derby, but I can see that doing £20, £30.

And it's just a lovely thing.

VO: But what are the sage thoughts of our impartial auctioneer, Steven Dewar?

We have a little collection of railway carriage posters.

Nice little Scottish group.

A couple of local scenes in there, so hopefully a local collector should show a bit of interest into these.

There's the 9 carat gold cigar cutter, nice object, a gentleman's object.

There's been a bit of interest shown in it, so I think that could do quite well on the day.

VO: Steven will be pleased.

On with the gaveling.

Let's see if our final auction can be a good one.

Well, here's hoping.

(LAUGHS) VO: Angus' wee child's chair is first under the hammer.

Might eke a small profit, but I'm not...

I don't think it's going to, you know... You need to find a generous granny who wants to buy it.

I'll start the bidding at £50.

At £50 it is, for the child's chair.

Five.

60.

Five.

70.

Five.

80.

That's not a relative of yours bidding, is it?

It's not.

£85.

90.

Five.

- They're going crazy for it.

- 100.

10.

Told you it was good.

110 is bid.

Shakes the head.

May as well go home.

It's the shape of it.

It's lovely.

At 110, all done?

(GAVEL) Yeah.

I think he's from Yorkshire, that man bidding.

- He's not from Yorkshire.

- He's wearing a flat cap.

He's... Yeah, well, he's got taste and style, that man.

VO: And shares Angus' fondness for a tiny chair.

Hope some of your luck rubs off on me.

VO: Aw!

Appropriate that Steven's loving jug is next.

And a £10 bid?

At £10, it is.

15.

20.

20, on my commission.

25, lady's bid, and I'm out.

Any advance now at 25?

Go on.

One more bid.

(GAVEL) Oh, that's £2 I've lost.

VO: One for each spout.

£2 isn't even... Well, not even a packet of crisps, is it?

Where do you buy your crisps?!

- Well, you know... - VO: Not awfully crisp is Angus' militaria.

The slightly damaged Royal Artillery compact.

Condition's not great.

It's a bit worn and there's a chip in the enamel.

Been in battle, had it?

Opening bid, £50.

- Good start.

- 50!

I was a bit worried the damage might put people off, but in at 50.

At 50 now.

Five.

60 on commission.

£60.

Any advance at 60?

Last chance.

(GAVEL) 60.

I'm very happy with that because there was a chip on the enamel.

VO: Well, it looks like you've got away with it.

- I don't use make-up.

- No.

- Despite the rumors.

- Yeah.

Mm.

VO: How about a nice, cleansing drench?

Horses swear by it.

A bit of interest on it.

£10 is my starting.

Profit, doubled up.

- At 10, 15.

20.

- See, going crazy.

- 25.

- Told you.

30.

30, seated.

£30.

Are you all done?

- I'm glad I'm sitting down.

- Seated there, all done.

(GAVEL) Thank you.

Well done.

Well done, Steven.

Ooh, hurrah.

VO: That's perked him up nicely.

- That was a pleasant win.

- Good.

VO: Now, I wonder what Steven makes of Angus' bit of bronze?

It's so fresh and new, it's practically warm.

Well, it's lovely, isn't it?

Hand-forged by me.

A wee bit of interest in this one.

25 is bid.

Yes!

At £25 it is.

At 25.

30.

Five.

- 35.

They're going crazy.

- Scrap dealers are here.

40 on my book.

At £40, on my commission, at £40.

Come on, Scotland.

Have some pride!

£40.

Last chance.

40, and selling.

(GAVEL) £40.

Well done.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you.

- Double-bubble.

- Double-bubble.

VO: Generously received.

Now, back to the antiques.

Steven's snowdrop vase.

Are there any galanthophiles in the house?

- A wee bit of interest again.

- A wee bit of interest.

- Starting off at £35.

- 35, straight in.

At £35, commission.

40.

45, commission.

Oh, it's flying.

50 on the right.

At £50.

Any advance at £50?

(GAVEL) Good result.

Double-bubble.

VO: And a very nice object as well.

Well, I think they've got good taste up here.

I think they have, yes.

VO: Now, who "kneads" Angus' flour bin?

(CHUCKLES).

£35 is bid.

At £35 now.

40.

Five.

50.

Yes!

We're off.

60.

60, in the room.

At £60 now.

I love this saleroom.

Are we all done?

(GAVEL) 60.

Unusual size.

- You used your loaf.

- Mm.

VO: (LAUGHS) And his profits are steadily rising.

Look good, wouldn't it, in a traditional baker's?

It would do, yes.

Or in a traditional kitchen.

VO: Now, from panetterias to panatelas - Steven's golden cigar trimmer.

Interest starts at £60.

At 60.

Five, the wave.

70.

Climbing.

Racing up.

- Five.

80.

Five.

90.

Five.

- Storming away.

- 100.

10.

120.

- Ooh.

I'm in profit.

At 140.

150, new bidder.

At 150 on the far right.

At 150.

Any advance?

- Go on.

Higher.

- £150.

(GAVEL) Thank you.

- 150.

- I'm delighted with that.

- It's a profit.

- It's a profit.

VO: It's a profit, yes.

It's always nice to see a bold move pay off.

Well done, Steven.

That was a really good result.

I'm glad I went into that shop.

Yeah, definitely.

VO: Next up, we have Angus' set of prints, aimed squarely at the Dundee market.

Interest starts me off at £40.

- Yes!

- At £40... Good.

..on commission.

At £40.

Any advance?

Five.

- Local interest.

- 50.

- So easily pleased.

- I know.

I'm happy.

£50 on my commission.

Any advance on the book?

£50 and selling.

(GAVEL) 50, we are.

- That's OK. That's alright.

- That's alright, yes.

VO: It certainly is.

Not a single loss for Angus so far today.

Now, what can Steven's last lot do?

The buckle-come-brooch.

- 45 is my opening bid.

- Straight in.

50.

Five.

60.

Five.

70.

Five.

- 80.

- 80.

Five.

- I told you.

- 90, standing.

- 90.

- Almost 100.

At 90.

Any advance from the room at £90?

I like this saleroom.

Are we all done?

£90.

Gentleman's bid.

(GAVEL) Good result, Steven.

Good buy, that.

- Ooh, can we come here again?

- Yeah!

VO: Yeah.

Profits all round.

Do you know what's really nice?

Quality is selling.

VO: And talking of quality our last lot.

Angus' big gamble.

If it bombs, Steven wins.

It won't, though, will it?

Well, let's see.

We're going to find out how much lead is in your pencil.

Mm.

A rare object.

Interest there.

£200 is bid.

200.

At £200 it is, bid for the Sampson Mordan, at £200.

- 210.

220.

230.

240.

- Come on.

Keep going.

250 is bid.

At 250 now.

Any advance on 250?

That's its scrap price, it's worth more than that.

Are we all done?

On commission, 250.

(GAVEL) Thank you.

I'm sorry.

I really am.

VO: Makes it all a bit more interesting.

This could be quite close.

Could be a draw.

I don't think there's ever been a draw.

Ooh, well.

It would be the gentlemanly thing.

Mm.

Right.

Get your calculator out.

OK. VO: Calm down, everyone.

There's actually still plenty of daylight between them.

Steven started out with £268.20.

And after costs, he made quite a profit.

So he wins the day, and ends up with £344.10.

(GAVEL) While Angus, who began with £596.72, made, also after costs, a considerable loss.

But he's still victorious on this trip, with £526.12.

All those profits go to Children In Need.

Steven, Steven, what a trip!

I know.

This is the end.

I know.

But it's been fun.

Yeah, bye.

(CHUCKLES) Come on, you daft...

It's been good.

It's been great.

I'm going to miss it.

VO: Yeah.

So will we.

Such fun.

So nice.

How competitive are you?

Do you want to fight?

(LAUGHS) VO: Ha ha.

MUSIC: "Act Nice and Gentle", by the Kinks.

Smell it.

I had to buy it.

Oh!

How cool is that?

Empty piggy.

Just about.

Mm.

As they say in Italy, sempre dritto.

So, imagine I was going to toss a caber, how would I start?

Eh...with great difficulty.

(LAUGHS) VO: Next time on the Road Trip, here comes trouble... Get your own classic car.

..as auctioneer Louise Gostelow...

Hours of fun.

..and dealer David Harper... Wow!

Something went wrong there.

..begin their Beetling about in Northern Ireland.

Going backwards.

Bound to be a few surprises in store.

(GAVEL) Woo!

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