VO: It's the nation's favorite antiques experts...

I don't know what to do.

VO: ..with £200 each, a classic car, and a goal: to scour Britain for antiques.

What a little diamond.

VO: The aim - to make the biggest profit at auction, but it's no mean feat.

Back in the game.

Charlie!

VO: There'll be worthy winners and valiant losers.

Oh!

VO: So, will it be the high road to glory or the slow road to disaster?

Oh!

VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip.

VO: Yeah.

VO: It's the second leg of the road trip for international man of mystery, David Harper and fellow treasure hunter Anita Manning.

ANITA: I'm enjoying this early morning drive in Yorkshire.

The sky is blue, it's a wee bit cold, it's a wee bit blowy but we are nice and cozy, tozy in our lovely wee moggy.

Sorry, can you say that in English Anita, again so I understand?

VO: Languages may not be his forte but antiques dealer David is a wiz at spotting hidden gems.

He is perhaps not always as successful with the ladies though.

Stand by.

DAVID: Hello.

Do you like men in uniform?

I do!

I don't know about men with big heads.

(LAUGHS) VO: Oh, I say.

Auctioneer extraordinaire and antiquing royalty, Anita specializes in jewelry and, well, dressing up.

Very Queen Mother.

(LAUGHS) VO: Aye.

Positively regal, Anita.

Their jazzy ride is a 1965 Morris Minor convertible.

And their stage is God's own country - rural Yorkshire.

ANITA: Fields, fields, horses... DAVID: Alright, OK. ANITA: Jumping over fences, all that sort of stuff.

DAVID: Stop leaping yourself if you don't mind.

VO: Quite.

VO: Both made a loss at the first auction starting the trip with £200 each, David now has £166.46.

VO: Anita also made a loss but is in the lead with £192.14.

VO: Got any advice for your rival, Anita, seeing as how you're out in front?

I would keep away from these bits of cars and old bits of iron.

(DAVID LAUGHS) VO: Good advice.

VO: Anita and David are travelling over 700 miles.

From Ramsbottom, Lancashire, they snake their way up through Yorkshire all the way to bonny Scotland and the town of Paisley.

Today, we are starting out near York in the village of Barmby Moor ending up at an auction in Harrogate.

ANITA: This looks fabulous.

Oh my gosh.

Anita.

ANITA: This is fabulous.

VO: Bar Farm Antiques occupies several old farm buildings, funnily enough.

It's like Serrell territory.

Look, is that one of your old girlfriends?

Listen, I'm off, I'll see you later.

Have a great day.

Have fun darling, bye.

OK, see you.

VO: In spite of the size of the place, David spots something straight off the bat.

That is a really, really wild thing.

What on earth was it?

Well, I'm guessing we are talking about police station, circa 1955.

I'm the police sergeant, you're the criminal, you're on that side, I've nabbed you, you're in big trouble and I want your fingerprints and I think this is basically a fingerprint.

I want to call it a machine.

VO: In 1901, the first fingerprint bureau was set up in the UK at Scotland Yard.

Four years later, fingerprinting was used for the first time to convict a murderer.

David likes it, so let's meet dealer Gregg from New Orleans.

What's it like having your fingerprints taken, Gregg?

Oh, well, it's OK. VO: Ha, ha, ha, David.

Are you looking for a price?

Yeah.

45.

45?

I think that's a pretty good price for a piece of furniture.

It couldn't be 20?

No.

It can't be 20.

You can't do a little better than that?

Why don't we do what all the best dealers in the world have done for a million years - compromise, meet in the middle.

And where was the middle starting?

25.

(LAUGHS) That'll do.

Good man.

Thank you very much.

That's alright.

VO: Great deal and David's first item in the old bag.

VO: Meanwhile, Anita is travelling just over 10 miles west to the beautiful walled city of York where the infamous Guy Fawkes was born and educated.

VO: She's visiting the Antiques Centre York and Becky is on hand to assist.

Stand by Becky, here comes Anita.

I quite like these wee silly condiments up here.

Yeah, you want to have a look?

Yeah.

They're heck of a good fun.

I think they are probably continental.

But good fun.

I'm quite tempted.

VO: Ticket price is £10.

Oh look, there's more.

More condiments, this time, cuddling pigs.

That one's got a school tie on.

VO: They have a collective price of £26.

I wonder if you could ask if these could be bought for 15?

You can always ask.

I can always ask.

VO: That's quite a discount Anita's wanting and after a quick phone call to the owners... ANITA: How did we get on?

Can do two for 18.

Ah!

Wonderful, wonderful.

Thank you very much.

They are fun aren't they?

They are fun, yeah.

VO: If you say so.

One lot secured and it's time for some celebratory dressing up.

Very Queen Mother.

(LAUGHS) VO: David's also at it.

Dear, oh dear.

DAVID: Hello.

LADY: Hello.

Do you like men in uniform?

Oh I do.

Well.

I don't know about men with big heads.

(LAUGHS) VO: That really is criminal.

Back to shopping.

DAVID: I'll tell you something, this is quite unusual isn't it?

I just...

It's a me thing.

I like post office things and then plus... ..it's old, and during the war and it's nice and the way it's just worn.

DAVID: George VI.

He was on the throne from 1937 to our current queen.

VO: Gregg got the sign from a local post office.

Items like this can be hugely collectible, "can" being the operative word.

I'd have a go at 30 or 40.

OK. Is that anywhere near?

Yeah.

Might be alright.

40 is alright.

OK. Yeah, 40 is alright.

I'll have a go at 40.

Marvelous.

OK, I want you to make some money.

Thank you very much.

Good show.

Thank you.

VO: Well, that was easy.

At £40 that's another good deal.

And HRH Anita has also make an interesting find.

Here we have a sort of 1950s, it's a kind of kid-on Aggie.

It's all kid-on, isn't it?

Yeah.

I don't mind.

I don't mind it being kid-on.

VO: Otherwise known as costume jewelry, Anita.

Ticket price, £18.

If we could get it for a tenner, that would be great.

Yeah, I'll ask.

Want to try?

Yeah, course.

Do your best for me, darling.

VO: Anita is all about the cheeky offers today but will Becky come through for her again?

Yeah, we can do that.

Can you?

(LAUGHS) Come here.

You've been very good.

VO: Yup, a tenner is good indeed.

Frugal Anita has now bought two items for just £28.

VO: David, meanwhile, is still exploring.

I've a bit of a love/hate relationship with sofas like this.

VO: He's found a 1920s drop end settee.

Please sit down, let me demonstrate how this sofa works.

Gregg, please, sit into my office.

Right.

Get yourself comfortable.

I'm alright.

How are the springs feeling?

GREGG: Pretty good.

DAVID: Are you sure?

Oh, they are perfect.

They often stick in places... No, it is perfect.

..you don't want.

No, they are sticking in places you don't want.

They are definitely sticking.

VO: Not surprising in those tight trousers, David.

There we go.

Ah, I can lay down then.

You can be recumbent.

So it converts into a little chaise.

So in the business it's referred to as a 1920's drop end... Yeah, don't fall asleep because I'm not that boring.

OK. VO: These settees can be picked up cheaply as they can cost over £1,000 to restore and cover.

Once covered though you have a 100 year old sofa worth sometimes thousands of pounds.

DAVID: How much is it?

GREGG: £20.

No, yeah.

I want to say for goodness sake buy it for £20, it's ridiculous, cost you £5-7000 to create it.

GREGG: £10.

DAVID: £5.

Five?!

Five?!

The wheels are worth five!

£5.

Good man.

Gregg, it's a delight doing business with you.

VO: David's spent a total of £70 on three items.

Pretty good for a morning's shopping.

VO: Anita, meanwhile, is on her way to Murton, a small village on the outskirts of York.

VO: She's visiting the Yorkshire museum of farming and meeting curator Louise to learn about the Woman's Land Army - an institution that was established during the First World War.

At this time the majority of men were on the battlefields and it was estimated that Britain would run out of food within three weeks.

In response, women were rallied to help out in the fields to build food supplies.

Bless 'em.

ANITA: Who were the land girls?

They were inspirational women, really that kind of, again, out of the kitchens and back onto the land, showing that they were just as capable as the men of doing these jobs.

VO: Many of the girls came from the city and with no real training, were flung straight in at the deep end - ploughing fields, clearing ditches, milking cows, all the things a man would have traditionally done.

ANITA: I imagine it might have been a bit of a shock to the system.

Yeah.

To get involved in very hard manual labor.

I imagine it would have been.

Yeah.

And you do see examples as well, about a woman being killed by a horse.

She was thrown off the horse, so, yes it was very hard work at the time.

ANITA: And could be dangerous.

Yes, and could be very dangerous, yeah.

VO: At the end of the First World War, women were encouraged to return to more ladylike occupations.

That doesn't seem awful fair does it?

They've been given a taste of freedom.

Girls, you've done well.

Off you go back home to the kitchen.

VO: Their contribution to the war effort went a long way to help the women's suffrage movement.

By the time the land army was re-established for the Second World War, woman had been afforded the right to vote for over a decade.

How many women worked on the land?

How many land girls did we have?

In the Second World War, by the end of it, there was about 80,000.

VO: Dorothy Taylor and Iris Newbould are two of these exceptional women.

They belonged to the East Riding Woman's Land Army and now, aged 87 and 90, are two of only three that are still alive today.

ANITA: What was your favorite job?

Hay making.

I loved hay making the old way.

We used to load up the wagon and then sit on top of the hay wagon and roll home with the horse and wagon.

Wonderful days.

I loved hay time.

ANITA: Long hot summers.

And mine was going on the milk round and you would meet some of the lovely people on the way.

A lot of evacuated people were there and it was just friendly all the way.

VO: Dorothy came from a mining community and Iris was a city girl, neither had farmed before.

It must have been a very important time for you when you look back on it?

Well, we were girls when we went in and we were grown up girls when we came out.

We came out a different person.

Three and a half years made a difference to us altogether.

More confident.

Yes.

VO: In spite of the long hours and exhausting work, the girls still found the energy for a bit of fun.

ANITA: Tell me, when all the work was done were you able to go out and play?

Yes.

Yes.

If you were near to a town.

I was two and a half miles away so you had to walk into town after you'd finished work and if you were going to a dance or cinema then you had to walk back again.

ANITA: Girls, what did it feel like after the war when the war was over?

You had worked hard, you knew you had made your contribution to the war effort and then you were sent back into the kitchen.

Yes.

Flat.

Very flat.

Yes it was.

I went into horticulture so I could just find my feet and get over the shock of changing into city life.

And I went into Marks & Spencers.

(THEY LAUGH) What a change that was.

VO: Whilst these remarkable ladies might not have been on the actual front line, the jobs they carried out were vital in keeping Britain fed.

VO: Their ability to take on work originally done by men also played an important role in developing women's future economic and political rights.

VO: Now, what's David up to?

Also in York, he's popping into Red House Antiques where dealer Michael is on hand to help him spend his remaining £96.

Go Dave.

DAVID: What about that ginger jar there?

Can I have a quick look at that?

Of course you can.

It's been adapted to a table and the one downside to it is obviously it's been drilled.

It's been drilled has it?

(WINCES) Ouch.

Ouch.

Gosh it's a nice pot, mind, isn't it?

Without its lid obviously.

Yeah, without its lid, that's right.

VO: Ginger jars were originally used to transport caramelized ginger and for storage and they became popular ornaments when the ginger was eaten up.

DAVID: So it's definitely Chinese.

These symbols here are Buddhist, aren't they?

It's very good quality for a ginger jar.

VO: Michael's ringing the owner to see if there's any movement on the ticket price.

£55 is the very best.

Well, at £55 Michael, I've just got to say yes.

Thank you very much indeed.

That is brilliant.

VO: For £55 the Chinese ginger jar is David's last purchase off the day.

VO: Together again and it's time to rest up in preparation for another exciting day's shopping tomorrow.

Night night.

VO: Next morning our duo are hitting the antique trail once more.

So David.

Our second day of buying, we are in wonderful Yorkshire.

DAVID: I know.

ANITA: The gateway to the north, the sun is shining, the sky is blue... And the roof is off.

ANITA: And it's bloomin' freezing!

DAVID: Oh no, stop it!

VO: You look so glamorous though!

VO: David went big yesterday spending £125 on four lots: a police fingerprinting table, a post office letter box, a 1920's drop end settee and a Chinese ginger jar lamp.

Today he has just £41.46 left to spend.

VO: Anita in contrast went small.

She bought two pairs of condiment sets and a 1950's brooch.

Having spent just £28, she still has £164.14 left for today.

VO: David and Anita are travelling around 30 miles to the historic market town of Pickering and to Anita's first shop today.

So what treasures await you here then Anita?

I've just been shown this wonderful board of photographs.

Now these photographs are showing the war weekend in Pickering.

It's in October and during that weekend servicemen and ex-servicemen come together really to celebrate the wonderful work that they did during the war and they got all dressed up in their uniforms and look who we have here... We have our wonderful land girls, and there's Dorothy and there's Iris.

They're all dressed up in their breaches and their uniforms and don't they look smart?

VO: What are the chances, eh!

Sadly this is not for sale but what else has she found?

Owner Caroline is on duty to help.

I noticed you had some Mauchline ware there.

Can I have a wee look at it?

Yeah.

These have just come in, have these ones.

Alright.

OK.

I'm very fond of Mauchline ware.

It was made in a little village in Ayrshire, called Mauchline, which was associated with Robert Burns... Ah, right, yes.

..who lived in that area.

VO: Anita's spotted a collection of Mauchline treen comprising a wool winder, pocket watch holder, needle box and moneybox.

They have a collective ticket price of £62.

Considering the fact that we do have damage, I would like to be paying in the region of around about £20 for them.

I couldn't go that low.

Could you come to 25?

Go on, I'll do 25.

Will we do 25?

That's lovely.

Thank you very much Caroline.

That's alright.

Thank you.

VO: Swift business.

Oh, there's more.

This, it's like Italian glass.

It's like Murano glass.

That's the word.

I couldn't remember.

It's like Murano glass but there's nothing to indicate on the base.

That's it.

VO: Murano glass has been made on the Venetian island of Murano for centuries and is very collectable.

Whilst this particular vase may not be Murano it is Italian with a price of £48.

Can you do 20 on that?

Yep.

Let's go for that one.

That one?

Yeah.

£20.

Yep, that's lovely.

VO: Anita has now spent a total of £45 in this shop.

David's just a few minutes away at Pickering Parish Church.

A beautiful place of worship that has held an amazing secret for most of its existence.

Archaeologist Dr Kate Giles is showing him around.

Kate, I didn't really expect to see pictures painted on to the wall.

# CHORAL MUSIC I've never seen anything quite like them in my life before now.

If they are impressive to me today in the 21st century, what did they mean to people in the 15th and 16th century?

VO: The pictures depict various saints who were hugely revered by medieval Christians.

Well even I can recognize George.

St George and the dragon, yes that's absolutely right.

What's really exciting for us at Pickering is that we know that these saints' images were placed in calendar order.

VO: This makes them the only medieval paintings of their kind in the UK.

The medieval calendar differed from ours with the year beginning in March rather than in January and the first saint's day depicted in the Church paintings is in April.

So this is the beginning of the calendar year with George.

April.

That's right.

And then we have May with Christopher.

We go on into St John the Baptist and the virgin above him - July and August and then November and December by the time we get to the east end.

VO: These magnificent works of art are believed to have been done by a group of travelling painters moving around monastic houses and churches of the region.

DAVID: And colors.

Colors galore.

I mean, I suppose they faded over the last several hundreds of years.

Would they have been really bright and vibrant in their day?

Churches were about giving people a little glimpse of heaven and that's part of what these paintings are designed to do.

I can see it.

VO: But these exquisite images spent many years under white wash. DAVID: It's so hard to believe isn't it that anybody would dream of covering them up?

It is, isn't it?

But during the reformation, of course, images of saints were highly controversial so that's... DAVID: Dangerous.

KATE: Yeah.

VO: The 16th century reformation was sparked by corruption within the Catholic church.

It resulted in the fundamental break from many Catholic practices such as the veneration of the saints, which became outlawed.

It's not until the 19th century that they were re-uncovered during the course of restoration works in 1852.

VO: The rediscovery evoked great joy from the parishioners and antiquarians.

A sentiment that was sadly not shared by the incumbent vicar, Ponsonby.

He wrote a series of very worried letters to his archbishop expressing his concern about the paintings.

VO: Ponsonby worried about the dangers surrounding the Catholic nature of the images.

He was also concerned that they would distract from his sermons.

KATE: The archbishop is really interested in the paintings and he encourages the Reverend Ponsonby to leave them alone and then he uses the fateful words, "Don't do anything to them until they have been copied "by some skillful or competent artist."

VO: Sadly, Vicar Ponsonby interpreted this to the letter, waiting until copies were done of the paintings then covered them up once more.

It was another 20 years until they were rediscovered again.

KATE: Ponsonby's gone, the Reverend Lightfoot arrives, does a huge program of restoration on the church and people start to tell him about the paintings and he decides to uncover them yet again.

VO: In his eagerness to restore the pictures, Lightfoot brings in stained glass and painting experts to work on the images giving them a distinctive 19th century pre-Raphaelite feel.

It's what 19th century Victorians would call being improved.

They would do the same with furniture - send it back to workshops to be modernized and brought up to date and I can see here that the medieval picture has been brought up to date, hasn't it, with 19th century imagery.

It has.

I think it's what makes the story of Pickering so unique that we not only have the original medieval wall paintings but we also have the 19th century interventions as well.

And what's more amazing is that we actually have the original copies of the drawings of the paintings made in 1852 which we found in the vestry of the church.

VO: 19th century drawings of the paintings have been lost and found several times.

In 2014 half life size drawings were found in the church's safety deposit box dating back to the 1950s.

It makes you wonder if there is going to be anything else yet to be discovered.

Yes.

Well, if I've learnt anything over the last 10 years it's that Pickering has the power to surprise and who knows what might emerge from the walls or come out of the drawers or archives in the future?

VO: Whilst the paintings have spent much of their existence hidden away, today they are celebrated in their full glory, attracting thousands of visitors each year.

VO: Anita is travelling nearly 30 miles to Thirsk, home town of Alfred Wright, author of All Creatures Great and Small, and on which he based the fictional town of Darrowby.

VO: She's visiting Three Tuns Antiques and Curios with just under £120 left to spend.

Oh, something shiny has caught her eye.

Surprise, surprise.

Could I take this outside to take a wee look at it?

Yes.

You're not gonna do a runner are you?

(ANITA LAUGHS) VO: I hope not.

Judging by the glint in Anita's eye she's up to something though!

Don't go back Anita.

I wanted to see this in the light.

It's a lidded vessel which would have been used to hold the host during mass.

Now, it has a price of £10 on it but what I thought when I handled it was, is this silver?

Is this silver and not silver plate?

And when I look at the top of it and apply a wee bit of pressure, I've got some give there, and that's indicating that it is a softer metal.

Now silver plate would be a harder metal than that.

VO: Its official name is a ciborium and it also has markings which are continental and complicated.

Now if this was silver plate, both pieces wouldn't have been hallmarked like that so that is giving me another indication that it might be silver.

This might be the holy grail.

VO: Now that really would be something wouldn't it!

So, £10 on that?

Yes.

Yeah, OK, that's great.

VO: So, for just £10 Anita has bought an ecclesiastical vessel that she believes to be made of solid silver.

VO: Meanwhile, our other little cherub, choirboy David has travelled east to the picturesque village of Thornton Le Dale.

VO: He's got one last shop to spend his remaining £41 in, and is meeting manager and dealer, Jan. Hi Jan. JAN: What about this?

This is a different, quirky item.

Is it a watering can?

No it's not.

What is it?

It's from a railway and they used it for flares and emergencies.

No!

So what's it fired by?

Er... either kerosene or paraffin.

Right.

It would be dropped on the line...

It would be like a roman torch.

Yeah, in a line so that in emergencies they could... they could see what was going on.

My goodness me.

VO: Emergencies could be anything from heavy fog to signal failure.

So date wise are we thinking early part of the 20th century or even earlier?

Even earlier actually, I think.

Right.

VO: OK. Its ticket price is £30 and it's not the only piece of railway interest.

Just one more piece of railwayana as well.

Blinking hell.

A gear lever.

What's all this with you and railwayana?

You do not look like someone who is a trainspotter.

I'm not a trainspotter.

Are you not?

No, definitely not.

JAN: OK, so this is a gear lever of some description, which comes from a, you know, sort of a tender engine box.

Actually, is it very heavy?

It is very heavy, yes, it's made of cast iron.

DAVID: Let's have a look at it.

Oh gosh, yeah.

When you say a tender box, it actually would be on the train?

On the train itself.

Love that.

Absolutely love that.

VO: Its price is £35 but can Jan do a deal on the lever and the flare lamp?

VO: What's your offer David?

Do you want all my money?

I want all your money.

You've got it baby.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

VO: Technically you've still got 46p but that discount means David is now the proud owner of two pieces of railway interest.

VO: He spent a total of £166 and also picked up the police fingerprinting table, his 1940's letter box, the Chinese ginger jar and 1920's drop end settee.

VO: Anita spent just £83 on her five lots.

Purchasing two sets of condiments, a 1950's brooch, a collection of Mauchline treen boxes, a 1960's Italian glass vase and white metal ciborium with gilt interior.

So what do they think of each other's items?

I mean, the condiment sets - oh my gosh.

They are diabolical beyond belief, have no age whatsoever and need to be chucked in the nearest bin possible.

What he has done with the flare lamp and that other bit of old iron is he has bought, definitely the weird.

Somebody might fall in love with it but to me it's just another big lump of old iron.

VO: Anita and David are travelling south again to an auction in the historic spa town of Harrogate, voted the happiest place to live by a popular property website in 2013 and 14.

VO: In spite of the dire weather, happy Harrogate seems to have rubbed off on our excited pair.

ANITA: Listen, if it didn't rain would we have this beautiful greenery all round about us?

DAVID: I always say that actually.

# Always look on the bright side of life!

# VO: # Ba do be do be do be do # Wa-hey.

Here we are.

Second auction, David.

Let the battle commence.

Oh.

My kind of woman.

Come on.

VO: Today's auction is being held at Harrogate Auction Centre and the auctioneer is George Allen.

(DOG BARKS) The condiment set, well, it's a bit quirky, they're a bit fun but cheap items I'm afraid.

They are not gonna do a right lot of money at all.

The letterbox.

A very rare find is that and I think you are going to be quite surprised what that one is going to make.

VO: Let's hope so.

Time for the auction!

Let get comfy, David.

Hello.

Almost thrones, Anita.

Thrones.

VO: And speaking of regal, it's Anita's king and queen condiments, and cuddling pigs first.

Well good luck.

Thank you darling.

Can we see five anywhere on that one?

£2.

£2.

DAVID: Oh, they all want them.

They all want them.

Thank you sir.

Thank you sir.

Six bid.

Eight bid.

10 is that number nine?

It is 10 bid, 12 bid.

Oh, they're flying.

14, lovely attractive lady on the front, 14 bid, 14 bid, is that 16?

Number nine.

14 the bid, 15 bid.

(BOTH) Oh!

Big spender.

16 bid, you're out sir, 16 bid, any advance on 16?

Any more?

18.

She is back in.

20.

22.

22 bid.

Any more?

All done.

Don't miss out on these.

22 bid.

Well, the room's on fire.

£22.

VO: Not a king's ransom but still a profit.

Whoa, that was pressured wasn't it?

From two!

I thought they were gonna sell for two.

So did I.

My wee heart was beating.

VO: Next up are David's train lever and flare lamp.

Can I leave now?

Can I go?

I'll hold yer wee hand.

I think you are gonna have to.

I think you are.

50.

Go on.

Go on.

40.

30?

20?

Oh!

This is for the two items.

Five bid.

Five the bid.

Any advance on five?

10 bid, here we go.

15 bid.

20.

Five.

30.

DAVID: Hold on, hold on.

Five.

35 bid.

Come on.

Come on.

40 bid.

£40 the bid.

45.

50.

£50 bid.

Any more?

55 bid?

60 bid.

Five bid.

65.

70 bid.

Any advance?

75 bid.

75, 80 bid.

85 bid.

85, any more?

When is it gonna stop?

Go on.

Never!

90 bid.

95 bid.

95.

Round it up.

Go on, make it the double figures.

100 bid.

Go on.

That's more like it.

All done at £100.

Brilliant David.

Brilliant.

Thank you Anita.

Thank you Anita.

VO: An incredible result.

From such a slow start, David's more than doubled his money.

It's so exciting.

I was digging my nails in to your hand.

I noticed.

VO: Now it's Anita's 1950's brooch.

Four bid.

£4 bid, six bid, £8, eight bid, and 10.

10 bid, it's all over the place, it's 10 bid, 12 bid, You're off.

14.

14 bid.

Any advance on 14?

Come on.

Buy it for your lady.

14 bid, any more?

Another one.

14.50 and he's back in, 15, 16, 16 bid, any more?

All done at £16, you're gonna miss out on this one.

Go on!

All done at 16.

(GAVEL) ANITA: Yes!

DAVID: Well done.

Well done.

She's very excited.

VO: And so she should be, she got it at a great price.

VO: Still it's a small profit for Anita.

Now it's David's most expensive item, his Chinese ginger jar.

Is your heart starting to...?

Yeah, yeah.

It's going.

(ANITA LAUGHS) I am 50 bid.

Straight in at 50.

60 on the telephone.

£60 bid.

70 on the books.

£70 bid.

80 bid.

90 with me.

95 bid.

100 bid on the book.

Any advance on 100 and I'm into triple figures.

Go on!

Any more?

All done at £100.

Whoa.

That's a good one.

Well done.

It's alright.

It's alright.

Listen, let me give you a wee kiss.

Thank you.

Thank you.

VO: Wow, that's another great profit for David.

He went big with his buys and so far it seems to be paying off.

David's in the lead, so Anita needs a big profit on her Mauchline treen to stay in the game.

10 bid.

£10 bid.

Any advance on 10?

Any more?

All done, 15.

15.

One piece is worth more than that.

20 bid.

Go on.

£20 the bid.

Come on.

£20.

25 bid.

Lady's in blue back in at 25.

30 bid.

£30 the bid.

I'll take 2.50 of help, anybody?

£30 the bid.

Any more?

All done.

£32.50 bid.

Have you all done, at 32.50.

(GAVEL) VO: Another profit for Anita.

What a brilliant crowd here today.

I love his 50ps.

It makes all the difference.

He gets every single penny.

He doesn't half.

He doesn't half.

VO: Well, every penny counts.

Let's see if Anita's next item can bring in a few more.

It may not be Murano but it still is an Italian vase.

10 to start me.

10 bid.

£10 bid.

Any advance?

15.

Here we go.

It's all over.

It's all over.

20.

30.

Five.

35 bid.

40 bid.

45, 50 bid.

Any advance?

55 bid.

DAVID: Are you bidding?

(LAUGHS) I'm just getting excited.

65 bid.

65, £70 the bid.

75 bid, 80 bid, 85 bid, 85 the bid.

Any advance on 85?

An exciting lot there.

90 bid.

DAVID: No!

£90, 95 bid, £100 bid.

We've hit the magic mark.

100 bid.

105 bid.

Yes.

Yes.

105 the bid.

Any more?

All done.

DAVID: It's the big hammer.

110.

110.

The lady is back in at 110.

All done at 110.

(GAVEL) Aw!

AUCTIONEER: Number nine.

Oh.

What an auctioneer.

VO: That's an incredible profit for Anita.

She's quadrupled her money putting her firmly back in the game.

VO: Now.

Let's see if David's 1940's letterbox gets the same reception.

40.

50.

£50 bid.

Any advance on 50?

60.

70.

£70 bid.

80.

90.

100 with me.

£100.

Come on.

Come on.

Cling on to me, Anita.

Cling on to me.

Good luck, darling.

130 bid.

130 bid.

Any advance on 130?

I'm out.

In the room at the very back there.

Come on, someone outbid him.

£130 the bid.

It's there, it goes at £130.

Yes.

Get in there.

Well done George.

VO: Well done David.

Another massive profit.

Quite the auction today.

I can't believe it.

Isn't it wonderful?

It is.

It is wonderful.

VO: David got his 1920's sofa for a steal but how will it fare today?

10 anywhere?

10 bid.

£10 bid.

20 bid.

30 bid, 40 bid.

£40, 50 bid.

ANITA: You're in profit.

60.

We're getting there.

Come on, come on.

£60 the bid.

70 bid.

70 bid.

Lovely piece, 80 bid.

£80 the bid.

90.

Magic figure.

£90 the bid, any more?

Go on.

Go on.

Come on.

£90 the bid, any more?

£100.

Yeah!

100.

110.

110.

Selling itself.

110 the bid.

Any more?

All done at £110.

(GAVEL) David.

That's 200% profit.

200?

It's more than that.

It's about four million.

We're both rubbish at maths.

VO: Apparently so, it's actually just over 2,000% profit.

VO: Next it's Anita's incredible find, her ciborium.

VO: Anita still believes it's silver but has been unable to identify its marks so it's being sold as white metal.

£20 bid.

20 bid.

£20 bid.

It's not where we start, it's where we finish.

30 bid.

£30 the bid.

35, 40 bid, 45, 45, 50 bid.

Any advance on 50?

55.

55 you won't get another one, 55, 60 bid, 65 bid, 65.

Come on, come on.

Any advance on 65?

It's worth a lot more, 65, 70 bid, 75 bid, any more?

All done?

Finished at £75.

VO: A stroke of luck or divine intervention?

Either way that's a fantastic profit!

Profits all over the place.

What a feeling, eh?

VO: It's certainly too close to call.

Time for David's final and most unusual item, his police fingerprinting table.

Can we see 20?

Oh!

10 bid.

£10 bid.

Any advance on 10?

You'll never get another one.

Come on.

You'll never want another one.

£20 the bid.

Any advance on 20?

Any more?

30.

£30.

£30.

You are out madam.

£30 bid.

Come on.

Come on, madam.

The bid is at the back of them room.

£30, any more?

All done.

Finished at £30 only bid.

That's alright.

Well, done.

Well done George, that's alright.

Still profit, David, still profit.

VO: It's small but it's still a profit.

What an incredible auction with no losses.

VO: Now that makes a change, doesn't it?

David, that was absolutely fabulous.

What are we gonna do now?

We are gonna forget about cups of tea, let's go straight for the champagne.

You are my kind of girl.

VO: Well before we go popping any corks, let's find out who came out on top.

VO: Anita started this leg with £192.14.

After auction costs, she made a profit of £126.51, leaving her with £318.65 to spend next time.

VO: David however emerges victorious this week.

He started off with £166.46.

After auction costs, he's made a whopping profit of £219.40 so takes forward £385.86 to the following leg.

Come on you.

Oh, you're such a sweetie.

In you go.

Right, are you in?

Yup.

VO: What an amazing day it's been, so cheerio chaps.

VO: Next time on Antiques Road Trip, Anita considers other career options.

(BLOWS HORN) VO: Whilst David takes a leaf out of his competitor's book.

I am desperate to buy it if it's cheap.

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