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 third leg of the road trip for David Harper and our canny Scottish lassie Anita Manning.

DAVID: We're going north, Anita, we're going north.

Isn't that the pleasure of this trip?

I know.

Isn't it, seeing all these different landscapes.

Buying a load of old iron as well whilst doing it.

DAVID: An iron bridge!

An iron bridge!

Great.

Don't you love it?

Oh, I could flog that dead easy.

VO: He probably could as well.

For dealer David's got a knack of finding the golden dust in a bit of old rust.

It is fabulous, and you know what Tony?

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

VO: His partner in crime, auctioneer Anita has decades of antiquing under her belt though she is not one to blow her own trumpet.

(BLOWS HORN) Do you think they'd let me into the Boys' Brigade?

VO: Er, I don't think so.

Anita and David are still eating up the miles though in this positively delectable 1965 Morris Minor convertible.

Their last auction was a rip roaring success with both of them making whopping great profits!

Yes!

Get in there.

Number nine.

VO: Bravo chaps!

VO: Our two expert treasure hunters started the trip with £200.

Anita now has £318.65 to spend.

VO: David meanwhile has taken the lead with £385.86 for this leg.

DAVID: Hey, I tell you what, have we got some money to spend or what?

ANITA: Yes.

DAVID: Crikey.

We've got tons of dosh, tons of dosh.

DAVID: I know.

I'm looking forward to seeing what takes your fancy, missus.

Well, it won't be those bright red trousers, they're the same color as my nail varnish.

VO: Otherwise known as shocking red!

VO: David and Anita are travelling over 700 miles, from Ramsbottom, Lancashire, snaking their way up through Yorkshire, all the way to bonny Scotland and the town of Paisley.

VO: Our journey commences today in Chester-le-Street County Durham, ending up at an auction in Newcastle Upon Tyne.

I always aim to please.

Oh and you do.

You never fail.

Right, have a great day.

OK, David, spend, spend, spend.

Don't you worry about that.

See you soon.

Bye bye.

Bye.

VO: Anita is dropping David off at his first shop of the day.

Crikey, those trousers really are bright and tight.

VO: Now, she's tootling just 20 miles south to the village of St Helen Auckland where she's catching up with her old pal Yvonne.

Yvonne, it's lovely to be back... Oh, Anita, it's lovely to see you.

.. to this wonderful treasure chest.

VO: They really are happy to be reunited.

(BLOWS HORN) Wow!

Pretty good at that.

Right, OK.

Hang on a wee second until I get the... (TESTS ACCORDION) The tone?

# DISCORDANT NOTES VO: I think that might take more than a second Anita, perhaps stick to shopping?

VO: Not that type of shopping!

Bright pillar box red handbag, just the type of thing that would go with David's trousers.

VO: Oh please don't encourage him!

Distractions over, Anita soon spots something she likes.

Can I see your scent bottle?

You can indeed.

ANITA: Is the top silver?

YVONNE: Yes.

Hallmarked.

Right.

ANITA: I love these things.

YVONNE: I do.

I love them as well.

There's no damage on the cut crystal and when you think of the amount of work that was done to cut all that into all these little, triangles, squares and so on and we've got that nice quality polished base.

The only thing that I'm worried about in that, Yvonne, is... the fact that we don't have the stopper.

I know.

I know.

VO: The missing stopper will reduce the value but I dare say Anita will use that to her advantage, ticket price is £60.

What's the very best you can do on that, Yvonne?

To you?

The very, very best.

And taking into consideration that we have got that very important part missing.

What about 45?

What I'm looking at is round about the £30.

If we said 35?

Yeah?

If we said 35... Let's go for that.

Yeah.

That's great.

Thank you very much, thank you very much.

VO: Generous discount of nearly 50% off.

David meanwhile is starting his morning in Chester-le-Street where he's meeting dealer Colin.

It's just an Aladdin's cave, it's an adventure.

VO: Soon enough, David's eye is drawn to a Mouseman cheeseboard.

It's very simple stuff isn't it?

A bit of aged oak and they store the oak outside the factory premises for 10 or 14 years I believe until it's just right to be cut and then they cut it and they use that tool, is it an angst?

That kind of like, almost like a medieval tool so the surfaces are never perfectly flat are they, they've got that kind of wavy finish to them.

And the old mouse there.

VO: Each Mouseman piece has a mouse carved on it, which slightly varies depending on which craftsman was doing the work.

The company was founded by Robert Thompson in the early 20th century and is still running today.

OK, what about that baby there?

Is that mousey?

Yup, Same again.

Let's have a look.

There we go.

OK. Now so this is a different animal all together isn't it?

This is the cow stool.

Tripod with that faceted leg, all hand cut.

I mean, when you look closely at these things people would criticize them because they are kind of just off center and a little bit rough in places.

It's cuz it's handmade, isn't it?

Yeah.

They are different aren't they?

This one has got more of a domed back, a bit fatter.

VO: And apparently there's a story behind how these mice came to be carved in the first place.

These guys were moaning that they weren't getting paid much by Yorkshireman Robert Mousey Thompson.

And as they were moaning about it, this little mouse scurried across the church floor and one of them said to the other, "look at that, here we are in a church "and we are as poor as church mice."

And from that day on they started carving mice on to the furniture.

VO: The combined ticket price of the two items is £210.

I'd stand a chance if that was £160 for the pair.

How much?

£160.

I can't.

Go on, try a bit harder?

I'll try a bit harder.

£170 and I'm done.

COLIN: Thank you very much.

Thank you.

VO: Well that's a very generous discount.

It works out at 110 for the stool and £60 for the cheeseboard.

Back with Anita and she's found something a little bit festive.

Another thing that I was looking at which I thought was quite fun...

Yes.

These old Christmas card printing blocks.

Yes.

I thought they were good.

They're really nice, aren't they?

Uh-huh.

What I kind of like about them is although they are not old they're not Victorian, Edwardian or even probably the first part of the 20th century, eh, they are kind of soppy.

You know, they are kind of old fashioned.

Old fashioned merry Christmas type of thing.

And I think it's the type of thing that people could have good fun with.

Yeah.

You know, they could make their own vintage Christmas cards.

Is there more printing stuff, you know, it's not...

There's those as well, Anita.

Oh right.

I think they're numbers as well.

Right.

These are, these are numbers.

Mm-hm.

Oh look!

That's for money.

Yeah.

See all these together?

Who's gonna want them except me?

Craft people.

Craft people?

That's right, craft people.

Eh, are these throwaway dead cheap?

VO: The printing blocks are priced at £22.

I'll...I'll deal them a 20 quid for the lot.

For the lot?

Could you do them all for a tenner?

Aw... Anita man!

(THEY LAUGH) That's so hard.

They're just daft things and I like them.

I tell you what I'll do.

I'll do them for 15.

You'll do them for 15?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Let's go for it.

VO: Another cracking buy but there's still time for one more item.

I think it's German.

I think it probably is German.

It has, it's got an art nouveau look about it.

It's got a bit of a mixture of styles but I kind of like this crazy thing.

It's almost like a, I don't know, a crab or a sea creature or something and you've got these wee cherubs.

VO: It's a continental art nouveau porcelain mantel clock with a ticket price of £48.

I don't like it.

VO: Nor do I.

Do you not?

I don't know why.

VO: I do.

I mean, how much do you not like it?

VO: A lot.

A lot.

VO: She's right.

No prizes in guessing where this conversation is going.

Why don't you give it at a throwaway price so that I can take this out of your life... (BOTH) Forever.

It definitely won't be coming back?

It won't be coming back.

It won't be coming back.

I'm gonna give ya, I'm gonna give ya a one-off price... A one-off price... Today, which is a tenner.

Wonderful.

Boys, you're coming home with me.

Oh well, they're going to auction.

Put it there.

I've got three items and I'm delighted with them all.

Oh, excellent.

VO: I'm not surprised!

Anita's bought three cracking pieces for just £60.

David meanwhile has spotted something a bit unusual.

Right.

What have we got in here of interest?

What on earth is that?

Can I dive in there?

You can.

There you are.

It's a cigarette lighter.

It's a what?

A what?

A cigarette lighter.

I see.

Why on earth do you make a bike... it's a novelty cigarette lighter!

Replica of a...

It reminds me of my 10 speed racer when I was a young boy.

VO: Not long ago.

Ticket price for this fun little piece is £25.

You've got wheels that turn, brakes that work - that's ridiculous.

A chain that...

I can't believe that's a functioning... You could get on that and ride off!

Is that cheap?

It's a fun thing.

Is it cheap?

Yeah.

It's cheap.

Well, I think 20 quid, and that is cheap for that.

20 quid.

Will you take £15?

Yeah.

Thank you very much.

Marvelous.

Purchase number three.

You're brilliant!

VO: Marvelous indeed!

That's one shop down and three items in the bag for £185.

VO: Anita is now travelling over 25 miles east to the coastal town of Hartlepool.

VO: In the 19th century, Hartlepool was an important shipbuilding port.

Sadly, this industry caused the town to be the target of a horrific attack by the German navy at the beginning of the First World War.

Anita is here to learn more about this momentous day from curator Mark.

You know, it's so peaceful here today, but I believe at the beginning of the First World War, really, a lot happened.

Yeah, if you were standing here 100 years ago, all hell was breaking loose around you, as shells from three German warships bombarded the town of Hartlepool and West Hartlepool.

VO: On 16 December 1914, the war, that was seemingly being fought hundreds of miles away, came to the doorsteps of the working class people of Hartlepool.

This shock attack was the first of its kind on British soil and claimed the lives of 130 people.

Over 500 more were injured.

Wow.

Local people had absolutely no idea.

They're sitting eating their breakfasts in the houses behind us, going to school, getting ready to go to work, and then suddenly the shells start coming in and the sound of thunder out to sea, and huge German 11-inch shells start falling on the town in huge numbers, something like 1,500 shells in about 40 minutes.

Out there?

Yes.

From just behind us here, out in the sea here, coming in from the mist.

VO: No public warnings of the attack came until it was too late.

The few Royal Navy ships from Hartlepool responded to the attack, but were vastly outnumbered.

By the time more help arrived, the Germans had scooted.

Scarborough and Whitby were also hit, but Hartlepool suffered the most damage.

Inside Hartlepool Maritime Museum, Mark has some interesting artifacts, including some shrapnel from the attack, to show Anita.

MARK: These are travelling at hundreds and hundreds of miles an hour.

In some cases, faster than the speed of sound so you can imagine when the shell's exploding, there's no warning and it just takes a building and turns it into matchsticks.

VO: The devastation to the town was unimaginable as people's everyday lives were suddenly turned upside down by the onslaught.

MARK: So this is the bombardment clock from Collingwood Road, where a family hear the shells, the shells are coming down, so they run out into the street.

The shell hits the back of their house and completely demolishes it.

VO: The family discovered the shrapnel-riddled alarm clock in the rubble of the house.

It had stopped at the exact time the bombardment started.

But look closely - where's the alarm clock made?

Made in Germany!

It's a German import.

ANITA: It sounds like a day out of hell.

But tell me about the ordinary man, the ordinary woman, the ordinary family on that terrible morning.

MARK: People thought that the Germans were invading and went to either to find out what was going on or went to try to get help.

A lot of the people who were killed and wounded were injured by shells exploding, hitting the streets, and being outside, people panicked and collected their families and their worldly possessions and tried to run off into the countryside.

VO: These were the first German attacks of this magnitude to strike the UK, and as such resulted in the first civilian and military casualties of the First World War on British soil.

Mark, you have painted me a terrifying picture of what happened to Hartlepool on that fateful morning, but what effect did it have on the people of Hartlepool?

Anger and fear, to start with.

And then they turned their anger over into wanting to do something about it; what do you do?

So you join the army, you go to work in the munitions factories making shells in buildings like the one we're standing in now.

VO: The events of that day changed the lives of the people of Hartlepool forever.

Ultimately though, the community rallied together; 22,000 people volunteered for the armed forces.

Even more impressive, they raised the modern equivalent of over half a billion pounds for the war effort - an incredible figure for such a small working class community.

Over 800 buildings were damaged during the attack, and it took over a decade to restore Hartlepool to its former glory.

VO: David is now heading south to Darlington, a town said to be the birthplace of the world's first public steam-powered railway.

VO: He's hot to shop with just over £200 to spend.

Hello, Tony!

Good to see you.

And again, yeah.

Very good to see you.

I'm loving those glasses!

VO: After a quick mooch downstairs, Tony's got an item he thinks David will like the look of upstairs.

Now then, it's a little bit industrial up here.

Be careful, it's fairly heavy.

And watch those trousers as well.

Why, what's it going to do?

Grab them?

It'll be fairly rusty.

VO: It's an early 20th century cast iron hay grabber.

And more importantly for David, a good chunk of metal!

DAVID: Oh, there's the mechanism, there's your gear thing.

Switch that.

TONY: Yeah, that's it.

DAVID: Oh, I see, I see.

So what, that goes onto the hay, it grabs it... TONY: Grabs it, and then... ..locks in... ..locks in... ..and then lifts the hay bale.

That's right, and look, that's your supports there, all of your... For your chains and the thing just goes up, away and down again.

VO: I hope you followed that!

DAVID: Now, I remember - you'll remember this: in 1895 when we used to work in the fields, doing these by hand.

Do you remember them, Tony, those days?

David, I do, yes.

You must remember, I put the first coat of the primer on the arc.

(LAUGHS) VO: Just like watching the Two Ronnies, isn't it?

I mean, it is fabulous.

And you know what, Tony - I am desperate to buy it, if it's cheap.

I'll tell you what we'll do, a tenner.

£10.

Ten quid.

Thank you very much, that is not worth negotiating over.

That's a bargain, and Anita Manning is going to be so jealous because she loves all my bits of any old iron.

VO: He sure spent big earlier, but this last £10 buy marks the end of the first day's shopping.

Time for some much needed shuteye for our dazzling duo.

Night night!

VO: A new day has dawned, and today they're starting out beside the seaside.

David, isn't that wonderful, look at the sea, the wonderful North Sea and we're in Whitby, one of the most delightful little seaside towns in the north of England.

DAVID: Gorgeous.

And I'm so excited, I want to swim in the sea!

VO: Hm, look out.

You'd regret that pretty quickly!

Yesterday, big kid Anita bought some printing blocks, a cut glass crystal scent bottle with silver embossed top, and an art nouveau mantle clock.

Today she has £258.65 left to spend.

David spent a big chunk of his money buying four items: a Mouseman cheeseboard and milking stool, a novelty racing bike lighter and an early 20th century hay grabber, leaving him with just over £190 for today's shopping.

VO: Anita and David have travelled to the seaside town of Whitby, a place that has a long history of maritime importance.

It was here that explorer Captain Cook learned seamanship.

DAVID: There you go, madam.

ANITA: There we are, down there?

DAVID: Delivered... ..right to the door, just about.

You're keen to get out, you almost flung yourself out the door!

Is it the effect I have on women or something?

I'm looking forward to shopping!

Yes!

Bye!

Bye!

VO: And so she should be, as her first shop of the day is The Bazaar, packed full of interesting artifacts to get excited over.

VO: There to help her is dealer Frank.

Frank, could I ask you about this little tea set, or part tea set, over here?

FRANK: Oh, that?

ANITA: I quite liked that.

It's a part of a tea set, Royal Crown Derby, in that wonderful Imari pattern.

FRANK: Yes.

ANITA: And this Imari pattern is taken from the oriental with these wonderful...the blues, the rust reds and golds, and I like that.

VO: There seem to be some flaws though.

I think that this is probably unassociated with it.

What, the plate?

Yeah... ANITA: It's a different mark, so it's been brought... bits have been brought together.

Yes.

And we've got a damage, or a repair.

FRANK: Are you sure?

Uh-huh.

I think that's a repair.

Oh yeah, that's a repair, yeah.

I didn't notice that.

Has that been there for a long time?

I shouldn't say it, but it has, yeah.

(ANITA LAUGHS) VO: The item is priced at £150.

FRANK: So what was you thinking of offering?

I'd be looking for round about £50.

Tell you what, I could have a deal; how about 70?

Would that be any good?

70?

Yeah.

Could you come to maybe £60 on it?

Is that possible?

Well, it's been here for a long time, so... Has it been here for a long time?

It's a long time, so I'll have a deal with you, £60.

At £60?

That's wonderful, thank you very much, Frank, that's wonderful, thank you.

VO: That's an amazing discount.

So for £60, Anita is now the proud owner of a Derby part tea set.

VO: David is also in Whitby, where the notoriously dangerous coastline saw one of the biggest shipping disasters in the history of Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

This even went on to prompt a rethink on how the RNLI functioned in UK waters.

He's visiting the Whitby Lifeboat Museum to learn more about that fateful day from curator and retired coxswain Pete Thompson.

DAVID: That's a fine model of a ship, Pete.

What are we looking at?

This is the famous Rohilla.

She was a hospital ship with 229 people on board.

It was bound for Dunkirk, pick up wounded soldiers, basically, from the front in the First World War.

VO: The people on board were mostly medical staff and the ship's crew.

Sadly though, the Rohilla never made its final destination as, struck by a huge storm, it was swept off course.

As a result of the German naval attack that Anita learnt about yesterday, there was a coastal blackout and the ship ran onto a mile long rock known as "the Whitby scar".

The impact split the vessel into three parts.

PETE: That would be the first notification that there was a ship ashore and that's the way the rest of the town would find out.

VO: The dangerous state of the seas meant that the lifeboat couldn't leave from its normal launch site.

So the volunteer crews had to move the boat to a safer location position opposite the wreck.

This involved lifting the lifeboat over an eight foot wall and then carrying it another quarter of a mile.

PETE: She was dragged by several hundred people.

It was damaged in the process of this, so it was damaged before it actually left the shore.

DAVID: Those waters must have been absolutely hell on earth.

I would imagine surf running in from the Rohilla would be anything like 12, 15 foot high, so this little boat trying to get out through these huge breakers to get alongside and rescue them must have been a fantastic feat in itself.

It took off the first 17 people and landed them back through the waves into the surf for a second time, and a further 18 people were rescued.

When she got back from that trip, after hitting the rocks, it was so badly damaged that it had to be abandoned and that's where we had to call for help from further stations.

VO: Three other lifeboats from neighboring towns, one motorized, tried and failed to help.

And were people stuck on the boats?

Were they in the water, what was happening?

No, the survivors would be mustered in around the wheelhouse.

People were seen by the crowds on the cliff to be jumping into the sea and trying to swim for it.

A lot were saved by Whitby people on the scar itself, wading into the water and pulling them out.

Many, many died in desperation, they just jumped into the water and that was it.

VO: Time was running out for the passengers.

They were now entering their third day stranded and the storm was showing no signs of abating.

Finally, a lifeboat from over 50 miles to the north was called upon to assist.

And what happened next?

The final thing was to try and get a motor lifeboat down from the Tyne, and they decided to sail through the night, the 50-odd mile from Tynemouth down to Whitby, which they did through the full storm, and everything went well.

They took our second coxswain, and he then acting as pilot, they went out through the storm round to the wreck and managed to get the last 50 survivors.

VO: Until now, motorized lifeboats were in the very early stages of development and were few and far between.

On this occasion, when everything failed with the rowing lifeboat and of course the motor one succeeded, the RNLI quite rightly said now is the time to put a motor lifeboat in Whitby.

So the disaster, then, was a catalyst for change?

It was, a big step.

The RNLI realized, and so did lifeboat men, that oars were no longer the ideal way for saving life.

VO: Many interesting artifacts were found at the time of the wreck, but perhaps the most fascinating was discovered in 2014; a trunk belonging to Mary Roberts, the only female stewardess on the Rohilla.

She was no stranger to shipping disasters, having also survived the most famous shipwreck of all time, the Titanic.

That's fantastic.

So, 100 years - certainly to the year - the trunk comes back, Mary's trunk.

What a coincidence, yeah.

I don't know whether Mary was lucky or unlucky.

What are your thoughts?

Well, she has been known to have said that of the two disasters, the Rohilla was the worst to experience because of the severity of the weather.

Titanic was huge, but it was flat calm.

So her experience of the Rohilla certainly stuck with her.

VO: 2014 marked the centenary of Rohilla's fateful journey, but the memory of that traumatic day, and the courage of the people of Whitby and its surrounding towns, lives on.

84 people died on that ship, but over the course of three days, against all the odds the RNLI managed to save 145 souls, and their bravery was rewarded with the gold medal of the Royal National Lifeboat Institute, the highest honor of its kind.

VO: Anita is on her way 20 miles down the coast to another popular seaside resort, Scarborough.

VO: She's got just under £200 to spend at Scarborough Antiques and Collectors Centre.

Here she goes.

Hi!

I'm Anita.

Pleased to meet you.

I'm Matt.

Lovely, lovely to be here.

VO: The shop is brimming with Anita's Achilles' heel: jewelry.

This may take some time!

ANITA: Is this the bargain box?

Yeah, yeah, I suppose that's where we put a lot of the reduced ones, yeah.

VO: Yeah, like music to your ears, eh Anita?

MATT: The brooches... silver and gold, aren't worn as much as they used to be, but when they do come along, we'd rather not scrap them, so...

I know, I know.

Nice wee lot here of four.

And we've got the little blister pearl here and I like those.

We've got this, it's a blue... it's not a sapphire, I think it's just a blue gemstone here.

Little gold one with the flower.

And this pearlized stone here.

Four of them, all nine carat gold, in the bargain basement box!

Yeah.

VO: The combined ticket price for the four brooches is £80.

I'd be looking to pay 35-40 as a wee group, you know, taking all four of them, so it's a kind of quick sale on four.

Right, I see.

Um... Tell me how you feel about that.

Right.

I mean, they're already in the bargain basement, and I'm a bit of a tight Yorkshireman.

VO: Oh hello, Yorkshire pot, meet Scottish kettle.

I could do them for 50, Anita.

50?

Could you take it to 40?

Could you take it to 40?

I think...I could do 45 for you.

You could do 45 on that?

I think I'll go for that.

That's lovely.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you very much, Matt, that's wonderful.

VO: And with that, Anita has bought her final lot.

VO: David has travelled inland to the village of Sleights in the Esk Valley.

VO: He's visiting Eskdale Antiques, where he's meeting owner Philip.

He's still got just over £190 left to spend and a whole host of interesting objects to choose here.

Hm.

A little papier-mache 19th century snuff box here.

Now these things can be very ordinary, can't they, and bought for a few pounds.

VO: Sorry, who are you talking to, David?

But I love this because of the doggie on there.

What's all this about then, what do you know about this one?

VO: Ah!

Philip!

Hello!

Nice little scene on the front, isn't it, dog carrying its prey back, I think.

Yeah, a rabbit there, to be delivered immediately to its master.

I love snuff boxes and I love the story behind snuff.

In the 17th century it was astonishingly expensive and people would have urns of snuff worth the equivalent of thousands of pounds in rooms locked, didn't they?

So people couldn't pinch the snuff.

VO: It's priced at £45.

OK, what's the trade on that?

I can do 25 on that.

25.

Can we go 20?

Yeah, we can do £20, that's fair.

Shall we do it?

Yeah.

Phil.

Thank you.

VO: So for £20, David has bought a 19th century snuff box, making his total spend on this leg just £215.

His other purchases are a Mouseman cheese board and milking stool, a vintage racing bike lighter, and a 20th century cast iron hay grabber.

As you do.

VO: Anita has spent £165.

She bought some assorted printing blocks, a cut crystal scent bottle, an art nouveau porcelain clock, a late 19th century Derby part tea set and four gold brooches.

VO: Their shopping is complete, but what do they think of each other's purchases?

The little bar brooches, they're not my cup of tea, but she knows these things inside out.

£45 purchase price, there's gold in there.

I think she'll do pretty well.

I love David's Mouseman items.

The little cheese board is a sweetie!

And the stool - isn't that such a delight?

VO: Our jubilant duo are heading over 70 miles north to an auction in Newcastle.

Oh David, we're in sunny Newcastle.

As we travel north...

I know.

It gets warmer!

ANITA: ..the clouds are parting, the sun is shining!

By the time we get to Scotland... We'll be in our swimwear!

I'm hoping!

VO: Oh lordy!

Well, if ever there was a reason to stay south of the border... ANITA: Good luck.

DAVID: There we go.

And you can leap out...now.

OK. Well done, David, well done.

VO: Our auction today is taking place at Thomas Miller's Auctioneers, and wheeling the all important gavel this morning is Guy Macklam.

I think the Mouseman items obviously stand out, they're always popular, we never struggle to do well with Mouseman furniture and collectibles and things like that.

With Derby, you know, synonymous with super quality, but I have to say, tea sets, dinner sets, even good quality, are not making a lot of money now, so you're probably looking at less than £50 for that lot, I would think.

VO: The auction's about to commence.

Those too are unusually silent.

Could it be jitters?

Are you a nervous wreck?

I am, I am a nervous wreck.

Good, good.

I like that.

DAVID: You like that?

ANITA: Yeah.

VO: First up, David's 19th century snuff box.

20 is bid for it.

Any advance on 20?

Five twice.

30.

Five.

40.

Five.

Good boy!

At £45.

Anybody down here £50?

At £50.

Selling to the lady at 50.

Looking for some more here, at £50 all done.

It's all finished at 50.

(GAVEL) That's good.

Good start, good start.

Are you happy?

No!

(ANITA LAUGHS) Not yet.

VO: You should be - 150% profit is a great start.

VO: Next, it's Anita's numerical printing and greeting card blocks.

Here we go, keep your fingers crossed for me.

I will.

I'm bid £10 offered, madam, thank you.

Any advance on 10?

Could buy you a block.

Go down to King's Road, buy you a block.

(THEY LAUGH) 15.

Oh, come along.

15 offered, it's right in front of me.

Selling at 15, it's yours, madam, at 15, all in.

Are we quite sure?

Buy you a block, I'm telling you.

15 right up front.

Going at 15, all done.

(GAVEL) VO: Not a bad result.

VO: Time for David's cast iron hay grabber.

Anyway, let's hope the scrap dealers are here today!

£10 for it or are we going to pass?

Oh, we've got it.

10 bid.

£10!

Come on!

At 10 at the back of the room, sir, your money, it's away.

All finished at 10.

Oh!

All finished at £10.

Selling at 10.

I can't believe it!

I can!

They've got no style!

VO: So, a loss after auction costs and no sympathy from Anita.

I loved you for buying that piece of rubbish!

(LAUGHS) VO: Charming!

Time, if you pardon the pun, for Anita's art nouveau mantle clock.

10 is bid.

Any advance on 10?

12, 15, 17, 20... Come on, come on!

Ooh!

At £20.

Any advance?

At 20 for the lot, selling at 20.

Right hand side at £20, are we finished?

I think we are.

Selling at 20... You at 22, not quite!

Yes, yes!

At 25 on the right, standing at 25.

Are you out madam?

I've got 25.

27.

DAVID: Oh!

Hello!

27, seated.

All finished at 27, all done.

Sell for 27.

(GAVEL) Oh, well done, well done!

VO: Well done indeed, that's a decent profit.

VO: David's Mouseman pieces have received all sorts of praise but how will his cheeseboard fare this morning?

Is your heart beating?

10 bid.

15, 20, five.

At £25, any advance at 25?

30.

Five.

40.

Five.

For nothing.

45 against you, sir.

It's gotta go.

50 bid.

At £50.

Looking for another five.

At 50 at the back, then.

Selling at 50.

Five.

Yes!

New bidder at 55.

Good, good, good!

55 at the back.

60.

And again, sir?

65.

At 65.

They're climbing now, climbing now.

65, all done.

Hammer's up, at £65.

Nooooo!

(GAVEL) Oooh!

GUY: 65.

VO: It's still a profit for David, but less than expected.

VO: Next, Anita's cut glass scent bottle with a silver-embossed top.

20 is bid.

Any advance at 20?

Five.

30.

Five.

40.

Five.

50.

And again, sir?

£50 to the lady at the back.

At £50.

Five.

60.

At 60 in the distance then, going away at 60.

Gents are out, selling it to the lady at 60, all done.

(GAVEL) Nice one!

VO: A great profit, despite the missing stopper.

Two more each to go.

This is the telling section, isn't it?

VO: It is indeed.

David loves his vintage bicycle lighter, but will anyone else?

10 bid.

Any advance on only 10?

At 10.

12.

15.

17.

At 17 for the lot then, nearer me, any advance at 17?

All finished at 17.

You have it, sir.

No!

All finished at 17?

20 bid.

Not quite.

22?

22.

At 22 then all done?

Quite sure at 22, going to sell it to you, sir.

Hammer's up at £22.

No!

(GAVEL) Ooh!

I thought someone else was going to come in, then!

VO: Sadly not, but every little helps, as they say.

VO: Will Anita's collection of four gold brooches do any better?

50 starts it, any advance on 50?

60.

70.

80.

90.

100.

And 10.

120.

125.

Yes!

GUY: 130.

ANITA: Yes!

At £130, lady at the back.

£130.

All out over this side, looking for another five.

Selling at 130, you have it, madam.

Selling away now at 130 all done.

(GAVEL) Yes!

VO: That's a great profit for Anita and her beloved brooches, she's nearly tripled her money.

I'm pleased at that.

That's amazing.

That is the best of the day so far.

VO: Up next, it's David's Mouseman milking stool.

He spent a fair whack on this - let's hope it does better than the cheese board.

You know I'm going to hold your hand, don't you?

Hold my hand.

Start me at £100.

100 bid.

100 bid!

Any advance on £100.

At £100 for the lot.

120.

140.

At £140.

Come on!

Any advance for the stool at £140.

Looking for 160.

Take a half.

150 bid.

Accepted.

150 offered.

At £150.

Another 10 anywhere else?

At £150.

160 bid, new buyer.

At £160, yours in the middle of the room, sir.

At 160.

Selling away then, in the middle of the room, at 160 all done.

(GAVEL) Well, that's alright.

It's alright.

God, my heart was thumping!

I know!

Yours!

I'm surprised I'm still sat down!

I thought I'd be on the floor by now.

VO: That profit has put David back in the game.

Maybe Anita does have the magic touch after all!

VO: Anita's biggest buy and perhaps biggest gamble was her slightly damaged tea set.

Listen, very best of luck with this one.

10 bid, 15, 20, five.

At £25.

It's still got a long way to go.

25 offered.

30.

Five.

40.

At £40.

Are you bidding, sir?

45.

Come on.

50.

Five.

60.

Five.

It's gone, hasn't it?

Yeah, we're going now.

No, it's £80.

Corner right has it.

Any advance on £80 for the lot?

Quite sure?

That's a lot of money.

£80.

Selling at 80.

That's very good.

I'm happy enough with that.

VO: And so she should be, considering how auctioneer Guy predicted it.

Massive profits, massive profits!

It was a bit nail-biting at times!

I think we need to lie down.

Separately, of course.

Go on, you go.

VO: Well, if you can remain vertical for now chaps, the results are as follows: VO: David started this leg with £385.86.

Today he's made a solid profit of £36.74, meaning he carries forward £422.60.

Nice cheesy grin, David!

Thank you.

VO: Anita, meanwhile emerges victorious.

She started with £318.65.

After auction costs, she has made an incredible profit of £90.84.

So although she's still trailing slightly behind David overall, with £409.49, she has won the day.

ANITA: That was exciting, David!

Oh thank you.

You know what, you deserve this.

What a gentleman.

You deserve it.

You are my hero, Anita.

Ready?

Yep!

Strap yourself in.

Get ready for another adventure, eh?

VO: Yes indeedy.

I, for one, cannot wait.

Next time on Antiques Road Trip: Anita shows off her many talents.

..to Dundee!

VO: While David sees something he really likes.

Oh, I say!

Fantastic!

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