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

Perfect.

Sold.

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

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

Every home should have one of these.

VO: The aim?

To make the biggest profit at auction.

But it's no mean feat.

Yes!

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

VO: ..and valiant losers.

No!

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

VO: ..or the slow road to disaster?

Are we stuck?

IRITA & RAJ: Yay!

VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip.

VO: Oh, yeah.

VO: Welcome.

Oh, here we go.

Come on.

VO: Watch out, County Durham!

You're looking, you're looking radiant.

Are you joking?

VO: It's the second leg, with auctioneers Glasgow gal, Natasha Raskin Sharp... ..and Derbyshire dandy, Charles Hanson.

CHARLES: To me, tasteful is, Natasha, like you.

If you could talk, what could you tell me?

Tasteful Tasha?

You're Cheap Charles!

CHARLES: (LAUGHS) VO: Our snazzy pair are gliding round in the majesty of the 1932 Riley Monaco, the oldest motor to ever feature on the Antiques Road Trip, manufactured at a time before seat belts were mandatory, don't you know.

I feel like you've had a glow up.

CHARLES: I'll take that!

NATASHA (NS): (LAUGHS) I love your hair, by the way.

NS: Aw, thanks so much.

CHARLES: I'm a bit...

I'm doing a lot of talking.

NS: Oh, stop it!

CHARLES: No, I do!

I love... No, your hair's beautiful.

VO: Best friends forever.

Last time this pair were let loose, mayhem reigned.

NS: Am I clear on the left?

CHARLES: Clear my way!

NS: Oh, excellent.

CHARLES: Full steam!

VO: It was nonstop, chaotic fun.

CHARLES: On your marks, get set...go!

VO: And, they found some profit makers, too.

You have a bit more money to spend, the car's driving nicely, the sun is shining... Charles, I think everything's coming up rosy for you.

VO: Natasha started with £200, and after her very first sale, has a little less, £197.16.

VO: Charles also began with 200, and has made just a little bit more with £237.16.

Well, you and I are collectable.

You and I might become antique, one day, if we're lucky.

That would be amazing.

VO: Wouldn't it just?

Their tour began with a romp around Northumberland and Newcastle, but today we continue the adventure in the northeast of England, nudging all the way closer to the final showdown in Hertfordshire.

What's your point to prove today?

I have to earn my keep.

VO: That you do.

Our friendly rivals are in County Durham, shopping all the way to the East Riding of Yorkshire.

First stop, Hartlepool.

Now, we're off to this quirky emporium.

CHARLES: Look, Natasha...on the right.

VO: Down this unassuming street lies Kiwi Trading... ..owned by Alan.

Oh, he also sells refreshments.

Milk, no sugar, please.

Thank you.

CHARLES: It looks amazing.

NS: It does.

NS: I bet it just goes on and on.

CHARLES: So varied.

NS: Shall we do this?

Shall we go down under?

CHARLES: We can't go wrong...

I'll race you in, go on.

NS: (LAUGHS) VO: Brace yourselves, everyone.

This biz has been on the go for 30 years.

As well as being chokka inside, there's also a yard out the back for our pair to get lost in.

What I quite like, being a bit old-fashioned, is this table here.

It's a bit like me, it's been around a long time.

And you can see... ..if I turn the table this way... ..there are some telltale signs to give you an idea how old this table is.

If you imagine, over 220 years, that handle has done this.

Watch... Must have done that maybe a million times to create that literal hole on the canvas of the mahogany.

We talk about going green.

We talk about your carbon emission.

We talk about being eco friendly.

This table is... (KISSES) ..everything you want in going green, and this would happily go into a small apartment, flat, sitting room, wherever you want a table of this epic history, it would sit well.

VO: Despite the love, it's not a huge profit maker.

(THUD) VO: Charles is such a butterfingers.

I'm homing in on these bottles.

And I... Oh, no, I was hoping that they would both have the base I'm looking for... (LAUGHS) Only one of them does.

I can see through the glass.

This one.

This is indicative of a time.

Now, it's a very... smooth pontool.

VO: Up until the mid 19th century, glass was hand-blown, using a pontool iron.

When the glass was ready, the pontool iron was broken off the base, leaving a sharp, rough pad.

NS: But I think it's early 19th century, hopefully 1840's, 1850's, something like that...

I love it.

VO: It doesn't have a price, but there are collectors of old glass bottles, and it may have legs.

Elsewhere, what can our mature, serious antiques expert be up to?

Stand by.

CHARLES: I think it's a scooter.

VO: Oh, dear.

CHARLES: You can push yourself off, and then you go... VO: What age are you, Charles, five?

CHARLES: It's always nice to play with things, and... ..that...is quite dangerous, I think.

(WHISPERS) Sorry.

NS: That would be perfect.

CHARLES: Hi.

I was just about to call you over.

CHARLES: Why?

Were you not, this very morning, saying how lovely it would be to take a picnic out in the Riley?

NS: In a hamper?!

CHARLES: That's perfect.

Could this be the one?

You know, over there, I've just walked past a tomato plant.

So if I go and pick the tomatoes... NS: I'll go find the plates.

CHARLES: ..and I'll get some cucumbers.

NS: OK, I like your thinking.

I like your thinking.

Find a couple of tumblers.

Great thinking!

Yes, good thinking!

NS: (LAUGHS) VO: Don't forget the Scotch eggs.

NS: Oh, I'm so glad we found that!

VO: Crumbs!

Where's he off to now?

CHARLES: I've never been on board an antique bus.

How are you?

What's your name?

Oops... VO: Doris, the dummy.

Get your hands off me.

VO: Woops.

CHARLES: She's OK!

CHARLES: Right, well, I've just seen, literally, by my dummy, is this tray.

And this is very arts and crafts.

It's very 1910, darling.

There's no label to verso, so it could just be a piece of folk art.

It's nice quality, but this is like a micro mosaic of timber, being laid on in small slivers, creating this nice arts and crafts design.

And there's no price label at all on this beautiful little picture.

How much, madam?

Oh, no, she can't tell me that, can she?

VO: No.

What's next?

CHARLES: I quite like this picture here.

And it's really quite impressionistic.

It's really quite good, got these beautiful figures on this little alcove of beach.

It is oil, and what we call impasto, where the oil is quite...rocky.

It's not the rocks of the coastline, but it's quite...it's in relief.

When you turn it round, on the back, it's quite a quality label for Francis B Savage of Surrey, and to me, it really captures an impressionistic view.

But I like it, and when you like something, your heart rules your mind.

Going out now.

VO: Francis B Savage was an early 20th century artist who trained at Edinburgh College of Art and Bristol School of Art.

With both finds un-priced, where's Alan, the dealer?

CHARLES: Hello, there!

ALAN: Hey.

CHARLES: How are you?

ALAN: Not bad, yourself?

I've seen two things I quite like...on the bus.

I'd like to buy the oil painting of a seascape, shoreline view.

CHARLES: And by the mannequin... ALAN: Right... CHARLES: ..is a small... CHARLES: ..inlaid wooden tray... ALAN: OK. ..not priced.

How much are they?

ALAN: For the two, 20 quid.

CHARLES: £20?

Good man!

ALAN: Excellent.

CHARLES: I owe you £20.

ALAN: Brilliant.

CHARLES: On a day like today... ..which way's the beach?

ALAN: That way.

CHARLES: Have a good day.

CHARLES: Take care.

See you.

ALAN: Bye now.

VO: So, £15 for the oil painting.

Gosh!

And, a fiver for the tray, leaving Charles with nearly £220.

We'll catch up with him later, sunshine.

NS: Well, these are nice.

Sometimes, in my downtime, because I'm a really interesting person, I ask the internet things like, 'why do fireside companions often make loads of money?'

(LAUGHS) Early Georgian ones in steel can make mega money, and I'm talking four figures, over £1,000.

These are wrought iron, for some reason, really calling out to me.

If it were my lucky day, I think these would be 18th century.

But it's not, is it?

They're 19th century.

These could be estate made, forged in the smiddy on a fine estate, a fine country home.

So I quite... actually quite like this.

Bottle, tongs.

VO: Again, no tickets on the bottle, or the tongs.

Oh, Alan?

They're nice!

NS: Alan, I'm interrupting your caretaking duties.

Well, there's a lovely green glass wine bottle, at the back there.

And beside it, another 19th century item, wrought iron ember tongs.

What's your best price for the two?

They're about a fiver each.

NS: Are you serious?!

ALAN: Yeah.

£5 for the tongs and £5 for the bottle?

ALAN: Yeah.

NS: Well, at that price, how could I possibly say no?

I am thrilled, delighted and very grateful.

Oh, Alan, you're a legend!

VO: Thanks so much, Alan!

That bargain buy means Natasha has just shy of £190.

Charles has roamed to the town of Whitby, the birthplace of one of the most terrifying characters of Gothic horror ever.

It was right here, over 120 years ago, that a bloodthirsty night walker was imagined by the master of macabre, Bram Stoker.

Setting the scene is local, Rose Rylands.

CHARLES: This is an amazing location, Rose.

Just tell me where we are exactly.

ROSE: We're standing in the middle of the abbey ruins on the Great East cliff of Whitby, site of early monasteries.

A very sacred place, a very holy place.

VO: It's the summer of 1890.

The 45-year-old Stoker's imagination was ignited by this town, steeped with eerie folklore.

ROSE: He was inspired by the book he picked out of the archives in the local library, a book on Wallachia in Eastern Europe, and he discovers the word the Eastern Europeans used to have for Vlad the Impaler.

Vlad Tepes, this gruesome warlord, was Dracula, which means the devil.

So that's how he got the name?

That is exactly how he came up with the name Dracula.

VO: Stoker's bloodsucking vampire would come to life, as he skillfully wove fact and fiction.

So what parts of Whitby actually made it into the book, Rose?

Well, it's very much set around the graveyard of St Mary's Church.

The backdrop of the abbey ruins, the harbor, and of course, the coast itself.

VO: The cast of strange and spooky goings on were aplenty in the town.

He'd soon read in the local newspaper that there'd recently been a shipwreck that was carrying a cargo of empty coffins.

And they just happened to wash in on Whitby Beach for a while.

So, what an extraordinary story.

And we have lots of bats.

We have bats that fly around here at night.

We have bats just under the hotels on West Cliff.

And through that West Cliff, there is a little tunnel, an old Victorian tunnel, and it's called 'The Screaming Tunnel', and people... (BIRDS) What's that noise?

ROSE: It's a pheasant.

CHARLES: Oh, is it?

Alright.

It's a pheasant, that's OK.

I thought it may have been something else.

VO: Scaredy cat!

Ha-ha!

After meticulous research and many rewrites, Dracula was published, and released upon the public in 1897.

CHARLES: Back in Bram's lifetime, was it an overnight huge hit?

No, quite the opposite.

It was, sadly, first of all, a failed play as 'The Undead'.

And then, finally, he did rework it into the novel form that it was published at, the classic that it is today, but it didn't see that success straight away.

It was sort of lukewarm for a while.

Sadly, Stoker started having strokes in his early sixties, and he never lived to see the incredible success that was to follow.

And he died in relative penury.

VO: The novel began to rocket to success with the birth of cinema.

Bram Stoker was then appreciated as a master of the Gothic novel, who took folktales and legends, and fashioned them into horror's greatest antihero.

It's never been out of print.

They've made over 200 films about it.

It has an enduring appeal, and somehow captures the collective imagination.

And to this day, it just seems to get stronger and stronger.

Just a bit worried about what Charles saw on that bus, though.

Didn't go on the bus.

Can't have been much to find on the bus, though, surely?

VO: Natasha is also in sunny Whitby.

No winged, be-fanged creatures floating about though, thankfully, but she is popping into the Gothic town's local antiques haunt.

NS: The Bazaar!

VO: Natasha has only spent £10, so she's still got nearly £190 to play with.

I love tiles.

I just love tiles.

These are so sweet... Delft, clay tiles, that lovely blue and white.

And it's all about, I think, for me, it's all about these little motifs in the corner.

Look, it's a little bug.

So here are three other Delft tiles.

These are just really eye catching, really naive.

I think the word is naive.

Polychrome.

Lots of colors, blue and white.

Look at the back, they're clay.

Tin glaze, nice and crazed.

I like to think that these have come from the same fireplace, from the same home, from the same... ..dare I say it out loud, 17th century home?

(SOFTLY) They're certainly 17th century style.

Don't often see these circular borders.

I think that makes them quite interesting.

VO: £10 per tile.

Nice!

What else?

NS: There's usually something... ..priced keenly, maybe like this that isn't predominantly silver.

Here we have what looks to be, it does say Georgian on the front and it does look to be Georgian and straight away, there is the little bust of George...III.

I think it's really nice cut glass, smart bit of kit that would have been part of a full... ..table's worth of similar items.

There is a little spoon.

I'm just going with my gut and saying this is later George III.

This is slightly earlier George III.

It's £45.

VO: Where's Frank, the man in charge?

Oh, there he is.

NS: Frank, hello!

FRANK: Hello.

NS: Would you talk to me about a couple of tiles I've seen at the back?

Polychrome, floral Delft tiles in the box?

Yeah.

You have marked on the label £10.

I'm not going to quibble with that.

Let's say £20, delighted.

Yeah.

VO: And the George III preserve jar?

Would you be willing, Frank, to let that go for the same price as the tiles?

£20.

FRANK: 20?

Mm.

How about £25?

Is that fair enough?

NS: Shall we do it?

FRANK: Yeah, we'll have a deal.

Let's do it, let's have a deal.

Right, so, 45 I owe you.

VO: A gentleman and a scholar.

Thanks, Frank.

NS: Oh, that was so good!

Right!

Go get Charles.

VO: With the items safely in the boot, Natasha now has just over £140.

Apple pie?

Oh, apple pie.

CHARLES: Or maybe a crumble.

NS: A wee crumble.

You're a humble man, Charles.

I'm a humble man.

The humble's looking for his crumble!

VO: Blimey!

He-he-he!

Nighty night, you two.

VO: Morning has broken in glorious Yorkshire.

Don't worry, it's not the gears.

It's my stomach.

No, it is.

It's my stomach.

Just crunching OK.

I'm...a bit hungry.

NS: You should get that seen to!

(HORN HONKS) NS: (LAUGHS) CHARLES: Good morning!

Like your car, by the way, madam.

VO: He's full of pep.

Are you so smug about finding third gear?

You're so smug about it.

Hold on, I'm going to go into four now.

NS: Do it... Yeah... CHARLES: Oh, yes!

Oh, yes.

The day's alive!

VO: It's the simple things, you know?

Yesterday, Natasha power shopped...

I'm homing in on these bottles.

VO: ..picking up an early 19th century wine bottle... a pair of George III wrought iron tongs... ..two 17th century Delft tiles... ..and a George III preserve jar...

I think it's really nice cut glass.

VO: ..leaving her with just over £140 for today.

How are you?

What's your name?

VO: While Charles channeled his artistic side.

She's OK. VO: He snapped up a marquetry tray, and an oil painting.

When you like something, your heart rules your mind.

VO: Charles has nearly £220 remaining.

NS: Can you look at our surroundings?

It's just ridiculous!

This is Britain at its best.

I think it's the valley of our dreams.

It's the valley of our dreams.

Where treasures can be found... ..where dreams are made.

VO: You betcha!

Their travels today will mostly be around the East Riding of Yorkshire.

With Natasha dropped off elsewhere, Charles begins in sunny Scarborough.

VO: In the early 18th century, mineral waters were discovered along the cliffs, and many flocked here for their medicinal properties.

Someone with plenty of fizz, though, is Charles.

He's going in here, to Antique and Collectors Centre.

It's a scorcher!

VO: For over 50 years, this family-run biz has opened the doors to locals and holiday-makers alike.

Today, it's Charles's turn for a moocheroo.

Oh, look at that!

Look at that.

For a very happy vintage Christmas.

It's always good to go down below and...see what's lurking.

That's nice.

This box captures almost the birth of a new century.

And if you think of the great designers of the day, you had Archibald Knox, Liberty.

He was designing in this style, the Tudric range of such pewterware.

The interior is satin lined.

So it would be suggestive of being a jewelry box.

Nice quality.

I quite like this.

It's got a nice little roundel in this turquoise glaze, in a Ruskin style, and it could be yours for £40.

VO: Not bad.

What else?

CHARLES: One thing that jumps out at me is this here, and in many respects, back in the 19th century, if you were quite upmarket, not like me, you may have owned a fob chain back in the day, and it may have had this antique fob seal on the end.

It's cast in quite nice border detail, and then, importantly, on the rear side, you've got the bloodstone seal, which hasn't been engraved or incised, and that obviously would have been your impression you would have made in wax... ..when posting an envelope.

I like it, a lot.

VO: It's priced at £22.

Caroline is the lady to chat money with.

The Liberty-style jewelry box first.

Because I like you... CHARLES: That's very kind of you!

CAROLINE: ..25.

It is nice.

CHARLES: That's really... CAROLINE: Should it be more?

CHARLES: No, no, no...

I'll take that.

In the cabinet over there, small little fob, with an uncut bloodstone seal.

Priced at £22.

What's the best on that?

CAROLINE: 15.

CHARLES: Really?

I'll take them both, OK?

I bought two items.

That's £40.

VO: Thanks, Caroline.

The handsome charm means that Charles now has just shy of £180 to spend.

CHARLES: Oh, it's been a good day.

Good day.

And the sun's still shining.

VO: Off he pops.

VO: Meanwhile, our intrepid explorer, Natasha, has swooped over to the Yorkshire coast, just outside the village of Bempton, where the towering chalky Bempton cliffs heave with over half a million sea birds every spring.

Tash is going to find out why the 17 mile cliff population of sea birds was almost wiped out, and how a local vicar saved them from disaster.

Here to tell us about it is Poppy Rummery from RSPB.

I'm absolutely in my element here.

People have been coming here for centuries, but not always with the best of intentions.

So, tell me about the egg hunters.

Surprisingly, lots of people used to scale these cliffs to collect sea birds' eggs.

Particularly favored, like, razorbill and guillemot eggs.

But they were using ropes to climb down these cliffs.

VO: Today, egg hunting is illegal, but it was once a daredevil pursuit with only a leather harness and a fantastically long rope of up to 350 feet.

The 'climmer' would make their precarious descents.

They would collect all of these eggs in baskets, bring them back up to the cliffs, show them off to the people that had come sort of thousands of miles just to see this incredible spectacle.

VO: There was a great financial reward with some eggs being more valuable than others.

So I've actually got a couple of model eggs that I can show you.

So this one here is a guillemot.

So, this is one of the more favored eggs to collect from climmers.

That looks like - the guillemot egg - looks like a Jackson Pollock painting!

POPPY: And then this is a razorbill as well.

So again, one of the most favored eggs to collect, and that's because of their fantastic shapes.

And they've also got these incredible markings on them.

VO: At the end of the 19th century, this cruel sporting endeavor would see an estimate of 80,000 eggs collected over the breeding season, a saddening total of just 40 days.

So many eggs being stolen, especially sometimes just one egg for each breeding pair.

It must have become apparent quite quickly that this was affecting the numbers substantially?

Once an egg is taken, that's it.

And climmers would often come back to the same nest reliably, knowing that they would successfully sort of lay an egg.

So that is several years of just not being able to raise a chick and lots of pairs giving up.

VO: Appalled by the senseless slaughter, local vicar, Henry Barnes Lawrence got together with some colleagues and created the Association for the Protection of Sea-Birds.

Would Reverend Henry Barnes Lawrence have walked these cliffs?

POPPY: Yeah, we like to think maybe he stood on this - not on this very viewpoint - but certainly in this spot, and just observed sea birds, got really into understanding them, and then also became concerned about their conservation.

VO: While the Reverend and his association were championing bird conservation, fellow Victorians were also shooting sea birds for sport.

However, this Yorkshire clergyman's mission was being heard in Westminster.

And it was in 1869 when they actually brought about the Sea-Bird Preservation Act that was introduced into Parliament by Christopher Sykes.

VO: MP Christopher Sykes helped champion this act, which became law later that year.

It made shooting of sea birds illegal almost everywhere in Britain.

The act was one of the first, really, to be introduced to protect birds and sea birds alike.

But I think it was only around that time that conservation of birds was really starting to be talked about.

VO: This Act would become an epic milestone in wildlife protection.

It stopped people from shooting them in the breeding season, but people were still egg collecting.

It wasn't until, sort of, a century later, in the 1950s, where we brought about a new Act which prevented people from going down the cliffs and collecting these eggs.

VO: The Wild Birds Protection Act in 1954 ended climming once and for all.

A count of eggs that year really showed the devastating impact - a paltry 10,000.

But fast forward to present day, and, the efforts from our pioneering wildlife enthusiasts are showing results.

A lot of our sea birds now are either stable in their populations, much more stable.

Guillemots and razorbills, for example, are doing so much better.

We've probably got nearly 81,000 guillemots on the cliffs between here and, sort of, Flamborough.

We do still have quite a few sea birds that are cause for concern.

So puffins are really endangered and also birds like the herring gull.

But it's great to see that from that period where there was this huge impact on sea bird populations, we've now gone to certainly a big increase in population.

VO: The banning of shooting and climming on Bampton cliffs not only paved the way for the foundations of sea bird conservation worldwide, it was the crucial turning point of people's attitudes on how best to save our rich colonies of sea birds.

Well, I think it would be remiss of me not to pick up those binoculars you've kindly left out for me and to take a closer look.

But Poppy, genuinely, thank you so much for all the hard work that you do and for teaching me all about these wonderful birds.

You're more than welcome and I will leave you to it.

POPPY: Enjoy!

NS: I'll be here for hours.

If you see Charles, tell him I'm with the birds.

POPPY: Absolutely!

NS: Thanks, Poppy.

Bye!

Right... VO: Come to mention it, where is Charles?

Right, Riley, we're going down the hill.

That's a good sign the coast is this way.

We're meandering.

VO: Glad to see he's got the hang of the gears now.

Charles is headed towards the seaside town of Bridlington, the lobster capital of Europe.

CHARLES: I'm very calm.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Shop's here.

Thank you.

VO: Who is he saying thanks to?

He's looking to hook a whopper of a goody in here, Gray's Emporium.

He's got a wodge of nearly £180.

CHARLES: I really like these.

These, they're missing their case.

But what we have got is a child's christening set.

Here's a fork.

Three pronged, which is quite unusual.

Meaning it's quite early, ordinarily pre 1790, and then this very sweet silver gilt knife as well.

And I would date this child's knife and fork to around 1775.

I like them and I really would love to buy them.

But at £125...

If they could be somewhere south of 100, we might be in business.

VO: While Charles rootles further, let's find out where Natasha is.

She's a hop, skip and a jump south west in the hamlet of Ruston Parva.

In this rural locale lies Phil Edmond Antiques.

There's everything here, from antiques to industrial salvage.

With £140 and loose change, what will tempt the one wearing the jaunty beret?

I'm scouring the walls.

I'm scouring for something affordable.

What about this mirror?

It's £95.

There's something quite nice about it.

It's wrought metal.

It looks like brass, but there is a stamp at the back.

So, what does it say here?

Oh, it says 'Deposait'.

In French, that simply means made by hand.

So it's a handmade item.

You probably won't find another down the local market.

It's French.

French, turn of the century.

Are we in 1910, 1910?

The mirror's nice.

So, we have nice signs of quality.

A beveled edge.

We have that nice arch at the top.

This represents, I think, that mid-range item I can afford and take my chances with.

What is it Charles says?

(DRAMATICALLY) Look at me!

Look at me!

(CHUCKLES SOFTLY) VO: Oh, Phil!

NS: Sorry, Nelly... NS: Hi, Phil.

PHIL: Hello.

NS: I think I might have found something I can afford.

It's a mirror.

It's wrought metal.

It's hanging on the wall over there.

I think it's French.

Do you know the one?

What would be your best price?

PHIL: 65.

NS: 65...

Right, £65.

Let's do it.

VO: With just £77 and pennies left, Natasha is all shopped up.

NS: Sorry, Nelly.

VO: Bye, Nelly.

Isn't she lovely?

And Natasha.

Now, over in Bridlington... Come on, Hanson.

It's time to dig deep.

Now, there's one piece of jewelry here that's quite nice.

I like the case.

First of all, it's maroon.

It's tooled.

On the inside, look at that.

This person was inscribed in Biro there with his lodge number.

It's a Southport lodge.

And here is his beautiful oval badge, which is really heavy, really heavy.

And it's marked London with the Masonic insignia, and it's hallmarked in the original box.

It's hallmarked for London and the date code is 1929... ..and it's a pendant and it's really heavy.

VO: The ancient fraternity of Freemasonry and its associated jewelry can command huge interest at auction.

And this might be a goody.

I think it's quality.

I think it's quite rich, but I think at £45, it isn't.

And if I can get it down a bit, just a small bit, I really think this could double its money.

Right, let's see what I can do.

VO: Graham's the man to enquire about the silver gilt christening set.

And the Masonic silver gilt pendant.

What would they cost me, please?

For you, Charles, today, I'll do the knife and fork for 95.

CHARLES: Yeah.

I can't do a lot on the medallion, so I'll do that for 40.

GRAHAM: How's that?

CHARLES: I'll take both!

It's been a long day.

Thanks for the memories.

VO: And what memories we have made today, Charles.

CHARLES: See you later.

VO: He's got £42 and pennies left.

I've got my knife and fork.

Time for tea.

VO: Time to find your chum, too.

Hold on, I'm going to go into four now.

NS: Do it, yeah... CHARLES: Oh, yes!

Oh, yes.

NS: I can't even.

CHARLES: Oh, that feels good.

I can't deny, I'm green with envy.

Hold tight, we're sliding down the ski slope.

VO: Finally, he's got the knack.

Best get some shut-eye.

VO: Our road trippers are breathlessly anticipating a watch of their second auction in the Elizabethan majesty of Burton Constable Hall.

Quite something, is it not?

What a place to make money.

VO: Isn't it just?

As one of Yorkshire's finest stately homes, here's hoping our pair scoop up some weighty profits.

Our happy campers have enjoyed a tour around the East Riding of Yorkshire and now find themselves in Skirlaugh in Hull.

While their antiques have been packaged off to Stroud in the heart of the Cotswolds... ..to the town's auction house, for sale in the room, on the phone, and the internet.

Chief gavel basher today is Stuart Moore.

..70 anywhere?

We're selling to the next... Sold!

VO: Charles bought six items at the sum of £195.

What's your fave?

The Georgian knife and fork set.

Beautiful quality, lovely embossing, silver gilt.

Got everything going for them.

These should sell brilliantly at auction.

VO: Natasha bought five items for £120.

Thoughts, please, Stuart.

The Georgian silver-lidded jar, silver, a really strong market, loads of collectors out there for it, especially overseas in America.

So, could well sell to the States.

VO: Back to some Elizabethan grandeur to attend the sale on a 21st century tablet.

NS: Come on, Charles.

Oh, it smells good in here.

CHARLES: The sense of occasion does not get better than this location.

NS: Are you kidding?

I know.

If ever there's treasure on site, can we match it with what's on here?

Yeah, shall we do it?

VO: Charles is first, with the Marquetry tray.

Can we be frank?

CHARLES: Yeah.

NS: It's hideous.

I can open the bidding up at £40.

£40 is on commission.

42, 44.

CHARLES: Oh, I say!

STUART: 48, 50.

Get out of here!

65 takes both my bids out.

At 65, do I see seven?

CHARLES: That's good, Tasha.

NS: Eh, what?!

The bid's on the net.

Do I see 70 anywhere?

CHARLES: Look at your face.

All done at 65... NS: Hand on heart, if our man had said, "You can have that for £2", I would have said, "No, thank you."

VO: Whatevs, Natasha, because it's brought in a weighty profit.

There's no accounting for taste.

CHARLES: Exactly.

NS: (LAUGHS) VO: Natasha's next, with the 17th century Dutch Delft tiles.

I can open the bidding straight up at £30.

CHARLES: Fantastic.

NS: Profit.

STUART: ..commission with me, 45.

It's jumped straight to on the net.

48 is bid from the Netherlands.

In the Netherlands!

There's someone bidding in the Netherlands!

70, at £70.

Looking for five.

75.

Keep going.

keep going!

Bid's on the net, do I see 80, anywhere?

CHARLES: No!

NS: Go on!

£75 then.

We're selling to the net if we're all done.

NS: Oh, no, don't be done!

STUART: £75... (GAVEL) NS: I mean, it's a good profit.

I was hoping for £100.

VO: Well, you jolly nearly made it!

Nice find!

That's amazing.

And he was live in Holland.

CHARLES: They've gone home... NS: Love that.

Love that.

..to where they belong.

VO: Charles next, with the 18th century fob.

I can open the bidding straight up, two tight bids at £22.

NS: Oh, that's alright.

CHARLES: I'm happy.

STUART: Do I see five?

NS: Keep going, keep going!

£22 and the bid is on commission.

Go on.

I hope it is rock crystal.

STUART: 22, 25's on the net, 25.

Both of my commission bids are out at 25, 28 is in the room.

Go on!

At 28... Keep going, keep going.

(GAVEL) I think I would have bought the same thing, you know.

CHARLES: Would you?

Yeah.

NS: That was really attractive.

VO: Oh, a proper antique.

What a bargain!

You buy what you like, Natasha.

And for me, that was fantastic.

So I'm really happy.

VO: It's now the turn of Natasha with the 19th century wine bottle.

I can open the bidding straight up at £30.

CHARLES: No!

You're out!

NS: (EXCLAIMS) STUART: £30, 32?

CHARLES: Go.

NS: Wow!

That's actually really good.

48 and my bid is out at 48.

NS: Oh, go on!

CHARLES: One more, 10 times.

STUART: 50 anywhere?

CHARLES: I'm feeling it.

£48 then, we're selling to the net at £48... (GAVEL) That's nice!

Talk about not bottling it, Tash.

That's some high kick bass...

Woo!

CHARLES: That's amazing.

VO: A brilliant return, Natasha.

Well done, girl.

CHARLES: That is almost 10 times what you paid for it.

CHARLES: Congratulations!

NS: Nice.

Nice.

VO: What about the Liberty-style arts and crafts jewelry box from Charles?

£50, straight start the bidding on commission.

NS: You've doubled up!

CHARLES: Good man.

NS: You've doubled up!

CHARLES: Keep going.. CHARLES: It's got the feel.

STUART: 85 with me.

NS: Fantastic.

CHARLES: I'm very happy.

At £85 in the bid... That's really good.

STUART: At £85 then, if we're all done.

At £85...

I... That's a double salute.

VO: That tidy profit nudges you out further, Charles.

I feel...smoking.

I need to keep my eye on you.

Every time you go near a box, it makes a fortune.

NS: It makes a fortune!

CHARLES: Get out of here!

VO: Natasha's George III ember tongs are the next offering.

And the bidding starts at £10.

Ah, double up, double up.

12, 12, 14's with me.

STUART: 14, 16.

NS: Go on!

CHARLES: Keep moving, small steps.

CHARLES: Keep going!

NS: Oh, keep going.

STUART: At £16, and the bid's on the net, at £16... (GAVEL) It's just a humble profit.

I'm not glowing or gloating.

I'm just happy.

VO: Glad to hear it.

It's not enough to clinch the lead, though.

Like your pokers - you're on fire.

NS: I'm on fire!

CHARLES: You're on fire.

I'm buzzing.

I want this fire to go out quickly, OK?

VO: Blimey...

The George III silver christening set from Charles now.

People do like to take cutlery with them when they travel now.

CHARLES: Of course they do.

NS: Travel in style... That's right.

I mean, live the life of an old Georgian nobleman.

I can open the bidding straight up at £40.

CHARLES: Come on.

NS: Oh, keep going.

Keep going.

48, and 50, five and 60... Oh, he's...

Hold on, hold on, hold on.

CHARLES: Keep going!

STUART: Do I see five?

At £60, then, it's on commission with me.

Do I see... CHARLES: Come on!

NS: Keep going.

£60, then.

If we're all done at 60... (GAVEL) I don't know if I would have bought them at 95, but I would certainly have had a punt because they are just gorgeous.

VO: The first loss of today.

I found them just sitting in a fairly mundane cabinet and they were hallmarked 1770.

Eat your heart out, Hanson, I love them.

VO: Another George III offering now.

Natasha's silver preserve jar.

CHARLES: This is really well-cut.

NS: Lovely.

CHARLES: Crystal.

CHARLES: That lovely upper shoulder.

This could make, easily, £60.

I can open the bidding up at £32.

45 bid, straight to on the net.

£48... NS: Come on.

CHARLES: Come on, Natasha.

48.

Do I see 50?

At £48 in the bids on the net.

Do I see 50?

NS: I like it!

CHARLES: It's amazing.

£48 and we're selling to the net at £48...

I'll take that!

(GAVEL) I would say it's a lovely sweet strawberry jam result.

I'm more of a marmalade gal, CHARLES: Are you really?

NS: I'm delighted with it.

VO: Nearly doubled your money, Natasha.

Or you could even have some lemon curd in there as well.

NS: Home-made.

CHARLES: Exactly.

VO: Enough about condiments.

Charles's art deco Masonic Silver Gilt Pendant is next.

Really nice item, this.

Telephone line booked on it and I can open the bidding straight up at £40.

CHARLES: Here we go.

Small increments.

STUART: 50, five, 60, five, 70, five.

Keep going!

I love when you hear that ring!

£75 and the bid's on commission with me.

Looking for 80 on the phone.

80 is bid 85.

90?

Hello?

(LOUDER) Hello?!

STUART: £90 on the phone.

My commission bid is out at £90.

CHARLES: Oh, that's OK. NS: £90?!

CHARLES: Go on.

Make it a ton!

Make it a ton.

VO: Selling to the phone bidder at £90... (GAVEL) Coming to the place - London.

NS: So good.

CHARLES: That's a great result.

NS: So good!

CHARLES: I'm over the moon.

VO: Great result.

You're still in the lead, Charles.

I was nervous because, you know, you buy with your instinct.

And that was one which was purely instinctive.

I really thought I was in trouble.

VO: Natasha's early 20th century French Mirror is for the off next.

And £32 opens the bidding.

32.

Do I see five?

At £32... CHARLES: Come on!

STUART: Do I see five anywhere?

CHARLES: Come on!

STUART: 35, 38.

Come on!

38.

Do I see 40?

40.

42.

£42 and the bid's still on commission with me.

Do I see five anywhere?

Keep going, please.

..bidder at £42... (GAVEL) NS: That was... You made a loss.

Yeah, and I knew it was coming because of all the lots going under the hammer, it was the one to which I'm least attached.

VO: She'll regret rien.

Moving on.

NS: I never thought it was going to make a profit.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, you weren't the fairest...

It wasn't the fairest of them all.

It wasn't.

NS: But...I'm over it.

CHARLES: Exactly.

VO: Charles has the last lot today.

The Francis B Savage painting.

CHARLES: I really hope the auctioneer gives the artist his place in time.

Interest straight in at £50.

Come on!

Yes!

Keep going!

STUART: 55.

That is just going to keep going.

CHARLES: That's good.

75 and 80.

Come on!

Let's have a ton!

At £100 bid, do I see 110?

110 is on the net.

120.

Oh, I can't believe it!

150 now.

150?!

STUART: £150, 160 on the phone?

At £150, then.

We're selling to the net.

CHARLES: That's really good.

STUART: Last chance at £150.

If we're all done at 150... (GAVEL) NS: Add a zero, yeah!

CHARLES: 15 to 150.

15, 150.

Wouldn't life be easy?

VO: The find on the antique bus has raised the roof.

Well done, Charles.

You've had many a wow today.

I've had the same as well.

We've both done really well.

VO: Yeah, you certainly have.

Natasha began with £197.16, and made, after all costs, a tidy profit of nearly £70.

She now has £264 and 94 pennies... ..while Charles commenced with £237.16, and after a huge profit of nearly £200, Charles now has £434.12, making him today's big winner.

CHARLES: And if you want to go anywhere with Hawkeye Hanson, you're welcome to.

NS: "Hawkeye Hanson"?!

CHARLES: Come on!

If you think that's catching on, honestly, you have another thing coming.

CHARLES: I thought it was quite good.

Don't you think so?

NS: It is quite good, actually.

Wee Hawkeye.

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