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

I don't know what to do.

(HORN HONKS) 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 day four of this week's adventure and our expert auctioneers are revved up and raring to go.

RAJ: Charles.

Wake up.

CHARLES: Sorry!

RAJ: Wake up, wake up!

CHARLES: Sorry!

VO: Charles Hanson is an antiques expert who loves nothing more than getting giddy at a great find.

Aren't we lucky to be living almost in a hazy dream that's the Antiques Road Trip?

VO: Good lord.

This week he's on the road with Raj Bisram, our top auctioneer from Kent.

(GEAR CRANKS, ENGINE REVS) CHARLES: Sorry.

Sorry again.

Can you get in the back?

(THEY LAUGH) VO: Raj made money on the last leg which means he's got an impressive £414.86 to spend.

VO: Charles also bagged himself a profit, which means he's currently in the lead with £464.64 to play with.

It's about the taking part that counts.

Absolutely.

And that's what Mr Wonnacott always believes in.

Buy with a passion, stay away from nobbly knickknacks, make a name for yourself and celebrate history.

That's a road trip.

Got it?

Yeah.

Got it.

VO: Glad to see you've been listening, Charles.

VO: Our chaps' mammoth mission began in Corsham in Wiltshire and takes in most of the southwest of England, eventually finishing around 900 miles later at Crewkerne in Somerset.

Today's trip kicks off in Hele in Devon and will finish up at an auction in Exeter.

Do you know what I'm looking forward to the most?

Tell me.

I'm looking forward to a cream tea.

A famous Devonshire cream tea.

CHARLES: Yeah, a Devonian cream tea.

And I reckon the man who knows a good cream tea is Mr Wonnacott.

CHARLES: He comes from Devon.

RAJ: Does he?

CHARLES: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

RAJ: Fantastic.

Yeah.

I think he likes the cream on first before the jam.

VO: Rubbish, Charles.

You know it's the jam on and then the cream.

They're bonding up nicely though, aren't they?

In the dashing Triumph Herald, nicknamed Bella.

It's been great, Raj, and Bella's been a joy.

She has, yeah, yeah.

I have to say, I wasn't too sure at the beginning but I'm certainly getting used to her now.

CHARLES: Yeah, yeah.

Bit like you.

(THEY LAUGH) VO: I love a good bromance.

First stop today is Fagins Antiques.

CHARLES: Here we are!

I would... CHARLES: Keep going, keep going.

RAJ: Here we are!

CHARLES: Today's the day, slow down there.

RAJ: Fagins Antiques!

CHARLES: Stop, stop, stop.

RAJ: Let's see what's going to happen.

CHARLES: Where's the entrance?

VO: Yeah, but look at that.

Thousands and thousands of square feet.

(RAJ AND CHARLES LAUGH) CHARLES: After you.

RAJ: No, after you.

CHARLES: Go on, get in.

VO: Should be big enough for both of them.

(METAL CLINKS) If I had a house one day big enough, I'd love to buy a nice big snooker table.

VO: Eh, Charles, I think this is the moment to move on, old boy.

Sorry.

Back to business.

Come on, Hanson.

I'll let you carry on.

VO: Raj, meanwhile, has enlisted owner Chris to help him hunt.

Well I think it's made out of an old shell.

You know, First World War maybe, converted to a money box.

VO: Some of the estimated one billion shells fired during World War I were transformed into trench art, but I think this is likely to be a later reproduction, don't you?

There's a lot of people that collect that sort of thing.

Yeah.

And what would that have to be?

CHRIS: 60.

RAJ: 60?

Oh.

There's...there's not going to be a profit in that, is there?

Not at 60.

At auction, I reckon that's £40-60.

RAJ: So... Well seeing as I've only just unearthed it.

I can't remember what it cost me, which is terrible.

£30.

I've got to have a chance at 30.

CHRIS: 40.

RAJ: 35.

CHRIS: Alright.

35?

I should think you'll do well on that.

That's a start.

OK, that's a start.

OK.

Thank you very much.

Brilliant.

VO: Right, Raj is off the mark.

Charles?

It's always the most nerveracking time on the first day of a shop of a new county and you've got to start digging deep because the hardest thing ever is to find the first purchase.

It's always that twitchy time of where you're doing this.

VO: Well, you might want to get a move on, as Raj has already found something else he fancies.

Look at that.

RAJ: Chris, I noticed this on the way in.

It's a nice Georgian cheese coaster.

And of course, in Georgian times, this is how the cheese would've been served on the tables.

But as you can see, it's a nice piece of mahogany.

It does need repair, which is...

This is all doable, but it'd have to be very cheap.

VO: Ticket price is £50.

CHRIS: I'll probably do that for 40 for you.

I think there's quite a good profit.

I mean, they usually go 300 plus, don't they?

RAJ: Well I've sold a few recently and I've got about 100 to 150 for them, but they've been in good condition.

Oh, right.

In that condition, 30 quid.

CHRIS: It's gotta have to work.

RAJ: Yeah.

OK, you can have it.

Yeah, £30?

CHRIS: A deal on that.

RAJ: Fantastic.

Alright.

VO: A roaring start there for Raj with two items bought for £65.

VO: Charles, meanwhile, has decided to move on empty handed, and is headed south to the pretty town of Topsham.

VO: Perhaps he'll have better luck at Quay Antiques.

CHARLES: Hello, sir.

MAN: Hello.

CHARLES: How are you?

Very well.

I'm Albert.

Albert, Charles Hanson.

Nice to meet you.

Is it your emporium?

ALBERT: No, not mine.

CHARLES: No.

I can't afford anything like this.

Get out of here.

Well, you're in the bow tie.

You look the part, sir.

Well, if you look the part, you can fool anybody.

VO: Sh, don't tell anyone, Albert!

Surely there's something to tickle our Derby dandy in this place?

It's so exciting.

It's like land ahoy or antiques ahoy.

They're everywhere.

One thing I do quite like is this lady here.

And she's what we call a peg jointed doll.

And with her wooden head and this tiny squashed face on that painted, enameled wooden face, she would be early Victorian, 1820, 1830.

What impresses me is I think she's in her original clothes.

I think it's a very nice object, which is certainly worth further inspection.

VO: Only one way to find out.

CHARLES: I like her original face, it hasn't been changed or altered.

My only concern with her is, Albert, she's missing a leg.

So although she's a peg jointed doll... ALBERT: She's a peg leg.

CHARLES: I'll call her Peggy.

ALBERT: Yes.

Peggy's missing a leg.

Which is a shame.

Peggy is priced at £49.

If I could make an offer with your dealer, what sort of figure do you think would be acceptable?

She'd probably do it for 45.

Yeah.

In the perfect world, I'd probably want to pay more like 35, but you might say "look Charles, that's just one bid below too far."

Shall we find out?

Could you, Albert?

That'd be great.

I'll give her to you.

Yeah.

And if Peggy's a goer, I hope she is.

ALBERT: Right.

CHARLES: Thanks a lot.

ALBERT: See what we can do.

VO: With Peggy put aside for later, anything else grab you, Carlos?

Albert, I quite like the little goblet in here, you know, which is quite decorative.

I'll bring it out to you.

That's quite attractive, isn't it?

And what I like about it is if you turn it upside down, you've got some nice wear on the base, and that's a good Bristol blue goblet of probably around 1820.

VO: Another item goes on the consideration list.

Are you actually going to buy anything, Charles?

What you hope to see is objects that jump out at you and they say "come on, Hanson, buy me."

VO: Yeah, quite.

Well, what does this desk calendar say to you then, Charles?

What's nice is it's set on this nice oak plinth base which is mounted with the leather, but what's really nice is the engine turning and the fact it's also hallmarked just on the side here.

Hallmark for Birmingham and the date code does coincide to 1930.

It's priced, Albert, at £75.

I quite like it.

It's in good condition.

Hasn't been dropped before.

There's no indentations, there's not too much wear and tear.

VO: With a ticket price of £75, Charles has some thinking to do.

VO: Meanwhile, Raj is back on the road and taking a trip to the highest town in Somerset, Chard.

Charles will be in some warm, hot shop now.

Here I am, driving around the beautiful Somerset-Devon countryside.

VO: Chard is not only the birthplace of powered flight, but it was also once home to James Gillingham, shoemaker and inventor, who became a pioneer in artificial limbs.

Raj has come to the Chard Museum to meet chairman of the trustees, David Ricketts, to find out more.

James was born in 1838 into a family of bootmakers in Chard.

And at the age of 21 he went up to London to be apprenticed into shoemaking.

When he returned after a few years, he ran the business with his mother and he was very much an inventor.

We know him for inventing radiators, for example, and escape mechanisms.

VO: The invention Gillingham would become most famous for were his artificial limbs, made from molded leather.

The groundbreaking event occurred in 1863, when the town was celebrating the wedding of the Prince of Wales and they fired fireworks and cannon.

And Will Singleton, who was a local gamekeeper, was tamping into a cannon, preparing to fire it.

It exploded and took his arm off at the shoulder.

And when out of the blue two years later Will Singleton met James Gillingham, James Gillingham immediately said "I can make you an arm and I'll do it for nothing."

And that's exactly what he did, using his shoemaking skills.

VO: Heavy wooden prosthetics at that time required part of a limb to attach to, but Gillingham invented a groundbreaking artificial arm for Will Singleton, without which he would have lost his job and faced destitution.

He devised a special secret process for softening the leather, molding it into shape around a last, and then when it cooled, it hardened and it in fact was half the weight of the wood that would have originally been used for such an artificial limb.

RAJ: So this was really revolutionary.

Singleton's arm was taken up to London to demonstrate to the medical profession and they were really impressed with this.

James Gillingham was asked then to make further limbs for people, who, up until that time, the medical profession had thought were incurable as regards to fitting limbs.

He got so busy that he closed his shoe shop and opened up his workshop behind the house, Prospect House as he called it.

He was a very benevolent man.

He didn't charge for a lot of things that he might have charged for because he didn't believe that it was right.

And the individual treatments that he gave to the patients were of great benefit to them.

VO: His son Sydney joined him and by 1910, they had created bespoke artificial limbs for 15,000 people.

The family business continued producing world class prosthetics for three generations, helping many war veterans along the way.

In early 1924, James Gillingham died.

His son and grandson continued to individually attend to customers until selling the business in 1950.

Unable to compete with mass production, the firm finally closed in the 1960s.

Well, there's no doubt about it, from what you've told me today, he revolutionized prosthetics around the world.

And I've learned so much today and it's been such an interesting visit, I can't tell you.

So I thank you very much for your time, David, it's been an absolute pleasure to meet you and to listen to your words.

Very pleased to have you here.

That's lovely, thank you.

VO: While Raj has been having an informative afternoon in Chard, Charles is still shopping in Topsham.

Look at him go, that boy.

Oh look, he's on the scent, look.

What I like about this, this is a...what appears to be a Russian silver sifter spoon by Grigory Sbitnev of Moscow.

It's quite heavy.

Feel the weight of that, Albert.

And I love, I love the trefid handle, I love the pierced silver gilded bowl.

And it is Moscow and it would date to around 1890.

I quite like, Albert, this spoon as well, which is also Russian.

Monogrammed on the back, gilded bowl, and again, the hallmark is just very indistinct.

But within the bowl here as well.

And this is Russian silver hallmarked, again probably around 1890.

I just wonder, Albert, in a very smart bowtie, mate, if you could do me a favor and just find out if the dealer would do perhaps a deal for the two together.

ALBERT: OK. CHARLES: Is that OK?

ALBERT: Yeah.

CHARLES: That's really kind.

VO: So Charles has now shown interest in four lots, but will he buy them?

Peggy's dealer has knocked £9 off the pricetag, making the damage for the doll £40.

CHARLES: I'm going to buy her.

ALBERT: Yeah.

Because I fell in love with her.

And with a passion, you buy what you like.

So I'm going to say at last I've bought an object.

Put it there.

For £40.

VO: Hooray!

First lot bought.

Finally.

CHARLES: The blue, glass goblets.

ALBERT: Yeah.

CHARLES: Best price?

ALBERT: 15.

CHARLES: £15.

I'll take it.

Sold.

That's two things now, I feel a lot better now.

The day's warming up.

VO: Now for those Russian spoons.

Desperate for a deal, plucky Charles is sweet talking the dealer himself.

I was just wondering whether you could do the two together for £50?

No.

So your best price, finally, is 65?

OK.

Thanks a lot.

VO: You in or out then, Charles?

Because my day has been so sparse, I think I'm going to buy them.

Right.

Because I've got a busy day tomorrow.

Well, you can take it easy tomorrow.

Oh dear, dear, dear.

Hanson, Hanson, Hanson.

Go on, put it there.

I'll take them.

OK. VO: Clocking up the lots now, eh?

What about the calendar?

CHARLES: And your best price is?

£60.

Yes, I bought these three for 120.

So another £60.

I'll take it.

VO: That flurry of activity has landed him four lots for £180.

Am I happy?

I'm always happy, cuz life's too short.

VO: Well said, that man.

And so, day one's done.

Nighty night, chaps.

VO: Morning has broken and the boys are back on the road.

Beautiful.

Look at these buildings, Raj.

I feel almost caught in time...with you.

My old mate.

Yeah, less of the old.

CHARLES: Yeah.

RAJ: OK?

(CHARLES LAUGHS) I'm your new mate.

VO: So far, Charles's new pal Raj... CHARLES: Come on, get in.

VO: ..has spent £65 on two items - the brass money box post box and the wooden cheese coaster, which means he still has a huge £349.86 available to spend today.

While Charles forked out £180 for four items - his peg doll, the blue glass goblet, the Russian silver spoons and his silver desk calendar.

Leaving £284.64 to play with today.

VO: Our road trippers have made their way to Paignton, a gorgeous seaside town on the coast of Torbay.

CHARLES: Look at this view.

RAJ: Fantastic.

Oh, I'm looking forward to today.

CHARLES: Don't make it choppy.

RAJ: No.

OK. Keep calm.

Goodbyes.

Yeah, take care.

Take care, and put the bis in ram, OK?

And go away and buy some great things.

VO: Raj is playing catch-up on the buying stakes, so here's hoping he'll find some gems at his first stop of the day.

RAJ: Hello there.

MAN: Hello, Raj.

RAJ: Hello, Peter.

PETER: Welcome.

RAJ: Nice to meet you.

PETER: And you too.

RAJ: What a lovely little shop you've got here.

VO: Asking Peter for some pointers leads Raj to some rather pretty pottery plates.

These are by Old Hall pottery.

Christopher Dresser was one of their designers and these are very much in his style.

They're very heavily gold gilded.

And they are just quality pieces.

RAJ: They are.

I mean, if they were definitely connected to Christopher Dresser these would be almost museum pieces because of his name.

RAJ: How much are they?

PETER: £120 for the pair.

And what would be the very best on these?

I'd do them for £100.

OK.

I'm going to put them to one side, OK, for the moment and I may come back to those.

RAJ: Oh, this is unusual.

VO: Hello.

You've labelled it as 18th century.

18th to 19th.

RAJ: 18th to 19th, yeah.

PETER: Yeah.

But this is original gilding that we can see on here.

RAJ: Mm-hm.

VO: Oh yeah.

Difficult to date, this thing.

Could easily be 20th century, and possibly part of a larger piece.

It's a decorative item and Raj will need to get a lot off the £275 price tag to make it worthwhile.

I would be looking to pay about £100 for it.

PETER: Not even close.

RAJ: OK, well, give me an idea?

The death would be 180.

VO: So it's now a battle between two very different lots.

RAJ: It's a question of the plates or the mask.

I mean, they are quality, I can see that these plates are really quality.

But I'd have to attribute them to Christopher Dresser, you know, there's no hard evidence.

I mean, the mask is very different, I've never ever seen one like it before.

PETER: It's a unique piece.

I think it is going to have to be the mask.

I know you said 180.

I've only got a limited budget as well, I think you know that.

That's already over £100 off.

A little bit more movement?

PETER: 175?

RAJ: 160 cash?

Come on, that is not a bad price.

We will split the difference at 170.

I can't say fairer than that.

We have a deal.

£170.

Well done.

You'll do very well.

RAJ: I hope so, I do like it.

Thank you.

VO: Hang on, looks like Raj isn't spent up yet.

RAJ: I am playing it a bit safe here, Peter.

You've got a pair of claret jugs.

They are definitely 20th century ones, there is not a lot of age to those.

PETER: They're a good looking pair.

RAJ: They are a good looking pair, and if I can get those... if I can get those cheap, I'm definitely going to buy them.

I noticed that you've got £24 on, I presume, each ticket.

That's £48.

These have got to be cheap.

What's the best on these?

Well, for you... Remembering I've already spent £170 with you.

As it's your first trip, Raj... OK, here we go.

..you can have the pair for £24.

We've got a deal.

No arguing.

Well done.

I'll take them at 24.

VO: Fast work there, Raj.

VO: Charles, meanwhile, has come to well-known landmark Oldway Mansion.

This grade 2 listed building was built by the super rich American family, the Singers, who lavished hundreds of thousands of pounds creating this impressive status symbol.

VO: Chairman of the Friends of Oldway, Paul Hawthorne, is here to tell Charles more.

CHARLES: Good morning, Mr Hawthorne.

Yip, Paul.

CHARLES: Paul, I'm Charles.

Nice to meet you, Charles.

Great to be on the French Riviera.

I almost feel I'm outside Versailles.

Yeah, no, no, welcome to Oldway Mansion, historic home of the Singer family.

Modelled on Versailles, it was a recreation based on the Petit Trianon gardens in Versailles.

CHARLES: It's interesting, Paul, that in my day job we often handle Singer sewing machines and of course, it was that money that really built this.

PAUL: Yeah, very much so.

The first machine was put together in 1850.

Patented 1851.

The company was really starting to get up speed and a lot of wealth by the time Isaac Singer came here 1872.

VO: When Isaac Singer left America, not only was he one of the richest men alive, he had also fathered 18 children with several different women - a scandal which forced him to flee to Europe.

He soon settled in England with his new wife, living in London, before heading to the English Riviera.

PAUL: He came here with his French wife and six young children.

Came down to recuperate from a heart condition, recommended by his doctors to take the airs on the Riviera, and fell in love with the place.

He had taken a lease on the house, the original villa behind here, called Little Oldway.

And this spot, 100 feet exactly above sea level, gave him a panoramic view right across the bay where he could build a great house to look out on the bay.

But also for Isaac Singer, being a showman, everybody in the bay could stand anywhere and look up and see his great house that he had constructed, watching over him.

VO: Sadly, Isaac never got much time to fully enjoy his dream home, as in the summer of 1875, his health worsened and he passed away.

Whilst Isaac Singer designed the original mansion, it was one of his sons, Paris, who remodeled the building on the design of the Palace of Versailles and the real showstopper was his reproduction of the lost ambassador's staircase.

I almost feel as though I am in a place of myth.

It's magical.

It's like a fairytale.

PAUL: We're in the space that was originally the father's theater.

When he made over the house outside, he did the same inside, and he recreated the legendary lost staircase, ambassador's staircase from the Palace of Versailles that no longer existed.

And actually to today, there are only two recreations of the staircase.

One is here at Oldway, the other is in one of the palaces of the Bavarian kings Ludwig.

It's just high society American decadence of what age?

What date are we talking, Paul?

When was this put in?

This is probably about 1900, 1905, this was being done.

The big David painting he had the original of, he acquired about 1898 at auction in Paris and he introduced that into the design but all the marble here is all quarried from the same quarry as the French kings had used at Versailles, opened up especially for Paris Singer.

So no expense was spared on the materials.

It takes your breath away.

Let's go, Paul.

VO: Another impressive part of Oldway is the Rotunda.

Originally built by Isaac Singer as a horseriding pavilion, this stunning structure has morphed into many things over the years - from a swimming pool to a film studio.

And it was even used as a hospital ward during World War I.

This is actually a place, the Rotunda, where we had beds.

This was a ward, you'd have beds all around the circular walls there and in the center here.

This was St George's ward and you had nursing stations at the back and another big ward.

The wards were sponsored by wealthy Americans, it was the American women's war hospital.

So it was called St George after a wealthy American benefactor.

It was entirely funded by the American people, nothing from the UK government went to pay for the treatment of the 5,000 soldiers that came here.

After the First World War, what happened to Paris?

Was he here for a few more years?

Paris Singer, by the end of the First World War, he moved on because of various personal problems and associations.

He started project building a castle in the south of France, Cap Ferrat.

And he went over as well convalescing from a heart condition and developed what is today Palm Beach, Florida.

That was his resort, without Paris Singer, Palm Beach and Florida would be nothing, but I think, what was it the architect called it at the time?

Without him it would be nothing but a sand spit.

VO: After World War I, Paris' other projects saw him spend more time away from Oldway so his original plans to fully re-model the mansion and demolish the Rotunda were put on hold.

Thanks to this, the Oldway we see today shows the unique vision of both father and son.

Amazing.

CHARLES: It has a romance.

It has this lost American glamour which I really hope the public will rejoice at in years to come and be able to enjoy it for what it represents.

PAUL: Oh, very much, it's...

I think the history of the house and the Singer family has a lot to give to the public, you know, to the world that hasn't yet been told.

CHARLES: I think it's so unspoiled, it's so sleepy and market fresh and I'm sure one day it will sing again.

Do you get it?

Sing.

No, I do.

Very good...

Which way is...which way is my way out, Paul?

I better go.

I'll follow your lead.

Thanks a lot.

VO: Back together again, our boys have hit the road and are travelling 30 miles west to Plymouth.

They've even made an ice cream pit stop en route.

When it drips, just do a 360 with your tongue... RAJ: You sound experienced?

CHARLES: Yeah.

Oh no!

I'm sorry!

RAJ: Sorry, I'll give you...

It just broke.

RAJ: It just broke?

Yes, it did!

Sorry.

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

VO: I hope you're not making a mess of that car, Charles.

Ice creams demolished... CHARLES: Keep going, you're fine.

VO: Oh, look out.

CHARLES: Perfect, Raj.

VO: ..it's time to shop.

CHARLES: If I go into the shop down below.

RAJ: And I'll go up above.

Good luck.

RAJ: You too.

CHARLES: Stay lucky.

Yip.

VO: Raj is off to Parade Antiques which is best known for having the largest selection of military antiques in southwest England.

Eh, that's not very military-like?

Ole.

This is really really interesting.

I don't know who it actually belongs to but it's a matador's outfit.

It's obviously going to be of somebody very very important because the work that has gone into this costume is incredible.

VO: Can dealer John shed any light?

RAJ: Hola.

JOHN: (CHUCKLES) Hola.

Hablo Espanol?

Si.

(CHUCKLES) John.

John, this is obviously a matador's outfit.

Yes.

Yes, I've stopped wearing it now.

(RAJ LAUGHS) JOHN: Yes, no, it is...

It's the bullfighter suit, they call it the suit of light, traje de luces, and it was worn by Joselito el Gallo.

El Gallo means cockerel, because he was small.

And he was probably the most famous bullfighter that's ever lived.

He fought around the period of 1910 to 1920.

I've got to ask you, what are you asking for it?

I think it's about 50,000.

About 50,000?

Yeah.

RAJ: It's slightly just a little bit over my budget.

Maybe you could show me something for around my price-range then?

Right, OK. VO: Yeah, very good idea.

John, I quite like...

I quite like this hat.

Is this...is this an original?

JOHN: No, it was made... RAJ: It's a copy, is it?

JOHN: It's a copy.

It is a good copy.

It was made by some London outfitters but it was made for the Sharpe series.

What do you think?

VO: That you're not going to buy it, that's what I think.

Move on.

RAJ: Here's another military uniform.

JOHN: That is nice, I like that, because it's a sort of Tsar type uniform but it's actually horse artillery.

RAJ: It's quite, it's quite... Looks quite small.

People were small.

It could have been a bugler, in which case it would have been a youngish lad.

I guess it's going to date from the early 1900s?

JOHN: I'm pretty sure the buttons are King's Crown, yeah, so...and I think there is a label in here, if I remember right, it dates from about 1900 to 1906.

I really quite like that.

What's the price on that?

The absolute death on that would be...

I'll do it for 60.

How's that?

That's not bad, John.

That's not bad.

It's very good.

I couldn't offer you £50?

It would be cash.

No, no, you can't.

No, £60 is the absolute best.

RAJ: I tell you what, John, I'm going to show you something and if you think it's worth knocking off the extra fiver to make it 55, we have a deal.

If not, I'll give you £65 instead.

Are you prepared for that?

JOHN: I'm happy to make 65.

RAJ: Yeah?

How's that?

OK, and you've got to be honest, OK?

VO: This is taking haggling to a new level.

OK, watch carefully.

OK, you can see there is nothing in my hand there.

I am going to take the silk hanky and I am going to put into this hand here.

Right under your nose, right there.

OK?

You can see it, it's right there.

And all I am going to ask you to do is just blow on my hands.

JOHN: Right.

RAJ: Just... Gone.

Completely and utterly disappeared.

Of course I knew you were going to do that.

Yeah, actually, that is good.

It is not bad, is it?

That's not bad.

RAJ: Is that worth £55?

Go on then.

We have a deal.

Thank you.

I've been conned, but I don't know how.

VO: Neither do I.

You are a man of many talents, Raj, and with that little trick, you are all bought up.

If you do find my green silk hanky, please post it back to me.

OK?

I'm impressed, actually.

40, 60.

Brilliant, thank you very much indeed.

VO: Charles still has some spending to do with a final shop to browse.

CHARLES: It's quite an interesting shop, you've got almost, it's like a giftware shop.

There's also lots of other interesting objects as well.

So it is always quite nice when antiques are almost off the radar a bit.

VO: This group of old store houses holds one of the biggest collections of antique traders in the southwest.

CHARLES: Hello, there.

MAN: Hello.

CHARLES: How are you?

MAN: I'm fine.

CHARLES: And your name is?

MAN: Anton.

Anton, are you a local man?

Yes.

Anton is... Is it Polish or?

No.

No, it's just a trade name.

I like, OK, and your real name is?

Tony.

Hello.

Hello, Tony.

I like your style.

VO: Well, it's not his style you are here to buy.

Any antiques grab you, boy?

What we've got here are a nice pair of his and hers.

Almost I suppose what you might call, not really dressing table mirrors, they're more just ornaments you may have had on your side board, in your hallway.

They are quite crude.

Look at me.

Do you agree?

You're trying to get a bargain.

VO: Isn't he always?

Is there one here to be had?

50 would be my absolute best.

OK, OK.

I also like the Myott tea set down here as well.

ANTON: I'll be very honest with you, why that is so sensibly priced...

Yes?

ANTON: One of the cups has got a chip.

Because of that, I can negotiate much much better.

What is the best price on those?

With a broken cup?

I can go very good on that, I can actually half it for you.

VO: With a ticket price of £49, that would be a pretty sweet deal for the striking art deco Myott tea set.

You mentioned one chip, Anton, just show me.

ANTON: Right, it's there.

CHARLES: Oh no.

ANTON: That one little chip.

CHARLES: What a shame.

ANTON: That's all that's wrong.

So what we've got here is an 18 piece, 19 piece tea set.

ANTON: Hand painted.

CHARLES: Yeah, it is.

The design is vivid, Myott & Son are made in Staffordshire.

I do like it.

I love this almost feathery orange yellow banded brown glaze.

And in the auction house we're going to in Exeter, there is going to be those young art deco fans.

And I would guide it cautiously between 20 and 30.

So I think £25 is a good mid estimate and for that, it is worth a gamble.

I shall take your 19 piece tea set for £25 and say good day.

Good day.

Thanks a lot.

Like the hazy sun, it is going down to auction.

VO: And with that, both our intrepid auctioneers are all bought up.

Raj spent £314, bagging himself the brass post box money box, the Georgian cheese coaster, the unusual bronze mask, the pair of 20th century claret jugs and the royal horse artillery uniform.

My father was in the royal horse artillery.

VO: Charles spent £205, buying the George III blue glass goblet, the pair of Russian silver spoons, the Queen Anne style painted wooden doll, the mounted silver desk calendar and the porcelain art deco tea set.

So, what do they make of each other's lots?

The heat is on and I feel like saying hats off to Raj.

This bronze head has come out the ashes.

It cost him about £170, it could make 50, it could make £1,000.

So it really is game on and what a thrill.

The items that Charles has bought, I think the two that could fly are the doll and the calendar.

His other items I love, I love the uniform, I love his cheese coaster.

I think Raj, he ought to soar at auction.

If I was asked to swap anything with Charles, the answer would be no.

VO: After starting this leg in Hele, our experts are now hurtling towards the auction in Exeter.

Raj, if ever there was a day when the escape is on, I think it is today.

I think we both had a difficult buying session and I do feel if we can escape without too much harm, without too much of a loss in Exeter, let's head down to Penzance hopefully with a bit left over.

VO: Managing expectations, eh, Charles?

# The sun has got his hat on # Here we are!

# Hip hip hip hooray # CHARLES: The day awaits.

RAJ: Here we are.

(CHARLES CHUCKLES) RAJ: Here we are.

CHARLES: Do you know, I think Raj, it will be a hip hip hip hooray for you.

Well, let's hope so.

I think the mask... RAJ: The sun is shining.

..like the sun today, will smile on the fortunate one.

RAJ: We shall see.

I wish you well.

(RAJ LAUGHS) VO: So, the man wielding the gavel is Brian Goodison-Blanks.

VO: Let's see what he makes of our lots.

The Russian silver spoons, I quite like these, they are nice, they are period, they are by a very well known Russian silver smith.

I think these will do quite well.

The bronze war mask, it is decorative, maybe looking at 30 to £40.

The one to watch would probably be the royal field artillery uniform because militaria is a strong field at the moment and that will certainly I think do very well with the collectors.

VO: Well, there's only one way to find out.

Get comfy as the auction is about to begin.

VO: Right, here we go.

Charles, it's your Bristol blue glass goblet first.

Start me at 20, somebody?

Come on.

Start me at 10 somebody?

Oh, it's painful.

At 10.

12.

15?

15.

18.

20.

Go on.

Two.

25.

28.

You sure, sir?

CHARLES: One more!

AUCTIONEER: 25, all done at 25?

CHARLES: One more.

Last chance then at 25...

There we go.

Happy with that.

VO: Fantastic, first profit in the pocket.

Raj is up next with his brass money box.

£15?

£15, save your pennies, you'll need them later.

AUCTIONEER: £10 then?

RAJ: Oh, no... CHARLES: That's good.

£10, madam?

CHARLES: He's got 1,000 pence.

AUCTIONEER: 12 now.

15?

CHARLES: Here we go.

15.

18?

No.

At £15 in the middle to the lady, 15.

18, are you sure?

At £18 on my left and standing at 18 and 20, quite sure at 18?

It's almost been lost in the post, hasn't it?

VO: Not sure now is the time for jokes, Charles.

That's a disappointing start for poor old Raj.

Now the pair of Russian silver spoons.

You know, I'm hoping we can depart Exeter with some Russian love.

(RAJ LAUGHS) From Russia with love, via Exeter.

AUCTIONEER: And various interests, commission's here with me at 30, five.

40, five.

CHARLES: Here we go.

AUCTIONEER: 50, 50 is bid here.

That's it.

I'm out.

AUCTIONEER: At 50 with my commission bid then?

Five, 55 in the room?

I'm out then.

55 here.

Looking for 60?

I'm down 10 .

55 seated in the middle, 55.

Boom.

Boom.

Not bad at all.

CHARLES: Russia has gone... RAJ: It's not bad.

..boom to bust.

VO: Ah.

Hard luck, old chap.

Let's hope Raj fares a little bit better with the Georgian cheese coaster.

Come on chief, hold tight.

I can smell cheese.

£50.

£50.

What will I say for that?

Somebody's got to be brave to take this on.

AUCTIONEER: £20?

RAJ: Oh, God.

AUCTIONEER: £10 then?

10 I have, a wave of the hand.

And 12.

15.

CHARLES: It's going to move, hold tight.

20.

Two.

25.

£22.

CHARLES: Yes, 25.

RAJ: Oh, no.

Five elsewhere?

22.

RAJ: Ah.

CHARLES: Two fat ducks?

That was two very fat ducks.

VO: This saleroom is not proving popular with Raj, another loss there.

That's quackers, isn't it?

Quackers.

VO: Boom boom, Charles.

OK, Peggy is up next.

Can this damaged dolly pull in a profit?

Hold tight.

Come on, doll.

Various interests here.

At £25, 35, 40, £40.

Come on.

Let's go.

Five elsewhere?

At £40.

CHARLES: Come on.

Bid me five, somebody.

Come on.

45.

50 and five?

50, my commission has it then.

CHARLES: Good.

AUCTIONEER: At £50 and five now?

Quite sure then?

At £50 then, at 50.

Happy with that.

50 to 80, yeah, you can't complain.

VO: Nice little earner there for Charles.

Next it's the decorative bronze mask that Raj saw potential in but the auctioneer wasn't so keen.

So, how will it fare?

This mask is a massive gamble.

But if I'd seen it in that shop where you were, I would have bought it as well.

80 is commission bid here, at 80 with me.

Do I see five now in the room?

85 and 90 now.

85.

90 at all?

85 with the lady.

And 90?

85 then, are you quite sure?

For the wall mask, and it's 19th century.

At 85 then.

At 85... Well, I've got no chance now, have I?

VO: Ah, that's a real shame but don't throw in the towel yet, Raj.

We are only halfway through.

I'm never coming to Exeter again.

VO: Oh dear!

Anyway, hold tight, next up, it's Charles' silver mounted desk calendar.

What will I say for that?

Start me at £20?

CHARLES: Oh no.

AUCTIONEER: £20 I have.

That's tough.

At 22, 25 seated?

25.

28?

That's tough.

25 seated then.

Looking for 28 then?

25 seated.

28 fresh place.

30.

Two?

No, 30.

Original bidder at 30.

Oh no!

Quite sure then, all done at £30 then?

At 30.

Oh!

VO: That gives Raj a chance to catch up.

The show goes on.

Don't forget that.

We fly the road trip flag for queen and country.

We will not... We will not collapse.

VO: Well I think Raj might if he doesn't pull in a profit with his pair of 20th century claret jugs.

If these make a loss, I am going to...

I don't know, I was going to say I was going to eat my own pants but I'm not.

Various interests here.

25, 35, 40.

CHARLES: Wow.

AUCTIONEER: £40 is bid.

CHARLES: Brilliant.

Brilliant.

RAJ: Well, that's about right.

At £40 in.

Five at all?

At £40 only for the decanters, are you quite sure?

Thought they'd make a little bit more, at £40.

Quite sure?

I'm selling at 40.

CHARLES: That's a result.

RAJ: That's a result.

Put it there.

Put it there.

All the p's, profit all round.

VO: That's more like it.

Raj's first profit of the day.

Let's see if the winning streak can continue with Charles' art deco tea set.

Start at 40.

Come on!

AUCTIONEER: Start at 20 then.

CHARLES: Oh!

20 I have, wave of the hand there.

Go on, sir.

At 20 and five, anybody else?

CHARLES: Come on.

25, thank you, madam.

30, sir?

30.

Five.

40.

Five.

At 40 to the gentleman... One more.

AUCTIONEER: At £40.

CHARLES: Go on.

Five then?

At 40, quite sure and done at 40?

Squeeze a smile.

CHARLES: Thank you very much.

VO: A result.

Marvelous.

To have any chance of catching up, Raj will need a massive profit on his last lot, the royal horse artillery uniform.

Attention.

Various interests here, overlapping commission bid, starting here at 25.

AUCTIONEER: 35.

40, five.

CHARLES: Good.

50, five.

60, five.

70, five.

80, £80.

CHARLES: Brilliant.

AUCTIONEER: At £80 here.

RAJ: I'm not... CHARLES: That's good.

Five now elsewhere?

85 I have, at 85.

I'm out then, 85 is now in the room.

90 now, somebody?

For the uniform.

Militaria is on the up.

£85 then.

Looking for 90 now.

You quite sure then?

All done at 85, right in the middle then, selling.

CHARLES: That's good.

RAJ: It's a profit.

£30, that's fantastic.

VO: That it is.

As predicted, a pretty profit for the uniform.

On that march, one, two, after you.

Come on.

VO: Well done, chaps.

But the big question is, who came out on top?

VO: Raj struggled with three lots which meant, after paying auction costs, he made a loss of £109 but he's not out of the game yet as he's still got £305.86.

Don't step back.

VO: Charles also made a loss, albeit a little less dramatic.

After costs, he lost £41.

This means our dapper dandy has £423.64 left and is in the lead going into the final leg.

Well, it's goodbye Exeter.

Hello, Cornwall.

Hello, Cornwall.

CHARLES: Yes.

RAJ: Here we go.

RAJ: I'm looking forward to some nice Cornish ice cream.

CHARLES: Clotted cream!

RAJ: Come on!

VO: And so until next time.

Toodle-pip, road trippers.

Next time on Antiques Road Trip, the end is nigh for Charles and Raj as they head towards their final auction.

Hello, Charles.

VO: But the big question is... CHARLES: What was that, Raj?

VO: ..will they actually make it?

Bella!

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