VO: The nation's favorite antiques experts, £200 each and one big challenge.

Well, duck, do I buy you or don't I?

VO: Who can make the most money, buying and selling antiques, as they scour the UK?

What's my wife up to?

VO: The aim is, trade up and hope that each antique turns a profit.

But it's not as easy as it looks, and dreams of glory can end in tatters.

Do I hear 1,500?

VO: So will it be the fast lane to success or the slow road to bankruptcy?

I can't keep this posture up for much longer.

VO: This is the Antiques Road Trip.

Yeah!

This week we're in Scotland and on the road with two very respectable gentlemen... Charlie Ross and James Braxton.

CHARLIE (CR): # Oh flower of Scotland... # VO: Oh no, please!

With over 20 years' experience in antique auctioneering James Braxton has a soft spot for nice items and shop assistants.

JAMES (JB): That's a nice start.

It's nice to see something I like.

It's very nice.

It's just a nice item.

I like this shop.

It's really nice.

It's got some nice things, all nice, clean...

It's a lovely piece, isn't it?

VO: Well-known auctioneer Charlie Ross loves a bargain... and at times struggles to part with his cash.

I was going to be very, but I'd better not be very rude.

I was going to ask you to knock the 10 off.

VO: Yesterday's auction was a momentous occasion.

Charlie's £8 Staffordshire elephant packed a trunk and trotted off to America for an amazing... Two seven, for the last time.

VO: That's £2,700!

Crikey!

On any normal day James would have been on cloud nine when his £200 increased to £256.06... but this wasn't a normal day!

After his astronomical win, Charlie's £200 rocketed, giving him £2,447.96 to flash around.

I don't know what to do next, really, when I next go shopping.

Do I blow it all or do I miserly tuck it all away?

VO: I'd blow the lot, me.

And as the chaps launch into round two - their classy 1967 Sunbeam Alpine is soldiering on.

I've got a lot of money now.

This is something I'm not used to.

JB: As a rival and competitor... CR: Yeah?

..I would urge you to go large.

JB: As a friend... CR: Yeah?

I would say keep that 2,000 aside and go mental with your 450.

VO: He would say that, wouldn't he?

This week's road trip takes James and Charlie along the beautiful east coast of Scotland before heading west, where they finish up in the coastal town of Ayr.

And on today's leg they're leaving Buckie and heading for auction two in Aberdeen.

First stop is the fishing village of Cullen.

Cullen was established in 1189 and has a long history, but its main claim to fame is the popular local specialty that's named after the town... Cullen Skink - smoked haddock, potato and onion soup.

Sounds delightful, if a little fattening.

CR: I see a coffee house.

JB: Excellent.

Well, good luck, and, er... CR: Cromarty.

JB: Yeah?

CR: Like a tip or two?

JB: Yes, fire away.

Fire away, I'm in slight need of one.

Go on.

Look for an elephant.

I'm gonna buy anything that's a sort of exotic animal or red.

Don't let me down.

OK, toodle pip.

VO: James gets straight to work in his first shop of the day, Cullen Collectibles.

Ah, strategy to get back in the game is to try and find something, obviously, for £8 and sell it for 2,700, but failing that...

I think what I'm going to do is, before I commit to anything, I want to build a good holistic whole of five items... ..and I will do that by careful browsing.

Careful browsing.

VO: While you do your careful browsing, Charlie's wasting no time.

VO: He's not even in the shop and he's spotted a pretty little powder compact priced at £65.

It looked really interesting.

"Glasgow Exhibition 1938".

Yeah.

It's not silver, unfortunately, is it?

No, unfortunately it isn't but... highly collectable.

You know, you'd expect that enameling to be on silver, wouldn't you?

CR: Well, I would.

DEALER: You would.

Yeah.

That quality is good enough for it to go... And this building?

Well, that was the centerpiece of the exhibition.

VO: The exhibition marked 50 years since Glasgow's first International Exhibition, held at Kelvingrove Park in 1888, and was a chance for Glasgow's industries, old and new, to be showcased to the world.

CR: What would be your best price on that?

I'll make it 50 to you, cuz I like you.

That's very kind of you, sir.

I have to say I really like that.

I really like that hugely.

I'm going to, erm, continue on round, if I may.

DEALER: Yes, of course.

CR: I can't imagine I'm going to get out of this shop without spending money.

VO: You've got enough to buy the contents and the building, unlike James who's hoping to fight back with a £30 pair of cannons.

I don't think so!

Yes.

They're die cast.

They're a die cast metal.

They're sort of aluminum alloy.

They're more look than substance, I will tell you, because these are pretty light fellows.

There we are.

With a single finger.

You'd expect them to be heavy.

You see, the interesting thing about canons is they were made of iron or bronze, and in those early days, the Spanish Armada, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, when you captured a ship you took their canons.

So, very often you'll find British ships with Spanish guns in them.

It's not something I'm going to buy for eight and make 2,700 on.

VO: Yesterday's battle was lost, but today it's all still to play for.

Time to negotiate hard with owner Harry.

Now, what if I offered you a compelling £15 for those?

£15?

For that one... and 15 for that one.

OK, I was a bit cheeky there.

20 quid.

Erm... tw... Can you do it for 20?

DEALER: What about 25?

JB: 25... JB: I'd like to do it for 20.

DEALER: Would you?

JB: Yeah.

DEALER: £10 each?

JB: Would really help me, yeah.

DEALER: Aha.

Could you do it?

As it's a nice day, they're yours.

They're a lovely lot.

Thank you.

That's very kind.

I suppose you want some money, don't you?

VO: Well done James, that's a great buy, But be warned - your cheeky competitor has turned to the eerie world of witchcraft.

This is a very, very odd thing.

What is it?

Well, it's African and I think that it's a witch doctor's... (CHANTS) That's my feeling of it, but it's very odd.

I've never seen anything like it before.

CR: I haven't seen anything like it.

Hoo!

CR: That's the sort of thing.

DEALER: Yes.

Very much so.

Have you tried googling an object like that and seeing if it's... You can't google a picture.

That's one of the problems, actually.

What would be your... your best price on this?

These are not bedfellows, I have to say, but this and your Glasgow 1938 compact?

Right.

Well, the best I could do for you... CR: Yep.

DEALER: ..would be... CR: Yep?

DEALER: 125, and that would be the last...

I've had such a fantastic time.

Oh, right, jolly good.

Yet again Ross has bought something about which he knows... nothing.

Well... And when I've bought this I do not want to see you going into your back garden and whittling away and making another one.

No.

Cuz, if you do, there'll be an awful lot of this going on.

No danger.

Fabulous.

No, I'll have them both.

Well, I like to take a gamble.

VO: Well you've certainly done that...

I just hope it pays off!

And after Charlie's dabbling in black magic... James is searching for the light... ..traveling 40 miles to the North East corner of the Aberdeenshire coast, and the fishing town of Fraserburgh.

The largest shellfish port in Europe, Fraserburgh has a busy commercial harbor.

It's also home to Scotland's first mainland lighthouse and the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, which is where the lucky James is spending his afternoon.

Showing him round is bright spark Jim.

This is really where it all, where it all started.

Er, when the Lighthouse Service was first formed in 1786, it was a man called Thomas Smith, a lamp maker in Leith, And, er, he was given the task of providing illumination for lighthouses...

Right.

And, er, this is what he came up with - JIM: mirrored reflector.

JB: I see.

And the first lighthouse being at Kinnaird, er, these were the type of things that was put on top.

I see.

There was 17 of them set in an array, each with a whale oil lamp.

Oh.

I see.

And that actually produced a light that was visible at 12 miles.

VO: Smith's 17 lamps were positioned on top of this 16th-century castle until 1824, when his stepson, Robert Stevenson, designed his lighthouse to fit inside the castle.

VO: Time for James to conquer the lighthouse's 72 steps.

The big question is, will he make it?

JIM: Maybe on the way up you've noticed some chains hanging down the center of the tower.

Yep.

And, er, on one of those chains was this big weight.

And it's that weight descending the tower that supplies the power for the machine upstairs.

All lighthouses were clockwork driven, but unlike the old long case clocks, which required to be wound every 30 hours, or eight days, these needed to be wound every 30 minutes!

Every half hour as the machine was running this would ring.

(BELL RINGS) And then wind it... 93 turns of this handle.

93?

You bring the weight back up again, gives you another half hour's run.

Failure to wind the handle would bring all the machinery to a standstill and at that point, you had a career change.

JB: (LAUGHS) Because anything that interfered with the character of the light, then some ship could mistake this for somewhere else.

JB: I see.

JIM: Take a bearing.

VO: Every lighthouse had its own character - vessels could count the flashes, time them, look at their chart and know precisely which lighthouse they were looking at.

This is your blank space here.

Right.

So, you've no light here.

OK. And then your light's traveling round, and as it's traveling round you'll start picking up the edge of the beam, if you look into the prism.

This is all your flash, right through the center of the lens.

Yes, now I see it really clearly.

Right out this side as well.

Yeah.

And then you'll get the cut off.

I see.

So, that's a beam two meters in diameter.

Two meters in diameter?

Right, I see.

Then you're back to the blank again.

Huge.

Then you wait for the next one to come.

Now, if you manage to duck under and just step straight across.

VO: Looks tight.

Now for the science.

JIM: All this is refraction.

They take the light that's coming from the bulb and they bend it round in parallel to that.

I see.

Then the ones that's above it, they bend the light that's going up, bend it down the way, the bottom ones bend the light up, so you've no... very little wasted light.

It's a very odd sensation, isn't it?

Slightly out of worldly.

But very beautiful.

Beautifully constructed.

All bronze and glass.

It is superb.

VO: And all from one tiny bulb.

Extraordinary!

So, while James makes his way back to Cullen, It's time to swap shops.

Charlie's heading to Cullen Collectables and still has over £2,3000 to spend... so chop-chop!

A very fine Wedgwood casket.

Oh, no it's not, it's tin.

It's a Crawford's biscuit tin.

in the form of a Wedgwood casket.

Well, do you know, across a saleroom you could get away with that being Wedgwood, couldn't you?

A wonderful pastel blue, Wedgwood blue.

It's even got impressed decoration on it, with a classical scene on the top.

Pressed brass feet.

Look at that.

That's a true antique, if you didn't touch it.

I rather like that.

VO: At £5 is it not a bit on the cheap side for a man with your heavy wallet?

I hadn't moved more than about two yards in your lovely shop when I saw a fantastic piece of Wedgwood... MAN: Mm.

WOMAN: Yeah.

..and then I touched it.

But it's great.

Biscuit tin.

I can't see whether it said £5 or 50p, I couldn't quite tell.

VO: Cor, that's such a nerve.

How much would you like to take for that?

What about £3.

I think £3... do you know, I'm not even going to negotiate at that.

I think that's a cracker.

It's got enough age, ah, to excite me.

WOMAN: Mm-hm.

And it's a statement, and it's fab.

And at three quid it's mine.

VO: After that purchase he's still got, yep, over £2,300.

VO: Down the road James has arrived in Abra Antiques, as in "cadabra".

That's got a couple of chips there.

VO: But after his usual carefully considered browsing, he's going Oriental.

I quite like this, Tom.

So, we've got a paperweight here... ..and I just had... just having a quick look at it, and it's nice, isn't it, Tom, it's...

I haven't really come across these before.

It's a paperweight, rather like we have a paperweight, but this is a sort of tablet form.

It's nice and thin and just carries a very nice Chinese mythological scene on it, here.

It's a dragon and a phoenix, isn't it?

VO: In China, the dragon and phoenix are symbols of auspiciousness.

Any sightings of a dragon and a phoenix were considered a lucky sign, said to herald a period of peace and prosperity for the country and maybe James Braxton.

48 pounds, Tom?

The Cullen chancer, I'll call you!

Oh dear!

VO: James, I'm not sure insulting Tom is the best way to start negotiations.

Could you do that for me for £20?

Hmm.

Oh, dear, this man's a rogue.

He's a rogue.

I don't want to pay £48 for it, that's for sure, and I'd rather like to pay you £20 for it.

Well, I'd rather you paid me 25.

25.

I'll meet you at 25.

Yeah, I'll have a go at 25.

OK.

Thank you very much indeed.

VO: Good final purchase of the day James, but no time to dawdle - Charlie's waiting with all that cash.

Ah.

Rossco.

Cromarty.

Now, fancy a swim?

A swim?

Yeah, come on.

Get in there.

I must say I need a swim, you know, it's been a hard old day.

So, how many items?

Did you buy quite a few?

Yeah, I couldn't spend any money, though.

Really?

Couldn't really get into my two and a half grand.

Come on you wanna... you wanna get that wad out.

CR: (LAUGHS) Get spending.

Here we go.

Rather have a swim.

VO: Go for a swim?

VO: A swim in the North Sea?

CR: (HUMS) VO: Oh, surely not!

Oh no, they're serious.

Is this after the... watershed?

I can't keep this posture up for much longer.

I'm breathing in, I'm breathing in.

My body is normally like this... over there.

VO: And they're going in.

I don't believe it!

This is not how I thought the day would end!

Look at 'em go.

Look at that James Braxton.

CR: Hoo-hoo-hoo!

VO: Oh, goodnight, chaps.

As dawn breaks on a rather miserable day, our experts are straight back at it.

JB: I think somebody's training a hose in here on me.

What's happened?

I think it's...

I've never been so wet in a car with a hood on.

VO: Well, you have been bathing!

So far James has been cautious with his shopping, spending just £45 on two items - the pair of model cannon and a Chinese paperweight.

James has £211.06 for the day ahead.

VO: Charlie meanwhile has hardly loosened his purse strings.

He's spent £128 on three lots... An African witch doctor's mace, we think, an enamel compact and a biscuit tin.

Leaving him with a colossal £2,319.96 still to spend.

I'm sorry I haven't been able to spend lots of money.

JB: One thing I won't be doing today is swimming.

CR: (LAUGHS) VO: Charlie and James are heading 25 miles south to Dufftown, where James will start his day's shopping.

JB: This is Dufftown, is it?

CR: I think it must be.

VO: Located on the banks of the River Fiddich, Dufftown is the home to several Scotch whisky distilleries and as such promotes itself as the malt whisky capital of the world.

Unfortunately our boys must resist temptation and focus on the antiques, as the auction is just around the corner.

JB: Thank you, thank you.

CR: May all your profits be small ones.

JB: Bye.

CR: Bye.

VO: Ha-ha!

As Charlie heads off on his own little adventure, James goes to Collector's Cabin, an antique shop that also sells Scottish dress.

You've got all your various trench art here, haven't you?

Yep.

And the Spitfire ashtray.

Yeah, that's quite nice.

In fact, I'm surprised that's still there.

There's masses of shells everywhere, shell casings here.

And everybody smoked in those days, so, you know, there was lots of opportunity to make ashtrays and various other things.

VO: Yeah.

During the first and second World Wars these decorative items, known as Trench Art were made by soldiers, prisoners of war and civilians out of brass from shell casings.

May I look at your rather nice white onyx fellow, what's that?

Please do.

What's that, just painted on is it?

It's hand-painted, yes.

And this presumably would've been a cigarette box, wouldn't it?

I think so.

I think it's a charming item.

VO: Onyx is the mineral that often displays different colors in multiple layers.

This beauty is from the 1920s and has a price tag of £125.

JB: Onyx generally comes from the Atlas mountains in Morocco and it was discovered... when it was first discovered... incredibly precious, you know.

They're quite vulnerable to damage.

There's a bit of damage there.

The piano hinge is fine.

Well, time's ticking on, David.

There's a couple of things I quite like the look of, but it's that nutty problem of price, isn't it?

Oh... Well... VO: Uh-oh, here we go.

This was the item that sort of caught my imagination...

Yes.

..your rather nice Spitfire, the ashtray.

David, I see that as £25.

Ah, I think I see it as 55.

JB: (LAUGHS) I do like these white onyx things and I see that at £50.

Aha.

You see, I see it at quite a bit more than that.

I know you do, I know you do.

Now, can you help me out here?

A package deal.

A package deal?

So... What would be your package suggestion?

Package suggestion would be £75.

DEALER: (INHALES SHARPLY) VO: The Spitfire and the onyx come to £180.

You sound like my plumber!

I'm willing...

I'll go to 30 on that.

Can we make it 80 for the two?

80 for the two... JB: Make my day.

DEALER: Shanna's smiling.

Aw, go on, put it there, David.

DEALER: Shall we?

JB: Yep, well done.

Thank you.

DEALER: OK. We happy with that?

JB: Excellent.

SHANNA: Yeah.

JB: Yeah.

VO: Nice bit of negotiating James and you've still got £131.06 to spend, and you resisted kissing her.

Meanwhile, 13 miles south of Dufftown, Charlie Ross has a prior engagement.

Looks grand.

Ballindalloch Castle is one of the most beautiful and renowned castles in Scotland.

Known as the Pearl of the North it is one of the few privately owned castles to have been lived in continuously by its original family.

The Macpherson-Grants have resided here since 1546 and Claire, its current incumbent, is showing Charlie around.

Please come in.

This is the drawing room.

How lovely.

What glorious proportions, and this is mid 16th century?

Yes, it is.

1546 it was built in.

And your family have been here since then?

Yes, they have and I arrived here when I was five years old... Yeah?

..and it was made quite clear to me from that time that this was my path of life and I always say that I was brainwashed by my parents that I would come here and look after the castle.

Yeah.

But you never regret that, do you?

CLAIRE: No, not at all.

CR: Not at all.

It's been a wonderful challenge and enormous fun and you could never be bored here.

Oh, no.

But hard work?

Very hard work.

I'd love to show you my Staffordshire collection.

Ah, of course 19th century, and the little castle and the... A little pastille burner.

The little houses are pastille burners.

I have a particular love of Staffordshire.

CLAIRE: Oh really?

CR: Yes.

Why?

Well, because I did manage to buy an early 19th century Staffordshire elephant.

But, er, £8, I paid.

CLAIRE: No?

Wow!

CR: Very badly damaged.

Went off to the local auction up the road here... ..and it sold for 2,700.

Heavens!

And bought by somebody in North Carolina.

Could we get mine away at that?

Well, I'm prepared to offer you £8 for your pastille burner.

No way!

(THEY LAUGH) VO: Charlie you are such a cheeky sausage.

CR: Who's this distinguished gentleman here?

Yes, I wanted to show you this portrait, because he was my great grandfather... Mm-hm.

..and he and two other great agriculturalists started the first pedigree herd of Aberdeen Angus.

VO: Mm.

From 1860 Sir George Macpherson Grant spent almost 50 years refining the breed to establish the foundation for what is arguably the best beef breed in the world.

He took an animal from the county of Aberdeen and an animal from the county of Angus and bred them together for their ease of breeding, for their milkiness and of course they fattened quicker than any other animal on grass alone.

And that is still the case?

CLAIRE: It's still the case.

CR: Right.

Eh, they graze peacefully in the coo haugh at Ballindalloch.

There is no greater name, is there, than the Aberdeen Angus?

No.

Every chef in the world, I think, knows Aberdeen Angus...

Yes indeed... ..and, er, it is, we think, the best in the world.

VO: Aberdeen Angus are hornless solid black or red cattle and the Ballindalloch estate is home to 100 head.

CLAIRE: There we are.

Don't they look absolutely wonderful?

Look at them.

How could you not have wonderful meat from an animal that is so happy.

CR: Glorious color.

Aren't they?

In the summer they lose all their winter coat, and get this fantastic, what we call bloom... CR: Yes.

CLAIRE: ..on them.

How long has there been an Aberdeen Angus herd here?

Since 1860.

Yeah.

And they've gone all over the world, I mean, from... as far as New Zealand, Australia, America, Canada...

Yes, yes... ..all over.

And whenever you eat your next piece of filet of beef, you'll have to think of Ballindalloch.

I will.

And I shall enjoy it all the more for that.

Aw.

VO: Dirty beast!

Charlie, you've had a lovely treat but I'm afraid it's back to work.

VO: The boys wave Dufftown goodbye and continue traveling on, 55 miles east to Clola.

Clola is a Hamlet in Aberdeenshire.

The neighborhood extends to a radius of little over a mile.

It may be small but it's home to its very own antique emporium.

Spend, spend, spend.

How many items are you searching for then?

Oh, I need lots of items, Brackers.

Sorry?

I've been struggling of late.

Struggling?

I've still got far too much money left.

VO: Spread over three floors with a mixture of antiques and collectables, this is their final chance to spend big.

James is straight to work with owner Tom and has found himself a pestle and mortar.

Where did you find this, Tom?

We inherited it during a house clearance.

JB: Oh, right, OK. TOM: Yes.

Years ago these sort of things were very popular, weren't they, along with pewter, and people love pestles and mortars.

VO: The word "mortar" derives from Latin "mortarium", meaning "receptacle for pounding".

And "pestle" comes from the Latin "pistillum", meaning "pounder".

This one's a 45 pounder.

And then you've got...

I quite like this.

I spied this earlier as I was walking around.

This is a lovely fellow, isn't it?

TOM: Yes, the bushel.

JB: A bushel?

A bushel.

And this was a measure for... ?

TOM: For grain.

JB: For grain.

Being wheat or barley.

And was it level, the bushel?

Yes, it would have been, yes.

It would have had... ..level.

It's a measure.

It's an imperial measure of grain, isn't it?

That's right, yes.

So, things were sold by the bushel measure, or counted...

It was a unit.

It was a unit to which you could accord price.

VO: The bushel measure was used from the Middle Ages, but rarely in Scotland, Ireland or Wales so this could be a good purchase.

JB: Very nice.

And... there we are.

It's all there.

Now, I'm quite interested in the two.

Erm, could you do me a... tremendous deal, Tom?

I could probably offer you a nice, a nice deal on it.

What could you offer me on that one?

40?

40.

And what about this one?

Could you go as low as, say, 45 on this, Tom?

No, I'm afraid I couldn't go as low as 45 on that.

What could you do you that?

How does 60 sound for you?

60?

No.

Could you either do 50 on this, or 35 on that?

Yes, I'd...

Yes, I could do 35 on the pestle and mortar for you.

JB: Yeah?

TOM: Yes.

And what about 50 on that?

TOM: Not quite.

JB: Not quite.

I'm gonna go for that one, at 35, Tom.

VO: Well done James - nice final buy.

VO: Downstairs, Charlie still has over £2,300.

But he's on the case.

An old bushel measure, a couple of granite troughs.

Hello... A completely knackered garden urn.

Reconstituted stoneware.

I could cement that onto there, couldn't I?

With my immense do-it-yourself skills!

10 quid!

Look at that.

Heh, heh, heh.

If that isn't worth 30 or 40 quid re-stuck together, I'll eat my hat.

I'd give 40 quid for that if somebody stuck it on.

But when I was downstairs I saw a broken urn.

CR: It says £10 on the label... TOM: Right.

..and I was going to think, well, if it came in that condition it probably came for nothing, didn't it?

Um... would you like to take a £5 note for it?

Let's go and have a look at it.

Have a look at it, lea... shall I lead on?

Yes.

And I shall show you exactly where I found it.

CR: This was the object.

TOM: This is the object.

Yeah, yeah.

But I stuck the top on the bottom and it looked really, really nice.

It is nice when it's put together.

Yeah, I tried you at a fiver, what's the verdict?

I could meet you halfway, sir.

Could you?

£7.50.

Fancy getting something to the nearest 50p.

I think that sounds very reasonable, sir.

May we shake on that deal?

It's not going to be your biggest sale of the day.

VO: Huh!

Last of the big spenders eh Charlie?

And with the final purchase made, its time for our chaps to reveal all.

I've been absolutely pathetic.

I put my hands up, mea culpa... Really?

I...

Sorry, I've been walking around these places with nearly £2,500 and I...

I've let you down.

JB: No!

CR: I've let you down, Brackers.

So you haven't spent it?

I've let you down in such a big way that you'll probably want to leave the room.

Let's have a look what you got.

Anyway, first one.

Splendid!

And it's...

Does it come with something?

It comes with t'other.

Oh.

No... a pair?

A pair.

CR: Aren't they splendid!

JB: £20.

You bought the pair of them for 20 quid?

I did.

Brackers, you're back in it.

You're on fire.

At 2,600.

(THEY LAUGH) VO: Come on Charlie, time for your biscuit tin!

That's very nice.

It's very nice, isn't it?

No, it's really nice.

I just bought it because people collect biscuit tins and I couldn't find a genuine antique, and that's the closest I could get.

Yeah.

I think that's nice.

It's got strong sense of style.

CR: Yeah.

JB: Well done.

VO: Very kind words James; now for your World War Two trench art.

Oh... (IMITATES ENGINE) Battle of Britain stuff, isn't it?

Yeah.

Abs...

It's quite a nice model of a... of a Spitfire.

I don't know whether I'd prefer it with a propeller or not.

Probably not.

They always look a bit naff when they tack one on the front.

It's nice.

I like that.

VO: I wonder what he'll think of your £40 compact.

It's an enamel and chrome, I'm afraid - no more than that - powder compact.

Oh, that's rather nice.

Yeah.

So, I just thought, bit of history, we're in Scotland.

Yeah.

It's gonna be tight, isn't it?

I think it's gonna be tight with that.

Yeah.

Thank you for your pearls of wisdom.

VO: Let's see your white onyx box, James.

Oh, I say.

I love...

It's very nicely painted.

It is nicely painted, isn't it?

Oh, it is.

But, cor, what a great bit of work.

Yeah.

I'm not a great lover of onyx.

But I like the decoration.

Brackers, are you troubled by evil spirits?

Occasionally.

Occasionally.

Are you?

Close your eyes.

Closing.

Open them.

CR: Aaaah!

JB: (LAUGHS) Hooooooh!

Are you feeling better?

Yep... hugely better.

That's very good, isn't it?

That's a gamble.

Quite nice carving.

But that is the gamble lot of all gamble lots.

Yeah, it is quite a gamble, isn't it... CR: Yeah.

JB: ..that one.

VO: It looks painful to me.

I'm not sure what it is but probably best to leave it to the bidders to decide.

OK, here you are.

VO: Now for James's pestle and mortar.

CR: Good weight.

JB: Good weight.

Do you know which is the pestle and which is the mortar?

I do.

The mortar is the cup shaped one.

CR: Correct.

JB: The pestle... ..is the bit you grind with.

JB: I like it.

CR: Great weight.

I like that.

VO: But will James like your last lot?

Very handsome.

Very handsome.

CR: Garden urn.

JB: Campana shaped garden urn.

I know.

I think it'll make, er... 30-50 quid.

Yeah.

Cost £7.50.

That is cheap.

It was cheap, wasn't it?

It was cheap.

You found some silver.

VO: And last but not least is James's Chinese paperweight.

I thought it had a nice... ..Charming object.

..nice object, about it... ..of course anything from the mystical east has got a chance.

It has got a chance hasn't it?

Of course it has.

Yeah.

How do you rate it?

50 quid.

I think more...

I don't... yeah, you think it might make 100 quid, do you?

I think it might make more.

A thousand, 1,100, 1,200, 1,300.

Tokyo on the line, Tokyo on the line.

Sold, 16,400.

JB: (LAUGHS) CR: Brackers takes the lead.

Well done old bean.

Thank you.

VO: That was all very polite and courteous, old boy, but what do they really think?

That compact - I didn't have Father Rossco down as a compact man, and at £40, I think that's a guaranteed loss.

A real chancy item is that Chinese plaque.

That just could just make him a few bob!

VO: It's been a spectacular second leg from Cullen via Dufftown and Clola, with the final destination of Aberdeen in sight.

Aberdeen, what a lovely city.

VO: Scotland's third most populous city, Aberdeen was historically the center for the fishing and shipbuilding industries.

However, with the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s, the fishing fleet moved up the coast and the oil industry moved in.

Aberdeen is now famous as being the oil capital of Europe.

But it's auction day, as our two experts cruise into town.

It looks like a saloon!

Are you sure it's not a pub?

VO: John Milne auction room in Aberdeen was founded in 1867 and is one of the major auction rooms in the North East of Scotland.

Colin Edwards is our auctioneer for the day, and he's kindly cast an eye over our experts' choices.

Model cannons.

They're decorative pieces.

I'm sure we've got plenty of big country houses around that would be crying out for a couple of cannons at the front door.

Witch doctor's mace - OK. Erm...

I don't know whether it's a witch doctor's mace or what, but there are quite a few collectors of African pieces, so it might do alright.

My favorite piece I think would be the onyx box with the salmon painting on the top.

I think that's the prettiest piece of the lot.

VO: James Braxton started today's show with £256.06 and spent £160 on five auction lots.

Charlie Ross began with £2,447.96 and spent a measly £135.50 on four auction lots.

VO: It's the moment of truth.

Who will win and who will lose?

Let the auction begin!

First to go under the hammer is Charlie's garden urn.

Will it be an earner?

Stoneware garden urn at 30.

20.

£10.

Oh.

Garden urn at 10, surely.

10 I'm bid.

Ah, madam!

Be still my fluttering heart.

15.

18.

£18.

All done at £18, all finished at 18.

(GAVEL) COLIN: 814.

CR: Splendid!

JB: Splendid.

Very good.

VO: I'm afraid it's not the £40 you thought, so are you eating your hat now or later?!

Brackers!

I'm into a profit!

VO: And after the not-so-expensive garden urn, it's Charlie's not-so-expensive biscuit tin.

10 I'm bid.

I'm bid 10.

It'll be sold, one bid at £10.

12.

£12 beside me.

At 12.

All done at £12.

COLIN: 14.

CR: Ooh!

16.

18.

20.

£20 beside me, at £20.

All done at £20.

Oh, 22, new bid.

24.

£24 on my left.

At 24.

All finished at £24.

All done this time, 24.

(GAVEL) COLIN: Your bid, sir.

865.

Thank you.

Do you know what's most, most pleasurable about that?

What?

Tell me.

I bought that in a shop that you'd been to immediately before.

VO: That's fighting talk, Charlie.

But will James's model cannons blow the bidders away?

They would grace any home, wouldn't they?

Oh, they're nice.

We have the pair of die-cast model cannons on black metal carriages.

COLIN: Er... CR: 40 quid.

COLIN: £80?

BIDDER: Yes.

I'm bid 80.

Got £80.

One bid of 80.

Going to be sold at that one bid of £80.

CR: Brackers!

JB: Blimey!

All done at 80 for the decorative cannons.

All done at £80.

Brackers!

Well done.

Thank you.

VO: That's a fantastic £60 profit, James.

Well done.

Braxton is back!

That two and a half grand is being whittled down.

Yeah!

VO: Let's hope your luck continues.

The pestle and mortar are about to go under the hammer.

COLIN: £40?

JB: 40.

20?

£10?

10 I'm bid.

I'm bid £10, the mortar and pestle.

That's too cheap!

12.

15.

18.

20.

22.

£22, lady's bid at 22.

25.

Oh, getting there, getting there.

The lady's bid at £25.

All done at £25.

(GAVEL) COLIN: Your bid.

Oh dear.

Slipped back a bit there.

VO: Oh dear James, that's a £10 loss.

Not what you needed.

Sorely tempted to bid for it.

JB: (LAUGHS) CR: (WHISPERS) Not really.

VO: Fingers crossed for James's model Spitfire.

COLIN: £20?

CR: (MUTTERS) £10?

10 I'm bid.

12.

15.

18.

20.

25.

30.

£30.

Far back at 30.

All done at £30.

Get your money back.

All finished at £30.

(GAVEL) COLIN: 388.

JB: Oh dear.

CR: Money back, but not with commission, of course.

JB: No, no, no.

VO: Yep.

Sorry James, but the auction house must take its earnings, so a break even is in fact a loss.

VO: They've decided it is a witch doctor's mace, so let's see if it's something the people of Aberdeen are looking for.

£30 for the wooden mace.

CR: What?

COLIN: 20.

STEVEN: I've got 15 here.

COLIN: 15, I'm bid 15.

Thanks Steven.

One bid at £15.

One bid at 15.

Going to be sold at £15.

Oh, madam, you must need a witch doctor's mace.

All finished...

There's a bid over there, sir!

20.

£20.

With Steven at 20.

All done at £20, the mace, all done at 20.

(GAVEL) STEVEN: 825.

Robbed.

Robbed.

Desperately undersold.

VO: Ouch!

Sorry Charlie.

Witch doctoring just isn't big in Aberdeen.

That's really made quite a hole in my two and a half grand!

VO: Hopefully James will have more luck with his Chinese paperweight.

Starting at £60.

30... 40?

£30?

20?

VO: Oh dear, this isn't looking good.

Five?

Five I'm bid.

Six.

Eight.

£8 in the second row.

At £8.

All done at eight.

10.

12.

15.

18.

CR: Now we're going.

COLIN: £18, seated at £18.

All done?

20.

COLIN: £20.

CR: You'll get 100 yet Brackers.

It's a good item!

All done at £20.

All done at 20.

(GAVEL) Yeah, my gut feelings were wrong there, weren't they?

God, Brackers, that was terribly bad luck!

It was bad luck.

VO: I wouldn't be too smug, Charlie - your final lot's up next.

VO: It's your chrome compact.

20?

Bid 20, I'm bid 20.

Bid 20, straight in.

30.

COLIN: £30 beside me, at 30.

CR: Come on!

It'll be sold at £30, all done at 30.

35.

CR: Well done, madam!

COLIN: 40.

£40 on my left, at £40.

All finished at £40.

All done at 40.

(GAVEL) Lost opportunity there, I would say.

So what does that bring you up to then?

I've made a small loss.

I'm surprised at that.

Here we go.

VO: Now it's James's last stab at a big profit.

All we need are two onyx-loving fishermen to battle over his box and he'll be in with a fighting chance.

It's quality.

£60?

I'm bid 60, I'm bid 60.

65.

70.

Five.

80.

Five.

90.

£90 on my right, at 90.

Go on!

£95.

At £95.

All done at 95.

(GAVEL) CR: Well done James.

JB: Well done.

Thank you.

Brilliant.

Absolutely brilliant.

VO: Great profit to end on, James, and I think it's fair to say it's one all in the auction victories.

Summing it up, you are as good as I am bad.

VO: So modest!

James started today's show with £256.06, and after paying auction costs, made a profit of £45.

He's making slow and steady progress and has £301.06 to carry forward.

Charlie, meanwhile, started with a ridiculous £2,447.96, and made a disappointing loss of £51.86.

Despite his defeat, he still has a huge £2,396.10 to start the next leg.

But will he spend it?

Congratulations.

Thank you, thank you.

Steady work.

You have a little catching up to do.

By your calculations, when might I slip into the lead?

I think you'll be in the lead in January 2085.

We need to lure you into some big ticket items, Charlie.

Yeah.

I think you need to get me spending.

CR: All clear?

JB: All clear.

VO: Next time on the Antiques Road Trip: James speaks his mind.

Stop sitting on your wallet and get some money out.

You just want me to come down to your level, don't you?

You want me to stick my dosh into something and burn it!

VO: Charlie gets personal.

I think that's a cracker!

Look at that - the four faces of James Braxton.

VO: Ha-ha!

And they both enjoy the moment.

(MUSIC PLAYS) Shall we dance, James?

subtitling@stv.tv