VOICEOVER (VO): The nation's favorite antiques experts, One big challenge.

Who will make the most profit buying and selling antiques as they drive around the UK?

DEALER: £6.

PHIL: £5.

Done.

Is that your very best you can do?

VO: By the end of their trip, they should have made some big money.

But it's not as easy as it sounds and only one will be crowned champion in the final auction in London.

This is the Antiques Road Trip!

Welcome to the end of the week.

We're still on the road with antiques experts Anita Manning and David Barby.

Anita Manning is a Glaswegian auctioneer with a passion for decorative items and paintings.

ANITA (AM): That is a double deal.

DEALER: That's a double deal!

AM: That deserves another shake!

VO: David Barby has worked with antiques since he was 12 years old and now works as a much-loved auctioneer.

DAVID (DB): Oh!

DEALER: It's sore, eh?

Christopher Columbus!

VO: Anita and David began their journey with £200 each and it's been a roller coaster of success and failure for them both.

Anita nearly bankrupted herself early on and has been fighting back with a strict strategy of buying very, very cheap.

So, after a week of punishingly modest shopping, Anita has turned her original £200 into an admirable £338.01 to start today's show.

David, meanwhile, launched into shopping mode with great passion, buying beautiful, expensive items that he personally loved, and it's been his undoing.

From his £200, David now has a rather limp £190.10 to desperately fight back with.

My ploy in this particular part of the journey is to buy safe objects that I can actually guarantee to make some money.

# On the road again... # This week's road trip travels from Aberdeen in northeast Scotland to Leyburn in North Yorkshire.

On today's show, they're leaving Carlisle and heading first to Brampton on their way to auction in Leyburn.

Bonnie Brampton in Cumbria has been a popular market town since the 7th century and was once used by Oliver Cromwell to hold Cavalier prisoners from the civil war.

Now our hostages to fortune arrive.

Well, I'll start up here and then just wander down so we'll meet up somewhere in the middle.

AM: OK, darling.

Good luck.

DB: OK. Best of luck!

Bye-bye!

VO: Time for this antiques expert to come in from the cold.

Will anyone notice she's the real Anita Manning beneath that inconspicuous rain mac?

This is, er, quite an interesting cup.

It is English ironstone china.

It's 19th century.

Now, during the 19th century, there was this great interest in the East and all things exotic.

In 1813, Charles James Mason patented ironstone china, marketed as an incredibly strong ceramic, containing iron.

However, there was really very little iron in the mix.

Mason capitalized on the popularity of Far Eastern designs, and these larger mugs were mainly ornamental unless you really fancied a quart of tea.

I quite like this.

I think I'll have a go.

Let's see how strong Anita's going to be with her famously low offers.

If I can maybe make you a wee offer...

I would rather it be a big offer than a wee offer.

I know, but this is a wee, wee, wee offer!

A wee, wee, wee offer!

Come on, then.

Can I buy this for £20?

DEALER: As little as that?

AM: I know.

Well, £25 would be much, much nicer.

AM: I know.

DEALER: It's perfect.

AM: It's in good condition.

DEALER: There's no damage, it's named, so you can pin it down to a factory, you can pin it down to date and registration number.

On this occasion, we will give you a huge discount... Aha?

..and sell you that for £20.

Oh, that's wonderful.

VO: Anita's certainly no mug and has got herself a great deal straightaway.

It's in perfect condition, and condition is ALL in today's market.

20 quid - we've got to make a profit on that.

I'm happy.

VO: And David's on his way to a shop with... well, a rather unfortunate sign when he's in town.

DB: Hello?

Anybody in?

DEALER: Hello, yes!

Can I come and have a look round?

I think you probably can, yes.

Please.

That's quite nice.

How much is that?

DEALER: There are two of those.

Erm...

Round about 400 for the pair.

DB: Oh!

DEALER: Sorry.

Sorry, I've just burnt my hand.

How much is the little pincushion, please?

DEALER: Round about 60?

60?

Is that the very best you can do?

DEALER: I'll take 50 for it.

50.

Any less than £50?

I can't, really, no, sorry.

Well, 48.

DB: It's Birmingham, isn't it?

DEALER: Yes, it is.

DB: I would think it's about 1910.

I do know that sewing requisites and silver make a reasonable amount of money.

DEALER: Yeah.

DB: And this is in the form DB: of a little canoe... DEALER: I know.

It's sweet.

DB: ..which I've never seen before.

I think that's lovely.

I'd like that at £48.

Thank you.

DEALER: Thank you very much.

VO: David Barby, proving once again that if you don't ask, you don't get.

Secret booty in the boot, please.

DB: Right.

AM: OK, onwards.

VO: And away we go!

Back on the road, Anita and David follow Hadrian's Wall to the next town, Hexham.

Historic Hexham has England's oldest purpose-built jail and a great local manufacturing heritage.

In 1823, it was recorded that the town made and exported 23,504 dozen pairs of leather gloves.

Now, not a lot of people know that.

Today, Hexham is the monthly meeting point for a gathering of seasoned antiques traders.

DB: Come on!

(THEY CHUCKLE) AM: Ah, this is great.

This is great, yeah.

DB: Look, we better not go round together.

You wanna go that way and I'll go this way?

I don't want you following me.

Look, you get all the bargains.

I want to know how you do it.

OK.

I'll see you shortly.

DB: Best of luck.

OK. AM: You too, David.

Gorgeous.

It's a wee bit rich for my blood at the moment, though.

I'm really looking for something - and I keep saying this - wow factor, something that excites me.

VO: Amongst the antiques, Anita's found some interesting candle holders priced at £160, worlds apart from her strict cheap-buying strategy.

I think that these are good design.

We have two metals.

We have the brass and this white metal.

To me, it's got a wee art deco look about it.

I can't see a maker's name, but I think that these are probably from the '80s.

I like the quality and I like the fact that there are four of them.

I think they're super.

Could you do 120?

VO: What?!

£120?!

There's no maker's name, no date.

We don't know where they're from!

This looks dangerously like the bad old Anita who nearly bankrupted herself at the first auction.

Dear, oh, dear.

AM: 120.

DEALER: Thank you very much.

DEALER: Good luck with them.

AM: I know.

AM: I do love them.

VO: She loves them, alright.

Too much, methinks, at 120.

Where's the strict tactic to buy cheap and canny?

Let's hope that Anita knows what she's doing, because I sure don't.

Across the room, David's got time on his hands.

DB: And it's a brass clock face, rococo here.

You've got Arabic numerals, Roman numerals, and it is period.

Then it's signed "Bell, Uttoxeter," so it's good to have a maker's name on it, as well.

The Bell family of clock makers from Uttoxeter amazingly kept their horological business in the family for over 180 years, from the 1720s to around 1900.

But one day, it was belonging to an eight-day movement, and the two holes have been filled in, so probably it was later adapted as a 30-hour clock.

A pukka eight-day grandfather clock has two holes at the front, one for each train, and is wound once a week.

The mechanism allows for an extra eighth day should you forget to wind it on the seventh.

But at £95, it's just too, too much.

I'll see if I can negotiate on that.

DB: The clock face.

DEALER: Yes.

Interesting, because it started off as an eight-day, didn't it, then converted to a 30-hour?

Unless it was a 30-hour that was proposing to be an eight-day.

DB: That is quite an interesting proposition.

So it's one of these faux clocks to make it look more expensive DB: than it actually was.

DEALER: Exactly.

What's the best you can do on it?

95's too much.

I think 75 would have to be the best.

Hm...

It's got to come down to about 40 quid.

DEALER: 50?

DB: 40.

You're a hard man.

Oh, don't say that.

My wife says that.

(THEY CHUCKLE) DEALER: OK. DB: £40.

DEALER: We'll go for 40.

DB: Thank you very much.

DEALER: OK.

Thank you.

VO: It's time for change.

Anita's moving into politics with two prints at £26.50 each that she can't flip or claim on expenses.

Ha.

These are political prints from the late 1800s.

They're obviously sending up the MPs at the time.

VO: These cartoons depict the two great feuding lions of 19th-century British politics, William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli.

Disraeli once referred to his nemesis Gladstone as "a sophisticated rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity".

Well, it takes one to know one, doesn't it?

AM: We have the printer's mark here, JW Chater, and he's from Newcastle.

They're the type of odd thing which appeals to... appeals to me and I think will appeal to other people.

Unfortunately, Dorothy here doesn't really want to negotiate, so she gets on the phone to 'im indoors.

Hello, John!

I wonder if you could sell me these for... the two of them, for £10.

That's simple and straightforward!

DOROTHY: (CHUCKLES) Your wife's laughing here.

Are you still there, John?

AM: He's gone!

Ha!

DOROTHY: Has he fallen DOROTHY: through the floor?

AM: He's gone!

He's gone!

VO: Oh!

Looks like John's either hung up or fainted from Anita's low offer!

Are you able to do a deal yourself, Dorothy?

Say 20 for the two would be the biggest... 20 for the two?

Yes.

Let's go for them.

Thank you very much, Dorothy.

It's been lovely to deal with you.

Oh, what have you bought?!

This is only a small part of it, David.

Really?

VO: Our poor, withered experts must now flee to their nests.

The shops and markets are shutting.

It's the final day of shopping for this week's road trip.

Leaving Hexham and Cumbria far behind, Anita and David head south into deepest County Durham, towards the fine, historic town of Barnard Castle.

AM: This is a pretty wee town, David.

What a lovely, lovely area!

How beautiful!

Look at the market cross.

VO: So far, David has spent £88 on two items - the pretty silver canoe pincushion and the curious clock face.

He has £100.10 left to spend.

Anita has boldly spent £160 on three items - the bargain ironstone mug, the knock-down political prints and the risky, expensive candle holders.

Anita has £178.01 left to finish her shopping.

Anita and David have brashly decided to indulge themselves, so first stop of the day is the wonderful Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle.

And waiting to meet our experts is Dr Howard Coutts, the keeper of ceramics at Bowes.

HOWARD: Hello, Anita.

AM: Lovely to be here.

How lovely to see you.

I'm Anita, and this is David.

AM: He's a porcelain man.

HOWARD: Oh.

DB: Ceramics.

Ceramics.

AM: Yes.

DB: She's the romantic.

AM: Ah.

Yeah.

VO: The Bowes Museum is the product of a great romance between wealthy local businessman John Bowes and the passionate Parisian actress Josephine Coffin-Chevallier.

Work on the building began in 1869.

John had the money and Josephine had the passion to start collecting fine arts, furniture and porcelain for a new museum.

AM: These two very different people from very different backgrounds were brought together by their common love of beauty and art.

Josephine decided to build this great museum and started buying objects for the museum at the rate of about 1,000 a year.

AM: A very busy woman!

VO: Just like you, Anita.

HOWARD: We have a very fine collection of European porcelain here.

I love that little teapot.

I think that's absolutely wonderful.

HOWARD: That's an absolute gem, that.

It's a very early piece with this rare pink ground that they developed in the 1750s, and that's dated 1758.

DB: Oh, my word!

How many times have I seen these and they've been brought along to me, "We've got this sauce boat"?

A dangerous assumption, I think.

These were in fact female chamber pots.

They are called Bourdaloue, and apparently there was a very handsome French preacher by the name of Pierre-Louis Bourdaloue.

But his sermons went on for such a long, long time.

And these little chamber pots were made so they could be concealed about one's person whilst they were... ..urinating and they could be removed by a servant and then the contents distributed elsewhere.

These are quite rare items, aren't they?

They occasionally come up in auction rooms.

DB: Have you ever had one?

AM: I haven't had one.

You haven't?

Well, now you've seen it, you know what they are!

Now I know.

Now I know.

I have to say, thank you very much.

This has been such a privilege.

I've been delighted to take you both round today.

VO: Smiles all round.

But hey, how about buying some antiques today?

Hello?

David still really needs to buy something really, really great and cheap to catch up with his cash-rich traveling companion.

Come on, Barby!

Now, that I like.

It's Gray's pottery.

Very reminiscent of the... Susie Cooper piece that I bought... .. that bombed.

VO: Huh!

Two shows ago, actually.

David paid a full £80 for a Gray's pottery lamp which sold for just £60.

Is he brave enough to try another one at £35?

I might suggest 20 quid... ..then test their reaction.

Or 10.

Shall I do an Anita and say 10?

VO: Well, at 10 smackers it probably would be worth a gamble.

Better ask for Dale.

DB: DALE!

VO: Politely!

You've got 35 on that.

But nobody's going to pay 35 at auction on that.

Not at all.

Erm... £20 it could be.

Could you do it less than 20?

I don't think I'd go lower than 20, no.

VO: David's playing it safe and was just about to leave the shop empty-handed when suddenly... Hello, David!

What do you think of this?

VO: Bling-bling!

1900, 1910?

DB: I think it's a bit later.

DEALER: Do you?

I think it's '20s, '30s.

DB: How much is it?

DEALER: £20.

Will you throw the lamp in with it, as well?

If you make it 25, I'll throw the lamp in.

VO: Now, hang on.

Stop a second.

A Gray's pottery lamp AND a 1920s charger, the exact same items that David lost so heavily with before?

Looks like he's trying to make amends with a couple of cheaper versions, to me.

If you bung the lamp in with it, as well.

Well, I'll do it for 22.

DB: £22?

DEALER: Yeah.

OK. What have I done?

A stunning deal, the charger and the lamp for just £22.

David's finally managed to curb his big, bad spending habit and could be on the road to auction redemption.

Modesty must now be thrown to the wind.

All back to the Bowes Museum for our experts to reveal their wares.

DB: What a big box you've got there!

Yes!

Well, maybe lots of goodies here.

AM: But you've two bags.

DB: Let's have a look.

DB: What have you got?

AM: No!

DB: (LAUGHS) AM: Well, my first buy... DB: Altar candlesticks!

AM: Aha.

I bought four of them.

David, they could be anything up to 1980.

It's halfway between the arts-and-crafts and spaceship!

Whoosh!

A bit extravagant at £120.

DB: No.

AM: No?

DB: Speculative.

AM: "Speculative"!

DB: Now, it's just... AM: A clock face!

..a clock face movement.

It's brass chaptering with Arabic and Roman numerals.

AM: David, how much?

DB: Ah.

That's the rub.

AM: How much, David?

And I think it's going to bought by a clock restorer.

How much, David?

£40.

That is cheap.

These intrigued me.

It refers to the politics of the day.

In 1878, Disraeli was the Prime Minister.

In 1880, Gladstone became the Prime Minister.

DB: How much did you pay for them?

AM: £20.

DB: Oh, that's nothing.

They have been framed at a later date, but it has...

I've just broken the glass there.

VO: Ooh!

Dear Anita!

DB: Careful, careful, careful.

VO: Thank goodness you're OK. AM: That is a lovely little pincushion.

DB: It's Birmingham.

AM: Birmingham.

DB: And I think the date is round about 1904.

How much did you pay for that?

Again, this was quite an expensive item, and I paid £48 for it.

No, you're still fine on that, David.

DB: Do you think so?

AM: Still absolutely fine.

Now, for pity's sake, don't drop it!

(CHUCKLES) Do you like that type of thing?

Yeah.

This is a wonderful tankard.

AM: Do you like it?

DB: A tankard!

Now, a chap could take some ale in that, couldn't he?

How much did you pay for it?

AM: £20.

DB: Oh, Anita, come on!

You didn't?

Did you feel guilty?

AM: No.

DB: No.

That's a very good buy.

Aha.

Your third item?

Ah, now, this is where I think I'm heading for a downfall.

I ended up with a piece of Gray's pottery.

Oh, yes!

Do you know something, David?

I think I like this one better than the other one.

I knew it was deja vu!

That was thrown in... DB: ..with this... AM: Yes.

That's lovely.

An arts-and-crafts plaque.

It's got a good weight to it, and this was £22 with... DB: ..the Gray's.

AM: Both for 22?

DB: What do you think?

AM: I like that, but I can't believe you got these two things for 22 quid!

Look, I took a leaf from your book.

It's about time.

(THEY CHUCKLE) VO: OK, OK, enough of that chumminess.

But what do you really think?

We had the brass plaque.

It is quite a nice thing, but it's not decorative enough.

It hasn't got enough, in my opinion, to get a high price.

I think, basically, that I'm going to make a profit on all objects I've bought.

But I don't think it's going to be enough profit to beat Anita.

I think she'll be the star with those candlesticks.

# On the road again... # VO: And now the end is near.

The road trip has taken the scenic route from Carlisle via Brampton, Hexham and Barnard Castle.

It's auction day, and our two experts arrive in Leyburn, North Yorkshire, for their final sale together.

Here we are, David, our last sale.

How do you feel about it?

DB: Anxious.

AM: Let's go and have a look.

Tennants Auctioneers in Leyburn has been a family business for over 100 years, with many specialist sales, including coins, books and stamps.

Fortunately, our experts have arrived for the general sale.

Auctioneer Jeremy Pattison has his own expert opinion on the likely outcome.

There's a good market for silver, anything decorative.

So your candlesticks and the silver pincushion, those are lots which could do well today, yeah.

DB: What about the clock face?

The problem is it hasn't got an actual body to it, David.

That's the problem.

It's just the face!

I know, but if anybody had an enamel-faced clock and they wanted to upmarket it, that's ideal, isn't it, DB: for a clock restorer?

JEREMY: I'll reserve judgement.

He's clutching at straws!

(THEY CHUCKLE) JEREMY: We'll see, yes.

DB: Right.

VO: Starting this leg with £338.01, Anita spent just £160 and wisely called it a day early on.

David started with just £190.10 and confidently spent £110 of it, playing his cards close to his chest and shrewdly avoiding those dangerous, expensive items that he loves.

Nerves twitch, brows moisten and an eerie quiet descends on the room.

The auction is about to begin.

I'm really nervous.

Kicking off this week's final auction are Anita's pair of political prints, one with brand-new glass.

Ha.

Will they get the bidders' votes?

DB: They'd look good in the loo.

It's a wonder it hasn't gone DOWN the loo!

£20 for them.

Put them in.

10 bid.

£10 I'm bid.

20.

At the back at 20.

Take another five anywhere.

Last time this time, at 20 and selling.

They've wiped their face.

DB: Right.

AM: I'm happy.

VO: A vote of no confidence from the auction.

That's a loss after commission.

Could David be second time lucky with the Gray's pottery lamp?

This one only cost him £2 as part of a package, but he lost big time last time.

£20 for it.

Put it in.

10 bid.

£10 only, the Gray's pottery.

15 I am bid.

At £15, for the last time.

Selling.

All finished?

Thank you.

£13.

Right.

VO: Well, at £2 spent, it'd be a crime against ceramics if that didn't turn a profit.

But well done, David.

AM: (LAUGHS) VO: Time for a cuppa.

Next up, it's Anita's decorative ironstone mug from Brampton.

20 to start me.

20 I'm bid for the mug.

At £20.

I'd buy it at that.

At 20.

25.

JEREMY: 30.

DB: Oh!

In the corner.

Last time.

At 30, I'll sell.

Could have done a wee bit more, but quite satisfied at 30.

No great profit for Anita, but she won't be panicking just yet.

Stand fast.

David needs a big, shiny profit from his second-time-lucky 1920s charger.

At 10.

20.

30.

Come on, come on, come on.

One more.

It's worth more.

Squeeze another bid there.

Take a five, madam.

JEREMY: Might regret it.

DB: It's worth more.

£30, it's all finished now.

Last time at 30.

Thank you.

You're doing not too badly.

But they're not mounting up, those figures.

Financially speaking, David's still up a certain creek without a paddle and needs a big profit from his tiny silver canoe.

40.

Rare little pincushion.

40.

JEREMY: 50.

60.

70.

80.

AM: Oh, well done!

VO: Looks like David's getting pins and needles.

£80 I am bid.

Come on, one more go.

It's worth more than that.

All finished.

At 80 and selling.

Oh, well done, darling, well done!

Well, that is a huge relief for Mr Barby, a good profit from a wisely-purchased item.

Here's your candlesticks.

Ah, this is the lot I'm interested in.

Anita's unusually rash purchase next.

We still don't know where these candle holders are from or quite what Anita was thinking about when she bought them.

Is she about to have her solid lead snuffed out?

£100.

I do like them.

50, then.

AM: Oh... JEREMY: 50.

£20.

There's no reserve.

AM: Oh no.

DB: Come on.

JEREMY: 30, 40, 50, 60.

DB: Coming up, coming up.

60 at the back.

70.

80.

80 at the moment.

All finished at 80?

JEREMY: Thank you.

776.

AM: Oh, no!

Oh no!

Oh... VO: Oh, dear, Anita, you've certainly not learned from your previous risk taking.

Time is running out for David to turn a profit.

The brass clock face is the last item to be sold on this leg of the road trip.

Put the big hand on the little hand and cross those little fingers.

VO: Here goes.

JEREMY: Bid 40.

40 on the clock face.

50.

60.

60 I am bid.

I want more.

I need more.

JEREMY: Interesting lot.

DB: I need more!

AM: He needs more.

DB: I need more.

70.

80.

One more?

£80, my bid at the moment.

At 80.

DB: Come on, one more!

JEREMY: Another one, sir?

DB: Come on!

JEREMY: Can't tempt you?

Last time this time.

It's going at 80.

Thank you.

DB: (SIGHS) David, you do really well with broken old bits of things!

VO: A happy end to a difficult journey for David.

Who'd have thought he'd double his money on an old brass clock dial?

So, David, after five journeys, five auctions, here we are with a total.

VO: Ha!

David started today's show with £190.10 and made a pretty decent profit, after commission, of £63.78.

So David finishes this week's Antiques Road Trip with... £253.88.

400.

20.

250.

VO: Anita started with £338.01 and made a bad loss of £52.42, but she still finishes her road trip ahead with a handsome £285.59.

Yep, it was close at the end, but the lady wins the week.

So for now, the Antiques Road Trip leaderboard stands with the triumphant Anita Manning in first place and poor old Barby in second.

When you think how far we went down in some auctions and then leapt back again... We were up there DB: and then down.

AM: And down.

It's like this helter-skelter.

VO: Oh, aye!

David and Anita have been rubbing shoulders, sharing the travel sweets and heading right off the beaten track.

# Just let your love flow # Like a mountain stream # And let your love go... # VO: After leaving Aberdeen, finding the right towns and finding some great antiques, they also found their true selves.

Want a wee tune?

VO: This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

We'll be seeing them again, as they'll each use their winnings to buy a final show-stopping antique for the grand finale auction in London.

But for now, this week's champion, Anita, hits the road with David in the driving seat.

Forward, MacDuff!

We're off to London!

The road trip continues next week, starting in Northern Ireland, with two new, eager antiques experts, James Lewis...

If it was a guarantee, I'd snap your hand off!

VO: ..and David Harper.

You've got a silver tongue, madam, you have!

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